In India Access to Google + Free Internet

NEW DELHI - Google's got a unique and interesting strategy to lure Internet users to use layananan social networking, Google +. The software giant unveiled a deal that allows users of Google + in India get free internet access service via WiFi.

The company has worked with O-Zone to provide free WiFi service for Internet users who have Google accounts + and some

This offer will be valid for three months, which allows unlimited access to Google + and 10 free minutes to a sharing site YouTube per week. But any other site can only be accessed by mambayar per minute.

Launched by The Next Web, Wednesday (11/01/2012), o-Zone currently has over 5,000 Wi-Fi access points across India, which includes coverage in leading outlets such as Coffee, McDonalds, Café Oz, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf , Costa Coffee, Subway and OM Bookstore, where free access can be enjoyed.

Google, of course, use the deal to promote its services in India. O-Zone CEO Sanjeev Sarin believes that this initiative will help promote the use of WiFi, which he believes could be an alternative to 3G in the country of India.

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Facebook Ads now appear in your News Feed

CALIFORNIA - Facebook Ads, which is known as 'sponsored stories' have started to appear on the user's news feed, so that these services can be a commercial activity.

Quoted from the Telegraph, Friday (13/01/2012), users can now view the ad, which appeared in the form of 'stories' or post about a product on the news feed. Marketers can create ads ads only appear on the news feed, if the user has clicked 'like' in her yard.

Previously, 'sponsored stories' Facebook has upset some users. As a result, Facebook is facing a lawsuit by a group of users who do not like their profiles used in advertising.

As a follow up of these cases, in Sans Francisco federal court has allowed a group of Facebook users, to continue the lawsuit. They accuse the social networking utilizing their preferences on the site, for commercial gain without permission.

Meanwhile, Facebook introduced the news feed ad insertion gradually is also an effort to avoid a reaction to the user. The reaction is typically arise when users of social networking is introducing a new feature, which involves a commercial site.

A spokesman for Facebook said, "We have started slowly bring it (sponsored stories) in the News Feed. Sponsored stories this respect user's privacy settings and people will only see it when it was linked to a page. "

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Receive Email in Foreign Calculated Overtime Hours

SAO PAOLO - The workers in Brazil are now actually able to get quality time after the end of their working hours. The reason, governments in these countries are now implementing the requirements of new regulations related to the issue of overtime. According to the rule, workers who receive and answer emails After their working hours, including overtime now.

The new rules approved by the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff last month. He said the company that sends e-mail to employees equivalent to the command given directly to employees.

According to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) Brazil has a population of 195 million people, but the number of mobile subscribers exceeded 210.5 million in August last year.

Launched by Stuff, Friday (13/01/2012), a lawyer of workers' representatives told the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, the new law allows workers to answer email after hours to ask for overtime pay.

This is not the first problem. In May, Chicago police officers Jeffrey Allen filed a class action lawsuit against the city, asking for unpaid overtime compensation, because he got an email job outside working hours.

In December, the German carmaker Volkswagen agreed with labor representatives to disable the BlackBerry email after work was over. The move comes after the IT firm Atos announced plans to eliminate the company's internal email in 2013.

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Facebook Users Predicted to Reach 1 Billion in August

CALIFORNIA - Facebook set to become the most dominant social networking site in the world, with the number of visitors reaches one billion members. And the numbers are going to happen in the not long anymore.

From the latest data released by Facebook in September, the site claims to have 800 million users hingaa users. So it is not surprising that it took that long no longer make a 1 billion to fulfill member account.

According to Gregory Lyons, a senior analyst at iCrossing, Facebook will reach a milestone with the achievement of a mylar accounts in the month of August. So that was launched via Mashable, Friday (01/13/2012).

Lyons acknowledges that the growth of Facebook in the United States (U.S.) and the UK have slowed down or even stagnate, but he expects India and Brazil, among other countries, would take a pretty significant growth.

"Both these countries have the prospect of millions of potential users who have not signed up to Facebook," he wrote in a blog.
"With only 3 percent of the population of India on Facebook and 16 percent of Brazil (compared with 49 percent of the U.S. population or 47 per cent of the UK population) countries like this will obviously make a major contribution to the continued growth of Facebook," he added.

For comparison, Twitter now claims about 100 million active users, LinkedIn has 130 + million members and Google has about 49 million total visits in December. These researchers also predict Google + will have 400 million users by the end of this year.

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