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Microsoft announces Office 2013, Preview now available for download

July 17
by Harcharan singh 17. July 2012 18:25

Microsoft announces Office 2013, Preview now available for download

Microsoft has declared its newest version of their office suite of application; Office 2013, or as they call it, the new Office. The new Office comes with:
• A host of new improvements
• Changes to the UI as well as under the hood.
The most noticeable change is the new set of icons for all the apps within the suite. Just like the Windows 8 icon, Office icons features:
• A monochrome icon with a tilted perspective.
• The user interface of the applications has also been slightly modified to fit into the new Metro UI
However, the application isn’t designed entirely with the Metro UI as it will be running within the desktop mode in Windows 8.
This new apps is a concoction of the old and new UI , hints of the Metro UI can be seen in some cases . In others, you will see the same old Office design that you find on the current Office 2010, including the cluttered ribbon on top.
Since it is designed to work with touch screen displays , most of the buttons in the UI still look like they are designed for a keyboard and mouse, and the early previews mention the same.
In addition it includes stylus support for scribbling on the screen, integrated SkyDrive, Skype and Yammer support, and a lot more.
The new Office will be launched in fall and come in three versions for Windows and OS X. Each version will include the basic apps like : Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher and Access.

Office 365 Home Premium that includes :
• 20GB SkyDrive storage and
• 60 minutes of Skype world minutes per month
Office 365 Small Business Premium includes :
• Business-grade email,
• shared calendars,
• Website tools and
• HD web conferencing
Office 365 ProPlus with
• Advanced business capabilities
• Flexibility to deploy and manage in the cloud

The new Office will be available as a cloud-based subscription service and a subscriber will get the a aforementioned extras along with multiple installations for multiple users and devices. Devices running Windows RT will have the new Office pre-installed. It is supported only on Windows 7 and 8 and support for Vista and XP being dropped in this version.

Source : Blog.gsmarena

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Videocon launches a full touch phone

July 17
by Jashan 17. July 2012 17:25

Videocon launches a full touch phone

Videocon Mobiles has unveiled a new dual SIM touch screen phone V1570. The latest handset Videocon V1570 has some games like Push Box, Angry Bird and Tom Cat. As an opening offer, the phone comes with a free 4 GB micro SD card, which will have 20 latest full-length Bollywood films, 20 videos and 20 music tracks pre-loaded. The V1570 is priced at just Rs 2,800.

Device Specification :

• 3 inch touch screen
• 240x320 pixel resolution
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• Juke-box application
• MP4/3GP/KMV video player
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Nimbuzz
• Yahoo applications
• 1200 mAH battery
• 8GB memory
• FM radio
• 4 GB micro SD card
• USB Port
• Bluetooth
• SMS black list
• mobile tracker application

Source : Themobileindian

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Skype confirms bug caused message delivery mix-up

July 17
by Munish 17. July 2012 16:25

Skype confirms bug caused message delivery mix-up

Skype ,online calling and text based chat service provider accepted that a bug in the Skype service that allowed messages to be delivered to unintended contacts. Issue was came into picture only when some  bloggers and forums reported the same. A bug in the application caused messages to be delivered to wrong contacts in Skype. Skype is working on the same and has promised the users to fix the bug in the coming few days.
Skype reported that only a "small number of users" are affected and referred this issue as a "rare occurrence". However Skype is getting into details about what caused it or exactly how many people were affected due to this bug . Skype has plans to notify users once the update is available.
The problem starts when the application crashes while being in use. It allows the message being sent to be delivered to an unintended user or contacts on Skype moment the user restarts the application .
Users should restrain opening multiple chat windows with the application as it might lead the application to crash. The patch up for this bug has been promised in the days to come and we hope everything will be back soon to normal.

Source : Themobileindian

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Apple to offer iCloud email domain with iOS 6

July 17
by jasmeet 17. July 2012 15:25

Apple to offer iCloud email domain with iOS 6

According to the latest reports Apple is all set to offer the iCloud.com domain name bearing email address with the iOS 6 update. Apple has updated its cloud storage service - iCloud.com and along with new features, the company will now offer the new @iCloud.com email domain to the existing and new iCloud registrants. Since the Me.com is being phased out, the @ me.com email addresses will be converted to @ icloud.com.. It has been noted by MacRumors that the Mail app in the upcoming iOS 6 update will support iCloud email addresses by default.
Till now Apple has changed its online services at least three times and the iCloud.com is the fourth iteration. First one is iTools, the online services then changed to .Mac and then me.com service. At last Apple declared the new iCloud.com service for taking backup, storing files and other purposes.
The iOS 6 beta 3 has been pushed to developers and the existing users will get the @iCloud.com domain name support. Also the new folks who register with Apple ID will get the @iCloud.com email and username whenever the iOS 6 is released.
Apple still has not given any information about the  old @Mac.com and @ me.com email address holders and users. Whether  those emails will redirected to the new @ icloud.com or not remains a question. We assume that the old accounts too will be taken care by Apple and it will continue to support the older domain in order to ensure proper delivery of the messages and smoother operations for its loyal users.

Source : Themobileindian

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Motorola Xoom tabs to get Android Jelly Bean soon

July 17
by kashyap 17. July 2012 14:25

Motorola Xoom tabs to get Android Jelly Bean soon

Google is going to launch the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Motorola Xoom tablet . Existing owners of Motorola Xoom WiFi tablet are getting emails from the Motorola forum administrators regarding the test build of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update. According to Android Central about the email sent out the Xoom WiFi owners and also speculated that the 'soak test' aka software for the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update. Motorola is all set to start beta testing very soon of the Android 4.1 and Jelly Bean update for the Motorola Xoom tablet before the official update for its devices. Motorola generally clings to a soak test, a software beta test within closed group of selected users. The Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Xoom Wi-Fi tablets comes without customizations and will be a vanilla build.

Motorola Feedback Network  members are only those who are preferred for the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean beta build testing and for feedback on the usage experience. Keeping  in mind the general  three to five week period, the Motorola Xoom WiFi owners can expect the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean richness on their tablet.Android 3.x Honeycomb or Android 4.0 ICS running tablets are fit for the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update. Motorola Xoom is getting the Android 4.1 Ice Cream Sandwich update meanwhile the other Android based tablets are still getting the Android 4.0 ICS update. It is expected that this update will take at least couple of weeks before finally being pushed out for public.

Source : Themobileindian

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