Twitter: 8 billion dollars of valuation and 250 million of tweets each day

Twitter is worth 8 billion dollars, about 5,800 million euros figure Impressive right? For only one of several new Dick Costolo, CEO, has provided a few hours on the popular platform before us under the Summit Web 2.0 technology event being held in San Francisco.
Apart from the mentioned valuation, Costolo also revealed that the number of tweets per day has reached 250 million, representing an increase of 177% over last year, that the base of 100 million monthly active users which now have more than 50% updated daily (on January 1, 30% of monthly active users were connected to Twitter every day), or the number of users who access Twitter via mobile devices has grown 40% each quarter.
Addition to the above highlights particularly how well they are running the strategy of integrating Twitter with IOS 5, which already begins to give them joy (this integration is partly to blame for the increase of mobile users comment and rate updates, and this is important to note that many users of IOS devices have not yet upgraded to the latest version). In this particular Costolo commented that:
Integration with IOS will be hugely beneficial to us. It will be even better than we thought. [...] These types of Apple are a great ally. When you think how to improve products and think about the issue. On Twitter we will offer simplicity in a world of complexity ... are [referring to Apple] our business mentors.
So while day in and day out everyone is talking about growth and the fight between Facebook and Google + Twitter not to improve their position within the social network sector. Far will they go nobody knows, but what is clear at this point is that:
■ Twitter has no rival, nor was he expected.
■ They have very clear that success is the simplicity and that is the line to follow.
■ continue to grow, and much, in all aspects, including income generation and that there are also doing pretty good things.

SpeakingPal, application to learn and improve your English [Android - iOS] 0 Posted by Juanguis on October 18, 2011 | In: Android, iPhone

SpeakingPal

is a great application that allows you to chat with a virtual character on the phone to learn English and improve it for free. The application available a kind of virtual actor who teaches us to pronounce English well, something very important as many out there do were writing are handled well by reading the language, but not pronounced.

The application is a virtual tutor spoken English that enables a simple way to understand the weaknesses and strengths of our level in presenting feedback in three simple colors depending on the quality of our pronunciation (red, yellow and green). The words pronounced correctly receive the green and those where more practice is needed are presented in yellow or red.

The user has the possibility to practice until suobjetivo and receive the highest score!

Dropbox rejected an offer to buy Apple's nine figures, from the hand of Steve Jobs

When Apple unveiled a whole which includes icloud, many users could not avoid the comparison with Dropbox. In fact, many others did the same when the service was born, being almost impossible not to compare it with Apple's iDisk, still active for MobileMe users, but less "ATR-asset", forgive the repetition, for most users Dropbox.
Dropbox now receives funding round of $ 250 million, and already has more than 45 million users, Forbes magazine released a report in which they had vaivienes account when the company founders had only two years old , and were called a meeting in Cupertino. To put this, MobileMe was launched in 2008, and the meeting was held in 2009. At that time one of the few who saw the potential for storage in what is now called the cloud was Steve Jobs. This summons the meeting in Cupertino with a clear intention ... but things did not go as Apple wanted ...
The first surprise at the meeting came when the founders took his laptop in order to demonstrate to Steve Jobs about the service. The late co-founder of Apple, made a cold gesture saying "I know what you do" something supposedly normal in the sense that Jobs probably was well documented on the service and I knew I wanted ... but ugly Dropbox by founders who were eager to show what they did.
The second surprise (again, possibly as a personal opinion) was for Apple. Apparently, Steve offered to buy Dropbox for a total amount of nine figures, but the founders rejected the offer. The aim of the founders was to build a great company, no matter who was the bidder, even if considered by Dropbox came from as 'hero' Steve Jobs, and no matter the amount. All he could do to rejection Jobs was smiling.
Dropbox now know that Apple did not sell. And we know how Apple responded to a product and service increasingly in demand, especially if we consider that the cloud is large but not infinite.

The most pirated movies of all time

They just show a list of 10 pirated movies of all time, showing which are the preferences of users, especially the preferred online audience.

Crowned the best is "Avatar" the most pirated movie of all time, is undoubtedly one of the jewels of Hollywood film, produced and directed by popular director James Cameron.

 In this list stand the summer blockbuster movies that have most liked to the public, mostly science fiction movies based on popular comics and TV geek.

 List of downloaded movies of all time:

 1. Avatar (21 million downloads)
 2. The Dark Knight (19 million downloads)
 3. Transformers (19 million downloads)
 4. Inception (18 million downloads)
 5. The Hangover (17 million downloads)
 6. Star Trek (16 million downloads)
 7. Kick-Ass (15 million downloads)
 8. The Departed (14 million downloads)
 9. The Incredible Hulk (14 million downloads)
 10. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (14 million downloads)

 From this list I only liked Avatar, The Dark Knight, Inception. Each of these films grossed millions of dollars in its debut, as well as lasting weeks at the movies.

 This list displays the movies downloaded via bittorrent, in a report that made ​​the site TorrentFreak. You have a favorite movie in this list, write down their views in their comments, because I do not like most of these titles.

 Online downloads are the most information on the Internet, and this list is proof of that.

iPad 3 Rumors: The iPad Mini? Say It Ain’t So

Taiwan-based news organization Economic Daily News has recently reported that a third or fourth generation iPad is in design phase and will be sporting a mini. That’s right. Rumor has it that Apple is planning on releasing a 7.85 inch tablet in the near future.
Economic Daily News stated that LG Display and AU Optronics are part of the design team and have already sent samples to Apple. The screen will have the same resolution as the current generation iPad, it will just be two inches smaller.
Rumors about a 7-inch iPad have been circulating since the first generation tablet hit the market and were subsequently squashed by Steve Jobs himself in a quarterly earnings conference call where the CEO was quoted as saying that a 7-inch tablet would be “DOA- dead on arrival.” This new rumor feels a bit DOA in my opinion. Just because it stretches the size nearly an inch, doesn’t mean it is any more likely than the first rumor.
Jobs has commented on the smaller sized screen to share-holders a number of times and all of them were a big fat “no.” Why would the iPad-maker turn around and do just that. Is the Kindle Fire really that much of a threat? I doubt it. Even if Amazon’s tablet actually competes with Apple, the market share has such a huge gap that the iPad does not need to rush out and make a cheaper version just to stay on top.
IntoMobile has an interesting point on the subject though. Apple has released scaled pricing versions of nearly every one of its other products from the MacBook Air to the MacBook Pro, or the iPod Shuffle to the iPod touch. It almost makes sense that they would start making smaller iPads. I guess we will have to wait and see on this rumor

Microsoft launches Skype official website

That's right. Skype already has its own niche in Microsoft.com, page and official site of the large corporation based in Redmond. The launch comes months after Microsoft was done with the service that has certainly been one of its strategic operations of the year, and only a few days after the relevant bodies in different territories gave terminate the procurement process.

On the different links you can access information, although they still lead to the official website of the service, which likely will remain so for several months and may even become permanent.

The launch comes before we have been able to discover the new features Microsoft announced shortly after announcing the purchase. These features include better integration with Windows - just about Windows 8? - And also with the mobile platform, Windows Phone.

Despite the purchase, because as I had major changes loom on the platform, Skype remains a totally reliable service in maintaining the privacy of our conversations and discussions, so we chose it as an ideal of the 5 programs to guarantee it, and also one of the ideal tools to study in groups.

RIM offers apps for free as compensation for the 'blackouts'

Apologies from Mike Lazaridis not appear to be the only thing to be BlackBerry users receive the 'blackout' that no data were kept for a long period of time. The Canadian manufacturer has announced today that it will compensate customers with a series of "premium apps" for free with the intention of gaining the sympathy of the bulk of new customers. "It is an expression of appreciation"-state in their press release, for the patience shown by the users during the incident.

The package offered by Waterloo has an approximate value of $ 100 and comprises a total of 12 applications among which we find SIMS 3, iSpeech Translator Pro and Encore Shazam among others. The offer starts on Wednesday and will remain active for one month. You have all the details in the press release after the jump.

Intel is excited about Windows 8

Intel is being an enterprise worthy of mention, I'm not sure if good or bad side. Their inability or indifference to produce processors for tablets made them miss the tablet revolution that has emerged in almost two years. Intel has a processor called the Intel Atom small, which is present in almost 99% of netbooks that run Windows and we all know how it works, not so good.
Intel has new Intel Atom processors ready for the next generation of netbooks, but why not, for the first generation of tablets with Windows 8.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini, it seems you're pretty excited about the arrival of the tablets with Windows 8, considering that is basically because Windows 8 will be the only operating system for tablets that use Intel processors, not to be. But also part of the ultrabooks, you know, thin laptop MacBook Air style that Intel is trying to "push" more models from manufacturers lowering their processors as much as possible and it seems not enough because manufacturers continue to complain of expensive it is to make one of these laptops, making them difficult to put one of these laptops at competitive prices to combat the MacBook Air.
Paul Otellini on their way through Dell World 2011 left the following gem:
We believe that Windows 8 on Intel architecture, particularly in Ultrabook will give you the best experience.
We have heard this many times, with each release of a processor or a new version of an operating system, understand me, and one tends to doubt. But more important, "especially in Ultrabooks"? I understand that Intel wants to give maximum publicity to this range of laptops, but what about the tablets? Is Intel purposely forgetting the tablets? Yes.
The only weapon that Intel now has against other companies that makes processors for tablets, especially NVIDIA or Qualcomm are the ultrabooks. Under the premise that weight are similar but you can have an experience of a PC in a size "similar".
It's quite strange to see a giant like Intel to miss something like tablets, never understand exactly why they decided not to compete in the field of processors for ARM tablets where the platform takes advantage, but beyond them, while sales continue to rise and tablets Ultrabooks prices are not lower, I do not think we're going to see Intel or Ultrabooks leading the market for portable devices.

Sales of Samsung Samsung Galaxy Galaxy S and S II exceed 30 million units worldwide

Sales of Samsung Samsung Galaxy Galaxy S and S II exceed 30 million units worldwide
Written by Danny on October 18, 2011 0 Less than a month after announcing it sold 10 million units of smartphones Galaxy S II, now Samsung has announced that cumulative sales of S and Galaxy Galaxy S II have exceeded 30 million units worldwide.

The Galaxy S was in 2010 the flagship of Samsung, while the Galaxy S II is the flagship of this year. Both have Super AMOLED screens (the S II also features the new AMOLED technology), and are clearly the most popular Android smartphones in the world.

The Samsung Galaxy S is being offered in most markets around the world, and the Galaxy S II was launched recently in the U.S., and obviously the market has been admirable. For no one would be a surprise that the South Korean company announced before the end of the year, 40 million units sold.

Brando makes the father of mice

The strange thing about this mouse is that it is very large, measuring 175 x 105 x 55 mm, 50% larger than standard mice.

Brando's mouse is powered by USB, so no need to install any driver. Just connect to your computer / laptop and be ready to work.

This gadget also features a series of LEDs, which undoubtedly help you stand out from the crowd.

Motorola RAZR officially Droid

As suspected, the new Motorola RAZR (Droid RAZR for the U.S.) has finally presented. Commanded by LTE connectivity, this new android (finally not be called Spyder) Boasting a 4.3-inch screen and a resolution Gorilla Glass AMOLED QHD Super all in a spectacular thickness of 7.1 mm, measures Motorola itself according to the position it as the world's thinnest smartphone. Of course, if the letter of the conference was "Thinner. Stronger. Faster. Smarter" (thinner, stronger, faster, more intelligent), was expected to grab center stage processor, and it has. With a new dual-core brain at 1.2 GHz and 1 GB of RAM, closes one enviable feature list with more than sure that a fan is salivating android now.

In the other features we can find a body of steel and coated milling millimeter Kevlar fiber in the rear and a new layer called Splash-guard that we do not know if it comes to providing rugged capabilities, the fact is that apparently seems to withstand stains, scratches and also resisting any kind of abuse of everyday use. Nor need the compatibility with the new Lapdock 100, and a number of functions that cover company profiles and so trendy "cloud storage" service introduced with the new application Motocast.

Motorola announces Android clock MOTOACTV fitness and 600 MHz CPU

The event began as Motorola and Verizon and Motorola are taking the bull by the horns with advertisements for their new teams. One is the mentioned Motorola RAZR DROID, which we have spoken recently and now the company has announced a device that will accompany the DROID RAZR and other smartphones that have Android operating system. It MOTOACTV clock, a wristwatch that also features in Android and has a 600 MHz processor

The device weighs only 35 grams and will include measuring the heart rate, distance covered during sessions of jogging, biking and hiking, in addition to a GPS to track the routes traveled. The MOTOACTV will sweat and water resistant and can store up to 4,000 songs, as well as providing FM radio and the "audio coaching", which will update the distances traveled via voice and rhythm reached.

The clock will sell for fitness MOTOACTV 249 for 8 GB version and 299 for 16 GB version.