Pulse is now (a little more) in the social

Pulse is one of those applications that benefit from a strong image of mobile users and this is normal because it gives them a new way of consuming information. If we talk, it's not for nothing since the latter has just been updated and is now much more social with support for Facebook, to YouTube, to Tumblr or even Instagram. A new and very significant and should please all those who use it daily. Morality, Flipboard had better watch out! To submit the application in a few words, Pulse works on the same principle as any RSS aggregator, except that the application benefits from its own catalog and an interface designed as an interactive magazine. All with a pretty nice looking interface and some interesting features. We think including...

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Getty Images Launches The Feed and taste the pleasures of "social media"

Getty Images is famous for its rights free content (images, videos and music) but the platform like from time to time add new strings to his bow. So she just lifted the veil on a new feature called The Feed and simply aims to analyze social media, specifically Twitter, in order to extract the pith and marrow. Very interesting, especially for those who like to know what is happening in the world and what are the hottest topics of the moment. The idea is quite simple, The Feed is simply based on a script that parses all "trending topics" of Twitter to determine which are the most discussed topics of the moment. Then, the tool will search for images in the database Getty Images to draw parallels and find related content. Once this is done,...

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BlackBerry 10: new screenshots in with Twitter

Conference RIM fast approaching and it is therefore in a fortnight the Canadian manufacturer will formalize BlackBerry 10, probably making some happy way. It is precisely the latter that this article is intended as new platform catches fell into the claws of BB10 Believe , catch that allow us to know a little more about BBX but also and especially on its Client  Twitter ! And that, ultimately, it's still very nice because it may be very likely to go over our lives. So, if you want to see more, then you are very well fallen. As you can see by taking a look at the pictures that accompany this article, the Twitter client for BlackBerry 10 will eventually be very close to that of other platforms. No big difference with Android or even...

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iPhone 5: Apple Mobile has mixed success?

The iPhone 5 would it be the first smartphone from Apple mixed success? Sales would not live up to the Cupertino company. Apple has also asked its suppliers to reduce the amount of components. The iPhone 5 will not meet the expected success. Atypical information was relayed by the Wall Street Journal. The quantities of components have been halved. Asian suppliers must reduce the production rate according to Nikkei, Japanese newspaper. One plant should produce Sharp screens latest iPhone has fallen by 40% the pace of work. Generally, such a decrease was observed a few weeks before the launch of a new model. The iPhone 4S has faced a decrease in sales as consumers book their budget for the release of the iPhone 5. This trend would not...

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Samsung Galaxy S 100 million passed

This is fact, Samsung has just crossed the symbolic 100 million Galaxy S sold. This figure refers to the 3 models Galaxy S (S1, S2, S3), and Samsung proudly announced that figure today. Of the 100 million handsets sold, 20 million of them are the first model Galaxy S. The Galaxy S2 has signed the actual explosion of the model, with 40 million handsets sold. The Galaxy S3 has also sold 40 million copies in half the time. Samsung thus proves its market dominance, it occupies up to 20%, thanks to its Galaxy S. Apple, its direct competitor, it was announced surpassing the 100 million iPhone sold in 2011...

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Tactus demonstrated a touchscreen technology with relief

The surface of a touch screen may seem too cold and smooth. There is a solution and is to provide relief to the screen. Presented in preview by TACTUS Technology, this technology could revolutionize the practice at the gaming and typing.  Tactus Technology has revealed a few hours from the end of the 2013 CES , a prototype tablet 7 inch relief (Morphing, in the language of Shakespeare) Android. The screen takes relief, according to the situations and configurations. Technical side, to bring relief to get under the screen, a multitude of tiny pockets of liquid are stored in the screen and take shape as the pressure on the pocket, it exerting the same pressure on the screen. The first uses that come to mind is the physical...

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iPhone 5: Apple reduces production

Sales of the iPhone 5 would they be disappointing for Apple? It is in any case suggest that the Japanese newspaper Nikkei claims of which provides that the Cupertino company could ask its suppliers to reduce by half the manufacture of screens. Apple provides with in Japan Display, Sharp and LG for its screens 4 inches . But according to the Japanese newspaper, the U.S. firm did not anticipate declining demand for its new iPhone . Information which, if confirmed, could be a serious setback for the creator of the iPhone. In fact, Apple has used to reduce its production of iPhone only when the announcement of a new terminal is imminent. Except ferry surprise, the iPhone 6 (or 5S) should tumble in September. The latest model is not...

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Video Phone OS Ubuntu

CES is that we could make a quick grip of the famous Ubuntu Phone OS. Canonical if we made ​​it clear that this version is still a beta, we also confirmed that this version will be available for download within a few weeks for the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung, probably at the MWC where further announcements will be made. Open source and promising OS that could land on some terminals before the end of the year, but this is the first manufacturer to make it! Ubuntu Phone OS builds rather Windows Phone 8 as Android or iOS with ergonomics and a nicer interface based on touch and gestures. It is based on a Linux kernel and also works well with an ARM processor or an Intel Atom processor. Note also that the advantage of this mobile OS is...

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Facebook: a mobile OS presented tomorrow?

Last week, Facebook invited the press to a mysterious event taking place on January 15th, ie tomorrow. The invitation mentioned something that was "built" by Facebook, and it does not take long for that wild speculation invade the web. In reality, the source of TechCrunch mentions an event based on the "mobile". It does not take long for the site to imagine a Facebook OS. If this is the case, we can imagine a version of Android customized by Facebook, just as Amazon has done with its Kindle Fire HD, or even WebOS. Facebook already has a catalog of applications quite big. In addition, Facebook has already supported a telephone in his name, the famous HTC Chacha who did not meet the expected success. A credible hypothesis, at least...

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First pictures of the HTC Sense 5 and M7

The CES 2013 ends without real big announcement from the biggest manufacturers of smartphones. You'd think they reserve their most thundering declarations for the next MWC to be held in Barcelona from February 25 to 28. We will return by then our expectations for this show, but one thing is sure: HTC smartphone and its future high-end, HTC M7 big play on the show. Until we have more concrete evidence, here are some leaked images from this upcoming high-end phone HTC signed, and the new wrapper that embeds Android: Sense 5. Regarding the supposed shot of M7, we can not say that the picture gives us a lot of stolen concrete elements: the front has the classic HTC logo positioned at the top of the screen, as well as the front camera....

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PlayStation 4: an announcement in May or June

The PlayStation 4 is obviously highly anticipated and if you're one of those who stalk the slightest rumor about the next-gen console from Sony, then the following may interest you. Hiroshi Sakamoto, Vice this Sony Home Entertainment has indicated during an interview conducted during the CES 2013 that all persons working on the PlayStation 4 focused on the E3 2013, but an official announcement could also take place a little earlier, around the month of May. In any event and whether Hiroshi told the truth, then we should know everything about the PS4 before the summer holidays. There is no doubt that the year 2013 will be a pivotal year for our friends gamers. After the Wii U at the end of last year, this is actually somewhere in the next...

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Samsung Galaxy S4: Full HD screen of 4.99 inches confirmed by Samsung

As you probably already know, the latest news, Samsung Galaxy S4 should carry a 5-inch screen with a resolution of Full HD kind. It was only a rumor so far, but it seems that the latter has proven to be accurate. For indeed, during the CES 2013 , Samsung has put forward its AMOLED screen technology through a roadmap showing the evolution of the latter through the years. And according to this document, it is a Full HD screen of 4.99 inches which should be released sometime in the first quarter of 2013. Course, difficult not to think the Galaxy S4. It must be confessed, Samsung mastery rather well all the technologies that surround the screens of our smartphones and that the manufacturer was launched in 2010 with 3.97 inch WVGA screen,...

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Google Zavers: your coupons on your smartphone

We had not seen it coming, but Google has just launched a new service, Zavers , which aims to help you better manage your coupons by dematerializing and the casant on a corner of your smartphone. A bit like the Apple Passbook, therefore, but for the coupons. Interesting, of course, and finally understands why Google has signed a big check in 2011 to acquire Zave Networks. And yes, because Big G ​​is obviously not started from scratch to design its new ... How does it work? Very simply, actually. The manager of a shop partner wishes to reward its most loyal customers with a coupon, bam they use the platform and they only have to scan the voucher with their smartphone to keep a copy digital. Then free to use them whenever they want. Interesting,...

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Asus MeMo Pad: a 7-inch tablet for $ 150

The thing in fashion at the moment, it is the 7-inch touchscreen tablet cheap. The Nexus 7 has effectively created a precedent and most manufacturers now offer the market such terminals. Asus is also embarking on the battle with Pad MeMo , a nice tablet that arises as the cousin of the Nexus 7 and will be available soon at $ 150. All three colors and lines that should delight everyone. And if you want to know more, then know that you are fallen. Given the price difference, this new tablet obviously does not as well as the Nexus 7, but it is nevertheless a pretty stupid. The hull, to begin with, quite close to that of the small tablet produced for Google, but the Pad MeMo will all de same good taste to be available in three colors: black,...

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