WhatsApp, Android called Android – Computer Point

Rome – The long period of experimentation seems to have concluded, one year after the first promise of integration of voice calls, the instant messaging service seems to have enabled calls for all users of Android.

No advertisement for the advent of the new feature, any reference in the relevant page on the Play Store: Users of the latest version of WhatsApp (the 2:12:19, released March 14, 2015), but also users of previous versions, however, have witnessed the appearance of the tab “calls” and the icon in the interface of the app.

There seems therefore no longer necessary to resort to unofficial solutions to unlock the function, or be groped by proposals scams: function dedicated to voice calls is being released for all Android users.

Users of other platforms will have to wait. With regard to iOS circulated already screenshots and solutions to experience the function of terminals with jailbreak: co-founder Brian Acton WhatsApp, during the F8 conference for developers of Facebook, said that will be needed still “a few weeks” before integration of voice calls in the app iOs.

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Whatsapp, free phone calls from today but for now only on mobile phones … – The Messenger

ROME – The free phone calls via Whatsapp come true: the famous instant messaging service is ready for the big news. A revolution that has been long awaited by its users.
From today VoIP calls can be made with Android smartphones and the option, which was launched a few weeks ago, will be by invitation only. Grows at this point waiting for the other slice of the mobile market. Who owns an iPhone, in fact, will have to wait a few days to be able to call his contacts with Whatsapp. IOS on the big day will arrive within a couple of weeks, as announced by the co-founder of the chat, Brian Acton.

NEW SCREEN. On Whatsapp screen is divided into three columns: on the left, the fields “Call”, “chat” and “contacts”

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Microsoft Launches Surface 3, the tablet-pc from 609 € – Il Sole 24 Ore

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Back Surface focusing on a strategy that begins to be a trend: performance slightly below the top range, lower price. This is not low cost, but the phenomenon in which the abundance of hardware capabilities now available – often unknowingly unused – you can have all or almost showing some muscle in less and less odious card. Specifically, processor and display are less efficient than the Pro, but the price starts from 200 euro less. And then EUR 609 for the base model (though not much) without keyboard (another 130 euro). In booking from March 31, on sale from May 7.

Microsoft Surface 3 is inspired by the Surface Pro 3 with the same basic idea of ​​being a tablet capable of replacing a laptop. It has the traditional keypad-cover and total compatibility with all Windows app and stylus to take notes or mark the documents. Available now in version wi-fi and later with 4G technology LTE2.

Inside is powered by the new quad-core Intel Atom x73 and promises a battery life of up to 10 hours. ClearType HD Display 10.8-inch 3: 2, speakers with Dolby sound design and magnesium. Always unlike Pro, the support for using the tablet resting on a table now has three positions.

3 Surface mount Windows 8.1 and can be upgraded for free to Windows 10 when available. Surface 3 will also offer an annual subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Personal, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, with up to a cloud storage OneDrive TB6.

Curiosity: the logo on the back surface disappears in favor of that of Microsoft, sign of an attempt for unity in the non-traditional activities hardware company in Redmond. Choice similar to that made on the Lumia, although the contact points between the categories end up substantially here, waiting for Windows 10.Il target: students and professionals with mobility needs. Microsoft says that the Surface Pro 3, alone, won the 10-15% of the market tablet / notebook above 800 EUR.

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Written by Simone Ziggiotto, the 03/30/15

From today, March 30, 2015, also in Italian stores of Apple’s smartphone will be scrapped atria producers, from Android to Blackberry. The decision, confirmed by a company spokesman Ansa, expands the existing program of ‘reuse and recycling’ in store and aims to encourage more users to get devices ‘dated’ to buy the latest generation iPhone.

Apple launches another program to increase sales of the iPhone in its stores, a goal stated by CEO Tim Cook.

As they had anticipated sources of 9to5Mac in recent weeks, Apple introduces a new recycling program through which you can scrap your old smartphone not only Apple-branded, but also Android and BlackBerry ; in return is scheduled for delivery of a gift card to be used for the purchase of a new iPhone.

Thus continuing to try to convince Android users to switch to an iPhone, Apple adopts an evaluation system similar what uses for the scrapping of the iPhone. Are employees of retail stores Apple Store to determine the value of the old devices based on their condition, aesthetic and functional – as much as a phone is new and is well preserved aesthetically and running, the higher will be the value of the gift card.

The new program begins after the employees of the Apple Store have done to follow training programs. Employees of Apple will be able to transfer the contacts from the smartphone competitors in the new iPhone that the customer will go to buy a replacement, but all other types of data (photos, videos, here) will have to be moved by the customers independently.

Apple launched originally the scrappage program of re-use iPhone in mid-2013 to encourage owners of older models of the iPhone to update to the then most recent iPhone 5, iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Over the past two years, Apple has offered other upgrade programs to increase sales, which has rapidly expanded from the US to Canada, Europe and Australia. The results were very positive for the Cupertino company, which recorded an increase in sales of its Melafonino. Last summer, Apple has launched a similar program to boost sales of iPad.

To date program of reuse and recycling is part of the commitment of Apple in protecting the environment and also includes the identification of the most efficient methods for reuse or recycling of electronic equipment at the end of their life cycle, including iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC and monitor from any manufacturer. Not always, you can also get something in exchange for the old equipment that is delivered to Apple. The program of reuse and recycling is limited only to the old Apple products. If the procedure is performed online you can ask for the evaluation of a Mac, an iPhone or an iPad. In the Apple Store Italians can only return the iPad and iPhone, that the personnel currency directly and offers a discount on the purchase of a new Apple product.

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Apple, the way the operation of recycling and trade-Android – Emerge the Future

Despite our common spaces are filled landfills and for recycling of materials from complex organic disposal, it seems that the trouble of charging televisions and cell phones in the car constitutes such a burden to push most of our countrymen in disposable electronic devices in the bag of waste collection or, even worse, down the side of a road.

Well aware of this widespread tendency to indolence and to non-compliance of the civic sense basic Apple decided to give life to a special campaign, called “reuse and recycle” , through which buyers of the brand of Cupertino will abandon their phones and tablets for recycling inside the Apple Store , even if smartphones in question are based on the Android operating system.

Bringing an old smartphone or tablet in stores branded Apple will be possible to make sure that our former companion of many adventures and phone calls will be for a new life and committed the Store will be willing to offer us a voucher to spend all ‘interior of the store for incentivarci operate further conversion towards their products.

‘ s operation I will be also possible by mail , sending the device you want to retire after contacting support, in case you live in a municipality located in the middle of a mountain retreat and therefore devoid of Apple Store nearby, as well as a landfill.

By wide campaign of destruction devices Samsung, Sony, HTC or LG , Apple intends to logically come not so much to protect the environment and to creating a small paradise on earth, as provide an incentive-type eco-sustainable quell’ampissima promotion of potential customers who is undecided whether to convert to the joys of iPhone and the like and that might find a slight nudge by discount coupon offered by Apple and by the possibility of being able to get rid of so much easier of your old phone.

In stating that operation is perfectly valid, even if the device to be scrapped is no longer functioning , Apple invites so even the Italians to follow in the footsteps of the Americans, where the project “reuse and recycle” is in force since 2013 , trusting perhaps in indolence background can result in a return to the level of sales.

 

 

 

It ‘an important decision for the Cupertino company, a choice that will give a major boost to sales. A company spokesman has just confirmed that the store will accept Italians not only to scrap old iPhone but also other brands of smartphones such as Android and Blackberry.

The choice is to extend the initiative called “reuse and recycling. ” But how does this promotion? It ‘very simple, you go into a store Apple bringing with it the smartphone you want to commute. Immediately you receive an estimate of the object and a credit equal to the value assigned.

This credit can be used to buy a new iPhone or a new iPad.

The program “reuse and recycling “was launched in 2013 in the US, after which it was extended to the rest of the world.

Apple scrapping Android: old smartphones of other brands evaluated … – The Messenger

Now in Italian stores of Apple you can “scrap” smartphones from other manufacturers, from Android to Blackberry.

The decision, confirmed by a company spokesman, expands the existing program “reuse and recycle” in the store and aims to encourage more users to get devices “dated” to buy the latest generation iPhone . The program works like this: a customer brings their smartphone – now not necessarily an iPhone, but also other brands’ devices – at an Apple store and get an immediate estimate of the value of the device.

This credit can be used immediately as a discount on the purchase of a new iPhone or iPad. Also in the store you can choose to “connect” the new device, choose the plan that best suits your needs. Customers are also helped with the transfer contacts from one device to another, with the setting of e-mail and by downloading applications. “In the event that the smartphone was not judged suitable to get a credit,” Apple will ensure that “it is recycled in a responsible manner for the customer.”

Apple launched the program ‘and recycled for reuse iPhone in the store in mid 2013. In the last two years has extended this ability even outside of the US (from June in Italy) and the iPad. Making available the “scrapping” even phones from other manufacturers, Cupertino implements a very aggressive strategy to push sales of phones in his store.
             
             
                         
         

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Help! The world is streaming. Periscope, the new Twitter app … – The Republic

TRANSMIT live their lives. This seems just the first step – the most simple and intuitive, as the meme of refrigerators or the high rate of nonsense – that of cries for application launched a few days ago from Twitter. The small program designed by the US Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein has fallen into the clutches of Dick Costolo & amp; Co. earlier this year when it was still incomplete at the price of, say, a hundred million dollars. In the wake of another application even more radical than the anticipated slightly, Meerkat, was quickly made available on the App Store last week. The Android version should be around the corner. But the potential is enormous, because Periscope promises to become the key for broadcasting in mobility. To show us things happen while. Or make them happen for mostrarcele.

Use Periscope is perhaps easiest to upload a photo to Instagram. After downloading the free app and signing up going from Twitter enables program access to the camera, microphone, and, if desired, geolocation, you put a title to their direct and crushes “Start Broadcast”. The End. Whatever you choose to take, and wherever you are, you live with your followers of the app is that, if you want, warning on Twitter thanks to a tweet posted automatically with the link to the stream.

The logic of those who follow us or we can follow works by integrating the account with which we are already in touch on Twitter but also, of course, adding users most appreciated scovandone or new, for example sifting between who is experiencing the same stream . Although the main screen, continuously updated according to the suggestions of Periscope, arriving direct from around the world. In addition to being listed in the previous performance of our contacts, as long as these have enabled storage but that only lasts 24 hours. As Snapchat Stories. The exact opposite of Meerkat, which instead focuses totally ephemeral appearance of the game ended the direct, the content is no longer available. Returning to Periscope, but if we are doing more and some of the contacts that we follow is transmitting, get a notification and you can slingshot in the app with a single swipe on the display.

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within a stream can interact with the broadcaster, that is, with who is transmitting, in two ways: disseminating hearts with a touch on the display or commenting in real time. The first are displayed in the lower right corner and direct most populated rained continuously. The comments of connected users, whose number is also reported, flowing through a chat instead superimposed on the image. Both limit not just the vision but the broadcaster may choose to hide them. At the price of breaking down not just the fun aspect of the application is that, in fact, the key and the immediacy of the unpublished report that is created between the cameraman and the beholder. There remain a number of other details – change the room from front to back, making direct private access to specific users or know the other spectators of a stream by consulting their card while chatting – but it does not change.

As is often not Periscope new: services and applications to do more or less the same thing there are several, by Twicasting, Livestream or Younow through the most professional Ustream or Twitch, dedicated to the world of video games. The difference is in the package, the integration with the ecosystem of Twitter which Periscope is the logical projection – and, of course, in the handful of elements that determine the linearity of use, the absolute simplicity and overlapping different ingredients. Ensuring their universality. There broadcasting, there is the dynamics of social networks (even if chat is not so simple), there is a splash of game, there is a deep sense of alienation linked to the stream that update constantly in bulletin board and a kind of “teleportation”, so he called one of the co-founders, made possible by the continuous jumps from one video to another. And then there’s the fashion: a few days everyone is talking about and all they log in, for fear of losing the next big thing for road applications. It is to see if the trend – extremely expensive in terms of bandwidth and data traffic, the signal often jumps or just takes a lot to charge – will find its quadrature and that is if the language evolve giving Periscope real content and not the butts lives maybe fun but to which you can not give more than a few minutes.

A passage that no doubt will happen. If came the news about Snapchat, solutions to maximize the periscope of reality will multiply quickly. From direct baptism reserved for relatives to journalistic reporting in immediate grip – by the way, it seems that some US issuer has already begun to exploit it in this way – by direct informal places of power to the wings of any kind (tv, web tv newspapers, events, shows) through an infinite number of alternatives. Shared online games and decided, based on the comments. Press conferences, presentations, documentation Live – has happened with the blackout at the airport in Amsterdam and with other news stories that users were involuntary witnesses – or unpublished formats of entertainment that will have to be structured to justify the time spent on an app powerful but not to use in the background. It is one thing to take a look at the tweet while you are at dinner, another place themselves in front of the direct take-off of a plane or a university lecture.

David Pierce wrote on Wired Use that it is “consensual voyeurism”. At least as regards the appearance of the “Live life”. On everything else, that is, to build content that go beyond even endless chores of daily life (sometimes interesting, otherwise meaningless and intended to collect a few spectators) there will be work. Riding obviously what Beykpour calls the magic moment of its app: “It happens not when you see the video for the first time,” he told the US magazine, “all this we have already tried, from YouTube to other instruments to stream. The magic moment is when the audience says something and ends up influencing the broadcaster “. The eternal present has its stage.

In the middle, in fact, there is no one. There is no direction, there is no moderation, there’s some kind of mediation. So, like any kind of social network, on the other hand, the flow is open to anything and any use. The same Twitter is indeed proof that the conditions of use are, to put it mildly, ineffective. Even the privacy runs thus a new risk (anyone and at any time could be catapulted into a direct without even realizing it) and with it everything you pay for access to exclusivity. Just think of a football game (impossible to switch off between the phones in the stadium) or a film by amateur recording problems will move to international direct.

Call of Duty World Cup wins the US team of Denial – Il Sole 24 Ore

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The Denial were crowned world champions of Call of Duty. This completes the three-day losangelina dedicated to one of the most exciting eSports tournaments of the year, an event that havisto 32 teams, including an Italian, to compete Advanced Warfare on Xbox One in pursuit of a rich booty from 400 thousand dollars. A nothing is worth the ability of opponents, the team Revenge, A LIVE tense final that have fallen at the last. In the first clash in Hardpoint, the denial won by 250 to 123, a result that presaged the best. After you play the better dellecinque only takes three wins to get the prize. In reality, however, in the second clash in Search and Destroy are the Revenge to excel with a six to zero that brought them back on track. The third fight, an exciting Uplink, has brought another victory in the bag of Revenge. Map Comeback has left viewers in suspense until the last, with daring actions often decided by inches.

At this point, it was enough just another win and 400 thousand dollars would be them. With another reversal of the results, however, have torn Denial 6-2 competitors in Capture the flag and here we are in a two by two, which has slipped in an epic final battle, the Search and Destroy where it was decided everything. Point after point, the map gave new reason to Denial that a 6 to 4 sweating like never before can now be said to be the most talented players of the year. Player of the Year is James “Clayster” Eubanks, 22, the US entered the tournament circuit since 2007, which has also outclassed teammates Dillon “Attach” Price, Jordan “Jkap” Kaplan and Chris “Replays” Crowder.

Known to be the leader of his team, despite his young age Clayster already shows an air athlete sailed, with a look smart and strong and a confident attitude. Great disappointment instead for superfavorito tournament, Matt “NaDeSHoT” Haag, nicknamed the “Gamer’s best loved America.” Twenty-two with a past as a waiter in a diner, Haag is today one of the most watched digital athletes, with millions of followers on Twitter and YouTube and sponsorships from the likes of McDonald’s and RedBull. A nothing is worth his talent, money and bombastic publicity: his Team Optic fact stopped in seventh place. Very little to the great expectations that he and his huge bandwagon advertising had created

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Periscope, Twitter users crazy for the new app for live streaming – The Daily

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After Vine and Vimeo , that Periscope . The new jewel bought from Twitter (apparently for $ 100 million) and launched two days ago is the new frontier of the mobile video streaming . Wherever you are, you can turn on the camera and show live to an unknown number of users what you are doing or what is happening around you. But let’s step back. How does Periscope? After downloading the app (Free) you register directly with your Twitter account. This allows you to follow the users with whom you are already in contact on the microblogging platform . At that point you just have slide the timeline to attend live to what happens around the world. But not only. Periscope, it allows you to interact with the broadcaster in real time through posts and hearts (the equivalent of “like” on Facebook). So if you are seeing “ Walk with dogs “, just go to the window “ Say something ” to communicate with the creator of the video or just to say hello. And he – he will want – will respond directly to your questions.

“We wanted to build the closest thing to teleportation,” said the founders of the app. And for now seem to have succeeded. Periscope, in fact, takes us everywhere. Among the talk of a Dubai office and backstage of a program television, on a red carpet or concert. But this app, if exploited to the fullest, it could also turn into a interesting journalistic tool . You can participate in a live conference or attend a demonstration in any corner of the world while being thousands of miles away. Added to this is the ability to ask questions to the person who is recording the video. We think of a Fire in Manhattan (true story): you can ask the broadcaster the time when it broke out, if they are already there for help, if it is aware that there are any of the victims. With Periscope journalists could also make a leap forward, just think of the impact of investigation told in live streaming . The promotional potential of this app are endless and can be adapted to most areas: tv, music, journalism.

But the creators have thought especially the use to which they can make in the lives of all day: witness the shelter of the fault of a car in Mexico or take a ride nell’Ikea ​​Stockholm. The goal is to grow the spread of the streaming , a choice but raises some questions. What sense does attend live in a time like “ rainy Sunday in Paris “, albeit romantic? It is probably too early to face this kind of problems, yet today the biggest risk seems to lapse into a messy randomness. For now the numbers are on the side of the Colossus of Dick Costolo ; platform Topsy.com has detected more than 27,000 tweets per day with the hashtag #Periscope . The controversy, however, does not end here. Two days after the launch has already taken the war with Meerkat , app created by Ben Rubin , student of Tel Aviv. The operation is the same, but if Periscope keeps the timeline published videos for 24 hours, Meerkat deletes them immediately, while offering the ability to create events streaming scheduled in advance. Needless to emphasize that both apps are gaining wide acclaim among celebrities; if Periscope immediately won Fiorello and Maccio Capatonda , Merkaat has used even the president Obama . The battle over content remains open, but the victory is in the hands of those who can not become the umpteenth social sharing adventures of dogs and cats.

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Trips a year in space: NASA track the road – Italian Center Weather

Travel to one year in space: NASA track the road 29/03 / 2015 – What you have always dreamed of as children could soon become reality thanks to NASA. So far, the travel on Mars were in fact a prerogative of science fiction movies but now with NASA will organize real star travel. NASA is working for some time and has sent into orbit the first mission lasting one year, to usher in a new era, which we can call the travel long. The dream of tens of generations is therefore to come true? It will be possible to make travel a long year to Mars: the experiment has already taken off the Soyuz capsule that will carry on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly retired and Mikhail Kornienko and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka that will remain in space for two years.

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You can then launch into space a capsule that will allow us to make long trips a year? We’ll find out soon, thanks to NASA who started the first experiments in this direction. Some astronauts are about to reach the space station, with Samantha Cristoforetti, Commander Terry Virts and Russian Anton Shkaplerov to assess whether it is possible to live in space for over 1 year.

All records of the space mission “One Year in space” – Formiche.net

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three hundred and forty two days aboard the Iss : ie one year in space. This is the longest mission ever made so far, that undertaken some time ago from the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16M that will bring in the stars the American Scott Kelly and the Russians Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka , astronauts with a long and strong experience.

THE MISSION “ONE YEAR IN SPACE”

The mission 43, 44, 45 and 46 has been renamed “One Year in Space” and will see Kelly and Kornienko – respectively the second and fourth mission – to remain on the International Space Station for 342 days with return scheduled March 3, 2016. While Padalka , to its fifth mission, will return after 168 days, reaching an unprecedented achievement in fact stays in space. When it lands, in fact, will have exceeded 870 days of “living” space, beating the previous record of 803 recorded by Sergei Krikalyov Konstantinovic .

THE EXPERIMENT” THE TWINS “

But the time factor is not the only record of the mission “One Year in Space” . The launch will be used primarily to analyze and study the behavior of the human body under conditions of prolonged weightlessness. A study to be carried out by comparing the health status of Scott Kelly and that of his twin Mark , he astronaut NASA that has already taken part in four missions of the space shuttle – the famous American space shuttle, which has made space flights until 2011 – and for the occasion will be the guinea pig on the Earth’s surface.

The experiment – dubbed “ of the twins” – has a very important scientific relevance. The doctors of the NASA want to understand and compare how, after a year in orbit, the effects of the long period in the relative absence of gravity influenced the twin who will stay in orbit, in particularly on bone and muscle weakness, and also because the radiation dose has engraved on Scott than the biological parameters of the twin Mark .

THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC MISSION

The reason for these studies is related to possible future missions to the Moon that is beyond the lunar orbit. During their stay Kornienko and Kelly, that will perform several spacewalks individually, have on the agenda more than thirty experiments that relate to the human body. Will be studies concerning the cardiovascular system – blood oxygenation and volume of the same -, ultrasound of the eye and the optic nerve to try to identify what are derived from vision problems that plague some astronauts and bone density. Not only that, during their time in space, will be monitored also some psychological, cognitive function and mood to stress.

THE LAUNCH

The launch of the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16M occurred at 20:43 Italian time of Friday, March 27, from the historic launch area from which he left 54 ​​years ago the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin , and the subsequent Russian manned missions. The same which has started last November 23 Samantha Cristoforetti , who together with his fellow missionaries, Shkaplerov and Virts , awaits the arrival the new crew, calls again climb to 6 the number of astronauts who populate the ISS .

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So far journeys to Mars are the preserve of science fiction movie, something to imagine how feasible only in the distant future, but NASA is working on for some time, and precisely in this excellent sent in orbit the first mission, lasting a year, to usher in a new era, we can define “long trips”.

It took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz that will bring the International Space Station NASA astronaut Scott Kelly retired (51 years) and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko (54 years) and Gennady Padalka (56 years): their stay at the station will be double the normal, to start to see how it reacts l ‘ man as prolonged stays in space.

In addition, the ground remains Mark Kelly, the twin brother of Scott, for an experiment that NASA had long waited for, that of the twin paradox (the consequence most popular Einstein’s theory of relativity): since the two are identical twins and have therefore the same DNA, the results will finally get a better idea of ​​the effects on the human body of long periods spent in zero gravity.

On board the Space Station, which reached in six hours, await, with Samantha Cristoforetti, Commander Terry Virts and Russian Anton Shkaplerov.

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Periscope’s Twitter challenge Meerkat video streaming – PianetaCellulare.it

Twitter announced Periscope, the new app that allows people to create, share and transmit live streaming video directly from your smartphone. Periscope is from March 26 available for download from Apple App Store for iOS devices. Among the familiar faces that use Italian Periscope there are Fiorello, Pif, Rudy Zerbi and Francesco Facchinetti.

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Twitter officially announced Periscope ( periscopeco), the new app that allows people to create, share and transmit live streaming video directly from their smartphone. Periscope is from March 26 available for download from Apple App Store for iOS devices.

How It Works? With a few touches, Periscope allows you to create a video stream by sending a notification to all followers, or only to a selected group. All “spectators” who are watching live can comment in real time and streamed video, once concluded streaming, can also be deleted, made available on Periscope for a period of 24 hours or saved on the roller picture of your smartphone.

While streaming, everyone can interact with those transmitting video by sending comments, questions and suggestions, or just sharing if transmission likes it or not.

Periscope is already utilizato from some famous Italians and foreigners. Up Periscope you can find: Rosario Fiorello (fiorello), Pif (pif_iltestimone), Rudy Zerbi (rudyzerbi), Francesco Facchinetti (frafacchinetti), J-Ax (jaxofficial) Maccio Capatonda (marciocapatonda), Federico Russo (@ federusso80), Benjamin Millepied – French dancer (b_millepied), Al Rocker – NBC Today Show (alroker), Aaron Paul – Breaking Bad co-star (@ aaronpaul_8), Mary J. Blige – singer (maryjblige) Will.I.Am – musician (iamwill), Arnold Schwarzenegger – (Schwarzenegger).

Periscope is currently available for iOS on the App Store, and soon it will be for Android devices.

Meerkat , the application that allows you to share a video stream at the touch of a button, has just closed a financing round of $ 12 million. It ‘a new application whose popularity is growing, because it syncs with Twitter to share live streaming real-time. However, a few days ago it was reported that Twitter may have deliberately limited functionality Meerkat just for the launch of Periscope – for example, has taken away the ability for users to Meerkat send an automatic notification to the followers that a transmission has started.

 

Update 15 March 2015: Twitter buys Periscope

Twitter has quietly purchased Periscope , a startup that is developing an app to allow live-stream video. To reveal cone “people familiar with the matter” cited by the newspaper Business Insider.

The company’s social-media has paid just under $ 100 million, according to sources of BI, an amount that would make the ‘ purchase of Periscope one of the most expensive investments Twitter . Payment is said to have been made with a mix of cash and stock, but for the most part in cash.

The deal was closed about a month ago, according to sources of the newspaper, but only today we become aware of it. Meanwhile, another app that allows Twitter users to view live video from their mobile on Twitter has been released: Meerkat has attracted 60,000 users in the eight days since it was released, according to the its founder, Ben Rubin.

Periscope, meanwhile, is an app that has yet to be launched to the general public. E ‘was opened on beta-testing the application in a few selected users about four months ago. Among the first users of Periscope there are also Jessica Verrilli’s business development team of Twitter, who is friends of the co-founder of Periscope Kayvon Beykpour, according to people familiar with the matter. Soon, the team members of the executive management and the board of directors have joined Twitter users with access to the private beta, including CEO Dick Costolo and co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey. After this period, which presumably has generated a certain satisfaction among executives, the idea of ​​buying the app.

The acquisition reflects the move by Twitter to strengthen its capabilities related to the video. Last year the social network began to experience video ads and launched the ability for users to upload and edit their own videos. The company is also still developing Vine, the app that lets you share short videos of seconds, that Twitter acquired in 2012.

The addition of the ability to broadcast live video on Twitter makes sense, if we consider that one of the strengths of the company is to be a service to share information in real time.

Mr. Rubin said he is not worried after reading the news of the acquisition Periscope by Twitter. “I think it’s wonderful,” he said. “I think Twitter is a smart company that knows what they’re doing.”

At the moment it is not known when it is scheduled to launch public Periscope.