Software

Like every Saturday, we spent a few minutes to review what was Bitelia as read in a week that ended January and February start. After a week that was marked by Twitter and its controversial announcement selective blocking of content, this week we focus on the classic Windows XP, which begins to enter the final stretch of his long life in profits to help unlock folders and files, Google + surprised us with other data on their growth and spend a few minutes to the possibilities of social networks: as an instrument of interaction in the university community and in the case of Facebook pages as a tool with which closer to our audience.

Power your Facebook

With over 800 million users, Facebook is a social network in which many companies, politicians or popular their focus to create a place to be closer to your audience, interact with users and create a community. Logically, if we get revenue from our efforts, we have to think of a strategy to guide our activities in this window we are opening to users because, from the outset, it should be clear that we will open the page is not finished but we will be starting all the job.

With the idea that management raise a Facebook page is simple, in the section "Guide of the week" we capture some tips on how to strengthen our Facebook page and use that resource to get closer to our audience.

Windows XP, in its final days

It is curious that an operating system as old as Windows XP still remains widespread and maintain a market share of 47% and, for example, whether the operating system used in the White House . Change the operating system of a company, ie, addressing a migration process is not trivial, requires planning, a process of testing and review of applications, therefore, companies do not consider major changes each time you launch a operating the market if they have a stable platform.

Although Microsoft has tried to pass users to Windows 7 migration is not progressing at the pace that Redmond would like and has not been another choice but to put a date for the end of support for this operating system: within 793 days (if start counting from today).

Unlock the annoying locked files and folders

Section weekly earnings this week brought us a very useful list of applications that can help us solve some problems with locked files and folders. Either because they want to update an application, uninstall it or just delete a folder, there are times when we can not perform its intended task because the file or folder is marked as being in use and, sometimes, or rebooting the system solves the problem.

Google & reaches 100 million users

Google + every time is catching more among users, and not just because you add, almost every week, new features or enhancements but because such a comprehensive vision that is taking Google to all its services (under the umbrella of Google +) like some users trust in the privacy of your data that provides social network.

With a growth rate of 750 thousand new registrations per day, Google + have already passed the 100 million users , a record figure when you consider that only has 8 months. Clearly, even walking away from Facebook figures but, thanks to their movements (business pages, integration with Gmail, mandatory registration, etc), is giving a good sprint to catch up.

Social networks and college

We must recognize that social networks have changed the way we communicate with our friends, our colleagues or even with our teachers and our classmates. Indeed, in 100% of the U.S. University social networks are present and some commonly used by students who are present on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to extend the use of teaching activities with their teachers to sharing learning materials or to delve deeper into the subjects taught in class, make announcements of interest or start discussions.

It is no secret that Yahoo! not pass through one of his best moments , however, remains in a constant struggle to survive in this complex world of Internet businesses, making even surprised sometimes with unexpected movements.

Who do you live a good time and enjoys steady growth is the mobile applications market, with IOS and Android as the main protagonists. The people of Yahoo! is aware and wanted to take advantage in their favor in some way, to launch its own mobile browser .

Attention is not a market for applications, it is simply a search engine that feeds on its own Android Market and the iTunes App Store (at least for now).

This new application finder is integrated as a tab in the current interface of Yahoo! Operation not much different from what we know so far.

The gallery application is basically composed of 3 sections:

• A menu of categories on the left side, and we can choose whether we IOS or Android applications.
• A large panel in the center, showing the available applications, with screenshots and descriptions of them.
• At the bottom, we see a panel divided into 3 columns, which separate the free applications, payment and the best you value, respectively.

Do not know if Yahoo! has future plans to turn this into a simple browser application market itself, such as Amazon did last year. What is certain, at least in my opinion, is that it's not bad.

We would like to hear from you so you can test it yourself and comment on your impressions.

A month ago, some media reported that Google was violating their terms of service in its best known product, the search engine. Was called into question its neutrality, which in no way can happen if Google wants to retain the post of leading search engine, so they decided penalized by themselves and not show any ad Google Chrome for a few months. The measures were well received, but what nobody expected was that in such a short time your browser will be suffering: for the first time ever, Google Chrome has lost market share.

Specifically, pending the emergence of new studies, it has gone from a market share of 19.11% to 18.94% in one of only a month according to Net Applications , one of the barometers for measuring the consumption of web pages across browsers. The biggest benefit has been Internet Explorer, which rose more than one point in the percentage of use in December.

For Net Applications Firefox has not lost the second position ( remember that Counter gives Star second to Chrome for a couple of months ), and left with a 20.88 which is falling rapidly, and soon he will lose his job for the browser Google.

There is still a month of self-punishment for Google, which makes Internet Explorer foresee that may scratch somewhere else, and Firefox slow its descent. Can any of the competing browsers present a surprise and a revolutionary release that emotion again bring the matter?

Do not panic!, But ... at least a half dozen major U.S. companies, and therefore some of the largest companies worldwide were attacked by hackers digitally, and their data compromised. None warned investors. Alguos data are of the greatest security experts, to ensure that cases of hacking, far from diminishing, are still growing and are becoming more common and more critical, given the high dependence on the Internet and centralization today.

Virtually none of these events are later reflected in the reports, usually quarterly, to be completed by companies and corporations with the state of affairs of the same. Reuters wanted to explore more about it, and there are interesting (at the same time concern) data that speak of a study of more than 2,000 reports in which hardly mentioned about computer attacks, and when done, is done generically.

A clear example is the case of VeriSign , one of the largest certification authorities worldwide, which issues official certificates not only for corporations but for entities, and which has just discovered that would have been the victim of a cyber attack makes approximately two years, being involved and potentially in the hands of hackers valuable information about companies, websites, etc..

The scope is not yet known, but the impact could be brutal, as Verisign issues the vast majority of Internet SSL certificates, which in turn is responsible for managing a plethora of domains through their DNS servers. We talk about domains. Com and. Net, but also. Gov, house government sites centered.

In some ways it is understandable that security companies try to hide the cyber attacks against their investors, but ... is it legal? We are talking about a difficult subject. On the one hand, these companies are surely obliged to report any problems or intrusion to their investors. Furthermore, the chaos that could be formed thereon, with frightened customers and stock effects or even affecting the financial markets. Another example, that of Sony .

Nippon The company was forced to admit that they had suffered several attacks and that valuable information had been compromised by attackers filtered it through the Internet. Had they not having been admitted in this situation?

Why companies do not inform their investors of the security problems? Well, besides not to alarm, to avoid possible lawsuits or fines from the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), U.S. agency that tries to enforce federal laws and obligations of the companies operating in U.S. territory.

This is a problem, however, affecting all companies worldwide, and is that anyone is exposed to a possible cyber attack caused perhaps by a security breach that could give many headaches.