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Microsoft is expected to make the announcement at its developer conference in San Francisco later on Wednesday. Reuters Other Articles Microsoft unveils 'Edge', successor to Internet Explorer Windows 10 is new generation of Windows: Satya Nadella Microsoft unveils details of its innovative HoloLens Opening up new vistas for India’s nearly 1.6 million-strong developers community, Microsoft has unveiled a set of software development kits to help them adapt Android applications to the upcoming Windows 10 operating system. The launch date for Windows 10 has not been announced yet, but is expected to be before the festival season this fall. With Microsoft targeting one billion devices with Windows 10 in the next few years, the software development kits (SDKs) announced yesterday by its officials at the major annual conference would open up the developers, including those from India, to a new set of market that includes all kinds of devices. India’s developer ...

Cast your mind back to the period between August and October 2012, and there was barely a whisper about a smartwatch round these parts. Pebble was funded and well underway, and we discovered a curious Google patent -- but that was pretty much it. In that same period one year later, you'll find nearly 40 news stories on Engadget alone. There's definitely been a climate change. One player in this year's wrist-based technology battle is Sony's SmartWatch 2. That number appended to the end of its name lets you know that this isn't the company's first foray into this area (it's technically its third). Because it's a tech giant, then, and also one of the more established players in this market, our expectations were rather high. So, can Sony show the competition how it's done. ENGADGET Get Hindi News on your mobile on m.jagran.com

Still waiting for Google to make its often-leaked Nexus 5 official? Sit tight -- one leak suggests the device's unveiling could be just around the corner. The latest render from @evleaks shows a two-toned Nexus 5 with a white backplate, but the post's text is even more revealing: "In white," it says. "11/1." It's definitely a vague statement, but in light of Google Play's recent product page leak, an early November launch would be right on schedule. The latest rumors and leaks promise a device with a 4.95-inch 1080p display, a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 CPU and LTE available in both 16 and 32GB models and, apparently, in black or white. Reportedly starting at $349, it certainly has our attention. We'll let you know when we hear something official. ENGADGET Get Hindi News on your mobile on m.jagran.com

Search engine giant Google is planning to bring back its Real-Time search feature, which was temporarily discontinued a while back. Google offered Real-Time search which came with live stream from micro-blogging platform Twitter. Google Search turned into a source of live Twitter messages whenever some world event used to take place. When Twitter’s deal with Google to provide it with the data came to an end, the two companies were not able to renew it due to certain differences and Google was forced to discontinue the service. “The value the product was providing was not enough,” Google Fellow Amit Singhal said during a search panel meet, Mashable , reports. The company is ‘actively working’ on bringing the Real-Time search feature back, Singhal said, adding  that the engineers were trying to integrate data from Google+ and other sources with the Real-Time search feature. Singhal did not elaborate what the ‘other sources’ were. He also confirmed that Google+ s...

Some AdWords ads on Google are now showing associated images — and getting much larger in the space they take up — through a “Show products from” Plus Box implementation that some are seeing now when searching at Google. For example, try search for   bluenile , which brings up a Blue Nile ad. Under the usual ad title and description is a plus symbol (called a Plus Box), followed by the words, “Show products from Blue Nile for bluenile.” If you click on the box, it opens up three product listings from Blue Nile, each listing with an associated image. The most shocking part of this ad is that how much room it takes up. Here is the ad when it is closed: When you click to open up the product results, the whole visible part of the page is consumed with this one ad. Here is an image of just the ad, that measures about 370 pixels tall for me: The ad also shows on the right hand side, as Steve Rubel   shows. I was able to replicate Steve’s findings, by searching for   diamonds. T...

Talk to any college students for very long, and you may find that page numbers rule their lives.  They’ll celebrate receiving a measly half-page assignment, for example, or freak out over a 40-page paper that’s due all too soon.  So now, perhaps after discovering that fact, Google Docs has introduced a familiar feature related to page breaks. A post on the   Google Docs Blog   announced this afternoon, “[W]e’re doing another first for web browsers by adding a classic word processing feature – pagination, the ability to see visual pages on your screen.  We’re also using pagination and some of Chrome’s capabilities to improve how printing works in Google Docs.” The post later explained, “Before, if you wanted to print your document we’d need to first convert it into a PDF, which you would then need to open and print yourself.  With native printing, you can print directly from your browser and the printed document will always exactly match what you see on your...

Earlier, we reported that webmasters were finding signs indicating the Panda update may have been launched in more countries. Now, Google has addressed it in a post on the Webmaster Central Blog.  They’ve rolled out the update globally to all English-language Google users. “We will continue testing and refining the change before expanding to additional languages, and we’ll be sure to post an update when we have more to share,” says Google’s Amit Singhal.  Singhal also says Google has incorporated “new user feedback signals”.  “In some high-confidence situations, we are beginning to incorporate data about the sites that users block into our algorithms,” he says. “In addition, this change also goes deeper into the ‘long tail’ of low-quality websites to return higher-quality results where the algorithm might not have been able to make an assessment before. The impact of these new signals is smaller in scope than the original change: about 2% of U.S. queries ar...

Last year, Facebook received almost 250,000 résumé applications. To help those applying to the company, IB Times put together a list of five questions you should ask yourself to see if you’re ready to work at one of the hottest technology companies: Are you enthusiastic and passionate about Facebook? Do you know anyone who can assess or vouch for your cultural fit? Are you suited to work in a bold and open environment? Can you make a difference? Can you let go of work-life balance (for most of the time, at least)? How does Facebook’s résumé count compare to other online giants? Well, Facebook is still a relatively small company but it’s very clear that the number is quite large, though definitely not the highest. For example, Google, arguably the largest Web company, receives somewhere around 1 million résumés each year, with the record for one week being 75,000 . Google had some 24,400 employees last year, while Facebook had over 2,000. It’s there...