[News] Nokia phones to get Microsoft Office

[i]Long time rivals in the mobile phone arena Nokia and Microsoft have agreed on a partnership that might result in Microsoft's Office applications appearing on Nokia phones.[/i]


The agreement, which is yet to be officially announced comes as Microsoft sees its dominance being increasingly challenged by competition like Google Docs that allow web-based office application access. With phones getting better and more "web-friendly", users are using their phones to view, edit and transfer official documents, spreadsheets and presentations, right from their phones. So, it was only a matter of time when Microsoft had to partner with Nokia, arguably the worlds largest manufacturer of mobile phones.


On the flip side, Nokia too is facing the heat from newer rivals and software platforms like the iPhone and more recently, Google's very own Android platform. Interestingly, Microsoft and Nokia too compete with each other, albeit indirectly if you add in Windows Mobile, Microsoft's smartphone OS platform to the list of competing mobile OSes. For the same reason, it is widely expected that this co-operation will only exist for MS Office access on Nokia phones and nothing beyond that.

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In india many of them would be using nokia... and that's a great intiative if this thing happens. Coz it would help many people to do their work through their nokia cell.

Many of them would be using pdf reader and some open office's software in their nokia. But after this thing actually happen, it would help to read, write and edit .doc, .docx file on your cell. Now that's some thing interesting [:D]

[news]Twitter and Facebook flooded

Twitter and Facebook flooded with alien theories about Google UFO logo

Twitter, Facebook and the worldwide blogosphere have been flooded with alien conspiracy theories about the new Google UFO logo.

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[news]Twitter 'can complement SEO activity'

Microblogging website Twitter can be used as a search engine optimisation (SEO) tool, but should not be used by internet businesses as a main source of directing web traffic.

That is the opinion of CatchFriday.com's Lawrence Perry, who suggested via Official Wire that Twitter can complement overall SEO practices and can be regarded as an "additional channel" for reaching a target audience.

Explaining things further, Mr Perry said: "Because tweets are not indexed by Google they don't really drive a lot of traffic to your site. You should not use Twitter as a main SEO tool."

He added that Twitter should not be used solely as a money-making online marketing device either, suggesting that it has public relations and branding benefits for companies too.

Internet research firm Hitwise recently revealed that Twitter has become the 27th most popular website in Britain.

The portal, which is used by celebrities who like blogging their thoughts on the web such as Stephen Fry and Britney Spears, is now more popular than social networking site MySpace in the UK.

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[news]Phones of princes 'hacked into'

"There is evidence the phones of Princes William and Harry were hacked into by a News of the World reporter, a senior Metropolitan Police officer has said."

Royal reporter Clive Goodman was jailed for four months in 2007 for plotting to hack into royal aides' voicemails.

Ch Supt Philip Williams told the Commons Culture Committee the princes may also have been personally targeted.

The newspaper said it knew of "no evidence" to back the claims and that police had not mentioned them earlier.

The police had not brought up the allegations during their original investigation, a News of the World spokesman said.

In his evidence to MPs, Mr Williams acknowledged that the police had "never been able to prove" their suspicions regarding the two princes' phones.

But pressed about whether they had solid reasons to suspect the princes' personal phones had been hacked into, he replied: "Yes".

"Their voicemails may well have been intercepted," he said.

He was being quizzed, alongside Assistant Commissioner John Yates, on why police had decided not to reopen their investigation into the phone hacking scandal, after a series of stories in the Guardian in July this year reignited interest in it.

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[news]Not enough Facebook friends? Buy them

Who says you can't buy friends? An Australian online marketing company is selling friends and fans to Facebook members after offering a similar service to Twitter users.
Advertising, marketing and promoting company uSocial (usocial.net) said it was targeting social networking sites because of their huge advertising potential.

"Facebook is an extremely effective marketing tool," Leon Hill, uSocial CEO, said in a statement.

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Note: Similar things happen with twitter some times ago and it was also in news for some times that the companies are also using twitter for their marketing and promotion and for that also they used to buy followers.

[news]Firefox extension unmasked as a spy

Malware disguised as a Flash Player installed a Firefox add-on that ausforscht including searches on Google.

Most of the attacks on the Web rather aim at Internet Explorer users who are still in the majority. The runners-up follows the rankings of popular browser Firefox. So it is not surprising, though Firefox users will be target of malware attacks. Sun has turned up in web forums is a Trojan horse posing as a "Adobe Flash Player 0.2" and a more than curious Firefox extension installed.

This add-on inserts banner ads into Google's search results if the user uses the search engine. In addition, the pest is the online activities of the user's monitor, where they are made with Firefox. The data collected is sent to the add-on to a web server that is under the control of the attacker.

The security specialist Trend Micro announced the discovery of this pest in its malware blog. The virus scanner from Trend Micro detect these spyware as "TSPY_EBOD.A. Internet users should download software and updates only from sites you trust - preferably from the manufacturer, warns security specialist.

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[news]20MHz auction to bring WiMAX to 150 cities

Around 150 cities in India would have wireless broadband through WiMAX in just 90 days once the 20MHz spectrum is allotted at the base reserve price of Rs.1010 crore ($250 million) to four operators in each circle. Each operator could serve 1.5 to 2 crore subscribers with good quality service but much would depend upon early implementation of the proposed auction of the spectrum.This perspective emerged at the WiMAX India 2009 conference organised by Bharat Exhibitions. "India is ready for broadband experience" said C. S. Rao, chairman of WiMAX Forum India. "Wireless is the key to broadband," he said recalling the projection in the president's address to parliament setting 10 crore subscriber target for broadband by 2014 and 2 crore by 2012. The fact that India has a social demographics of over 60 crore young people underlined the need for rapid roll out of broadband in the country, Rao pointed out.

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MS Office 2010 Beta 1 Build Images Leak

New Back Stage view looks neat and Upload Center may take documents onlineE-Mail Print Oops, they did it again! Folks over at WZOR.net have showed up screenshots of Microsoft Office 2010 build 4417 which is the beta 1 build of the suite. Screenshots leak of upcoming Microsoft products has become a norm now. The new beta 1 build of Office 2010 suite brings better Back Stage view and Upload Center to take documents online. The Back Stage view is where information about the respective document is displayed in detail like that in the Office 2007. Document properties, version, statistics protection and other features are available in the Back Stage view. New Upload Center probably takes desktop's Office 2010 documents to Office live interface in order to enable accessing it from anywhere. Of course, there would be loads of other known-unknown bug fixes.
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[NEWS] Snow Leopard Could Debut in August

Apple has wrapped up work on Snow Leopard, the Mac OS X operating system upgrade, and may release it earlier than expected, according to numerous reports on the Web.

John Gruber, who writes the Daring Fireball blog, and has accurately pegged other Apple moves in the past, said that his sources have put the release of Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, as Aug. 28, just under two weeks away.

One prominent analyst was dubious about an August release. "Early September would be early," countered Gene Munster, an analyst for Piper Jaffray who covers Apple.

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[News] Twitter followers 'can be bought'

[i]Twitter users who lack an audience for their messages can now buy followers.[/i]

Australian social media marketing company uSocial is offering a paid service that finds followers for users of the micro-blogging service.

Followers are available in blocks starting at $87 (£53) for 1,000. The biggest block uSocial is selling is 100,000 people.

USocial said businesses and individuals were queuing up to use its follower finding service

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many statements are made for the business level person who need to spread business/their message through twitter.... such as

Twitter is becoming one of the key viral channels -- by Robin Goad, Hitwise

hmmm so anybody interested in buying followers [

atleast i m not..... coz good posting and updates automatically gets you many followers.... but at business level they are in hurry for everything... even for followers

New iPhone software offers 100 new features

It's the news that iPhone users have been waiting for - the latest version of the phone software is set to be launched later this month. And there's also a new model of the phone too.

Apple' senior vice president of iPhone software Scott Forstall said that the iPhone 3.0 OS will be released on 17 June. Forstall relayed this information in the keynote speech at Apple's worldwide developers' conference (WWDC) where he said that the iPhone 3.0 would be a free release for all iPhone customers. iPod touch customers would be able to download the new release for $10, and it will work on first- and second-generation iPod touch models. And iPhone software developers will be able to download the new release immediately.

Forstall used most of his time to talk about and show off some of the 100 new features in iPhone OS 3.0, many of which were first discussed at a press event in Cupertino last March.

Many of the new features in iPhone 3.0 have been talked about before - Cut, Copy, and Paste, for example. Landscape mode in all key applications, including Mail, Notes and Messages. Spotlight support across the entire device, and ubiquitous searching. Peer-to-peer Bluetooth-based multiplayer gaming, push notification, in-app store support and other capabilities factored into demonstrations showing off iPhone 3.0's new features, as well.

Forstall also delved deeper into some capabilities in the new operating system. MMS is a feature that many users have been clamouring for: iPhone 3.0 will have that capability but not for all users - it won't be available in the US for example - but O2 will be offering it to UK users as from the release date.

Another new feature will be tethering: the ability for a Mac or PC to share the iPhone's Internet connection. This feature is especially handy for mobile travellers who don't want to be tied to the limited range of a Wi-Fi hotspot, and who haven't purchased a 3G data card for their laptop. Especially given the absence of ExpressCard expansion slots on Apple's refreshed 15-inch MacBook Pro line, this will be a bone of contention for some users. iPhone 3.0's tethering works over USB or Bluetooth, and works on Mac OS X and Windows and will be supported by a number of carriers including the UK's O2 - although users will require a tethering bolt-on, 3GB for £14.68 per month, 10GB for £29.36. Once again, AT&T in the US will not support this feature.

"Find My Phone" is a new feature in iPhone 3.0 that helps you locate your iPhone if you've misplaced it. It's specifically for MobileMe customers - you can log in to MobileMe and it will show you where you left your phone. You can send a message to the phone, and will play an alert, even if you left the phone in silent mode. What's more, remote wipe isn't a feature just for system administrators anymore - "Find My Phone" will you erase all your data, if your iPhone falls into the wrong hands.

The new iPhone OS supports HTTP-based streaming audio and video that will pick the right bit-rate depending on your phone's data connection quality. Autofill has been added for the Mobile Safari software, to save you from having to fill out forms manually.

Another hotly-anticipated capability for the iPhone is turn-by-turn GPS-based directions. To that end, TomTom demonstrated an iPhone 3.0 application that delivers real TomTom navigation on the iPhone. What's more, the software also works with a cradle device that suction-cups to your vehicle's window. It's more than just a holder - it securely docks the iPhone, and can enhance the iPhone's GPS capabilities, and give you hands-free calling capabilities, power and a loudspeaker. TomTom plans to release both this summer, with a range of maps.

The new iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 3GS will launch applications faster than previous models. It will be launched in the UK on 19 June, two days after the launch of the software.

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