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Facebook launches 3 new Open-Source tools for Android developer

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Popular social-networking site
Facebook has launched three new open source tools for Android developers namely
Year Class, Network Connection Class and Fresco.</div>
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The Year Class is aimed to help
developers quickly figure out what kind of device a user is running. With this,
a developer can quickly tune an app for an older device by turning on some
advanced animations, or enable fancier features for more modern
phones. </div>
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For the most part of its
operations, the tools use CPU speed as well as the number of available cores
and RAM to determine the "year class" of a given device.</div>
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The Network Connection Class has
a similar task like the Year Class but here it deals with the network
connections. Using this new tool, developers can get a better idea of the kind
of speeds their users are getting on their networks and tune their apps
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The third tool, Fresco, is a new
image library for Android apps. It is aimed to ensure that apps don't run out
of memory when they load multiple images by being smarter about memory
management and streaming images when possible.</div>
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The system also handles basic
functions like displaying placeholders and image caching. </div>
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Facebook launches 3 new Open-Source tools for Android developer

Popular social-networking site Facebook has launched three new open source tools for Android developers namely Ye...

Facebook makes e-commerce ambitions clear with TheFind acquisition

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Social networking giant Facebook embraced e-commerce after it 
acquired shopping search engine 'TheFind,' signalling its aspirations in
 two of the internet's biggest money-makers: search and e-commerce.<br />
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Both
 Facebook and TheFind cast the acquisition as a way to lift the digital 
advertising business of Facebook, which with $12.6 billion in annual ad 
sales last year, is unquestionably a dominant player in the industry.<br />
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"Together,
 we believe we can make the Facebook ads experience even more relevant 
and better for consumers," Facebook said in a statement about the deal. 
TheFind echoed those comments, saying its technology would be integrated
 into Facebook "to make the ads you see on Facebook every day better and
 more relevant to you."<br />
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In its webpost, TheFind said many of its 
employees would be joining Facebook and work on improving the relevance 
of the social network's advertising. TheFind added that its search 
engine will go offline "in the next few weeks."<br />
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Facebook has been 
testing a 'buy' button since July 2014 that lets users purchase goods 
directly. Now, with TheFind, it would be able to add additional shopping
 tools to its service.<br />
Facebook did not reveal details of the 
acquisition, including how much it paid for the company. TheFind was 
co-founded in 2006 by CEO Siva Kumar and CTO Shashikant Khandelwal, both
 native Indians.<br />
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TheFind previously raised $26 million in three investment rounds, but had not received an influx of cash since 2007.<br />
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Facebook is helpful in long-distance relationships: Study

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If you are in a long-distance romantic relationship, using Facebook 
to get in touch helps to a great extent but the same is not true if your
 significant other lives in the same area or city, finds a new study. <br />
"Social
 network sites are used more frequently by those in long-distance 
relationships," said Brenda K. Wiederhold from the Interactive Media 
Institute, San Diego, California, and the Virtual Reality Medical 
Institute, Brussels, Belgium.<br />
"As long-distance relationships 
become more common, and continue to succeed, it becomes increasingly 
valuable to understand the role that technology plays in strengthening 
or damaging a romantic relationship," she explained.<br />
The findings 
showed that social networking sites such as Facebook play an important 
role in maintaining relationships when individuals are involved in a 
geographically long-distance romantic relationship.<br />
For the study,
 co-authors Cherrie Joy Billedo, Peter Kerkhof, and Catrin Finkenauer 
from the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the University of
 the Philippines, described differences in the intensity of use and the 
types of uses of social network sites between the close-by verses 
long-distance relationship groups.<br />
They reported how the use of 
social networking sites allows individuals to access information about 
their romantic partners, and monitor their activities.<br />
"This can 
be used to gauge a partner's involvement in the relationship and 
loyalty, with potentially positive or detrimental effects," the authors 
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The study was published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking.</div>
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Facebook is helpful in long-distance relationships: Study

If you are in a long-distance romantic relationship, using Facebook to get in touch helps to a gre...

Mittal to Zuckerberg: Want to free Internet? Do philanthropy

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<span class="storycentimg" style="border: 0px solid #d7d7d7; float: left; margin: 2px 15px 2px 0px; width: 650px;"><span style="width: 650px;"><img align="left" alt="" border="0" hspace="0" src="http://media2.intoday.in/indiatoday/images/stories//2015March/zuckerberg-mittal_650_030815060951.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d7d7d7; margin: 2px 0px;" title="" valign="top" vspace="0" /></span><span class="mos-caption" style="text-align: center; width: 650px;" valign="bottom">Mark Zuckerberg and Sunil Mittal</span></span><br />
Taking
 on social networking giant Facebook's ambitious 'free internet' plans, 
telecom major Bharti Airtel chief Sunil Mittal has said the companies 
should do 'philanthropy' if they stop charging for mobile internet.<br />
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Facebook
 has launched an 'internet.org' initiative under which users can access 
internet free of charge for select websites if they come through a 
partner telecom operator, reported PTI.<br />
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Incidentally, Airtel 
Africa is one such partner for Facebook, while rival Reliance 
Communications has partnered Facebook in India for this initiative, 
which is based on assumption that bringing more people to the internet 
fold by offering them free service initially is good for the industry.<br />
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Mittal,
 who met Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg here at the Mobile 
World Congress, said that the social networking major is right in its 
thinking that such a would expand the market, but telecom operators also
 need to get their revenues and charge for the services.<br />
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"I told 
him (Zuckerberg) that you are right that this (internet.org) expands the
 market. At the end, you must understand that we (telecom operators) 
need to charge you for something. SMSes have gone more or less, voice is
 going down and they (Facebook) recognise that," Mittal said in a media 
interaction here.<br />
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"If you are going to make the data free, then 
let's do completely philanthropic projects. Government must make 
spectrum free, there should be free network, but it is not happening," 
the billionaire industrialist said, while adding that telecom companies 
were as such not making large money.<br />
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The comments, incidentally, 
come at a time when a high-pitched auction is underway in India for 
spectrum and committed bids worth about <span class="rupee">R<span>s.</span></span>86,000 crore have come in within first four days of bidding -- crossing the minimum targetted amount of <span class="rupee">R<span>s.</span></span>82,000
 crore. The auction will resume tomorrow, as more unsold spectrum is 
left and there are expectations that the overall auction may cross <span class="rupee">R<span>s.</span></span>one lakh crore.<br />
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Telecom
 companies say they invest billions of dollars in spectrum, network and 
other operations, but they argue that internet-based entities offering 
pseudo-telecom services are piggy-backing on the mobile operators' 
networks without bearing much investments on their own.<br />
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At the 
same event here, UK-based telecom giant Vodafone's global CEO Vittorio 
Colao reportedly said about Facebook's free-of-cost internet plan that 
"it is almost like Zuckerberg does philanthropy, but with my money."<br />
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Mittal
 cautioned that investments in mobile networks by industry will go down 
as Internet-based messaging and calling services are 'cannibalising' 
revenues of telecom firms.<br />
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"He (Zuckerberg) is saying that make 
Internet.org lite version of Facebook free of data charge, so that 
people will upgrade. People will come to internet for the first time. 
The point is that it is self-serving for them," Mittal said.<br />
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Telecom
 operators have been facing pressure on their financials from the 
emergence of a number of Over-The-Top (OTT) firms like Facebook (through
 its WhatsApp messaging service), Skype and Viber, which on their part 
claim to be helping telecom operators grow business.<br />
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"We (telecom 
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operators, social media and over-the-top players) are good for each 
other but they, regulators and politicians must understand that 
networks' investment must be on reasonable terms. Gone are the days when
 telecom companies were making large amounts of money," Mittal said.<br />
"OTT
 players must understand pains of the mobile industry. Sometimes we are 
seeing as gatekeeper, bad guys. The fact of matter is spectrum - there 
is cost, network there is cost and tariff has gone up by only 3 paise in
 last three years," he added.<br />
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In December, Airtel had announced 
separate charges for Internet based calling services but withdrew it 
after an outcry on social media.<br />
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"The rate that we announced was 
exactly the same rate as a voice call. If you do one minute VoIP 
(internet based calls) in kilobyte terms it would be exactly the same as
 voice call. <br /><br />
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It was exactly the same as one minute call," Mittal said.</div>
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