Apple feature "Download" on the iTunes music store

Apple feature "Download" on the iTunes music store

Apple announced recently added a new option for Downloads, downloads will be available to users of the iTunes store when you do purchase one of the elements of visual content available in the store, is an option that allows them to download the content later.

The company said that users can apply "11″ Mac and Windows systems, plus portable devices running version 6 and above of system" or "take advantage of the option to" Download "new when you buy any of the Visual content available in the app store, which includes films, TV series and their parts, and musical groups.

And, when you press the button "Download" after completing a purchase requested items from the store, add the items to a user account on the "iTunes" to download or see the future by cloud storage feature "cloud" of "Apple".

It is worth mentioning that the download option is available only to users who are in their "iTunes cloud service, the company outlined on its Web site.

Also referred to as "Apple" had occupied pride of place among the sale of visual content on the Internet for the past year 2012, according to the NPD Group, noted in a report that the company acquired accounted for 66% of TV shows sold 65% of movies.

According to the report, significant progress has been made "iTunes" in the "video on demand" online, up to 45% of share selling films online, and showed more than 77 percent of users of iTunes "store" the purchase experience was a lesson.

Google expands "street view" service covering 50 countries around the world

Google expands "street view" service covering 50 countries around the world

Google released an update to the "street view" service to expand the number of States that can browse attractions via the service to 50 countries around the world.

Google said today via her blog has launched the biggest update to the service since its inception, included new countries such as Lesotho and Hungary plus some 350 thousand miles in 14 States.

The US company was "street view" service in 2007 by adding images of five u.s. cities before expanding the service offering content from 50 countries around the world.

Google pointed out that the service is now offering a panoramic images for areas such as the "Danube River" and "the Chain" chain bridge in Hungary, also comes with a photo of the Kingdom of Lesotho "," which features a unique location within the State, surrounded by South Africa.

The "street view" service, one of the most "Google services" controversial, due to content compiled by company vehicles while captured for photos from several countries around the world.

Google has faced problems because of the collection vehicles to users without their knowledge through data networks "WiFi" unencrypted, and that the company had received several requests to remove some images that violated privacy and users is pictures of people in inappropriate situations or for special places whose owners do not wish to be on the service.

The "Google" recently paid seven million dollars for a number of American States to end the investigation into the "violation" of users ' privacy by collecting information from networks "WiFi".

"Foursquare" unveils new design for the "places" pages across the website

 "Foursquare" unveils new design for the "places" pages across the website

"Foursquare" location slip on a new design for custom pages for places on the website, change comes within a site strategy to take advantage of the growing number of visitors to the site, which arrived fifty million monthly visitors and more than 17 million users "foursquare" applications.

The site seeks to be a source of information and exploring places and destinations, not just an application for smart phones allows users to create them in different places recording and share them with their friends and their observers in social networks.

Says Mike slngton, Chief Engineer of the foursquare Web: "coming from Google to foursquare users for various reasons, we needed to give them the information they want at a glance". He adds that new pages are better visually, would prefer employers view and link to their sites.

The new design of the pages "foursquare" simplicity, and highlight important information such as phone numbers, address, in addition to the images, as necessary as information page provides photos and a map of the location and contact details, opening times and of interest to researchers on a specific destination to make their decision about going somewhere.

Search site will provide comments and user ratings and access to detailed information about a specific restaurant meal for example instead of surfing all the comments.

Although "foursquare" provides information on destinations is competition from other online sites such as Yellow Pages yellow pages, but what sets it apart from similar services the social aspect and the ability to search the recommendations and comments by users, and the places preferred by their friends, the site also provides nominations to visit places close to or similar.

"Foursquare" hopes in the competition site like Yelp to assess business activities and restaurants, which allows more detailed assessments. "Foursquare" focuses on linking the nearby places together and nominations for users and offers through its reliance on registration of visits by users to specific places and times of visit information about the popularity of a particular destination at one time; as most popular restaurant in the evening or the afternoon waned.

"Foursquare" wishes that the new design impressed the online users who may not be of application users, and help attract new users contribute to increase the information available to the site.

Mike slngton, believes that the fact that Google's primary source of website visits helped to change their vision of pages and role. He said: "if we have good pages of destinations, would be in the interest of Google and any other search engine giving us advanced arrangement." Despite the availability of many sites which are classified by the number of destinations from stars and other assessment methods, he preferred going to try him in a city accustomed to them irrespective of the assessment of others.

Entry into force of the first copy "Geeksphone" Firefox OS "system" for ask

Entry into force of the first copy "Geeksphone" Firefox OS "system" for ask

 

Geeksphone announced "the first day the phones operating system" OS "force Firefox all versions currently available, and they work to provide new versions soon.

The company raised the phones "Keon" and "Peak" dedicated primarily to developers and phones of popular application developers to discover the new system.

Application developers can via low-cost phones testing applications and services for the open source operating system "OS" which Firefox relies on HTML5 platform kernel "Linux".

Geeksphone said "through the official website," due to high demand on phones, store temporarily out of service, and we will get back to sale within hours. "

And put "Geeksphone" phone "Keon" 119 dollars, while the price of the phone "Peak" is the largest technical specifications 194 dollars.

Enjoy phone "Keon" Snapdragon processor 1 GHz frequency and S1, comes with RAM 512 MB RAM, 3.5-inch accuracy measurement screen (480 × 320) pixels, and 3 megapixel rear camera accuracy, internal storage capacity of approximately 4 GB with support for memory cards microSD, the phone comes with a battery capacity of 1,580 milliamps.

On the other hand has a "Peak" better specifications compared "Keon", as has the Snapdragon processor S4 and measured 4.3 inch screen supports IPS and accurately (540 x 960) pixels, the phone comes with 8 megapixel resolution camera on the back and front 2 megapixel, random cache RAM is 512 MB of internal memory storage, approximately 4 GB, the phone also comes with a battery with a capacity of 1800 mAh.

A number of companies manufacturing mobile phones revealed copy operating system running "Firefox", and is intended for users phones in the middle of this year.

Video "Gentleman" faster music section down to 100 million views on YouTube

Video "Gentleman" faster music section down to 100 million views on YouTube

Made a video "Gentleman" of Korean singer "PSY" record as soon as a music clip on YouTube down to 100 million views.

I need the video to only three days to reach the 100 million views on YouTube after put on 13 April.

Breaking video "Gentleman" record video "Bad Romance" to the American singer Lady Gaga, who won 100 million watch during 18 days.

This index joins the Korean singer "PSY" standard achieved by the YouTube video of his song "Gangnam" Style ".

The video "Gangnam" Style is more music videos in YouTube's history so far, breaking the barrier of one billion and 500 million views since launch in mid-July last year.

To this, just video "Gentleman" the record for quickest to 100 million videos viewed on YouTube and is the figure as "Russian meteor video."

I need a video also Russian three days to reach the 100 million views, according to figures provided by the company "visiblemeasures" research.

The company shows its most official views that cropped video "Gentleman" was caused by "Gangnam" Style video, noting that many users became curious to see new PSY having won "Song Style" Gangnam admiration.

The video "Gentleman" 160 million users barrier after about a week of putting, which is record time compared to the time I needed a video "Gangnam" Style to reach the 100 million views, where it took 44 days to record the number of views.

Facebook changed its logo design

Facebook changed its logo design

Detection of the social-networking website Facebook unveiled the new design for the "F" character and the rest of the symbols "icons" other uses, and for the first time in years.

The new design shows that the site has chosen a simpler logo, where it gave up from the blue line at the bottom of the Dim logo before close to the edge.

The new design appeared first in the information page on the new interface is launched by the network a few days ago for the operating system Android Facebook Home, also appeared in the "Newsroom" page News Room Friday.

It should be noted that are not yet adopted a new design for the "Facebook" in the rest of the pages of the website, the official website account micro-blogging site Twitter started as a profile picture.

 

More than 500 million visitors monthly "Wikimedia" Foundation sites

More than 500 million visitors monthly "Wikimedia" Foundation sites

"Wikimedia" Foundation Wikimedia Foundation owns the encyclopedic site group, said Friday that the number of visitors to access their projects to more than 500 million per month.

She said the Foundation on her blog, she initially had a vision, and that everyone in this world would contribute to the outcome of human knowledge freely, adding that although this vision remains elusive, it is achieved with the arrival of the number of visitors to the websites hosted by March 2013 to 517 million visitors monthly, according to comScore site.

It is also noted that the Organization has seen an increase in sites the time users spend on reading, if the number of monthly page requests to 21.3 billion during the past 12 months, mobile staff also set up 15% of the total number and rate of 3 billion per month.

And "Wikimedia" Foundation also developed across all sites hosted by, due to improved conditions of access to the Internet in developed nations and the third world, as the percentage of visit in India from 4% to 4.8%, Brazil from 3.6% to 5.9%.

The Foundation seeks to overcome obstacles to its deployment, and therefore, in February issued a number of updates to the application's Web encyclopedia "Wikipedia", and is intended to allow users to log on through mobile devices and create the list see "watchlist to track changes in a specific page.

The Foundation said it is seeking to build more features that allow users to add photos and make small adjustments to the articles "Wikipedia", an encyclopedia which exceeded the number of times pages display on portable devices last February more than 3 billion times in just one month.

After 24 hours the most popular Spotify in the music Twitter feed

After 24 hours the most popular Spotify in the music Twitter feed

The number of Tweets with Twitter Twitter #music "new music" which come with the marking "reportage" #NowPlaying to over 256226, and after about 24 hours of launch.

Website said Simply Measured in analyzing social networks, also the Spotify music are the most popular among users of the service to date Victor on iTunes from Apple.

According to the site, the number of tweets "listen now" # NowPlaying containing navigation links users to the Spotify service and shared via Twitter, during the last 24 hours to 12,013 tweet, via iTunes and 11612 vs 3457 service Rdio.

The site Simply Measured the rate of publications was via Twitter new musical equivalent to four times what had been his participation via video clips short Vine, during the same period.

The Twitter has today launched his musical "#music" Twitter and its application on any system or "formally, it is a new service that provides users a new way to explore music and published.

Microsoft continues to profit from Windows during the first quarter of 2013

Microsoft continues to profit from Windows during the first quarter of 2013

Microsoft revealed its financial results during the first quarter of this year, revenues reached 20.49 billion dollars registered in the same period, revenues increase from 2012, which amounted to 17.41 billion dollars.

Microsoft net profit stood at 6.06 billion dollars, equivalent to 72 cents per share, which exceeded some analysts forecast the arrival of EPS for sixty-eight cents. Net profit also more than for the same period in 2012, which amounted to 5.1 billion dollars.

Despite an earlier failure analysis "Windows 8″ revive sales, which have declined markedly during the first quarter of 2013, this quarter saw an increase of 23% from last year in revenues from Microsoft's Windows, and 5.70 billion dollars.

Microsoft also made 5.04 billion dollars of products from servers, up 11% from the previous year, as revenue from Internet services reached $ 832 million, up 18%, and Internet advertising revenues have risen by 22%.

Microsoft's revenues were recorded from games and entertainment products increased by 56%, reaching during the first quarter of this year of $ 2.53 billion. The company pointed to its members access to games "Xbox Live" Xbox Live to 46 million members around the world, up 18% from last year.

Microsoft's profit was affected in the first quarter of this year, partly as a result of being fined by the European Commission for violating antitrust agreement within the European Union.

And Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, a company statement said that bold bets the company's cloud services has borne fruit, with the growing trend of users to choose Microsoft services such as Office 365 ", and" Windows azure "," Xbox Live "and" Skype ".

Said Peter Klein, Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft, said the company continues to achieve strong financial results while exploring the changing market for devices.

In a related Microsoft announced the departure of Finance Director Peter Klein, the end of the current fiscal year, which resolved last June, after four years in post incumbency, eleven years of work in the company. Microsoft said it would announce the name of his successor from among the staff within the next few weeks.

The first quarter of the year 2013 marks the third quarter of the financial year for Microsoft, which first quarter begins on July 1 and 2 in the quarter October 1, and continue in the third quarter from the first of January to the end of March, to begin the fourth quarter from April 1 to June 30.

Yahoo plans to close six of its services

Yahoo plans to close six of its services

Yahoo announced its intention to close six of its services, motivated by the desire to focus on basic products in order to prepare for the era of portable devices.

The services include Yahoo stopped by 30th of April: Upcoming special events and occasions, and service users can upload their dates and information. And Yahoo! Deals, and SMS Alerts service Alerts, Yahoo urged participants to replace Yahoo apps for news, weather, sports and money.

Yahoo also will close by the end of April to serve kids Yahoo!, Yahooligans, Kids and suggested the use of children of 13 years of email service, Yahoo Messenger "under" accounts "program. Yahoo also depend on the support application mail and Yahoo Messenger "that supports Java for mobile phones, with Web copy of mail æãçóäìñ for phones.

Yahoo said it will stop all old copies of e-mail on June 3, 2013, to be replaced by the new version, users can slow connections or old browsers use HTML only version.

Yahoo said in her blog: "we are aware of the difficulty of change, but through such difficult decisions can we focus our energy on providing beautiful products as we made this week." In reference to update application "Yahoo! mail" laibad and Android tablets, weather application for iPhone, which has added the ability to display images from Flickr are air condition in the city.

Report: the announcements published over iOS in terms of traffic and revenue

Report: the announcements published over iOS in terms of traffic and revenue

According to the report, the situation of advertising via mobile phones during the first quarter of this year, the announcements that appear through the system "or as" iOS in terms of attracting visitors and revenue for publishers.

According to the report, published by the company "Opera" is specialized in mobile advertising, attracting advertisements across devices operating system IOS, iPhone and iPad applications that include iPod, to 44.5% of total visits, while Android came in second with 31.26% received tablets of about 1%, followed by other systems, including the "smbian" by 5.6%, BlackBerry 4.2%.

Announcements made in hardware operating system iOS about half the revenue from advertisers by 49.23%, Android took second place with 26.7% of the advertising revenue.

With regard to the demand for mobile advertising in various markets, the United States has maintained first place in most markets by 50.67% and less than 10 percent of its share in the last quarter of 2012, meanwhile saw European markets rose by 21% from advertising compared to demand its 14.61% last year, and five European countries are the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, France and Spain 65% share of the European market.

In contrast, decreased demand for mobile ads from the Middle slightly on the previous year, accounted for 1.71%, the share of African markets 4.10%.

Opera built its report based on its advertising, which includes four companies, AdMarvel Mobile Theory, 4th Screen Advertising, Opera Mediaworks. Publishes a monthly declaration 50 million via a website and application for the phone.

Twitter set may 7 as the date to stop the applications "tweets Dick"

Twitter set may 7 as the date to stop the applications "tweets Dick"

Select Twitter date may 7 to turn off apps "tweets Dick" TweetDeck for Android, iOS and the application of the AIR, and would stop integration with Facebook of all their products.

Twitter was announced in March the closure of applications "tweets Dick" during the month of may with no fixed date; published blog "tweet" cock she update will remove the applications from different stores on May 7, will stop work to users shortly.

"Twitter" tweets "Dick" service will continue to support a "Mac" devices and desktop computers, and add to new functionality and enhancements; and focused "Dick" tweets in the past on developing applications for the Web and browser "chrome".

And Twitter has attracted "tweets Dick", view and organize Twitter accounts in 2011 in a deal worth $ 40 million.

Some expect that the Tweetbot application for iPhone much of users ' tweets Dick "after stop, while users can turn on Android for other applications such as Hootsuite and Carbon.

Microsoft confirms work on making computers & Tablet PCs with small screens and competitive prices

Microsoft confirms work on making computers & Tablet PCs with small screens and competitive prices

Microsoft confirmed news reports that came out a few days ago, and revealed its work on making tablet computers with screens measuring less than 10 inches.

"Peter" holistic financial manager for Microsoft in a dialogue with the company's investors to put computers & Tablet PCs to Windows tablets market with small screens.

And the company's financial Director said that the new tablets with small screens will feature a "competitive price", i.e. they will not be paid as high as current tablets in the series "Surf's up" service "Pro" and "Surf's up art".

The new tablets will be available in the market the past few months, the bug as "holistic", which noted that his company started its agreements with suppliers of interior trim for those computers.

The report highlighted in the newspaper "the Wall Street Journal America said that Microsoft will produce Tablet has a smaller screen of my computer," Surf's up "the Tablet online market, which will own 7-inch screen, but Microsoft did not specify the exact screen size in the new Tablet PC.

And is expected to support the new tablets a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768, the less accurate it needs "Windows 8″ touch screen support for action after a recent update to the Microsoft.

And those new tablets will compete mainly branded "Google" and "Apple" and "Samsung" convertible tablet small like "Google nexus one" and "Apple iPad mini" and the series "Galaxy tab" from the Korean company, where Microsoft is seeking to expand its share of the market for tablets, especially with the reduced demand for desktop and laptop computers, which are the basic foundation for sales "Windows 8″.

The Microsoft announced its intention to manufacture tablet computers with small screens comes after the company disclosed its financial results during the first quarter of this year, reaching us $ 20.49 billion revenues registered an increase of revenues for the same period in 2012, which amounted to 17.41 billion dollars.

YouTube homepage design occurs at the style show users

YouTube homepage design occurs at the style show users

YouTube revealed his intention to change the design of the home page of the site during the next few days to view more video clips inside.

"YouTube" via his blog, official partners and owners of channels it will modify the home page to view more videos to the site users based on the pattern seen.

Video sharing site will begin making the new design for the site in the next few days, the new design will display more than one video of common user pages after logged on to the site.

Design feature will allow users of the site is showing new episodes of serials or programmes tagged closely, as will your site on another episode of the series as seen by the user before the closure of the site and then put the following link when reverting the user login again.

YouTube shows that the new features will encourage the user to see more videos, noting that the home is the more pages that user's time on the site.

The new design will also display the favourite channels to the user on the home page based on relevance, which will display videos of your favorite channels, then displays the videos suggested by the site.

"YouTube is the second social sites that exceed one billion active scenes per month barrier after Facebook, the site announced in March.

Discover 32 application is infected with malicious software to store Google play

Discover 32 application is infected with malicious software to store Google play

"The lookout" company specialized in mobile security presence around 32 apply to shop "Google play with a malware called" Bad news ".

The company said its code number, the official weekly of those applications ranges between 2 million and nine million downloads, a number that shows the number of Android devices affected by the malicious code.

Malicious code is "Bad News" to compromise the privacy of the installed devices, phone numbers and important information to the user and send it to a third party without the knowledge of the owner of the device.

Company Recalls "lookout" that infected applications that malicious code is divided between applications in Russian and in English, applications games and dictionaries, wallpapers.

The company disclosed the names of those applications, the most downloaded applications are games apps, apps "Collision" and "Holiday" and "Greemlins star Knife" and "Find Number" and "Bottle with Tasks" and "I believe" and "Birds" and "Stupid True or Fulse" and "Bottle Shoot" and "Savage Knife".

The company advises owners of smart devices security deletes those applications be installed, making sure not to install any anonymous applications in the future as security threats abound in these applications.