SharePoint as a product has become so popular that there now exists a cottage industry for simply working on where it will go next. Bjorn Furuknap is part of that field. He has taken his USPJ Academy business, which provides SharePoint training, and extended it to include the selling of research looking into the software’s next steps.

We say cool. Even better, he gave ZDNet a peek into what is coming down the pike, which Mary Jo Foley has independently confirmed. Result? We have a treasure trove of new data about the next version of SharePoint, and the larger Office 15 suite. We’ll do it in bite size pieces:

• Office 15, which will include the next edition of SharePoint and Office 365, should be released this year (2012);
• SharePoint 15 will contain an app store;
• These apps will support multi-tenant installations, which will allow SharePoint providers to make applications available to several customers;
• To better compete with education products, a new ‘module’ will be added;
• SharePoint 15 should include ‘information-rights-management’ capabilities.

That’s quite the list. We are not surprised to see that Office 15 is heading for a 2012 release, even if it ends up named Office 2013 due to a late-year debut. Microsoft would very much like to head into the holiday season with a new Office product, a new Windows product, and a new mobile product (Windows Phone 8). We had thought that that list would include a new Xbox console, but that appears to have been turned around in the worst possible way.

All together, the SharePoint wagon keeps on ‘arolling.

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The Mobile World Congress is just around the corner and The Next Web will be in attendance, bringing you what the major device makers have to share about their wares for the year ahead. But Samsung may have just given us a hint of what it’s showing in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Axiom, Galaxy Awaken, Galaxy Heir and Galaxy Rite, reports Fusible.

The names were outed in trademark filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the four names. The filings are listed below and all fall under the categories of ‘Mobile phones’ or ‘Smartphones’.

• Samsung Galaxy Rite
• Samsung Galaxy Heir
• Samsung Galaxy Awaken
• Samsung Galaxy Axiom

The filings could indicate products that are further down the pipeline from MWC, but if Samsung wanted to show new devices publicly then a filing like this would be appropriate. As an interesting comparison, Apple often files trademarks well in advance of product releases, but requests that the information be witheld from the public record until the day of or after release. Looks like Samsung isn’t that concerned.

Will these be Android devices or Windows Phone, will any of them have a gigantic screen? Will they have a pen? Only time will tell and we’ll be at MWC, bringing you the news.

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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, then AVC.fm should leave prolific, blogging VC Fred Wilson feeling high on life. You see, AVC.fm is not run by Wilson, but rather by the enterprising people behind VoiceBunny, a startup that I wrote about here on The Next Web a few days ago.

According to VoiceBunny founder Alexander Torrenegra, it’s all done out of a respect for Wilson’s work:

“The VoiceBunny team and I are big fans of Mr. Wilson’s work and especially his blog, but we didn’t always have time to read it everyday.  So, we thought it would be great if AVC.com had a podcast so we could listen on our commutes or while we were working.”

There’s an obvious question here about how Wilson will take the news, but it’s an interesting play from VoiceBunny and Wilson has already tweeted about the project. There’s even a message to Fred on the site, with instructions to him on how he can embed the player widget onto his own site.

Ultimately the question is whether it will lead to continue success for the VoiceBunny team. As a professional voiceover artist myself, I was skeptical about the company’s approach, but after having done a job or two through the site I’m now sold on the approach…at least for some situations.

We’d love to see more companies doing things like this. That guerrilla approach to marketing is something that we’ve been lacking in the tech world for a bit, and enterprising startups like VoiceBunny bring back some hope.

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Method & Craft is a ridiculously useful collection of video tutorials and general advice for working and aspiring designers. The site calls itself the “DVD extras of design: the stories behind the work, who made it, how they did it, and the techniques people have developed throughout their professional career.”

M&C is spot-on in its description. As designers, we all use the same tools, but we use them differently. The site hopes to educate designers on more efficient, creative, and engaging ways to work. It’s like looking over the shoulder of your favorite designer.

There are countless how-tos, tutorials and design guides all over the Web, some of them much better than others. What makes this site special is attention to the little details that make designers so efficient. The more you learn about your tools (Photoshop, Fireworks, Pixelmator, etc), the more they become an extension of your own creativity.

M&C’s video guides include niche advice like optimizing textured artwork for PNG export to simpler things like creating easier parallel lines in Photoshop. The site also includes useful articles, tips and interviews such as the ups and downs of global lighting and pen tool shortcuts.

Check out the site via the link below or learn about the team behind it here. If you have any killer resources to share, feel free to leave them in the comments!

➤  Method & Craft

For more inspiration, check out other articles from TNW’s Design + Dev channel!

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Columbia records announced today that Adele has become the first artist to rack up double platinum sales on iTunes reports Jim Dalrymple at The Loop. The company’s press release lays out some impressive stats regarding the artists’ sales, especially since her six Grammy Awards.

Adele passed up the 2 million download mark on the US iTunes store of songs including her hit record ’21′. The album simultaneously becomes the longest running #1 by any woman in Billboard history, with, you guessed it, 21 weeks at the top spot, non-consecutively.

The album sold 730,000 copies in the last week since her Grammy appearance and wins, which come exactly one year after its release.

The singer underwent vocal surgery several months ago and thanked her doctors from the Grammy stage after tying Beyoncé for the most awards by a female artist in a year. She also tied Eric Clapton’s record for awards to a British artist.

The album 21 itself has also sold almost 2 million copies.  The 2 million download mark being crossed within a single year of it being released earns her the honor of being the first double platinum artist on Apple’s iTunes service in the US.

Apple reported a record revenue in Q1 2012 of $1.7 billion from the iTunes Store.Last December, Apple pushed their iTunes cloud music services out to many Latin American countries, including Brazil and brought the services to Japan just yesterday.

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RIM has taken the BlackBerry PlayBook browser a huge step further in PlayBook OS 2.0 but they did not detail most of the updates. Now the web team has done a nice job of detailing why web developers can “now build stable web apps” as apposed to previously. They have also shared some of the nice perks and feelings as to why they think this will take HTML5 and BlackBerry WebWorks further.

Here are some of the new technologies they have baked in:

• Support for WebGL, including 3D context and native binary data. Take advantage of Open GL ES technology and 3D graphics in your BlackBerry application content.
• Updated Web Inspector is now designed with better debugging support. New features such as settings menu, network panel, contextual menus and pretty print JavaScript® make it easier for developers to debug and optimize their web content.
• HTML5 canvas is now hardware accelerated, meaning it is designed for faster performance and higher frame-per-second (FPS) rendering of 2D graphics content.
• CSS3 accelerated animations and transforms are now smoother thanks to high quality service improvements to graphics rendering for the engine.
• Added FileReader API, which is designed to search, retrieve and display files from the BlackBerry Tablet OS shared folder, and helps integrate camera pictures, videos, music and documents from the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet into your web applications.
• Improved HTML5 support including new form fields (keygen, output, meter) and input types (text, search, tel, url, email, datetime, date, month, week, time, datetime-local, number, range).
• Enhanced XmlHttpRequest object adds support for text and array buffer response type

They also shared some of their Torch mobile and browser development teams sentiments in their blog post which are quite interesting:

“I know many web developers who now use the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet as their mobile development and testing environment of choice. The support for remote Web Inspector is simply awesome, and a year after we introduced it, remains a defining aspect of our approach to mobile web development. We have made it even better!”

- Laurent Hasson, Technical Director, Web platform

“Personally I’m most excited about all the graphics and animation improvements (CSS3, HTML, canvas, WebGL). I think we’re most proud about being able to bring the full web to tablet – proper implementation of the standards and specifications coupled with a rich, touch-friendly user experience.”

- George Staikos, Vice President, Web Technologies

Check out the full details here in Adam’s post on the subject

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 22, 2012, 11:41 am. |
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RIM has just revealed their latest update to Facebook for BlackBerry with v3.0.0.6. Ofutur let us know that they have released this new version in the beta zone with some major updates including BBM integration. They have also added a new Facebook Publisher feature to add your location, tag a friend, upload a photo, and share over BBM.

Check out the details below or pick up the update at www.blackberry.com/beta

BBM Connected App integration

Facebook for BlackBerry is now a BBM-connected app. When you connect Facebook with BBM, you can share your latest Facebook status and location check-in as your BBM Personal Message by simply selecting the Share with BBM icon from the Facebook Publisher. You can even access the Facebook app right from a BBM Profile by clicking on Facebook in the list of BBM-Connected applications.

New Facebook Publisher

With the revamped Publisher, users can now add their location, tag a friend, upload a photo with their status updates, and share with BBM. Users still have the option to control who can see each update they share using the Publisher Privacy Control that was implemented in v2.0.

Share with BBM Contact

The Share with BBM function has been added as a top-level menu item for ease of sharing News Feed items with your BBM contacts.

UI Discoverability Improvements

While you could always filter News Feed content to view only Status Updates, Photos, Links or All, recent user feedback has suggested that it wasn’t easy to discover this option, so we’ve made improvements to make this function more intuitive in the Menu.

In response to user feedback, the Privacy Settings option has been made more prominent in the Options menu by moving it to the top of the menu. And Account Settings has been added to give you easy access to edit your basic preferences (e.g. login email) while using the application. 

Improved Facebook Message Notifications

In some instances, users were missing new message notifications due to Facebook’s implementation of the new Messages service. Facebook message notifications are now refreshed frequently based on usage. This will ensure users receive any new messages that may not have been pushed to the device.

User-Friendly Error Messages

Additional detail is now available in error dialogues to explain the issue being experienced, which could possibly lead to customer resolution of the issue.

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, February 22, 2012, 11:03 am. |
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One of the most common questions I have been getting since PlayBook OS 2.0 launched is how to sync your BlackBerry Smartphone contacts and calendar with your BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 apps. If you are on a BES with Exchange then this is no problem since activesync will take care of it for you but if you are not then you will immediately see the disconnect. I actually had to help a friend with a similar problem recently since Android phones are also mostly incapable of synching with Outlook. Turns out that Google can be your friend for solving this situation. The downside is that there are a few compromises since Google feels the need to do things differently.

NOTE: BerryReview takes no responsibility for any harm that may be caused by following the recommendations below. Proceed at your own risk and we will try to help you in the comments and forums. This is not for the feint of heart!

To give you the basic framework the simplest way to sync your contacts and calendar with your PlayBook and BlackBerry phone is to first setup your PlayBook to sync with Google. Make sure to check what contacts you currently have in Gmail/Google by going to www.google.com/contacts. Google tends to add contacts you email regularly to your contact list automatically which can get frustrating. I then recommend you connect your BlackBerry smartphone to a PC with Outlook and sync your contacts and calendar on your smartphone with your PC using Desktop Manager AND perform a full backup of your BlackBerry using Desktop Manager just in case. This is because there is a high chance of Gmail creating loads of duplicates and you want to have a backup plan.

The ideally simplest next step would be to just fire up the Email Setup Application on your BlackBerry and select your Gmail account. You then would scroll down to the bottom and select “Sync Contacts” and “Sync Calendar.” That should then Sync your BlackBerry Contacts and Calendar with Gmail. The problem is this usually does not work cleanly since Google loves to duplicate things. You can try to fix that by using the Google Merge Contacts option at www.google.com/contacts.

Alternatively the best solution I have come up with is to first sync your contacts and calendar with Outlook. You then export your contacts (and calendar if you wish) using Outlook to a CSV file and then importing them into Google at www.google.com/contacts (and www.google.com/calendar). You can then download the free open source app GO Contact Sync Mod and install it to sync your Outlook contacts with Google. You set that up and it will start syncing your contacts with Gmail. Due to the redundancy of the steps before you might once again end up with duplicates. You can just use the Google Merge Contacts tool again to deal with them. If you wish to also sync your Outlook Calendar with Google you can install their free Google Calendar Sync app which allows you to sync your calendar with Outlook at regular intervals.

Once you have all of this setup you should be good to go in the future. The first step from Outlook style contacts/calendar to Gmail is painful but may be worth it for full sync. Keep in mind there are lots of caveats with this method due to Gmail being painfully stubborn in not supporting all Outlook fields. For example, Gmail likes to bunch the whole address into one field while Outlook and BlackBerrys break it up into street, city, etc. They also have no area for PIN numbers and such which usually ends up in the notes field.

There does exist a third alternative too which also has its own pros and cons. You can use Google’s Google Sync app for BlackBerry which sometimes does a bit better job of synching/mapping your contacts and Calendar with your BlackBerry but fails in other ways. In short Gmail and Outlook/BlackBerry have different inconsistencies and trying to get them to work nicely together can be a bit of a chore. My guess is Google does this to start pushing people away from Outlook but that is just a guess.

Let us know if you have your own tips for getting your PlayBook and BlackBerry Smartphone contacts in sync. From what I hear RIM is planning on adding contacts and calendar sync for the PlayBook to Desktop Manager soon so that will hopefully also be an alternative. Better yet would be RIM somehow integrating it all using their Gist acquisition!

Barry pointed out to me that Joseph @CrackBerry has his own similar take on a solution if none of these options work for you!

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 22, 2012, 10:52 am. |
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Last night RIM rolled out a new update to their BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac. The new update brings better support for PlayBook OS 2.0 and lets you sync your media files, backup, and restore your PlayBook along with updating its software. I know a few of you are still waiting for contacts sync but hopefully RIM has something coming for that soon!

Download the new Desktop Software for Mac from BlackBerry.com

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 22, 2012, 9:36 am. |
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One of the coolest new features in the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 update is Print to Go. The new software allows you to print from any application on your PC directly to your PlayBook. That means instead of printing out that 40 page PowerPoint or Word document or even website you can now simply read it on your PlayBook by printing to it. The way it works is you install the Print to Go app on your computer as a printer and when you print you just select the Print to Go printer. It will then ask you for your BlackBerry ID and password to send the document to your PlayBook. Its that easy!

Check out Print to Go at www.blackberry.com/PrintToGo or see a demo in Flash here. and here are a bunch of knowledge base articles on the subject:

• KB28662-What is Print To Go
• KB28665-What are the various error messages when Print To Go cannot communicate with a BlackBerry PlayBook
• KB28663-Uninstalling the Print To Go desktop drivers
• KB28669-Unable to print to BlackBerry PlayBook using Print To Go due to space limitations
• KB28668-System Requirements for Print To Go
• KB29684-Installing Print To Go

I am loving what RIM has done with Print to Go. I am just hoping RIM also makes it bidirectional so you can print from your PlayBook to your PC’s printer. Ofutur even suggested that RIM allow you to print to a group so you can send the documents to a friends PlayBook.

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 22, 2012, 9:25 am. |
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Since RIM first announced BlackBerry Mobile Fusion a few months back administrators have been asking me how RIM secures work data and applications on the PlayBook. Now that Mobile Fusion has been released in its first stage we have a much better idea of what is going on along. RIM has even released a 68 page document on how the BlackBerry PlayBook is secured and segmented with OS 2.0 and Mobile Fusion. Certain media outlets have been saying that RIM is not leveraging their infrastructure but to simplify it all RIM is essentially tunneling all of your data transport using both TLS for the transport layer security while encrypting data packets with Message Keys to protect the integrity of the messages. It gets a little more complicated with Wi-Fi 802.1x on company networks and over VPN but the concepts are similar.

What is most often confused by people is what RIM means by BlackBerry Balance on the PlayBook. RIM has divided the PlayBook into three perimeters. There is the Work perimeter, Bridge perimeter, and personal perimeter. Both the Work and Bridge perimeters are fully encrypted. The Work perimeter encrypts files using XTS-AES-256 together with a security record that also includes 512-bit random salt and several attributes of the file. That security record is the encrypted using the domain key which is yet another 512-bit random key. The process is similar for BlackBerry Bridge data which is isolated into its own perimeter and encrypted with XTS-AES-256 encryption. Sadly the PlayBook does not encrypt the personal perimeter.

Where things start to get really confusing is the fact that certain apps live in multiple perimeters which is where BlackBerry Balance comes into play. For example, the new contacts, calendar, and messages apps can live both in the personal and the work perimeter if you have Mobile Fusion activated. That is where things get really sticky and you need a whole chart to explain to you how RIM combines the two while keeping them separate. For example, it provides administrators the option to remotely wipe your work contacts, calendar, and messages without touching your personal data (with a few exceptions like browser cache). They also limit what you can access from apps that are designated personal, work, or bridge.

All in all I highly recommend you check out the whole 68 page document RIM has published on the subject on how the domains are segregated. I will copy a bit of how complex it gets below but the full PDF can be found here.

PS: I know I am oversimplifying quite a bit of this but it you really were interested you would have read the 68 page document RIM put out.

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, February 22, 2012, 8:35 am. |
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Author: berryreview

Many users who have upgraded to BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 this morning have been wondering where their BlackBerry Bridge Browser went all of a sudden. Turns out that it has dissapeared by design due to it being redundant for non BES users. According to this latest RIM knowledge base article the BlackBerry Bridge Icon only shows up on PlayBooks when the BlackBerry Smartphone is associated with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).

According to RIM:

This is by design as the native Browser provides the same functionality when bridged, therefore making the Bridge Browser redundant. The Bridge Browser is present when connected to a BlackBerry smartphone associated with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server in order to allow browsing corporate intra-nets.

In other words now that the native PlayBook Browser is fully capable of browsing the web through the Bridge non-BES users have no use for the Bridge Browser. The only reason you would use the Bridge Browser now is to browse your companies internal websites.

Mystery solved!

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, February 22, 2012, 5:53 am. |
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Although tablets are great multimedia devices, they come with average built-in speakers, therefore, it’s no wonder that many tablet owners are using external speakers, and if you’re looking for external speakers for your tablet, today we have a model that you might like.

Design studio NEW has introduced its new wireless speakers called Zooka. Zooka is a durable and portable wireless speaker, and it is fully compatible with your tablet, smartphone, music player, or any other Bluetooth device. Thanks to its unique design, you can easily attach Zooka on to the bezel of your tablet, and thanks to the Bluetooth connectivity, you can enjoy in your favorite music with ease. If your device doesn’t have Bluetooth, you can connect it to Zooka via standard 3.5mm audio jack. As for battery life, we should mention that Zooka provides 8 hours of playback on full charge.

Zooka is one interesting portable speaker, however, it’s still a Kickstarter project, so we won’t see it on the market anytime soon.

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Smart devices aren’t anything new, and since we saw all sorts of smart devices before, time has come to see smart remote controller.

As you might know, Samsung is working on a smart TV that should be released later this year, and with smart TV, Samsung is planning to release a smart remote controller for it. This smart remote will use touch surface, so it won’t have many buttons like regular remote controller, and it will also use voice recognition technology. In order to change the channel or volume, you just need to move your finger to the top or to the side of your remote without pressing any buttons. However, if you don’t want to use touch surface to change the channels, you can utilize built-in microphone that will recognize your speech and turn it into a proper command. In addition, microphone can be used for text input as well, thanks to the voice recognition technology. About the connectivity, this smart remote connects to your TV via Bluetooth and infrared simultaneously.

This smart remote from Samsung looks incredible, and it will revolutionize the way we use our TVs, however, no information regarding the price or release date is available.

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As you know, iPhone combines the latest technology and latest design into one, but if you’re missing the retro design from older Apple’s devices, today we have a special retro case for your iPhone.


If you own iPhone 4S and you’re not pleased with your current case, today we have a special retro case designed by Schreer Delights. This case is using the similar color scheme that was used by Apple for its old Macintosh computers, so if you’re old Apple user, you should probably be familiar with it. Besides the old color scheme and old Apple logo, this case also has its decorations, so it looks rather attractive, and speaking of decorations, there are even ports at the back of the case, but they are only for cosmetic purposes.

As you can see, this retro iPhone case looks attractive, but it doesn’t provide you with any additional functionality. Regarding the price, this retro case is priced at $50 a pop.

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As MWC hype is picking up momentum, Nokia decided to join the fun and released a short video trailer of its upcoming PureView smartphone.

The Nokia PureView is the rumored successor to the Nokia N8 camera-centered smartphone. Earlier online gossip had it its official name will be Nokia N808 PureView and it will be wielding the most capable camera mounted on a smartphone to date.

The…

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LG just unveiled the glasses-free 3D smartphone Optimus 3D Max. The announcements comes hot on the heels of the Optimus 3D Cube and the two smartphones are almost identical in terms of specs.

The LG Optimus 3D Max sports the same 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, dual 5MP camera, NFC capabilities and even Android 2.3 Gingerbread out of the box. ICS updates for both should come right after they…

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More details on the upcoming Nokia Carla release came in. The platform previously known as Symbian will get its next update in Q3 of this year, when the first smartphones running Nokia Carla will hit the shelves.

According to the latest rumors, second-gen Belle smartphone, including Nokia 603, 700 and 701 will start shipping with the new version of their OS first. Later on, the rest of the…

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Samsung and T-Mobile USA announced the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G in early January, but it took them this long to announce the launch date (more frustratingly, they haven’t announced all the specs just yet).

The Blaze 4G has a 3.97" Super AMOLED screen, is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU in a Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 chipset and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. It has two cameras – 5MP camera with…

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After announcing the three new L-series smartphones yesterday, LG has yet another phone to announce before MWC. This one is the successor to the Optimus 3D and is called the Optimus 3D Cube.

The Optimus 3D Cube improves upon its successor by having a newer, thinner design, which is just 9.6mm thick compared to the 11.9mm thickness of the previous phone. It also has a slightly bigger…

Author: gsmarena.com