How to run Office Starter 2010 on Windows 8

Microsoft had introduced Office Starter Edition 2010 - which included Word Starter 2010 and Excel Starter 2010 – as a free software version for home users who are not ready to buy a full version of Office 2010. Microsoft Office Starter 2010 Edition can let you create and edit simple Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, open existing Word and Excel files, manage a simple budget, write letters and do basic text work. The software only comes pre-loaded on a OEM computer, and there is no way you can download it officially.
If Microsoft Office Starter 2010 came with your Windows 7 PC and you would like to use it, you must install and update it before upgrading to.............
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Samsung announces new Series 9 laptop priced at Rs. 1,02,990

Samsung’s Series 9 line represents the latest series of thin and light laptops to come out of the Korean manufacturer’s labs. But do these stylish additions to the global notebook market do enough to beat out the competition from rivals such as HP, Dell, Lenovo and Apple? Read on to find out.
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Firstly, let me stipulate for the purposes of this review that we’re looking specifically at Samsung’s 13.3″ Series 9 model here. The review model we have is labelled as “NP900X3C-A01AU”, but we’re reasonably certain that this page on Samsung’s site for a slightly different..............
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Dell’s XPS Duo 12 Might Have the Best “Laptop” of Any Laptop/Tablet Combination

Dell’s XPS Duo 12 has some lineage, but it’s not really the sort of ancestry you’d want to talk about too loudly. The original Inspiron Duo was a case of good in theory, poor in practice: a notebook with a rotating touchscreen that could turn it into a slate, let down by an underperforming CPU, clunky build and Windows 7′s lack of finger-friendliness. Now, with the XPS Duo 12, Dell has brought some of its ultrabook knowledge to the concept, and from what we’ve seen today it’s with good result.
Today at the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA) conference, Dell unveiled three powerful additions to its industry-leading XPS brand...........
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Immediate effect: Ban on bulk SMSs, MMSs withdrawn

The bulk SMSes and MMSes were banned following Assam violence and northeast exodus from several cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Chennai.Government on Thursday lifted the ban on bulk SMSs and MMSs with immediate effect -- a day before the earlier stipulated deadline of August 31.
The telecom ministry had, on direction of home ministry, imposed the ban for 15 days on August 17. Later, the restriction was reviewed on August 24 when the telecom ministry increased the limit from five SMSes to 20 SMSes.............
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Sony Xperia Ion available for Rs 35999

Six months ago back at CES, Sony managed to surprise us with the introduction of its flagship Android smartphone in the Sony Xperia ion. During the time, we were undoubtedly captivated by its stellar specs sheet that consisted of a large 4.6” HD display, 4G LTE connectivity, dual-core processor, and a higher than normal 12-megapixel snapper. Looking back at it all, it surely sounded tasty in so many ways, but as time passed with no word regarding its inevitable arrival, our interest in it quickly faded into oblivion – even more when other prestigious smartphones began making their marks.
Fortunately for all of us, the Sony Xperia ion didn’t end up becoming vaporware, as the handset was officially tagged with a June 24th release................
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PayPal’s new deal with Discover Financial Services

PayPal’s new deal with Discover Financial Services may have just opened the door for the only payment service’s users to pay for goods and services in seven million Discover card locations, but there are big questions whether this deal will really accelerate the future of mobile payments.
There are quite a few challenges PayPal, a subsidiary of eBay, will need to overcome in order to pull this off, not the least of which is the fact that the service it’s initially offering won’t be a mobile payment system at all......
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Wacky Words That Are Now in the Oxford Dictionaries Online

Dictionaries exist in between a rock and a hard place: jump on new words too late and they look like a dinosaur, add in words too early and they're made into a mockery. Words are hard, yes, but some words don't exactly need defining like some of these just added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online.
If vocabulary is your guilty pleasure, join us in a group hug to celebrate the selection of new words to Oxford Dictionaries Online. Genius!............
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