In addition to Office 2010, Microsoft is also offering businesses worldwide the RTM versions of SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010. In fact, some customers have already been able to buy and download Office 2010 RTM from the software giant for quite some time, starting with MSDN and TechNet subscribers, which got access to the bits a few days after the productivity suite was wrapped up.

“As information work evolves in response to external trends and technological innovations, the tools for information work must evolve as well. Microsoft Office, as the primary vehicle by which people experience Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI) capabilities, continues to expand to support the changing requirements of businesses and information workers around collaboration, mobility and secure access to business data, while providing value, simplicity and integration throughout the BPI stack,” Microsoft stated.

“Over the years, Microsoft Office has provided increasingly richer capabilities through integration with back-end server components such as Microsoft SharePoint. Office 2010 continues this evolution. Though good results can be achieved using Office 2007 applications with SharePoint 2007, the highest level of value and capabilities can be realized through the integration of Microsoft Office 2010 with SharePoint 2010,” the company added.

Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, will be the one announcing the worldwide availability of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, with an emphasis on the fact that the two offerings represent the future of business productivity. One of the strongest selling points for Office 2010 is that the productivity suite is not limited to the PC, but stretches to smartphones and to the Cloud, with Office Web Apps.

An official statement from Sony reads, “improved performance within the game business and Vaio PCs as a result of better than anticipated reductions in both operating expenses and manufacturing cost.” The results are pretty good when taking into account the fact that Sony lost more than 1 billion dollars during fiscal 2008.

The huge loss spurred the company to make some significant cuts in personnel and streamline the structure of its divisions. When it comes to the games division, Sony put out the new PlayStation 3 Slim, a hardware version of its home console that uses less energy and has a smaller profile.

Since the new device was launched in August 2009, sales of the PS3 have jumped significantly, helped by a string of high profile videogame launches like Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Heavy Rain or God of War 3. The overall aim is to get the games and services division to turn a profit before March 2011.

The PlayStation 3 is set to get two significant upgrades during 2011: a motion tracking controller and the ability to play 3D videogames. The PlayStation Move is set to arrive at some point during the fall and will compete directly with Microsoft’s Project Natal, while the 3D abilities will be delivered via firmware updates throughout the year.

Part of her ongoing efforts of expanding the concept of beauty and of showing that it’s more than just a standard, “Modelland” promises to be a unique journey into a fantasy world, one that will undoubtedly enchant readers regardless of whether they’re 8 or 80, the model promises. It is a project on which she’s been working hard for quite some time and that has been on her mind for years, so she’s now positively thrilled to be making the announcement of the upcoming release.

“Hi everybody… I’m so EXCITED!! I said I was going to do it, and here it is! It’s for all the girls and guys who want a lot more FANTASY in their lives… and some fierceness and magic, romance and mystery, crazy and wild adventures, and yeah, some danger too. It’s my novel called Modelland (pronounced “Model Land”) that takes you to a fantastical place you’ve never seen, or heard about, or read about before… Where dreams come true and life can change in the blink of a smoky eye. I think Modelland is going to really touch the dreamer in all of us, whether you’re aged anywhere from 8 to 80. (Please don’t be mad if you’re 7 or 81, but ‘eight to eighty’ sounds better!)” Tyra writes.

“The story happens in a make-believe place called Modelland – every girl in the world wants to go there because it’s where ‘Intoxibellas’ are trained. Intoxibellas are drop-dead beautiful, kick-butt fierce and, yeah, maybe they have some powers too. (But I’m confirming NOTHING! Ha. You gotta wait for the book.) The story follows a teen girl and her friends who find themselves magically transported to Modelland, even though they’re really not supposed to be there. (Okay, now, that’s ALL I’m saying!)” she continues.

Out thanks to a partnership between Tyra’s newly founded Bankable Books and Random House, the book will also include characters that are based on people that crossed paths with Tyra in the past, she adds. In the end, “Modelland” is a story about powerful women and, at the same time, a celebration of beauty even outside norms.

Here’s a really useful little tool that you’ll definitely want to add to your Quick Launch bar. It’s called Universal Viewer, and that’s about a good a summary of what it does, as it’s possible to get. Simply click the file open icon, locate the file you want to look at, double click on it and like as not the Universal Viewer will be able to open it. It can handle a very wide range of standards and formats including (deep breath) text, binary, hex and unicode: (RTF, UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded text), bmp, jpg, gif, png, tga, tiff, etc. plus all formats supported by IrfanView/XnView and external viewers. All formats supported by MS Windows Media Player including: avi, mpg, wmv, mp3 etc. All common web format: html pdf, xml, mht etc. All formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins. And not forgetting all MS Office file types (if installed): doc, docx, xls, ppt etc.

In short no more hunting around for the right application, if you want to open a file try Universal Viewer first.

Being an LTS (Long Term Support) release, Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) will be definitely a stable, secure, reliable and good-looking operating system! Without further introduction, we’ll let you enjoy the new wallpapers. Congrats to the authors of these beautiful photographs!

On April 29th, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) will become the 12th release of the Ubuntu operating system.

Among some of the interesting features that will be present in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), we can mention the newly released GNOME 2.30 desktop environment, which brings lots and lots of improvements in many areas, such as Nautilus, Empathy, Evolution, Tomboy, Totem, Rhythmbox, and many more. Lucid’s kernel packages will be based on Linux kernel 2.6.32, and applications such as Oracle’s OpenOffice.org 3.2, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Transmission 1.92 or Pidgin 2.6.6, Mozilla Thunderbird 3 and The GIMP 2.6.8 (all three available from the repositories) will also be present in the final version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx).

Don’t forget to visit our website next Thursday (April 22nd) for a detailed report on the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) RC release, where we will unveil more of Lucid’s new features!

Follow the following tips to save battery in iPhone 3GS

1. Turn Off WiFi when not in Use

2. Decrease the default brightness level will result in more battery power

3. Turn off 3G if not in use

4. Turn Off Location Services

5. Turn Off Push – Activate Manual Push For Email Also

6. Decrease The Default Lock Time

7. Use a Process Manager to kill the background process [ For Jailbroken Phones Only ]

8. Turn on Airplane Mode when you are not using phone to receive calls.

Tip – If you want to avoid calls turn on airplane mode, it really saves a good amount of battery power

9. Turn Off Notifications

10. Decrease AutoLock time so that display don’t remain on for much time – it again saves the battery.

11. Turn off Lock Sounds, Calendar Alerts, New Mails, Keyboard Clicks etc

12. Turn off Vibrate Under applications and Games

All the above options can be located under iPhone settings, if you have a trouble in finding some thing please let us know. We would love to help

Anyway, pretty well all of the technologies on offer require the viewer to wear glasses, usually either polarised, or LCD shuttered, which really isn’t much of an advance from the old green/red tinted glasses or Anaglyph method. There’s also a lot of work being done on lenticular sceens, which displays multiple images through a series of microscopic prisms so that each eye sees a slightly different view, and you don’t need glasses. But here’s another method that doesn’t rely on special screens or glasses. It’s called Wiggle Stereoscopy and it simply displays two images, shot on cameras spaced an eye’s width apart and shown in rapid succession. The 3D effect is quite good but the slow flash rate probably means it’ll never be much more than a curiosity, but make up your own mind. There’s some examples and links at: http://wiggle.sourceforge.net/, plus a facility to create your own wiggle stereographs and you’ll find the first Wiggle 3D music video from Blue Roses on You Tube.