Samsung tipped to be unveiling its thinnest Galaxy device yet

Samsung is building on the design of the Galaxy Alpha but with a thinner profile. The Galaxy A7 was spotted in China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification and it shows off a 6.3 mm thin profile (which is .4 mm thinner than the Galaxy A5). It will reportedly be available in black or white color options, will have a 5.5-inch 1080p display, 16 GB internal storage, 2 GB of RAM, and a processor with eight different cores.Once this rumoured device launches, it will be the third device off the A-series line.

Source: Business Insider

Microsoft brings Office 365 education benefit to teachers

Microsoft has extended its program for educational institutions that offer Office 365 ProPlus subscription to their students. Now, even the educators will gain access to Office 365 ProPlus on the cloud. Each user (or teacher in this case) can download Office for up to five PCs and Macs as well as Office apps on other mobile devices such as Windows tablets and iPads. They also gain access to apps and add-ins like Office Mix, Lync, OneNote, and more.

Source: Microsoft in Education

PayPal adds Samsung fingerprint support for Android app

PayPal is finally bringing fingerprint support for paying for goods to its Google Play Store app. This was previously available on Samsung Apps store. Now, users of the Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Alpha, and Galaxy Tab S can pay for online purchases by just swiping on the fingerprint scanner on their devices.

Source: Android Central

Google Apps add conversion support for another 15 Microsoft Office file types

Luring in more and more Office users, Google has updated its cloud office suite to add support for 15 more file types. Just like with the other file types, you can edit the files listed below as you please after Google converts them. However, some things do get lost in the conversion. Macros, for example, are removed from macro file formats but you do get to keep the original file on Google Drive so you can reference those.

Here are the list of the newly supported formats:

• dot, dotx, dotm, docm conversions to Google Docs

• xlt, xltx, xltm, xlsm conversions to Google Sheets

• pot, potx, potm, pptm, pps, ppsx, ppsm conversions to Google Slides

Source: Google | Via: Android Police