New Facebook Messenger can become a "snitch"

 Among the highlights of the new version of Facebook Messenger for Android and iOS functions are "viewed" and "sent" to display their location and whether or not a user read a message.


Thus, a user can monitor how many of their messages were read by a particular contact and know where he stands. It was harder to hide from his colleagues, who in addition to knowing whether or not you read a message, you can look in person to give an earful. Fortunately, the sharing of location may be disabled.

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Kindle Fire grasps more than half of Android Market in the U.S.

 

According to comScore, the market share of Kindle Fire jumped from 29.4% in December 2011 to 54.4% in February this year. Recalling that the bill only considers handsets running Google's system.

Second in the race Android market is the family of Samsung's tablets, with 15.4%, followed by Motorola Xoom, with 7% market share. Besides confirming the numbers of the small 7-inch, comScore tracked consumer habits for different screen sizes. The survey data show that the 10-inch screens favor the consumption of content, with an average of 125 pages per tablet, compared with 115 pages to screens 90 inches and 9 pages for the 7-inch tablet.

The numbers are much more favorable to Amazon to Google, since the Kindle Fire has a modified system very well and tie the user consumption of content in the store.

With the aggressive price of $ 199, Amazon shook the market by announcing the Kindle Fire in September 2011. The great advantage is its not the small 7 inch screen with 1,024 by 768 pixels, its dual-core processor or your little 8 GB storage. The big difference is the Fire of the Amazon and its contents, including Amazon Appstore, Kindle Store, Amazon MP3 and Video Instant Prime, plus free access to cloud services Amazon Cloud Player, Amazon Cloud Drive, Kindle Reader and Amazon Cloud Storage Cloud

"It's Max!" Max Payne comes to Android in 26 days

 Those who came late to the game world may have heard of Max Payne in only terrible film adaptation (2008). If this is the case, know that the game is the first to show the "bullet time" - the effect of the Matrix, which shows the path of a projectile - and was a hit on PCs and consoles in 2001. Now, Rockstar Games announced that the first title of the series will be released for Android and iOS.

The Android version will be released on the 26th of this month. IOS users may have a little fun before, now 16 days. The price of versions not yet been revealed, even if users will be fitted with a Brazilian Portuguese version of the game, who repeated the phrase "It's Max!" With an accent and striking each time a player enemy sighted.

Below is a video game, that bet also in the language of comics to tell the story. I remember I had to change my video card at the time just to run the game

[HOTTEST] We compare with your competitors Google Drive

Today, Google shook the cloud storage market by announcing the service drive. Offering 5 GB of free space in the package, something that draws attention to are the values ​​of the expansion packs, which are more tempting than the competition.

The service counter an old bet Google, which claimed in the past that store was doomed to limbo, since the trend is the migration to the cloud. With the commitment and profitability of competitors, the search giant decided to put the sleeves off. Thinking about who uses these services or want to launch the cloud to store data, compared Droids packets of the main services available. In the above table are in order: Google Drive, iCloud, SkyDrive, SugarSync, Dropbox and UbuntuOne.

Microsoft has changed since yesterday's free SkyDrive storage to 7 GB, but it is still possible to expand the space for the same 25 GB.

Instagram assume leadership in Android in 3 hours

 It took three hours to take the lead Instragram between image sharing applications on the Android-rated.

Since its launch, the leader picplz, which has a similar functionality and a great range of features, Google added 8,060 assessments in play. The Instagram sums up 9590. The correct number of downloads may or may not be disclosed by Instagram, since Google does not provide this information immediately.

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With more than 30 million users only in iOS, the Instagram generated much interest and controversy for its absence in the Google system. Apparently, this myth surrounding the tool is the key driver of success lightning.

The version for Android is born with a small disadvantage compared to those available for iOS. The tilt-shift effect, which blurs the image plots to generate a miniature effect is not present.

If you, like many, finds Instragram "more of the same", see the list of similar applications that have separated Droids in the past.

Devices with ICS reach 2.9% of Androids

 The Ice Cream Sandwich jump from 0.6 to 2.9% in total handsets running Android may have two main culprits: Galaxy S II and HTC Sensation.

Most manufacturers have revealed their list of devices to be upgraded to the newest version of Android, but most have not received the update. So far, users of HTC, LG, Samsung, Sony (Ericsson for the nostalgic) and Motorola and others await the limit of patience.

The amount of equipment Nexus also helped to inflate the number of ICS, but not like the Galaxy S II, Samsung. This account should be significantly increased, but not to overthrow the Gingerbread soon. The Android version 2.3 adds 63.7% of total handsets with Google's system.

Note Galaxy adds 5 million units sold

Have we wonder when Samsung released a mark of 2 million units of "different" Note Galaxy. Now, South Korea shows that the 5.3-inch device already exceeds the 5 million units sold worldwide.

It seems that the embarrassment of attending a smartphone so great in public is not sufficient to suppress the desire for a larger screen. With a resolution of 800 by 1280 pixels, the device brings compatibility to MPEG-4, DivX, XviD and MKV, running smoothly and with subtitles, and a pen to facilitate the use of image processing applications and design.

In Brazil, the unit is sold unlocked for 1999 dollars.

[AMAZING] Samsung TecTiles

The NFC technology is poised to become the eternal promise that never comes true. If months ago Sony launched its Smart Tag and LG the Tag + now is Samsung which launches TecTiles, some stickers that make up an NFC chip programmable inside and ... looking to break into the everyday use of your mobile phone (if you have NFC, of course)

Although the NFC has been associated mostly with the mobile payments, Samsung wants to give a twist and turn TecTiles in a fast and easy for users and companies interact through the NFC. The idea is to extend the operating environment of the NFC TecTiles placing these key places for people to do certain action such as check-in on Foursquare or update your Facebook profile just by bringing the phone.


 NFC tectile

The labels are flexible TecTiles can stick to any item or place so as to pass the phone to less than 5 cm prederminada triggers an action such as sending an e-presence, mute the phone or even more combined actions complex. This Las TecTiles have an app (available on Google Play) that allows the response action. Among the possible actions are

•      Launch an application
•      Change the phone configurations: volume, brightness, connectivity
•      Connect to a specific WiFi network
•      Display a message
•      Open a map or direction given
•      Open a web page
•      Check in on Foursquare or Facebook
•      "Like" on Facebook or update our status
•      "Follow" on Twitter, or send a tweet directly

So far the Samsung NFC are the Nexus, SII Galaxy, the Galaxy and Galaxy Nexus SIII, but in theory the system should be compatible with TecTiles any smartphone that integrates NFC.



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