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Microsoft Office Web Apps and Office 2010 Review

With Google launching many web based applications like Google Apps its now the turn of Microsoft to release its own office web Apps a competent tool of Google Apps.With Microsoft Office 2010 getting launched they really see a rough competition as the IT industry is trying to switch over to cloud computing and the tools from Google is really making the work very easy.With the help of Google Apps its really easy for the users to access the documents,spreadsheet and reports online as in Google Apps the documents are stored in a centralized Google Server.Google Apps is free to individual users and for Business purpose it charges $50 per user for a year.Office Web Apps is sure not to have all the features of Microsoft Office 2010 as it is priced at $119 to $499.Price variation is much dependent on the office features and version numbers.

With Google Apps available at free of cost for individual users,Microsoft had the compulsion to release the Office Apps for free but they feel that it will make the users to have hands on about Office 2010 and gives the opportunity for them in making users to buy the real product.

Google Apps Vs Office Apps

Microsoft Office claims that Office Web Apps is coming out with more features to counter Google Apps.Naturally if its going to be Microsoft office word excel and all, users will really feel easy when compared to Google Apps with usability stand point as there will be previous experience in using Microsoft office.With Microsoft products obviously there is going to be a rich User Interface and its also the case with Office Apps.So office apps is claimed to have rich visual representation when compared to Google Apps.

Features of Office Web Apps

    Ability to create, edit and share Office docs with people who have Office and also with people who don’t.

    Enables two people to simultaneously edit the same spreadsheet, Word document or PowerPoint presentation from different locations through a PC, the Web or a Windows Mobile phone.

    The Outlook Social Connector a new feature in Outlook which gives the option to pull up contact information from Facebook and LinkedIn

    Video-editing feature in PowerPoint

    Photo-editing feature in Office Word

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3G Spectrum Auction started in India

If you are now in India then no doubt can be in you getting faster internet connection and 3G from now on.
All the common services around the world like Internet TV, video-on-demand,high speed internet connection,high speed internet in mobile devices will very soon be possible in India as already the Government has started the auction on providing 3G facilities.
Many new high end mobile devices are being released in India especially with the 3G facility but there was no possibility in using these facilities to its greatest extent.But now its very sure that 3G facilities will definitely be available in India though other countries has started looking for 4G connectivity.
As you all know that the bandwidth of a radio signal is defined as the difference between the upper and lower frequencies of the signal.The bandwidth required for 3G services should be as much as 15-20 MHz whereas for 2G its enough if the bandwidth is only around 30-200 KHz.
Auction has started today and it will continue till EOD and the government has set base prices for all the 22 zones at Rs 3,500 crore (Rs 35 billion) and Rs 1,750 crore (Rs 17.50 billion) for BWA.

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From WePad(iPad) to WeTab – A German Tablet Computer

Neofonie a German organisation is coming out with iPad like Tablet device which was named initially as WePad.By later after all the skepticism the tablet device is renamed as WeTab and its release date is set to August.This tablet computer is going to be of 11.6 inch and the device price is also fixed for preorders
The 16GB WiFi-only model will cost around €449 ($573) and the 32GB version will cost around €569 ($726)

WePad oops! WeTab is going to be a 11.6 inch Android based slate with the resolition of about 1366 x 768 pixels whereas iPad is about 9×7 dimension.
WeTab comes with the Intel Atom N450 processor whereas iPad is with Apple’s own processor addition to that WeTab comes with Intel GMA 3150 graphics.WeTab supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with 1.3 MegaPixel Camera.
WeTab weighs in at 800g whereas iPad weighs at 763 grams with Wi-Fi and 3G support but without 3G it is only 680 grams.

Neofonie claims that WeTab comes with many advantages compared to iPad by supporting flash,no software required to play music whereas iPad requires itune kind of softwares to play.
Neofonie also claims that there are already 20,000 customers waiting to do preorder and many customers are waiting for the WeTab release.