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  • Windows Phone ‘Mango’ released to vendors

    Windows Phone ‘Mango’ released to vendors

    Microsoft confirmed on its Windows Team Blog on Monday that it has released the RTM build of Windows Phone “Mango” to manufacturing partners.

    This marks the point in the development process where we hand code to our handset and mobile operator partners to optimize Mango for their specific phone and network configurations,” explained Microsoft’s Windows Phone corporate vice president Terry Myerson.

     Microsoft has said Mango will deliver more than 500 new features to the Windows Phone platform, including Internet Explorer 9 and deeper social network integration. Mango is also set to release sometime in August to all existing devices. 

    Microsoft also plans to release  Nokia, HTC, LG, Samsung, Dell, Acer, Fujitsu and ZTE branded Windows Phone ‘Mango’ devices.

    [Microsoft]

  • Fujitsu Toshiba au IS12T is the world’s first Mango phone

    Fujitsu Toshiba au IS12T is the world’s first Mango phone

    Fujitsu Toshiba mobile communications have just announced the au IS12T, world’s first Mango phone. The device is not only waterproof but also packs in decent specs including a massive camera.

    • 3.7″ WXGA screen
    • Qualcomm’s MSM8655 CPU
    • 13.2 megapixel camera with autofocus
    • 32GB of flash storage
    • Bluetooth (2.1 + EDR) and WiFi (802.11b/g/n)
    The device was just launched in Japan so don’t expect an Indian version anytime soon.
  • Ideum Takes On The Microsoft Surface With Its Ultrathin Multitouch Table

    Ideum Takes On The Microsoft Surface With Its Ultrathin Multitouch Table

    Microsoft’s Surface Table hasen’t quite taken the world by storm. This is probably due to the table’s bulky size and hefty price tag. I you are one of those people who was more upset with the table’s size than its price tag, Ideum hopes that you will be interested in its MT-55 multi-touch table.

    Instead of sitting in a box, Ideum’s table is more like a flat-screen TV mounted on a stand. The table, which is only 3 inches thick, costs a whopping $18,000. The screen features a 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio and has a 178o viewing angle and supports a 64-bit copy of Windows 7. The viewing angle is important because it means that even someone whose peeking over the edge of the table will be able to see the display clearly.

    Multi-touch table’s may become the rage someday, but until the price comes down, and they create more software specifically for this kind of application, we don’t think that they’re going to sell too many.

  • ChevronWP7 Labs will Unlock your WP7 phone, allow Side Load of Apps, All with Microsoft’s Blessings

    ChevronWP7 Labs will Unlock your WP7 phone, allow Side Load of Apps, All with Microsoft’s Blessings

    Remember Chevron WP7, the first tool to allow jailbreak of WP7 devices, the makers later met with Microsoft and now have come out with a tool that will allow custom homebrew on your Windows Phone 7 for a mere price of $9. So unlock the potential in you WP7 device. The tweets from Chris Walsh (Chevron team) suggest that the Mango Update will re lock the device. So you better think twice before spotting that $9 for a quickie. Either way the tool will be out soon.

     

    [@ChrisWalshie, (2)]

  • 4 Out Of Every 10 Servers Are Virtual

    4 Out Of Every 10 Servers Are Virtual

    According to a study, conducted by the virtualization management firm Veeam, of 544 large  businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany, nearly four out of ten servers are virtual.

    The V-Index study shows that across the countries, on average, about 39 percent o servers are virtualized, with a typical large business running 470 virtual machines and 113 hosts. Almost nine in ten businesses use virtualization to some degree with four out of ten feeling that further virtualization is outweighed by reliability concerns. A similar proportion are waiting to refresh their hardware before further virtualization.

    The most widely used hyper-visor is VMware, used by 84 percent of firms. Six in 10 also use Microsoft Hyper-V, fifty-five percent use Citrix Xen and 12 percent use alternatives. Ratmir Timashev, chief executive at Veeam had this to say:

    While the results show that virtualization has become a standard technology in most enterprises, it is clear that there is still room for increased penetration.

     

  • Google Chrome eating IE and Firefox’s share of the Pie, Now at 20.7% of Total Market

    Google Chrome eating IE and Firefox’s share of the Pie, Now at 20.7% of Total Market

    StatCounter reports suggest, Google’s Chrome web browser now has a 20.7% share of the web browser pie, An increase of seven times over just two years. This also means that highest competition Internet Explorer’s Share is now only 50% of the total pie and Firefox has a 28% share which has come down from 30%.

     

    StatCounter gathers its data from more than 3 million websites with more than 15 billion page views.

  • Hotmail now 15 Years Old, Still Strong as ever

    Hotmail now 15 Years Old, Still Strong as ever

    [dropcap]H[/dropcap]otmail was launched 15 Years ago on 4th of July to mark the independence from generic emailing services. The most popular email website ever was acquired by Microsoft and made a bigger and better service.

     

    About 10 years ago Hotmail’s biggest challenge came from the likes of email services like Google Mail (GMAIL) and Yahoo Mail. Despite all the tough competition Hotmail rebranded itself as Windows Live Hotmail in 2007. It continues to be one of the most used email services online.

  • Windows Phone Market Place Crosses Target 25,000 Apps in June

    Windows Phone Market Place Crosses Target 25,000 Apps in June

    Microsoft said in January, that the marketplace will cross the 25,000 Apps target in June and so it has. The marketplace, relatively slow, but has managed to cross the the 25,000 apps number . That’s a rapid jump from the 18,000 applications that were available in May but it is still far away from the number of apps offered by iOS and Android.

    Android has over 200,000 Apps, whereas the Apple App Store has over 500,000 Apps and growing. Thats a huge target to close up and Microsoft thinks it can achieve a significant reduction in gap in the coming year thanks to the Mango update.

    The top 5 downloaded apps are games including the recently released Angry Birds at number one follwed by Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1, Plants vs. Zombies at two and three.

     

  • Microsoft unveils Office 365 In India

    Microsoft unveils Office 365 In India

    Microsoft has announced the launch of Office 365 business productivity solutions on the cloud in India.  Office 365 takes aim at cloud based enterprise and small business word processing and document editing and storage. This will enable an enterprise to have their solution available for easy access on the cloud.

    The Office 365 plan for Small Businesses is optimized for organizations with 25 users or less and includes Office Web Apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online at approximately $6 per user per month.

    With Office 365 Microsoft is attempting to target those users who were using Google apps for business by giving more comprehensive solutions at a selectable pricing. Getting partners and a huge database on board may be the real challenge for MS in OFFICE 365.

  • Angry Birds – Now on Windows Phone 7

    Angry Birds – Now on Windows Phone 7

    For those of you who own a Windows Phone 7 Smart-phone, there’s some good news! You can now download  Angry Birds from the Marketplace onto your phone. The first time we heard that this game was coming to the platform was in October 2010, even before the mobile OS was launched. A few days before its launch, Microsoft included an image which hinted at the game being a part of the platform. However, Rovio, the company behind the physics game, had not developed a version for the platform.

    Microsot and Rovio later made up and the software giant hinted at a 2011 release. The game was scheduled for mid May and then pushed back to 29th June. On Wednesday, users from around the world could download the game from the Marketplace.

  • Internet Explorer 10 Preview 2, holds upcoming strength for Microsoft

    Internet Explorer 10 Preview 2, holds upcoming strength for Microsoft

    Microsoft has released a new Internet Explorer 10 preview, the second pre-release of Internet Explorer 10 designed to give developers access to the new technologies that Internet Explorer 10 will deliver.

    Still in preview mode the explorer does not grant access  to technologies and structure that will be available in the final build, but it does give a preview of the browsers capabilities.

    Preview 2 also includes support for the new Web File API, Web Worker API, HTML5 Test, Javascript test and Acid 3. All of which show that Internet explorer is making good progress with its new capabilities. As it is Microsoft is ahead of schedule in releasing beta updates for the IE platform. It shows the ability MS has in bringing its primary browser up to speed with the competition sometimes even leaving it behind.

    Features like Web worker and Web Sockets will make developers really happy, and the end product which is just a fast paced internet experience would do the same for end users.

  • Microsoft will launch a new Xbox at E3 2012

    Microsoft will launch a new Xbox at E3 2012

    According to a source close to BGR, Microsoft intends to unveil its next-generation Xbox console at E3 2012 next summer. The rumored console has been in development since 2006 and has been carefully kept under wraps.  Earlier it was speculated that the next revision will be called XBOX 720, But that really seems unlikely.

    With Kinect already doing better than expected, It makes sense for the Gaming department at Redmond to improve the hardware in the XBOX to bring on the next generation of Consoles which will be ready to handle next-gen Gaming.

    [via]

  • Nokia Leaks its own SeaRay: First Windows Phone 7 from Nokia with Mango

    Nokia Leaks its own SeaRay: First Windows Phone 7 from Nokia with Mango

    Nokia recently announced the N9 with MeeGo and at the event, CEO Stephen Elop wanted to showcase a device to please the developers. He asked them to put their cameras away and not take pictures of the device, but who listens to CEOs anyway? Check out the new SeaRay!

    Its the first Windows Phone 7 from Nokia and it runs the upcoming Mango Build. Check out the full video from the event below.

  • Microsoft gets Green Signal from Antitrust for Skype Acquisition

    Microsoft gets Green Signal from Antitrust for Skype Acquisition

    Microsoft has been given the US antitrust approval for the large acquisition of Skype for its VOIP integrations within all of its offerings including, and not limiting to, Windows, Xbox and Zune. The total cost of this is set at US $8.5 Billion and the transfer of funds will commence and end in one single sweep.

    Microsoft will be updating the Skype APIs to make them usable within their own infrastructure, and should be updating the end user clients very very soon. Microsoft has constantly repeated that existing Skype users will and should  not be affected by the new changes.

  • Microsoft releases SDK for Kinect for Windows

    Microsoft releases SDK for Kinect for Windows

     

    A huge number of developers rejoiced as Microsoft on Thursday announced the new SDK for Kinect on WIndows. What this means is that the already hacked and exploited Kinect will now bring a full Sdk to be used for gestures and computations while in an open framework officially supported by Microsoft themselves.

    This will also begin a new era of Gesture controlled PC games . If you want to download and develop using the SDK head on over to the link mentioned to kick-off.

    [Microsoft Blog]

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