Microsoft to put Office programs on Nokia phones

SEATTLE — Microsoft is working with Nokia to put Office software and other programs on smart phones.

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Are you having sleepless nights looking to mange your passwords? There are a good number of people who suffer from extreme confusion and fear of the unknown, when it comes to remembering passwords. Over the time you pile up scores of login and password for every account you sign into. Eventually, it becomes a paranoia when it comes to remembering any one of these passwords. For more, you know hackers are going out of their way to crack passwords and credit card information that makes it all more important to have a password manager. Well, there are several password management applications that can make it easy to remember your passwords effortlessly. The question is, which is the top password manager that can suffice your requirements? After extensive research we found the top 5 password managers that we'll share with you. Full article (497 words) »

Opera's supremacy over mobile browser market is being challenged by Skyfire a mobile browser, built by a Silicon Valley startup. It has been little over a year, since the mobile browser Skyfire made its debut for Windows and Symbian mobile phones. Skyfire version 0.9 beta was a free third-party mobile browser. While in beta the mobiles browser was widely appreciated for it performance and efficiency. Over the time, it has emerged as a swift and easily to handle mobile browser. Now that Skyfire's version 1.0 has been released, it's time assess its appeal in the market.
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The wait for new Windows Mobile 6.5 is over. Microsoft developers working on Windows Mobile 6.5 have divulged the news that the work on Windows latest mobile operating system has finally finished. However, it is unclear whether the new system has enough potential to face the smartphone competitors. The news came as a tweet from the Windows Mobile team spilling the beans. The revamp of Windows Mobile 6.5 had been announced by Steve Ballmer in GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009. The mobile operating system was to be released at Microsofts TechEd conference last week.

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When you compare the top-notch Nokia Nseries mobile sets like N95 with iPhone, the former always overwhelms with its performance. Whether the GPS, messaging, camera or the radio the Nokia Nseries mobiles peak the performance. Nokia would always envy iPhone's quantum leap in popularity within a short span. The apps flooding the Apple stores have highly contributed to iPhone's acceptance. Although the feature-rich Nokia Nseries sets would seldom care about apps, Nokia can't boast of a colossal app store like iPhone. But there are some truly exciting apps for the Nokia Nseries mobiles. What I found was the apps for Nseries sets are scattered over internet and after exhaustive googling I could filter some cool ones. Now, if you have got one of the Nokia Nseries mobile sets or looking to buy one you can have a look at my collection of Top 10 apps for Nokia Nseries.

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Streaming radios are already an in thing for the generation that belongs to us. You don't need anything but a mobile phone or laptop these days. Just find the media player, stream through the appropriate channel and it will start playing random songs of your choice as if its a real FM radio you are listening to. Suppose you are listening to a song whose lyrics have instantly touched your mind. Desperate search won't help you.  So for all you music lovers who love quality lyrics too, here is Tunewiki for you. The social media player already offers audio and video while displaying synchronized or translated lyrics.

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The Web 2.0 technologies have taken the mobile usage to a new level. For the Apple iPhone 3G and Android users who have been accessing their  Gmail accounts through Internet, can now do without internet. In an exciting revelation at the Mobile World Congress 2009 conference Vi Gundotra, Google's VP of engineering exposed how Gmail can be accessed offline using a of mobile Gmail app. In a recent event, Google's Grears app technology was enabled to for accessing the desktop version of Gmail without internet connectivity. Generally the web-based programs are not preferred over native mobile apps, but the new Gmail app for mobile could revolutionize the mobile world. Full article (239 words) »

iPhone was hot, but its getting hotter with things turning up in its favor. Well, this time its with Google's update spreadsheets. For those of you complaining about iPhone's incapability to edit Google docs spreadsheets can now perk up. Google's updated  spreadsheets has come up with new features that iPhone's can enjoy. Android and Symbian would also get a share of the pie. Full article (268 words) »

According to the absolutely latest news, Adobe is going to introduce a new version of its Flash software that runs not only on computers but also on the latest high-end mobile phones. That means Adobe plans to bring a full PC version of its Flash video player to smartphones next year.

It is going to be an absolutely delightful news for all the developers to be able to work on something as big as this and also for people as there won't be any problem like relying on third party software to run different flash video formats.

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There's been much fuss about Silverlight, Microsoft's web browser plugin. On most talks I find it as a hot technology that seems to be the future of web and even an most likely runtime alternative for present day OS-es. It's as if this web app was just in time to take the client business apps to new heights. Well, It's hard to deny facts that its a rich application with best navigation characteristics and deployment. Still what bugs is how could this small fry be the future of computing.

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