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Microsoft has  introduced  co-authoring support for Microsoft Word documents stored in OneDrive in the Office 2016 Preview. This means that users will be able to collaborate with each other in real-time and make changes while working on a document. Initially, the feature was only available on Sharepoint online, but starting today, everyone with access to Office 2016 Preview will be able to use the new co-authoring feature. Microsoft said in a blog post, "Earlier this year we announced real-time co-authoring support for Word 2016 as part of the Office 2016 Preview. For the last several months, this feature has been available to preview users co-authoring Word documents stored on SharePoint Online. Today, we are pleased to announce that real-time co-authoring is also available as a first-look for Word documents stored on OneDrive as part of the latest Office 2016 Preview release."

The Sony Xperia Z5 Premium is the worlds first 4k display equipped smartphone. Sony has also included a new fingerprint scanner at an innovative location, right on the power button. The fingerprint scanner makes it easy to unlock the device efficiently, its quick and very accurate, making it a pleasure to use.

The Developer Preview of Android Marshmallow is available now to owners of Nexus phones, with the final version launching on the new  Nexus 5  and new  Nexus 6  within the next few weeks. The OS will then become available to other Nexus devices, and within a few months to flagship  phones  and  tablets . Don't expect to get it on your device (unless it's a Nexus) until late 2015/early 2016. The latest reports come from  Talk Android  and suggest Google will unveil the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 on 29 September, with the phones available to pre-order from 13 October. By our reckoning, that means they will go on sale in early November, and Android 6.0 will then begin to roll out to other devices. If you really want to get your hands on Android M now then you can download the Android M Developer Preview, but only if you have a  Nexus 5 ,  Nexus 6 ,  Nexus 9  or  Nexus Player .

Although Microsoft seems to be busy working on Android apps these days, rather than doing seemingly more relevant things, such as hyping up Windows 10 Mobile, this doesn't change the fact that a successor to Windows Phone is in the making, and the concept of Windows living on phones is not dead yet. Although Microsoft isn't keen on announcing a timeframe of availability, the company was adamant that all Lumia devices running Windows Phone 8 will eventually get upgraded to Windows 10. But, following this announcement, Microsoft published a list of to-be-upgraded Windows smartphones that was limited to devices running the Lumia Denim software, which coincides with the Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 release. But the laconically worded statement didn't make it very clear whether Windows 10 will be exclusive to these devices, or whether they will simply be the first to be updated. Thus, website Neowin reached out to Microsoft in an attempt to clarify the situation. And, wh...

It's a new month, and you know what that means. The latest distribution numbers for Android's different builds are now in a days. With 15.5% of Android devices running on Android 5.0, and 2.6% equipped with Android 5.1, the Lollipop build of Google's open source OS can be found on 18.1% of Android flavored devices. That is a gain of 5.7 percentage points from last month. The percentage of Android devices powered by Android 4.4 KitKat actually rose by the smallest of margins, .1 percentage point from the last report, to 39.3%. After KitKat, Android 4.1-Android 4.3 Jelly Bean was next with 33.6% of Android devices. With Lollipop 3rd position, Gingerbread was 4th position. Covering Android 2.3.3 to Android 2.3.7, the build is still driving 4.6% of phones and tablets running on the platform. Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0.3-Android 4.0.4, 4.1%  and Froyo Android 2.2, .3% round out the remaining builds. The data comes from visitors to the Google Play Store o...

The images were tweeted by Evan Blass of @evleaks fame. This morning, Blass has passed along leaked specs said to belong to the Galaxy Note 5. According to his tweet, the phablet will be equipped with a 5.66-inch screen carrying a 1440 x 2560 QHD resolution. That works out to a pixel density of 515ppi. Powering the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, according to the tweet from Blass, will be the Exynos 7420 chipset which is the same SoC inside the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge. The chip will provide the Galaxy Note 5 with 4 cores running at a 2.1GHz clock speed, and 4 cores with a clock speed of 1.5GHz. 4GB of RAM is inside along with 32GB of internal storage. There is no microSD slot on the device, according to the leak. On the back of the Galaxy Note 5 will be a 16MP snapper that will probably be the same one found on the back of Sammy's recent high-end models, including the Samsung Galaxy S6. A 5MP front-facing cemara   handles sel...

Microsoft unveiled a new version of its operating system last year breaking the mould and skipping ahead right to the number 10. Windows 10's main aim was to connect its ecosystem of devices using the same apps across desktop, tablet, smartphones and even its own Xbox One. All Microsoft devices from now on are likely to run with a certain version of Windows Phone 10 installed, even the mega exciting Microsoft HoloLens reportedly runs in conjunction with the OS. Windows 10 was made available at a press event before allowing our friends over atTechRadar Pro to have a go on it, but that was mostly with the desktop version of the system. This is primarily for the mobile version, yet there is a little crossover as both platforms are so closely interconnected. Microsoft shared some more details of the platform at MWC 2015 by revealing any device currently running Windows Phone 8.1 will be upgradeable to Windows Phone 10 by the end of the year. We man...