Chat Heads integrated in Facebook Messenger

Chat Heads, one of the new applications introduced with Facebook Home, is available independently via the Facebook Messenger application. It provides access to a conversation regardless of the application that is being used. Facebook launched last Friday Facebook Home, its wrapper which transforms an Android Smartphone into "Facebook phone" with a "family of applications" that provide direct and permanent access to updates and the social messaging network. Among these new features is the implementation chat heads that includes Facebook and SMS messaging and is available regardless of the application that is being used. It is also available independently Facebook Home in the new version of Facebook Messenger. Once updated for devices running Android 2.2 and later, users receive Facebook notifications when a message or an SMS is sent. The faces of the speakers appear as thumbnails in the upper right corner of the screen and simply press it to open the conversation. As with Facebook Home, chat heads works with any active application which is an easy option that may overshadow other messaging applications.

Samsung NX2000 with Android OS

An Android camera, Samsung has been in the program, but also Samsung is working on a camera with the operating system. Already Samsung has the Galaxy Camera which is a compact camera running Android on offer. A camera with the operating system would be because only the next logical step. The blog photorumors.com now shows a photo of the unreleased NX2000 supposed to be seen. Detailed Description does not mention by the blogger himself, but refers to the Home button next to the screen. This is an indication was that the camera was installed on Android or developed by Samsung itself Tizen. In the photo published by photorumors.com is also reveals that the camera mapped according to its label has Wi-Fi and a CMOS image sensor in APS-C format with a resolution of 20.3 megapixels. Whether it really is the Samsung NX2000 and what it has to offer, we learn more hopefully soon. The previous system cameras from Samsung, as NX300, although already have Wi-Fi and access to social networks and other online services, but would clearly win with Android yet to features and comfort. Polaroid has already unveiled at CES in early January with the iM1836 an Android system camera.

Twitter Music is ready now!

There is now no doubt that the launch of the Twitter Music application is imminent and is going to happen soon. The official page is now active. However, any connection attempt causes a return to the home page for the moment which indicates that an invitation is needed. Several sources indicate that Twitter now reveal even very soon, maybe today, its music service. An ad that had taken place during the Coachella festival and which follow the takeover of We Are Hunted last year had already indicated the same. According to All Things Digital, Twitter will today launch that new application. Nicknamed the moment "Twitter Music", it would resume developed by We Are Hunted, bought last year concept.

The application works essentially a way of recommendation: it examines various indicators, including other Twitter accounts followed by the user. The music is then sent through a third party service such as iTunes or SoundCloud. The model would also work with videos, powered by Vevo service Sony and Universal. It is interesting to note that TechCrunch, via Josh Constine, highlights the dangers inherent in this festival as a launch: "The launch of a music application for the Coachella Twitter is risky. The festival is chaotic, the mobile signal is low, and people are trying to preserve their autonomy. Among the seven scenes and crowds of 75,000 participants, it may be difficult to find the time to download and use music application will. Hope we will get the answer soon!

Secretbook for coded messages in Facebook pictures!

A new app available in the Chrome Store called Secretbook, which helps you to encoding messages into pictures that you then upload to Facebook. This extension for Google Chrome browser protects secret messages to the public and governments, says the text description of the app. Its author is Owen Campbell-Moore, a computer science student at the University of Oxford and also intern at Google. To use the application is simple, just upload a photo JPEG format at least 960 × 720 px preferably (for best quality) and avoid putting pictures with large identical parts (sky background solid color). Then enter your message and set a password for your friends to read it. Once the image is created with Secretbook, you just put it in a Facebook album or on the wall of your friend. The art of steganography is not new, and indeed perhaps the word reminds you of the story of the 10 Russian spies arrested in the United States in 2010? There are already tools to hide coded messages in images on Facebook but they were more complicated. Owen Campbell-Moore had to reproduce the images recompression algorithm used by Facebook. The app mimics what the social network to the reprocessing of the image of that minimizes damage and deformation that cause the secret message.

LinkedIn buys Pulse $ 90 million

The professional social network LinkedIn, with its 200 million members internationally, has announced the acquisition of the start-up Pulse, originally founded in 2010 by two students at Stanford University. Pulse is a mobile application that makes reading news reports and blogs available on the web. This platform is used by over 30 million users on iOS and Android, from 190 different countries. The application is available in nine different languages, and more than 40% of its users are outside the United States. The acquisition brings the talent (human resources), technology and all products developed since the inception of the company. According to the press release, the transaction is closer to 90 million U.S. dollars and consists of 90% stocks and 10% cash. The transaction may be concluded with the authorities in the second quarter of 2013. Most of the technology giants tried to acquire the Pulse but it was possible only for LinkedIn. LinkedIn gets their hands on a little gem that will allow it to diversify its activities. The stock as LinkedIn continues to rise near its annual high of 179$ this morning, which is nearly 90 times the expected earnings per share for the next year. It is trading in a fluctuating between 88.00 and U.S. $ 184.15 in the past 52 weeks range.