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iCall make VoIP calls through the 3G Network
Mar 18th
For all of you known the eternal debate about the unacceptability of Apple to make VoIP calls through 3G network from the iPhone. Many (including myself included) thought this would never come to light after Google’s rebuke as theVoice, but nothing is further from the truth.
With iCall can make calls to any number anywhere in the world via the 3G network. To get an idea, a five-minute call from Spain to Singapore has left me by 8 cents (about five U.S. cents), far less than it costs me a call within the same territory through Telefónica.
There are several settings of the program, one of which will pay you a monthly fee allowing us to call anynumber. But the most interesting is the charge per call, which will require an initial payment of 10 dollars (just over 7 euros) you spend on card, allowing us to use it for subsequent calls.
The program will save this amount in a counter that is updated with every call minus the spending we’ve done. We synchronize the program with Facebook to add his contact list and can also access the iPhone’s agenda since. We must be clear that to make the call, it is necessary to determine the country where is that phone number, so in the case of Spain will have to add the “0034″ ahead of the number. Thanks to Albert Sant by pointing to this program.
Google also dominates the mobile search market
Mar 2nd
A study of Opera whose browser version Mini has 50 million users in the U.S., more than 9% of the pages that are visited via the mobile comes from Google searches. Although this is a study conducted by users of Opera Mini in the U.S, the results could be very similar in the European continent. Opera has taken into account more than 50 million users who are using a browser for mobile devices as the company says. Thus 9% of all Web pages that are visited via the mobile comes from the results of a search through Google.These are data from January and recorded a total of 23,000 million Web pages visited. Opera Mini was not yet available for the iPhone in this period, so the searches come from devices such as Nokia, RIM BlackBerry, Android, etc. In second place is situated Yahoo!, with 4.3%, while the search engine Microsoft Bing has only been used in 0.03% of the pages visited.
The percentage of spam grows in February
Mar 2nd
Almost 90% of emails are spam, while its size is shrinking, reducing especially those messages with attachments. Symantec has released its Message-Labs Intelligence monthly report which announces diver safety-related data and the amount of spam generated worldwide. As shown in the study during the month of February there has been an increase in spam reaching 89.4% of all email generated. This is 5.5% higher than found during the month of January this year. Symantec attributes this growth to increased activity of Grum and Rustock Bot Nets, especially the former, only the month of February has increased by 51% and generates 26% of total spam traffic.
As for types of messages, the report shows that pharmaceutical copan offers 65% of all spam. Moreover, the tendency of these messages is to reduce its size. This is the case of images, increasingly embedded in emails themselves but linked to external servers. This is because this way the creators have more control over active email accounts and also can generate more spam in less time. In this regard it is essential to configure mail clients to not display images by default. Of the 5 Kbytes per average spam message in October 2009 has gone to 3.3 Kbytes in February 2010. Finally, only 0.56% of these messages contains a file attachment.
Google swallows Internet photo service Picnik
Mar 2nd
A new day, a new Google service: The same as tireless expansionshungrige California web giant Google can also take pictures in the future to deal more specifically photos online. Because Google has the web-based photo editing service Picnik accepted.
Picnik is a start-up with about 20 employees in Seattle and offers the ability to edit digital photos directly in the Web browser without installing additional software. The basic service is free for two U.S. dollars extra per month you can use more functions, but even without registration, many basic tools are available.
Google would be excited by the functionality and change the time being nothing to Picnik, it was said from Silicon Valley. On the purchase price were not disclosed. The recent expansion underlines the fact that Google already developed from a pure search engine into a major General Merchandise store in the global data network, now extends Google’s portfolio of word processing including about navigation to videos – which is Google from its core business, the sale of make online advertising in the Internet search of independent will. Only two weeks ago Google announced Moreover, even a trial basis to build a super-fast Internet in the United States.
Microsoft is pushing companies to rebel against Google
Feb 27th
A case that has the air of revenge for the Redmond Company that has repeatedly been accused in recent years of abuse of dominance.
Google moreover suggested that Microsoft had prepared the plot that was because it became over time a competitor in many segments (online search and Web services, advertising, browser…). In a contribution posted on the blog “Microsoft on the Issues” (“Microsoft responds to questions”), David Heiner, Deputy General Counsel of the software company, returns to the complaint. The man scratches Google recalling that the latter is the subject of special attention in many countries vis its position in web search, online advertising and to a lesser extent, digitization of literary works. “Many services including search and online advertising are increasingly controlled by a single company, Google”, David Heiner concerned that pushes companies to move to mobilize and make a complaint against Google.
He said complaints against the search engine would have stopped growing in recent months with the rise of the latter.
Need traffic to increase the quality
It is also on the register of innovation that Microsoft wants to train the legislature. “Bing needs a volume of queries that are very important to increase the relevance of research findings concerning the words that are [...] is why Microsoft and Yahoo have pooled their search volume” explains David Heiner. Before concluding: “That’s why we’re concerned about Google’s business practices that tend to lock publishers and advertisers, making it more difficult for Microsoft to gain search volume. If a company cannot be punished for being successful with users, Microsoft’s position reflects the concerns of the latter: losing significant market share in a number of areas. While trying to return the situation to his advantage by taking the defence business.