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Sri Lankan army deaths revealed
Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa revealed the figures on
Sri Lanka officially announced an end to the war this week, after its troops took the last segment of land held by the rebels, and said it had killed the top Tamil Tiger leadership, including its chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
'Reconciliation'
There are no official figures for the number of Tamil Tiger rebels killed in the civil war, although estimates vary from between 15,000 and more than 22,000.
Vavuniya: 25 camps, 255,000 people
Jaffna: 12 camps, 11,064 people
Mannar: Three camps, 845 people
Trincomalee: Two camps, 6,642 people
Source: Sri Lankan human rights ministry as of 22 May
Humanitarian challenge
Winning the peace
Eyewitness: Treating the Tigers
On Thursday, two visiting Indian envoys met the president and said they had been told Sri Lanka would resettle most of the displaced Tamils within six months.
The issue will be top of Mr Ban's agenda when he arrives.
Aid groups complain their access to the displaced camps has been greatly restricted.
Mr Ban will visit the Manik Farm area in Vavuniya, where most of the displaced are held.
He has sent his own envoy, Vijay Nambiar, ahead of him and on Friday Mr Nambiar said there had to be a political reconciliation.
"The process of national reconciliation, we feel, must be all inclusive so that it can fully address the legitimate aspirations of the Tamils as well as other minorities," he said.
"It is important that victory becomes a victory for all Sri Lankans."
Mr Nambiar said he had flown over the conflict zone to assess it.
"Where there are grave and systematic violations of international humanitarian law, these are things which should be looked at by the international community, by the United Nations," Mr Nambiar said.
The Mythic Apple 'Tablet': More Burning Questions
The new tablet is supposed to come out in the fall or maybe this summer, analysts predict, which has only raised the hype meter.
Here are three burning questions swirling around this mysterious device.
Burning Question No. 1: Who will carry the Apple tablet?
Apple's 1993 Newton PDA wasn't unleashed to the market before its time. It just wasn't a good idea. Aside from niche users, say nurses roaming a hospital and updating medical charts, the large PDA was doomed to quickly fade from the mainstream user's radar screen like a bad X-Men prequel. (Okay, I just saw the Wolverine flick and think you probably should not.)
A tablet will surely weigh heavy on your belt or in your shirt pocket. That's not good for most guys, unless droopy jeans is the look you're after or you miss the glory days of super-sized pocket protectors. Not sure about purses, though, since I don't carry one regularly.
"The need for super portable computing has largely been satiated by the smart phone," says Forrester analyst Nathan Safran. "I'm not sure that enough folks also want a tablet PC."
But the tablet will fit nicely in your backpack just like a laptop or netbook, which, of course, begs the question: Why not carry a laptop or netbook? An Apple tablet would mostly be used for Web browsing and email, Safran says, and that's still best done on full-featured computers with QWERTY keyboards.
Burning Question No. 2: Will the Apple tablet run on Verizon's network?
There have been rumors that Apple will release the tablet on Verizon's CDMA cellular network—yes, an Apple rumor, which is about as real and rare as Twitter spam. (Want to know how to start an Apple rumor yourself, and game the stock? Jim Cramer tells all.)
Rest assured that Apple and Verizon won't hook up for a while. "I don't think it's real," says Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney. "Apple has said publicly that they don't care for CDMA because it's not a worldwide standard. Thus, the first time Apple could show up on Verizon is when they move to LTE (long-term evolution), which is about 2012."
An Apple-Verizon deal for the tablet also carries the risk of alienating iPhone customers who've already switched over to AT&T for the iPhone, Safran says. On the upside, an Apple-Verizon deal would help Apple reduce the role of carriers, says Forrester analyst Charles Golvin.
Burning Question No. 3: Kindle who: Is this the killer e-reader?
Is there any doubt that the Apple tablet will go after the suddenly hot e-reader space, even though Steve Jobs has pooh-poohed the market? From Amazon's new large screen Kindle aimed at academia to New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. shaking the e-reader pom-poms to a slew of e-readers coming to market, signs everywhere point to a market on the verge of taking off. And an Apple tablet could light the fuse.
The problem, though, comes down to cost. It's unlikely that an Apple tablet will be cheap enough to get into the hands of the masses. Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney envisions the tablet as a clamshell version of the iPhone that will have a hard time breaking the $500 barrier. Indeed, there was a collective moan when Amazon announced the Kindle DX's price tag: $489.
The safe bet is that people won't pay that much for an e-reader. "There has been a lot of attention around the e-reader category recently, and this could be another interesting use case" for the Apple tablet, Safran says. "I don't see it being priced nearly low enough for this, though."
Google claims 30 percent Chrome speed boost
Google's Chrome 2.0: First Impressions
Trouble in the Google-verse: Users report problems using Google search engine, gmail, other features
The Mountain View-based company blamed the trouble on a glitch that routed too much of its traffic through computers in Asia, overwhelming its system so badly that about 14 percent of its users encountered problems with the Internet's most popular search engine. The mistake also affected Google's e-mail and several other services.
The outages began about 10:48 a.m. EDT and lasted for about an hour, according to Urs Hoelzle, Google's senior vice president of operations.
Google's problems rippled around the Web because other sites rely on its analytics service and also draw much of their traffic from searches done through Google.
Many Web sites took twice as long to load and were twice as likely to fail during Google's disruption, according to Gomez Inc., which helps Internet companies manage their applications.
"We've been working hard to make our services ultrafast and 'always on,' so it's especially embarrassing when a glitch like this one happens," Hoelzle wrote on Google's blog. "We're very sorry that it happened, and you can be sure that we'll be working even harder to make sure that a similar problem won't happen again."
Before the repair, many people locked out from Google went elsewhere on the Internet to express their dismay and despair.
Multiple messages posted on Twitter, a popular information-sharing forum, indicated that people all over the world had trouble with the Google search engine and e-mail. But other Twitter users said their Google services have been running smoothly.
Because Google is used by hundreds of millions of people, even a breakdown affecting a small percentage of its audience can have a huge impact. Google's search engine, by far the most popular on the Internet, fields more than 9 billion monthly search requests in the United States alone.
As part of its effort to retain its current users and expand its market share so it can sell more Internet ads, Google has invested billions of dollars to create a vast network of computers to lessen the chances of breakdowns.
Although its search engine is renowned for its reliability, Google isn't fail-safe. Its 5-year-old e-mail service, in particular, has been susceptible to periodic outages.
Microsoft expected to unveil new version of its Internet search engine
Microsoft expected to unveil new version of its Internet search engine:
Microsoft is expected to unveil a new version of its Internet search engine next week, turning up the heat in the battle for market share with Google and Yahoo.
The new search engine, which has been in private tests within Microsoft for months, is designed to help consumers better organize search results, according to people familiar with the matter.The software giant, the sources say, plans to demonstrate its new search engine publicly for the first time next week at the All Things Digital technology conference in California. Microsoft had no comment on the report.
Tracking firm ComScore said that 64.2% of the searches conducted by Americans last month were at Google sites, up from 63.7% in March. Yahoo's share slipped slightly to 20.4% while Microsoft was down to 8.2%.
Separately, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft said Wednesday they will spend as much as $180million over the next four years to jointly develop and sell hardware and software for messaging, video and voice in a challenge to Cisco Systems.
H-P plans to create new desk phones and expand its ProCurve networking products for use with Microsoft software. The effort is one of the largest undertaken by the Frontline Partnership they formed two decades ago, the companies said.
The deal is the second in the past month between H-P, the world's largest personal-computer maker, and Microsoft, the biggest software company.
Microsoft said last month it will sell its Web-based e-mail and business software through H-P's Electronic Data Services unit in an agreement that is expected to generate $3 billion in sales over five years.
Microsoft's Kumo search engine creates buzz
Speculation points to a release next week
IDG News Service - Microsoft has not even released or confirmed next week's rumored release of its Kumo search engine, and already the industry is speculating what the new engine will or will not do, both in terms of functionality and for the company's search market share.
While little is officially known about Kumo, the Wall Street Journal has reported Microsoft will unveil the new search engine next week. Some industry analysts said they already have been briefed about the search engine under nondisclosure agreements.
Microsoft has never publicly acknowledged that it will rename its Live Search engine Kumo, but the company has confirmed it's testing a search engine internally using the Kumo.com URL. Bing is another name rumored to be the rebrand for the next iteration of Live Search.
Some believe the new search engine won't have any new technology beyond what competitors Google and Yahoo already have, based on screenshots of Kumo that were leaked to the Web in March, said Greg Sterling, analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence.
"It doesn't look radically different from the current form of so-called universal search," he said. However, Microsoft apparently has been doing work on the back end to improve the search engine, which won't be evident to people until they use the new engine, Sterling said.
Microsoft is expected to include some of the features of the Powerset search engine it acquired last June from the San Francisco-based startup. Powerset developed a technology that attempts to understand the full meanings of phrases people type while searching, returning results based on that understanding.
Sterling, who has seen the new search engine but is not at liberty to disclose details of it, said that Microsoft believes it has identified a problem people have with finding what they're looking for with competitive search engines, and the company believes it can solve that problem.
"They think they can do a better job of fulfilling those unmet needs," he said.
Microsoft currently is a distant third behind Google and Yahoo in search-engine market share, and it has been investing significantly for a number of years to change that status.
Because Google has such a strong brand and so many people use it, it will be difficult for Microsoft to improve its position, Sterling said.
"People's behavior is pretty well established," he said. "You'd have to find some feature or set of features that's real useful or fun or interesting."
Sterling said Microsoft is realistic and does not expect the new search engine to change that overnight, but rather sees it as the next step in a series of moves the company will take to chip away at Google's share.
"I don't think Microsoft has the expectation that on day two they're going to catch Google," he said. "I think they're taking a longer term view of the market."
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What is the Difference between a Search Engine and a Directory?
What is the Difference between a Search Engine and a Directory?
A search engine is a machine - or a robot. A human may program algorithms for a search engine, but humans have nothing to do with your site when the spider is visiting your site or when the engine is ranking your pages. Google.com is an example of a search engine.
For the most part, humans compile directories. Dmoz.org (Open Directory Project) is an example of a directory. When you submit your site to Dmoz, a human will review your site for consideration in the Dmoz directory of web sites.
A search engine has a very large database because it will store several pages of every web site it indexes. A directory will only store a link to the home page of each site and a description.
Search engines will take the description either from some of the sentences on the web page or from the description meta tag. A directory will take the description from your submission information.
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Top 5 Free Antivirus Software
You get what you don't pay for in life. So if you want to skim on security software, you'll lose out on customer support, which can save you when badware gets stubborn.
But most of your "tech support" involves waiting on hold and listening to poorly scripted conversation?
Here are the top five free antivirus / antispyware programs. Please note that all these programs are free for home use only.
Spyware Doctor Starter Edition
Spyware Doctor Starter Edition is the trimmed down, free edition of Spyware Doctor. Even though its scanner and database of threats are light, Spyware Doctor Starter Edition is quality enough that Google includes it in their Google pack, a group of software selected by Google for Internet use.
Download Spyware Doctor Starter Edition here
Avast Antivirus Home Edition
Avast Antivirus Home Edition is popular free antivirus software, for good reasons: it works pretty well, and it's light on your computer. Just watch out for Avast Antivirus Home Edition's awkward interface.
Download Avast Antivirus Home Edition here
AVG Antivirus
AVG Antivirus is one of the most popular free antivirus apps — it's got a great interface and a commercial-worthy selection of features. But a lot of viruses — such as sophisticated rogues like Antivirus System PRO — can run right by AVG Antivirus.
Download AVG Free here
Spybot Search and Destroy
Spybot Search and Destroy is very basic, which makes it very light on your system's resources. Spybot Search and Destroy is best for an old computer that needs simple protection.
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Windows Defender
Windows Defender comes free with legit version of Windows. A product of Microsoft, Windows Defender works well with Windows XP, and is great if you're just using your computer to surf the web and check emails.
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Google Sync Beta - Now for S60
We love to hear user feedback and one of the most common questions we get is, "When is this coming out for my phone?" Well, for those of you who have been asking about
on your Nokia S60 smartphone, we're happy to announce that you can now synchronize your Google Contacts and Calendars with your mobile device. Google Sync offers two-way, over-the-air contacts and calendar synchronization.
This means that you can make changes to your contacts and calendar on your phone or in your desktop Google account. Since Sync uses push technology, the changes should automatically appear within minutes. And your information is constantly syncing, so it's up-to-date and securely stored within your Google account, even if you lose your phone.
Please note: Google Sync for S60 requires Nokia software to be installed on the phone. We also recommend backing up your calendar and contacts before setting up Sync. To find out more about setting up Google Sync on Nokia S60 phones, please visit our help center.
To try Google Sync, visit m.google.com/sync from your desktop.
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