Facebook HTC confirms: Salsa and Chacha officially presented

The first phones on Facebook dedicated key is supported by handset manufacturer HTC. A large crowd, and Salsa ChaCha offers direct access to the popular social network using the button. Although the official Facebook Mobile, HTC and Facebook, both said they work closely with the devices. Salsa is a phone with touch screen of the phone during the ChaCha also function keys.



Peter Chou, CEO of HTC said that mobile will eventually create a market for social media, while Henry Moissinac Facebook, Head of Mobile Business, said the co lead closely with HTC for a few years, Facebook, ChaCha HTC devices and salsa are the next step. ;



Both devices based on Android running on the gingerbread, the latest version of the operating system and to determine the degree of integration with Facebook, as well as new models INQ Facebook announced last week. The main features of Facebook, Context, and provides different depending on what users do. It allows you to instantly share photos and music from your phone. update information on the state and is visible when the phone is identified by a friend of Facebook users.



HTC expects the integration of Facebook is the new generation of consumers who use the site through the e-mail and to implement its program of social events on the features of Facebook. The company also announced in July, compressed, flyers, Apple style, one-piece, with a range of aluminum.



It also contains a spring, for example, recording integrated with notes in hand, so that presentations can be synchronized with the notes. download services, integration with Skype and the game version of Cloud OnLive and improve the interface to the HTC models are also an update on the fire and desire. All products are available in the UK in the second quarter of 2011.



Implementation of the first volume sold gingerbread, but it will be upgraded to Google Tablet operating system-specific since the publication of an honeycomb.

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Google and Facebook are fighting for our lives

At first sight, seeking to dirty stories about Google's system does not seem much to those who are not your life on Facebook and Google are doing. In fact, the PR war, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California, on the future of the Internet - and the future all the time.



Since its launch seven years ago, Facebook has grown into a monstrous, with more than 600 million users worldwide. Among his fans is the fastest and most convenient way to get in touch with friends who come from where they work and what they heard. Google looks at ill-concealed jealousy rise Facebook. For many years he believed that Google has always been very helpful to the primary way people discover new content, which will be online at all while the user the billions of Web pages, video and post it here?



Facebook is a great alternative, you can select the appropriate search engine Google in a split second, but Facebook does not have places to recommend to friends. According to a report by the Pew Research Center released this week, Facebook is the largest source of visitors, news agencies like CNN and The New York Times, often by Google. , Google and Facebook are increasingly recognized as competitors [a] The type of material on the Internet, the report concludes.



Google is so afraid that in the end be made by Facebook to stop social interaction among its members for the border war with Google for search engine Yahoo. As people find more news and links to Facebook, instead of searching on Google, you get traffic - and revenue - may begin to decline. Even worse, Google is terrible record in the construction of social networks in their application.



Larry Page, co-founder and president of the newly launched Google has quite a failure. Last month, he openly declared war against Facebook, connecting each bonus for employees in the event of a successful strategy for social development at Google. It 'difficult to demonstrate clearly how to motivate engineers and is easy to see why Facebook has decided to develop a public relations attacks.



But it is for people who are not glued to their computer? Interestingly, the answer is Google's new ad. In her father's daughter, e-mail with pictures and video of his birth, first words, ballet classes, and lost teeth. It 's fun for the tears I cry a list of all parents to see and, of course, shows the number of Google products to help you do the same for their children.



The message is that Google can help you communicate with family much more than paper documents with age (and certainly much more important for young people). It is believed that Google could gain access to e-mail, photos, videos and souvenirs, as can announce to you via this site and keep it on their pages. If you think that the vision of the future of refrigeration is that all contacts are doing now.



The battle between Facebook and Google is to have control over our lives online. And for those who have never lived in a world without the Internet, there is no distinction between online and offline.

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Facebook sparks open warfare in the land of dotcom

Richard Grove Hill, owner and general manager of public relations campaigns based in London, Burson Marsteller, Hill Grove was a common practice.



Thursday ', Facebook, Burson Marsteller public relations hired by described by Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP Group, the company is to spread negative information about Google in the U.S. press, with no network of social identity. However, the details of the controversial public relations strategies to bring a concert approach blogger Christopher Soghoian messages published online public relations, who has tried to do on your behalf.



It is standard practice in PR, the weakness of its competitors, offers high says Grove Hill, whose firm has represented the BBC Dragon, James Caan and his wife Trudie Styler, Sting. Facebook has raised dotcom land of war.



Regarding the field of online media, Facebook has had to fight a lot, especially now that Google is the fourth and starts social network [Rumor]. Everybody does. ;



Hillgrove that Google was not a victim, as a large company, and these tactics are not surprising, because digital space is highly competitive and unforgiving. However, Burson Marsteller, said in a statement yesterday that there was no error in the order and decided to adopt the identity of their clients to hide in the approach half:; there was no standard procedure and is contrary to our policies agreements and whether those conditions were rejected.



In the case of media literacy, we need to meet strict standards of transparency for customers, and this episode underlines the critical importance of this principle. Hillgrove described to hide the identity of customers, the gray area of ​​PR and it sometimes happens, especially in politics. , Is not always trivial to confirm the identity of the customer - but not this kind of talk is usually in an e-mail - this is usually done by phone between the contacts of law.



Facebook spokesperson said, No, campaign slander is allowed or expected. Instead, we wanted to, thirdly, that people do not agree to collect and use your account information on Facebook and other social services for inclusion in the control group at Google.



We had to Burson-Marsteller, attention has focused on this problem, using the publicly available information that can be independently controlled by an agency or a media analyst. The problems are serious and have demonstrated a serious and transparent. ;



Rosanna Fiske, director of the Public Relations Society of America, described the incident as embarrassing, and both Facebook and Burson. He wonders if the public relations profession in the world. In total, public relations professionals are highly ethical and professional success and our growth reflects its economic value.



But in this case, a significant decrease in Burson ethics. , I do not know anyone on Facebook or Burson country losing jobs. Google declined to comment on.

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Facebook has released details of key customers: Symantec

U.S. computer security company Symantec said Tuesday that Facebook accidentally opening the door for advertisers to access profiles, photos, chat and other private information on social network ties. Symantec found that some medals Facebook applications, in fact, the loss of access profiles, news reading, sending walls and other activities, a new key. Facebook applications are programs on the network, the first online platform for social networking.

Symantec claims that 20 million of Facebook applications, how to install games on the day. Chips were the third-party applications, including advertisers and their analysis allows the platform to send messages or personal information about me after the merger of Symantec's professional Nishant Doshi. Fortunately, these third-party access to this information is completed;, Doshi said in a blog. , We have this problem on Facebook, means that this issue has been given.

Symantec estimates that in April, nearly 100,000 applications have been the keys to the Facebook profiles. ; We believe that hundreds of thousands of years by millions of applications that can inadvertently leak out of the access token to someone else, said Doshi. Facebook has confirmed that the problem was discovered by Doshi and colleagues Symantec Candid Wuest, make computer security.

There was no reliable estimate of the number of chips that have passed since the publication of Facebook applications in 2007. After all, Facebook has taken a symbolic date can still be saved as files on other computer, Symantec warned. , Interested Facebook allows you to access your password token is not an escape big changes, says Doshi. ; Change the wrong password, equality, the locks changed on your Facebook profile.

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Employees of Facebook and Twitter increasing vulnerability of the police

Midst of what officials call it terrible, and an alarming increase, the attacks on security forces in the country, caregivers success of sites like Facebook and Twitter, the police even more vulnerable. Despite identifying the font used for various social networking sites and have time to investigate suspects, criminals are now using these sites to identify and investigate officers, including the infiltration of agents. In addition, the kidnappers and that the defendants planned to barricade buildings in the control of the media to move in real time with the police and gang members have their own security measures to the police.



Social media will be used against you, Lauri Stevens - Organizer week Social Media, Internet and Law Conference in Chicago - the police have promised that came together in a foreign country and exchange views on the use of changing the media landscape and protection against exchange risks. After the first DVD of the police suspected the car was released in October, authorities in Phoenix, Security Alert, police said, the agents focused on Facebook and post photos and other personal information in social media and can lead to serious security problems for the consequences. ;



It also faces serious security vulnerabilities affecting the family and friends, including children, workers, the majority of photos on DVD by the authorities, the conference announced Tuesday. necessary, said Detective CJ Wren Phoenix, noting that when the agents are considered as Facebook and Twitter, which he represents, and these threats are entitled to their families, he said, is my life, life is like in my family ;. Social networking sites should be fun ... but the extra step now, if you are in this case, said law enforcement authorities. Facebook and you can stay as close as possible, but if your friend does not work, you're in danger.



As for the DVD, police in Phoenix are not ready yet, produces and how many were sold in rotation, said Wren. The investigation continues. Meanwhile, officials expelled from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that some elements of the criminal police, the media, and among the hostages or barricaded in the building.



All uses of power failure in the structure, in which every man has been blocked and do not worry if the said Anna Schwartz, director of communications for the Milwaukee police. But now we are determined that the hostages who are convicted of people want to kill the police are looking for sites to Twitter, they are looking on Facebook ... because in order to get the media and talk about these things, what has happened. ;



Schwartz cites the case of a confrontation in December on Interstate 94 in Wisconsin, which lasted for several hours as a gunman, allegedly stolen car refused to surrender. Video from local news in directly by the armed police, hiding behind doors and broadcast live video sniper, what should be a secret, according to Schwartz. All this information can be found in social media almost immediately. ; Element of surprise is everything, and take care of the media is the element of surprise, that we must ensure that people, if we are a tactical situation,; said Schwartz.



Staff from other forms of social media, law enforcement authorities violated. Experts on gangs in Albany, NY, said that the gangs in their area to conduct active surveillance, police mobile devices, and officials have pointed out that sites like Facebook and Twitter to private videos, and to transform feelings; virus. Nick Selby, an officer in the Dallas area and information security analyst in the face of risk as follows:;.



I work in Texas, I think everyone has a gun, [and] I think everyone has a device to register their employees. Wren, Detective Phoenix is ​​that the films to the public pressure by the police and army to be added, most of them are late, only slightly less effective as a result.



If you start thinking that the belief that you care, the assumption that the second overtime, and this may be a security officer, said Wren. Despite all the problems with the head of security, and the organizers of the conference in Chicago - has urged the authorities to enforce the law on mass media as a tool to see as a threat - it's called, smiles at the conference. : This is not rosy, but I hope you're convinced that the good outweigh the possible adverse effects;;, Stevens said officers present. Life is a multiplier effect, particularly in the economic cycle where you lose your employees, or do not like to finish it replaces. ... This is for you to do more.



At the conference, as the official histories of the common social media will benefit from their services. Billy Grogan, chief of police Dunwoody, Ga., outside Atlanta, most of the news and information from the department account on Twitter and Facebook. He said the process to gain the trust of the community, provided that the daily interaction with the public and political transparency is reflected. He said that social media is also considered public information about events in their communities, and thus expose the myths, rumors and promote the welfare of the story.



Benefits of this type, and other officials Schwartz, communications director, now in Milwaukee, called Social Media, an essential element; Toolkit. Assuming SMILE conference services in the UK at the forefront of using social media community in police work. As an example of the benefits, Phil Knox, a police inspector in Northern Ireland, said that his ministry after the report on Facebook, a police patrol, which in the federal holiday, situated on the woman forced online. In his speech he said that a woman can be seen that there is no peace. On Knox, the woman has not seen any police. Instead, what was written in the media, the perception of vision, he said.



However, a senior Scottish police, Gordon Scobbie, of the police were discussed during the conference, to wake up very, very good return and at the request of these ads are in Germany. The United States of many police departments are currently considering policies that would - and legal - with regard to the establishment of measures for the use of social media.

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Search Results: 7.5 Million children in danger on Facebook

As many of 7.5 Million children under 13 use the services of Facebook, despite the official ban on offer - € 5,000,000 over 10 years. The use of minors who have the experience or the decision not to social networks, so that the potential loss of sex offenders against children, whose ages to find chat rooms, bullying and better, according to a study published Tuesday from consumer reports.  Millions of children are at risk of Facebook last year, said Jeff Fox, technology director, Consumer Reports said FoxNews.com. At the age of 10 years, is not well prepared to deal with things.



Fox said that Facebook believes that children should not and can not benefit from the services that do not allow children under 13. But the verification of age is low, he said, is easy to lie about their age. Facebook, instead of age verification, as private. May prove to be the first to verify the age of credit card and vouching for the child's age, he said. Facebook is a specific comment FoxNews.com Consumer Reports study shows, but an official statement from the Consumer Reports survey.



Recent studies have shown that it is difficult to introduce age restrictions on Internet use and solutions to ensure that children, the system or read a statement of age. : Thank you for your attention, that these reports and other experts suggest that in this case and I think it's an opportunity to serve concentrated parents, teachers, lawyers, security and Internet to ensure that the field as the ultimate goal to keep kids of all ages Safety Online. ;



serious problem? Child safety is only part of the complex. Reports on consumer research shows that many of 5 million PCs in households in the United States have been exposed to the virus. There is a twist: The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), it is illegal for the information on children in Internet services for the collection, says Ross Ellis, founder of social work in childhood of our children the love of the Member USA. In 2006, the FTC imposed a popular blogging site Xanga.com million € to collect information about children. CUP are strict guidelines, attorney Ellis to sign a lot of material that parents of children, and access to sites that completely.



Cyberbullying is another problem: children are not so emotionally to deal with adults and young people who wear offensive comments. , All acts of violence, pain and suffering, emotional distress, depression, isolation and humiliation may be due to Facebook messages, said Tom Jacobs, a retired judge, books for children, young people studied cyberbullying, wrote and directed instead to refer to the court.



The consultant said John Bambenek FoxNews.com, horror, romance is not for children online in an instant message or chat with strangers - only pictures released. Predators can download the image and find the exact location of a child with the built in GPS data. The program, called the Creeper is automatic, he said.



Of course, these statements torn in context: The study focused on 7.5 million children from Facebook, but a small percentage of the 500 million users worldwide. Addressing the social media expert, Dr. Marcella Wilson Consulting, FoxNews.com greater parental control over Internet access for their children as a whole. It recommends the establishment of an agreement between parents and children how the Internet can be used.



Bob Gaines, security consultant, said that the government AllCovered.com, parents and children must meet the standard log Facebook. Avoid displaying an item, if you're home alone, in your profile, do not reveal their true age and, of course, make sure that the child's name and password. But in the end, Facebook, to solve the problem, said Denise Tayloe, Privo founder. as if by magic, all of these services for 13 years, he said - suggesting that something is clearly wrong.

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