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It would seem that being a Microsoft employee this year would require you to purchase a new jacket, preferably one with large pockets, as it was reported that Microsoft employees will be on the receiving end of Surface tablets, Windows Phone 8 handsets, and Windows 8 computers.

The announcement from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did rouse quite the enthusiastic response at the end of the company’s annual employee meeting. We are not talking about just a select group of employees, but rather, all of Microsoft’s employees around the world (numbering more than 90,000) will be on the receiving end of a Surface RT tablet and a Windows Phone 8 device of their choice among others. Hmmm, where do I sign up to be a Microsoft worker? One positive thing about this move would be the fact that the Windows Phone 8 user base would gain an instant boost, although the number will not run up to the millions, it is still a boost nonetheless. It might just help make Windows Phone 8 more visible in the eyes of the world.

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Microsoft’s ARM-powered Surface tablet that runs on the Windows RT platform has been confirmed to receive Office 2013 this coming November, which is just a couple of months away, so that means you do not have that long to wait, actually. Just what will Office for Windows RT deliver? Well, we do think that you have pretty much gotten all that you need as a basic computer user with the inclusion of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

These tools will be made available at first via the pre-installed Office Home & Student 2013 RT package, where you ought to take note that these will not be sold as a standalone product. The full-featured version of Office for Windows RT will arrive virtually over on Windows Update from November until January. The reason behind the time window is due to the language version. Are you excited to pick up your Windows RT-powered Surface tablet before the year is over?

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At this point in time, you can say that the most popular method of locating landmines would be through the use of metal detectors. Well, Red Lotus Technologies have come up with a new kind of technology that they dubbed PETALS, short for Pattern Enhancement Tool for Assisting Landmine Sensing. This particular system was the brainchild of co-founder Lahiru Jayatilaka, a Sri Lankan who first started working on this system while he was still a Harvard undergrad. The PETAL system would require help from your smartphones with initial demonstration photos depicting an iPhone in action, where said smartphone was connected to a device which is capable of reading the metallic signature of the buried item.

The handset will then show off the relative shape of the object, allowing observers a chance to visually determine whether the item is a potential landmine, some unwanted junk, or a pot of gold that lay buried and untouched after all these years. The PETALS project will have slightly more than a month left to raise a whopping $150,000 to see it come to fruition.

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Welp, looks like your tweets really aren’t protected by law. After months of haggling with the courts, Twitter has finally turned over the protected tweets of Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris after his arrest in October. More »

A sheet showing the newest SIM card size has been leaked showing T-Mobile working with the hardware that does not work with any other device on the carrier. This sheet ties up well with T-Mobile’s earlier word that they’ll be marketing themselves as an unlocked iPhone 5 alternative carrier for users in the USA that do not want to work with one of the top three – each of them, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, having their own iterations of the smartphone sold straight through their store officially. Of course you won’t be able to work with 4G LTE here with T-Mobile, and you’ll have to purchase an unlocked iPhone 5, but you’ll have to do what you must!

If you do indeed want to work with T-Mobile with an unlocked iPhone, the sheet you’re seeing here from TmoNews shows that you’ll be able to begin your journey in mid-October at the earliest. As the sheet notes, “the only phone that currently uses a Nano SIM card is the Apple iPhone 5″ and “no T-Mobile devices require this SIM card” at the moment. This card also has some other limits, one of them being 508 contacts with 3 numbers per contact and one email address per contact as well.

T-Mobile plans on bringing a force of advertisements for the public to join their team with the iPhone 5 off-contract once they’ve got their cards in order. If you do plan on purchasing an iPhone 5 off-contract, Apple notes that you’ll be paying the following prices: $649 (16GB), $749 (32GB), And $849 (64GB) – the GB being how much internal storage you’ve got on the device. Also note that there are currently two color combinations available – black and white.

Have a peek at our Apple portal for more information on the iPhone 5 and hit the timeline below to see more bits on Apple’s latest launch. We’ve got hands-on with the iPhone 5 as well as the two new iPod units – cute stuff! Stick around for our eventual review of the iPhone 5 too!

iPhone 5 unofficially coming to T-Mobile as Nano SIM orders leak is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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