Former Google payment service, called Google Checktout, will be replaced by Google Wallet in a logical and expected given the company’s Mountain View. The search company has announced that on November 20 Google Checkout will be replaced permanently by the new version of Wallet, PayPal will try to fight for supremacy online payments.
In the coming weeks you will be implementing the change so that those traders who still work with Wallet Checkout can switch to without any problems. And it is that Google wants to put seriously with online payments.
In Mountain View know that one of the things that users value most when buying products over the Internet is security, resulting in the company was confident that allows these insurance payments. [click to continue...]
The rumors have finally been certain. Yahoo has purchased Tumblr by a staggering 1,100 million (854 million euros), proving once again that money is not a problem for Yahoo. At least spend as you generate it costs a little more.
With this purchase Yahoo wants to reach out to young audiences and smartphones. Also, going to have to deal with Tumblr users who oppose the purchase and porn controversy is in this network of blogs.
Last week we announced that Yahoo was planning to buy Tumblr could secure a return to the elite of Internet companies, and appears to have concluded that it is worth spending 1,100 million dollars in purchasing one of the websites most visited in the world. In addition, it will make money, without using or preferences you share sales, something very typical in this type of purchase. [click to continue...]
Xbox Wire is the blog of reference for all the news about Xbox 720, the name is called so popular to the new Microsoft platform. The Company announces that, following the submission of the console, scheduled for May 21, will launch this meeting point where managers and developers write and expand the information about the device.
So says the website CVG, which echoed through the news, confirming that the blog will become the means chosen by the Redmond to elaborate on further details of the console. We assume, have a function similar to Nintendo’s Iwata Asks, space in which the president of the company conducts informal interviews with workers in direct contact with their consoles.
In this sense, it is expected that people like Major Nelson, director of Xbox Live programming, participate in the blog, but also people from Microsoft Research, or persons associated with the new Kinect. [click to continue...]
In recent years, the devices Mac U.S. company stopped having the security image possessed, partly caused by the problems experienced with versions of Java. However, again this sense of security has been affected by a problem in the form of malware called OSX / KitM.A , discovered this week during a security conference.
Although currently rather little is known of this new threat, is known to reach users through a spam email requesting the installation of a file to perform certain updates, but we insist that it is not known for certain the format of the message received by users. It appears that users are encouraged to install a software update a computer operating system from Apple.
The malware, which has the name of macs.app, starts when the operating system is booted and is responsible for taking screenshots without the user’s consent, and later compress all in a file . zip and send them to a remote server. [click to continue...]
Another of the great innovations of the developer conference I / O Google is launching a subscription service to stream music called Google Play Music All Access. The Mountain View wants to compete with service Spotify with similar characteristics.
If you have already spoken today Hangouts, the new instant messaging service Google, now we are going to tell the other big news of the first day developer conference I / O that is taking place in San Francisco. It’s called Google Play Music All Access and wants to stand up to Spotify.
For now only be available in the U.S., although Google has announced that it will soon be in 13 markets and hope that one of them is Spanish. Its price is $ 9.99 per month, as usual, we assume that become € 9.99 when I get to Europe. Yes, Google gives 30 day free trial to give us time to think of ourselves not worth it or not. Currently there will be free subscription mode. [click to continue...]
Once officially confirmed, touches do a review by all information that has come in the following hours around the new title in the franchise. A new installment that, for now, will only come to Current PlayStation 3 with a lot of vehicles and that, in addition, will offer the possibility of taking contact with her in summer. So is Gran Turismo in June.
Finally confirmed what everyone took for granted, and the legendary British circuit of Silverstone, Sony made official work on the new release and as expected, showed for the first time, to the delight and enjoyment of the attendees the event of the fifteenth anniversary of the saga.
About what we can learn from the release of its first trailer, stands out the improvements that will result in the display and supply of vehicles that will be present, much more varied and, above all, numerous. [click to continue...]
Just a few days before I / O conference, Google has announced a change in the free storage service that provides its users. Soon Drive space, Gmail and Google+ are unified in a single continent to 15 GB . This means that all files associated with our store decided to have the company go through the same counter.
With this measure, the Mountain View gives flexibility in use and enables many different types of users feel really comfortable with the service. There are probably people who only use Gmail, others who have a large number of files of a different nature in Drive and others who really only use your account to save photos to Picasa, now integrated into Google+.
Until now had up to 10 GB Gmail, while all other supposed 5 GB. It seems reasonable that more habitual exceed the space initially intended for Drive and take some of the mail service, which does not spend too much unless you use special demos. [click to continue...]
Microsoft has warned of a new threat is introduced into the system by extension, in this case two of the most used browsers Chrome and Firefox. When installing the extension a Trojan enters the computer files and hack Facebook accounts of users.
Software may not be harmful to your computer but it can give you more of a headache for the user. Since Microsoft blog has warned of the consequences that this Trojan can lead to accounts Facebook of people who use the computer where strain.
According to the Redmond have in recent weeks have been reports of a wave of malicious browser extensions that try to hijack Facebook profiles. Currently only been reported malicious Chrome extensions and Firefox. The Microsoft’s own research led to the discovery that the start of the Trojan takes place in a Brazilian social network called Consortia Brazil, which has more than 3,000 “likes”. [click to continue...]
Google Translate is one of the most useful applications we can carry few on our phones and tablets, especially if you are preparing for a trip abroad or even (now) to some of the regions of our country where two languages coexist. This translation system for Android has been updated giving users more languages and the possibility of creating a ‘ Phrasebook ‘. We give the details.
The search engine company has included interesting improvements to the excellent service that already was his app Google Translate. It is a version for the Android the magnificent translator of Mountain View. The truth is that no good if we carry out a systematic language conversion and professional (though many insist on trying), but it is an excellent tool that can give us an understanding and guidance in other high level languages.
Among the novelties of the application found a Phrasebook, or the possibility of having a book quick and easy access to the words and phrases frequently used in other languages, you can even memorize us to streamline communication. Furthermore, it opens the possibility to synchronize these common phrases from our android Google account and vice versa. An easy way to carry a handy interactive dictionary always with us. [click to continue...]
Microsoft and its plans for tablets are giving us much to talk about in recent weeks. Today it has confirmed that the upgrade to Windows Blue will begin to distribute at the end of June. No matter if you bought a computer with factory installed firmware or if you did an upgrade from an existing computer, you can enjoy it.
The news has jumped in a sector Conference in which talked about Julie Larson-Green, Chief of engineers Windows, who has confirmed the news. The date chosen for the official launch is June 26, i.e., in the bosom of Build, the annual Conference for developers, the company organized in San Francisco.
These statements are much more specific than that offered a few days ago the head of financial operations, Tami Reller, indicating that we would see devices with this operating system’s factory before the end of the year. In them, there were also some of the aspects in which we would see improvements. [click to continue...]