Nokia to hold rumored Android smartphone 'Normandy' release in 2014

Last week, we heard Nokia's plans of introducing Android powered smartphone, codenamed as Normandy, and the source stated the project is "Full Stream Ahead".

Today we have reports from a Chinese webpage, reporting that the Finnish company is still ahead with the plans of Asha smartphones, but the Android project seems to thinner. They had been working on several number of Android smartphone prototypes in it's internals, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 running seven-inches tablet. The team and the project was reportedly led by Peter Skillman, who was the former Vice President of Nokia's MeeGo Ux and Services and Design.

Accordingly, Nokia will not be able to sell Nokia branded devices for the next two years, as a part of it's acquisition to the Redmond company. And now, the company has suspended it's plans with the reported Android smartphones and tablets program. As we read on, the source have also stated that the company suspended their Android plans without any direct words from Microsoft. Nevertheless, these works were done from a separate division, that isn't coming under the Microsoft deal.

What news makes an entry today, is that the company is focusing on new technology, like the wireless power transmission, low power electromagnetic energy generation, flexible displays, graphene sensors and the latest trend of wearable technology, probably a smartglass, which is in the Finnish company's production line, that is to make it's way to the public by 2015. Either way, we keep our hopes flame high for Nokia, to hit back strong in the emerging markets.

Source: ctechcn.com, unwiredview.com

Shortcut Keys of MS Excel/ Microsoft Office tricks.

F2 : Edit the selected cell.
F5: Go to a specific cell .
F7: Spell check selected text and /or document.
F11: Create Chart
Ctrl+Shift+; : Enter the current time.
Ctrl+; :Enter the current date.
Alt+shift+F1: Insert new worksheet.
Shift+F3: Open the excel formula window.
Shift+F5: Bring up search box.
Ctrl+A: select all contents of the worksheet.
Ctrl+B: Bold highlighted Selection.
Ctrl+I : Italic highlighted Selection.
Ctrl+K: Insert link.
Ctrl+U: Underline highlighted  selection.
Ctrl+5: Strike through highlighted selection.
Ctrl+P: Bring up the print dialogue box to bring printing.
Ctrl+Z: Undo last action.
Ctrl+F9: Minimize current window.
Ctrl+F10: Maximize current window.
Ctrl+F6: Switch between open work books/windows.
Ctrl+Page down: Move between Excel worksheets in the same excel document.
Ctrl+Tab: move between two or more excel files.
Alt+=: Create a formula to sum all of the above cells.
Ctrl+'  : Insert the value of the above cell into the cell currently selected.
Ctrl+shift+! : Format number in comma format.
Ctrl+Shift+$ : Format number in currency format.
Ctrl+Shift+# : Format number in date format.
Crtl+Shift+% : Format number in percentage format.
Crtl+Shift+^ : Format number in scientific format.
Crtl+Shift+@ : Format number in time format.
Crtr+Arrow key : move to next section.
Ctrl+Space: Select the entire colum.
Shift +Space : Select entire row.

Microsoft trades off with a 383-inches Surface 2 tablet in London

Every company in the business have different kinds of tricks to attract customers to their products, do the American multinational software corporation Microsoft too. 

So in order to celebrate the launch of it's two new devices, the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, yesterday the Washington based company has introduced a semi-functional gigantic 27ft wide and 17ft tall Surface 2 tablet in Trafalgar Square, London.

The new tablet comes to the town along with the the famous English Rapper from United Kingdom, the Dizzee Rascal, to mock-up this huge piece of creation. The unit basically consists of a 383-inches screen when measured it diagonally, a Touch Cover Keyboard, where you will probably need to jump on each keys to type in letters. The company also appointed a few Microsoft personnel to help you in demonstrating this giant structure. So If you stay around the Trafalgar Square Central in London, then do check this big boy set-up in your town.

Source: The Next Web, phoneArena.com, Pocketnow

Review: Microsoft Surface2 and Surface pro 2 launch and Price !! 2013

Microsoft as come up with two new launch on its surface tablets its Microsoft surface 2 and surface pro 2!!
it has come up with new latest and best updates to overcome the last defaults  with improved processing power and battery life. It is compact with windows 8.1 system, the popular Outlook program and a whopping 100,000 applications, up from the 10,000 in the previous version.Surface 2 is available in 32GB and 64GB configuration, where as  Surface pro is 64GB and 128GB configurations with 4 GB of RAM and 256GB and 512GB

Features of Surface 2:

It is best for personal usage  and offers gaming ans entertainment.
It has NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor, making apps run faster and smoother and increasing battery life to up to 10 hours for video playback.
It has USB 3.0 for up to four times faster file transfers.
It has 10.6" Clear-type Full HD display .
It has 3.5-megapixel front camera and 5-megapixel rear camera.

 Price tag:

Price of Surface 2 will start at $449 .



Surface Pro 2:

It the one of the best tablet which you can replace it through your laptop  , it allows you to run  all windows software including MS Office suite, you can also  access apps from windows store, it is compact with 4th generation Intel Core i5 processor . it helps to perform your task fast and  as a 75% longer battery life  than the earlier one.

Price tag !

 It's price is around at $899 !
 
Note: It is still not cleared that when it'll be launched on India!!!

Reports of Microsoft working on Surface phone

As heard previously, the Finnish Mobile manufacturer Nokia was working on an Android unit, where Microsoft was busy experimenting a Surface based smartphone.

It was reported that, Microsoft was producing a number of Surface based smartphone prototypes. Also, according to the sources, Terry Myerson, Head of Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox Operating Systems was in charge of this Surface phone secret project. As suggestions arrive, Microsoft created these prototypes just in case whether Nokia will switch to Google's platform, as the Finnish was reportedly testing out Android for their devices or back off the deal with the company. 

But the software company reportedly pushed back from their plans entering the smartphones industry, as the Finnish, Nokia has already dominated the Windows Phone market, which is now owned by Microsoft.

Source: THE VERGE, phone Arena

Rumors of Microsoft getting a Dock Station soon for their upcoming Windows Surface tablets

And now for some Windows session, we have rumors of Microsoft introducing a Dock Station for their upcoming Windows Surface tablets, later this fall.

According to the sources, Microsoft is in plans to introduce a docking station for their Surface tablet line-up, where it is heard that this new upcoming accessory can only be compatible with Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2, but not with a Surface 2 or Surface RT. The dock consists of a mini display port for video out-put, as well as three Universal Serial Bus ports 2.0 on the sides and one 3.0 port on the back side, microphone/headphones port for audio in and out and a one gigabyte Ethernet port for further connectivity.

And now according to the design reports, the dock is rumored to be quite large in size, where the tablets slides in at an angle, with a couple of arms on the either side of the dock, which is then pulled to release the tablets from the dock.

We still have no reports on the exact availability, we have sources claiming that this accessory will be shipped alongside the new Windows Surface Pro 2 tablet, later in this fall in United States. No word on the pricing yet.

Source: WinSuperSite

Microsoft buys Nokia devices and it's related service businesses

There was a time when the Finnish Mobile manufacturer, Nokia ruled the glory of days with 110 Billion Euro in the Market, but these days have left long back.

Today, we hear it with a bit of surprise that, the American multinational software corporation, Microsoft buys the company with it's service business, license of patents and mapping services for a shockingly low price as 5.5 Billion Euros.

Even though the company had finally came back to the game with their Lumia line-up of Windows Phone devices like the 520 from the last Spring, which had literately brought back the company in business. The Lumia 520 and its sibling devices like the 620, 720, 920, 925, 928 has gained a substantial momentum in North America by T-Mobile and AT&T carriers and in South East-Asia. The Asha line-up of devices had also gained a surprisingly high profit in the year of 2012, but after an year, the budget-priced Android phones had took the market away from Nokia in Asia and Africa.

Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop had decided to work with Microsoft and quit all other operating systems from the company, where the company sold about 25 Million devices per quarter, back in 2011. And today, Elop has decided to sell of the Finnish company to the American software corporation, Microsoft for a noticeably low price.

Source: Forbes

Microsoft Said:Hack Us And Get $100,000 Award

Friend's i think you all know that Window 8.1 which is the enhanced version of Window 8 is launched on 27 June 2013.And Window 8.1 is coming with some great features which is not in the Window 8.Like start button in homepage etc.

When an operating system is launched,The company first check its vulnerabilities.

Now Microsoft wants white hats and blue hats to find out the vulnerabilities. Qualifying submissions and accompanying defensive ideas will also grant the blue hat bonus worth up-to 50,000 $ also those who will point out the critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer present in Windows 8.1 update will be awarded 11,000 $ .

So this is the great announcement i see in the official blog of Microsoft.

SEE ALSO:

• Window 8 Enterprise Evaluation Free Download And guide To Install
• Window 8 Shortcut Keys

Microsoft Reveals Price Of Surface RT Tablets

On 16th October, Microsoft released pricing of its Surface tablets. According to this pricing report of Microsoft for its much talk about Surface tablets, 32GB Surface with Windows RT will be available at $499. Another 32GB version of the Surface with Windows RT which will come with an additional black Touch Cover will cost  $599 only, and a 64GB version of Surface with Windows RT having a black Touch Cover will be available at $699. These tablets will be available in the market in few days. Now you can also pre-order any of the Surface tablet starting at $499 from Microsoft's official website.

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Microsoft's Surface Tablet: Images and First Impression

The numero-uno tech conglomerate Microsoft took veils off two high quality tablets a few days ago. The tablets will appear on the retail shelves as Surface for Windows RT and Surface for Windows Pro. With the announcement of the surface series the market is brimming with the speculation that Microsoft has some concrete intentions of giving the tablet king Apple a fair run for the money. Let’s find out whether these tablets are really that good or it is all mere marketing hue and cry.

I want to clarify that the Surface for Windows RT is going to be the tab, which will function with Nvidia’s ARM devices inside and the other tab, the Surface for Windows Pro will do the same with Intel products.

Surface for Windows RT will be 9.3mm in thickness and will weigh around 676g whereas the other tab will be a little thicker and little heavier at 13.3mm and 903g. Both the tablets will be having a 10.6 inch screen, which will be Clear type HD display one.

The Surface RT will be hitting the market with two memory avatars: 32GB and 64 GB, whereas the Surface for Windows Pro will appear with 64GB and 128 GB versions. Surface RT will sport a USB 2.0 connectivity while the Pro will don USB 3.0.

Both of them will be able to stand on their own with the help of the kickstand that the makers have given them. At the present moment there is no info available about the processor specifications of either of the tablets. The fact about the tabs being able to run the full desktop version of the Windows 8 OS is still in ambiguity.

Though the full spec sheet is not in the day light but what appears from the first few glances, it seems to be a liable case for a global market super hit. Let us keep our fingers crossed and wait for the fall to come.  

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Microsoft has unveiled Surface tablet

Hello friends,

Microsoft has unveiled Surface, a tablet computer to compete with Apple’s iPad.

CEO Steve Ballmer was on hand to announce the new tablet, calling it part of a “whole new family of devices” the company is developing.

One version of the device, which won’t go on sale until sometime in the fall, is about 9.3 millimetres thick and works on the Windows RT operating system. It comes with a kickstand to hold it upright and a touch keyboard cover that snaps on using magnets. The device weighs under 680 grams and will cost about as much as other tablet computers. Its debut is set to coincide with the upcoming fall release of Microsoft’s much-anticipated Windows 8 operating system.

Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows division, called the device a “tablet that’s a great PC PC that’s a great tablet.”

Features:

A slightly thicker version, less than 14 millimetres thick and under 910 grams, will work on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 Pro operating system and cost as much as an Ultrabook, the company said. The pro version comes with a stylus that allows users to make handwritten notes on documents such as PDF files.

Each tablet comes with a keyboard cover that is just 3 millimetres thick. The kickstand for both tablets was just 0.7 millimetres thick, slimmer than a credit card.

Microsoft has been making software for tablets since 2002, when it shipped the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Many big PC makers produced tablets that ran the software, but they were never big sellers. The tablets were based on PC technology, and were heavy, with short battery lives.

Microsoft didn’t say how long the Surface would last on battery power.