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Bill Gates steps down from the board of Microsoft


Microsoft on Friday announced that Bill Gates, the co-founder of the company will be stepping down from the Corporation's Board of Director's. However, Gates will still continue to serve as the Technology Advisor to Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella and to other leaders in the company. On June 2008, Gates left his day-to-day role in the company to spend more time at Gates Foundation, while still continuing to serve as Microsoft's Chairman of the Board until February 4, 2014.
It's been a tremendous honor and privilege to have worked with and learned from Bill over the years. Bill founded our company with a belief in the democratizing force of software and a passion to solve society's most pressing challenges. And Microsoft and the world are better for it. The board has benefited from Bill's leadership and vision. And Microsoft will continue to benefit from Bill's ongoing technical passion and advice to drive our products and services forward. I am grateful for Bill's friendship and look forward to continuing to work alongside him to realize our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, said Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella.
On behalf of our shareholders and the Board, I want to express my deep appreciation to Bill for all his contributions to Microsoft. As a member of the Board, he challenged us to think big and then think even bigger. He leaves an enduring legacy of curiosity and insight that serves as an inspiration for us all, said John W. Thompson, Microsoft Independent Board Chair.

Source: PR Newswire

Microsoft and Nokia goes official with Lumia 830



Microsoft owned Finnish phone manufacturer, Nokia has announced their new affordable flagship smartphone and the very latest edition of the Nokia Lumia family, named as the new Lumia 830. This new Nokia Lumia smartphone will also continue to have the same design followed from their previously announced Lumia handsets, featuring a metal constructed frame around the smartphone this time and the body is of course made out of polycarbonate build, partially.

 The new Nokia made Lumia 830 is only about 8.5 millimeters in it's thickness thin, making this new announcement the company's thinnest and lightest Lumia smartphone ever unveiled till date and also the first ever device to incorporate the latest Windows Phone 8.1 Lumia Denim update straight out of the box, which is said to improve the Live Folders, Apps Corner, Glance screen and also implement better camera performance including, "faster pocket to shot, and shooting speeds, plus cool new capture features". As you may have already guessed, the new Lumia 830 will too be available in a variety of color options, from Bright Orange, Bright Green, White to Black.
So, under the hood the new Nokia made Lumia 830 will feature a 1.2GHz powered Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and a five-inches ClearBlack (super sensitive touchscreen for glove and sort of weird nail usage) LCD screen of IPS technology, marked at 1280 x 720 resolution display, offering clear sunlight readability, which is crafted out of Corning Gorilla Glass's curved 2.25D panel, alike the newest Samsung Galaxy Note 4. There's 16 gigabytes of on board mass storage option (expandable via microSD card slot up to 128 GB) and free 15 gigabytes of Microsoft One Drive storage, 10 megapixels main shooter on the back of Carl Zeiss optic lens and LED flash light alongside Optical Image Stabilization, even attributing the new Rich Capture for brighter photos in dim lights, allowing the user to add the LED flash effect to a pre-captured photograph. On the front you get a 1 megapixel secondary camera with 720p High definition video recording.

 The phone charges with a removable 2,200mAh powered battery with Qi wireless charging integration, giving you standby time for up to 22 long days. Now, some enlightenment for the fitness eccentric readers, the brand new Lumia 830 will embrace a new low-power motion-sensing technology, dubbed as SensorCore, that will basically keep a track on your physical activities and movements, noting the location, even when the phone is at sleep, when synced with certain applications like, Bing Health and Fitness and Adidas miCoach. The smartphone should be available around the globe later this month for budget friendly price of 330 Euros before tariffs, that's around 388 United States Dollars.

 Source: Nokia

Nokia Lumia 730 smartphone leaks, running the new 'Debian Red' firmware of WP 8.1



Nokia's next generation smartphone and their Lumia 720 handset successor model, which was announced back early in 2013, dubbed as the new impending Lumia 730 is here in pictures showing off it's front and back to the camera. The new Nokia Lumia 730 smartphone is said to be Microsoft's forthcoming middle-ranged Windows Phone device, that is internally codenamed as Superman and the phone in the Green shade from the above picture is one of those from the late development prototype property by the Redmond manufacturer, according to the reports of Windows Phone Central.

 The phone we see here is speculated to be a smartphone for the growing selfie market, as it is rumored to feature a five megapixels front facing secondary snapper, which is something new in the Windows Phone perspective, a 4.7-inches of screen size and the company seems to be working on a new firmware based on Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 or Update 2, that is for the time being called as 'Debian Red', which is said to be the name of a color, similar to how Microsoft named the Lumia Black update as 'Bittersweet Shimmer' and the current Lumia Cyan update as 'Cherry Blossom Pink'. And as also mentioned in the reads of Windows Phone Central, the firmware build names for the American computer software and consumer electronics company's mobile operating system goes in alphabetical order, alike Android, which started off with the letter A for Amber, B for Black, C for Cyan and now D for Debian Red.

 Source: Windows Phone Central

Microsoft announces Nokia X2, an affordable smartphone



Just days back we had hinted you about Nokia teasing an announcement on their Conversations webpage for 24th of June. Well, today the Microsoft owned company has announced their next generation and successor model from their current X fleet, powered by Android operating system, named as Nokia X2.

 The new smartphone from the Redmond Microsoft and Finnish Nokia will add new dashing design and features to the newly announced smartphone, Nokia X2. From it's exterior hardware, the fresh handset is said to remain as bold as the original Nokia X, but will append a shiny new translucent outer layer on the back of the device, unlike their previously announced Nokia X line-up of smartphones, that included Nokia X, X+ and XL, which was announced with a matte finish. This new X2 will moreover look like the lately unveiled Nokia Asha smartphones, with this new change in the exterior, making it yet another glossy Nokia phone.

 Also the brand new Nokia X2 features the company's traditional Fastlane homescreen, that is useful in responding to any notification, launching an application and even navigating through different kind of tasks you have been performing in a day on the X2. Nokia finally decided to add a couple of capacitive buttons to their new smartphone, where it has got the home and back options sitting under the bottom of the display in front, for better and easy multitasking. The phone comes with this new 'helmsmanship' option called, "app list", which will keep your phone's homescreen clear for the most recently used applications, like any other Lumia smartphones and also shares it's tile color-picker feature, on board.


When we see through it's internals, we sport a revamped Dual-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor, at clock speeds of 1.2GHz, a slightly bigger 4.3-inches WVGA ClearBlack LCD screen of 800 x 480 resolution display, at 217 pixels-per-inch, also compensating brightness control, tactile feedback, orientation sensor, Nokia's Glance screen, double-tap to wake functions, protected by a scratch resistant glass. X2 tots four gigabytes of internal storage (expandable via microSD card slot up to 32 GB), one gigabyte of Random Access Memory (RAM), five megapixels main camera on the back with auto-focus and LED flash light and on the front there is a VGA webcamera perfect for Skype calls. The new phone is a dual-SIM version, which also packs Bluetooth 4.0 and WCDMA network support, a 1,800mAh powered battery, which has a maximum standby time with dual-SIM for up to 23 days and maximum talk time of 13 hours over 3G. The handset is running Nokia X software platform, based on Android. The phone is 121.7 x 68.3 x 11.1 millimeters in dimensions and 150 grams heavy on mass.

 Nokia X2 will come pre-installed with Android applications including, Skype, Outlook.com and OneDrive with 15 gigabytes of free cloud storage. You can also download other Android apps from the dedicated Nokia Store on the smartphone. As said in the past, the device will not ship with Google Play or other Google Service's installed on them, but users can easily side-load any Android application using the microSD card and also by downloading third party Android app markets from the Nokia Store, like 1Mobile Market.

 The smartphone will be coming in glossy Green, Orange, Black, Yellow and White colors, followed by a matte Dark Grey shade, later this year. Microsoft and Nokia will bring their new smartphone to select countries, globally for just €99, around 135 United States Dollars, unlocked.

 Source: Nokia 1, 2

Microsoft's next flagship to feature 3D Touch technology, claims report



Microsoft's upcoming front runner smartphone is reportedly codenamed as McLaren, which is tipped to make it's debut in the United States, on different carriers, later this year. The new Windows Phone from the Redmond company, that acquired the Finnish based manufacturer, Nokia, will come with new features like Kinect inspired sensors, that is internally known as 3D Touch or Real Motion (Nokia developed?), according to the source reports.

 The new function on the phone will let it's users hover their fingers over the device's display panel to work around with different applications and even play games. The Verge also reports the upcoming handset's back design will be somewhat similar to the Nokia made Windows Phone, Lumia 1020, with the slightly humped casing for the primary shooter and LED flash.

 The purported impending Microsoft phone or codenamed McLaren will come fitted with a number of hardware sensors to make their new 3D Touch technology work well. According to the reads, users of the smartphone will be able to answer a phone call by raising the phone towards their ears and to enable the speaker, all you need to do is just place the handset on a table during an active call, users can also end the call by placing their smartphones in pocket. And with these new sensors on board, you can silent your smartphone by just covering it with your hands or when held to chest and just wave your hands over the screen to dismiss alerts and other notifications.

 Once the phone is official, it will also have the abilities to detect how the user is holding the 3D Touch enabled smartphone, that is said to improve the screen orientation while using it in bed for instance. The looming phone from Microsoft is said to skip the physical button on the sides of the device, where you will be able to wake the phone up by just holing it within your hands. With the clear interaction of the sensors and the operating system, you can zoom in and out the lens from the camera app by just dragging your fingers along the sides of the rumored smartphone.

 As stated by them, the company was in plans to introduce their new 3D Touch tech and Windows Phone 8.1 OS on Nokia's phone, codenamed Goldfinger handset, but as things have changed in the mean time for Nokia, Microsoft will have to shift their idea over a new device. The authority also talks about the new MixView feature from their software side, where users will be able to hover over a live tile from the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system and also open it with a "tap down in the air", basically without the need of touching the display, to open a set of small tile, with applications apposite to it.

 Unfortunately, we don't have any other information regarding the handset Microsoft is preparing in their pipelines. But if everything aforementioned goes up for an official announcement, this can be a tough competitor for other upcoming 3D technology enabled smartphones.

 Source: The Verge

Microsoft's acquisition over Nokia's closing date gets confirmed



On the morning of September 3rd, 2013 we got up with a shocking news, that confirmed the American multinational software corporation's acquisition over the Finnish based smartphone manufacturer Nokia and it's related devices, service business, license of patents and mapping services for about only 5.5 Billion Euros.

 Yesterday the Redmond company's official blog shared a news, that they have almost completed all the necessary steps to finalize the Microsoft's acquisition over Nokia Devices and Service business. Following this Microsoft will complete all their transaction by this Friday, 25th of April, and will officially welcome the Finnish devices and service to the American family.

 It is also read that, Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia will help them accelerate innovation and market adoption for the future Windows Phone, and they look forward to introduce Microsoft services to their next Billion customers through Nokia made smartphones.

 Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft has also made it clear that, keeping this multinational agreement in mind, both the companies have made significant adjustments to the original deal throughout the preparation process, including online assets management, where from then Microsoft will be managing Nokia's official online web domain and other social media sites. Other adjustments talks about the shift of 21 Nokia employees working on mobile phones, who will have to move their offices to Microsoft to continue their work, unlike the original deal, which said that, all employees in Nokia's Chief Technology Office will be continuing with Nokia. Lastly, the Americans were previously said to acquire Nokia's Korean manufacturing facility, where they have adjusted the agreement to not do so.

 Source: Microsoft

Microsoft debuts Windows Phone 8.1



The Redmond company has announced their latest version of mobile operating system, the Windows Phone 8.1. The new platform from Microsoft will come along to the new and existing smartphones running Windows Phone 8 with the newly added and improved features.

 First up is the company's new virtual voice assistant, Cortana. Like Google's Now and Apple's Siri, now Microsoft too assist's it's users of Windows Phone 8.1 with Bing-powered Cortana. The new application packs in advanced voice recognition, allowing it's users to speak virtually to call anybody, send a text message, set reminders or calender events, alarms, also search on places, weather and even sports, etc. You can access Cortana by tapping the the search button on your phone. It is also said that the app will feed in your custom notification area with user's personal information and usage data. Cortana will be first available in the United States, followed by United Kingdom, China and other countries joining in the coming months. 

 Next is the new Action Center with quick settings toggles, and screening other application notifications on Windows Phone 8.1, something we have been already seen from an Android and iOS based smartphones, which will let the Windows Phone users on and off their WiFi connection, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, mobile data connection, location services, screen rotation and even adjusting the screen brightness.

 Other new features include updated lockscreen and custom live tile background, where this new trait will allows user to change the look of their lockscreen and customize it with any third party themes available. The newly announced option also allows you to set a custom background for the start screen live tiles.

 Fourth we have the next generation Internet Explorer 11 mobile browser, attributing WebGL support and YouTube's HTML5 video player, allowing you to upload files to webpages directly using IE 11. The company has also updated their browser with a dedicated Reading mode, InPrivate mode and Password manager, helping users sync saved passwords across multiple devices.

 Fifth, Enterprise and Security, bringing you support to custom VPN, allowing users to surf the web more securely on custom Virtual Private Network. The new update also includes access to S/MIME, which means users of the new Windows Phone 8.1 can sign and encrypt their email address, rapidly.

 Lastly other major updates on the firm's latest mobile operating system includes, Sense Apps, On-screen keys, Quiet hours and Wordflow Keyboard.

 The new update of Windows Phone 8.1 will be released officially in the coming months, but unfortunately we still lack the exact dates and information on which all Windows Phone 8 running devices will receive the over-the-air update.

 Source: GSMArena

Android's head Sundar Pichai rumored to be top choices for Microsoft's next CEO



It has been read that the Redmond software company, Microsoft is in all preparations to announce their next Chief Executive Officer in position, early next week. Following this news, came in reports of the company's own executive Satya Nadella to score at the top from their hiring committee.

 Accordingly, yesterday we heard it from the Silicone Angle media that the United States based company's main choices for the designation of their next CEO is Google's Senior Vice President of Chrome and Apps, also the head of the popular mobile operating system, Android, where he took on the charges from Andy Rubin, back in March, 2013, himself, Sundar Pichai.

 Pichai is currently one of the most powerful and dominant official from Google, Inc. where the Mountain View corporation paid him about 50 Million United States Dollars to hold his position back when his resume got caught on a leading job at Twitter. But this time around, as it is the Microsoft company and it is of being the CEO of a multinational corporation like this, it can be a job that you will not be rejecting.

 Source: siliconeANGLE

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

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

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

Xbox Music streaming application now available for both Android and iOS



Earlier yesterday, the United States multinational software corporation company., Microsoft released one of their popular Xbox Music streaming application for both Android and iOS.

 This application is seriously going to be a tough competitor for the other two well know music streamers, Pandora and Spotify. The application is available for free in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. This new Xbox Music application streams music directly from music.xbox.com for free, all you need to access Millions of mind blowing music is just a Microsoft account. You can take advantage of this music streaming application totally free for the first six months, from then the hours of streaming will be limited, but if your already a Xbox Music subscriber, you can enjoy unlimited music hours lifelong.

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Source: androidgeeks

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
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