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WhatsApp cancel the annual subscription fee
Whatsapp company revealed that it will cancel the annual subscription of one dollar fees in the coming weeks, and the announcement came on the Saint-Jean-com founder of the application whatsapp during his participation in the event Digital Life Design in Munich, Germany.
Whatsapp company owns about 900 million active users per month, which is owned by Facebook in a deal that has two years and worth about $ 22 billion.
The observers fear the Facebook seeking to enter whatsapp within their own ads or any other means belonging to the Facebook trade, and there was no clear signal from the company about the next direction for the application of correspondence.
The company has followed the same after the acquisition of its own business approach, which allows the use of the service is free for the first year and then the imposition of an annual subscription value of one dollar.
He noted Jean-com that this form of work is a problem for many people, and many of them do not have credit cards, and it should be noted the presence of other messaging applications such as Messenger for Facebook, which has 800 million monthly active users and at no cost to use.
He added Jean-com that the company will begin experimenting with the possibility of companies arrived with people, and admitted that he is not the subject decisive decision and did not develop a final plan yet.
It seems that the company Instant will focus on large companies in an attempt to earn cash by clients of these companies, consumers and even transactions service, which means that he may be the launch of customized corporate accounts.
Whatsapp service is now closer integrated platform in terms of service delivery, and are almost identical with Facebook Messenger, which turns into an integrated platform also.
The Facebook had abolished last year the need for an account on the social network to use Messenger allowing users to log on over the phone via their numbers only similar to the way the whatsapp
The whatsapp company clarification on how the application can work out in the future within a statement posted on its official website, "we will, starting from this year to test tools that allow you to use whatsapp to communicate with companies and organizations that want to communicate with them, so that you can communicate with your bank about transfers and deals, or communicate with an airline about the last trip.
Qualcomm is working on a joint venture in China for server chips
Today announced that Qualcomm chip maker that it has signed an agreement with China's Guizhou Guizhou Regional Government to work on the development of advanced server chips in China jointly, in a move that could help to strengthen the efforts of the company to diversify its business in the market of mobile chips and chips server.
He has both sides to invest jointly in the amount of $ 280 million in the project, called the Hwachsantonj Guizhou name for semiconductor technology, which will be 55 percent of it belongs to the Government of Guizhou province and 45 per cent of it is owned by a subsidiary of Qualcomm.
Qualcomm and works similar to its rival company Advanced Micro Devices, and both the two companies are planning to make data centers rely on existing servers processors on the architecture ARM, a market which is dominated by rivalry Intel.
The Qualcomm had announced in October last year for the presence of samples belonging to the first stage of pre-production processors for servers based on the architecture ARM, and has a direct offer for the development of an experimental server platform, Balttaaon with XILINX chips and Mellanox companies.
The company operates similarly to many other US technology companies desiring to try to take advantage of partnerships with local companies to facilitate access to the Chinese market.
Where the Hewlett-Packard Company sold a majority stake in the work of servers, services, technology and business volume in China is a subsidiary of Tsinghua Holdings to increase sales of HP products in government institutions in the country, while Intel Corp. said in 2014 that it planned to invest in the local chip companies to design phone chips mobile.
The joint venture will be registered in Guian New Area district of the province of Guizhou, with the presence of operations in the capital Beijing, and will be limited to the role of Qualcomm chips on the server license technology and provide research and development operations of the joint venture.
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Triple-X domain likely to be reality soon
The U.S. has pulled out of its agreement with ICANN, the international organization that makes decisions about the Internet -- and that greatly concerns one pro-family attorney.Final decisions by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers are determined by a 21-member board, 15 of whom have voting rights. Incorporated under the law of the State of California, ICANN must abide by the laws of the United States as it oversees the complex network of unique identifiers -- IP addresses and domain names -- that allow computers on the worldwide web to find one another.
But there have been complaints about the dominance of the U.S. over the Internet, resulting in Washington recently relinquishing some control over the way the network is run and ICANN ending its agreement with the U.S. government.
Pat Trueman, special counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, recalls the influence exerted by the U.S. over the creation of a particular domain name -- one which he believes would have resulted in pornography being far more widespread than it is now.
"There have been some [U.S.] values that had been imposed on the organization that runs the Internet," says Trueman. "For example, a few years back the Bush administration weighed in heavily to say that it would not allow a .xxx domain -- a pornography domain -- to be added to the Internet."
Trueman -- a former porn prosecutor with the Department of Justice -- now believes it is a foregone conclusion that the .xxx pornography domain will be approved eventually, making the case for pornographers that their material is a part of the standard of the Internet. That, says the pro-family attorney, does not bode well for those seeking legal constraints on smut.
"When you try to prosecute...an Internet pornography case [here in the United States], I believe that legally this will make things much more difficult for the prosecutor," he laments.
In addition, Trueman notes that pornography sites will not be required to move their domain from .com to .xxx, effectively providing them added exposure.
Microsoft Tries to Quell European Complaints
BRUSSELS — European antitrust regulators said Wednesday that they had tentatively accepted Microsoft’s concessions to settle two antitrust cases, which the company said left both organizations free to focus on the next generation of technology giants, including Google.
The European Union competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, said at a briefing Wednesday that concessions made by Microsoft to give European computer users a choice of Web browsers appeared to address many antitrust concerns. She said another case against the company could be settled this year.
In a telephone conference call with reporters, Microsoft’s chief lawyer, Brad Smith, did not mention Google by name. But he said clearing the decks in Brussels meant the company could turn its attention to the market for Internet search technologies and winning approval for its proposed merger with Yahoo. That deal would allow Microsoft to become a bigger player in online advertising, a market currently dominated by Google.
“It is very important for us to resolve competition law issues that have been on the agenda for more than a decade,” Mr. Smith said. “I don’t think that hurts, and it probably helps as we address some other issues.”
“There are still loose ends to tie up, but it looks like the battle with Microsoft is in the end game and there is a clear vacancy for antitrust poster child in Europe,” said Stephen Kinsella, an antitrust partner with the law firm Sidley Austin. “My money is on Google.”
Earlier, Ms. Kroes said she had “good grounds for thinking we are moving towards a very satisfactory resolution” of two cases, one concerning the way Microsoft bundles its Internet Explorer Web browser with its Windows operating system, and the other involving the way other brands communicate with Microsoft products.
But a coalition of Microsoft’s competitors, the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, which has an outstanding complaint against Microsoft over failure to provide information necessary to achieve compatibility with its products, remained wary.
Thomas Vinje, the legal counsel for the organization, which represents companies like I.B.M., Nokia and Oracle, questioned whether consumers would have a “real and unbiased choice” of browsers and whether competing companies would be able to enforce the commitments made by Microsoft on interoperability.
Mr. Vinje said the commission still had “to ensure that Microsoft lives up to its part of the deal.”
Mr. Smith of Microsoft said, however, that the European Union should be able to drop the complaint by Mr. Vinje’s group without further action as part of the wide-ranging settlement.
Mr. Smith said that moving on from the European case would also allow regulators to concentrate on potential competition law issues raised by I.B.M., which is developing a new generation of powerful computers. He cited the merger of Oracle and Sun Microsystems as evidence of the emergence of potentially powerful new forces.
European officials have been informally market-testing the offer — first made by Microsoft in July — that would give European computer users a choice of Web browsers.
Since then, Microsoft has offered more tweaks to its software so that users of new and existing Windows-based computers in Europe already loaded with Internet Explorer would get a so-called ballot screen that would let them download other browsers and turn off Microsoft’s default Explorer.
Users of existing Windows-based computers with Internet Explorer in Europe would receive an update prompting them to choose from among competing browsers, European officials said.
Ms. Kroes said she would spend the next month holding formal testing of the Microsoft offer with consumers and clients. She said she intended to reach a so-called commitment decision on the browser case enforceable with fines if Microsoft wavered in its compliance.
The European Union competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, said at a briefing Wednesday that concessions made by Microsoft to give European computer users a choice of Web browsers appeared to address many antitrust concerns. She said another case against the company could be settled this year.In a telephone conference call with reporters, Microsoft’s chief lawyer, Brad Smith, did not mention Google by name. But he said clearing the decks in Brussels meant the company could turn its attention to the market for Internet search technologies and winning approval for its proposed merger with Yahoo. That deal would allow Microsoft to become a bigger player in online advertising, a market currently dominated by Google.
“It is very important for us to resolve competition law issues that have been on the agenda for more than a decade,” Mr. Smith said. “I don’t think that hurts, and it probably helps as we address some other issues.”
“There are still loose ends to tie up, but it looks like the battle with Microsoft is in the end game and there is a clear vacancy for antitrust poster child in Europe,” said Stephen Kinsella, an antitrust partner with the law firm Sidley Austin. “My money is on Google.”
Earlier, Ms. Kroes said she had “good grounds for thinking we are moving towards a very satisfactory resolution” of two cases, one concerning the way Microsoft bundles its Internet Explorer Web browser with its Windows operating system, and the other involving the way other brands communicate with Microsoft products.
But a coalition of Microsoft’s competitors, the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, which has an outstanding complaint against Microsoft over failure to provide information necessary to achieve compatibility with its products, remained wary.
Thomas Vinje, the legal counsel for the organization, which represents companies like I.B.M., Nokia and Oracle, questioned whether consumers would have a “real and unbiased choice” of browsers and whether competing companies would be able to enforce the commitments made by Microsoft on interoperability.
Mr. Vinje said the commission still had “to ensure that Microsoft lives up to its part of the deal.”
Mr. Smith of Microsoft said, however, that the European Union should be able to drop the complaint by Mr. Vinje’s group without further action as part of the wide-ranging settlement.
Mr. Smith said that moving on from the European case would also allow regulators to concentrate on potential competition law issues raised by I.B.M., which is developing a new generation of powerful computers. He cited the merger of Oracle and Sun Microsystems as evidence of the emergence of potentially powerful new forces.
European officials have been informally market-testing the offer — first made by Microsoft in July — that would give European computer users a choice of Web browsers.
Since then, Microsoft has offered more tweaks to its software so that users of new and existing Windows-based computers in Europe already loaded with Internet Explorer would get a so-called ballot screen that would let them download other browsers and turn off Microsoft’s default Explorer.
Users of existing Windows-based computers with Internet Explorer in Europe would receive an update prompting them to choose from among competing browsers, European officials said.
Ms. Kroes said she would spend the next month holding formal testing of the Microsoft offer with consumers and clients. She said she intended to reach a so-called commitment decision on the browser case enforceable with fines if Microsoft wavered in its compliance.
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