Levi Bellfield guilty of Milly murder

 The mother and sister of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler went howling from court today as the convicted double-killer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of her abduction and murder nine years ago. Gemma Dowler collapsed in hysterics outside courtroom 8 of the Old Bailey, wailing

A comeback story by Sony’s Music (needs third act)!

Sony’s quest to return to a position of power in the music sector already faced plenty of obstacles.

A reputation for writing flawed software was one. Another was the company’s history of creating failed consumer-focused media services that appeared more concerned with satisfying honchos at the company’s film studio and record label. The company’s hardware and software makers struggled to build devices and services that allayed security concerns held by content creators. Sony Connect, the so-called iTunes killer that bubbled up out of the chaos, was a glitch-prone and DRM-laden fiasco that launched to great fan apathy.

McCain asks US to assure Pakistan of continued commitment

NEW YORK, June 19: Former Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain has chastised his party for drifting towards isolationism and the current GOP presidential field for not supporting US military intervention in Libya and calling for speedy troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
“This is isolationism. There’s always been an isolation strain in the Republican party, that Pat Buchanan wing of our party,” Senator McCain said. “But now it seems to have moved more centre stage.”
He also cautioned Republicans on Pakistan’s relationship, saying that the US should assure Pakistan of its continued commitment while setting certain benchmarks for continued help.
Last week at the first major Republican presidential primary debate, former Governor Mitt Romney said: “It’s time for us to bring our troops home as soon as we possibly can” based on the advice of military commanders.

Pak-India talks to address trust deficit: SM Krishna

NEW DELHI: Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna said that India is trying to improve ties with Pakistan by reducing the trust deficit between the two countries. He was talking to the media in New Delhi.While addressing the press conference, Krishna said that India wants to boost ties with Pakistan and wishes an end to militancy, therefore, the upcoming talks between the foreign secretaries of Indian and Pakistan will focus on the same issue.He also

Happy Father's Day

God gave me the greatest gift I ever had,
God gave me a best friend in the form of my dad.
Best wishes for a dad who is one in a million!
Happy Father's Day!

Sony unveils PlayStation Vita

Sony has unveiled the successor to the PSP handheld console at the E3 expo in Los Angeles yesterday.

The PlayStation Portable 'Vita' includes a high-resolution, 5-inch OLED touchscreen (960 x 544 pixels), two analog sticks, rear touch controls, 6-axis motion sensors and dual front- and back-facing cameras. The device is supposed to run a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor.

It also comes with 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity and will cost between $249-$299, (£150 - £182, approx.), and will be available in the next few months.

Facebook worth $100 billion?

 A report by CNBC, hints that Facebook may be planning to go public early next year with an estimated value of $100 billion, (£69 billion approx).

CNBC quote 'the 500 rule', a section of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act, as the reason behind the IPO (Initial public Offering).

This rule states that once a private company has more than 500 investors, it must begin releasing quarterly financial information to the Securities and Exchange Commission, as public companies must.

Facebook currently has 600 million users.

'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows- Part 2' trailer released

LOS ANGELES: The trailer of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," has hit the Interwebs Thursday (June 16).

Even for those who have read the books over and over again and are fully prepared for what's going to unfold when the film hits theaters on July 17, this latest trailer is so action-packed, so full of intensity and emotion, it's almost too much to handle.

The trailer opens with a distraught Lily Potter (Harry's mom) speaking to her infant son.

"Harry, be safe," she says in a strained whisper.

"Be strong." Cut to the words "Every moment he's lived has led to this," before an eerie voice-over by evil Dark Lord Voldemort comes in over flashback scenes of key moments in several of the previous seven films.

"Harry Potter, you have fought valiantly," Voldemort sneers. "Now join me, and confront your fate." 

PCB restores Afridi permission to play abroad

LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board reinstated a no-objection certificate Thursday, clearing former captain Shahid Afridi to join Hampshire in England's Twenty20 tournament, a disciplinary committee said.

"The committee unanimously decided to fine him 4.5 million rupees ($53,000) for various breaches of the code of conduct," Pakistan Cricket Board legal adviser Taffazul Rizvi announced on behalf of the committee.

"The committee also recommended his NOCs to play abroad be restored, which the Pakistan Cricket Board has endorsed," said Rizvi.

Are Java and .Net becoming legacy platforms?

Hackers love new platforms and programming languages. Some developers will always argue that the world is full of enough languages already. Nonetheless, from Ruby to Groovy to Scala, to less mature efforts such as Google's Go or Red Hat's Ceylon, new and promising languages usually find a willing and enthusiastic audience among the basement coders. Hackers thrive on change and experimentation.

Enterprise developers, not so much -- new and experimental languages seldom gain much traction in the corporate world, mostly for good reason. Enterprise developers crave stability, constancy, and reliability in their tools. They want platforms that are mature, secure, and well-supported, with clear, well-defined road maps -- platforms like Java and .Net. Right?

10 things to know about the move to IPv6

The Internet has been rolling along for decades on the strength of IPv4 and its numbering system, which has supplied billions of addresses. As long as more addresses were available, few people thought about them. But the booming popularity of the Internet has finally soaked up nearly all those fresh numbers: In February, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) allocated the last of its unused large blocks of IPv4 addresses to regional Internet registries. On Wednesday, World IPv6 Day will turn the new protocol on at hundreds of companies, agencies and universities for testing. Suddenly, IT administrators and consumers alike are starting to think more about IP addresses. Here are the answers to a few questions about the numbers that make the Internet work.