Android-enabled smartphones have penetrated global smartphone markets as they are technologically advanced and affordable and available in variety for everyone who might want something different from their smartphones like someone wants a great camera or someone would stick to better performance and likewise. High-end and flagship smartphones are packed with all features bundled together which makes it quite impressive though it’s inexpensive. However, there are few problems that even the high-end smartphones couldn’t deny....

Microsoft has made good on its promise to roll out full iPadOS trackpad support to its Office apps for iPad. Microsoft said support for iPadOS trackpad features would arrive this fall, and it announced today that the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for iPad are now being updated to fulfill that promise. With full support for the iPadOS cursor, Microsoft says Word, PowerPoint, and Excel are all now ready for Apple’s Magic Keyboard accessory, as well as any other trackpad you connect to your iPad....

According to Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows Phone Blog: If you’re a Windows Phone enthusiast and don’t have 8.1 yet, make sure to read our article: How to Get Windows Phone 8.1 Update Now. That is our step-by-step guide on how to get Windows Phone 8.1 for free by signing up as a developer – and no, you don’t have to be an actual developer at all. As I mentioned in that article, Microsoft refers to the 8....

Unfortunately, we don’t know much about what the updates contain other than improving upgrade experiences and enhancements for functionality. The company released the following updates: KB3081448: This update includes improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10.KB3081449: This update improves the Windows 10 out-of-box experience (OOBE). This update applies only to the Windows 10 OOBE process and will be available only at the time that OOBE updates are installed.KB3081452: This update makes improvements to ease the upgrade experience to Windows 10....

Horror director and The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan is bringing Midnight Mass to Netflix, and here’s what we know about it so far. While he’s not quite a household name on the level of someone like James Wan, Flanagan has spent the last decade establishing himself as one of the most dependable horror filmmakers working. Just about everything he’s been involved with has been great, and even his lesser efforts tend to still be decent....

Following this year’s Comic-Con and Disney’s D23 Expo, the full slate for the MCU’s Phase 4 has been announced. There have been plenty of delightful surprises, like the casting of Kit Harington as the Black Knight or the Disney+ series confirmed for Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, and Moon Knight. In addition to all the new characters being added to the franchise, some that we thought had been forgotten by Marvel Studios have been confirmed to be returning… in some form or another....

Somehow, though, we just never find the time. Ambitions drive us. Work overwhelms us. And time messes with our minds. How, then, have we changed during the two years of the pandemic? Have we stopped to consider a little? Or has the painful awkwardness – for some – of working from home caused us to work more and smell far fewer roses? Helpfully, Microsoft has been intensely researching what’s happening to our heads and souls....

Microsoft announced on its Office Web Apps blog this afternoon that its preview platform gained touch-enabled support on Safari for iOS to make it easier to navigate while on the go. Microsoft said OWA is sporting the same new interface that was introduced a week ago—except its been updated with a “focus on scenarios and experiences on a touch device.” Scenarios include zooming in and out of documents with two fingers, easily tapping to place an insertion point between words to begin typing, and selecting multiple words to easily edit....

Microsoft today officially launched the new Autofill solution, which lets users easily store and manage their website passwords across different devices — including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows PCs, and Android phones. Autofill was already available as part of a beta program, but now Microsoft is making the tool available to all users through the Microsoft Authenticator app, a Google Chrome extension, and also Microsoft Edge. Just like iCloud Keychain, Microsoft Autofill stores your passwords and makes it easy to enter them on websites....

According to a reply by John1F Microsoft Forum moderator on the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 forum: The following updates will be listed as “System Firmware Update – 12/3/2015” or “System Hardware Update – 12/3/2015” within the Windows Update History. HD Graphics 520 driver update (v20.19.15.4326) improves display stability.Surface Display Calibration driver update (v1.1.381.0) supports compatibility with the updated graphics driver. Note When Surface updates are provided via the Windows Update service, they are delivered in stages to Surface customers....

Windows 11 Build 22454 for Dev Channel Note: As the Microsoft team notes, “Builds released to the Dev Channel no longer match the Windows 11 experience that will be released to customers on October 5th.” These builds will include the latest features that will be tested for future feature updates. Keep in mind that Dev Channel builds will be far less stable than builds released to the Beta Channels. Here is the list of changes and improvements in this release:...

This year in Google’s I/O conference event, the Google team announced Android 12. However, at the conference, they said that this an extensive redesign with lots of new personalization settings, performance improvements, and privacy features for your respective device. This time, we actually get our hands on non-Pixel devices. Meanwhile, Android users are already getting excited about the latest Android 12 update. In addition to this, the Meizu phone users worried about getting the latest OS update....

The clarification was posted after the company’s comments made headlines across some media outlets, with German Economy Minister Robert Habeck and French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire reportedly clapping back at Meta’s “threat” by saying they would be okay with Facebook not having a presence in Europe. In Meta’s annual 10-K filing [PDF] to US regulators, the company wrote: “If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted … we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe....

Proof positive of the new fear in at Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s HQ is contained within the company’s recently-filed Form 10-K. This time around, Microsoft has introduced a new risk factor that has never been there before – and while the company fails to name the company that threatens it, you can draw your own conclusions. “A competing vertically-integrated model, in which a single firm controls both the software and hardware elements of a product, has been successful with certain consumer products such as personal computers, mobile phones and digital music players," Microsoft’s threat assessment states, adding, “We also offer vertically-integrated hardware and software products; however, efforts to compete with the vertically integrated model may increase our cost of sales and reduce operating margins....

The company is not ending the development of perpetual versions of the suite, but users will need to move to the latest versions in order to access all of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud services. For example, Office 2016 which was launched in September 2015 will have its mainstream support end in 2020. So, if you don’t cut over to a Microsoft Office subscription by then, it will no longer be supported to connect to Microsoft’s cloud services....

In a lengthy piece, titled “Microsoft’s Lost Decade”, Kurt Eichenwald of Vanity Fair profiled CEO Steve Ballmer and his role in the company’s steadily decreasing dominance. The piece includes interviews with current and past executives of the company, thousands of internal docs and legal records, and, not surprisingly, Apple’s role in the decline of Microsoft makes up a large part of the story: Truly, for senior management, the problems didn’t make sense....

Dario Agger, the Minotaur who runs Roxxon, could be the real buyer of Stark Tower - setting him up to be a major villain in the MCU. The sale of Stark Tower was a major sub-plot in Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Marvel was careful to not avoid revealing just who’d bought the Avengers’ old HQ. That reticence looked deliberate, as though Marvel had purposefully left a loose end that they’d tie up at a later date....

Gestures Beta App for Windows Phone Here’s a look at what you can do with the new app according to Microsoft: Answer a call by picking up your phone and putting it to you earMute your mic during a call by placing the phone on a flat surface with the display facing downPut the call on speaker by placing the phone on a flat surface with the display facing upSilence incoming call ringer by flipping phone display down...

Today Microsoft is launching a new app called ‘Invite’ that makes scheduling meetings with others easier. The app is arriving first for iPhone and iPad users in the US and Canada with more platforms and locations to follow. Microsoft made a point of noting that the app “works best for people with Office 365 business and school subscriptions,” but it also supports other client apps including outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, and Gmail....

Windows 10 Preview Build 20150 Here’s a look at the general changes and improvements included in today’s new build: With this week’s build, we’ll be starting to roll out the new search box on the default app settings pages As part of this, we’ve done some work to improve the performance of the search box.The new Korean IME is now available again for Insiders to use.Based on feedback, we’re updating the text of the Settings > Privacy > Location page to clarify that the icon displayed when your location is being used will be displayed in the taskbar....