Amazon coins

Amazon is building out the reach of its virtual currency, Amazon Coins, with new support for Android tablets and smartphones.

Available to customers in Amazon's three largest markets (the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany), Amazon Coins can be used to buy apps and in-app purchases through the Amazon App store on these mobile devices.

Amazon doled out tens of millions of dollars of free Amazon Coins to entice developers to both the currency as well as the App store, which is a big puzzle piece in the company's plan for monetizing the Kindle Fire device and digital content sold through it.The Seattle-headquartered corporation first unveiled its virtual currency scheme one year ago for deployment and payment on the Kindle Fire, with a soft launch in the United States shortly thereafter.

In regards to Coins, App store developers will continue to earn their standard revenue cut of 70 percent when customers make purchases using Amazon Coins.

Thus, this expanded support for Coins is more about providing flexibility and options for the customer while maintaining the status quo for everyone behind the scenes.

Suffice to say, the concept of virtual currency in general has taken off on its own, largely (if not all) in part to the recent media buzz surrounding Bit coin.

Bit coin itself is starting to gain traction with online retailers and warehouses, starting with Overstock.com in January.

Google Glass to their users: Don't be glassholes.

Google is finally realizing what the rest of the world has known for some time: People who wear Google Glass can sometimes be “creepy or rude.”

To avoid freaking people out even more than Glass wearers already do, Google has released a set of dos and don’ts for those who wear Glass, with a number of suggestions that might help non-Glass wearers feel more comfortable.

At the top of the don’ts list, Google suggests that people who use the wearable computer shouldn't overly engage with it in public because they will look strange if they are standing around staring up into the air for no apparent reason.

Other suggestions by Google seem to be pretty obvious, though the company is still spelling them out. “Standing alone in the corner of a room staring at people while recording them through Glass is not going to win you any friends,” the company wrote. “Ask permission before taking photos or videos of others.”

One way to avoid making people feel uncomfortable is to slip Glass around your neck or put them in a backpack.

Google also said that it has learned that if you wear Google Glass people are going to want to talk to you about the new technology. “Be patient and explain that Glass has a lot of the same features as a mobile phone,” including the camera, maps, email and other technologies, Google says.

Surprisingly, Google acknowledged a somewhat derogatory term that has been floating around San Francisco, noting that people who wear Google Glass can be known as a “Glasshole.” In the Bay Area, it’s not uncommon to see a number of people wearing Google’s wearable computer.

To avoid being called a “Glasshole,” Google suggests that people “respect others and if they have questions about Glass don’t get snappy. Be polite and explain what Glass does and remember, a quick demo can go a long way.”

The suggestions aren't all about Glass’s creepy factor. The company also touts a number of virtues of wearing Google Glass, including, being able to “take advantage of the Glass voice commands” that allow people to use it hands-free while “golfing, cooking, or juggling flaming torches while balancing on a beach ball.”

Europe studies if Android can be considered as a monopoly

Is Android really open? A week later from the agreement with Google about his monopoly with search web, this is the question that makes the European Commission.
Even there's no investigation, the organism studies the conditions that Google puts to the manufacters that decide to use Android in their devices and could violate laws antimonopoly from the European Union.
Android, as plataform, could considrate itself as the union of two products. First, known as AOSP (Android Open Source Project), an operative system for mobiles open which Google makes avalible for anyone. A phone with AOSP isn't as Android. Is just a terminal with elements and basic apps.
What companies like Samsung, LG, Sony or HTC do is sign an “Distribution agreement of mobile apps” that allows them to have services and apps of Google that are not “open” with their famous apps , Mail , social networks, Google Play Store, and a lot of stuff that has became almost something essential for Android experience.
To sign this agreement, companies must have a compatibility certificate which price, can be over 75 cents for each device.

Those companies that accept it cannot create a mobile platform based in Android.

Also, the company can’t choose the apps that Google wants to install by default they’re required to install all of them.

New documents are presented in the trial between Google and Oracle in USA shows that the agreement also forces to the devices to install official apps in  specific places of the device.

European Commission started to study in April last year if this conditions suppose a disadvantage to services and apps of thirds but only for now, they’re planting a formal investigation against Google.

Joaquin Almunia, European commissary of competence, showed this week in a interview to the French newspaper Le Monde that the last decision was no still taken.

Android reached during 2013 a market share near 80%. This types of practices would put Google in a similar situation as Microsoft in the last decade, when he decided to include Internet Explorer as default in Windows operative system

Amazon Flow

Amazon keeps getting bigger day by day and one improvements that the company has made is the upgrade of the virtual store for i OS devices that have incorporated the option Amazon Flow that will help to take list of everything we wish in a store and then buy it through Amazon, with a better price and with a easy delivery in a few hours at home.

Thanks to this service we can take a picture and then the app recognizes it and send it to wish list for buy it.

With Amazon Flow will not be necessary to scan the Bar code because the app can recognize with only a picture of any product, from books to watches and every kind of video game from any console.

Without a doubt this new service from Amazon is a bad news for shops but specially libraries because of discounts that the virtual shop offers.

I phone 6 will be made of Sapphire

Next "smartphone" from Apple, I phone 6, will count with a screen with a better resistance, specifically, will count with a sapphire screen. By this way, the company would replace Gorilla Glass used in the most recent version of I phone.

With this new kind of screen, the new I phone might count with a high protection against drops and breakage and every kind of damage.

Sapphire is made by aluminium, iron and titanium and it's one of the biggest resistant behind diamond.

Now you can make video calls through chrome box of google

Now Google adds a new tool called Chromebox which is used to make video calls to help small and medium companies with their meetings in a easy way.

The values of this new tool are easiness, quickness and safety.

This new tool is integrated with Intel Core i7, a microphone, high definition camera, speakers and remote control.

With Google Chromebox for Meeting, meetings will be in high definition and quite useful.

Google Chromebox will be available in Australia, France, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Spain and United Kingdom while in United States now is available.

The terms that we haven't read...

With more of 1230 millions of users, Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has become in one of the biggest services in the web; a place that is easy to register but, where it offers a “contract” that not of users read and even know them.

The conditions of service, also known as “ terms of services” or “ToS” are the ones who appeared the first time we register or download software, apps, ect…

Written in legal language, describe what are the condition of use, what they do with our information, or what responsabilities we got or what obligation has the provider of the services.

We will analyze which condition have you accepted in facebook, probably, without read it them.

-Clausures that define conditions of Facebook, affortunaly are in our language, (our language is spanish).

Conditions of google are estrectured in 19 blocks with a lot of pages that try to explain what they do with our information that we generate.

-Even Facebook says that we are the owners of our right with the contents that we upload (photos, videos…), the social network says that they can also use what we do even if it’s connected with Facebook

It means that when we upload a photo to Facebook, the service can use it and can show our profile photo in a widget that is used in a web or use a video too, but it depends of our privacity configuration.

LG G Pro 2 comes before of what was thought

The "phablet" improvements his camera and incorporates a stabilizer of optic image.

Korean Media has advanced that LG will present it next 13 of February in a special event in Korea.

It was expected that this device was presented in the next Mobile World Congress of Barcelona that will take place in late February, but the korean company wants to present it a week before.

It's more normal that companies present their devices before big events to take more attention of consumers.

The company has promised improvmets in his camera, a sensor of 13 MP and 2,1 MP in the front, also his new "phablet" will count with a better stabilizer of optic image and video recording to 4K.

Flappy's Bird creator will delete his own app

Through his Twitter account, the creator of games for Smartphones, Dong Nguyen, a vietnamese with 29 years old, said that he will delete his famous app, Flappy Bird, in a few hours.

“I am sorry "Flappy Bird" users, 22 hours from now, I will take "Flappy Bird" down. I cannot take this anymore" wrote through his Twitter account at 2 PM, local hour.

“It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore" Added in another twit.

Also, he says he will not sell the app and he will continue creating new games.

Flappy Bird Creator is a popular new game for Smartphones, has reached top charts in App Store and Google Play. His creator won about five thousand dollars thanks to adverstiments.

Facebook 10th Birthday

How would be life without Facebook? A difficult question, Facebook is used by millions of people all around the world.
Can you imagine how it would be like?
Facebook has changed people's life in this 10 years, his users represent the 17% of total population, through this 10 years we can say that Mark Zuckerberg has made a revolution with social network and after this ten years we have seen how different sites have been appeared and disappeared like Myspace,Hi5,ect...
But... will Facebook exist in 10 years?

New SnapChat bug in smartphones

A new bug has been discovered in photo-sharing app, Snapchat, which can crash smartphones.

The security researcher Jamie Sanchez, reported that the app opens the auto photo and then starts to destroy the smartphone.The bug could allow hackers send millions of messages into the inbox, crash Iphones making the users restart their devices, and make Android devices go slowler. Snapchat has said that they're working to resolve the problem and would be reaching out to the security researcher who publicized the attack to learn more. The security researcher has complained that Snapchat has no respect for cyber security research community, which was proved recently when the service did not pay much heed to researchers' warning about a security hole that could expose user data and the researchers ultimately published phone numbers of about 4.6 million users to prove their point.