Do not to give all permissions to all applications

There are applications that really need access to your contacts, geolocation, camera and other data and functions. But why flashlight need all these permissions? Make sure you do not give permission for access to applications if they are not needed. Otherwise there is a risk to share all that you have with the developers who will use this information to your detriment.

Do not use task management

Android works well with RAM, and it does not need additional applications. We talked about it many times. If you complete any task, they will run again, and in fact, you only spend the battery charge.

Do not install applications to save battery

Among the large number of applications it is quite difficult to find an application that brings more good than harm. Trust your smartphone. Its operating system created by talented Google engineers.

Facebook app is not necessary to use

If you want to save battery power, remove Facebook app. It is difficult to find more voracious application. You will be comfortable enough to use social network with browser.

Do not compare your Android smartphone with iPhone

If you have sold your iPhone, bought smartphone on Android, and expect that it will be the same or better? Android is too different from iOS, and compare two operating systems on the same criteria is very difficult.

Disconnect Chrome tabs and applications

We have not heard any positive reviews about this new Android features, and it is enabled by default.

Do not buy a smartphone with contract

Do you really need all of these services and applications from your service provider? Be prepared for problems with updates.

You do not need Root

You should not play with fire. Root-access is useful to those who truly understand what it is and what consequences might be.

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The main features of laser Internet 2015

For clarity in the images the system, the creation of which was launched in spring division Connectivity Lab, presented with colored rays. The actual installation will be invisible rays. The objective of the lab, we note is the development of innovative technologies to connect to the Internet anywhere in the world.

It is assumed that the laser system will be installed on unmanned aerial vehicles and satellites that can operate autonomously for years, eating from solar panels. According to Zuckerberg, it will provide high-speed laser Internet 2015 connection to a billion people who live outside the wireless network.

Source: Facebook

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When you’re the boss, you can do whatever you want. Even flaunt briefcase full of straps, cases and other parts of the future smart hours. How did the head of Lenovo, Yang Yuantsin (Yang Yuanqing), who may have demonstrated to the Internet will look like a sequel Moto 360.

Recall that a year ago, Lenovo acquired the mobile division of Motorola by Google. After closing the deal Google receives from Lenovo $ 660 million in cash and 750 million shares, the remaining $ 1.5 billion will be paid within 3 years, ie. E., We can say that Motorola Mobility “sold on the installment plan.”

Photo that has been loaded into the social networking site Facebook in the community HelloMotoHK has already been removed. Whether Yang Yuantsin realized his mistake or interfered PR-service companies, or we just gave rise to discussions.

Meanwhile, many users had to download an image that traveled around the Internet. What we do not know is whether this is in the photo accessories new watch or is it just something new for classic Moto 360.

Source: Engadget

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Virtual reality that the forecasts in the short term, tend to be very conservative – most people represent the future in the form of slightly extended version of this write IT News.

People think that most of the major social transformations or have already occurred or will occur in the distant future, but this is far from the truth. The world is changing faster than ever before, and a number of technologies that are already in active development, change it beyond recognition. Among them – the self-governing cars and virtual reality. On it we’ll talk.

There are three basic axioms that are necessary to understand, trying to predict the near future:

Ten years later, popular technology is unlikely to be a novelty – it will be smaller, faster, easier, more convenient, more compact and less expensive than what we have today.

The best technology is used today to create tomorrow’s technologies, causing improvement technologies exponentially.

As the exponential growth of technology, the level of acceptance grows symmetrically.

It is also important to note that network effects accelerate the development of many new technologies. Network effect means that the value of technology depends on the number of people using it: The first phone was not value for its owner, but it became when increase in the number of people able to call. Phone became valuable only when the technology is exponential distribution.

Why do most forecasts are wrong about the future

There is one fundamental reason why many forecasts are very wrong: experts and analysts try to use linear models to predict the level of adoption of technologies that evolve exponentially. This happens mostly because they assess the potential of the technology, based on its current form and function; The reality is that this technology every year will get better and better.

Futurologist Zack Kanter leads a good example. In 1980, AT & T has hired consulting giant McKinsey, to the predicted size of the mobile phone market. Based on the slow speed of the historic decision and disadvantages of this technology – heavy device, terrible battery life, poor coverage and absurd cost, – McKinsey famously predicted that by 2000 the total market can hardly pick up a million subscribers. In fact it is the number exceeded 100 million.

Although McKinsey analysis may seem ridiculous, from our point of view, the truth is that very few people at that time foresaw the explosive growth of mobile phones in the coming years. In fact, quite easy to trace the thoughts of analysts: for the time cell phones were awful and looked linear growth – and only when we look at the chart from a distance, it becomes clear that the growth was exponential adoption.

Virtual reality is ready for widespread

Many people see the virtual reality in black and white colors: it is hardly a novelty until until it becomes a real Matrix. But virtual reality is not competing with the perfect simulation of the real world – it competes with traditional sources of media: TV, radio, smart phones, tablets and computers. Those who have reached the age of majority, has carried out at least 8 hours of this network. And good technology of virtual reality for the people ceased to be a pipe dream – it already exists. Oculus Rift brings excellent experience in many ways, and the consumer version will be ready in 2015 at a price of 200-400 dollars apiece.

Consumer behavior described above is well established, which means that technology will soon become inexpensive and available everywhere. It would be foolish to believe that virtual reality will not be at the hearing people in the next 5 years – in fact, the consumption in this area will increase as the content and user experience will improve exponentially.

In other words, I believe that most people would prefer to spend time in virtual reality, viewing some “Game of Thrones” playing Call of Duty or just porn.

The network effect of virtual reality will be grandiose. As more and more people will use virtual reality to grow and platform; it will become more attractive to lure new users and continuing the cycle.

We can not imagine how virtual reality will be developed as a medium – perhaps the most interesting is to divide the virtual experience a la p2p. Imagine interface like YouTube, where you can immerse yourself in the present three-dimensional environment, created by someone else. Of course, we will see mass production of content, including the traditional “top-down” from the media giant and studios.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Whole markets are formed exclusively within a virtual reality, perhaps allowing flourish finally Cryptocurrency type Bitcoin. Enterprise applications are often overlooked – but imagine how many jobs of virtual reality, of course, for 10-15 years.

In the real world around virtual reality will not be without winners and losers. Users will have less time for cooking, and it can be assumed that food alternatives like “Soylent” will be very popular, as well as delivery services and catering. Cinemas surely die together with them and major streaming services (if not adaptable, of course). Who will be able to successfully transform 2D-experience in an immersive experience of virtual reality? Facebook, YouTube, Netflix and Google will have to push.

Although, of course, the market will develop associated with virtual reality devices and accessories – even our home furniture will undergo significant changes – a virtual reality will kill whole categories of products. Giants like Amazon will not like it.

Perhaps the biggest problem is the threat of virtual reality for our health and well-being. We know that the seat kills – lack of physical activity is part of the ten leading factors that lead to death, all over the world – and virtual life will certainly exacerbate a lot of problems associated with obesity and inactivity. Surely there will be some innovative approaches in the pharmaceutical industry, preserving muscle mass and bone density, as well as active methods such as treadmills for virtual reality. Many bright minds are already trying to resolve these issues in a different context: for a successful mission to Mars to find a way to preserve the health of astronauts in disastrous conditions of weightlessness. Elon Musk, for example, plans to launch Mars as early as 2026.

He laments the fact that in every corner of the earth have a look, but spread out before us limitless expanses of space. Nevertheless, there is another epic journey, which we will do, looking at the border, which extends infinitely inside: to our minds, in the first universe created by us.

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Currently has bred a great number of “messengers” like WhatsApp and Viber, and competition has become high as ever – here you and LINE, and WeChat, and is rapidly growing Russian Telegram, and Heml.is, claiming to be the most secure (from one of the founders of the torrent tracker The Pirate Bay, is coming out soon). In order to keep the palm, WhatsApp, which is now owned by Facebook, will get support voice this year.

“But in WhatsApp already have voice messages” – you say, ‘and you’d be right. Do not confuse the voice messages and “live” chat on the phone, not only through the operator’s network and the Internet. This functionality is not new, it is present in said Viber – and, most likely, would be another way of monetization, it is unlikely that users will provide a sweet fruit for free.

Considering that to this day WhatsApp occupies a leading position in the market “messengers” (465 million monthly active users), would not be surprising if, after talking implementirovaniya its popularity grow even more – if, of course, will not be repeated many hours drop network because of which there is a significant outflow of users towards competitors (read: Telegram).

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The largest social network Facebook is going to get popular WhatsApp messenger for $ 16 billion. This was reported by TechCrunch citing Commission’s Securities and Exchange Commission United States.

Under the deal, WhatsApp fully join Facebook, but it will continue to operate as an independent service. In addition, one of the founders of WhatsApp and its CEO Yang Koumi take place in the board of directors of social networks.

Of the aforementioned $ 16 billion $ 4 billion Facebook pay cash, $ 12 billion – own shares (which, by the way, now is not in poverty ), as well as provide employees messenger bags restricted shares RSU 3 billion dollars. Last designed to stimulate employees to continued presence in the camp of the corporation as to exchange them for common stock only after performing employees prearranged conditions or the occurrence of certain events.

In his blog, Facebook unveiled some statistics on users WhatsApp. The monthly audience of service exceeds 450 million people, 70% of them use it daily, and the rate of new registrations when reaches an incredible one million users per day.

How did this deal will affect you and me, ordinary users WhatsApp? If we believe the company’s representatives, it does. The only source of monetization service model will “subscription” , according to which for access to WhatsApp need to pay one dollar (33 rubles) per year. No advertising banners and ads. In this first year of use will continue to be free.

By the way, on the promotion of their product team WhatsApp not spent a penny – they do not even have their advertising department. And only an investment of $ 8 million messenger drew as many as three years ago.

Just a week ago in IT-sphere was an active discussion about buying another messenger Viber Japanese company Rakuten for $ 900 million. Number of users of the service is much lower than with WhatsApp – 300 million people, but Viber offers several additional ways to earn – for example, the purchase toll stickers. In addition, the service provides free voice communication, which is also important.

Nevertheless Viber, roughly estimated at 16 times cheaper as photo service Instagram, who two years ago bought Facebook. It turns out that for each active member WhatsApp social network paid about 35 dollars. And that you understand the seriousness of the situation last fall Nokia sold its mobile division Microsoft twice cheaper.

The deal between the two companies to be completed in mid-August this year. In case of difficulty Facebook WhatsApp will pay a penalty in the amount of one billion dollars and give its shares another billion dollars.

WhatsApp application is not only for the iPhone, but also for Android, Windows Phone , BlackBerry, and many other platforms. Download iOS-version of the program at this link .

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According to multiple sources, including iDownloadBlog, this Thursday the social giant, Facebook announced its intentions to release news app for iPhone, dubbed Paper. Future program has adopted the best design solutions in Flipboard , and the name is also borrowed. Paper we can try the following Monday, February 3rd, but now we can understand that the fans it will be a few.

According to the description on Facebook, Paper app combines news, videos and photos of your friends from the social network with the selection of materials such famous publications as The New York Times, TIME magazine and The Huffington Post. Good idea – give users the ability to read publications and news of friends in one place. This idea is wrapped in a very nice interface, which, according to The Verge, a hand in a former designer at Apple Loren Brichter. The app also promises to be easy to use. Here are the main features concerning ways to interact with content:

• All interface elements react to touch, allowing the interface to interact with natural gestures
• Enough to tilt the phone to view high resolution pictures and panoramic photos
• Fullscreen video autoplay
• Beautifully tailored covers and articles, set to full screen for easy reading
• If you want your own publication, preview function helps make it beautifully decorated

Good app? Just great! Will the success of it? Strongly doubt.

Facebook understandable decision. As with any online companies out there want to pull the blanket with the users themselves, so only users have long fled across the room. On our smartphones already have a rich application Facebook, but this is not enough for the company. Facebook Messenger for correspondence, Paper read publications, and that the company probably will not stop. Giants in the world of internet users seek to impose on all sides, creating services that duplicate existing, but on its own behalf. A good example is cloud storage, which offers literally everyone, but unless people stop using Dropbox?

To ensure that at least some users for the influx of “new” services, you need to pull the blanket aggressively annoying that only the users themselves. Try to use any Google service and it does not register on Google +. Difficult, so they have enough registrations. But this social network is still almost no one uses it because people already have Twitter and Facebook. Go to the Facebook application and chat with your friend using the private messaging system. Advertising Facebook Messenger just force you to install the application you need is totally unnecessary, and you will not refuse Viber or WhatsApp for him. The same fate, in my opinion, the application waits and Paper. People who want to read the news, like Flipboard, Prismatic and other existing services, which have long conquered the audience is not a well known name, and better functionality. 

As far as I remember, Facebook already has a bad experience imposing their services Android users by creating your own shell for the operating system. Have you ever seen a person that uses it? I have not seen, and I do not even remember her name published. Of course, all interested users install Paper next Monday, but interest in it will not last more than a week, according to my estimates. It seems it would be better just bought another Facebook group, as they did with Instagram .

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Company Facebook announced the release of a new application for reading news titled Paper, which is somewhat familiar to many variation Play Newsstand , Flipboard and other analogues.

It is worth noting that the first rumors appeared Paper for a long time. Back in the spring of last year Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to make the news feeds of users in the style of leading news publications. However, the fact that Facebook realizes it all as a standalone application, a big surprise.

During the recent “war” Facebook in such services and applications came with varying degrees of success. Facebook Messenger app almost immediately after the start became popular shell Home failed with a great bang, and the application Poke – and all was ignored by most users.

Newsline Paper application forms as of messages left by other users Facebook, as well as records of the communities to which you subscribe Facebook. It is noted that for the selection of records for Paper will respond as special algorithms, analyzing materials by the number of “likes” and repeated publications and a dedicated team of editors Facebook, working in manual mode. Records that fall into the news feed Paper, are displayed in the form of miniature cards, stories, sorted by different sections. Only after clicking on the entry card pops up before the user’s eyes in full, including attached photos and videos. Cards arranged in a horizontal ribbons that you can scroll with your finger.

Paper application also allows users to record and evaluate the post on his behalf.
Paper interface uniqueness in the absence of buttons and emphasis on gesture control. Special attention is given the ability to scroll panoramic images that do not fit on the screen by tilting the device left or right.

By the way, Paper is the first product laboratory Facebook Creative Labs. Smartphone owners can download the iPhone app already Paper on February 3. However, on February 3, it will be available only to residents of the U.S., when a similar opportunity to get people from other countries – is still a mystery.

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According to The Wall Street Journal , two representatives of BlackBerry last week visited the headquarters of Facebook, to evaluate the potential interest of a social network to buy smartphone maker. Recently, Facebook has a great interest in the market of smart phones, as more than half of the company’s advertising sales accounted for by mobile devices.

Not so long ago, in partnership with the social network launched HTC smartphone First, and with it the shell for Android called Facebook Home. Both of these initiatives have not become successful, it could push Facebook to buy their own smartphone maker, as it previously did Google and Microsoft. This move will give the social network not only access to specialists and Patents BlackBerry, but also full control over the development of the BlackBerry platform 10. The latter may look for Facebook is even more attractive because it will lay the basis for all OS services and implement a social network integration, which is still unreachable on other platforms.

However, at the moment it is not known whether Facebook is willing to bargain for BlackBerry, and whether to sell the smartphone manufacturer in whole or in parts. Despite his problems with BlackBerry still has $ 2.6 billion of cash and no debt, and the company’s patents are estimated by analysts at $ 3.1 billion

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Staff at Oxford Internet Institute in the framework of Information Geographies made a map, which is named after the famous game – “Age of Empires Online.” Would look like a world atlas, if the color on the map depended on the most popular Web site, and the area of ​​the state – from the number of online audience? It is on this question is answered infographics, lets look at the balance of power in the world from the point of view of the Web. 

The drafters took the data by the Alexa ranking, which sites in different parts of the world are the leaders in the audience, and made a map of the type of political atlas of the world, but instead of – a web-based resources. And the authors are not lazy and did a stylized map of the last century.

According to the infographic, the world is divided between Google and Facebook, and reigns supreme in China Baidu. It is understandable why the Chinese prefer a local search engine: most Google services are banned in the country, and the search works pretty bad. Although, Baidu love, not only in China but also in South Korea.

Only stronghold of Yahoo! Japan and Taiwan remain, and in Palestine, the most popular web resource is the Al-Watan Voice. With regard to the CIS, Mail.Ru undisputed leader in Kazakhstan, Russia often comes to “Yandex” in Belarus as the most visited site was the “VKontakte”.

In the case of Baidu, Yahoo! Japan and Yandex border online empires almost coincide with the real political. As for Facebook, it is obvious that his influence will grow as soon as the social network will establish normal search even within itself.

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