Recently I bought Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone OS powered smartphone. I was a big fan of iPhone and considering to buy one before Nokia Lumia 800 came out. I was on the verge to buy iPhone but couldn’t because of some personal situations. And then one day I got promotional email of Nokia Lumia 800. From that day onwards I watched every video available for Nokia Lumia 800. I read every blog post, many forums and tons of news before I made the decision to go with Nokia Lumia 800 then to move to iPhone. So if you are still confused between Windows Phone and iPhone, you can read the conclusions of my heavy research before I made my decision. Hope this enlightens some of you. (more…)

Is that a legitimate word to use for anything to do with financial speculations? But look at the chart and you will realize that its ture. For Apple, these numbers are more than satisfying. Apple’s market cap has already been crossed that of Microsoft’s. For now the operating income of Apple is $3.9 billion trailing Microsoft’s $5.2 billion. But the future looks different with the trend showing up on this chart. Apple’s iPhone proved to  be growth engine while iPad is climbing new heights. Apple’s profits are increasing at the pace of F1 car an may cross past to Microsoft’s profits in few years. What Steve Ballmer has to say on this? Nothing. Steve Jobs will have the last laugh.

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Few days back I came across the interesting relationship between Microsoft IE and Mozilla Firefox teams. Microsoft looks quite modest this time. Let me start with Bill Gates’ comment on Firefox in 2005 in interview with BBC, “so much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?”. Now, Firefox could answer this question confidently with its 46% of whooping market share. Surprisingly Microsoft IE team, notorious for its unhealthy competition with Netscape, is maintaining (or pretending like having) very good relationship with Firefox team. (For your information, Netscape was having 90% market share in mid 1990s, which was reduced to mere 1% at the end of 2006. One of the reason behind this was decision by Microsoft to bundle IE with OS at free of cost. The antitrust case was filed against Microsoft for this move and it was settled with huge penalty of $750 million to Microsoft.) (more…)

I was observing the logo evolution of Tech giants like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Intel etc and it was reasonably interesting. There is one clear trend, more the company becomes mature and prominent, logo becomes more simpler. Along with logo evolution, I will brief you about some very interesting facts as well. For example, Intel was given a name like ‘Moore Noyce’ but idea was dropped due to funny reason! Initially Nokia was nothing but a paper manufacturing unit and last but not least, due to trademark conflict, Mozilla changed the name twice for its browser before settling for Firefox.

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Do your work includes excessive use of Microsoft Excel? Then you need to look at these most common mistakes done while working with excel. Keep these in mind and your work with Excel will be more productive and less error prone.

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This is very basic thing, but I wanted to share this as still many people find it difficult to show line numbers in word documents. Earlier we’ve seen how to count words in word documents. By default  word document doesn’t show the line numbers.

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To fight against cyber-crime, Microsoft introduced COFEE that helps Law enforcement. Microsoft COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) is software that easily captures significant “live & volatile” computer evidence in cyber-crime investigations, without special forensics expertise. Let me explain in detail, COFEE is a USB device pre-configured with specific software that helps cyber-crime investigator to collect VOLATILE LIVE EVIDENCE in reliable and cost-effective manner. For example, files/information that are stored in RAM would be lost if the computer had been shut down. An investigator with minimal computer knowledge can be tutored to use COFEE in 10 minutes.

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Many people are not much familiar with the term ‘Tablet PC” because of its limited popularity till today. Keep in mind, Tablet PC is altogether different from eReaders like Amazon Kindle or B&N Nook. But Tablet concept expected to rise once major players will come into the picture, like Microsoft, Apple etc. Microsoft is planning to launch ‘Courier Tablet PC’ and Apple will be releasing ‘iPad Mac Tablet’. Both are expected to come in market in mid-2010. Few Tablet PC manufacturers are already in this business like Acer, HP, LG, IBM, and Panasonic.

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15 consecutive months of losses in Microsoft’s Online Services Division. This quarter sucked more $480 million. But Bing’s growing market share seems a golden line behind the clouds (Real Clouds!!!)

Counting words, lines and characters in Microsoft Word is quite an easy task. We will see how to count in both Word 2003 and Word 2007 versions, as both versions do this in slightly different manner.

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