Research in Motion (RIM) has launched their latest operating system “BlackBerry 10″ in a bid to regain market share lost in favor of rivals iOS and Android. The new OS will be accompanied by two new handsets BlackBerry Z10 featuring modern touch screen keyboard and Blackberry X10 clinging to the traditional full QWERTY physical keyboard. Being the leading smart phone manufacturer only 5 years ago, RIM has been pushed back to the brink of extinction by the newer and user friendly iOS and Android. This new bid by RIM is being seen as a welcome start by corporate users who still prefer BlackBerry due to its better corporate and enterprise services. The new BlackBerry 10 promises some exciting features including “BlackBerry Balance,” an application that keeps your business and personal data separate and inaccessible from each other. BlackBerry Balance is expected to fulfill the concerns of many businesses over security of their data. Corporate firms will have complete control of work section and may choose to provide as much or as little freedom to their users while keeping their data fully secure. Amongst other enhancements, better browsing capabilities, state of the art intuitive keyboard, and better camera are being liked by users. A new “timeshift” feature which can detect faces and adjust images accordingly has also been incorporated with camera application. New and improved app library has also been promised by BlackBerry for its users with almost 70,000 apps available for users to download. The timing of BlackBerry 10 launch is also perfect. With Apple’s iPhone 5 sales losing some momentum and Samsung’s next Galaxy phone nowhere near its launch, BlackBerry is expected to regain some of its lost share in smart phone market. Both iOS and Android are more than five years old and some users are getting weary of similar OS and surely want something new and exciting. BlackBerry 10 may prove to be just the right OS for these customers. Many analysts feel that RIM has a good chance of making a strong comeback. As per these analysts new BlackBerry 10 operating system is stronger than Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms in every aspect other than apps and content. With a very strong history of BlackBerry devices in corporate and business world, BlackBerry 10 along with its new Z10 and X10 handsets is sure to set new waves of competition for iPhone and Galaxy S3. With all the new and exciting features it may prove to be the next big thing for corporate world and RIM both.

First dayFirst day of Metro bus Service in Lahore was marked with mixed emotions of joy and anger. People were seen rallying at stations to get a feel of the costly new bus service started by Punjab Government. The bus service will run free of charge for first four weeks and this concession pulled people from their houses to the bus stations in strength. On the other hand overcrowding of buses caused scuffles and un-avoidable delays, daily commuters were left waiting at the stations for hours waiting for the bus to fit in. Many people enjoyed several trips of the entire 27 Km route as a joyride. The management also failed to run complete squad of buses on the first day as some of the vehicles were undergoing minor repairs at workshop. The claim of running the service every three minutes was found lacking as 15-20 minutes delay was observed between consecutive buses at all stations. Moreover, due to over-crowding of the buses, these could not stop at many bus stands as only a few would go out while dozens tried to board the bus. Women passengers were also facing many difficulties during the travel as there are no separate compartments for women in these buses and several acts of harassment were reported to the Metro bus Authorities. Daily commuters blamed the authorities for their decision of shifting all other public transport buses away from Metro Bus route. Due to lack of other public transport along this route, the routine users of were left waiting at the stations for hours. This is also promoted occasion scuffle between the management and commuters. Many persons were of the view that the fare for Bus service should not have been excused as many travelers were just enjoying fee rides.

Pakistan defeated Australia by seven wickets in the first Twenty20 International of the three-match series at the Dubai Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Wednesday.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal top scored with an unbeaten 31 followed by opener Imran Nazir (22) and captain Mohammad Hafeez (17) while Nasir Jamshed made 10 and Shoaib Malik remained not out on nine.

Earlier, Pakistani bowlers dismissed Australia for a mere 89 runs in 19.3 overs after Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez won the toss and put Australia into bat

Lahore: Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has invited an intelligent Pakistani student Shayan Anique Akhtar who set a world record in Microsoft Professional Certificate programme, report said.

The report said that the Punjab Governor House would also host a special event to honour the great Pakistani youth on Thursday (today).

“ Shayan Anique Akhtar, a student of private school has scored 998 marks out of 1000 and set a new world record in the programme and he is scheduled to meet Bill Gates in July this year on a special invitation of the Microsoft founder,” a source close to him told The News Tribe.

Shayan, who is waiting for his matriculation results, started making computer and mobile games back in 2009 and many international firms appreciated his world and started buying his games from him.

He is also a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Professional Developer (MPD).

Levitation melting sample of aluminum weighing 2.6 grams Awesome scientific experiment

Levitation melting sample of aluminum weighing 2.6 grams. Power Inverter 1.6 kW. The frequency of 204 kHz. The temperature peaks 1200C.

Kareena Kapoor may evoke mixed responses to her roles in her recent films but as far as endorsements go, she is still the queen. The buzz is that the actress has been signed on to promote a lemonade brand for a whopping Rs 5 crore. Incidentally, arch rival Katrina Kaif endorses a mango drink!

Sources say that Bebo who was the face of another popular cola company but her contract with them expired recently. And she lost no time in grabbing another deal from a rival company when it came her way.

According to sources, Kareena now has 16 brands in her kitty making her the most sought-after name in the ad world among actresses. Her back-to-back success in 2011 with ‘Bodyguard’ and ‘Ra.One’ has taken her right to the top.

Ever since she signed onto to Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Heroine’, the actress’s fat pay cheques have been grabbing headlines. She was apparently paid almost Rs 8 crore for the film, the highest for any actress in the Indian film space ever. This has apparently reflected on her ad value as well and the actress makes sure to devote time to her brands.

Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim has said that all the CNG stations will have to be closed in January as the country was mired by acute gas shortage. The minister told the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Petroleum on Thursday that the gas pressure was low to the extent that gas supply to all would have to be suspended if the CNG stations were not shut next month.

It was the thrill of a lifetime for this couple at an amusement park... having sex on top of a water slide.
They were caught on CCTV as the girl straddled her boyfriend before they hurtled down the shute in Opoczno, Poland.
But within moments of joining the 'waterslide-high club', they were escorted straight to the park exit - without even being allowed to retrieve their clothes.
They were at it for a good five minutes before anyone realised what was going on in what must have been a breach of the water park rules,' one lifeguard said.
A pool spokesman added: 'This is a family pool and water park and we want everyone to have fun, but not that sort of fun.'
At Alton Towers, the wearing of Speedos is banned at its Splash Landing resorts to 'maintain the family friendly atmosphere'.

MUMBAI: Neck-deep is controversy, Actress Veena Malik Friday emphatically denied laying herself bare for an Indian magazine as well as sporting an acronym reading 'ISI' tattooed on her arm, while the magazine editor insists the shoot was for real, Geo News reported.

The December issue of FHM India flashed Veena in the buff on its cover, which triggering an outrage in Pakistan - both for her nudity and the reference to country’s intelligence agency.

Following the controversy Veena voiced a negation of her posing for the FHM, categorically saying the picture was 'morphed'.

'I have never posed nude. I have never done anything like that ever. My manager and legal team are looking into the matter. We will take legal action against them,' Veena told media.

On the other hand vowing to prove the photo's authenticity FHM India's editor, Kabeer Sharma, told Geo News said that they had not photoshopped or morphed her image adding it was for real.

“No one can hold anything against the FHM as the girl on the cover page was Veena Malik and she can’t deny it”, said Sharma.

"We have video footage of the shoot as well as emails from Veena about how she's looking forward to the cover," Kabeer said.

“We have nothing to do with this controversy”, added he.
He said to us it was a workaday shoot –business as usual.

Replying to a question, he said the ISI tattoo idea was mine but it was Veena who pressed us to make it look like as it appeared on the cover.
He said that the image was intended to be playful, saying that: "In India we joke about this... if anything goes wrong... we say the ISI must be behind this."

NATO helicopters and Jet from Afghanistan carried out an "unprovoked" attack on a Pakistani border post, killing at least 25 troops including two officers major and captain while injuring others

Fake Degree holders joining PTI and Imran Khan welcomes them. Rana Sanaullah asks Imran Khan will PTI bring the revolutions with fake degree holders?

An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it. Is it time to put on a tinfoil hat? That depends on how you feel about privacy.
The reason for this invasive Android app seems reasonable enough at face value. Even though it's on most Android, BlackBerry and Nokia devices, most users would never know that Carrier IQ is running in the background, and that's sort of the point. Described on the company's website as software to gain "unprecedented insight into their customers' mobile experience," Carrier IQ is ostensibly supposed to help mobile carriers and device manufacturers gather data in order to improve their products.
Tons of applications do this, and you're probably used to those boxes that pops up on your screen and ask if you want to help the company by sending your data back to them. If you're concerned about your privacy, you just tap no and go about your merry computing way. As security-conscious Android developer Trevor Eckhart realized, however, Carrier IQ does not give you this option, and unless you were code-savvy and looking for it, you'd never know it was there. And based on how aggressive the company has been in trying to keep Eckhart quiet about his discovery, it seems like Carrier IQ doesn't want you to know it's there either.
Eckhart first raised a red flag about Carrier IQ about two weeks ago when he started investigating reports that a software update on the HTC EVO 3D included "user behavior logging" code. The code had worried some geek bloggers when it showed up a couple months ago, but HTC and Sprint insisted that it wasn't much different than normal error-logging software and certainly didn't gather granular data like "contents of messages, photos, videos, etc." Eckhart wrote an exhaustive blog post about his startling findings -- CarrierIQ collected lots data, including keystrokes, and there way for the user to opt out "without advanced knowledge" -- and CarrierIQ flipped out. The company sent Eckhart a cease-and-desist letter demanding that he keep his mouth shut and threatening legal action. But after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took a look at the case and determined that Eckhart was working within his First Amendment rights, it backed off but still denied that they recorded keystrokes.
This week, Eckhart fired back with a 17-minute long video showing in painstaking detail how much data CarrierIQ collects, effectively undercutting the company's denial. It was even logging contents of text messages! Wired posted the video on Tuesday night and cemented its status "as one of nine reasons to wear a tinfoil hat." The magazine explains how CarrierIQ even undercuts other companies' security measures:
Oh, we're definitely in tinfoil hat territory now. CarrierIQ and the carriers have yet to respond to the latest claims -- we're doing our best to chase them down -- but if past smartphone tracking scandals are any precedent, they could end up answering to Congress.
Like many things in life, there are a couple of different ways to think about smartphone tracking. One way approaches privacy from a forward-thinking, technology-trusting and, heck, even progressive perspective. GPS-equipped smartphones are incredibly powerful tools that enables mankind to do all kinds of amazing things, thanks to the perpetual stream of data from the Internet. However, that stream runs both ways, and sometimes, the folks that build and maintain the network sometimes need to monitor your data in order to improve the technology. Who wouldn't want better service?
This brings us to the second approach. Tracking is creepy. In an Orwellian kind of way, it makes people nervous -- especially Americans -- that the government or the corporations or the system is closing in on them and stealing their freedom. Of course, not everybody feels so strongly about privacy, but as long as you can opt out, it's fine. Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer spoke out about a program at some malls in Virginia and Southern California that were anonymously tracking shoppers' movements by tracking their cell phone signals, and the only way to opt was by not going to the mall. Schumer did not approve. "Personal cell phones are just that -- personal," the New York senator said in a statement. "If retailers want to tap into your phone to see what your shopping patterns are, they can ask you for your permission to do so."
The CarrierIQ software is not dissimilar to the shopper tracking program. In fact, it's arguably worse since it follows you everywhere. In the age of social media, everybody is becoming increasingly aware of and often angry about the amount of private data companies are scooping up with or without their consent. This week, the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook came to an agreement that the social network must make all of their new programs opt-in so as not to break the law by violating users' privacy. Even Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a sincere-sounding blog post that his company had "made a bunch of mistakes" on the privacy front in the past. He went on to detail how "offering people control over the information they share online" was a top priority. This is Mark "Privacy is Over" Zuckerberg we're talking about here. With Facebook reportedly building its own mobile phone platform, wouldn't it be super ironic if people started defecting from the Android army and switching to the Facebook phone in the name of privacy?
Your move, Google.

Conrad Murray, the doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson, was sentenced to four years imprisonment, the maximum punishment the judge could deliver. The sentencing came nearly three weeks after a jury found Murray guilty of administering Jackson with a fatal dose of the powerful sedative Propofol on June 25, 2009. "Some may feel that this was a medical malpractice case. It wasn't. And this jury found that Conrad Murray, with criminal negligence, caused the death of Michael Jackson," Judge Michael Pastor said before revealing the sentence. "The fact is, Michael Jackson died because of the actions of, and the failures to perform legal duties on the part of, Conrad Murray."
The judge also admonished Murray for his "horrific violation of trust" in treating Jackson. The defense was seeking a sentence that included probation but no jail time, but given the severity of the crime and the world-famous victim, the judge sided with the prosecution in delivering Murray his punishment. In addition to the sentence, Murray was also ordered to pay Jackson's children a restitution estimated to be in the amount of $100 million, a sum that combines the cost of Michael's funeral arrangements, plus the lost wages and earnings the singer didn't collect because he died before his This Is It concerts began. The exact restitution, however, will be decided on a later court date.
While Jackson's family members did not address the court, they collectively wrote up a statement, which family spokesman Brian Panish read to the judge. "There's no way to adequately describe the loss of our beloved father, son, brother, and friend," Panish said on behalf of the Jacksons. "As Michael's parents, we never could have imagined that we would live to witness his passing; it is simply against the natural order of things. As his brothers and sisters, we won't be able to laugh, hold, or perform again with our brother Michael. And as his children, we will grow up without our father, our best friend, our playmate, and our dad."
"We are not here to seek revenge, there is nothing you can do today to bring Michael back," Panish continued. "We respectfully request that you impose a sentence that reminds physicians that they cannot sell their services to the highest bidder and cast aside their Hippocratic oath to do no harm. As we all know, doing so has devastating results… That is all that we can ask for as a family, and that is all that we can ask for here."
With a sentence of merely probation a possible outcome, prosecutor David Walgren next took the podium to convince the court why Murray deserved four years behind bars. Walgren spoke of how the "careless and reckless behavior by Conrad Murray continued for two months before the death of Michael Jackson at the hands of Conrad Murray." He added that Jackson's death was a "direct result" of Murray's actions, and that the doctor was constantly was playing a game of "Russian roulette" with Jackson's life every time he administered sedatives to the singer. Walgren also accused Murray of trying to cover up his crime and lying to investigators.
In addition to the plea for an appropriate sentence, the prosecution also asked the court to make Murray pay an astounding $100 million restitution to the Jackson family. Even worse than the jail time and the restitution Murray will never be able to pay, however, is the fact that the doctor will inevitably have his medical license universally revoked, ensuring that he never treat another patient again and also crippling his financial means.
The defense, meanwhile, called no one to attest for Murray's character, and the doctor himself declined to speak on his own behalf to plead for a lighter sentence. Lead defense attorney Ed Chernoff made a brief statement to lobby for probation, since Murray is a first-time offender with six children and patients that depend on him.
"We do not disagree with the prosecution that this is a tragedy, and what we lost with Michael Jackson and what his children lost certainly demands punishment. I do wonder, though, to what extent the court considers the entirety of a man's book of life, as opposed to just one chapter. The two months Dr. Murray was treating Michael Jackson, he did so regrettably. He shouldn't have done it." Chernoff also called Jackson a "drug seeker," and said his client, a 58-year-old cardiologist who was born "dirt poor" in the Caribbean, was lured by the King of Pop and the promise of wealth.
However, the judge was unaffected by Chernoff's statements and proceeded to eviscerate Murray's reputation in his critical and moving 15-minute decision. Pastor also condemned Murray for recording an audio tape of a weakened, drugged-out Jackson. "It was designed to tape his patient surreptitiously at that patient's most vulnerable point," the judge said. Pastor also explained why -- even though Murray was eligible for probation -- he was handing the doctor a jail sentence: Throughout the trial, Murray has shown "absolutely no remorse." Pastor had been an interesting, colorful presence throughout Murray's trial with his quirky requests to witnesses and his clashes with the defense, but his delivery of the sentence was both a magnificent encore and a stirring epilogue to this long ordeal for the Jackson family and Michael's fans.
From the onset, Murray and his defense team asked the judge to ban the live television cameras in the courtroom during the sentencing process, since the testimony would threaten the "privacy interest of the defendant." However, Judge Pastor cited Murray's controversial MSNBC documentary as a reason to deny Murray's request, adding that there is a "public interest" to Murray's fate. It's no surprise why Murray wanted to cameras off, though: The Jackson family statement, Walgren, and especially Pastor further permanently tarnished Murray's reputation, which is something he won't escape even after his sentence expires.
As The Amp previously reported, despite the judge's harsh sentence, Murray will not spend any time in a federal penitentiary, thanks to overcrowding in the California penal system. Instead, since Murray was convicted of a non-violent felony, he'll instead be transferred to a county jail, where sentences are routinely reduced. For example, there's every instance where Lindsay Lohan is sentenced to spend 30 days in a county lockup and instead goes free after six hours. Additionally, because of the overcrowding, a new California law dictates that "low-risk" convicts charged with a lesser felony only have to serve half their sentence behind bars, and the other half on probation. For now, though, Jackson's family and fans can take small solace in Murray receiving a max sentence.Music.Yahoo.com

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army while expressing its disgust over Nato attacks has said that it does not accept Nato apology and that this action can lead to serious consequences, Geo News reported Monday.

According to Army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas, Nato’s regret over the attack is not enough.

He said that such incidents have happened in past that killed 72 soldiers and injured more than 250 troops in three years. Geo News, The Shaan News