WhatsApp Google could acquire $ 1,000 million

According to several rumors that have spread on the Internet, Google is negotiating the purchase of the popular messaging service WhatsApp.It seems that negotiations began a month ago and the guys behind WhatsApp, seeing the opportunity you have in front, want to get all the money they can from Google. It is said that the figure we are talking about would be about $ 1,000 million . The first time Google showed interest in WhatsApp was in December, when the popular social network Facebook was also considering a possible acquisition. Recall that the service has users in over 100 countries and is available through more than 750 networks moving around the globe.

We should note another thing: last month rumors that Google was working on its own messaging service, called Google Babble therefore very likely that the purchase of WhatsApp has something to do with it. Does WhatsApp Google aims to make a totally new? It is likely that the Internet giant wants his team will make some few changes to the popular app messaging, as happened with the mail application Sparrow last year.

Hopefully soon more details emerge.

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Fake Twitter Followers: more and more and becomes more difficult to detect

There are those who can make good use of the opportunities presented to them, and in the Internet world that's a constant. Someone always manages to find a way to take advantage of some service to their own property, and Twitter is one of those platforms that are being very abused today. While Twitter does make a profit through advertisements and sponsored tweets, someone is acting behind the scenes, even far from where the authority of Twitter can get on its own platform. They are the followers false , which are becoming more and are creating a billion dollar industry.

In Twitter, a way of judging how popular a person is through his followers, or to be more exact, by the amount of people that follow it. Of course this is not something anyone can achieve, you can to have a very considerable amount of followers if or when we will be a well-known, famous or celebrity movie or similar. There are websites that promise thousands of followers in exchange for a few dollars. These fans usually come in packs of 1000, although if you have the enough money you can get with many more.

Currently, 1,000 fans cost about $ 18, and it seems that this whole process is very easy to carry out, but do not know how exactly.

Twitter needs to find a way to prevent the automatic creation of fake accounts if you want to avoid this situation.

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Intel begins sending chip makers Haswell

Do you remember that a couple months ago we spoke about the Haswell processors from Intel ? This is indeed the new generation of Intel chips and is expected to be released around the middle of this year, ie in only 2 or 3 months. New reports indicate that Intel has begun shipping its Haswell chips to the main market OEMs to begin testing and others.

The company is expected to give more details about it or make some announcement about this new generation of processors during IDF conference to be held next week in Beijing. Haswell processors will not only be the best of Intel in terms of power, but is also expected to have a very low energy expenditure without implying a yield loss.

Notably, these processors will be used in PCs, laptops and tablets also, contrary to early rumors saying that would be available only for desktops.

The Haswell chips have the same process for the generation 22nm Ivy Bridge, although it has designed a new microarchitecture to improve the performance. It is expected that 14 new lines processors Core i5 and Core i7 will be launched between 2013 and 2014.

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Windows Blue would be released as Windows 8.1

Will this be the farewell to the famous Service Pack? The annual conference of Microsoft Development, called Build, will take place in June. Of course, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 will have a highly important role during and, as you know, Windows 8 has not been as successful as Microsoft hoped. The operating system was criticized and proved to be liked just because of its design and other features that made ​​it very different from the versions of Windows to which most are used: XP and 7. Of course you need to correct this, and to do that Microsoft has planned a new update: Windows Blue.

But, why do we mention the service pack at the beginning? Because this update will not have the typical format "Windows XP Service Pack 3" and the like, but will be known as " Windows 8.1 ", ie shortly SP could say goodbye forever.

Name the updates and is very unusual for Microsoft, and indeed follows the models used by Apple and Linux operating systems.

If you wonder about the details of the update is not yet known nothing new or no official data. We suggest consulting the Windows Blue link (above) to see what might bring.

In your opinion, what should I include this new update of Windows?

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The PC market could fall to the mobile device market

Are you planning the Apocalypse? The mobile device market is slowly "eating" the computers and laptops (especially the first). Some analysts wonder if the generations that are born today and in the years to achieve to put their hands on a computer with tower, which have been around for about 30 years.

A Gartner report predicts that the traditional PC market will contract by 7.6% next year, citing consumers buying smartphones, tablets and other ultra-portable devices as the cause.

Annually, we sell about 2000 million units of devices in the world (we're talking about PCs, phones and tablets). It is expected that this year the figure should reach 2.4 billion, marking an increase of 9% compared to 2012. Of course the device sales continue to increase, but going into details, lower computer sales in favor of smartphones, which will rise next to the tablets.

While many have a smartphone / tablet and use a computer to work (or play), it is expected that mobile gadgets are all that users need in a few years. The "portability" may well surpass the technology if this is so.

Do you think that mobile phones and other PCs raze achieve? Does the iPhone (to name one example) will become the traditional PC replacement?

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Twitter updates its iOS and Android apps

Attention addicts and fans of Twitter, since there is a new version of the popular app for both iOS and for Android, so I can go to the store Play Google App Store or Apple to download.

That being said, this new version of Twitter enhances user experience to improve navigation at the interface level and speed level, we can also quickly navigate through the tabs we have on display, and when we are doing a search or writing a tweet can see hashtags and usernames as a suggestion, which allows us to connect with our friends and colleagues more quickly. We are not entirely sure, but it appears that these improvements just mentioned are exclusive to the Android app.

What all the versions include (including mobile.twitter.com), are changes when expanding a tweet, as shown best photo galleries, and other applications. Under the content (depending on it) you can also see a link to apps like Foursquare and Path, for example, allowing us to download an app directly from the tweet if you do not have it installed already.

Has anyone already tested the new version of Twitter?

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Anonymous attacks North Korea

It is likely that the vast majority of people are falling very badly all threats from North Korea, or rather, of its leader, Kim Jong-un. It seems that for this man there is only one way to "solve" things, and that's with guns and bombs. Because of this, the well-known hacktivist group Anonymous has decided to take action on the matter .

Of course, other weapons and specialization are not Anonymous, but that cyber attacks are your thing. To indicate that you are out there, Anonymous has started attacking social networks and web sites related to North Korea, such as Uriminzokkiri and his Flickr page. Also claim to have 15,000 usernames and passwords obtained from a database of a university.

The movement is called " Operation Free Korea "(Operation Liberate Korea). Anonymous said this: " To the citizens of North Korea suggest them stand up and overthrow this oppressive government. We support them as they travel the road to freedom, democracy and peace. You are not alone. We are not afraid, we are not terrorists, we are the good guys from the Internet.AnonKorea and all other 'Anon' we are here to deliver . "

It also makes clear that Anonymous is trying to distance all we can in the United States, which is North Korea who has more problems.

Do you think the actions of the hacktivist group achieved better or worse situation?

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Facebook Home is here

Remember when we told you that Facebook would make a presentation yesterday? As it has been carried out smoothly apparently, and one of the things that have been released is Facebook Home.

Facebook has decided that the screen of your smartphone , instead of showing a bunch of apps, should show more content. Of course this will not be fit something easy, since we are all used to take a smartphone and instantly see a list of available applications.

Facebook Home is the social network initiative to turn the tables. The idea is that updates of our friends are displayed in real time on the home screen of your mobile phone, thanks to which you can put to a photo Likes quickly and also comment. This also ensure fast access to chat and notifications. In short, it is like having the app on Facebook always open and running . Of course that is only available for Android and a few phones actually.

Facebook Home will be released on April 12 and will be available for tablets within about a month. The smartphones that can run now are the HTC One (when it launches), HTC One X, HTC One X +, Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy S IV (also when it reaches the market) and the Samsung Galaxy Note II.

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