Confused Android Google Translate for iPhone

It's Friday and you have to laugh a little, and better at the expense of a giant such as Google and how it can mess up like any other and shake hands with one of his greatest rivals.

It is well known to all that there is a fierce struggle between Google and Apple for having the best mobile operating system today, where each has his fighters on one hand the tens of devices with operating system Android and across the iPhone with IOS, so no one can loosen trade in this fight.

But it is really funny encounter situations like the one shown in the picture. Turns out the Google translation service http://translate.google.com and all mobile applications thereof, make a slight mistake as to translate the text "Android 2.3.4" this translates to "iPhone 2.3. 4 " . Something serious must have happened to the internal algorithms or the subconscious of the developers of Google that comes up with this little # fail, showing their true inclinations smartphone Steve Jobs.

You can try it while still working and when it fixed simply be to remember.

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Twitter, investigated for monopolistic practices in the U.S.

The focus of the conflict is UberMedia, a potential competitor to Twitter independently developed applications for the network of microblogging. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), USA has opened an investigation against alleged monopolistic practices of Twitter in their relationship with outside development. The focus of the conflict is UberMedia, a potential competitor to Twitter independently developed applications for the network of microblogging.

The FTC, charged with ensuring free competition, has requested information from UberMedia who have been willing to cooperate. However, the record has a character "limited" and is one more in routine investigations of the FTC to determine if companies carry out activities contrary to free competition. Are often closed without legal action against the companies investigated.

Google is also currently under investigation, who won a lawsuit the FTC to investigate whether it is abusing its dominant position in Internet searches to lure users to their services to the detriment of competitors.

It is the first organism against which faces the Internet giant that holds the large concentration of two thirds of the virtual search. Last novimbre the European Union and began its own investigation on Google after receiving complaints from several companies.

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What Facebook can not fight the Google +

The launch of Google + is designed to revolutionize the social world if we consider the expectation has been raised in trade circles. Comparisons with Facebook not stop at this first contact with the new platform, nor the skeptics who doubt the power of calling it. But Google has more than 1,000 million registered users in different services : potential-and-viable customers for the new product.

+ Google has released a few days ago and the company had to stop the adoption , which was done through invitations. The anticipation has been radical, even though many doubt the ability to compete against Facebook.

If nothing else + we show Google what the differentiating factor about Facebook , comparisons in one way or another are surfacing days after the launch of the platform. From AllFacebook, Nick O'Neill is a reflection on the ability of the new social network to compete with the leader right now.

As pointed out in his post , "The users have the option of not using Google +". This stems from the whole mass of customers that the company has in its various departments, when they connect to, receive notifications about the activity of your contacts if they are in the network.

In short it is a comprehensive strategy . Google is taking a major step forward for social services, from searching the rest of your offer. So the project goes beyond social networking and may become the cornerstone of its products the company wants to promote.

This does not mean that Google will assume + to Facebook or anything, it might not even get to make a direct and aggressive competition, but both use different platforms to provide live together. Although they are ways to export your Facebook friends to Google + .

O'Neill also points out an important point: the developers. Facebook gets some of their income than they generate applications that are located within the social network, while Google will have less need to retain that money, allowing programmers to collect all of which produce their creations.

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Google accused of Monopoly is being investigated

The Federal Trade Commission of the United States has begun a serious investigation against Google (Monopoly), since there is speculation that the company is using and abusing his power and fame in regard to market Internet searches , leaving no room for other (well, this is something we already knew).

It is intended to evaluate and demonstrate, if for the offense is the alleged manipulation exerted by Google to promote its search engine search results where they appear for example Gmail or YouTube, or Google services and other companies . (Source of reference: the world ).

This is argued, is an attempt to establish an order of competitiveness and a healthy competition between companies that focus on Web environment.

I think it's fair that Google favors the positioning of certain searches to promote both Gmail and YouTube. That's because without sounding like a Google fan (I'm not), I have to say that both Gmail and YouTube, are superior in many respects to other services that are the responsibility of Google.

Another aspect that will focus on research, will be the advertising that appears related to the searches performed by users, this to determine whether this is also handled by Google.

I particularly agree on free competition in free markets and the opportunity may be granted to others to participate. But when a company offers good service and to protect this freedom (albeit inconsistently) apply sanctions as a result contain an offer of lower quality sites, I think something is wrong with the system.

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Hacker breathing down his neck, LulzSec melts

The hacker group LulzSec, author of numerous attacks in recent months, government agencies and large companies, it would disrupting. The same group has announced through its Twitter account. The declaration of lulz Security could be a sign of weakness caused by the ongoing investigations, after the group claimed responsibility for the attacks even the CIA, FBI partner organizations, the U.S. Senate, video game and entertainment companies and porn sites.

From Britain, meanwhile, bounces off the news that the young British hacker arrested on the night between Monday and Tuesday in the south of England would be affected by a form of autism. In the courtroom where Ryan Cleary, aged 19, appeared yesterday was presented the report of a psychologist who visited him in jail where he is detained. "He has a great fear of prison - said his

Ben Cooper - and the 'been diagnosed with a form of autism, now just wants to go home to his mother and find friends, books, and his chat. " At the hearing the young man was described as an intelligent boy but very shy and relationship problems. Clearly Ryan will appear again tomorrow before the magistrate who will examine 'request for parole again presented by its defenders.

Initially he had been granted but the prosecution has blocked an action. Suspected of belonging to the group of hackers 'lulz Security', which recently claimed attacks against Sony and the U.S. Senate, the young man was arrested after a 'joint inquiry of the British police and the FBI in America. When his lawyers have not disputed any of the charges against him were motivated. The young pirate of the Web in particular is accused of attacking sites in the British Phonographic Industry, the Association of British record companies, and against the 'Serious Organized Crime Agency', a kind of FBI in the United Kingdom and other countries in the raid . Lulz Security denies knowing him.

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Facebook, the turnabout Winkelvoss

After the surrender to the U.S. Supreme Court appeal, the twins have a new Winkelvoss appeal against Facebook, but the District Court of Massachusetts.

"They ask whether intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence" has during the negotiations to reach agreement by conciliation with Zuckerberg 65 million dollars, reached in 2008. The twins were due in 2004 claiming that Zuckerberg had stolen their idea of Facebook, when they were at Harvard.

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Vatican Wars for Facebook, the new provocative social game

Vatican Wars is the new gaming social Facebook made ​​by the company SGR Games which has already won the honor from the news because of the particular plot. The purpose is to elect the Pope, but you should not think it's a game of "catechism" as the pretext of the election of the Pope is taken to go on to compete around sensitive issues, using the catchment become increasingly important to the social networks of Mark Zuckerberg . Players will be divided into two groups: Templar vs. Crusaders , here is how the new social games .

Vatican Wars divides players into two groups, the Templars (conservatives) and the Crusaders (liberal), and with attractive graphics and cartoonist, you must take on thorny issues around the Catholic world as abortion, the role of women in the clergy, gay marriage , etc. ... Parandosi advance from any criticism, the founder of SGR Games has already claimed to have contacted the authorities and religious have made ​​surveys.

The operation is similar to Mafia Wars missions and experience points: you must walk the path that leads from the first level (the order) at most (the Pope, like a Godfather), looking for the followers of the survey. Yes, because the role of team is essential as you will have to elect a player during the conclave as Pope, as in election politics. Will he achieve the same success of the various CityVille or even before the legendary Farmville ?

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Google Chrome, the open source video

May 2010, Google made ​​its Global IP Solutions for 68 million dollars. June 2011, Google acquired the technology makes it open source and is preparing to make it usable through specific APIs. And this is a crucial step, because it is the turning point that opens to the birth of the true anti-Skype VoIP communication between Web applications arrives , forget the client software and Google is in the navel of their own development.

The stated goal is to bring capacity in Chrome Real-Time Communications (RTC) via simple API that any developer can go to use . JavaScript and HTML 5 to be a part of the other, the project will be supported by enough to Google that Mozilla and Opera to create a new service which is conveyed by the usher browser with an alternative network to Skype and can serve as a counterpoint to Microsoft projects in the field.

Two codecs used in open framework for audio transmission: ISAC for broadband connections, and iLBC for connections are under-performing; one hand, the codec used for video transmission: VP8 , a project made ​​in Google already widely discussed in the past months due to problems of quality and intellectual property .

Skype has also used the Global IP technologies to the fourth version of the client, but later chose his own way by leveraging the solution SILK (Super Wideband Audio Coded). After Google acquired the group and its codecs and began to develop WebRTC it now intends to bring to your browser. The consequences are primarily intended to reverberate in Gmail, whose skills could be spread quickly to video. Besides Gmail, however, there is more: the API will make the system available to developers, who can then use the code to create new ideas.

At the moment not yet been provided details of the implementation time of new technology but Google promises to lead to want of Chrome (WebKit using) in a short time . Forcing, however, even Skype to a similar move in response to the threat coming. It does not mean that Skype can not have to have proper weapons to protect their empire when WebRTC represent a serious threat to the network now owned by Microsoft.

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Google will strip, thought to be a virgin

Google has confirmed the investigation by the Federal Trade Commission early yesterday ( Google playing dirty, a survey to see clearly ). The house in Mountain View has received formal notification of the investigation was initiated and has expressed its readiness to cooperate with the authorities in the months to follow , in order to wipe out any doubts about its business model in the fields of advertising and research.

The company has published a posting on his blog, Google Fellow Amit Singhal drawn from, in order to clarify some points that are important, a sort of open letter to its users. "At Google, we always put you in the first place . Our goal is to provide relevant answers as quickly as possible. People seem to like the innovation of our products, in a world where competition is just a click away . However, we recognize that our success has brought increased attention on us . "

"It is still unclear what are the concerns of the FTC . From the beginning we have been guided by the idea that if we focus on you, everything would come as a result. No matter what you're looking for - buy a cinema ticket , find the best burger vendor nearby or watch the royal wedding - we want to give you the information you require in the shortest possible time. Sometimes the best result is a link to another site. Other times it is a news, sports scores , the share of stock, a video or a map . "

"Instant answers. New sources of knowledge. Powerful tools, all free. In just 13 years we have built a model that has changed the way people find answers, and helped large and small businesses to create jobs and interact with new customers ".

" Using Google is a choice and there are many other options available to obtain information : other general search engines, specialized, the ability to navigate directly to the websites, mobile applications, social networks and more. Because there are so many options available to you, we work constantly to make the best research. "

Google believes it has always worked according to some "guiding principles", which enabled it to become what it is today. "The first is to do what is best for you. We operate hundreds of changes to our algorithms every year to improve the search experience . Not all sites can appear at the top of the results page, or even in the first. "

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Apple's new complaint for the App Store

In the focus this time the open source startup amah and the goal to block the generalization of the term.

Apple has reported a small startup that deals with open source, Amah, for ' use on its website the term "app store", which Cupertino is trying to get the exclusive. The first to oppose the request for exclusive by Apple of the term "app store" was Microsoft, which is put across to the claim of delay on the part of Cupertino to be considered as generic for "store digital applications," so without that distinctive character needed for protection intellectual property.

Then it was Amazon , which had since been reported from Cupertino, to claim the possibility of using the combination of words with the same motivations. Meanwhile, Apple had already shown a willingness to defend the legal use of the term, even denouncing MiKandi, application store for Android that red light boasted the name "app store" in this way has pushed the button of "relevance in the perception public "and avoid using common outreach .

In this the ' attack on the small Amah is more than the fear of real confusion, just the desire to prevent the spread of the coupling of generic terms as if they were to indicate stores applications.

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App Store is generic Apple defeat from Amazon?

According to the court can not defend the brand Apple App Store, saying that creates confusion among consumers. Jobs's company for now has not been able to prove this thesis. Still, the question on the generality of the name.

Apple will probably lose the case brought to defend the brand against App Store Amazon. This is the opinion of a U.S. judge, that the Cupertino company has not provided convincing material to support their thesis.

Amazon would be right then: use the App Store for a service other than Apple is not likely to cause confusion among consumers. Unlike the argument made ​​by Apple.

You may remember how the question was born a few weeks ago, when Amazon created its shop online for Android, App Store named this fact. Apple responded almost immediately with a complaint , explaining that it might suffer heavy damages the image, because "it creates confusion among consumers."

Amazon, however, defended himself by saying that the App Store is a generic name , and demanded the dismissal of the case. Since then others have followed the facts, which have seen take the field even Microsoft, HTC, Sony Ericsson and others . Last month, Apple has also taken an official position, opening a new case to show that the App Store is not generic , and that the term can refer simply to a shop.

Judge Phyllis Hamilton - who runs the first case - believes that "probably" will store the request of Apple . Fact, the company would not be able to establish its case, but the judge will review all materials before making a final decision. For the moment it would seem that consumers are not confused, though.

"I'm worried by what you have shown so far, but for the moment it is difficult that you can win this case" the judge said in court.

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Facebook Exposes Server Design

NEW YORK - The data center is usually a well-kept secret of great Internet company - Facebook is now taking a different path. The world's largest online network will disclose all information on its new U.S. data center: computer design, power supplies, building planning.

With the "Open Computer Project" to other companies benefit from the advances of the online network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said at the presentation of the initiative on Thursday.

Data centers are the engine room of the Internet, so to speak. Environmentalists criticize them for their high power consumption, which also goes back to the cooling of the other hot running computer. Facebook claims to have set in its new data center in Prineville in the U.S. state of Oregon new efficiency-brands. The server farm is 38 percent more energy efficient and operate almost a quarter cheaper than current conventional systems. Partner at the Facebook initiative, the chip maker Intel and AMD and the computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard and Dell.

Facebook, with its 600 million members, has been turn over huge Datenmangen. In recent years, the online network, the server capacity was hired from other providers - and that was inflexible, "said technical director Jonathan Heiliger. "It was like with my first landlord, who said I could paint the walls any color as long as it is white."

The unusual initiative intended to demystify the largest expenditure item in the online business, said saint. Smaller companies, however, already operate their own server farms no rent, but rather capacity at cloud-computing providers such as the online retailer Amazon. The progress in the operation of data centers are in the industry as a competitive advantage and are of great players such as Google and Amazon also treated. Much speculation also gave a huge data center that will take Apple in the spring in use.

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Piwik Instead of Google Analytics "Data protection"

Who wants to use a web analytics system should resort to open-source solution Piwik advises the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD) and explains how Piwik can be used data protection.

Many of the frequently used web analysis tools are not rules in accordance with the law to bring, the ULD shares once more . This is especially true for Google Analytics, the Google website operators makes available free of charge, the privacy advocates, because Google's service in this country can not use data protection.

which the ULD, which has prompted the use of Google Analytics to refrain from website owners, had been "the continued use of Google Analytics waived and asked the company, to delete personal data stored there" , the ULD on. In addition, we have Google, the lead developer for Analytics, the existing data protection concerns, including presents. Google has so far done nothing but.

However, the ULD is limited in its current position not only to pointing out what does not work, but also made ​​a recommendation, as the subject of web analytics data protection compliant to implement it. The answer is Piwik . The open-source solutions are the same as Google Analytics for free and have the advantage that the processing of data is not that of any other place or at a processing order data held in, but on the servers of the website provider itself, the turn is then but with costs connected to the website operator.

The ULD explained in detail how Piwik can be used privacy-compliant, but insists that the "positive assessment Piwik for the purposes of usage analysis [...] is not the product of a certification offered by the ULD procedures for the issue of certification of Schleswig-Holstein or European Privacy Seal equals " . So far there is no such certified analytical tools and no relevant procedures.

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Tweets 1 Billion in One Week,Twitter Celebrating Anniversary

Twitter is celebrating its fifth anniversary. For the anniversary, Twitter has even published some figures on his blog that show how the micro-blogging service has grown in recent years.

In March 2006, it all started, a small team consisting of the founder Isaac "Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, is working on a prototype of Twitter. First, the service was "twttr referred. Later this was renamed to Twitter. So Twitter has developed:

• It took three years, two months and one day, sent to a billion tweets were. Now this amount is reached within a week!
• A year ago, were sent average of 50 million tweets per day. In February 2011 there were 140 million per day. The strongest days: 11 March 2011. Since 177 million was Twittering time.
• On 25 Michael Jackson died in June 2009. On this day 456 tweets per second were withdrawn. Four seconds after the year 6939 were measured tweets per second.
• Every day gets Twitter 460 000 new users. Proportion of mobile users increased by 182 percent last year.
• The team was larger. In January there were eight permanent staff, now in March it will be 400th

Twitter can therefore rightly be proud of these numbers. Nevertheless, enjoy, especially the daily new account numbers with caution. Twitter says that is not as attend many of these really active.

Exactly that is of course a big problem, many of the new users do not participate in listen only to the Twitter stream. Nevertheless, Twitter is larger and still tries to be profitable.

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FrenchLeaks the Wikileaks to Mediapart

At its output, Wikileaks has the effect of a bombshell on the web. We can not count the number of reactions and controversies that have swollen and worldwide. But besides this, the famous site has also opened a new path and raised a number of vocations. Proof of this is to celebrate its third anniversary, Mediapart decided to try their luck and publish, in turn, sensitive documents. Even as this project has a name, FrenchLeaks , and its gates have just opened.

And that risk again to do a lot of noise. Note however that the approach of journalists Mediapart has little to do with Wikileaks. In reality, what we found on FrenchLeaks, these are all the documents that were the subject of investigations by journalists of Mediapart. But be careful because the site goes a step further by allowing any user to submit documents in turn. However, before being published, they will be investigated and will be analyzed in depth to ensure their integrity. Logic.

Currently, it is not less than eight files that can be found on FrenchLeaks. Various records, varied and relevant to both the case that Bettencourt Karachi on the case, not to mention the financial crisis of the savings banks or the dark side of empire Bolloré. Then just click on the folder of his choice to view the list of documents it contains. These can be of various natures, in the case of the case may be Bettencourt and find and listen to audio recordings of Patrice de Maistre. Very impressive.

However, what is clear is that the analysis of journalists Mediapart are not available on FrenchLeaks . Which is pretty consistent since the articles published by the newspaper are all pay and the need to s to pay a subscription to access their content. That said, the good side of it is that this approach will help you make your own mind on various issues raised.

There obviously remains the question of anonymity. Mediapart journalists said they would do everything in their power to protect their sources and identities of people who communicate on FrenchLeaks documents. However, no system IT is 100% reliable and if you want to participate in this adventure, it's still better to hide your tracks and send your documents and from an Internet cafe. And preferably in another city than yours, anyway.

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Hacker Alarm on Finance Agency

An embarrassing margin of safety on the Internet provides in the Federal Finance Agency for excitement. According to the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) was for years the Finance Agency offers Internet users manipulate everyone. This was made ​​possible a graphical data manager , to which one could gain access without the password. In addition, there have been security holes in online banking. The financial agency in Frankfurt is the central service for the borrowing by the Federal Loan and Federal Treasuries.

According to CCC safety concerns would be the potential financial loss from the small have been more. "Fortunately, you as a customer of the financial agency in writing by post to confirm all orders, "said Frank Rosengart by CCC. This media break was annoying, but care for more security. "At worst, money would scale back the customer can be booked on the account," he says. It remains unclear whether access to customer data was possible. "We try to clarify," said a spokesman for the Finance Agency.

No sooner had the CCC the vulnerabilities made ​​public, the Finance Agency took the web server from the network. Due to maintenance on the website and www.bundeswertpapiere.de www.deutsche-finanzagentur.de am an online presence is not available, the official reason. Investment contracts are currently on the customer service center only.

The spokesman confirmed yesterday to request established a link between the alleged maintenance and criticism of the CCC. The decision to take the site from the network, it is not been the cause. Rather, internal systems have shown that Web attacks have taken place on the website, which is why the finance agency was at the Frankfurt prosecutor made criminal complaint against unknown persons. Whether you suspect someone, he would say not.

Humanly it would have involved in the alleged hacker attack to the work of the CCC, after an anonymous tip of the vulnerability checked - and only then informed the Finance Agency and the press.

Because of the ad makes you look there is little worry. Most of them come in such cases, a process because a process is embarrassing for the institution concerned.

The authority responsible for support of web web agency Bipper Brandao from Offenbach disclaims any responsibility for the security issue out of hand. "We have been engaged just four months ago to a system navigator to program for the finance agency," said the CEO Arne Bipper the Frankfurter Rundschau.

The hearing before a three-quarters of a year still quite different. At that time, told the magazine W & V, that Offenbacher worry about the future care and development of the entire website.

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Google Will Offer a Spam Filter to its Engine

After having changed its search algorithm so as to degrade the position of the sites "low quality" for the benefit of those who produce the content of "Good", Google continues its fight against spam to its search engine .

The principle is similar to spam filters webmail services that are becoming increasingly "personalized" as and when the user identifies a message as spam. Taking up this idea Google now intends to further customize the results of its engine. The latter can then form its own database of filtered sites. Thus, turning a page of Google results suggest a new link to block the entire contents of a website by filtering its domain name. This preference will be added in the user account of the user. This requires ensuring that it will be identified on the server of the company before making a request.

For the moment Google does not intend to use the various lists of blocked Internet domains to improve the index of its engine. This new feature is now available for the English version of the service and for Internet browsers using Google Chrome 9 +, Firefox 3.5 + and Internet Explorer 8 +. In the past Google has made ​​available an extension for browser Google Chrome replicating these features.

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Twitter Brings 2.4 Million Users in France

According to a study Semiocast, a startup specializing in Parisian trend analysis on the Web, Twitter has about 210 million users worldwide. Among them, 2.4 million are in France, notes Silicon.fr .

This study of a sample of 52 million profiles worldwide, representing 24% of the followers of micro-blogging service, shows that the French seem more adept at Facebook - which brings together more than 20 million French users - as Twitter tweets.

Launched in March 2006, Twitter has passed the million profiles in France in 2010. But the same year, the two million mark was crossed.

Even if a slowdown in enrollment was observed in mid-2010, a significant increase was found with 160 000 new profiles for the month of February 2011.

France ranks as the 17th largest in the world in terms of users and represents only 1.1% of all location-based profiles. As for the leading trio, it is constituted by the United States, Japan and Brazil. The UK comes in fourth position with 10.5 million users.

Moreover, this study shows that only 1 user on 11 protects his Twitter account in France. Indeed, when an account is opened, it is public by default.

In other words, any user can view a list of tweet issued. The account can of course be protected later in order not to restrict access to their contacts. But few users do so visibly.

Still, the report states that "France is in 6th position of the countries where the accounts are the most protected (8.9%), behind Singapore (17.2%), Malaysia (14.8%), the Philippines (10.8%), United States (10.7%) and India (9.9%). In contrast, only 2% of Japanese users book their messages to their friends. "

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Skype Identified Advertising as a Revenue Source

Skype will continue to earn advertising. The company now shows the Windows version of its VoIP client in ads. They are only in the U.S., Britain and Germany appear initially. Among the other advertisers include Groupon , Universal Pictures , Visa and Volkswagen .

"We believe that our advertising if it is done correctly, the development of great products will help," writes Doug Bewsher, Chief Marketing Officer of Skype, in a journal . The ads appeared only occasionally and not affect user experience. It was planned, one ad per brand to show only a day.

To advertise on users align and improve the relevance will use Skype anonymous information such as location, gender and age, Bewsher wrote. About the privacy settings in the Options menu can also share this data off to advertisers.
Other free instant-messaging applications fade in advertising. The ads are Skype's third pillar. So far, the company earned with charges for calls to landlines and mobile networks and premium services for businesses.

Last Friday, Skype has also released its latest user numbers. At year end the Company had 663 million registered users. Of these, according to Skype 145 million active users. 8.8 million Skype users pay for the service.

Further, the balance for fiscal year 2010 submitted to Skype. With sales of $ 859,800,000 (€ 614.5 million) earned the VoIP provider to 31 December 2010, a loss of 6.9 million dollars (4.9 million euros). Skype 2009, 718.9 million dollars, representing a net loss of $ 358,800,000 resulted. This includes even numbers are prior to the spin-off company of Ebay.

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Facebook is The Online Video Store

The Hollywood studio Warner experimenting now with Facebook as an online video store. Test balloon is the Batman movie "The Dark Knight". But not all Facebook users are allowed to borrow it.
Film Industry in Transition: As the consumption of blockbusters are increasingly shifted into the net looking for the movie studios looking for new ways to offer their range of potential buyers direct you to. Above all, this unusual Warner's distribution channels: The studio has already released most recently "The Dark Knight" and the sci-fi movie "Inception" as a buying apps for the Apple iPhone and iPad device. Facebook now follows as an online video store.

Warner makes the beginning again, with the Batman movie "Dark Knight" - but other tracks will follow.

To pay for the movie studio uses the virtual currency of the online network: The payment system is at times used Facebook Credits mainly to buy virtual goods in Facebook games. The loan of the digital film costs 30 credits Facebook, the equivalent of three dollars. For this you can watch the movie for 48 hours as often as on the Facebook page of Warner Bros., the film does not download.

Currently the Facebook movie rental is only available to Facebook users in the United States. German members of the online network can access the application via the Warner-side, but not rent the movie.

The online network Facebook, with its 600 million members, is tested by more and more companies as a platform for the distribution of their products. So you can buy in the UK at present a limited special places of tomato ketchup from Heinz with balsamic vinegar. Therefore you have to be a fan of the UK Facebook page of Heinz.

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