Microsoft will pay about U.S. $ 1,000 million for its agreement with Nokia

Much has been said of the agreement between Nokia and Microsoft to bring Windows 7 to the phone Phone Finnish company. About the developers, their chances of success or the logic of the union. But the costs are going to have for these two technology giants, which could be much higher than expected.
Microsoft will pay U.S. $ 1,000 million to Nokia about this collaboration and in return receive a commission for every device sold, according to information to which the chain has agreed Bloomberg.

Microsoft pay $ 1,000 millon to Nokia

In particular, the initial outlay is to "promote and develop Windows-based mobile phones." Nokia, which is still the leading seller of 'hardware' of the world, equip their phones with Windows Phone 7 to make the final leap to the segment of smartphones, and Android dominated by IOS. In return, the manufacturer must pay Microsoft a fee for each unit sold to one of their operating systems.
Nokia's success is the triumph of Microsoft and the technology news.

Confirmed the agreement, Microsoft will pay a lot for this contract has led Nokia to choose Windows ahead of Android, a platform of success and cheap that is driving the benefits of other manufacturers like HTC or Samsung, and also allows interface customization, something that could have taken the Finnish company to bring it closer to their old operating systems and for compatibility with applications OVI.

Microsoft and Nokia

However, Redmond has made a bet to rely on the product's success. In establishing such royalties for the use of its mobile operating system, Microsoft assures them of a steady income if Nokia get flood the market with its upcoming smartphones as it has done so far with the low-end phones. The point of return on initial investment has not been elucidated.


Rumors suggest that there will be licensing fees for the exchange of technology. In announcing this new partnership has already clarified some transfers and mergers, such as replacing Bing Ovi Maps Maps to take advantage of the Nokia Navteq, the preferential use of Bing as search engine advertising service or by adCenter.
Although these are the basic terms of the agreement, a spokesman for Nokia has acknowledged that the contract has not yet been signed, while from Microsoft is silent on the subject, says Bloomberg.

Manual Twitter for those who still do not understand

This year, Twitter has become the online social network of more rapid growth and technological theme that everyone talks about. However, there are still many who do not know what it is and how much albotoro. If you're one of them, here we give a brief introduction to "twittosfera.

Twitter is basically a site microblogs. By registering, the user purchases a home page where you can post short messages - 140 characters maximum, only text and links to other websites.

Sounds too simple to be so popular. It is the simplicity which emphasizes a social network. The site promotes itself as a service easy to use.

The first thing a user sees upon entering is a common question as simple as: What are you doing? The user posts a response and its contacts can learn in real time.

Twitter recently announced that prepares versions of its site in German, French and Spanish. Perhaps when that happens, there is an "explosion" of Twitter in Latin America, as with Facebook. Meanwhile, Here's the main steps for using the service.

How to use?

Signing up is easy. Enter Twitter.com, click "sing up now". After filling the registration form and create the account, you can immediately begin to "twitter". Just simply type a message of 140 characters or less in the space that says "What are you doing" (What are you doing?).

But that does not end the process. To have someone read a post you must enter your microblog either through the address of your microblog (Example: http://twitter.com/usuario) or when one of his followers.

For fans, the first thing to do is start to follow other people. Just enter your microblogs and click on the "follow". If you want to stop following someone, simply look for the button that has a nut icon and click "unfollowed".

If among his followers there someone you do not want to read your messages, find the button on the nut and click "block". Now, if what you want is that their messages are read only by followers authorized by you, go to "Settings" (Settings), check "Protect my tweets" and ready.

To find your friends on Twitter, click on "Find People". There you can find "twittered" for user name, searching through your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo and AOL e-mail to invite others to join and find suggested by Twitter users.

Over time, your network of supporters and grow straight and you will be heard by more people. In the dynamics of Twitter there are several actions that will be useful to mention another "twittered" (@), citing a "tweet" from another user (RT), add a label (#), include a short link to another page, photo or video, and follow the most Tweeting the moment.

- Mention: If in your message you mention another Twitter user and want their fans to access the microblog of that person, just put an at sign "@" after the username. The tweet will show that name published as a link, a click on it will open your microblog. Facebook implemented this tool in September, clearly modeled on Twitter.

- Quote: When a user of Twitter and want to publish on your microblog a "tweet" without stealing someone else's credit, there is a convention usuada frequently by users. RT Write letters, meaning Re tweet (forward) at the beginning of the message, followed by the name of the user (Example: RT @ user) is used for their fans see this message and know who is its author.

- Tags: pound sign "#" is used to create Twitter "hashtags" tags that allow users to see all the "tweets" on a specific topic in real time. For example, if you post a message about cancer, writing # cancer the term appears as a link. By clicking on it, their fans can see all the messages of Twitter users who have included that tag.

- Short Links: Twitter allows you to include links to other websites. The problem is that there are many directions that are too long to fit in the 140-character limit. For this there are several sites that "shrink" the url (tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc.). In fact, the same box of "What are you doing" addresses automatically shortened if the entire message does not exceed the character limit.

- Photos / videos: You can also post pictures and videos via external applications of Twitter. For example, the site lets twitpic.com sign in with your username and password for Twitter, you upload a photo, adds a comment and the service is responsible for issuing that message on Twitter with a link to the photo.

- Trending Topics: On the right side of the Twitter home page is a list of "Trending topics, which are the terms most used by twittered. It is a kind of barometer of the issues of most interest to users. By clicking on them, you can view all messages containing those terms.