If Facebook is anything to be accessed from third party sites and services, the converse is not necessarily in order. So he blocked an option to search through his Facebook contacts those with an account on Twitter. This is a new feature added to the Facebook application for Twitter that exists since 2007.

The system compares the names found on Facebook account and displays the Twitter profile for a contact and a link to reach his page on the microblogging site. This function is inaccessible since Wednesday. Twitter posted a message indicating that the blockage from Facebook. Cnet.com Our colleagues have obtained confirmation from him that he was working with Twitter to “solve this problem.” Facebook has not given time to restore this function. Note that the same option is available for users of LinkedIn. (EP)

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Strategy – After business and mobile giant will bring VoIP service in a wide range of devices through an SDK kit called Skype.

Multiple sources of income: that is the objective of Skype for several years, especially since the firm is once again independent. If a VoIP service brings together hundreds of millions of users, the share of free usage remains predominant.

The implemented strategy is simple: the decline in technology sectors where it can be monetized. The first sector addressed: the company with the establishment of a division dedicated Skype for Business.

After the SMEs, the group turned to large accounts with different products such as SIP and Skype for a centralized administration tool for IT managers. This tool, Skype Manager is also evolving.

Skype's watches, TVs, cars …

“The portal provides new functions based on feedback from our customers,” explains ZDNet.fr David Gurle, president of Skype for Business. “Besides the creation of accounts for employees, adding funds and functions is now associated with loans to groups of users have permissions to go on different accounts, managing the features according to users' accounts, including video and sending files.

Skype refuses to give detailed figures on the adoption of this offer but mentions “a very strong demand particularly for multi-site, supported by the consequences of the crisis growing directions to reduce their travel costs,” said David Gurle.

Officially, 35% of members use Skype's professional service.

Second area where Skype is trying to develop: applications and third party equipment. Bricks are well integrated Skype for over a year in business applications like Salesforce and LotusLive IBM.

Today, Skype aims to go further with Skype kit that allows easy integration of Skype into applications but especially in equipment connected. Skype is pre Kitfeel the form of an SDK for the manufacturing partners.

It includes APIs (programming interfaces) that allow for example to run Skype in the background “on TVs, notebooks and other devices connected.” The firm also evokes the world of cars, watches …

All functions of Skype will be supported: audio and video conversations, and instant messaging.

In beta, Skypekit is available by invitation only. To use the kit, it will pay a registration fee of $ 20.

“This is a strategic development for us which led to a concerted action with our partners (BMW and LG were the first). The goal is to offer a range of compatible equipment and certified 'plugged Into Skype,” the responsible.

Finally, the last strategic sector for Skype, mobility. After being blacklisted by most mobile operators around the world, the use of Skype is beginning to be allowed on the 3G networks of some operators such as AT & T in the U.S. or Orange (Pay optionante) and SFR in France.

“It'sa good start but if the operators are aware that Skype is complementary to their offers, they will have to show more openness,” reminiscent Assen David Gurle numerous discussions with various operators.

Meanwhile, Skype offers a kit for companies that want to deploy VoIP tool for fleets of mobile features include functions to manage communications while roaming cost.

As expected, even if a current summer launch was also announced, Windows 7 Phone disembark well on mobiles in the month of October. It is one of Microsoft's vice presidents in charge of marketing, Mich Mathews, who was confirmed at a meeting of advertising during a presentation of the OS mobile advertising festival in Cannes. He described the possibilities introduced by Phone Windows 7 on technical marketing.

Still, this launch could extend over several weeks, some manufacturers of smartphones seem more advanced than others, like LG's announced a few months ago to be able to propose its first mobile Windows.

Getting Started in Windows 7 Phone Image

Strategy – Launched just last three months, the two terminals KIN its stowed in the closet, and launches in Europe were canceled. Microsoft is now focusing all on Windows 7 Phone expected before the end of the year.

We suspected it a little, but the offensive KIN Microsoft in smatphones is a failure. Less than three months after the launch of the first two terminals of the range in the U.S., the publisher announced it stops everything and that exits in Europe with Vodafone are simply overridden.

The software giant said that the team working on KIN join that devoted the next operating system Windows 7 Phone which will allow Microsoft to regain control of the smartphone market, where it is slowing now behind Google's Android …

Both terminals KIN, very oriented social networks are made by Sharp but sold under the name Microsoft. A first. They have an interface (Loop), which centralizes the latest accounts, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter (a bit like MotoblurMotorola) and Windows Live.

Accumulation of defects

It also offers a music service and cloud storage mode. It is therefore understandable that these terminals are aimed primarily at young people with the promise of a smartphone 100% Social ..

Still, these devices combine a number of defects: some innovative features and a hybrid version of Windows Mobile while the publisher has in his files a fresh Windows 7 Phone and much more powerful. A contradictory strategy that has weighed heavy.

In addition, the positioning adopted by Microsoft is already very crowded, especially in the U.S. where 'messaging phones' abound and where Motorola already successfully surfing the wave of unified social networks.

Moreover, for some, these were only a launch KIN niche until Windows 7 Phone. But despite this positioning very targeted, the sauce did not, the sales were not followed.

Asked at the launch by ZDNet.fr Stéphane Dubreuil, Director Telecommunications and Media for the firm SIA Council estabit already very skeptical

This is the official blog dedicated to Playstation, Sony has unveiled its offer on pay online game. If the game remains online free for PS3 owners with an internet connection to enjoy other benefits of the PSN ( Playstation Network) it will now invest $ 50 per year or $ 18 for 3 months (and probably as much in euros). In France, this service will be launched on June 29, as shown on the French version of Sony's blog.

For this rate, the subscribers to the Playstation players Plus (the name of this offer) will be entitled to discounts on the games available for sale online, access to previews or securities in beta and that automatic downloads (SHIFT, games, accessories or bonus levels?).

This alone will convince the players there fans of online gaming console Sony to adopt more than its rival Microsoft, only time will tell. (EP)

It begins when the trial of the young French accused of pirating the Twitter account of Barack Obama as micro blogging site just to announce that the investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC authority American competition) on its practices in safety was abandoned.
In fact, Twitter and the FTC have reached an agreement in which the first named is committed for the next twenty years to avoid misleading users about the level of protection it offers, knowing that its security program will be audited every two years for ten years by independent investigators.

The FTC opened its investigation after two piracy Twitter in January and April 2009 when the accounts had been hijacked celebrity and infiltrations in the managements had enabled servers from reaching subscribers' personal data. Accused of laxity, Twitter was facing a large fine and was forced to make resetting passwords for its employees. To his defense, the site of micro bloggEng had minimized the number of accounts hijacked, not mentioning that 55 eventually. (EP)

Technology – The latest smartphone from Apple can no longer communicate if held by the lower left corner, where the antennas are placed. The firm responds to apple to buy a bag.

Just on sale in France, the latest phone from Apple already pays the chronicle. Not for its sales figures but for a manufacturing defect. In fact, waves of four antennas on the iPhone would be blocked when the phone is held in his left hand.

Blame it on the hull of the terminal metal and antennas that are joining in the bottom left. Contact with the skin of the hand on the wall, the antennas are linked and the signal is scrambled.

Do not just keep it that way

Engadget is that information revealed on Thursday. Noting, moreover, ironically, that some U.S. Apple ads depict people holding the iPhone 4 in the left hand. Many videos are then came to illustrate the anomaly.

Contacted by the blog, Steve Jobs responded, armed with his legendary tact: Do not just the tenir this way.

The official answer is more accurate cons: If you undergo [this issue] with your iPhone 4, do not hold it at the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black band of the metal part, or simply use one of the many covers available.

Apple's advice is to buy protection to avoid skin contact with the device rather than admit the problem, which concerns all existing phones, the statement said.

Consolation, the problem does not affect people nearby with an antenna, the signal is strong enough to compensate for attenuation.

Strategy – Despite its 2 billion investment over 5 years, the group nevertheless believes that all operators must invest in the same manner and at the same speed in dense areas. Translation: Orange has the means to deploy more quickly but will not do.

At the 4th Focus on the Very High Speed, which took place last week, Pierre Louette, brand new Secretary General of Orange, threw a stone into the pond.

“We will invest 2 billion euros [in the deployment of fiber optics, ], but we limit this effort because if we go too fast, you could accuse us of stifling competition.”

A statement that the donation was greatly annoy the participating officials, including Senator Moray who is currently working on ways to find additional funds to meet government objectives in this area: 75% of the population covered by 2020 and 100 % in 2025 …

At a stage of Orange on Monday fiber, Yves Parfait, Project Director of the opera La Fibretor, gave us some explanations on this position that has surprised some.

38,000 FTTH subscribers Orange

“Specifically, since the regulatory issues are fixed in dense areas, we resumed our massive investment and we reiterate our plan works: two billion euros between 2010 and 2015.

“However, we must find a middle ground, not going too fast to avoid being accused of pre-empting the market. In these areas, it is essential that all stakeholders, Free and SFR, go to the same speed-to-market . Everybody should make efforts in parallel.

It’s a bit first, the incumbent cares about the competition and not trying to take the market rate. “There are 270,000 buildings in Zone 1 fiberize …” , Says Yves Parfait.

Some may think while France Telecom lifts his foot while France is falling behind in broadband. “This is part of the paradox. Some accuse us of going too fast, others slow it is to place the cursor at the right Endroit, “the manager.

Meanwhile, the group believes the market is now ready for the fiber, despite still low subscription numbers: 75 000 customers in FTTH (fiber to the home) in late March, only 5,000 more in a quarter.

“Demand is soaring, there is a real appetite for the service,” said Yves Parfait indicates that the supply of fiber at end-March Orange had 38,000 subscribers representing a market share of 50% over FTTH in France.

“With rates close to ADSL and benefits identified, the fiber becomes possible for more and more homes,” he adds. Exactly what are these identified benefits that differentiate the fiber of ADSL?

There is the simultaneity of uses in the home, the ability to upload large volumes of “a particularly appreciated by consumers,” said Orange. But is 3D on the operator set.

“Only the fiber can provide 3D consumes up to 22 Mb / s and programs using this technology have a real success.” Still, these programs are still rare andpoint (sporting events …). The catalog will initially expanded in order cristallier pending.

3D as a selling point

But Orange is serene. “ADSL has been slow to take off, the needs were not immediately identified, but when you drop in the fiber, it refuses to go back,” enthuses the project manager who nevertheless refuses to set targets encrypted.

If things are settled in an area where the business model is clear, moreover, the frame is still unclear and France Telecom concedes be pending.

“We still need to wait and see what comes out of the consultation the regulator. Various models are possible co-financing, it also conducts experiments with Free and SFR in Meaux, Bondy, Palaiseau. We have no doctrine but there is a challenge: quickly adopt a model for the simultaneous deployments, “said Yves Parfait.