Unveiled earlier today, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer announced the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office, also known as Office 15 or Office 2013. Coming to Windows 8 and Windows RT later this fall, as well as being compatible to Windows 7, the next release features an intuitive design that works beautifully with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices, including tablets. The new Office is social and unlocks modern scenarios in reading, note-taking, meetings and communications and will be delivered to subscribers through a cloud service that is always up to date.

Doesn't matter if we like the new Windows 8 Metro look and feel or we argue about the missing Start button, Windows 8 is Microsoft's future of Windows for all kind of PCs, laptops, tablets and well - even USB sticks! While it's clear that a Windows OS will for sure work on PCs and laptops, the support for ARM based, so called SoC (System on Chip) tablets, is something new but Windows 8 comes with another feature which hasn't caught too much attention yet, something Microsoft simply calls "Windows To Go". Windows To Go allows to install a full version of Windows 8 on a USB stick which then can be booted on any PC. In my humble opinion, this is idea is big and ground breaking.

Announced back in February at this year's Mobile World Congress, the Sony Xperia P is Sony Mobile's little brother of the Xperia S which was announced back in January. Like all Xperia NXT smartphones, the Xperia P has a simple and strong design but takes it one step further with its precision crafted full aluminum unibody. The phone, which was initially launched with Android 2.3 only is powered by a 1 GHz "NovaThor" STE U8500 dual-core CPU and supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as quadband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at 850/900/1900/2100 MHz, WiFi b/g/n at 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, an FM radio with RDS, aGPS and NFC.

Google announced last night on its Nexus Google Plus page, that it has started to rollout the first Android 4.1/Jelly Bean upgrade for the GSM/HSPA version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. When announced announced two weeks ago at the Google I/O, the Galaxy Nexus was the Jelly Bean reference hardware and every attendant got one. Now it's time for the rest of us to receive some sweets. Jelly Bean to Ice Cream Sandwich is similar like Windows 7 to Windows Vista. The improvements are the details which makes everything feel faster, fluid, and smoother. Notifications are expandable and actionable, widgets are magical and the keyboard is smarter and more accurate.

During today's IFA Preview Event in Munich, Deutsche Telekom, internationally better known a T-Mobile, gave an outlook of its upcoming RCS-e service which will be called "Joyn". During the presentation, Deutsche Telekom made clear, that Joyn is based on the GSMA's recommended RCS-e standard and will therefore be interoperable with other carriers, namely Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange and Telecom Italia, which were all part of the standardization process. This means, that Joyn will work across networks, as we know it today from SMS text messages. Furthermore, Deutsche Telekom unveiled, that it will start with chat, file transfer and video functionality and that a commercial availability is planned for October.