Google Glass smart glasses learn to recognize gestures not only fingers, but the head and the eyes. For example, to create a photo it will be enough just to blink, and to reduce its scale - take on behalf of two fingers. A nod of the head or tilting glasses immerse into "sleep" mode.

Geeksphone company began selling smartphones with the operating system Firefox OS. The simplest model of the device Keon is available for $ 119. The smartphone features a 3.5-inch HVGA-screen, gigahertz chip Snapdragon S1, 3-megapixel camera, 512 MB ​​of "RAM" and 4 gigabytes of internal memory.

Fast-growing Google Play store on the number of downloads has surpassed the "Apple" App Store, although revenue is still less. For the period from January to March every existing app stores earned $ 2.2 billion, of which Apple - 74% (1.48 billion) and Google - 18%.

In the App Store recently, a new service Just.me, combines the functions of the contact book, instant messenger and social networking. The new application will probably become the most prominent project in the field of "social messendzhinga." The project is funded by companies such as Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel and others.

The new project Selfness Portraits of Artists Ivan Cash, Jeff Grinspera and designer Luis Pena allows users to get a portrait within 48 hours. Used for the portrait photo of Facebook. But not everything is so simple, in order to get your portrait, you will first need to draw someone to himself.

Looking at the smartphone Xperia Z, which is popular for its elegant design and resistance to moisture, Samsung will release a version of the flagship Galaxy S IV, protected from dust and moisture. This smart phone has the same protected and HTC - Model Butterfly. It is necessary to believe that the new product will be a bit more expensive than the "defenseless" predecessor.

At a charity auction site CharityBuzz appeared unusual lot - right to have a cup of coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook. At the moment, the highest rate - 175 thousand dollars - has made a Ross Tandet. There is still time before Tuesday, May 14. All money from the auction money will go to the Centre for Human Rights, the Robert F. Kennedy.

Recently, a report on the speed of Internet access in different countries of the world, which provided web content Akamai Technologies. Above average speed is traditionally in South Korea and Japan, but in Russia it is reduced. The average speed around the world at the end of 2012 amounted to 2.9 Mbit / s, this is 25% higher compared with 2011.

The company has launched a new service BitTorrent Sync synchronization and encryption of files between different devices using the p2p-protocol. Unlike similar services Sync keeps the information locally, instead of sending it to remote servers. Also in Sync no limitation in terms of transmitted files.

A startup Wavii, who the day before Google acquired for $ 30 million, of the same name created news "reading room" for iOS-devices. At such a purchase Google decided after Yahoo acquired mobile news aggregator Summly. This program also compresses the news and presents them in a convenient readable form.