Microsoft made a Fully Functional Pc on a stick.

  In partnership with the Indian device maker iBall , Microsoft made a fully functional pc on a stick     more like a flash drive , this flash drive is meant to turn your smart TV in to a fully functional   computer.  after connecting this device on the smart TV,

 In partnership with the Indian device maker iBall , Microsoft made a fully functional pc on a stick more like a flash drive , this flash drive is meant to turn your smart TV in to a fully functional computer.  after connecting this device on the smart TV, which will be connected through HDMI port  you will access a fully PC  running windows 8.1.  The iBall Splendo  that the name of the device  it came with a wireless wireless desk set  including a keyboard and mouse  so you get a full experience of a PC


At its launch, Microsoft said: “The iBall Splendo is for people who love devices and want to be connected all the time using multiple form factors.

The iBall Splendo runs on the Intel Atom Quad-core processor with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage space  a multi-channel digital audio, a micro SDXC slot, USB port, micro-USB port, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and HD graphics and it come with one year warranty
the price is 140 $ that is 497,980 UGX .

 

About shipping the iBall splendo  will start  on july in india  still unclear yet of it release in other part of the world  but this is really good device   comouter are getting more and more smaller  if you don't know what am talking about just take a look at the first computer,  that thing could fill the whole house 

Anyway hope you like  it, let us know what you feel about this one .




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You can't Disable Windows Update in windows10

Microsoft said your windows 10 will always be upto date there won't be no way to turn automatic update off 

this maybe because previously windows announced that there won't be no more windows that windows10 will be the last so this means that windows 10 will be updated lot of the time than any other previous version

 

 The company says:

“Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available. Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users will have the ability to defer updates.”


 To ensure the security of users and keep everything updated, Microsoft won’t allow Windows 10 Home users to choose the suitable time. Your Windows 10 PC will automatically download updates and will be installed according to your convenience. The only options you’ll be having: Install “Automatic” – the recommended way and “Notify to schedule restart.”










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Zoom Wireless to offer high-speed internet in Uganda

Zoom unlimited high-speed internet to businesses and residences in and around Gulu, Uganda. According to the company, it has partnered with EveryLayer to roll-out the project as well as been granted a commercial ISP license – which will assist it with its planned regional expansion as well as high-speed internet roll-out.m Wireless is expecting to deliver affordable, 

With its licence intact, Zoom Wireless expects to deliver internet speeds of up to 9Mbps for corporate entities. To add to this, it is also set to deliver 512 kbps, 1 Mbps or 3Mbps to residential consumers. Zoom Wireless revealed that it will offer its products at approximately 50 percent of the rates of their competitors and with no usage caps to residential consumers.

-Given the overwhelming demand for high-speed Internet we are experiencing in Gulu, Zoom Wireless plans to extend its services to all the busy towns in Northern and West Nile regions of Uganda,” said Moses Olweny, Zoom Wireless Sales and Marketing Manager.

“Zoom Wireless is delivering the promise of the cloud to Northern Uganda with truly high-speed, affordable Internet,” said Mark Summer, CEO and co-founder of EveryLayer. “As EveryLayer’s first partner, Zoom Wireless proves the demand, profitability and growth potential of broadband services in emerging markets. We looked forward to working with Zoom Wireless to rapidly expand broadband in the North.”According to the company, these services will transform the way people access and use the Internet for business, operations and entertainment by offering reliable, high-speed access that enables use of cloud-based productivity services, streaming video and more.






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Announcement: Windows10 Available on July 29.

Windows 10 (codenamed Threshold) is an upcoming computer operating system being developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.

 First presented in April 2014 at the Build Conference, it is scheduled to be released on July 29, 2015.  It is currently in public beta testing through the Windows Insider program. During its first year of availability, upgrades to Windows 10 will be offered at no charge for consumer users of genuine Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1.

The goal of Windows 10 is to unify the Windows PC, Windows Phone, Windows Embedded and Xbox One product families, as well as new product categories such as the Surface Hub and HoloLens, around a common internal core. These products will share a common, "universal" application architecture and Windows Store ecosystem that expands upon the Windows Runtime platform introduced by Windows 8. Windows 10 provides further integration with Microsoft services and platforms, such as the addition of Cortana (an intelligent personal assistant), a notification system that can be synchronized between devices, and new Xbox Live features. A new default web browser, Microsoft Edge, will also make its debut in Windows 10, though Internet Explorer will still be available in a reduced capacity for compatibility reasons.

You can see these features in action in this video.




 Windows 10's user interface is an evolution of Windows 8's, with a focus on transitioning between behaviors suitable for the type of device and the available input methods. To improve the experience for keyboard and mouse users, Windows 10 adds a revision of the desktop start menu and a virtual desktop system, and allows Windows Store apps to run within windows on the desktop as well as in full-screen mode. The operating system will introduce new technologies and system components, including DirectX and new frameworks for biometric authentication. Unlike previous versions of Windows, Microsoft has also planned to treat Windows 10 as a "service" that will receive non-critical updates over its lifespan, in combination with periodic long-term support milestones for enterprise environments.

 Office on Windows: In addition to the Office 2016 full featured desktop suite, Windows 10 users will be able to experience new universal Windows applications for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, all available separately. These offer a consistent, touch-first experience across a range of devices to increase you productivity. Designed from the ground up to run on Windows 10, you can easily create and edit Word documents, and deliver PowerPoint presentations while annotating on the fly. With new touch-first controls in Excel you can create or update spreadsheets without a keyboard or mouse. You will also be able to enjoy new versions of OneNote and Outlook, which are included with Windows 10 at no additional cost.

 Windows Continuum

enables today’s best laptops and 2-in-1 devices to elegantly transform from one form factor to the other, enabling smooth transitions of your tablet into a PC, and back. And new Windows phones with Continuum can be connected to a monitor, mouse and physical keyboard to make your phone work like a PC.

Windows Hello, greets you by name and with a smile, letting you log in without a password and providing instant, more secure access to your Windows 10 devices. With Windows Hello, biometric authentication is easy with your face, iris, or finger, providing instant recognition.

Source: Windows 10 Available on July 29

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Firefox To make Yahoo as it Default Search Engine no more Google.

Yahoo is set to launch a new search experience for the users and it will be unveiled along with the Mozilla partnership in December.

We have been using firefox for decade now and google has always been the default search engine for firefox unfortunately things are about to change  . form December onward yahoo will become the search engine for firefox  this new change will cover both mobile as well as desktop versions. This partnership will extend over a period of 5 years
Yahoo is set to launch a new search experience for the users and it will be unveiled along with the Mozilla partnership in December.
 The new search experience will feature a clean, modern and immersive design that reflects input from the Mozilla

Firefox wrote in its blog:

Our new search strategy doubles down on our commitment to make Firefox a browser for everyone. We believe it will empower more people, in more places with more choice and opportunity to innovate and ultimately put even more people in control over their lives online.

Firefox make 88% of it total income from google , the contract between between google and firefox was set to end this year . it not really clear if google decided to end the deal or yahoo offered a great deal .

 Though  Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Amazon, Twitter and Wikipedia will continue to be built-in as alternate search options.







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A New Keyboard that Will make Your typing Speed 100% faster in 20minute

want to type faster then here is your answer 

When Ray McEnaney types, he's confident it's the most efficient way possible. But it's not typing school that's given him this feeling. It's his keyboard. Frustrated with the limitations of the traditional QWERTY layout, McEnaney spent the last decade designing a new one. Considering that the universal key arrangement was designed in the typewriter age — patented in 1878 — an alternative seems due. This one's inspired by a bee.

McEnaney wasn't satisfied with other typing options people turn to — the most prominent being Dvorak, which aims to minimize how far the fingers travel and reduce fatigue. He thought the learning curve was too great: Users need to seriously commit to becoming proficient. That's how we get to the BeeRaider, his oddly shaped keyboard that resembles a bee in flight, with two "wings" of keys arranged on either side of a radial center. It's a buzzy concept: The layout is larger, with the keys you need most at the center (which gives you less fatigue, McEnaney says). Keys that he considers "more useless" — including Q, K and X — are placed farther away.

He promises that anyone can become a capable BeeRaider typist in 20 minutes. The secret? The key position and the related mnemonic learning tools, through which you practice typing phrases like "I hate waste excess" and "Just before dawn starts." It's a little weird to type in such a fashion, but I was surprised at how natural it felt after five minutes, my fingers somehow finding the letters they needed. Having the alpha characters — the keys used most often — grouped together really helped memory retention as well.

But Kristy Snyder, a cognition and cognitive neuroscience researcher at Vanderbilt University isn't sure that keyboard layout can affect typing speeds. She's been experimenting with typists' memories of their keyboard, and she found that most can only identify half the keys they use daily. "We think that it's an implicit knowledge of where the fingers go; the motor system learns where the keys are, and that's how you learn to type," she says. She found that using Dvorak and QWERTY layouts were unconnected to retention, "suggesting that typists know little about key locations on the keyboard, whether they are exposed to the keyboard for two hours or 12 years," she says.

This makes the likelihood of the BeeRaider taking off more plausible; if people have no intrinsic recollection of keys, they should be open to a new way of working. "Using a new system could be better than QWERTY," Snyder says, but having to change key mapping could be difficult.

If you're up for the challenge, the BeeRaider is available for preorders at $112.49, and you can choose between the optimized layout or the radial QWERTY design. Mobile users can try BeeRaider's Android app ($1.92), though it's somewhat tricky to use on small screens. All in the name of being able to tap out "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" at superspeeds.

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An iOS bug reportedly Causing the iPhone to Crash asking For reboot

Have you recently being sent a wired message on your iPhone and suddenly  shut down your iPhone ?  well that a issue with iPhone

Apple says it working to fix a bug in iOS,  this bug is a message that is causing app to crach and not only to crash the application but also to promp a reboot to the user's iPhone

According to 9to5Mac, the bug involves a very specific set of characters that will create problems when it pops up as a Notification on a user's smartphone when displaying the lock screen.

users are claiming that a message is forcing their iPhone to shutdown

Apple says the issue is "caused by a specific series of unicode characters" and will be fixed in a future software update.

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Simplicity Linux Makes everything easy and simple

The latest edition of Simplicity Linux, version 15.4, recently became available for download. Simplicity Linux delivers just what its name suggests: It is a simpler way to run a fully powered Linux desktop on any computer you touch.

The latest edition of Simplicity Linux, version 15.4, recently became available for download. Simplicity Linux delivers just what its name suggests: It is a simpler way to run a fully powered Linux desktop on any computer you touch.

Simplicity lets you carry your entire desktop, favorite installed applications, and complete collection of documents and files in your pocket everywhere you go. Other Linux distros let you do much the same thing -- but solutions like Puppy Linux, Porteus, Knoppix and such take a bit more technical prowess to set up and configure.

Simplicity Linux does all of the heavy lifting, well, more simply. If you already know Puppy Linux, consider Simplicity Linux a close family cousin that will bring new life to your computing.

One compelling reason for using Simplicity Linux is its desktop improvement. Simplicity Linux uses the LXDE desktop environment rather than Openbox. This choice by the distro's lone developer, David Purse, is critical. It puts a more contemporary face on Simplicity Linux.

X11 Desktop Environment
The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment and the WBar give users two different menu options without requiring placement of application icons as launchers on the desktop itself.

Still, Simplicity Linux 15.4 uses Puppy Linux and the LXPup derivative as a base. It is a good choice for everyday users who are not Linux geeks or computer experts.

Simple but Not Foolproof

I have long been a fan and a user of the original Puppy Linux family of distros. I have reviewed a variety of Puppy Linux OSes several times for LinuxInsider.

However, Linux-on-a-stick distros, including the Puppy Linux species, have a serious weakness. They can not update the rapidly changing Web browsers and other packages. Simplicity Linux does not escape this problem.

Puppy Linux has a broad ecosystem and active community, but Simplicity Linux lacks a cadre of contributors to provide updated packages of essential software. So users who keep current with each updated release may soon be confronted with out-of-date versions of key software.

For example, The latest Simplicity release has Google Chrome version 40.0.2214.115 preinstalled. However, the current Chrome version available on my Ubuntu and Linux Mint distros already is updated to Version 42.0.2311.135 through the package manager.

Mozilla's Firefox Web browser is also preinstalled -- but it failed to properly open on any of my hardware. It never appeared on the desktop. Yet system tools indicated that it was running in the background.
Software Sophistication

One advantage to the Simplicity Linux line is its remix mentality. Much of the software bloat found in Puppy Linux is missing. Also gone are the overly lightweight Puppy-specific applications that run in the Open Box environment.

I have used Simplicity Linux on lots of my legacy gear, and I find it superior to the original Puppy Linux distro.

Simplicity Linux comes in three offerings. Depending on which one you select, some of the preinstalled software will be different -- but all of the flavors run the same Puppy Package Manager so you can add or remove applications to suit your needs.

Typical of portable Linux style distros, Simplicity Linux is not designed to reside on the hard drive. It loads into memory from a live CD/DVD.

You have the option to create either an encrypted or nonencrypted partition to save configuration settings and application changes. You can do this on the hard drive, a rewritable CD/DVD or USB drive. You also can install Simplicity Linux to a bootable USB drive.

The utility programs for doing all of these things are preinstalled and easy to use, even for newcomers to the process.
Simplicity Options

Simplicity Linux comes in two versions: Netbook and Desktop in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. The 32-bit version uses the 3.14.20 kernel. The 64-bit version uses the 3.17.20 kernel.

Echoing Canonical's version system for its Ubuntu OS, Simplicity Linux versions are designated by the year and month of release. Simplicity Linux's release schedule is easy to follow: January, April, July and October.

That is the ideal release schedule, anyway. The sole developer makes no assurances in his blogs that he will always meet that schedule, with alpha and beta releases preceding any rigid release schedule. Of course, this is a user concern if new releases outpace the gap in new package releases.

I found very little difference in the Netbook or Desktop versions of Simplicity. Keep in mind that the hardware designation of "Netbook" may be a bit out of sync now with current market hardware. Netbooks are not likely to be a computing platform -- but the concept of a lighter-weight distro for less-capable or legacy laptops is still valid.
More Goodies

The Simplicity Netbook release is a more cloud-based Linux distro. It includes the TOR and Chrome browsers. It comes with shortcuts to Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Netflix, Google Docs, Dropbox and Grooveshark, as well as a virtual assistant application. Overall, the Netbook version has a smaller system resource footprint, and most things are cloud-based.

The Simplicity Desktop release is a more heavyweight OS edition. It comes with the TOR browser, the desktop version of Dropbox, Chrome and the full LibreOffice suite. The Desktop edition has a bigger footprint caused by including more applications and larger packages.

Both versions of Simplicity Linux come preinstalled with a well-configured version of WINE and a Windows version of the OnLive client. The WINE installation works well and is a good attraction for users transitioning from Windows to Linux.

Double-clicking on a Windows .exe file from within the PCMAN FM file explorer runs the Windows program on Linux. But WINE has limitations and does not work well with every Windows program. So expect trial-and-error to be the standard operating procedure. (within the limitations of what WINE supports).
Look and Feel

Simplicity Linux has a single taskbar across the top of the screen. This has the typical panel bar functionality for holding notification icons on the right side, and icons for running programs on the left side.

At the far left of the panel are the main menu icon, launcher icons for file manager and Google Chrome, and a virtual workspace pager. A trait of the LX desktop, only two virtual desktops are accessible.

Simplicity Linux

Simplicity Linux has a single fully functional taskbar across the top of the screen. At the far left of the panel is the main menu icon, launcher icons for file manager and Google Chrome, and a virtual workspace pager.

A WBar Dock sits at the bottom center of the screen. This bar has limited configurability but provides useful access to other features.

For instance, several icons for system settings and key program launchers are hard-wired to the WBar. An Application Finder and menu are one click away at the far left of the dock bar.

Using Simplicity

You can run Simplicity unchanged from the CD/DVD, much like any live-session Linux distro. Once booted, a first-run settings panel opens with various options like the keyboard layout and screen resolution.

Each new boot presents this panel. You also will have to set up Internet access, whether you plug in a modem cable or need to access a wireless connection. Three program options are available to do this. The computer's wireless card will determine which method works best in finding your access path.

Simplicity Linux settings panels

A collection of settings panels makes Simplicity Linux easy to configure.
A better option for continually using Simplicity Linux is to create a personal save file and set up a frugal installation on either the hard drive or a bootable CD/DVD/USB installation. To do this, use the Puppy Universal Installer.

Another option is to run the Bootflash installer found in the Setup menu to put a bootable copy of Simplicity Linux on a USB drive. However, some legacy computers will not support booting from a USB drive.

In that case, you will have to boot from the CD/DVD and create a personal storage file on either the hard drive or a USB drive. This option is presented each time you shut down a live session unless you have selected the option to boot Simplicity in a no-save session.
Bottom Line

Simplicity Linux is very usable whether you use it as-is each time you boot up from the CD/DVD or do a frugal installation on the hard drive or USB drive. The LXDE desktop consumes few system resources. It loads into system memory when possible to run fast and furious without having to read from the CD/DVD or USB storage.

The complete installation needs less than 2 GB of disk space. You can tailor the size of the personal storage file to fit the available capacity. The preinstalled software provides all you will need in most use-cases. The package manager lets you add packages from both the Slackware and Puppy repositories.

The installer lacks any built-in tools for hard drive partitioning, so you will have to manually do that with gParted and a boot manager if you want to share the hard drive space with an existing operating system. That really is not necessary, though. The purpose of portable Linux distros like this is to boot from a CD/DVD and access stored files from a USB or cloud drive. Hard drive installation is not required.

Overall, Simplicity Linux is easy to use and runs fast. It runs well on legacy hardware. It has a gentle learning curve for users already familiar with the Linux OS. Users transitioning from Windows will find Simplicity Linux easy to use.


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Android M is about to add native support for fingerprint scanners

One of the reasons for lack of widespread presence of fingerprint scanners on Android devices is the lack of native support in Android, relegating it to just unlocking the phones on which it is present. But that might change soon.

 


One of the reasons for lack of widespread presence of fingerprint scanners on Android devices is the lack of native support in Android, relegating it to just unlocking the phones on which it is present. But that might change soon.

According to BuzzFeed and Ars Technica, Google might announced support for fingerprint scanner in Android M at I/O 2015. although the company declined to comment on that. Ars Technica found commits in AOSP for Nexus 6 for a fingerprint sensor, which Google has been working on on the software side. The Nexus 6 was also supposed to have a fingerprint sensor but according to Motorola ex-CEO Dennis Woodside, Apple bought the one good company that made those.

With native fingerprint scanner support in the OS, all the apps can tap into it and use it for authentication. You would be able to use it for your Play Store purchases, or Google Wallet authentication, or for apps like 1Password, Authy, Dropbox, OneDrive, Simplenote, or any other app that allows you to use a passcode lock, and that currently use Touch ID on iOS, can be used with the fingerprint scanner if they add support for it on Android.

Currently very few Android phones have a fingerprint scanner, with only the recent Galaxy S6 and S6 edge having implemented it the right way, but we could see more devices in future if Google does decide to include it in Android M.

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VENOM: A New Virus That can Attack Even Virtual Machines

With Venom, a malicious user program with sufficient root privileges "could break through the isolation normally afforded by the hypervisor and reach into the memory space of its hosted peers, potentially corrupting the software stack running in the other VMs and gaining access to sensitive data and applications," said Bill Weinberg, senior director of open source strategy at Black Duck Software.

Crowdstrike on Wednesday made public its discovery of yet another long-buried Linux vulnerability.
"Venom," as it has been dubbed, was unearthed by the firm's senior security researcher, Jason Geffner. It is listed as vulnerability CVE-2015-3456.

Venom exists in the virtual floppy drive code (FDC) used by virtualization platforms based on QEMU (quick emulator). It has been around since 2004.

The code probably went undetected for 11 years because "it's not obvious at all that this is a vulnerability," Geffner told LinuxInsider.

What is venom and how it kills


Venom is a threat to virtual machines.
A server runs a hypervisor, which in turn runs one or more virtual machines, called "guest machines." The hypervisor provides each guest operating system with a virtual OS and manages the execution of the guest OSes.
Several VMs, running multiple instances of one OS or different OSes, can be guested on one hardware platform.
When guest OSes send commands such as seek, read, write or format to the FDC's input/output port, the FDC stores them and their associated parameters in a fixed-size buffer, according to Crowdstrike.
It keeps track of how much data to expect for each command. After all expected data for a given command is received from the guest OS, the FDC executes the command and clears the buffer for the next command.

However, two commands, which Crowdstrike did not disclose, are not reset. An attacker can send those commands and specially crafted parameter data from the guest system to the FDC to create a buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code during the host's hypervisor process.

Attackers will need administrator privileges or root access privileges, so it's not as if a hacker can waltz in and take over the FDC.

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Apple Makes A MacBook Pro With, iMac Features and Pricing

Last week Apple announced performance enhancements for the MacBook Pro and a new configuration and price changes for the iMac.

The new 15-inch MacBook Pro with its Force Touch trackpad and improved flash storage, battery and graphics performance is available immediately online, starting at US$1,999 which is about 6,036,980 UG.

The Force Touch trackpad first appeared in the latest 13-inch MacBook. It includes the taptic engine found in the Apple Watch, which provides tactile feedback for tasks. It also includes Force Touch features that let users customize the pressure sensitivity of the trackpad.

The 256 gigabytes of flash storage make the new MacBook Pro 2.5 times faster than the previous generation. It also has longer battery life up to nine hours and its AMD Radeon R9 M370x graphics card is 80 percent faster than the one in the previous MacBook Pro.
It comes with 16 GB of RAM and a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor running at 2.2 GHz.

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How Old You Look: This website will tell you in seconds

You're only as old as you think you are. Or in this case, As old as a computer algorithm thinks you are.

You're only as old as you think you are.

Or in this case, as old as a computer algorithm thinks you are.

In a machine learning experiment that's taken social vanity to new heights, Microsoft has created a website that tells you how old you look just by analyzing your photo: http://how-old.net

This website is Sometimes dead on it. Other times it's hilariously, outrageously wrong.

It's simple: Upload a selfie, wait a few seconds -- then the machine gives you a number.

And since it can analyze anyone's photo, you can compare yourself to your friends, family, and foes.

But guessing someone's age is a dangerous game, even for a robot. That's probably why the site comes with a sheepish apology. "Sorry if we didn't quite get the age and gender right," it says after each result.

The company unveiled the website at a conference Thursday as a way to show off its new software called Project Oxford, Microsoft says you could use this face detection technology for tasks like sorting through a large photo collection.

But we're human -- so we'll probably just use it to judge our own looks.

And everyone else's.

Source: CNN

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Download Windows 10 Free [Direct Download links]

Hello every one. Yesterday Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 to the world, Now you can download a preview version of the new operating system today. And i have a direct download link for you "Today".
The Windows 10 Technical Preview is designed for enthusiasts, developers, and enterprise customers to evaluate the latest changes to Windows. Microsoft has created a special insiders program to deliver regular updates throughout the Windows 10 development cycle.

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It's an unusual move for Microsoft, but one that it plans to capitalize on by looking closely at feedback from those who opt to install the early version of Windows 10. Microsoft is releasing Windows 10 Technical Preview as an ISO download, meaning you can install it in a virtual machine, clean install the OS on a spare machine, or even attempt to upgrade your existing Windows 8.1 installation. It's a very early build of Windows 10 so there will be bugs, but if you're interested in testing the very latest version of Windows here is your chance.
For more details, The Microsoft's preview site has all the details.

Be sure your computer achieves the minimum requirements:

• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
• RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
• Free hard disk space: 16 GB
• Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
• A Microsoft account and Internet access

 Direct Download Links:

Windows 10 Technical Preview x86 (2.9GB)

Windows 10 Technical Preview x64 (3.8GB)

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Microsoft Has Announced Windows 10

At an event in San Francisco, Microsoft has announced the next version of its Windows operating system: "Windows 10"

The name is definitely not in line with expectations, but also comes on the heels of rumor talk that it could pick up another title.
In a few Hours from now, Microsoft will launch a Windows Insider Program that will give users who are comfortable with running very early beta software access to Windows 10. This first preview will be available for laptops and desktops. A build for servers will follow later. Microsoft says it is opening up this beta process to get more feedback from more users early on, but also noted that this will be a learning experience for the company and that some experiments users will get in new builds may not make it into the final version.

Watch the below video from Joe Belfiore to see many of these features in action.

Features

Start menu: The familiar Start menu is back, but it brings with it a new customizable space for your favorite apps and Live Tiles.

App_Commands: Everything runs in a window: Apps from the Windows Store now open in the same format that desktop apps do and can be resized and moved around, and have title bars at the top allowing for maximize, minimize, and close with a click.

Snap enhancements: You can now have four apps snapped on the same screen with a new quadrant layout. Windows will also show other apps and programs running for additional snapping and even make smart suggestions on filling available screen space with other open apps.

Task view: New task view button: There’s a new task-view button on the taskbar for quick switching between open files and quick access to any desktops you create.

Virtual desktop: Multiple desktops: Create desktops for different purposes and projects and switch between these desktops easily and pick up where you left off on each desktop.

Find files faster: File Explorer now displays your recent files and frequently visited folders making for finding files you’ve worked on is easier.

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Windows 10 seems really fan, but until the final version is up, Expect anything.

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Google Is Building The Fastest Computer On Planet Earth

Google wants to take computing to warp speed and so what better way to do this than do exactly what they just did. Google has partnered with UC Santa Barbara researchers to develop quantum computing

The internet search company announced a new partnership with researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara to develop "quantum computing" technology.
What is the science behind quantum computing? : This is a highly technical though still very theoretical. In simple terms, quantum computers make use of quantum bits, or qubits, to process information, as opposed to the binary system of ones and zeros used by traditional computer processors.

Scientists say qubits can behave like ones or zeros, or both. In theory, this should make quantum computers exponentially faster than digital computers that use a binary system to process information.

China is currently, China is home to the world's fastest computer, "The Tianhe-2" supercomputer, which is capable of nearly 55 quadrillion of calculations per second. After the development of quantum computer, 55 Quadrillion could look really snail.
The Partners have said they will form a "quantum artificial intelligence team," to lay the groundwork for quantum computing.
Before this, Google heard already been working with scientists at D-Wave Systems on a quantum computer system developing what some call the first commercially viable quantum computer, "The Vesuvius" Google is also working with NASA on a 1,000 qubit "Washington" processor.

Wishing these guys a success. Surely at the end of it all, We all need a faster Computer.

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Facebook Has Launched A New App Used By Celebrities Only

Facebook has launched an app called 'Mentions' Aimed at celebrities,This app will  help manage their public figure pages more effectively with their fans

Mentions will help celebrities share  updates, photos & videos,It also help join popular conversations on Facebook and see the latest posts from followed people.
"From cheering on World Cup players to checking out updates from favourite celebrities, there are more than a billion interactions between public figures and their fans on Facebook every week. We want to make these interactions even better,"-That  was Allison Swope.
Product Manager at Facebook said.
"We're introducing Facebook Mentions, a new Facebook Creative Labs app that makes it easy for public figures to talk with their fans and each other on the go.

"As a public figure, Facebook Mentions lets you: See what fans are saying about you and join the conversation," Said Swope.She also said. "We plan to roll out to more countries and verified Profiles in the coming months. If you are an admin of a verified Page, you can request access to Mentions directly. If you are a public figure, you can also download the iPhone app to request access,"
In  Uganda We havent seen this app but hey, Give it a week, or tow "Hopfully"

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Smart Telecom. The New Telecom In UG.

By now i assume at least half of the population in Kampala already heard of this new telecom company called SMART TELECOM, Also known as SURE TELECOM.

If you have not. Ask 10 friends and am sure at least 5 will confirm they have heard of it though most of them are just not fully informed. This telecom is as a result of the Singapore based telecommunications company SURE TELECOM Re-branding to a new name SMART TELECOM here in Uganda.

Read my previous post: ALL YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SURE TELECOM

Just like the sure telecom we once knew. Smart telecom also offers almost free internet. Actually. Cheap internet. Which is 10,000 UGX per moth. See... Almost free.Though now after about 3 moth of Re-branding to smart telecom. Smart telecom says the 10k offer was a Christmas offer called "xmas 2" which has now expired. So now if any smart telecom fan wants an internet bande, They will have to get the park at 12000 /= for 2GBs of data which is a lot less compared to there previous offer. But hey: 2GB? At 1200 UGX? For a moth?. A lot better than any telecom company in Uganda.

By the way did i mention that 3 minutes of free calls to all networks and 15 minutes smart to smart + 15 SMSs comes along side the 2GB park? So i got to say: From sure to smart these guys haven't completely lost it and we as consummers have got to give them credit. At least for their previous "Xmas 2" offer. Today l wont talk about these guys internet speeds for it is the same as i explained last time. speed is still the same.

Read my previous post when i talk about sure telecoms internet:

ALL YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SURE TELECOM

Just like in my previous post: I WISH THESE GUYS THE BEST

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Facebook Launches A New Feature That Tracks Friends Location

The new feature face book has called “Nearby Friends” will be able to find friends location easily anywhere in the world.

See that phone you are always moving with?. Yea that one. It always knows where you are. That’s why the government or your network operator like MTN,Airtel and the rest can track you any where when you have your phone with you. Well now, it doesn't have to be just the government and your network operator that can see exactly where you are. Any facebook friend can know where you are in a few clicks on Facebook's iOS and Android apps, however will only work for select locations at first.

How this feature works? Nearby friends taps into that steady stream of location information so friends can track each other in real time. The idea is to make it easy for people to meet up in real life, so they can have conversations in person instead of comment threads.

However for your peace of mind, the nearby friends feature is not turned on by default so if you don’t like your friends tracking you, don’t enable it. Friends will not be able to see where you are unless you decide to allow live-tracking in your Face book’s settings. Making a potentially non invasive feature because you can choose to share your general location with all your Face book friends, close friends or a customized list of people you feel most comfortable with.

The Moment this new feature is turned on, the Nearby Friends feature; Facebook starts collecting data on your exact location and keeps details on where you've been in the past, not just places where you've used its app to check in. It also collects location information even when the Facebook app is closed but you can turn off this location history in the Facebook app's settings. It's possible to delete individual locations from a history, or clear the whole thing and start from scratch. There is an option to share your exact location with specific friends, which can be handy for coordinating large groups at concerts or finding someone in a crowded area. Your friends will see a little image of your face on a map for a set period of time.

I have to say however - This is not the first time an application like this has come about. Apps like Highlight, which got a flood of interest in 2012, mapped out the locations of nearby strangers. Facebook also purchased a startup in 2012 called Glancee that also connected strangers. Combined, this is the technology that evolved into this new application and more private feature:”Nearby friends”.

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Windows XP Is Officially Dead But Most Bank ATM'S Sill Use It

Banks scramble to replace Windows XP as microsoft drops support for it.But An estimated 95% of the world’s ATMs still run the 12-year-old operating system. Over 420,000 ATMs are now easy targets for hackers

On 8th April 2014, Microsoft officially dropped support for Windows XP. Despite being ancient in operating system years, XP is still used by anywhere about 95% world wide and about 98% of ATM's here in Uganda 
Statistics says it’s unclear what might happen to all those XP-fueled ATM's, but it’s possible that hackers could take advantage of the system’s openings to steal your card number and pin when you try to take out money.Big banks like Back lays Bank and Crane Bank are more likely to upgrade their systems to keep their customers safe. However it’s unlikely the ATM at your local town especially in the village towns are going to drop the kind of cash it coasts for the upgrade. Plus there's no upgrade that will help any machine made over ten years ago: they’ll just have to be replaced.

ATMs aren’t the only piece of everyday life that uses XP either. Nearly 10 percent of the computers in the US government run the operating system, and nearly 85 percent of the computers in the National Health Service in the U.K. rely on it. Almost half the people in China using a desktop or tablet computer are running XP. Without support for the operating system, any computer running it could become an easy target.

As a user, there's really not much to do to protect yourself from any of these problems, either. While you can upgrade your computer, you can’t control what your local ATM is up to. It might be worth checking to see if they’ve made any changes to keep malware from stealing your information when you try to take out a few bucks. And for the OpenSSL bug, GigaOm writes about the very limited options for what web users can do to make sure their information is safe:

All in all. I hop all our ATMs will soon have the upgrade they need for us all to have that sence of safty.

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Yahoo Thretens To Block Facebook & Google

It's True Yahoo is going to remove the option to sign into any of Yahoo’s services with a Facebook or Google account, both options which have been available for years.

The company will be starting with “Yahoo Sports Tourney Pick ‘Em,” a fantasy college basketball service, and it says it will eventually remove Facebook and Google sign-in buttons from all its products.

Yahoo believes that its services are now attractive enough that Facebook and Google account holders can be compelled to switch — or at least that those who might turn their back on Yahoo now aren’t as valuable as those who stay.

Genuine Yahoo IDs might make users more likely to use other Yahoo services, and their activity can be tracked and experience personalized more easily. Recently, Yahoo freed up a number of new Yahoo usernames.

“This new process, which now asks users to sign in with a Yahoo username, will allow us to offer the best personalized experience to everyone.” a yahoo representative said.

Hope fully it's for the best. Just sit tight and wait.

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