Play Google passes the 700,000 apps

The application store for Google now has 700,000 applications and therefore approach the Apple App Store.

If this continues, the Google Play Store soon exceed the Apple App Store. With its popularity, Android continues to receive more applications dedicated to him.

Last September, Apple announced that it had passed the 700,000 apps on its mobile store, including 275,000 working on the iPad. In turn Google said Tuesday, Oct. 30 have also reached the threshold of 700 000 software, against 600,000 in June.

The Mountain View company is therefore closer to its competitor in terms of volume. And after the curve progressions of the two firms, Google is poised to pass Apple in the coming months.

Which could therefore undermine the argument Cupertino, justifying the extra cost of its aircraft by a more abundant App Store. But Apple also boasts of being the leader in number of downloads.

On 23 October Tim Cook stated that the App Store has crossed the 35 billion downloads, while Google came to $ 25 billion in September. Again, if the trend continues, the numbers da Firm Mountain View surpass those of Apple in 2013.

Numericable launches an offer to 10 euros

The cable operator offers mobile telephony. It offers several packages including a low cost € 10 per month with no commitment with Internet included.

Numericable also starts in low cost packages. The cable operator proposes a package at 10 euros which gives access to two hours of call SMS and MMS unlimited. It uses the network Bouygues Telecom.

Like all competitive offerings, this package is no obligation, but does not subsidize mobile. However, Numericable stands with 20 MB Internet included.

If one door offering Free 2 euros to 10 euros (with the passing of the package), the user will have 2 hours of calls to Internet 20 MB and 300 SMS. It is therefore consume more than the quota, if customers want Numericable "monetize" their crimes against Free.

Note, however, that Free is cheaper on the data, with an extra megabyte charged EUR 0.06 against 0.40 in Numericable. In addition, the specialist in fiber optic invoice € 50 opening fee and 50 euros for termination ... What makes her suddenly offer much less attractive.

Modernizing its Gmail compose window

In a few weeks, Google will deploy an update to Gmail, improving the composition of emails.

Gmail will undergo a major change. While the interface has changed significantly since its inception, the message composition has not been much improved.

This can be done via a pop-up that appears superimposed on the WebMail interface, like Google Chat conversations.

It will then be possible to see his old mails while retaining a window for writing messages. It is also possible to write multiple messages simultaneously.

Recipients are now displayed in the form of separate rectangles and the user can drag and drop these inserts to the "To" field, "Copy" and "Copy hidden".

In addition, the profile pictures will also appear when entering a recipient. More details on the upcoming changes are available using Google.

The new features will be gradually deployed in a few weeks. A preliminary version will be available to users who want to test the new version.

Google invites the Government to negotiate

 

Eric Schmidt was visiting at the Elysee to discuss the Google tax desired by newspaper publishers.
Executive Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt was received Monday at the Elysee. He came to discuss the "Google tax" with the President of the Republic, François Hollande, accompanied by Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture, Flower and Pellerin, Minister for the Digital Economy.
The opportunity for the leader of the U.S. firm to talk about job creation in France, the protection of personal data, online culture, but also of taxation. The heart of the debate lies in the fact that this tax would impose newspaper publishers to compensate for the use of their content on Google News.
"The president hoped that negotiations can be quickly engage and concluding by the end of the year between Google and news publishers. He stressed that dialogue and negotiation between partners seemed to him the best way but, if necessary, a law could intervene on this issue, as the current project in Germany, "the government statement.Resumption of negotiations
Jean-Marc Tasseto, CEO of Google France, will then resume the dialogue with the press. Google has also reaffirmed an important tool for media lines, generating four billion clicks per year to the websites of the French press.
But for publishers, their items also contribute to the relevance of the search engine used for more than 90% of the applications on the Internet. After that meeting between Eric Schimdt and the government, they said they "always preferred the path of dialogue with Google."
"The negotiations will now open to allow Google to look really compensate for the press, for the damage he inflicted on the advertising market," said the press association and political information General (IPG) in a statement.
The situation seems to be unblocked between the parties, since last week, Google threatened the French press not to reference their content online.

Amazon stronger Apple

Amazon Kindle The new show can become a serious competitor to Apple's high-tech market. Their products combine innovative new content and much more modest price.

Paperwhite Kindle in Santa Monica September 6, 2012. REUTERS / Gus Ruelas -Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, took the stage Tuesday, September 6 in a large aircraft hangar in Santa Monica, California, for an orderly and efficient presentation of one hour on the state of the market for high technology. He first explained why most iPad competitors failed: "These are gadgets, he said, and people do not want more gadgets. They want services that improve over time. "He then spent five minutes explaining the policy of low prices Amazon. "We want to align ourselves with our customers, earn money when people use our devices rather than when they buy." Bezos was beaming when he showed how Amazon is reinventing the book market.advertisingDuring the first year after buying a Kindle, people buy almost five times more pounds, he said. This should put an end to arguments against the snobs who claim that Amazon Kindle is killing "literary culture." "Incidentally, it has introduced new products: first one reading mail, Paperwhite Kindle, with clear screen and built-in lighting, and the new Kindle Fire tablet HD, with more powerful processors and better screens of the Fire last year.Amazon wants to become a manufacturer of technology productsHowever, it was clear that this technical presentation of the new Amazon devices was a prologue to something more ambitious. We knew since the launch of the Kindle, Amazon's ambition was to become a manufacturer of technology products on its own. Last year, with the release of the Kindle Fire, we thought we understood the logic of Jeff Bezos: make input devices range in cost to sell and hope to make money with content played on these devices .But during his presentation, Bezos has undermined our beliefs by saying that Amazon did not intend to produce devices just correct. Instead, the Seattle company wants to compete directly with the iPad tablet both more sophisticated and less expensive. More importantly, he wants to build devices that buyers have as much fun to use than the Apple brand.

    "This is not the best tablet in a given price range, he said, this is the best tablet at all."Remains to be seen whether this is indeed the case. I played a few minutes with the new Kindles in the demonstration area reserved for the press by Amazon, and although I found quite impressive, I did not have enough time to determine if they represent or could no serious competition for Apple.Priority to technology, not aestheticsDuring his presentation, Bezos has however given us some clues about how he wants to attack the iPad. The main talent Apple is to combine cutting edge design and production efficiency. Apple is able to manufacture on a large scale the most efficient products, and then sell them cheap enough to generate significant demand, but at a price still high enough to make huge profits. Amazon, however, does not give great importance to the design of its products.As the old Kindle Fire, the new Fire HD is externally speaking, a simple assembly of glass and plastic. Similarly, the software interface is not revolutionary. In contrast, Amazon cares about its technical equipment, Bezos spent a lot of time to explain how the two radios Wifi Fire HD models are better than those of other tablets (unlike Apple, however, Amazon buys components to outside companies).How Amazon account she do it? The company wants to be innovative Bezos in terms of price and content. The price issue is easy to solve: not trying to make a profit on the sale of its products, Amazon will sell still much cheaper than Apple. Kindle Fire HD the more upscale, with a 4G access, costs $ 499, the same price as the iPad last with only WiFi. In addition, Amazon has provided a package of 250 MB per month for the Kindle 4G only $ 50 per year. A package comparable to the iPad at AT & T back to $ 180 per year.You do not read just one bookBut this is not all. Bezos also wants to ensure that when you buy a book, a movie, or a game for Kindle on Amazon, this is more interesting than if you had purchased elsewhere. For this, Amazon has introduced a set of features potentially very addictive, which should change the way we approach digital media.Take the Whispersync feature, which allows you to synchronize an audio book to your Kindle book. If you listen, for example, the audio version while you work, your Kindle will instantly find the place in the text where you left off when you return home, you will want to continue to read in a "classic".There is also the X-Ray (X-rays), which allows you to see the "skeleton" of the books and movies consulted. Click on a novel and you can see a timeline showing where each character is introduced. In a film, it allows you to see the names of all the players in a particular scene. The X-ray also allows for any text, a glossary available at all times. This has perhaps not seem revolutionary, but placed end to end, all these functions offer a most enjoyable experience. I am sure that once users have tasted X-Ray, they can no longer do without it, and that they fail on other devices.We must also mention the fact that Amazon is constantly looking for new forms of content. Its online store now offers more than 22 million references to books, songs, movies and games, many of which are freely available to anyone enrolled in the Premium. More books appear on the Kindle thanks to the self-publishing Amazon, bypassing entirely the traditional publishing world. These books, including the Kindle exclusivity, were a big hit -27 100 best-selling books on Kindle are self-publications, Bezos said.The heir or monkey Steve Jobs?During his presentation, he also unveiled a new addition to the range of content already available for the Kindle. Amazon is, in fact, currently embarking on the publication of soap to allow authors to publish books episode by episode. This type of work had virtually disappeared from bookstores since the time of Dickens. Today, Bezos may have found a way to resurrect the literary form long been extinct.There are nearly a year after the death of Steve Jobs, many observers were asked who would be the next great innovator in the technology sector. Many eyes were then turned to Bezos and his presentation in Santa Monica has found many similarities between the two patterns. Like Jobs, Bezos spoke slowly, weighing his words, and he spoke as his way of seeing things technology.Yet it would be wrong to think that Jeff Bezos tries to ape Jobs or trying to build a new Apple. This is not the case. Amazon is becoming a major player among electronics manufacturers, a company able to nail his opponents to the ground by combining contents and fascinating high-end devices at incredible prices. If this strategy works, the rise of Amazon may be difficult to stop.