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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Blu Life Pro: 5 inch HD smartphone is thinner than a pencil

Blu Life Pro (Photo: Blu Products)

The Blu Life Pro of California manufacturer Blu is 6.9 millimeter flat and according to the manufacturer, the thinnest 5-inch HD smartphone in the world. First, it is only available in the U.S., Mexico and Brazil, and costs 300 U.S. dollars, the equivalent of about 220 euros.

High quality front camera

For the relatively low price, the contract-free cell phone using the latest smartphones: Equipped with a 5-inch HD display and a quad-core processor , which offers Life Pro is a 12-megapixel camera with LED flash and auto focus, with the full HD movies (1080p, 30 frames per second) can be rotated. In addition, a 5-megapixel front camera is included (in contrast, offers the Galaxy S4 only a 2-megapixel front camera). The operating system is Android 4.2. The ultra-thin smartphone (thinner than a pencil) offers 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal memory.

Scratch resistant display

Despite its slim exterior, the IPS screen of your smartphone to be scratch resistant. For the power supply a battery 2500 mAh, which should be sufficient for more than 17 days and in talk mode for 12 hours in stand-by mode provides.

Video: Blu Life Pro

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Iconbit SmartWatch Callisto 100

The company has 100 Iconbit presented with the Calliso a Smart Watch, which can be pre-ordered now and mid-December 2013, available commercially. The purchase price for the innovative wristwatch amounts to 199 euros. The operating system is Google Android 4.2.2 was installed and the clock, a dual-core processor was installed with 1.2 GHz clock frequency. The processor is supported by 1 GB of RAM memory. The internal flash memory is 4 GB and can be expanded with a microSD card up to 32 gigabytes.

The watch supports communication standards UMTS, WLAN, GPRS and EDGE. The manufacturer has integrated a 3 megapixel digital camera for simple photos in the clock. Operation is via the 1.54-inch multi-touch TFT display that offers a resolution of 240 * 240 pixels. SmartWatch is completed by the Functions FM radio, Bluetooth, GPS, G-sensor and a speakerphone. As a gift for Christmas the Iconbit SmartWatch Callisto 100 can be recommended.

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Apple worth half a trillion dollars

The U.S. technology company Apple can point to a record and that the stock market value was on Friday to 500 billion U.S. dollars. At the beginning the company had reached this value before. The share price had amounted on Friday at 550.33 U.S. dollars but was still far away from the highs of last year. In September 2012, the stock price had climbed to more than 700 U.S. dollars.

The company is under intense pressure by its shareholders, mainly because the billionaire Carl Icahn calls a multi-billion share buyback program. The company has free cash of more than 100 billion U.S. dollars, and this money should be the requirements fully distributed to the shareholders. The innovation is obviously no longer the focus but enhances the increase in stock market value. Two years ago, Apple founder Steve Jobs had died, and since that loss Apple has a noticeable loss of innovative momentum. Only new improved Apple iPhone or Apple iPad coming to the market while it used over and over again were surprises in the products.

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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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New Windows Tablet Nokia Lumia 2520: Better than the iPad Air?

Nokia Lumia 2520 (Photo: Nokia)

In a new commercial touting Nokia for its new Windows Tablet Nokia 2520 in a funny scene which obviously compares the Nokia tablet with the iPad Air. Here, the competing tablet does of course not a very good figure. A preview of the Nokia tablet and a comparison to the competitors.

Battery life and features

The Nokia Lumia 2520 has a 8,000 mAh battery, which should, however, guarantee a five hours long battery life also promises the iPadAir long maturities and tests confirm a battery life of at least four hours even at high loads. A more fundamental strength of the Nokia Tablets is therefore probably the equipment and the ability to connect a keyboard.A full installed Office and Windows 8.1 RT make the tablet an attractive device to access while on the go all documents or to answer on the train to your next meeting before all messages. Other features of Nokia Lumia 2520: 2 GB RAM, 32 GB of flash memory, 800 Snapdragon quad-core processor with 2.2 Ghz. Alternative Tablets with Windows 8.1 come from Dell , Acer , Toshiba , MSI and of course Microsoft .

Nokia Lumia 2520 - Market launch in Europe?

In Europe, you have to wait a bit for the Nokia tablet. Market launch in Germany, Austria or Switzerland is not yet certain, if ever, the Nokia Lumia coming in 2520 not before 2014 on the market. In the U.S., the Nokia tablet is before Christmas in commerce, but whether in this country, the hybrid Tablets Nokia 2520 and Microsoft Surface are offered in parallel remains questionable.

Video: Nokia Tablet 2520

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