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Wondel PL: new video platform
18
Mar
The market already knows the wildly popular YouTube and
Vimeo growing , more a platform for videos either register on the area , since videos are among the most accessed Web content
The Wonder PL was launched last Thursday (13/03) and is supported by a team first: Universal Music , Qualcomm Ventures and the executive Pascal Cagni Apple and Andrew Creighton Vice Media, and wants to focus on segments of nutrition and female.
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Unlike the other two competitors , it comes with a promise of professional content to use cheap annual fees , but offer online services to users .
Youtube and Vimeo are free to post any video, but many editing and assembling video must be made by other software before posting .
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The chief executive of the new company videos , Sofia Fenichell , questioned on revenue said the company will depend a lot of signatures and that only growth can create opportunities for sponsors .
Although the post is taxed , the videos will be on the Wonder PL environment free of advertising , according to information from the Info site .
Viber releases links
04
Mar
With the announcement that the WhatsApp allowed phone
calls between users even in 2014, the Viber counterattacked and allowing free calls to fixed phones for two weeks, from late January to early March.
In three days of the campaign, according to the company, the app hit his record and reached 7 million minutes in calls for Brazilian users, and promises to move forward.
But the price was cheap, since m November 2013, released a feature that allowed calls to mobiles and landlines, the Viber Out to calls needed to buy credits between $ 5 and $ 25, but now it’s free .
The Viber was bought by Japanese Internet company Rakuten for $ 900 million, the app is now used by 12 million people in Brazil, while WhatsApp has 38 million.
Another open source smartphone
27
Feb
The popular version of Linux, open source operating system, built in the 1990s by millions of hobbyists who joined Linus Torvalds, and created a crowdsourcing phenomenon, later a popular version is called Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning “being with others”, now also wants to launch its smartphone and compete in the very strong European and Chinese markets, this is what its director, Mark Shuttleworth, said to the CNET News.
The operating system is called Canonical, because of the company that maintains Ubuntu.
The celular phones will be manufactured by a partnership between the Meizu Chinese Company and the Bq Spanish Company, and will be available worldwide in the third quarter of this year.
The director says that the design will be attractive and that it is faster compared to the Firefox Operational System, its direct competitor in the open source market.
The sale of WhatsApp to Face
26
Feb
Despite the sale of WhatsApp to Facebook, the services should not be included/integrated, is what says, also one of the creators, Jan Kou, of the application, sold for $ 16 million, as informed in interview to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, giving examples of other integrations which did not work out, such as Geocities, Flickr and Altavista.
The business executive said that the WhatsApp team is small, with only 55 people, and that the application will continue operating the way it operates today, maintaining/keeping the client´s privacy, their big business brand that has made many people migrate from other messengers.
However, the business executive who helped stabilize the system, which was off the air on Saturday, said the tuition could rise from the current U.S. $ 0.99 per year, which is a bad news.
The application has 450 million users, with the highest daily growth of an application, an average of 1 million new customers every day, and allows you to send text messages, photos, videos and audios by cellular phones.
The users are following carefully to know the changes that Facebook may do. A friend just posted Viber (a phone connection) with WhatsApp.
Mobile with free software at U$25
25
Feb
Is what the Chinese company Spreadtrum, of components for mobile phones and computers and cell phones, promises, they still did not have their own machine, but will now enter the mobile market with SC 6821 processor.
The device was presented on Monday during the Mobile World Congress fair show in Barcelona, with a 3.5 inch HVGA display, Wifi and Bluetooth.
With the use of the Mozilla Firefox scenery, the apparatus/equipment has camera and FM radio integrated in its circuit, and comes with applications that enable free access to Web and promises the best interface with HTML 5.
Among the many applications that already have a version for Firefox OS, are the social networks like Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter, the Youtube channel of videos, the navigation apps like EverNav and HERE, the chat LINE and the audio platform SoundCloud.
The hobbyists and the open source developers thank and wait.
Printed wikipedia!
24
Feb
The PediaPress publisher wants to print a thousand books from the English Wikipedia, the online edition has over 4 million articles only in this language, and its goal is to raise $ 50K with crowdfunding, and each copy should have 1.2 million pages.
The books will be displayed in London Wikimania, an annual conference of the Wikipedia community, and since it wants to make a thousand copies in print duplex, it should reach 600 thousand sheets of paper, but the company guarantees that it will use trees from sustainable forests for the paper and the hardcover.
The participation in the project is made by the site: Indiegogo, of collective funding, the publisher’s headquartered is in Germany and it has 47 days for the event to reach the value, we entered the site and at the moment of this post, there were just over $ 10,000 collected.
Analysis of data of MOOCs courses
06
Feb
Researchers studied an average of 20 gigabytes of data for each of the 17 courses offered on the 
EDX 2012-2013 platform.
The study found out that 50 percent of the students which subscribed to MOOC courses gave up within a week or two after the registration, but the attrition rates fell significantly after that. “Our results show considerable differences on all demographic variables, since gender, to age, to prior educational attainment” says Andrew Ho, professor of Harvard University, that can be read in the Campus Technology magazine.
In an interview, professor Andrew Ho discussed the recent Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study of EDX massive open online course (MOOC) data. The project, for which Ho was useful as a link researcher, aimed to improve the understanding of how students learn and how technology can help the teaching process both online and in the classroom.
He also says MOOC course completion rates are misleading, because many registered students view the course material as Web content to surf, and learn without completing the course. Asynchronicity brings another difficulty in the interpretation of MOOC data, because students sometimes register in courses months after the certification window has closed, and thus are automatically considered as dropouts.
Cheap Tablet in India now in UK
18
Dec
When the Aakash was launched in India in 2011 , was told it would be the “cheapest 
touch-screen tablet in the world ” , and was aimed at schools and colleges , but the first version was not well received by critics , as the Aakash 2 fared better .
In India , the tablet was released to be used by students and was designed to provide inexpensive Internet access to help improve education
Now being launched in the UK with the name UbiSlate 7Ci , manufactured by British company DataWind , with the commercial version of Aakash 2 tablet .
The 7in ( 18 cm ) Android tablet has Wi – Fi connectivity , 512 MB of RAM , a microUSB connection and 4GB of storage.
Market analysts claim that British customers who want to buy and compare it to others in the market may be disappointed .
He has a very short battery in just three hours , low memory is limited and front camera (VGA Camera) .
The price in the UK is £ 30 (around U$ 40) .
