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05/09/2013

Microsoft buys Nokia’s devices in $7.2 billion
The shake-up involved phasing out Nokia’s Symbian platform in favour of a partnership with Microsoft, introducing handsets powered by Windows Phone software.

Nokia bet its future on its new Lumia smartphones, aiming to rival Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy.

But Tuesday’s announcement marks the end of Nokia’s days as an independent phone manufacturer.

Some 32,000 Nokia employees are expected to transfer to Microsoft once the deal is concluded, including approximately 4,700 people in Finland, the company said.


The operations affected by the transfer generated approximately 14.9 billion euros in 2012, or almost 50% of Nokia’s net sales, it added.

Of the total purchase price of 5.44 billion euros, 3.79 billion relates to the purchase of Nokia’s devices and services business, and 1.65 billion relates to the mutual patent agreement and future options.

Nokia will book a gain on the sale of some 3.2 billion euros, which would “clearly strengthen our financial position and it will provide a solid basis for future investment in Nokia’s continuing businesses,” Siilasmaa said.
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Last month, Nokia finalised the purchase of German engineering giant Siemens’ 50% stake in Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for 1.7 billion euros.

NSN, which is specialised in high-speed mobile broadband, was set up as a joint venture between the two companies in 2007, a partnership that expired in April. The unit has posted stronger earnings than Nokia’s mobile phone business.

NSN posted a net profit of 8.0 million euros in the second quarter of this year, compared to Nokia’s net loss of 227 million euros in the same period.

The sale to Microsoft is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2014, pending approval by Nokia shareholders and regulatory authorities, Nokia said.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer meanwhile told reporters in a conference call that Windows Phone was “the fastest growing smart platform today, growing by 78% last year.”

“Today’s agreement will accelerate our success in smartphones,” he added.
Men are silhouetted against a video screen with a Nokia logo while posing with Nokia Lumia 820 and Samsung S4 smartphones in this file illustration photograph.

29/08/2013

Concept Fridge of the Future

The present day upright refrigeration units are not very effective in preserving food. They cannot tell when your stored food is reaching expiration and often you need to deal with certain food items that create odor within the refrigerator because they turn bad! Concept of modular refrigeration system called the Future Connect. She replaces the upright rectangular design with a modular system that essentially does away with the classic fridge and freezer separation. This system uses different trays for preserving the meals and these trays can also be used for cooking the food. The trays inform people when a food item is approaching its expiry date to ensure that they eat it before then. Future Connect refrigeration system is far more space-saving and compact than the current designs. Let’s wait for in future emergence of such systems!
Designer: Yujie Peng

29/08/2013

Concept Nokia Lumia Phablet 1025

Here presented a conceptual design for a new line of smartphone Lumia. The device has a thickness of 8 mm and 6-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1152 pixels. Runs on Windows Phone OS. Simple design but very attractive model!

Designer Jonas Dahnert from Phone Designer

29/08/2013

Concept the energy-saving elevator


Many people watching their weight, but it is sometimes difficult to work out or monitor the amount of calories in foods,not to gain overweight. The concept of energy-efficient elevators ½ offers an alternative solution where the elevator stops between floors. This not only reduces power consumption by reducing the number of stops, but also causes people to ascend or descend the stairs to get to the workplace. For example,if you want to use the elevator to reach 2nd floor and someone else wants to reach the 3rd floor, the Eco-Life ½ Lift will stop at 2 ½ floors. Very unexpected, but a very interesting concept!
Designer: Dengjun

27/08/2013

Windows 9 release date, news and rumours

UPDATED What do we know about the future of Windows?


With Windows 8 and now Windows 8.1, Microsoft tried - not entirely successfully - to make tablets part of a continuum that goes from number-crunching workstations and high-end gaming rigs through all-in-one touchscreen media systems and thin-and light notebooks down to slender touch tablets, all with the same OS, aiming for the best of both of today's computing worlds. What will it do for the next version of Windows?
Despite rumours of an aggressive development and shipping schedule, there's no official word about what's in the next version of Windows, but there are plenty of rumours (many of them from Chinese enthusiast sites that claim to have leaked builds), plus more reliable information from job adverts for the Windows and Windows Phone teams.
There are also patents, which may or may not be relevant, and some rare comments from developers on the Windows team. Here's what we've heard about Windows 9 and what we think is happening.
Windows Blue turned out to be Windows 8.1 rather than a completely new version of the Windows OS, which is what we'd expect Windows 9 to be.
There's certainly a new development cadence, where Microsoft puts out new releases of Windows, Windows RT and Windows Server every year, the way it already does for Windows Phone.
The next version of Windows is being referred to by Microsoft people who post their details on LinkedIn as Windows 9; as usual, that will be a codename that might change.
While still just a codename, Windows 9 has also been referenced by Microsoft in a job posting, spotted by MSFT Kitchen on 13 March 2013.
The ad, for a Bing Software Development Engineer, says that the team will be delivering products "in areas including Windows 9, IE11 services integration, touch friendly devices including iPad and more."
Windows 9 release date

Microsoft communications chief Frank Shaw said Microsoft wasn't ready to talk about how often Windows might come out when we spoke to him in January, but he agreed "you have certainly seen across a variety of our products a cadence that looks like that; Windows Phone is a good for example of that, our services are a good example of that".
We don't know if Windows 9 will be available as an upgrade from Windows 7 that you can buy as a standalone product or if you'll have to have Windows 8 to get the upgrade. But it may not be with us for a while yet - Windows business chief Tami Reller has talked about "multiple selling seasons" for Windows 8, meaning that we'll likely have several versions of it.
Windows 9 to be cheaper, smaller, with more apps

In the last Microsoft earnings call CFO Peter Klein made it clear that Microsoft has got the message that Windows 8 tablets need to be cheaper; "we know that our growth depends on our ability to give customers the exciting hardware they want, at the price-points they demand."
Another revealing Microsoft job advert talks about having Windows Phone and WinRT apps run on both Windows Phone and Windows. "Do you wish the code you write for Windows Store apps would just work on the Windows Phone and vice versa? If so, then this is the role for you! We are the team leading the charge to bring much of the WinRT API surface and the .NET Windows Store profile to the Phone."
That sounds like a longer term goal, given that the job advert was on the Microsoft Careers site at the beginning of February, and it's being driven by the Windows Phone team (we don't expect to see the next version of Windows Phone until the autumn), but it could give developers an incentive to write apps for the Windows Store and give Windows 9 users more to choose from. Scaling apps to fit different size screens would help here too.
Windows 9 power management

A recent Channel 9 video featuring Bruce Worthington, who leads the team working on Windows power management fundamentals, included some rather technical details about saving power in Windows and the improvement in Windows 8.
"If you look at the number of times we would wake up the CPU per second," he explained, "for Windows 7 you would typically see numbers on the order of one millisecond. We would literally be waking up the CPU a thousand times per second. If you look at Windows 8, on a clean system, we have numbers that are better than a hundred milliseconds. "
Now that Windows Phone 8 is based on the Windows Phone kernel, power management has to get better. "Now we're looking forward to the next release and we can get even farther - especially as we start interacting more and more with our phone brethren.
"They want us to be quiet for multiple seconds at a time. They even talk about minutes in some scenarios which is pretty far afield for us, to be thinking about minutes of being completely quiet. At least getting into the multi-second we're definitely ready to think about that."
Especially with Haswell bringing Connected Standby to Core systems, not just low-power Atom tablets, saving power looks like a priority for Windows 9 (especially if it comes out at the same time as Intel's new chips.
"For the next release there's all kinds of things we've already identified that are going be quite challenging but at the same time the user is going to get a tremendous boost forward," Worthington promised.
Windows 9 gestures and experiences

There are features we predicted for Windows 8 based on Microsoft patents and technologies we've seen demonstrated by Microsoft leaders like CTO Craig Mundie that didn't make it into the OS. There are features Microsoft plans for every version of Windows that get cut to ship on time; sometimes they reappear, sometimes they don't.
Kinect-based 3D gestures might be on the cards this time around, especially as we hear that some notebooks will soon get 3D
Windows 9 release date, news and rumours
UPDATED What do we know about the future of Windows?




cameras - although from other suppliers rather than Microsoft.
Using two cheap webcams rather than an expensive 3D camera could make gesture recognition hardware cheap enough for laptops and then you could wave at the screen from a distance.
And maybe Direct Experience will arrive in Windows 9. The patent explains this as a way of starting Windows to play media files in a special purpose operating system and there are improvements in Hyper-V for Windows Server 8 that Microsoft could use to make Windows 9 work better for this, like being able to move a virtual machine from one place to another while it's running.
Maybe that would even work with the next version of the Xbox - which will be based on the Windows kernel and is expected to ship in the autumn.

24/08/2013

24/08/2013

Concept of kitchen gadget

If submit the futuristic kitchen a appliances, that project "Food Hub" will give odds to any concept. The device is designed to work with foods that are in your home and how you use them. The device is also capable of storing individual diet for the whole family, the stock of recipes and can be synchronized with your smartphone to help while shopping.

Designer Francisco Barboza Grasa

24/08/2013

Concept electronic reader in the style of a paper book

Here is the concept of an electronic reader that mimics the look of a good old book. A cover connects the two displays. A cover represents a screen that allows you to customize its appearance on the taste of the user.
Designer: Fabrice Dubuy

24/08/2013

Delightful concept Apple iWatch

If you are lucky, in less than a month, Apple will introduce the debut of smart watch iWatch. Designers demonstrate a riot of imagination and constantly developing concepts of this toy.
The next creation the Apple-style was concept iWatch. This concept was presented Italian artists of studio Ciccarese Design. Team of Italian professionals and IT engineers including designer Federico Ciccarese have developed their version of new Apple iWatch concept. Unlike most of the concepts, shown previously, this toy is made in a hard case. This is not flexible bracelet with an opening into which the hand must go. The solution outside the box, but it is quite pretty. Furthermore, such fixing comfortable enough in practice, so that, ergonomics here on top.
In design traced branded the "apple" style, a sense of continuity interface on smart watches, user space resembles the look of iOS 7. Unfortunately, one can hardly count on the fact that Apple really decides to release something as attractive as this concept iWatch.
Designer Federico Ciccarese

22/08/2013

Concept C3 – a single interface for the kitchen

Here is concept of interactive touch interface for managing all kitchen appliances. It gives us a glimpse of our kitchen in the near future in 2022. You do not just preparing food, and set the personal relationship with the kitchen. And of cooking food process will be very exciting! Although we may have a different attitude to this, is not it?
Designer: Orlando Mendoza