Why Microsoft Bought Nokia and What It Means for You

Surprising news yesterday, Microsoft has bought up Nokia’s phone division for a whopping $7.2 billion. What does that mean for you? What will change for Nokia and why did Microsoft even buy them in the first place?
What does it mean for Microsoft and Nokia?
First, let’s have a look at what Microsoft is getting in return for its money.
•Nokia’s smartphone and mobile phone business, including the manufacturing and assembly bits.
•Nokia personnel, including the design team, the sales/operations team, and the Stephen Elop team.
•A bunch of patents, but not all the patents.
•The ability to license Nokia HERE map technology, but not HERE itself.
•A place to crash in Finland.
In a presentation, Microsoft says that bringing Nokia phone in-house “protects Widows Phone future” as having a hardware division now means that Windows phone will last as long as Microsoft does.
Nokia’s sales went down 24 percent only last quarter year over year. Even its dumbphone sales, usually Nokia’s strength, plummeted 39 percent. Things don’t look good for Nokia and Microsoft just threw them a lifeline.

What does this mean for you?
Not much. If you already own a Windows Phone, you won’t be getting much more Apps and if you’re planning on buying one soon, you’ll have a lot less options. HTC and Samsung are Microsoft only other partners and after this new coalition, support for both phone makers is going to die soon.
Source: Gizmodo

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Ambitious Nokia?

When people think of Nokia, they think of a solid phone that could be used to make a phone call after it had been used to knock a wildebeest unconscious. Back in the day the Nokia was the top brand as it was indestructible and very reliable; however it has slid down the market in recent years. In the last few days computer giants Microsoft has been in talks and has purchased Nokia that hopes to create a new relationship of a solid structure phone with an awesome and user friendly operating system that could rival Samsung and iPhone. Nokia’s biggest market is the already highly saturated Chinese market, which has many smartphones from foreign and domestic firms. With a huge population and emerging economy,  Samsung and iPhone are here but there is rivalry from domestic brands such as Huawei, Lenonova, ThL and Zoppo, with the latter two being offered , therefore the international market can also have access to purchase these models.

5 Inch Quad Core Android 4.2 Phone “ThL W8S”

5 Inch FHD Android 4.2 Phone “ZOPO C3″

Nokia believes that China is the place where they can success and reach their goal and possibly reclaim their place on the throne in the phone market. However the Nokia brand has a nostalgia value that people recognize it so for Nokia to shake this reputation it needs to hit the market with something fresh and different with new attractions and features, and this is hopefully where Microsoft comes in. Microsoft have attempted the phone market before but has proven to be unsuccessful so maybe with Nokia they can combine their ideas and create a terrific phone that will surprise the market and swing people towards them, or it could be like other attempts and fail miserably with a few mangers being blamed and sacked. Only time can tell of this combination, just hope it isn’t too late for them
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Make Your Windows PC to Look Like OS X

If you have seen the pictures or the videos of OS X Mavericks and want to make your Windows look like OS X Mavericks, you can do so by downloading and installing OS X Mavericks transformation pack.

OS X 10.9 Mavericks transformation pack is the first and only Mavericks transformation pack available for XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 operating system. According to the developer, this transformation pack includes Mavericks/iOS7 themes, wallpapers, user picture, Mavericks/iOS7 icons, sounds, cursor, logon background, OS X-style dock, and Launchpad.
The cool thing is that the setup file of the transformation pack includes UXStyle Core software that automatically edits original system files to add third-party visual styles support. In simple words, you don’t need to manually download and run UXStyle Core or any other software before installing OS X Mavericks transformation pack.
Most notably, it uses iOS 7 icons for a lot of apps, rather than replicas of the Mac icons. If you aren’t one to get hung up on details though, you can certainly squint your eyes and pretend to be using a Mac. The developer also kindly made it easy to uninstall the program and revert to Windows’ original UI, so there’s no harm in trying.
OS X Mavericks Transformation Pack (Free) via Into Windows

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ElectroShopWorld's Choice: Rugged Android Phone "Mann A18" - 4 Inch Screen, Snapdragon Dual Core CPU, IP68 Waterproof, Shockpro Summary

Rugged Android Phone "Mann A18" - 4 Inch Screen, Snapdragon Dual Core CPU, IP68 Waterproof, Shockpro Summary

Rugged Android Phone with 4 inch screen, 1.15GHz Dual Core Snapdragon Processor and IP68 Waterproof, Dustproof and Shockproof Rating.

Man up with latest Android Rugged Phone! Coming completely waterproof, dustproof and shockproof, the “Mann A18” is able to survive nearly any abuse you can throw at it. Take it out surfing, use it on the construction site, drop it in the water, kick it around, this phone will take it like a man. And unlike most other rugged phone, its ruggedness won’t slow it down even a bit. Powered by the highly acclaimed Qualcomm Snapdragon Dual Core CPU, you’ll get faster apps, more gaming and less recharging.

 

 

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Download Wikipedia or Wikileaks For Reading Offline

Wikipedia is the world’s most popular and up to date encyclopedia. It is like an external brain of sorts that we can access anytime to gain knowledge about hundreds of thousands of topics, but only as long as we have internet access. That really doesn’t have to be the case though, since you can use Kiwix to download and read the entirety of Wikipedia completely offline.

The program is available as a portable application, but can also be installed the traditional way. When you launch it for the first time, it asks you to download the catalogue of available wikis, which you definitely must download. Once the catalog is ready, you can click on File > Browse library to see the list of available wikis you can download for reading offline. For purposes of testing, we downloaded Wikipedia in Simple English (730MB). If you want the more popular version – Wikipedia in English – you can download the sum total of it as updated till March 23rd, 2012 in the form of a 9.3GB download. You won’t find much information on latest topics like the Xbox One or the Royal Baby, obviously, but that won’t be an issue for most people.

You can quickly search for new wikis to download from the Library view, download and ‘install’ in one click, add notes, bookmark pages, export pages in PDF or HTML, and read multiple Wikipedia pages with tabination. For advanced users, it can also be set up as a web server allowing people on your network to access Kiwix from the local server without downloading huge files. It works really well, and is completely free.
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Feedly Client For Windows 8

Readiy is a new Windows Store app that successfully brings the power of Feedly to Windows 8 and Windows RT while being loyal to the platform’s Modern UI. The app syncs with Feedly, meaning you don’t need to maintain yet another feeds list. Since Feedly launched its own cloud early in July, it means you can directly sign in with the service. To begin, launch the app and let Readiy connect to Feedly by clicking ‘Sign Up with Google’ or ‘Sign in’.

Install Readiy from Windows Store

The tile-based design of the app is very intuitive, making it easier to navigate on RT and Windows 8 slabs. It’s exceedingly simple and lets you handle your feeds with ease. The home screen displays all the items from your currently subscribed feeds. To reveal further content, just swipe horizontally. You can also hit ‘All Items’ on the top and then select your desired RSS subscription from the menu that appears.
The dropdown menu displays titles of your current RSS subscriptions accompanied by the number of unread items in each. Readiy also keeps your custom folder structure from Feedly intact. The dropdown menu next to your subscriptions lets you sort the view between oldest or newest first and also mark all the items as read in one go.
The app bar gives you a few more options to play with, such as letting you Pin any feed to your Start Screen, filter your feeds, mark all feeds as read, and manually sync with Feedly servers. The only shortcoming with Readiy is that it doesn’t give you any option to add new RSS subscriptions, meaning you’ll have to do that from Feedly’s own web interface or its dedicated apps for other platforms. Apart from that, it’s a solid Feedly client for Windows 8.
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JustDelete.me Helps You To Erase Your Digital Life

Deleting your unused or unwanted online accounts can be a huge pain and in some cases, is virtually impossible. But a new site, JustDelete.me, makes the process a little less difficult.
Launched last week by developer Robb Lewis and designed by Ed Poole, JustDelete.me provides a growing list of Internet-connected services, with links and information about the account deletion process. When available, direct links to account delete pages are provided. JustDelete.me also categorizes each service into “easy,” “medium,” “hard,” and “impossible,” depending on the difficulty of deleting an account from that service. The site also provides tidbits of information about account deletion for each service.
Read more: Digital Trends

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