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PowerBuilder hitches wagon to .NET

The recent release of Sybase's PowerBuilder rapid application development tool allows users of the toolkit to deploy applications on the .NET architecture. Will it be enough to regain their footing in the enterprise tool space, against the behemoths of Visual Studio and Eclipse?

Potential targets for deployment now include both native windows applications through Winforms, and Web applications through .NET Webforms.

In the view of PowerBuilder's developers, the Windows32 deployment environment is dying. "We want to provide an overlap period", John Strano, Sybase technology evangelist told Builder AU in Sydney today. The ambition is to provide a means of developing and deploying existing applications to platforms past, present and future without a rewrite.

Sybase are concious that they're not in the position where they can avoid providing a clear migration path for their users towards the new world of Web deployment, service oriented architecture and rich applications.

Citing VB 6 as an example, Strano said "Microsoft may be able to say 'rewrite it in C#', but if we tell our customers that, they will start looking towards competitors."

PowerBuilder is heavily focused towards the Windows platform, currently supporting only native windows applications and now Web applications accessed through Internet Explorer (but not Firefox, or anything on Mac or Linux).

Mobile Ubuntu Linux released

Canonical on Tuesday released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile internet devices.

One option for Ubuntu MID's user interface

(Credit: Canonical)

Ubuntu MID works on two devices at present, the Samsung Q1U and the
Intel Crown Beach development station for building devices using the
company's Atom processor. It also can be run on ordinary computers
through the KVM virtualisation software. A MID — a concept Intel is
aggressively promoting — is a mobile device larger and more like a
regular computer than, say an Apple iPhone, but smaller than an
ultraportable PC.

"This release marks the start of a way for new users to experience
Ubuntu and Open Source software and as the hardware becomes commonplace
it will become a very exciting place to get users experiencing
applications from our communities," said David Mandala, project manager
of the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Group, in a blog posting.

Canonical will release new versions of the software on the same
six-month cycle as it uses for the desktop version of the open-source
operating system, the company said.

Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft

If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.

That's because, so close to the transition, he still hasn't slowed
down his pace. If anything, things have picked up as he tries to have
one last meeting with all the leaders and projects that are important
to him.

Gates, who dropped out of school more than 30 years ago to run
Microsoft, steps down from full-time work on 27 June. He'll remain
chairman and a part-time Microsoft employee.

The Microsoft co-founder did take some time out of his schedule
recently to sit down and offer some reflections on the early days of
the PC market, as well as thoughts on where Microsoft is now and what
technologies he will need in his new role, working full time for the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In the interview, Gates shared some little-known stories from the
company's early days, including the fact that Microsoft seriously
entertained combining with Lotus but talks ended when that company's
chief executive pulled out. Gates also noted that Microsoft was invited
and then uninvited to the launch event for the first IBM PC.

Firefox vs Internet Explorer

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HTML 5: A change in course... straight for the iceberg

The W3C recently released a working draft specification for HTML 5. In its current iteration, this is the worst specification I have ever read.

In comparison to HTML 5, I take back everything that I said about SMTP -- at least SMTP knows its role and sticks to it. HTML 5 is a 15-year leap backwards;
it's also a transparent attempt to pander to the current tool vendors,
in a format that is so incredibly "right here and now" that it is not a
durable standard to carry us through to the future.

Scientists train computer to read people's thoughts

A computer has been trained to "read" people's minds by

looking at scans of their brains as they thought about

specific words, researchers said today.

They hope their study, published in the journal Science, might lead to better understanding of how and where the brain stores information.

This might lead to better treatments for language disorders and learning disabilities, said Tom Mitchell of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who

helped lead the study.

"The question we are trying to get at is one people have been
thinking about for centuries, which is: How does the brain organise
knowledge?" Mitchell said in a telephone interview.

"It is only in the last 10 or 15 years that we have this way that we can study this question."

Mitchell's team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a type of brain scan that can see real-time brain activity.

They calibrated the computer by having nine student volunteers think of 58 different words, while imaging their brain activity.

"We gave instructions to people where we would tell them, 'We are
going to show you words and we would like you, when you see this word,
to think about its properties,'" Mitchell said.

They imaged each of the nine people thinking about the 58 different words, to create a kind of "average" image of a word.

A gaggle of Google I/O predictions - Videos


A gaggle of Google I/O predictions

CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss the upcoming Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Could a second mobile SDK be released? Or maybe the winner of the Android developer contest?

Google's Android comes to life

Google android Comes to Life

Google demonstrated its Android mobile phone software Wednesday at the
Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The project, under development
by Google and a number of partners in the Open Handset Alliance, is due
to ship as open-source software when the first Android phones go on
sale later this year. This is a view of the home screen, demonstrated
by Steve Horowitz, Android's engineering director.

Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News.com

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Pervaiz ilahi Phone Call Tape

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Pervaiz ilahi Phone Call Tape Caught and exposed in PML-N press conference Live. Pervaiz ilahi phone call was to PSO cheif justice Doger to call Lahore hight court, chief justice to cancel the Main Nawaz Sharif & Mian Shehbaz Sharif election documents.

Life after Windows Vista and Aeros

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It might not sound like all that much, but it is a definite confirmation that there is life after Windows Aero. And as far as the scarce details on Windows 7 go, any palpable piece of information goes a long way. Microsoft is cooking an improved graphical user interface for the next iteration of the Windows client. Windows Division's Core User Experience team is hard at work taking both the user interface and user experience of Windows 7 to the next level.

Open-source Silverlight released for developers

The Novell-led Mono project this week made the first, though incomplete, public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, a browser plug-in that competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Shockwave, JavaFX, and Apple QuickTime.

The project has received Microsoft backing as part of a controversial 2006 intellectual-property arrangement between Novell and Microsoft.

Mono, directed by Novell employee Miguel de Icaza, is aiming to
create an open-source, cross-platform set of tools compatible with
Microsoft's .Net programming framework.

Moonlight is the project's upcoming implementation of Silverlight, a
plug-in first introduced in September 2007, which supports rich
Internet media, such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video
playback.

Silverlight supports Windows and Mac OS X, and Microsoft has planned support for mobile devices, but the software does not support Linux operating systems.

Moonlight supports the Silverlight 1.0 profile for Linux, de Icaza said in a blog post on Tuesday.

Talks failure disappoints Nation

Pakistan Nawaz ShareefPakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said the deadlock in
the talks over judges restoration still persists despite very sincere
efforts.Talking to media here, he said his party will hold a
meeting to discuss the future of ruling coalition, adding, ‘We were
holding the negotiations for past one and half months; however,
deadlock could not be resolved and the talks still remains
inconclusive.’

Every Pakistani is disappointed at the failure of talks on judges, Nawaz said.

‘We wanted the judges restoration while keeping the coalition from falling,’ he said.

Nawaz
Sharif said his party wanted the graceful comeback of the deposed
judges; however, he does not want such restoration which would spawn
fresh problems.

Commenting on his meeting with US Assistant
Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher, he said he does not
take dictation from USA or any other quarter on the internal affairs of
Pakistan, adding however he did not discuss with him the judges
restoration.

‘We just had bilateral talks,’ he maintained.

The sources said that the negotiations failed to reach any consensus over the modalities of judges restoration.

Geo asked not to air program on judges

Geo NewsThe most popular television channel in Pakistan, Geo Television
Network, has been asked not to air any program on the issue of the
reinstatement of the deposed judges and not to make a mention in this
regard.

It merits a mention here that Geo TV has been airing
comprehensive debates and special news bulletins to inform its viewers
about the removal of the superior courts judges and the treatment meted
out to them.

The Geo TV got immense publicity for its unbiased
programs on the movement and this role of the television network was
appreciated all over the world. On one occasion, the Geo office in
Islamabad was ransacked and its employees were manhandled.

It is
learnt that the Geo management has been conveyed about the government's
annoyance with the favorite programs of the television including 'Meray
Mutabiq' of Dr Shahid Masood, 'Capital Talk' of Hamid Mir,'Ham Sub
Umeed Say Hain', and debates including Ansar Abbasi and four other
journalists. Not only this, the government quarters have also expressed
their dissatisfaction over reporting by correspondents and analysts of
'The News' and 'Jang'.

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