Will Satya Nadella be the next CEO at Microsoft?

The current Cloud Chief at Microsoft, Satya Nadella, an Indian who was born in Hyderabad, is expected to be the next CEO of the company. The report was recently published in Bloomberg about him being the next chief executive.

After so much discussion and search the company seems to have finally found “the man”, who will now be positioned as the Chief Executive, its Nadella. The preparations to name him as CEO are almost complete, but when the company will announce it officially, seem veiled. Currently he is the Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise division. Nadella has been a front-runner in the race of candidates considered appropriate to replace the CEO, Steve Ballmer as the new officer. Ballmer officially announced his step down from this post in August last year.

Speculations about replacing Bill Gates, Chairman at Microsoft are also being made. As per Bloomberg, Gates who is also the co-founder of Microsoft will be replaced by John Thompson, who is the lead independent director at this brand. If Gates leaves as suggested by PCWorld, Microsoft will lose two of its most iconic employees.

The biggest problem linked with replacing Gates or Ballmer is that no other executive at Microsoft has gone through the product range, as these two have. These entail the Xbox, a consumer business product or Azure which is a cloud service or Visual Studio, which is Windows business, server and deployment services and also the upcoming mobile business.

Nadella who is 44, is an engineer who was born in India and who has earned a degree in electronics and computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, also business administration from the University of Chicago. Nadella has been employed at Microsoft since 1992 and has in his credit the launch of Commerce Server of Microsoft, which is BizTalk, and also the Microsoft’s Office Small Business Products.

Nadella, however, is most known for changing the Windows Live Search to Bing. Currently the search offering at Microsoft stands at 18.2%, which is based on the recent earnings of the company.

The sole issues associated with the selection of Nadella as the new CEO is that he has no experience as a chief executive, which is what makes others in the race like Tony bates who ran Skype or Allan Mulally from Ford, people who can’t just be left behind. Mulally, meanwhile in January, commented that he is not leaving Ford sooner.

‘Devices and services’ strategy has been commitment of Ballmer. So, if Nadella is selected as the new CEO it’s still doubtful that whether he will commit to that strategy. Meanwhile, his career record indicates that he will accomplish at least one half of that strategy, if not full.

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First of Firefox OS tablet’s specs announced officially

One operating system that till now lacked support for the new tablet devices of today, which is Mozilla Firefox, has been trying to do so since last year. Recently the same got successful in the form of a first prototype device, which is being released by Foxconn. The full specs for this device have now been revealed to help in unveiling the news to users, eagerly awaiting this release.

The prototype for now has been codenamed as Flatfish. It’s an Ifocus New Tab F1 built by Foxconn and is not one that will boast a lot of speculating features and is 10 inch in dimension. The price at which it is being sold at some sites is very reasonable.

This new tablet which is the Firefox OS tablet stands similar to the ZTE Open. This tablet basically aims at a group of people who do not wish to spend good money on a web device, but are still looking for a decent web surfing experience.

Inside the Firefox tablet the processor installed is quad-core Allwinner locked at 1.0 GHz. Even not being the most latest or powerful in line, but the same still manages to deliver a solid performance and without creating a hole in the buyer’s pocket. The 2 GB memory space is not over the board, but is enough to satisfy the memory needs of most users of today.

As for the internal storage, 16 GB is a pretty decent figure. Also, there is a microSD slot that can help in expansion. One unique feature that the Firefox tablet packs and most other Android tablets of today lack are two cameras, the rear-facing camera is 5 MP, while the front-facing camera is 2 MP. Thus, participating in a video calling session will now seem hassle-free, with this tab handy.

The Wi-Fi connectivity is great, which will help users stay seamlessly connected with the web. Another enticing feature is the good amount of battery backup, not something like the iPad does, but users can easily use the same continuously for 5-6 hours, without worrying about a low-battery message. Also, the standby time is of one week.

The older tablets released from Foxconn did not manage to grab great reviews from users and the same were moreover not every popular in the race. Touch feature and operating system were among the primary reasons, which users found dilemmatic. With this new tablet, it seems Foxconn and Mozilla Firefox OS have already soothed out the existing issues.

Seeing the price at which this new Firefox operating system tablet is going to be sold, even if some loopholes or glitches remain, users will not get very disappointed or turned down, seeing the many great features it packs.

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Make passwords smartly: the list for 25 top passwords for 2013

Passwords are words that must be different from those which are used on a daily basis and should be difficult to crack. And if you till now thought that after constantly reading the above statements, users might have become little discerning with their passwords, then think again as you are wrong, can’t say how? It’s because here we have the list of 25 passwords that were the most common ones to be used last year.

The list has been compiled from the millions of passwords that were stolen by hackers. A major part of these relates with the Adobe hackers which targeted 38 million victims that took place in October, last year. The list even includes two new passwords, which are “photoshop” and “adobe123”, which explains there entry now. From this, you should now understand that using the name of the program you are logging into is the worst idea and a complete no-no.

Since a long-long time, 2013 for a change didn’t list the word “password” as the number one choice, as it has now moved down to the second place, with 123456 taking the top spot. More options from the new entrants include azerty and the ever- mysterious 000000. So, folks, start behaving smart, as it’s your password, which must be chosen with care and not just because it’s easy to recall.

The list of 25 most popular password choices for 2013, goes in the following way in the downhill order from 25 to 1…

1. On number 25, a new entrant as 000000
2. On number 24, we have trustno1, which last year was on number 12
3. On 23^rd place there is a new entrant as azerty
4. On 22^nd place again a new name- princess
5. On 21^st we have password1, which moved up from last year’s 25^th place
6. On 20^th a new one again as 12345
7. On 19^th its sunshine that’s fallen from last years 14^th spot
8. On 18^th, shadow stays unchanged
9. On 17^th its monkey that slipped from 8^th position
10. On 16^th- a new option as 1234
11. On 15^th, again a new option, which is photoshop
12. On 14^th, an inviting password, letmein, down by 7 places
13. On 13^th, a new option as 1234567890(pretty loooong)
14. On 12^th, again a new option as admin
15. On 11^th, is last year’s 16^th one which is 123123
16. On 10^th, a new entrant as adobe123 (Oct attack)
17. On 9^th the proposal word iloveyou, up by 2 places
18. On 8^th, up by 5 places is 1234567
19. On 7^th, up by 2 places is 111111
20. On 6^th there is a new one as 123456789
21. On 5^th, falling from 6^th place is abc123
22. On 4^th, up by one place is qwerty
23. 3^rd remaining unchanged is 12345678
24. On 2^nd its password, falling from the 1^st place held since many years
25. On the top place its 123456, which was the 2^nd on list last year 

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Is end of email approaching? What will replace this service?

Email is something that many users use, but do you actually know, for how long the service will continue?  The use of email became very-very popular in 2008, after which the same has been falling steadily. However, even with all the frustration and fatigue, no alternative have been released for the same till day.

A growing number of organizations are now becoming frustrated with emails, security being the prime concern behind the same. Dealing with a number of unwanted emails is another productivity killer. But, even with the trouble, users have nothing else to opt for.

The trends in workforce are rapidly changing and the idea of distributed workforces and replacing full-time employees with part-timers or freelancers have made emails slower and ineffective than before.  This problem has made social intranets all the more useful and the choicest tool for most organizations. These social intranets are cloud based collaboration platforms used internally that combine information sharing on social media with rapid communication and workflow management tools that are of enterprise level.

The social intranets that are existing present a significant jump in business communications, helping users learn from the social media boom and email shortcomings, together. The complete transition however still remains an on-paper thing, which will require some time to get accepted completely.

Still in their budding stage, but social intranets, are gradually climbing the popularity charts among SMBs, startups and organizations alike.

And the contestants are…

Some names on this front which are testing the social intranet waters are Chatter by Salesforce, Yammer. Also, companies like Thomson Reuters and T-Mobile are turning to Jive, another of such tools. These are the top three contenders dominating the space of social intranet, but the field is seeing new members regularly. As more and more businesses are asking for such social intranet, the entry of new providers in the marketplace is increasing. The names include Hall, Collaboration Spaces that had about 10,000 customers from enterprises, as reported in early 2013.

It’s a long way to go

Social intranet has turned into a viable alternative for email, but the journey is still too long and hard to finish. The same will pave difficulties, especially among workers where it will act more than a digital bulletin board, which is normally seen in a breakroom.

Most companies still are unaware about the advantages that moving away from emails can bestow them with. So, finding a better solution is not something, which users are looking for in a hurry.

The shift from emails to social intranet will be a gradual one, but the speed has slowly started moving up. This will however help users spend less time navigating through the inbox and worry about the other core works.

So, breathing a new life into email is still a hard nut to crack and will take much time to get practical.

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Top 5 tech slumps of 2013

Every year brings with it many new technologies, but not every one of these are able to make to the top. Some excel, some stay on an average scale and yet others appear to be a blunder or total flop. 

So, as the New Year has already begun, here is a quick list of the biggest tech flops, which 2013 faced, and these are in no particular order. Not everyone is a tech failure, but some carry with them other reasons as well; like failure in marketing, management or the conception.

1. HealthCare.gov is one such tech fail, which experts believe need no comments and is a widely accepted truth. Commentators believe that this tech fail should take a spot 1 through 9.
2. Twitter Music, this follow based music did not gain traction, most users don’t even know about the same and it goes similarly for Facebook Home. It’s a phone app suite to give users enhanced Facebook experience. The two have been clubbed together, as commentators believe that placing them individual will be like waste.
3. Blackberry is another tech fail, which is going down at a very fast speed and saw nothing good in 2013.
4. The Surface Tablet by Microsoft was another name on the disappointment list. iPad still appears to take the top position  and many businesses still look at Microsoft for presenting a business tablet hybrid soon. Microsoft on the other hand believes to cover up for these shortcomings with the next generation Surface.
5. Yahoo Email Outage was another of the biggest tech fails for 2013. The latest of such outages took place just few weeks back leaving most users without any access of their email accounts for not one, but several days together. So, if you too rely on this for your business emails, it’s time now to wake up and move towards something more reliable!

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Chrome for desktops updated with noisy tab icons, improved malware blocking

A new update for the Google Chrome web browser for desktops has now been released for the version 32 for Operating Systems- Windows, Linux and OS X. It’s about the new ‘noisy’ tab feature and some other changes that were introduced in the Chrome 32 beta back in November in 2013.

More from the new features is improved security and instant pop-ups for malware blocking. Also, the ‘Supervised User feature’ for family and the ‘Metro’ interface for users of Windows 8 were added.

Users now have freedom to track tabs playing audio or video files, especially when they have multiple tabs open at any given time, with the icon representation. The tabs can also be viewed using a webcam or as being shown to their TVs.

As per Google, the enhanced features on Chrome will help users in tracking down the malware more easily with pop-ups that will appear even before the file is downloaded. The pop-up can be removed in case a file seems safe. The ‘Safe Browsing Program’ is already a part of this browser that gives warning about malicious sites or files that are malware infected.

‘Supervised Users’ feature is another great security tool that can help the members of the family get along a guide that can assist in restricting sites listed by the admin user. Managing websites can be accomplished via the Chome.Com/Manager; the feature for now has been released only in the beta version for users.

The last on this list is the update for the ‘Metro mode for Windows 8’. It comes with an integrated Google app launcher that will assist in managing multiple windows at one time. The desktop app for Windows saw a revamp, with scroll bars and UI elements like form controls seeing a design change to match with the sleek design of the Chrome Metro interface. The features were initially seen in the 32 beta version of Chrome released in November 2013.

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New updated Chrome for Android and iOS will bring down data consumption significantly

Google, the search engine king, recently announced an upgrade for the Chrome app for iOS and Android, for the version 32. The new apps will help in bringing down the data consumption of users by as much as 50%. The affordability of smartphones and improved access to internet has led to the increased popularity of internet surfing, which has shifted from desktops to laptops and now smartphones and tablets as well.

A survey showed that more than 20% users in America make use of their mobile phones for browsing the web. Google, seeing this count says that the chief issue is linked with the data consumption on a cell phone or tablet, if it is not connected with a Wi-Fi network. And specially when using a 3G or 4G connection, data allowance can run out within days, even before the user being aware about the same.

The new update on Google will make use of data compression and bandwidth management on iOS and Android devices, which will bring down data consumption by almost half. After the version gets updated, following steps would be needed to undertake. Start at Settings>Bandwidth Management>Reduced Data Usage, you just need to put the switch on, which would then start saving data and managing bandwidth automatically. You can also check the bandwidth saved every month by checking the menu. The feature will also initiate the Safe Browsing Technology for malicious WebPages by Chrome.

Announcement about adding Google Translate to Google Chrome for iOS soon have also been made. This is to help Chrome translate pages of foreign languages easily, for this user will just need to click Translate in the translation bar.

Another app in the new and updated version Chrome 32 is the shortcut app. This will give users freedom to create shortcuts of their favorite websites in the homescreen to help them in enjoying easier and faster web browsing.  For this you will need to visit a website and select “Add to homescreen” alternative there. Whenever a saved website is opened by clicking on the shortcut, a user can get access to a full-screen experience and it will appear as a different app in the Android app switcher.

The new and updated version of Chrome has already been started to roll out and the same will reach users globally within just few days from now. The update can also be downloaded by navigating through the Google Play Store or the iTunes App Store.

The Chrome for Desktop app by Google too was updated recently. The new features added were enhanced Safe Browsing and the addition of noisy tabs.

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