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Travel-Blogue Day 5: Monsoon Season

Today I visited a handful of villages about 45 kilometers east of Dhaka. The countryside is beautiful, with palms, teak trees, rice paddies, and tidy little roads where school children dressed in blue uniforms were walking and old folks tethered goats and cows. The villages were prosperous. That’s partly because of the proximity to Dhaka, where village people can find work if farming or their other local industries go slack, and partly because Grameen Bank and other micro-credit outfits are busy here. People live in houses built of wood and galvanized steel, with concrete floors. The village centers are bustling places lined with shops and clogged with rickshaws. What struck me was the remarkable resourcefulness of the villagers in this region—which is one of many parts of Bangladesh that floods in the monsoon season.

Noel Gallagher believes video games are partly to blame for knife crime culture

Poor old Noel must be getting old - he's started blaming things he doesn't understand for all the wrongs of society. Today, it's knife crime that's the fault of games.

Peter RobertsIs the iPhone about to take off for banking?

I'm posting this partly to illustrate another small change we've made to the site - in that you can now clearly see the original item if you've commented on a news or feature item. And of course I get to bang on some more about the marvellous iPhone.

Is the iPhone about to take off for banking? (Peter Roberts - London)

I'm posting this partly to illustrate another small change we've made to the site - in that you can now clearly see a reference to the original item if you've commented on a Finextra news or feature item. And of course I get to bang on some more about the iPhone.

AT&T's big iPhone bet: subsidize cost of Apple's revolutionary device, aim for long-term profit

"The new $199 price for Apple's iPhone announced Monday is partly the result of Ralph de la Vega agreeing to foot the bill. The chief executive of AT&T Inc.'s wireless unit hopes the new phone, which AT&T will subsidize, will ring in huge profits for the telecom company down the road, even though it will hurt its earnings in the short term," Amol Sharma reports for The Wall Street Journal.

Copyright Office Ramps up Workload - Roll Call

Officials at the Copyright Office hope to get rid of a growing backlog of claims, partly by requiring employees to work more quickly.

KDE 4.1 Beta 2: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Datamation)

However, if the second beta of 4.1 is any indication, it will be only partly successful in quieting user dissent. On the one hand, KDE 4.1 includes the first 4.x versions of several major KDE applications, which goes a long way toward improving the user experience. And, in both other programs as well as the desktop, the second beta sports countless improvements in functionality and design. On the other hand, not only are many of the interface changes that people complain about still there, but the new Folder View raises a whole new set of issues about how users organize their desktops.

KDE 4.1 Beta 2: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Datamation)

" However, if the second beta of 4.1 is any indication, it will be only partly successful in quieting user dissent.

All Mobile Mines Offers Retro Smartphone Freeware Fun

If youre a fan of the PC game minesweeper I am 100 sure youll love playing All Mobile Mines partly because its addictive and largely because its based off an exact replica of the original Minesweeper PC game with a few Smartphone Pocket PC tweaks. All Mobile Mines is a freeware Smartphone mobile game that will run on the Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 operating systems. The program is also optimized for use with Pocket PC Stylus play meaning you wont become frustrated when tap

Technological innovation and national security

Another model is Disruptive Technologies. The term is widely used in the Pentagon, CIA, and industry today to mean a big game-changer. It's partly right to see the Apple iPod, for example, as a disruptive technology in consumer electronics because it blew apart the existing market structure of dominant players. But I want to go into this in a little more sophisticated way.

Art and law meet in this office

TACLOBAN CITY – Visitors who enter lawyer Eric de Veyra’s office in Tacloban City may think they have stepped into an art gallery. They may be partly right since the room also displays the works of his artist-friend Mario Ortiz.

Live Blogging the Kentucky, Oregon Races

11:25 p.m. | Wrap Up: One big message from the night: Senator Clinton is increasingly playing the gender card to make her case. Her speech showed that her message is partly aspirational, that she is fighting to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling. It is also based in sexism, she says, that misogyny is alive and well in 21st Century America.

Joomla! A User's Guide

Michael J. Ross writes "Of all the content management systems (CMSs) from which a Web developer can choose for creating a new Web site, Joomla is generally considered to be one of the top choices -- partly because an experienced developer can create an attractive site faster with Joomla than with the majority of other CMSs. However, Joomla's online documentation leaves much to be desired, as is true for most if not all CMSs. Intermediate and especially new developers need a clear and comprehensive resource that can explain the terminology, customization, administrative panel, and other aspects of Joomla. A promising candidate is a book written by Barrie M. North, titled Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.

Fungus genome opens pathways to next-generation biofuels

A team of French and US researchers have completed sequencing the entire genome of Trichoderma reesei, a fungus which is best known for its ability to break down and convert plant biomass into simple sugars. The work, which is partly EU-funded, is expected to open new and more efficient avenues for producing biofuels using non-food plants.

Fungus genome opens pathways to next-generation biofuels

A team of French and US researchers have completed sequencing the entire genome of Trichoderma reesei, a fungus which is best known for its ability to break down and convert plant biomass into simple sugars. The work, which is partly EU-funded, is expected to open new and more efficient avenues for producing biofuels using non-food plants.

Peter Tomory: Distinguished art historian

Art history took Peter Tomory all over the world, just as earlier Scots expatriates travelled as engineers and medical men in the service of Empire. Indeed, because his father was in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Tomory was born in Hong Kong and partly brought up in India. He was at school near London, and regular visits to the Tate and British Museum, as well as one to the Alte Pinakothek gallery in Munich while on a skiing trip in 1938, kindled his interest in art history.

Vaughan set for greatest test outside Ashes

Not since the beginning of the Ashes series three years ago has there been such anticipation about the start of a Test series. Yesterday, Michael Vaughan suggested that a series against South Africa is “nearly up there with the Ashes� and if the England captain overstated the case a touch, it was partly in recognition of the fact that the bland fare offered up by 19 consecutive matches against New Zealand will be replaced by something much richer and more varied for the palate.

Sensopac Neural-Net Robot Hand May be What Droids Will Shake Hands With

Robotic hands and arms may be getting more sophisticated, but they don't really rival what we think C3-PO would have poking out of his torso. That is until now: an European science team have been busy creating the Sensopac robotic limb, and it's arguably the most human-like robotic limb yet. And partly that's because its sophistication is derived from software modeled on the human cerebellum. The arm has artificial skin that can sense force and direction in detail, and its 38 motors mimic the structure of human muscles and tendons to give it a very human-like grip.

Apple, CBS sued by device-maker over 'Mighty Mouse' trademark

Apple, maker of the iPod media player, and CBS were sued for trademark infringement by closely held computer-accessory firm Man & Machine over the name of Apple's wireless "Mighty Mouse" device. Apple started selling computer mice under the name "Mighty Mouse" more than a year after Man & Machine began selling waterproof and chemical-resistant computer mice to labs and hospitals under that name in 2004, according to the suit filed Tuesday in Greenbelt, Md. Man & Machine claims its earlier use trumps Apple's, even though Apple sells more products. The names of both products play on the 1942 animated super hero mouse whose trademark rights are partly owned by CBS. New York-based CBS is accused of licensing "Mighty Mouse" to Apple for computer devices when its trademark doesn't cover such goods.

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