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Rich French fleeing in London

Sale of real estate agencies in London in recent months has seen a marked increase in the interest of clients from France to buy expensive properties

Central London estate agents - Nelsons states that interest grew so much that they hired a new agent, who speaks fluent French.

“Even before this fleeing of French in London, I spoke French with a few richer citizens of their fear of what Oland announced during the presidential campaign.

They are afraid that he would hit upon the rich French taxes and because many of them are considering moving to London, “said one of the agents.

Growing interest in real estate in London by rich French shows that they are afraid of measures of Francois Oland. He openly stated that he does not like the rich, and during the campaign announced the introduction of large high wages and property taxes. If he meet what he announced, it would be a drastic impact on the property Frenchmen, especially those who are now earning above average.

Experts claim that the rich are not scared just of announced major taxes, but also from a rebound in the price of labor and doing business in France. There is a third reason for concern - the uncertainty of what will happen with the euro, because the euro collapse could endanger the overall business climate in France. It is estimated that in London otherwise live a few hundred thousand Frenchmen, mostly in quarters Kensington and Chelsea, so that part of London is called “21st arrondissement of Paris”.

Most of them had come to London for economic reasons, because before doing business was cheaper in London than in Paris, due to taxes, labor prices, but also because of financial laws that are more liberal than in France. British authorities evaluate this as very favorable for themselves, as a chance with the French in London to move their capital and also to reinforce the importance and strength of the British capital. No vain London mayor Boris Johnson recently called French in London as many to come, even telling them - ” Bienvenue a Londres ” (Welcome in London).

Facebook mobile application new look

Facebook has announced that next week will present the new look of the application, reportedly working on a design application for mobile phones.

Invitation for the event which will be presented the new look does not state anything concrete, but the guys from TechCrunch in January wrote that the company tested the new redesign which is rejected classic blue look, but that news will now be in the form of large photos with text inside. Otherwise, the current view of the application is current as of May last year and since then has undergone drastic changes.

As Mashable writes, Facebook in New Zealand test and redesign the timeline. The assumption is that distributed some of the elements such as customer information, weather strips, but changed the name and location and profile picture. That this information is accurate and will actually look like the new Facebook mobile application, it remains to find out soon.

HTC unveiled the new One

Presenting its new smartphone, HTC said that they “re-invented” mobility experience. 

Pity they forgot to pick a new name for its new phone. No confusion, the new HTC One is not One X, not One V, nor One S that few months are already 

available in everywhere in the world, but “The New HTC One” rebranded model that has a 4.7-inch 1080p display, 1,7 GHz Snapdragon processor with 600 four cores,

UltraPixel camera space of 32 or 64 GB, but no microSD support, and Android 4.1 with Sense 5.

As you can see from the pictures, the design of the HTC One is a beautiful aluminum body. 3 LCD screen is protected by Gorilla Glas 2, and is big enough without strayed 

landscape 5-inch tablets but remain among the competition before, Galaxy S3.

The One, which will be available after March, will have to popularize HTC again among users.

 Because the device is loaded with features and improvements, such BoomSound with twin stereo speakers,

 front camera of 2.1 megapixel camera and Utrapixel that attracts 200% more light with the ability to record 1080p video at 60 frames per second.

Central to the experience with the new Sense 5 interface is HTC BlinkFeed Widget home screen which will display real-time information, status of social networks and photos.

Even has a built-in option to record short videos and Zoe quickly share them on social networks.

All the features together with hardware performance and the latest HTC Android makes HTC ONE one of the more interesting phones in the market.

 But HTC will run into serious competition in March, when it will be released Samsung Galaxy S4, which is expected to be the king of Android smartphones.

s success will depend on the price of One which ranges from 200 to 300 dollars depending on the contract with the operators.

Mozilla has released Firefox Metro for Windows 8

Mozilla today released the beta version of Firefox for Metro. This is a trial version that at this time has a few bugs such as screen freezing, so browser must be included from the beginning.

Metro version you can download as Firefox Nightly beta, and to use the Metro area, you need Firefox set as the master browser. Also, the settings are not in full function, while highlighting favorite sites work fine. In addition, going on searches conducted through Bing, although the browser as the default browser is set to Google. However, this is still a trial version of which there is still much to work with.

How Facebook killed the internet

Error in Facebook’s system to connect to other web sites has prevented users surf the Internet. Instead of the requested Web page, on the screen appeared only error message.

Error in Facebook’s system for connecting accounts with other web-sites resulted in a brief ‘killing’ the internet. 

During the ten minutes, a time needed Facebook engineers to notice and resolve the issue, users who were logged to Facebook and tried to log on to another web page with their Facebook account, were redirected to Facebook page where they were greeted by notification ‘An error. Please try again later.’

Any attempt to return to the original page again resulted in error. On and on. As for Mashable explained from Facebook, there was an error in the Facebook Connect API.

Over the years, login to other sites with the Facebook profile has become so common that people hardly think about it. Simply click on the ‘Connect with Facebook’ and thus avoid additional registration page. 

But this error has shown that Facebook has a problem that could, potentially, hit millions of pages that have incorporated Facebook’s API.

When the users were logging out from Facebook, the error has no longer affected their Internet surfing. 

For them, the Internet immediately ‘back to life’. 

Although the error was quickly corrected, and users were able to resume normal surf, on Twitter have already appeared on the comments ‘Facebookgedonn’ and ‘Faceboocalypse’.

EU will force major institutions to report cyber attacks

The European Union says that in order to develop digital economy is primarily necessary to have a safe cyber-space, but to achieve this goal will require all Member States, institutions and companies to work together. Union released a draft strategy to protect the open Internet and online freedoms in calling centralized system that would solve the fragmentation, and provide efficient protection against cyber attacks and online scams.

The proposal - which will have to be approved first by the European Parliament - obliges Member States to create cyber crime team (CERT) that will have a legal obligation to cooperate with other teams from other Member States. Countries will have to set up a system for monitoring the Company that are critical to the economy, such as banks, hospitals, computer support services, public transport companies and power plants.

What distinguishes this proposal from previous attempts at such regulation is that all major companies now have to report attacks, as opposed to when it was left on a voluntary basis when reporting attacks only when hacked user information. Under the new proposal, over 42,000 key companies will have to report cyber attacks to authorities, although some of them fear it will undermine its reputation. Small companies, on the other hand, with less than 10 employees will have the responsibility to report attacks.

According to the EU, this proposal will lead to greater transparency and greater cooperation between the companies and the countries, which will result in better preparedness for future attacks.

“In order for cyberspace to remain open and free, have the same norms, principles and values ​​that the EU has offline, can be applied online. Fundamental rights, democracy, and the laws must be protected in cyberspace. EU is working with its international partners, civil society organizations, and the private sector to promote these rights around the world.” - says vice president of the European Commission, Catherine Ashton.

Dropbox introduced quickly viewing documents and virtual albums

Popular Web storage Dropbox represent news that will facilitate the use and sharing of documents via the cloud. The latest improvement is now is that all pdf, doc, and other documents will be able to view, instead of immediately downloading. Probably soon we will see the support for Excel documents. This option will be available for all users in the coming weeks.

The second improvement is that the photos or Dropbox will now group all the photos of all the folders where you have saved, and will present a gallery with options to post to Facebook, Twitter or send through an email. This option is great with automatic hanging photos of Android and iOS smartphones for easier organizing and creating albums directly to Dropbox which you can share with friends.

These are welcome news from Dropbox which must convince its 100 million users that is better than Box, Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive and other similar web repositories. What interests me is something related to music, taking into account that the last month Dropbox have bought startups Audiogalaxy.

Popular pirate site KickAss Torrents registered in Belgrade dorm

One of the biggest torrent sites around the world, Kick Ass Torrents, is registered on name Miloje Stepanikj, who lives in Belgrade Campus. But there is a student with such a name Toshiniot well written Serbian Telegraf.rs.

The domain is registered on that name and address, but it seems that the creators of the site as an address left only “one of the parts of the campus,” writes Serbian newspaper.

Specified address Toshin Well no. 149 is part of the second block of student complex, but there’s no one like Miloje Stepanovic, nor has such a name is in the records. According to the students of the block that the entire case be understood as a joke, saying that “there is no better place to outsmart тхе administration” because all who live there are kept by the blocks and entrances, and not according to the number of the address.

False name is not surprise because pirate site is accused of causing tens of millions of dollars of damage the film and music industries.

FB is still first, Google+ has surpassed Twiter

According to a report published “Global Web Index”, “Facebook” is still overwhelmingly the most popular social network, but second place is now “Google+” because it was over “Twitter” in terms of number of users.

“Global Web Index” follow 31 countries of the world market, which represents 90 percent of the total number of Internet users. Their results show that 51 percent of Internet users in the world, use “Facebook”. “Google+” is now in second place with 25 percent of users, “Twitter” is third with 21 percent.

When these data will be converted into numbers, this means that “Google+” has 343 million active users and “Twitter” a little less than 300 million. When you take into account the markets to which “Global Web Index” had no access, “Facebook” has more than a billion users. 

“Facebook” grew up in the number of users by 33 percent, “Google+” by 27 percent, and “Twitter” as 40 percent. 
Because of the increasing popularity of global social networks, some local social networks that were once quite popular, such as South Korea’s “Me2Day” or German “StudioViz”, showed a greater loss of active users. 

Growth in the number of active users on global social networks, can be attributed to the applications for mobile devices and operating systems Android and iOS.