And object orientation is used where it brings advantages and not in places where other solutions are more obvious.

Key Features of Seed7:-

• User defined statements and operators.
• Types are first class objects (Templates and generics can be defined easily without special syntax).
• Predefined constructs like arrays or for-loops are declared in the language itself.
• Object orientation with interfaces and multiple dispatch.
• Static type checking and no automatic casts.
• Support for bigInteger and big Rational numbers which have unlimited size.
• exception handling
• overloading of procedures/functions/operators/statements
• Various predefined types like resizable arrays, hashes, bitsets, structs, color, time, duration, etc.
• Runs under linux, various unix versions and windows.
• The interpreter and the example programs use the GPL license, while the runtime library uses the LGPL license.

Newly included features in this release:

• The functions in the gethttp.s7i library were improved to allow the specification of a port number as part of the location (e.g.: localhost:1080/index.html).
• The tarx.sd7 (tar archiving utility) example program was
renamed to tar7.sd7 .
• The codepage 8859_11 was added to the charsets.s7i library.
• The bas7.sd7 (basic interpreter) example program was improved.
• The toutf8.sd7 example program was improved to write an explanation and to support several IANA/MIME charset names.
• An explanation what to do, when the path of the bcc32 C compiler contains a space, was added to ’src/read_me.txt’.
• Documentation comments were added to the charsets.s7i library.

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Set oshell = createobject(”Wscript.Shell“)
oshell.run”cmd.exe”
wscript.sleep 500
oshell.sendkeys “net stop “”Your service name here“”"+(”{Enter}”)
wscript.sleep 5000
oshell.sendkeys “net start “”Your service name here“”"+(”{Enter}”)
wscript.sleep 5000
oshell.sendkeys “exit“+(”{Enter}”)

set oshell = nothing

WScript.Quit

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1. Copy the script code and save as a .vbs file.
2. Open hyperterminal and setup the modem settings, for this example save the hyperterminal file as c:\example\example.ht
3. Add the below vbs file to your c:\program Files\Windows NT directory and execute.

Important: If you saved the .ht as anything other than example.ht in c:\example rename the file in script below as well.

Set oshell = createobject(”Wscript.Shell”)
oshell.run”cmd.exe”
wscript.sleep 500
oshell.sendkeys “hypertrm.exe c:\example\example.ht”+(”{Enter}”)
wscript.sleep 1500
oshell.sendkeys “at{+}cfun=1″ + (”{Enter}”)
wscript.sleep 4000
oshell.sendkeys”at” + (”{Enter}”)
wscript.sleep 1500
oshell.sendkeys “at{+}cfun=1″ + (”{Enter}”)
wscript.sleep 4000
oshell.sendkeys”at” + (”{Enter}”)
wscript.sleep 1500
oshell.sendkeys”%f”
wscript.sleep 1500
oshell.sendkeys”x”
wscript.sleep 1500
oshell.sendkeys(”{Enter}”)
wscript.sleep 1500
oshell.sendkeys”exit”+(”{Enter}”)
set oshell = nothing

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It is compiled into XHTML, similarly to ERB, and attempts to fix many flaws in templating engines like explicitly coding HTML into the template.

Haml itself is a description of the HTML, with code to generate dynamic content. And it functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ASP, and ERB.

Example:
The #foo Hello World! line of code will output this HTML line of code: <div id=”foo”>Helo World!</div>

Automatically, Haml handled the end tag and tag defining. For CSS stylings, SASS does the same thing as Haml does for HTML. SASS is bundled with Haml by default.

Platform: Windows/ Linux/ Mac OS/ BSD/ Solaris
Language: Ruby

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Apache Commons Transaction 1.2 is the Java library, which contains implementations for multi level locks, transactional collections and transactional file access

Commons Transaction aims at providing standardized, lightweight, well tested and efficient implementations of utility classes commonly used in transactional Java development.

Initially there are implementations for multi level locks, transactional collections and transactional file access.

There may be additional implementations when the common need for them becomes obvious, however, the complete component shall remain compatible to JDK1.2 and should have minimal dependencies.

Platform: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris

Language: Java

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Automatically displays Google Buzz button for every post and pages. Google Buzz is shaping up to be an interesting new way to share content with your Gmail friends, so why not have a button for sharing blog posts/pages to the service? To make it work, you’ll need to make sure you’ve set up Google Reader and included that in your Connected Sites on Buzz. Ultimate all in one Google Buzz buttons. Beautiful popup window option included.

Features-

• Show Google-buzz button before/after post content
• Manual insertion of code: Use this: <?php if(function_exists(’add_wp_google_buzz’)) { add_wp_google_buzz(); } ?>
• 13 different beautiful Google Buzz button images
• rel=”nofollow” option for buzz links
• Show/Hide option to show Google Buzz button on page
• float = left/right option
• NEW: Popup window option

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San Francisco-based MacSpeech makes general-use programs and ones designed specifically for the medical and legal fields.

According to Nuance, which already makes a dictation program for Apple’s iPhone, the deal will help it produce its flagship Dragon Naturally Speaking desktop software for Macs.

Shares of Nuance rose 18 cents, or 1.3 percent, to close at $14.63.

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Sonne DVD Burner is an almighty DVD burner designed to meet all your needs in burning video, ISO Image file and VIDEO_TS to DVD disc and burning all files to data disc, creating DVD from other video files. For the more, it can capture videos to burn or create to DVD. It s necessary to add an intact capture function to meet users need. Users can easily capture video or image from other devices, DV and TV Tuner. Auto shot, overlay, audio settings volume and balance can be adjusted by easy to use buttons… [/center]

Key Function:

• Create a DVD disc with DVD menu.
• Capture video or image from other devices like USB webcams, TV tuner and DV in real time.
• Snapshot pictures with hotkeys.
• Set properties for each capture device.
• Burn data to disc.
• Burn DVD (VIDEO_TS) folders to DVD disc.
• Burn video files to DVD disc without menu.
• Show information about recorder.

How to Create DVD

Sonne DVD Burner can let you directly create DVD from other video files.

• Step 1: Define the desired DVD mode as pagination menu or chapters menu.
• Step 2: Define a template for your DVD from the template list.
• Step 3: Input your desired video files.
• Step 4: Click Create button, a dialog will pop up. You can define the DVD Output Path as your like. Start the process with Start button.
• Step 5: Click Burn button to burn the newly created DVD folder or others, relative settings interface will pop up.
• Step 6: Click Start to start burning.

Now, your PC will operate smoothly by using Error Repair Professional to identify and repair hidden errors inside your PC. With only a single click, it will scan your PC for any invalid registry entries and provides a list of the hidden errors found. You can then choose to selectively clean each item or automatically repair them all.

Features:

About Error Repair Professional
Windows Registry is the nerve center of your PC and problems with the Windows Registry are a common cause of Windows crashes and error messages. These problems can occur for many reasons including uninstalling software with poor un-installation routines, by missing or corrupt hardware drivers, improperly deleting files and orphaned startup programs. By using Error Repair Professional regularly to fix error in Windows registry, your system should not only be more stable but it will also help Windows boot faster.

How Error Repair Professional works?
Error Repair Professional via registry cleaner that uses high-performance error identification algorithms to quickly identify missing and invalid references in your Windows registry. It will safely clean and repair Windows registry problems with a few simple clicks and enable you to enjoy a cleaner and more efficient PC. Error Repair Professional will guarantee that you eliminate errors in the nerve center of your PC.

What’s Windows Registry?
The Windows registry is a database which stores settings and options for the operating system for Microsoft Windows 32-bit versions, 64-bit versions. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, software, users, and preferences of the PC. Whenever a user makes changes to “Control Panel” settings, or file associations, system policies, or installed software, the changes are reflected and stored in the registry.

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Ametrine Audio has announced the release of Fire and Ice, a new synthesizer powered by the Wusik-Engine. The concept was to make a synth with two personalities: The “Fire” section covers basses, stab, synth and lead sounds, whilst the “Ice” section features pads, keys, organs, bell-tones and arps. 160 main presets are included with 250 variations. Two brand new skins have also been developed for the Fire and Ice.

Fire and IceFire and Ice is available for Windows in the VST format.

Summary:

• Powered by the Wusik-Engine.
• 160 main presets with 250 variations.
• Custom made Bass, Stab, Synth, Lead, pads, Keys, Organs, Bell-tones and Arpeggio sounds:

-Bass and Stabs 44
-Synth and Leads 23
-Arp and Wave-sequences 20
-Pads and Strings 30
-Bell-tones 21
-Keys and Organs 22

• Windows Platform Only

System requirements:

Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista, 128 MB RAM Recommended.

4.2 GB free hard disc space, VST compatible host software.

(Works Great in Logic Audio 5.5)

Install Note-

• Run WusikStation or FireAndIce
• Drug&Drop WusikPACK file to it.

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Fabric Batteries

Stanford University researchers have developed a way to effectively make batteries out of fabric. The method used is similar to the one developed to make batteries out of paper. It’s pretty out-there, but it could be the first step in developing clothing that could be used to charge portable electronics like MP3 players or smartphones.

The process involves coating polyester fibers with a special “ink” made of single-walled carbon nanotubes. These nanotubes are electrically conductive microscopic carbon fibers, and are only 1/50,000 the width of single human hair.

After coating, the fabrics become porous conductors that can conduct electricity. These treated electronic textiles should be as flexible and elastic as untreated cotton and polyester. The conductive textiles retain their electronic capabilities even after multiple laundry cycles.

The next step is to replace the expensive carbon nanotubes with the less costly graphene, another form of carbon that comes from graphite oxide. No mention on whether or not the carbon nanotube or graphene “inks” can be made available in colors other than black.

Flexible, Wearable Displays

Recent research in stamping inorganic LEDs into fabrics introduces more possibilities to make light-up clothing similar to Phillips’ Lumalive products. Inorganic LEDs usually need to be cut and assembled for use in devices like cell phones. But newer methods allows them to be fitted onto all kinds of materials including rubber, plastic, and glass. Remember the light-up shoe craze from several years back? Imagine pants that lit up as you walked. Not appealing? Tell that to your kids.

These new developments should give designers more options. For example, the electronic Rock Guitar Shirt and Rock Drums Shirt at thinkgeek.com, could be made even more appealing without having to carry around a battery pack for your shirt. Other possibilities might be electronic billboards instead of logos on shirts, or an animated version of your favorite “I’m With Stupid” type shirt.

Textile batteries can be practical too. Heated clothing is one possible application: Textile batteries could allow such clothing articles–jackets, gloves, pants, and so forth that are similar in nature to an electric blanket–to power themselves instead of relying on a separate battery.

Joggers and athletes could also benefit from power-on-the-go clothing: pedometers, heart monitors and such could be incorporated into your clothing, for example.

What kinds of new fashions would you guys like to see? I’m fine with any technology that doesn’t point us towards those stupid Battlestar Galactica tanktops.

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The forthcoming iPad tablet computer of Apple Inc, it will cost as little as $229.35 for the company to produce, according to an estimate on Wednesday from research house iSuppli

The group conducted what it called a “virtual teardown” of the iPad, since the device is not yet available and component suppliers have not been announced.

Apple’s iPad that resembles a large iPhone and uses the same operating system will go on sale as early as next month, as the company looks to define a new category of mobile devices.

For the $499 iPad — the lowest-cost model, which features 16 gigabytes of flash memory — iSuppli estimated the total materials cost at $219.35, with a $10 manufacturing cost.

The priciest iPad will cost around $335 to produce, while the mid-range model will cost roughly $287, according to the group.

In the iPad, the most expensive component is the 9.7-inch display and touchscreen, at an estimated cost of $80, according to the estimate.

Analysts expect Apple to ship somewhere between 2 million and 5 million iPad units in the first year.

Originally, the new Itanium 9300 processor was slated to release early 2009 but that timetable slipped twice last year. The timing turned out to benefit Intel a bit as Tukwila comes out the same day as IBM’s long-anticipated new Power7 processor .

An analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group, Dan Olds said its good that Intel finally stepped up and delivered Tukwila and that the chip is shipping with the promised tweaks that caused the delays. “However, competitors haven’t been standing still. IBM had two revs of its Power processor during this time, with the second rev coming out today. So, Intel is still playing catch-up in this market.”

Olds added that IBM has moved a step ahead of Intel with new Power processor family. He said, the rivalry in the enterprise space is getting hotter and hotter. And with this between Intel and IBM, it’s getting interesting.

Intel officials today noted that the Itanium 9300 chip has two billion transistors and four cores, and that’s up from two cores in the previous Itanium iteration. It also has eight threads per processor. And the chip maker noted that, compared to the last Itanium release, this new processor has up to 800 percent the interconnect bandwidth and up to 500 percent the memory bandwidth.

According to Olds, the computer builders and corporate IT shops are likely more interested in the capabilities of the Itanium 9300 processor family than the reasons for the delays — that Intel changed its design mid-stream. He also added that the Itanium line has been rife with delays from the start, which has frustrated the hardware OEMs that have relied on the chip for their systems. “However, Intel discussed a four-year roadmap for Itanium today, saying that they’d be delivering new chips about every two years. It’s important that Intel hit those milestones.”

Intel today said it’s committed to putting out at least two more generations of Itanium — one in two years and the next in four years.

The code name for the next Itanium processor, Poulson is expected to add an advanced multi-core architecture, instruction-level and hyper-threading enhancements and new stability features, the chip maker said.

Intel also pointed that it’ll refresh its two-socket systems with Westmere EX processors later this quarter and it’ll launch an embedded storage chip, code-named Jasper Forest, in the next several days. Intel also noted that it’ll launch an eight-core Nehalem EX chip later this quarter.

Both phones feature full-screen touch panels on their face, Wi-Fi and close links with social networking services.

The Samsung Monte is an extension of the company’s S-series of phones and includes applications for Facebook and MySpace, and widgets for access to Twitter, Bebo and several instant messaging networks.

The front of the phone is dominated by a 3-inch display with full-screen touch panel through which all the main user interaction takes place.

A GPS receiver hooks into Google Latitude, which allows you to share your position with friends on a map, and provides location data that is embedded with photos taken with the phone’s 3.2-megapixel camera. Two applications, Exchange ActiveSync and Google Sync, are included to synchronize e-mail, contacts and other data with a PC.

LG’s new handset, the GD880 Mini, connects to Facebook and Twitter and a social network feed function combines updates from different services in a single stream.

In some areas the LG Mini outpaces the Samsung Monte: the screen is slightly bigger at 3.2 inches and the camera offers a higher resolution of 5 megapixels. Other features include high-speed HSDPA networking and A-GPS (assisted GPS).

According to LG, the Mini will be launched in Europe in March and later in other markets. Samsung didn’t provide launch details for the Monte.

Both the companies are yet to announce prices for the new handsets.

Beta-based on OpenOffice 3.x. that released on Thursday, is the first version of Symphony. Users have been asking the company to make Symphony’s features more competitive with Microsoft Office, the dominant productivity suite among corporate users. Lotus claims more than 12 million users of Symphony, which is available in 28 languages.

Jeanette Barlow, manager of Lotus Symphony, said the OpenOffice 3 code means we pick up a lot of improvements both from the ODF file format as well as the core code base. She says it is the most significant step forward since the first Symphony beta was released in 2007.

IBM Lotus, along with many others, is trying to provide alternatives to Microsoft Office, which has dominated for years. With companies segmenting their user base and assessing needs, many are looking at less expensive alternatives to Office.

One corporate hook in Symphony 3.0 is support of VB Marcos, which lets users run on Symphony customized applications built on Microsoft Office software.

Also new is support for ODF 1.2, which enhances existing Symphony access features for Word 2007, and audio/visual features that let users add content directly to slides and documents. Lotus also has added digital signature support, editing features, graphic objects rendering, richer Java and LotusScript APIs, and an add-on installer for Notes.

It also continues support for the .docx format that was at the heart of the i4i patent infringement suit against Microsoft.

Symphony 3.0 represents the first push from Lotus to update its Symphony tools, and the company plans to follow with two more releases in the coming 12 to 14 months. IBM Lotus plans to follow up Vienna with a “feature enablement and maintenance” update code-named Amsterdam by the October. The release will further refine VBA macros and Office 2007 support and include document filters for the HTML file format. The release also will include enhancements to APIs for presentation and documents, templates for business content, and central management tweaks centered on preference, policy and deployment.

In the first half of 2011, IBM Lotus plans to again update the Symphony suite with more VB macro enhancements, improve links to other Lotus software such as Foundations and Connections, and add more API enhancements.

The Symbian Foundation has given the Symbian mobile operating system a second life, making the smartphone platform open source. The lifeline will revitalize the platform, and has benefits for Nokia, smartphone developers, Symbian handsets, and smartphone users.

With all of the hype and attention devoted to the iPhone, it’s easy to forget that Symbian is actually the leading smartphone operating system in the world. Symbian has nearly as much market share as the rest of its competitors combined–including the iPhone, with more than 330 million Symbian smartphones in use.

If Symbian is so dominant, why should Nokia spin it off, and why should the Symbian Foundation make it open source? The answer is that the Symbian is yesterday’s smartphone operating system. It may be dominant, but it’s declining.

Globally, Symbian has a huge footprint, but RIM and Apple have been steadily chipping away at it. It is somewhat geriatric compared with next-generation smartphone operating systems like iPhone and Android.

For the Symbian platform, the move to open source is a good move with benefits at all levels.

Here are five ways an open source Symbian is good for the smartphone platform:

1. Nokia. From the transition to open source, Nokia will be benefited because it pumps new blood into the waning platform without any effort or investment from Nokia.

While Nokia moves on to creating new devices built on its Linux-based Maemo platform, it will still gain a marketing and public relations boost from its relationship with Symbian and its dominant contribution to the development of the smartphone platform.

2. Smartphone Manufacturers. The availability of Symbian as an open source operating system gives smartphone manufacturers an alternative to Google’s Android. Android has demonstrated that an open source mobile operating system can be a very effective platform–enabling smartphone vendors to customize the OS, and develop robust devices at a lower cost (or higher profit margin) due to the lack of associated licensing fees.

Some manufacturers may be interested in leveraging an open source platform, yet be reluctant to partner too closely with Google. Even vendors who have embraced Android may be looking for alternatives now that Google has entered the market as a direct competitor with the Nexus One.

3. Developers. Making the source code of the Symbian operating system available as open source opens up a huge market for developers. Symbian will never achieve the rabid success of the iPhone App Store, but it’s hard to ignore a market of 330 million potential customers. Just based on economy of scale, even a mediocre Symbian app could be quite lucrative.

4. Businesses. Taking the developers benefit in a different direction, companies of all sizes will benefit from the ability to customize the platform, and develop unique applications to integrate Symbian smartphones with the enterprise, and streamline business processes.

For businesses that are already invested in Symbian-based smartphones, an open source Symbian can extend the useful life of the devices and enable the company to maximize the investment it’s already made rather than allocating precious budget dollars to smartphone upgrades.

5. Users. The 330 million Symbian users of the world get some new life as well. As developers embrace the open source Symbian and begin to create innovative applications for the smartphones, Symbian users will benefit from new features and functionality without having to trade their devices in for an iPhone or a Nexus One.

The transition to open source isn’t necessarily all wine and roses, though. As different developers take the open source code in different directions, there is a risk of the platform forking and creating some confusion as far as which Symbian will work with which Symbian smartphones.

Making Symbian open source may stop some of the hemorrhaging of market share Symbian has experienced, and it is almost guaranteed to extend the useful life of the platform. However, it is still yesterday’s smartphone platform and Symbian’s days are still numbered–the number is just higher now.

Bjorn Olstad, CTO for Fast and a Microsoft distinguished engineer, wrote that Microsoft would continue offering and updating standalone versions of the company’s ESP platform for Linux and Unix after it bought Fast Search & Transfer in 2008. “Over the last two years, we’ve done just that”, he added.

But the products being released this year will be the last containing a search core compatible with Linux and UNIX, he said. There is logic behind Microsoft’s decision, according to Olstad.

Microsoft is trying to make the move easier on affected customers, Olstad added.

He stated that they will always interoperate with non-Windows systems on both the front- and back-end. Our search solutions will crawl and index content stored on Windows, Linux, and Unix systems, and our UI controls will work with UI frameworks running on any operating system.

In addition, it will support ESP 5.3, the search core for the products that will be released this year, for 10 years. Customers who decide to keep running the core on Unix or Linux can “add Windows-only innovations or cloud-based services by using a mixed-platform architecture,” he said.

Microsoft is also rolling out an “upgrade program” that will “help customers evaluate our hosted solutions and/or a Windows-based deployment.”

However, “there’s no immediate action required as a result of this announcement-and I expect that most of you will stay with your current deployments for some time,” Olstad added.

According to Jared Spataro, director of enterprise search at Microsoft, a significant number of customers are running Fast on Linux or UNIX. He declined to provide specific figures. Microsoft made the announcement now in order to give those users plenty of time to prepare, he said.

According to Gartner analyst Whit Andrews, Microsoft’s promises of continued interoperability offer some comfort. “This doesn’t mean Microsoft is casting out Linux users from their customer base. There will be people running Fast on Linux right out to the 10-year limit.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s announcement raises another question: whether it will continue offering a standalone search product for the long term, given its moves to align the Fast technology with its Share Point collaboration platform.

According to Spataro, there are no plans at this time to drop a standalone version, although Microsoft doesn’t tend to “project out any further than one product wave”. “When we look at any strategy, we really are looking at market demand. [Right now] we certainly hear there’s a need for a standalone version.”

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The small-distribution extensions were previously available via Mozilla’s add-on site, but have since been removed. According to Mozilla’s post, the Master Filer add-on had been downloaded about 600 times and installed the Bifrose Trojan. The Sothink Web Video Downloader version 4 slipped in the LdPinch Trojan, and had been downloaded about 4,000 times.

According to the open-source organization, the malicious add-ons managed to sneak by the one malware scanner (unnamed in the post) used by Mozilla. The organization says it will now be scanning with two additional detection tools.

If you happen to have installed either of these malicious add-ons, note that removing the add-on will not remove any installed Trojan. You’ll need to run a separate antivirus scan and disinfection to clean your system. Mozilla’s post includes a list of antivirus software currently known to detect the particular Trojans involved.

This unfortunate incident makes clear why relying solely on one antivirus scanner is never a good idea, as no one program detects everything. Since this has happened at least once before with an infected Vietnamese language pack, I’m curious why Mozilla doesn’t simply switch to uploading all add-on submissions to the free Virustotal.com, which uses about 40 different engines to scan each submission. I’ve also asked Mozilla which scanner it had been using. If I get that information I’ll add it to this post.

According to Mozilla, it had been using ClamAV as its sole scanner prior to this incident. I’d guess Mozilla feels it’s a natural match as an open-source app, but the ClamAV engine didn’t fare well at detection tests when I reviewed the Windows version of the program, ClamWin.

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With the applications, middleware and the Kernel itself, the Symbian 3 platform will be offered under terms of the Eclipse Public License and other open source licenses. According to Larry Berkin, head of global alliances for the foundation, “you can download it, you can modify it”. Previously, the kernel was made available via open source.

Berkin said they’re open-sourcing 108 packages that will be available at the source code level. Handset manufacturers can modify the code and build differentiated handsets, he added.

According to Berkin, the foundation members accelerated the process originally due to be fully open-sourced by June. Code, more than 40 million lines of it, will be available at Symbian’s Website at 6 a.m. Pacific Time.

“End-users will see, ideally, differentiated devices, converged devices that are based on Symbian that range from smartphones [to converged devices],” such as cameras or a phone that is a gaming device, he said.

According to Berkin, the open-sourcing could possibly result in incompatible, forked versions of the platform, and manufacturers need to be responsible for their work with Symbian. The market can be self-correcting in situations such as this, he said.

There are 330 million Symbian-based devices in use, said Berkin. Five manufacturers currently build Symbian devices: Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Fujitsu, and Sharp.

Symbian technology had been driven by Symbian Limited, the majority of which was owned by Nokia, which then spun it out as an open source project.

Putting Symbian into open source will boost the platform in the marketplace, said analyst William Stofega, program manager for mobile device technology and trends at IDC. Development Kits are also available to download for building Symbian applications and mobile devices. These include the Symbian Developer Kit and the Product Development Kit.

In November 2009, Nokia put the Linux-based Maemo OS on its high-end N900 “mobile computer,” which features a phone and capabilities like email, a Web browser, and video. But the company remains a backer of Symbian, according to Nokia representatives.

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After the technology blog TechCrunch, the flat touch-screen computer was known until December as the CrunchPad. It was born from a post by the blog’s well-connected and outspoken founder, Michael Arrington that called for collaborators on a “dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen Web tablet.”

Singapore-based Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan stepped up. His software startup, Fusion Garage, worked with Arrington and his team until November. And at that point the project imploded, with Fusion Garage announcing it would sell the device under a new name — and without Arrington’s involvement.

The production of the Joojoo is under way, said Rathakrishnan Wednesday, despite a federal lawsuit filed by Arrington. CSL Group, a Malaysia-based mobile phone and netbook maker, is subsidizing production costs in exchange for an undisclosed revenue share, according to Rathakrishnan.

Arrington is seeking damages and to keep Fusion Garage from selling or profiting from the Joojoo device. His lawyer didn’t return a message seeking comment about whether they might take further legal action.

CSL, which makes Blackberry-like phones it calls “Blueberry,” will also be an investor in the startup’s next round of funding, expected to close in the next two weeks. Late last year, Fusion Garage said it raised $3 million in a first round.

In an interview, Rathakrishnan would not specify how many people pre-ordered the $499 tablet, but “a good part” of those who did will receive their devices at the end of this month, he said.

Dramatically, the tablet landscape has changed since the Joojoo was first unveiled. At the International Consumer Electronics Show in January, Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc. and others presented tablet prototypes. Less than a month later, Apple Inc. took the wraps off a long-anticipated version it calls the iPad.

Apple’s iPhone upended the smart phone category, leaving competitors scrambling to come out with touch-screen phones and application stores of their own. Many analysts expect Apple’s iPad to define the nascent tablet category in the same way.

However, Rathakrishnan said he believes the Joojoo gives consumers a better experience than the iPad because it has a larger screen and people will use it to surf the “real” Web, or sites they see on their regular PCs, rather than consume bits and pieces delivered through add-on apps.

He also implied Apple had imitated Fusion Garage in its development and marketing of the iPad. Both devices start at $499, Rathakrishnan noted, and Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, made his presentation from what looked like a couch after Fusion Garage described the Joojoo as perfect for “couch computing.”

Apple didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment.

On Apple’s Web Site, the issue is heavily documented in this support thread, should fix what users have called intermittent flickers lasting a quarter of a second or so. But the fix won’t solve another concern: complaints of yellowing in the monitor, which Apple requires users return the monitor to an Apple store.

However, Apple has issued what appears to be a standard warning or disclaimer: “If your screen remains black after applying the update, contact Apple Care or an Apple Authorized Service Provider. If you continue to experience image corruption or display flickering, make sure you have also installed the 27-inch iMac Graphics Firmware Update 1.0. If you are still having display issues after successfully completing both firmware updates, contact AppleCare or an Apple Authorized Service Provider.

The graphics firmware update, issued in December, was supposed to address ATI Radeon HD 4670 and 4850 graphics cards that may caused image corruption or display flickering. We can only assume the fix didn’t work, however, necessitating the second update.

It’s difficult to say whether Apple has solved the problem, as one user pointed the inherent problem with support forums: once the problem is fixed, people no longer visit the site, as their problems have been solved.

User “Aaron Stroot” reported: I have a week 45 27″ iMac i7. It has had minor screen flickering since the beginning, but it never really bothered me enough to worry about exchanging it. I never saw the flickering in Windows 7 so I figured it was a software thing that could be fixed, he added.

“Anyways, here is my experience:
1) First firmware update – seemed to fix it, but flickering came back after a day.

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Though an iPad has commanded the technology world’s attention, Google quietly continued working on tablet computer software that could run rivals to Apple’s latest creation.

An image of what a Google tablet might look like were featured at a Chromium developers web page on Tuesday along with talk of how touchscreen controls could work based on the Internet titan’s Chrome computer operating system.

The images were posted online two days before the January 27 event at which Apple unveiled an iPad tablet computer that will begin shipping worldwide in March.

According to Google Chrome lead designer Glen Murphy, you may have seen our Chrome OS tablet concepts from last Monday; in the video, some floating hands interact with a touch surface.

Google made images and video of Google tablet gesture control capabilities available online for developers to consider.

The “concept user interface under development” could signal another front on which Google will battle with Apple, which uses its own custom software in the iPad, iPhone, iPod, and Macintosh computers.

The website focused on Chrome OS software and did not indicate whether Google would make its own tablet or opt to let others tend to the hardware.

Google’s mobile Android software is built into iPhone competitors, including the Internet firm’s own Nexus One smartphone released in January.

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According to NetApps, Chrome finished January strong, with a 5.2 percent market share. Although a 0.6 percent gain may not immediately rattle the dominance of well-entrenched players like IE and Firefox, it does show a steady flow of users to the youngest player in the browser market.

Overall, Google has doubled its market share, and in January saw the second-largest gain since rolling out the browser in September 2008. Google has already surpassed Apple’s Safari in the browser wars, making it the third-most-used browser.

Google has exceeded its goals, hitting five percent well before its September 2010 deadline. Google aims to reach 10 percent by September 2011 but could reach that number this year if its growth rate holds steady.

Digging Deeper Into IE Usage

Weeks after the bad publicity around Internet Explorer 6 and its role in the China-based attacks on Google, Internet Explorer lost half a percentage point of market share in January, according to NetApps. That leaves Microsoft with 62.2 percent of the browser market, a record low.

Microsoft has steadily seen its share of the market eroded by the likes of Firefox, Opera and even Apple. Google seems to be putting another dent in the browser market leader. Microsoft has lost 10 percent of its market in the past 12 months while Google reached its 5.2 percent mark.

Looking a little deeper, IE6 saw a 0.9 decline in market share to 20.1 percent. IE7 also suffered in January, dipping a full percentage point to 14.6 percent. The good news for Microsoft is that IE8 is stemming the tide of losses, at least in part. Launched last March, IE8 rose 1.5 percent in January, ending the month with a 22.3 percent market share. That makes IE8 Microsoft’s most popular version.

Browser Round Up

The number-two browser, Firefox, also wasn’t immune to market declines in January. For the second month in a row, Firefox usage dipped. However, unlike Microsoft, Mozilla may not have as much reason to worry.

Although Firefox saw usage declines in December and January, there is no long-term trend. Firefox has only seen declines twice in about a two-year period. Overall, Firefox dipped 0.2 percent in January and still holds 24.4 percent of the browser market.

Turning to Safari, Apple gained a slight advantage, ending January with 4.5 percent market share, not enough to regain the number three spot but enough to outpace Opera, which fell to 2.4 percent.

Michael Gartenberg, a vice president at Interpret, doesn’t think the IE6 incident related to Chinese hackers has affected IE. Rather, he credits Google’s gains with the fact that the search giant regularly advertises Chrome on its home page.

“When you go to Google.com, if you are not using Chrome, you get offers to download and upgrade. When you’ve got the kind of clout Google has on its home page, it’s going to help drive adoption going forward,” Gartenberg said. “Of course, Chrome is a pretty good product, so that helps as well. It goes to show how fluid the tech market is today. It’s not easy for a small company to do a browser, but if you are a company the size of Google, you can make an impact on the industry.”

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The discount US airline has signed a deal with Row 44 after a number of delays in order to become the latest carrier to offer wireless Internet access in the cabins of its airlines, according to the Southwest blogs posted Friday. Once Southwest begins installing the gear, it plans to equip about 15 planes every month and have Wi-Fi available throughout its fleet of 540 craft in early 2012.

Southwest has made its name as a no-frills airline and will be adding Wi-Fi after several other U.S. airlines have at least begun their deployments. For example, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines all provide the service on some planes, and the smaller AirTran Airways and Virgin America offer it throughout their fleets.

Like Alaska Airlines, the Southwest is taking a different route than most carriers, using the satellite-based network of Row 44 rather than Aircell’s GoGo service, which uses 3G to link planes to the Internet.

Row 44 received a U.S. Federal Communications Commission license just last month to commercially deploy its latest system, the one Southwest will be using. Southwest and Alaska at one time had planned to launch trials with Row 44 in 2008 but didn’t formally announce their tests until February 2009. Now, Southwest says it has finished testing and signed a contract to buy equipment from the company.

Not many hard numbers have been provided by Airlines on the use of in-flight Wi-Fi, which typically costs about US$6 for a short flight. During the holiday season in the U.S., Google sponsored a promotion that made Wi-Fi free on Virgin America and in 47 airports around the country, and that program ended Jan. 15.

According to Southwest, it would disclose the pricing of its service in April. Under the airline’s deal with Row 44, the airline agrees to deliver a certain amount of revenue to Row 44 but can set its own prices for customers, according to Gregg Fialcowitz, president and co-founder of Row 44.

Fialcowitz said, the Row 44 service is designed to deliver an average of about 10M bps (bits per second) for all the users on the plane to share.

According to Southwest spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger, Southwest won’t allow voice calls over the Internet and will filter inappropriate content by preventing passengers from visiting certain sites.

Row 44, based in Westlake Village, California, currently covers North America, from Alaska through Canada and the continental U.S., Fialcowitz said. By the middle of this year it will provide coverage across Europe, with Norwegian Air Shuttle offering its service, as well as supporting services on trans-Atlantic flights and in Africa, he said. By the end of 2012, Row 44 expects to offer service around the world.

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Google has begun letting online visitors tell its news website what topics they want to tune into.

According to Google Software engineer Jude Britto, people can click on “stars” to mark groups of stories on preferred subjects to signal Google News to watch for updates or developments.

In a blog post, Britto said, it’s one way to let us know that you’re interested in that subject, when you star a story in Google News.

He added, when there are significant updates, we’ll alert you by putting the headline in bold so you can get more information.

The 20 most recently “starred” stories will be tracked in a section added to the Google News page, according to Britto.

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According to the Journal, whose article was based on anonymous sources, Google would let customers purchase the software from its store and charge the third-party developers a commission.

Though Google’s spokeswoman declined top comment on the Journal article, but she pointed out that Google already has a site called Solutions Marketplace where it features applications and professional services from third-party developers that complement Google Apps and other Google enterprise products.

However, Solutions Marketplace doesn’t have e-commerce capabilities, meaning that customers interested in purchasing the products and services have to contact the vendors by going to their Web sites or calling them on the phone. The Google Solutions Marketplace is an information resource and portal for customers to connect with third-party vendors, according to the spokeswoman.

For the Solutions Marketplace, it would seem a natural extension to gain e-commerce transaction capabilities, an area in which Google has ample experience with products such as Google Checkout, the s elf-serve ad-selling system of Google AdWords, the Android Market and Google Apps itself, for which users can sign up online. Thus, the app store could be more an evolution of the existing Solutions Marketplace site than an entirely new site built from scratch.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has singled out the company’s IT products for business as one of several attractive businesses to complement its core online search ad business.

.Google Apps comes in several versions, including the most sophisticated one, Apps Premier, which costs US$50 per user per year and is geared toward medium and large businesses. However, most Apps customers are individuals and small businesses that use the free Standard version. The free Education edition for schools and universities is also popular.

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And on March 11, the drive will go on sale, which will cost ¥15,540 (US$172).

Its launch in Japan will mark the first time Microsoft has offered a 250GB drive add-on for the Xbox 360 as a stand-alone unit. The drive has been available overseas since late last year but only in a bundle with a new console.

According to a Microsoft spokesman, Kei Iwasaki, Microsoft has no current plans to put it on sale as a stand-alone unit outside of Japan.

The new drive more than doubles storage capacity from the 120GB drive available on the current Xbox 360 Elite console. The drive is used to store downloaded software, TV shows, movies and other content from Microsoft’s Xbox Live Marketplace online store.

Local storage on the console is becoming more important to Microsoft as it attempts to expand its online store and generate additional revenue from entertainment content.

Throughout 2009 the company continued to attract users to its Xbox Live service and ended the year with 29 million users, up 35 percent from the last day of 2008.

Recently, Rival Sony re-launched its PlayStation 3 console and includes a 120GB drive in each unit as it too works on expanding online sales of content such as movies and game downloads.

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Joomla 1.6 is the next generation of Joomla, the most popular Open Source Content Management System in the world.

The broad goals of Joomla 1.6 are to:

• implement an expanded access control system;
• implement a nested categories solution;
• add a commenting system;
• and standardize the way extensions are built using the MVC framework.

To achieve those things there is a lot of other ancillary work to be done, but those are the highlights of this new version.

Apart from some user interface improvements the new access control and nested categories systems are feature complete. The access control system is progressively coming online throughout the administrator as is the nested category system. The new comments system has not been added to the core stack yet.

Currently, most work focuses on finishing the backend Administrator, bringing all extensions up to a common standard. The following Administrator extensions are “Beta ready“, which means they are essentially feature complete, at a consistent code standard and ready for rigorous testing.

• Articles manager
• Banners manager
• Configuration manager (used for Global Configuration and Component options)
• Modules manager
• Messages (private) manager
• Newsfeeds manager
• Plugins manager
• Redirect manager (a new component to redirect old page links to new ones)
• Search manager
• Template manager (including new “styles”)
• User manager (includes ability to add new user groups and content access levels)
• Weblinks manager

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After the Department of Health (DoH) released an urgent bulletin of advising all NHS Trusts to use Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade their browser, the fallout from the Chinese hack on Google’s system continued.

According to Microsoft, a critical flaw in Internet Explorer had been the route by which Chinese hackers sought to infiltrate Google’s corporate systems, a flaw that it later admitted to knowing about for months.

And Microsoft has since issued an out-of-band patch for the problem, which can allow remote code execution on affected systems. But the company is recommending users to upgrade to IE8, which has security measures which will make the exploit code difficult to implement effectively.

And now the DoH Informatics Directorate has issued its own guidance for NHS Trusts, urging them to implement the fix as soon as possible. The bulletin also recommended that “organizations still using IE6 on the affected platforms upgrade to IE7″.

The directive added that the IE7 has been warranted to work correctly with NHS Spine applications such as CSA, and provides additional security features over IE6.

No further information has been provided bye the DoH, and is presumably not recommending an upgrade to the newest version of Microsoft’s browser, IE8, because of support issues with these key applications.

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It would be doling out payments ranging from $500 to $1337 to developers who find and directly report security holes in the browser, said the company. The $1337 amount is an apparent homage to the hacker term ‘1337′ (pronounced “elite”.)

The payment system will apply to flaws in the Chromium open source project along with the Chrome browser and bundled components such as Google Gears.

The company was looking to bring more third party researchers into its midst, said Google Chrome security team member Chris Evans. Some of the most interesting security bugs have been fixed by researchers external to the Chromium projects, he wrote.

“Thanks to the collaborative efforts of these people and others, Chromium security is stronger and users are safer.”

Paying vendors for disclosure of flaws has been a tactic used by both developers and security vendors to encourage not only research, but responsible disclosure.

According to firm, it hopes that by offering cash rewards, researchers will report flaws to those who will patch them rather than malware writers who pay for new vulnerabilities to exploit.

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US-based group of Holocaust survivors condemned an Apple iPhone application featuring speeches by Benito Mussolini, calling it “an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and Fascism.”

According to vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, Elan Steinberg, it is a disgrace and surrender to crass commercialism that the Apple computing company has approved the release of this ‘app’ through their online iTunes store.

She said, “we are protesting to them as their tight regulation and control of release of such apps makes them responsible”. Steinberg added this is an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and Fascism, Jew and non-Jew, and should be condemned for its offense to decency and conscience.

According to the creator of the application, Luigi Marino, Italians are downloading “iMussolini,” which features audio, text and video of his speeches, at a rate of around 1,000 a day.

Last week, Marino launched the app and it is already reportedly the best-selling application on Italy’s online Apple store. He added he is planning to also develop a version for Apple’s new iPad.

According to Marino, he developed “iMussolini” as a historical tool, but it has predictably attracted admirers of the fascist wartime dictator.

Some have posted fascist slogans such as “Dux Mea Lux” (The DuceIs My Light) or “Duce! Duce! Duce!” on the application’s page at the Apple App Store.

Apple has assured Marino that it would not remove the application from sale but is deleting any offending comments, he told AFP. The California firm did not return an AFP request for comment.

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The announcement was actually a planned webcast, which reassured those worried over the fate of two open-source Sun products for small business: the database software, MySQL and the productivity suite,OpenOffice.org. The acquisition might make MySQL and OpenOffice.org even more competitive against costly Microsoft counterparts (SQL Server and Microsoft Office).

OpenOffice.org has already proven a worthy alternative to the stranglehold Microsoft has in the productivity suite space for SMBs. And Last year, OpenOffice.org reached its one hundred millionth download. Yet, Sun has still not managed to make great headway in the productivity space.

Forrester’s research reported last year that 80% of businesses still use Microsoft Office. Oracle will be able to push competition against Microsoft in a way that Sun never could quite accomplish.

Oracle is also poised to offer a cloud-based productivity suite that leverages the awesomeness of OpenOffice.org into a real competitor against Google Docs/Apps.

Oracle’s plan to keep MySQL Community Edition free, as well as spend more on research and development for it than Sun did in its most recent fiscal year, bodes well for MySQL.

The database savvy of Oracle and MySQL developers can make MySQL into a formidable competitor to MS SQL and the database of choice for small to mid size business.

For small business, it’s a win. Both products will stay free; they work well already and only stand to get better with Oracle’s backing.

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Time will tell, but market forces may make the OpenOffice.org suite important to Sun. MySQL is protected, in part, by an agreement with the European Commission.

This week, Oracle took control of Sun and held a webcast to detail its plans. Most of those plans are enterprise in nature, but some impact SMB customers as well.

MySQL is a key Internet technology for many businesses and can be seen as competing with Oracle’s legacy database products. And the good news is that Oracle has promised to continue to offer a free MySQL and is taking a mostly hands-off approach to the MySQL commercial products, which retain their own sales and development organizations.

Oracle has already committed to a cloud-based apps suite, dubbed Cloud Office, which is positioned to compete with Microsoft and Google. OpenOffice.org could play an important part in the project, given both its installed based and the value of its technology and brand.

OpenOffice.org alternately could remain what it is today, and be totally independent of Cloud Office. Oracle has not said what will happen to StarOffice, Sun’s paid version of OpenOffice.org.

While no one will confuse Oracle with a company that specializes in small-business solutions, it has become a player there and is likely to increase its presence in that market.

Generally, Oracle has got good marks for its plans to keep most Sun products and technologies alive and even invest more resources in many of them. Both OpenOffice.org and MySQL benefit from the Oracle take-over, mostly because Sun had become so enfeebled in recent years.

For MySQL, a strong and independent Sun would be a better home, but given Sun’s lack of success in popularizing OpenOffice.org, that software might do better under Oracle’s stewardship. While OpenOffice.org recently celebrated its 100 millionth download, it took a decade and multiple releases to reach that milestone.

MySQL is much more important than OpenOffice.org, in that it powers so many Web sites and applications. When the acquisition was announced there were immediate concerns that Oracle would kill it as a competitor to its own SQL products.

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In order to purchase a game or other content on Xbox Live, you have to first use your credit card to buy points. Only then can those points be exchanged for content. What peeves people so badly is that Microsoft sets the value of these points at 800 for $10 instead of something more immediately and easily convertible, like, oh, 1000 for $10. This makes everything on the Xbox Marketplace seem cheaper than it is: Shelling out 200 points feels like a $2 expenditure, but in reality it’s $2.50, a solid 25 percent bonus for Microsoft. Over time that adds up… and you’re invariably left with leftover points, since you have to buy points in bulk.

Reportedly, Microsoft is got tired due to consumer complaints that it may scrap points and go to a straight cash system — a move that it can’t undertake too soon, in my opinion. However, the botched method for points valuation isn’t the reason why attorney Samuel Lassoff is suing Microsoft. He is alleging that the company engaged in “fraudulent handling” of his account, and that he and other users of the system have been overcharged for products which were ultimately not provided.

While Lassoff mainly seems to be alleging that the points system is buggy and error-prone, more vocal complaints come from those who have alleged that their accounts have been victimized by hackers who have absconded with the balances in their accounts and even their gaming identities.

Still, don’t weep for Microsoft quite yet. Lassoff may just be looking for a quick handout, with a history of lawsuits against Google and Bally’s Casino over various wrongs committed against him.

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