Facebook Immediately Create Rivals to Instagram

Many kinds of applications to upload photos, there Twitpic, Instagram, Lockerz and so forth. Well, now it is popular is instagram, the iPhone's photo application. All such instagram exhibit. Well, look at it the largest social networking's Mark Zuckerberg was challenged to prepare an image upload application for the iPhone that was allegedly going to be a tough Instagram competitor. Facebook made ​​this application should not be underestimated, because it can be photo tagging and sharing with ease.

It is estimated, Facebook will use the name "Hovertown" or "WithPeople" for such applications. According to the plan, this application can be stand alone and can be integrated with the Facebook application for iPhone.

Just imagine when the application is launched. Almost certainly be directly bolted to leave Instagram. We know how many Facebook users around the world. Until now, there are 6 billion photos uploaded per month and total photos on social networking sites has reached 100 billion photos.

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3 People Jailed for iPad 2

China - Various kinds of behavior of people just because of the iPad. Anyone willing to sell kidneys, fighting to get it, broke a finger and this time there is a prison. This tragic story happened in China, three people have been jailed for stealing confidential information about the iPad 2. Conspiracy them for sale back cover images derived from the iPad 2 supplier Foxconn, so the manufacturer can make a protective case for such devices.

MacTop Electronics general manager, Xiao Chengsong proven to have paid $ 3,000 to former employees of Foxconn, Huo Pengna, so Xiao can get pictures iPad 2 which is still secret. For the sake of getting a picture 'precious' is, Huo has recruited employees of R & D Foxconn namely Lin Kecheng. Lin himself has been getting the picture since September 2010.

With these images, Xiao could start selling iPad 2 case in December with speakers and camera positions are very accurate even though the tablet itself has not come out officially dated March 2, 2011 last. Waw, creative huh?

As a result of the leak, then the Foxconn officials were suspicious and asked the police to conduct an investigation, then the case is revealed to the court.

Xiao punished 18 months jail for his actions, while Lin's 'only' gets 14 months, and Huo went in jail for 12 months. All three are subject to substantial fines due to his actions.

Well, after seeing this case. I wonder who else would dare divulge information about the iPad 3 and iPhone 5?

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With OSX Beta Lion, Can Direct Boot into Safari

About a week ago during a show at WWDC, Apple announced the presence of Mac OSX Lion will be available in July at a price of $ 30 on the Mac App Store. Anything contained in this new OSX? Among these are auto-save system, reboot, which allows the application to resume stored in the steady state and runs automatically at restart. Plus launchpad which will bring a new experience when accessing applications.

Features that reliable when testing Lion OSX beta is a feature to just open the Safari browser when turned on the computer. His name Restart to Safari. With this feature without a computer simply open Safari to load the entire system. Of course this feature would be very useful when users only want to access the Internet, so the time needed to boot faster.

Another plus is, this feature can also be run when the user uses the internet as less secure. So if something happens with the network when accessing the internet, the whole system OSX Lion will be safe.

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Vacation Tips with Gadgets

You plan a vacation? do not forget to bring your vacation gear, including your gadget of course. Here are some tips about the gadget, you may need when on vacation.

1. Smart phone
Make sure carry the iPhone, Android or BlackBerry. When traveling using public transport, you can spend time browsing, or just check in at the Foursquare or Twitter and Facebook status updates. Also make sure you bring the charger. We know that the phone is always online certainly wasteful of the battery.

2. Media player
In general, people think the media player is the iPod. Of course not everyone have it. You can take cheap media players besides the iPod if it has not got. Or you can also listen to music through the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. After all, these devices can also play music.

3. Take NDS or PSP
If you have, take the Nintendo DS or Sony PlayStation Portable. If not, satisfy the desire to play games on your handset. The smart phone now has also been supported to play games on mobile phones.

4. Camera
Do not take SLR camera! Too extravagant place. Simply take the digital camera. Although pixel less, you are just vacation. Not currently shooting. No need to show off to friends and family that you have a SLR camera. If you do not have a digital camera, simply use the camera on your phone. This of course depends on the cell phone you own. When the phone is expensive, of course, already equipped with flash and optical zoom. Results of your photos would be nice.

Holiday goal, of course, to release the fatigue routines. Again, no need to carry a tablet computer. You want vacation, not work. Even if you continue to take tablets, just one goal, namely to show off. Agree or not?

Happy vacation and be careful!

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Android Become Champions in the U.S

United States - A research institute, comScore, making a survey on what platform the most widely used by U.S. citizens. Apparently the result is quite surprising, the smart phone market is currently dominated by Android (36.4%), iPhone (26%) and BlackBerry (25.7%).

Acquisition of Android this year increased by 5.2% compared to the first quarter of this data. Previously, RIM is the ruler of the smart phone in the United States, now their position was taken by Android.ComScore report apparently similar to the results of research from Nielsen which shows the figure 36% for Android, 26% for Apple, and 23% for the BlackBerry. Based on data from comScore, the number of smart phone users in the U.S. currently as many as 74.6 million.

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Apple beat Google in Brand Value

Apple is now the most valuable brand in the world. Its value even shift the site search engine, Google. Based on the research WPP Plc. unit of Millward Brown, Apple's brand value soared 84 percent last year to 153.3 billion U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, Google's brand value slipped 2 percent to 111.5 billion U.S. dollars.

Meanwhile, for the third position there is an IBM (International Business Machines), which rose 17 percent. IBM stepped over the third position before the McDonald's.

"So it is clear that every worker Apple from Steve Jobs and Tim Cook went to a summer internship to protect and maintain their brand as a top priority," said Director of WPP Millward Brown, Eileen Campbell in his report on Monday (05/09/2011).

Apple is a brand that belongs to Apple Inc.. This company produces the iPhone, iPad, iPod and iMac. Campbell said, Apple has raised almost twice the revenue and profits last quarter. According to him, since the acquisition of Redmond, Microsoft Corp.-owned technology company in May 2010, Apple's market share increased rapidly.

Jump in brand value of the most surprising is up. The value of this brand of social networking sites jumped 246 percent. His position is now in the order of 35 with the value of 19.1 billion U.S. dollars. While its competitors, search engines from China, Baidu ranks 29th with a value of 22.6 billion U.S. dollars. Baidu value jumped 141 percent or a second quickest after Facebook (kompas.com).

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