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Nokia will continue it's partnership with Carl Zeiss, despite reporting losses.

Finnish mobile manufacturer has decided to extend its partnership with digital photography giant Carl Zeiss.
“When joining forces with Nokia in 2005, we wanted to push the boundaries of mobile photography. Looking back at seven years of successful partnership, we are proud of the innovations and outstanding products created in this shared journey,” Carl Zeiss’s Michael Kaschke said in a statement.
Recently, the Lumia 710 instantly pushed Nokia to one status in the list of top-selling Windows Phone manufacturers, largely because of its highly accessible price of just $50 after service agreement and mail-in rebate.

Mozilla's Firefox design mockup for Metro UI revealed.

To fight and retain it's market value, Mozilla gives us a glimpse into it's future version of Firefox browsers.
It's aim is to penetrate into more of a "soft, friendly, human" ecosystem.
This project is named as "Kilimanjaro".

Microsoft's new approach towards cloud services outlined.

In his latest blog post for the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft's Steven Sinofksy explains the company's new approach to cloud services in Windows 8 and Windows Phone.
Now, you can log in with Twitter or Facebook, apart from Microsoft's own services to gain access to Microsoft's various services.
Microsoft's Messenger re-branded to "Messaging", as simple as it is.

Windows Phone Developer Meet at June 20th, in San Francisco.

Microsoft had just announced Windows Phone Developer Summit in San Francisco for June 20th and 21st.
It's scheduled a week before Google I/O.
Invitation teases with "developer opportunities and platform capabilities in Windows Phone."

Via Engadget

Microsoft Research Lab shows Vermeer, a 'touchable' 360-degree holographic display.

Vermeer, it’s a 360 degree spinning display covered with glass dome like structure. It uses IR (Infra Red) Sensors, which tracks the hand motion and touch. The Holographic image (3D) is formed in between the glass dome, with the help of parabolic reflectors. In the below video, they have explained, how Vermeer Works.

Windows 7 Mobile "App Hub" now accepts Apps submission for China and Five other countries.

With a view of expanding its Virtual Store, Microsoft’s App Hub now enable you to distribute apps and games to even more customers in more countries. App Hub now allows you to submit apps for distribution in 6 new markets, viz., China, Argentina, Indonesia, Peru, Malaysia and the Philippines.

The Apps from the countries like China, Indonesia and Malaysia, may have to wait a little while compared to other three countries as they are subjected to additional requirements due to local laws, regulations or norms.

Microsoft back in race with Cloud Office.

With the increase in worry of grabbing its market share, Microsoft, world's largest software company, does a major overhaul to it's office tools to provide seamless Cloud sync.

Now the revamped application which include Outlook email, Excel spreadsheets and SharePoint collaboration tools are churned into an online format so that customers or the users can use them on a various devices with help of internet connection.

Coming Soon..... Jailbreak your Win 7 phone with Microsoft's approval.

Soon, will small fee, you will be able to jailbreak your Microsoft's Windows 7 phone with ChevronWP7 Tools with the OS makers permission.

Announced at Windows Phone Dev Podcast, ChevronWP7 Labs, with the approval, will help users to jail break their devices, allowing users to load homebrew apps on their Windows handsets.

Microsoft delivering updates to drive away Malware.

With the release of the Windows AutoRun updates for Vista and XP SP3, Microsoft had seems to be successful in driving away the bad guys from you computer.

Between February and May of this year, the updates have reduced the number of incidents by 1.3 million compared to the three months prior for the supported Vista and XP builds. And when compared May of last year, we see a 68 percent decline in the amount of incidents reported across all builds of Windows using Microsoft's Malicious Software Remove Tool.

Kinect for Windows SDK beta may be out this week.

According to site named WinRumors, Microsoft may be releasing beta version of the SDK(Kinect for Windows) tomorrow. This may be true because Channel 9 promise to host "special Kinect focused event" tomorrow. Adding fuel to fire is WinRumors reported that the President of Microsoft Spain said during an appearance at a conference today that the beta SDK would be available "this week."