Chairman of the Agency for Marine
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16 Juli 2010 | 18:43:35
Chairman of the Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research Dr. Gellwynn Jusuf was joined by Indonesian scientific partners and Peter Haas, Minister Counselor at the U.S. Embassy Jakarta at an Exploration Command Center in Jakarta to welcome Okeanos Explorer to Indonesian waters.On behalf of all Indonesians, I am very pleased to welcome the Okeanos Explorer to Indonesia,” said Minister for Marine Affairs and Fisheries Fadel Muhammad. We look forward to the weeks ahead when live images and other data will be transmitted from sea to Indonesian and U.S. scientists standing watch ashore, both here in Jakarta and in Seattle. I expect our joint work will reveal secrets hidden in the deep sea that will promote knowledge and create new understanding of the importance of the oceans and seas to all life.”This partnership in ocean exploration is an example of the cooperative ventures in science and technology that President Obama called for in his remarks at Cairo University in 2009, encouraging stronger scientific ties between the US and Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
The kids have arrived online
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16 Juli 2010 | 15:42:40
The kids have arrived online – Chatroulette creator Andrey Ternovskiy is the same age as the Mosaic browser – and they want to shape it in their image.I hope they pull it off, though in another echo of punk history Ternovskiy is already being wooed by the majors to sign up and sell out, and the temptation to turn his rebellion into money must be intense. Rather like Jimmy, the punk-precursor hero of The Who’s Quadrophenia, he is under pressure to conform from his parents as his mother doesn’t like the way Chatroulette can be used.Perhaps he will stay true to punk, like Joe Strummer of The Clash or Siouxsie Sioux. Perhaps he’ll sell out like Johnny Rotten and we’ll see Chatroulette used to advertise butter.But whatever may happen to his site the impact will be felt as other kids realise that they can pick up a keyboard and become punk programmers, just as my generation picked up a guitar and learned three chords Chatroulette’s launch was the day the net turned day-glo, and Poly Styrene and X Ray Spex would be so proud.
Developers like Mr Singal
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16 Juli 2010 | 15:11:27
Developers like Mr Singal of SourceBits believe the iPad will sound the death knell for one-off, gimmicky apps.Quality will shine more on the iPad than on the iPhone but with consumers looking for more functionality in their apps, those single function apps will fail and it will be the end of the iFart app that has done so well on the iPhone, said Mr Singal.Amazon’s e-book reader the Kindle could also face its greatest challenge yet with the iPad and its new iBookstore.The website AppAdvicecom said the iPad will include all 30,000 free ebooks from online library the Gutenberg Project.
