Facebook has already surpassed the benchmark of 900 million users

Facebook has updated its records to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as part of the necessary documentation before its imminent IPO . The barrier of 900 million active users and is outdated.

In particular, there are 901 million people visiting the site or make use of the service at least once a month until 31 March this year. Compared to the 680 million it had in March 2011, the increase is 33% approximately. Regarding the daily use have been 526 million users on average in March, up 41% over the same period last year (372 million).

Access from mobile solutions has reached 488 million users in March this year. The social network has registered more than 125,000 million connections until 31 March, and the first quarter of 2012, have generated a daily average of 3,200 million button clicks comments or “likes”. Not far from the forecast of 1,000 million users in 2012.

Zipper Doodle honors Gideon Sundbäck

The Swede has Sundbäck Gideon’s invention certainly changed our lives, Sundback has finally invented the now ubiquitous long zipper. Today he would be 132 years old, Google honors the Swedes so with a witty doodle.

Who today on the ‘ Google Home ‘surfing is there once again facing a very changed and funny side. The lettering of the search engine company looks as if it were embroidered. Far more striking: In the middle of the site is a zipper that can be drawn down and then, as is common with the so-called Doodles, is providing information about the honored person or the corresponding event.

The virtual zipper can drag and drop back and forth, it “pulls” the Google homepage, search for Gideon Sundbäck and finally presents the information “behind” the zipper. The Google search box can be used in a normal way, despite zipper.

So we know who has done this (hugely important) Invention: Gideon Sundbäck (1880 to 1954) made this in 1913. However, he was not the first who came up with this idea, before other inventors experimented with similar closure means. Sundbäck but is regarded as the father of the modern zipper, because you can use the system, including for clothing. But his invention was initially limited to the use and was later further developed.

With the search engine giant Google Doodle honoring repeatedly reminded of celebrities or historical or other memorable events. The first doodle was created in 1998 at the Burning Man festival on the Google homepage, presented, these were a slightly modified version of the (then) Google logos.

Arcadesfera: releases of the week

Issue number 13 Arcadesfera, a number always associated with bad luck. Do you meet in this release that tradition with the best releases of the week? Well, the truth is that as you look. It is true that the arrival of proposals has been rather free void, and those who have been released are far from being accompanied by the adjective “best”.

Instead the games featured are a delight that does not exceed the cost euro in any case, so for 3.16 euros you can install on your device IOS four games will keep you entertained for several weeks. Want to know?

Ka-Bloom

We begin with a puzzle game based on the physical, we feed him a small seed lodged in the interior of a planet. To do this we simply turn in the correct order a series of objects that fly around us, creating links to our particular star may pass from one to another without leaving anything on the way.

Best of Ka-Bloom is that it is one of those games where the difficulty curve gives you the chance to enjoy while learning the mechanics to make the last bit after challenging levels. One of those titles that is easy to understand, but difficult to master to perfection, ensuring their longevity.

Ka-Bloom

Developer: BBC Worldwide
Language: Spanish
Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch and iPhone with iPhone OS 4.2 or higher
Price: 0.79 euros
Download it in the App Store

Easily create a picture for your profile on Google + with CoverPhotoEditor

As you know, one of the modifications included in the recent redesign Google + includes the alternative of using a single wide picture on our profile, rather than the five previously put images (which may still be used). This new option allows for some creative assembly but not everyone has the skills to make them.

CoverPhotoEditor is an online tool that enables us to create these images. We not only create the image format suited to Google +, but also remove the avatar of the background image, so that both background and avatar are integrated. I think the catch is clearly what I mean (which is optional by the way: everything can go it alone).

Both the avatar and the background banner can be downloaded separately. The service has some modest editing capabilities that allow us to add text, shapes and change things like brightness and contrast. If we do not have anything that we like, we can use that we offer on the site, which are shown before entering the editor.

A free easy to use and allows us to generate images for our profile quickly. Furthermore, unlike other (and at least for now), does not insert any watermarks, or the banner background and not on the avatar.

Apple and Samsung will sit down to talk to try to settle the patent war

Open warfare in the courts that maintain Apple and Samsung could end in a civilized manner after both companies this week to accede to their s CEO, Tim Cook and Choi Gee-sung, they feel to talk to try to reach an agreement. A trial judge in San Francisco mediate during discussions with the intention of stopping at a crossing of patent lawsuits that already spans more than twenty cases in ten countries.

The decisive meeting will take place within 90 days and more than one strain can kill for an ear to see what terms are developed. Especially considering it started when Steve Jobs decided to start a crusade against Android focusing on ending the Korean for “blatant copy” of the iPhone and the iPad.

Samsung of course has not been settled, and even while their CEOs are prepared to discuss, lawyers are toiling in their work by submitting a new application that covers eight patents affecting virtually the entire range of Apple products: from iPad iPhone and the Mac, Apple TV, and iTunes icloud.

Pinterest is valued at 7,700 million dollars

A few weeks ago Facebook Instagram bought 1,000 million dollars. According to Forbes, the other social network that is fashionable, Pinterest is valued by 7,700 million. The average user spends about 89 minutes a month in Pinterest, this is a tool that helps increase traffic to your site, and why not increase sales for your business.

A few days ago a study confirmed that this was the third most popular social network in the United States. Pnterest growth now seen in monetary terms, this valuation range speaks highly of you may have this tool, which is perfect for driving traffic to online stores.

A report by Greenpeace accuses Apple of using “dirty” power to run icloud

Although Apple has made ​​continuous efforts to respect the environment, it seems that they have paid to Greenpeace. The organization, in one of his reports called How clean is your cloud?, Said directly to Apple for using energy “mostly dirty” to power the servers of icloud. Amazon and Microsoft also are listed as companies that do not use clean energy in their “clouds”:

Greenpeace refers to the energy from the coal consumption, material which provides much of the energy of the data centers. Apple is preparing a farm of solar panels for your data center in North Carolina, but according to the environmental organization would contribute only 10% of the energy needed and simply represents “a good first step.” In the report, Apple gets a pass rascadísimo in transparency, efficiency and renewable energy, and has a failing infrastructure.

It must be said that, using the huge amount of money Apple has in its coffers now, would be nice to see some investment in ways to minimize the environmental impact they cause their data centers. At the same time, Apple is not alone in this game, and so far can not be accused of having made numerous contributions to save the planet. And I speak not only of solar farms or products without aggressive materials, but “details” like product boxes as small as possible or the introduction of stores like the Mac App Store, although it seems silly that we save millions of boxes and optical disks.

Would you have changed a white iPhone 4 at the Apple Store?

Those of you with an Apple Store near you may know from personal experience or that of a relative or friend: the Genius Bar did not put many obstacles to replace a broken iPhone with an identical immediately (always depending on the fault that has the iPhone, of course). Well according to sources 9to5mac and due to a shortage of white units of the iPhone 4, it appears that in some Apple Store are changing units damaged by white iPhone 4 iPhone 4S units of the same color.

Of course, when the rules indicate that Apple must replace the iPhone and no stock of the exact model you have the client, no other. The iPhone 4S is a model ships repaired, but it’s still a substantial improvement in performance compared to the iPhone 4 you had before. Of course, all this happens when the iPhone 4 that presents problems under warranty.

The bad news is that the shortage of units of the iPhone 4 white only affects the United States and Canada, so now you can remove the coat again and forget the intentions of “having an unfortunate accident” with your iPhone 4 white. I’m afraid the idea would not have worked anyway.

Data retention: fronts remain hardened

Shortly before the ultimate call of the European Commission, the so-called data retention directive finally transposed into German law, controls the duration of conflict between the FDP and the Union on an escalation.

Although Chancellor Angela Merkel, the main contenders Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) and had Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) has warned the end of March communicate, to keep the fronts remain hardened, told the news magazine ‘Der Spiegel’ in its current edition.

The Minister of Justice blocked the development of a new law establishing a Vorratssdatenspeicherung some time. It belonged to himself with the plaintiffs, who brought an already existing scheme two years ago before the Bundesverfasungsgericht case.

Merkel Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger tried in person, to bring a change of direction. The minister had sent again but only after their alternative proposal of a so-called quick-freeze model for the coordination of the ministries involved.

Thereafter, available telephone connection data is stored only in specific cases of suspicion. For Internet data, it proposes a store without occasion, but only for a week. Interior Minister Friedrich is in contrast with his view that this model does not satisfy the requirements of EU Directive and therefore could not prevent the threat of proceedings before the European Court of Justice. For this one without occasion, six-month storage of connection data was necessary.

Against this background, the CDU and FDP are likely to be difficult to come before the end of the period from Brussels to a common result. Germany therefore threaten fines totaling several million euros to the EU. However, the policy adopted there is also under fire after the constitutional courts of several other EU countries, their governments have also prohibited the implementation.

Canon EOS 1D-C video dares to 4K

Canon had not forgotten the world of film and video. Your new EOS 1D-C is the expected version of the Canon 1D-X focused on video recording, so it is directly subsumed in the division Canon Cinema.

The new Canon EOS 1D-X hit the market with a full format sensor with 18 megapixel resolution and dual-processor Digiv V. This configuration will work very well because the new Japanese SLR with video dares to 4K resolution. That is the main reason.

This resolution is achieved by compressing 8-bit MotionJPEG 24p. If you choose the video recording at 1080p, can reach 60 frames per second and export the uncompressed video stream via HDMI (YCbCr 4:2:2).

Although Canon has not given details of the price of this new “movie camera”, we hope to be around $ 10,000.