Facebook swallows Oculus VR

The  Facebook has secured the VR goggles manufacturer Oculus VR for 2.3 billion U.S. dollars and is the second billion purchase within just two months. The payment of the purchase price is 400 million U.S. dollars in cash and 1.6 billion dollars in shares. A bonus in the form of a 300 million U.S. dollar equity stake get the Oculus-founders, if the pre-set targets have been achieved.

The data glasses Oculus Rift has so far been sold to 40,000 developers and is not available for normal users. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reported results for Oculus VR the opportunity to build the most social platform ever bringing the way of work, communication and playing would undergo a change. The data eyewear manufacturers traced to cause the target to experience the users the unbelievable. As applications for the Oculus VR games, movies and product advertising are conceivable.

When and at what price the data glasses will come on the market, also have no information known. In the mid-1990s, there were already attempts to establish similar glasses on the market but the demand was too low and the technology is not as modern as today.

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WhatsApp has 480 million users

According to a report by the news magazine Focus in the online edition of 23 March 2014, the short messaging service WhatsApp has become one of world's 480 million users. Monthly average of 15 million new users would be won and even though WhatsApp was taken in February of Facebook. In February, the provider in Germany rose by 1 million to increase its user base significantly to 30 million users.

Opposite Focus reported the WhatsApp-founder January Koum that his service for the user is to be attractive and this might be the announced telephone function make an important contribution. The call function to allow it to users via VoIP for free to be able to call each other. In Germany WhatsApp works to implement its mobile offering with E-Plus together.There should be a special prepaid card that has a WhatsApp option and where all sent messages, pictures and videos are not intended to affect the free volume of the prepaid tariff. The acquisition by Facebook cost 19 billion U.S. dollars and was one of the most expensive acquisitions to date of the social network.

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Internet is 25 years old

The Internet celebrates its 25th anniversary at March 13, 2014. The foundations for today's World Wide Web (WWW) put the British computer expert Tim Berners-Lee while he had designed an information network, which consisted of databases, computers and networks. As a tool he used the HTML programming language with which it was first possible to reproduce images, videos and sounds texts on the Internet.

The first arose simple web pages and the WWW won with the increasing number of broadband access increasingly important. Today more than 1 billion people worldwide have access to the Internet and the other almost 7 billion people are also to be connected with new technologies to the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee sees the anonymity in the network as a complicated subject.

All users have a right to remain anonymous, whether it according to Berners-Lee was a whistleblower or a normal user.Today's global village is distinguished above all by its multimedia content, which are reflected in the use of video portals, online gaming, video on demand, Internet telephony and other Web 2.0 applications.

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Dailymotion, the French nugget, Yahoo! turned the page

Remained in the Orange fold since Arnaud Montebourg prevented the sale of Yahoo! Dailymotion, the French platform video sharing multiplies agreements and projects.

Six months after the decision of the Minister of Productive Recovery Arnaud Montebourg, to prevent the sale of 75% of Dailymotion U.S. group at Yahoo!, the French video sharing website online writes a new page in its history in the lap Orange, a shareholder since 2011. Shift: platform video exchange is no longer for sale. Stéphane Richard, the owner of Orange, has even decided to invest thirty million and to develop synergies. Since then, Dailymotion, whose audience is almost ten times lower than that of YouTube, multiplies the announcement effects.

The French nugget signed with U.S. film studio Warner Bros. to distribute films in its catalog on the Internet, via a pay offer, which is based on Dailymotion Canal + is about to broadcast its programs in subscription Canada finally Dailymotion opened this fall a subsidiary in Japan and would be "very advanced negotiations" to acquire a European company. A follow.

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Gmail now displays the default image

On his blog dedicated to Gmail , Google announced Thursday a new default for mail received from users. The images will now be displayed by default, contrary to the practice hitherto observed.

Until now, when you receive an email in your Gmail box , the images were included by default invisible. You had to click on a text "display images" or "always display images from sender" for access. However, Google announced that display images in emails is now the default for all Gmail users on the browser version of its webmail service as its mobile applications. It is nevertheless possible to avoid using too much mobile data, for example, to configure Gmail to not display images by default, in service settings.

The original images were hidden by default in order to avoid displaying images that can be a source of security problems on your device or computer. The images displayed in the emails are indeed directly hosted on third-party servers, not verified by Google. Now, pictures are stored copy on Google's servers to ensure their safety.

In addition to security measures, the new default setting should allow marketing companies to better target their readers. Indeed, as pointed out the site Ars Technica , "Gmail no longer hide the remote images. This means that unless users change their default settings, it will be possible for senders to see when a message sent to a Gmail address was opened " . Indeed, so far, so that companies know if an email as a newsletter was read, it was necessary to send an acknowledgment or the recipient chooses to display images. From the moment the images are opened by default, they know that the mails are read once they have been opened if they use the remote image protocol.

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Spotify launch a free mobile streaming service

According to the American press, Spotify announce December 11th service music streaming free on mobile. Until now, it had only one offer at $ 9.99.

Soon in Spotify mobile streaming free?  REUTERS / Sean Gardner

Spotify launch a free service of mobile music streaming 11 December, according to the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch . So far the mobile service was only available to subscribers to plan at $ 9.99 per month. Free streaming supported by advertising, was only available on PC.

Spotify has 6 million paying subscribers a total of 20 million users.

The free service will allow mobile not unlimited listening , except in the webradio mode or playlists already made.

Spotify recently unveiled reverse the amounts to beneficiaries (record labels ...) by listening: between 0.006 and 0.0084 dollars. In 2013, the music platform announcement of $ 500 million in royalties.

Spedidam, who fights for better remuneration of performers on the Internet, has released a statement saying that artists touched 0.0001 per euro listening streaming free.

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Secure.me: Children fuse on Facebook

Public Facebook posts can endanger young people. The web service Secure.me provides a quick security check. Technicgen shows how it works.

The web service Secure.me helps tap out Facebook profiles for gaps and weaknesses.

Since recently, young people under 18 are not allowed to post public messages on Facebook; far they could spread only among friends. The dangerous thing about it: If your offspring or one of his Facebook friends posted about embarrassing party pictures, she looks every user of the network. A rapid control lurking in your child's risks in profile, allows the Web service Secure Me : So let "jokes" while not prevent, but discover immediately and reliably; parents can respond quickly in an emergency and make the perpetrators of such pranks.

Profile Analysis by clicking

How it works: After registering at Secure.me connect your child's Facebook profile with the service and searched his activities in the social network by weak privacy settings or disturbing content.The check is performed automatically with a click. The free Basic Membership offers the following checkpoints.

• Privacy Settings
• Photos and Markings
• Visibility of contributions

Trust is good - and necessary

Prerequisite check for: to enter the relevant password for Facebook Secure.me. The young people must therefore trust that parents do not spy on their privacy through the Service, but protect them and respect them. Otherwise, they will hardly come out with the password - or change quickly.

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Beats music service launched in January?

We were without news of Beats Music, the music streaming service launched in partnership between the audio and the leader of Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor brand. The service could finally be launched in the month of January.

The information comes from the website All Things Digital Wall Street Journal . According to information from the U.S. website, gleaned from "people familiar with the matter" , Beats Music could launch as early as next month. First in 2013, this launch will ultimately rejected. Beats Music should be a music streaming service whose value would be the recommendations to users and the social aspect. "Daisy uses mathematics to offer suggestions to users ... [but also] present proposals based in part on suggestions made by fans, becoming a platform in which the machine and enter more intimately human collision " and explained Trent Reznor, future artistic director of the service, in December 2012 in the New Yorker magazine .

Music Beats will face significant competition between Spotify, Deezer, Rdio, or Xbox Music Google Play Music. In addition, several persistent rumors also mention the Google will launch a music streaming service fee based on YouTube. Music Beats will also convince artists and record labels to offer their albums on his service, and it will also play on monetization. For the first time since its launch, Spotify has communicated this week on money paid out to artists, valued at half a cent per listen. In total, nearly 500 million dollars were donated by Spotify rights holders.

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Yahoo with a new Home

The U.S. online company Yahoo has its home at the optimized design for smartphones and tablets. The message stream can be adjusted according to personal preferences. In the new design modules for the weather, financial market and Flickr are included. The localized at home shows need for the latest news of Facebook contacts.

The company has experienced years of declining advertising revenue and conversion under the new boss Marissa Mayer shows slow effect. Sales in the fiscal third quarter declined 5 percent to 1.139 billion U.S. dollars, while operating profit fell by 39 percent to 93 Million U.S. dollar was posted.

Net income had amounted to only 297 million U.S. dollars after there were 3.2 billion U.S. dollars last year. The sale of a stake in the Chinese online provider Alibaba but excelled primarily responsible for last year's record profit. The share price climbs significantly since the start of the restructuring and shows that probably should be on the right path.

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What's new with Dropbox

The cloud service Dropbox has to be adjusted by the cloud offer packages for private and business customers were merged. Users therefore need to use the cloud storage, only one user account. The management of private and business data is then only possible through this one account. Previously this was not possible and required two accounts. In the future, customers can access personal and business data.

For access via app two separate directories are displayed. New photos are stored immediately. The business accounts have been extended with a remote-access, check log file and account transfers. According to the company, the new features will be available in November. To use a registry at www.dropbox.com Dropbox is previously required.

Since the NSA spying scandal U.S. suppliers are seen as Dropbox critical because many users fear a sounding out of their data. The advantage of a cloud, however, storage is the possibility to access the data stored there worldwide.

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