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Twitter continues its enrichment strategy to attract a broader target. After switching to 280 characters per message, the blue bird is now pushing a function expected by many: the backup of tweets "to consult later". It is available for the moment only through the mobile, via the application or the site. Once added to the bookmarks, the saved tweets are accessible from the menu of his profile where appears the field "Bookmarks". Recall that last December, Twitter allowed to easily generate "threads". This new use, more and more popular, is to unfold an argument or a reflection with tweets that respond to each other. All these changes in the service always have the same goal: to push users to stay longer and increase recruitments whose growth tends to stagnate. Twitter continues its initiatives to offer a less elitist service, and easier to access for the general public. This strategy is beginning to bear fruit. In the fourth quarter of 2017, f...

Amazon is the undisputed queen of electronic commerce. But now it has been proposed to revolutionize the world of home delivery, and spared no expense when it comes to investing in a new technology that makes it possible. The company of Jeff Bezos, the multimillionaire owner of the internet giant, confirmed on Tuesday that he has just closed one of his most voluminous purchases with the acquisition of Ring, a manufacturer of smart stamps for which he has paid more than US $ 1,000 million. It is a startup dedicated to the creation of ringtones connected to a Wi-Fi connection networkThat they let you know if there is someone coming home. This technology aroused the interest of Amazon, which has seen in this system an innovative way - and perhaps more secure - to deliver packages at home to their customers even if they are not at home. The key of Amazon Key? Ring's smart ringers use a motion detector that sends direct information to the user's cell phone, first with...

If you look at the latest releases of the Galaxy S series, these Galaxy S9 are quite predictable in terms of design. I explain. The Galaxy S6 introduced the new design in metal and glass with curved screen, a proposal that was repeated with the Galaxy S7, although perfecting some details. In this sense, the Galaxy S9 is to the S8 what the S7 went to the S6. We have an aspect that follows the dictates of the previous generation; metal structure, glass back, curved edges and a front in which the screen is the absolute protagonist. The design of the Galaxy S9 maintains the excellent compaction work that we saw with the previous generation. It also maintains the same sizes, with a 5.8-inch panel for the basic model and a 6.2-inch panel for the Galaxy S9 +, the two Super AMOLED, with QHD + resolution and the same 18.5 9 format. The screen has already said everything, but the S9 reaffirm it; vivid colors, excellent contrast and sharpness that translate into a visual experience that i...

2017 was a dark year for the technology industry, dotted with cool new gadgets, predictable breakthroughs and spectacular failures. What will 2018 bring? Here are some of our predictions. LOOK: Life in the network in 2017: what were the biggest surprises? 1. Virtual reality It was assumed that virtual reality was going to take over the world. But tie a pair of glasses to the head and watch video games or 360 videos is not what many expected. In 2018 much of this technology could be massified with something you have at hand: your cell phone. Augmented reality superimposes digital images on the real world, as seen through the camera on your phone. Smartphones include a powerful AR technology so that anyone with a device fast enough can try it. For example, with Apple's ARKit, iOS apps can map a room and use realistic and changing lighting to make their objects blend better with a scene. 2. Robots in the streets The robots are going to take the streets. No, we are...

"The United States wants to leave Huawei out because we are too strong": Richard Yu, executive director of the Chinese telephony giant Huawei is one of the most important technology companies in the world. But there is a market that fails to penetrate: United States. The Chinese manufacturer has gone, little by little, gaining ground to its rivals to match the binomial formed by the South Korean Samsung, the largest seller of mobile phones in the world, and the American Apple, the second in the ranking. Along with China's Xiaomi, it was the only brand that experienced growth during the last quarter of 2017, while all the others lost sales in the first global decline in the sector, according to data from technology consultancy Gartner. Not many manufacturers can boast sales figures like Huawei. Throughout 2017, it sold 150,534 million smartphones, 9.8 percent of the world total . And it has grown almost double compared to 2016. In recent years, it has grown i...