Wikimedia: $ 25 million collected in 2012

Since November 27, Wikimedia has launched a fundraising over a large part of its services to fund the development, talks and other costs bustling maintenance services offered for free.In just one month, and would be $ 25 million raised from 1.2 million donors who participate in funding the operation of the sites for the year 2013.  In an official statement, Sue Gadner, executive director of the foundation is pleased that this transaction...

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Firefox: The 64bit version back soon

According to some rumors on Google Groups, the shift would occur following the request of many developers have revealed that many users exceeded the limit of 4GB of memory imposed by 32-bit systems when using simultaneous a large number of tabs (called a hundred, or even thousands of pages simultaneously)At first, Benjamin Smedberg said that Firefox was not programmed to respond to this type of case, but relativized by announcing that the necessary...

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Photos Online: Dropbox bought Snapjoy

For an undisclosed amount, Dropbox just bought Snapjoy. This startup offers a photo service online can import photos from anywhere (computer, Flickr, Instagram, iPhone ...) and arrange them in an album of memories (date, place ... ).Now Snapjoy no longer accepting new registrations but ensures that existing users can still benefit from the service and access to their photos. Become combined with Dropbox will be cleared in the coming weeks.  Snapbox...

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Google Music Play available in France

Everyone can now access the service purchase online music store Google Play. Registration for the service is done on the website of the Internet giant, which will prompt you in exchange the details of your credit card.   The prices of securities musical unit are 1.29 euros. For an album, it takes 6.99, 7.99 or 8.99 euros.  The format for digital music files like MP3 is 320 Kbits / s for securities available for this service is...

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Angry Birds Star Wars lands on Facebook

After flowing several thousand copies on various platforms iOS and Android, Angry Birds has become a phenomenon and true emblem of a new sector for the video game.Version was installed for free on Facebook and is its variation with the Star Wars license that invites today on the social network. Beta version for now, the application should quickly gather a lot of players from the 22.6 million fans of the title. If we can believe that success is...

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Dailymotion tests VOD pay

Relatively quietly, Dailymotion began to implement its video on demand pay.For some videos, a yellow label made ​​its appearance in the thumbnail display. It is the hallmark of a video pay, even if the beginning of each video is free. Test began with episodes of such series as "Plus Belle la Vie". Such an episode is proposed € 1.99 for 48 hours rental, and unlimited access to all the videos are available for € 2.99 per month.BFM Business reported...

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Gmail: indisponiblité short and this is the end of the world

On Twitter, some users have quickly joked about the Apocalypse or the end of the world yet planned as we all know to December 21, 2012 ...The cause of this joyous mess ... a simple unavailability of Gmail, Google's webmail 425 million users. Gmail has been subject to delays or even impossible to access. And users have reported the appearance of a 502 error, namely Bad Gateway or Proxy Error.The incident, however, did not last long - a few minutes...

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Mega: this is what will the service!

It is via Twitter that Kim Dotcom has posted screenshots of Mega. The service will Mega.co.nz. domain nameIt reveals the key generator, the cornerstone of the service, as well as the registration service and file manager.  For now, Mega invites visitors to give Leure email address to be informed about Mega. The site also offers partners to host the service, informs developers APIs for the service and for investors.But from January 19, 2013,...

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Facebook: a ​​few figures on integrating in-app

Facebook and emphasizes applications integrated into the social network, but also the integration of network mobile platforms and third-party applications.According to Facebook, the site itself focuses more than 350 applications involving more than one million monthly active users.  Add to this the impressive figure of 200,000 iPhone and Android applications incorporating links and interactions with Facebook. IPhone integration is even blamed...

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Facebook: a hackathon Windows 8

From tonight until tomorrow (United States), the headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park is hosting a marathon coding. A hackathon. For nearly 24 hours, developers are invited to floor on the design of social applications on the Windows platform 8.To help them and answer all their questions, but also experts Facebook Microsoft will be present. The best "hacks" will in turn rewarded. But promised exceptional price undisclosed. Under the sign of...

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