Google + launches its facial recognition system

After Facebook, Google + in turn allows users to find the photos posted by friends. Useful clarification: the function 'Find My Face' is optional, in an attempt to avoid criticism that had exposed the leading social networks.
By this weekend, Google has started to launch its facial recognition system, allowing users using the Google tool + to be on the photos posted by friends. This feature will be optional, said Google, which hopes to avoid criticism when wiped his rival Facebook has launched a similar system installed by default earlier this year.
"By enabling Find My Face, Google + can cause people who know you to identify yourself when your face is a picture," said one Google engineer, Matt Steiner, the blog of the group. "Of course, you can control which statements are accepted or rejected," he added.

Twitter changes its web and mobile interfaces

The network of micro-blogging opens a whole new interface, designed to better organize the various flows of the user. As a bonus, this change also involved in the IOS and Android applications.The new interface introduced by Twitter called "Fly". With the redesigned user interface, available both on the web version, as the mobile versions and applications iOS and Android, the stated aim of the social network is to give the user a new approach to the news feeds, it to discover more contacts, more discussion topics and expand its community Clubic reports.

Web and mobile Twitter inaugurates its new interface

More contacts, more discoveries ... and the birth of a true social media: this is the promise of the new Twitter, played since Thursday with a revised and updated interface as well as on the mobile Web.Twitter has taken on winter livery, with a new interface called Fly, available both on the Web (and mobile) as the mobile application dedicated iOS and Android. Purpose of the redesign? "We have simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what is important to you, connect with others and to discover new things," says the social network. In practice, Twitter opens for the first time a truly unified interface: be it the Web, via PC or mobile type applications or iOS and Android, the structure is similar.

Fixes Flaw of Facebook privacy settings

The community website Facebook that he had a bad Wednesday A wing of a loophole allowing access to private photos, Including Who would have permissions disclosure of photographs of his son, CEO Mark Zuckerberg.À The flaw was an anomaly functionality due to signaller The posting of images "inappropriate," no-standard site with 800 million users.By reporting the images of the CES, The Internet is seen offering to flag others, and access photos NSAIDs, which normally should not be Accessible him.

Facebook claims 25 million active users in France

Nearly two-thirds of the 38 million Internet users are now the Hexagon Facebook users.
25 million: the number of active users that Facebook claims in France, about 3% of the 800 million members of social network in the world. Nearly two-thirds of the 38 million Internet account that the Hexagon is now Facebook users. In 2011, the case DSK was the term most mentioned in the articles posted on the platform, before the death of Qaddafi and the military operation in Libya, the death of the singer Winehouse and Amay that of Osama bin Laden.

LeWeb'11: Relive the conference Eric Schmidt of Google, as a live-to-the-house

HIGH TECH - The executive chairman of Google is in Paris as part of the international conference LeWeb. He gave a lecture on Wednesday ...2:55 p.m.: The conference with Eric Schmidt has just ended. Thank you for having us followed. The executive chairman of Google gives way to other gurus in Silicon Valley. We are disappointed because we stay on our hunger. No announcement, no new cihffres Google + which is celebrating its six months, nothing new on Android. Finally, a few sentences on the group's philosophy, which he headed for 10 years.

Facebook: DSK affair at the top of the statutes in 2011

The case DSK was the hot topic as shared through Facebook status for the now 25 million users of social network in France.Facebook-memology-2011C'est one of the numbers that run at the conference LeWeb'11. The social network Facebook with 800 million users worldwide has passed the 25 million active users in France. This would mean that almost two-thirds of French Internet users are on Facebook.

Mozilla is silent on its agreement with Google

The Mozilla Foundation had a contract with the Google search engine which expired in November 2011. 88% of revenues came from royalties from this partnership, but no other agreement has been signed.Last week, Mozilla has declined to say whether he had renewed its contract with Google, its main source of funding that enables it to maintain its Firefox browser in business. The agreement between the Foundation and the Mountain View firm was to expire in November. When asked if he had negotiated a partnership with Google, Mozilla refused to answer. Instead, the publisher of Firefox released a statement that he had done before. "We currently have partnerships with a number of search engines that differ across markets, including major partners including Google Search, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, eBay and others," said a door speak for Mozilla in an email. "We also believe that these agreements will generate strong revenue for the Foundation in the near future. "

Opera 11.60 Tunny: download the new browser

A new version of Opera 11.60 is available for download. The update makes several changes to the user.
Opera Software today announced the availability of Opera 11.60. The new browser is codenamed "Tunny" (tuna) and takes over from Swordfish (Swordfish), the last major version presented last June.

Improvements introduced today, is the most visible on the address bar that offers new suggestions when typing text and allows bookmarking through a star-shaped icon.

Open data: launch of the platform data.gouv.fr

Strongly influenced by the gate open data "data.gov" opened in the United States in 2009 by the Obama administration, France has in turn opened the public data portal "data.gouv.fr." Recall that the open data is based on the principle that all data produced and recorded by the State or public institutions should be accessible to all citizens quickly and easily without restriction.France is finally puts to open data

Abuse of: Google may suffer criticism from Brussels

The European Commission is preparing to make a list of grievances against Google in online search. A complaint for abuse of dominant position may be initiated against the firm.
In November 2010, the European Commission had announced the opening of an investigation of Google's practices in the field of online research. At the time, many publishers competitors had filed a complaint against the firm holding it abused its dominant position in the market.

Facebook hiring employees Gowalla

The rumored for several days but it is now confirmed: the social network Facebook seizes Gowalla. Not for the service itself, but for its employees.
Facebook became more interested as the founders of Gowalla social network. By buying Gowalla, Facebook has not got hold of the data and close the site next month.

What future for Mozilla-Google agreement, essential to Firefox?

Strategy - the main source of revenue for Mozilla (over 80% of its resources), the agreement on the Google search was renewed in 2008 expired in November. This agreement is extended or he arrested? Mozilla is silent.Update: Mozilla has contacted ZDNet.fr response to the publication of the article: "Our relationship with Google is positive for both of us. We are in active negotiations and have nothing to announce at this time. We all confidence for research partnerships that will continue to be a generator of strong revenue growth for the future. "

The update of the Xbox interface available from tomorrow

Xbox 360 interface and VOD Metro
This major update to the interface of the Xbox 360 will include introducing the interface Metro borrowed from Windows Phone. She also leaves a greater role in VOD.
Starting tomorrow, Microsoft will begin broadcasting a new update for the Xbox. It marks an important milestone with the transition to the interface used by Metro and Windows Phone which is found in Windows 8 next year.

Google Chrome does not appeal to France

If the browser Google has snatched second in the world, it still has to settle for third place in the Hexagon. 
If Google Chrome is attracting more and more users, its performance in France remains lower than that recorded in the world. Second in the world to Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome is the third in the French market. A national market where Firefox has just taken first place in Internet Explorer. The browser of the Mozilla Foundation is doing with a market share of 34% to 33.71% IE and Chrome and therefore, to be content with 21.96%, according to figures from StatCounter.

Wikileaks: surveillance of communications, with a well

The market for interception and monitoring of mass communications (mobile, Internet ...) has many technologies and suppliers, as illustrated in internal documents released by Wikileaks. Democratic states, including France, are the main exporters of these technologies, and often little regard buyers.Debate
Wikileaks is back and longer publishes many documents highlighting the development of surveillance technology by private companies and the nature of a lucrative boom industry.

Google increasingly compete with Amazon

According to eWeek UK, Google is preparing to launch a new service in order to compete with Amazon Prime. Following an initial investigation by the New York Times, it was discovered that this new service would allow the orders from retailers, with home delivery.

WikiLeaks denounced the massive spying on the Net

WikiLeaks began publishing Tuesday, November 29 its "Spyfiles", a file of 1,100 internal documents, advertising brochures and instruction manuals for the systems of surveillance and interception of online communications.Source of the leak: not authoritarian governments, or even Western intelligence services. It's actually more than 120 private companies.Half of them are also European. In order, there were 32 American, 17 British, 15 German, 10 Israeli, French and eight Italian 7.

Carrier IQ, the suspicious software that spies on smartphones

An American researcher in computer security discovered on his phone a tool to trace the communications, the sending of messages and the pages visited.
• The discovery. An American researcher in computer security, Trevor Eckhart, found on HTC's smartphone a hidden agenda, Carrier IQ. In a blog post published in mid-November and then in a video posted Monday (and for more than a million times since), he showed how this software could save all the text entered on the keyboard, the keys pressed, the addresses of websites visited, dialed and content of the SMS received. And transfer them to remote servers, without his knowledge.

YouTube is close to the concept of "Web TV"

YouTube gives Google the features and functionality of an interactive television. The channels are enhanced at the expense of individual contents.In turn, the ecosystem services Google go on billiards.Last date patient, YouTube is emerging from a heavy session of cosmetic surgery that gives it the air and the functionality of an interactive television.Screenshots and methods of early activation of this new version circulating on the Internet for almost a week. The scope of this update and did hardly any doubt.