"After two years of development, the new major version of Perl is now available. Notable new features are: better Unicode support, proper support for time after the Y2038 barrier, new APIs to allow developers to extend Perl with 'pluggable' keywords and syntax, warnings for deprecated features and more. From the linked post: You can get it from the CPAN right now or wait for a platform-specific release (such as Strawberry Perl for Windows)."
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/04/13/2137244/Something-For-Almost-Every-Developer
Last season was supposed to be a breakout season for the Rockets – one in which the trinity of Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming and Ron Artest would combine in spectacular fashion to deliver a successful season for the franchise.
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Unfortunately, it didn't pan out that way. With T-Mac and Yao injured, Artest was forced to lead the team.
This season has seen further problems. At the start of the season, Yao suffered a long-term injury, McGrady likewise, and Artest was traded to the LA Lakers in exchange for Trevor Ariza.
http://www.sportingo.com/basketball/a13273_why-houston-could-rocket-up-nba-rankings-next-season
o, England will have no representatives in the last four of the UEFA Champions League following Manchester United’s elimination at the hands of Bayern Munchen.
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It is the first time this has occurred since 2003 and it has already evoked the usual knee-jerk responses with apocalyptic claims that it’s only downhill from here for representatives of the Barclays Premier League.
On Sunday, almost a month to the day before a possible meeting in Hamburg, Liverpool face Fulham at Anfield in the Barclays Premier League.
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England’s remaining participants in European competition kept the St George’s Cross flying with victories against Benfica and Wolfsburg respectively and they are now set on a collision course in the UEFA Europa League.
http://www.sportingo.com/football/a13289_liverpool-next-fulhams-sights-europa-league-glory-up-grabs
Twenty20 Cricket is fast becoming a worldwide mainstream sport, as recent viewing figures for the Indian Premier League demonstrate.
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Television Audience Measurement have announced that over the course of the first 33 matches in this year's IPL, the sport has attracted a cumulative total of 130 million viewers.
Although the competition is only in its third year, it has already overtaken all other sporting events to become the biggest hit with audiences in India. While the IPL's success in its homeland has not been entirely replicated abroad, it is definitely growing.
Everything looks rather rosy for Tottenham Hotspur at present. They are in the semi-final of the FA Cup where they face a Portsmouth side in deep trouble at the bottom of the Premier League.
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They are one point from the fourth Champions League place. Everyone seems to think Harry Redknapp is their uncle.
Yet people don't seem to ask the same questions of Spurs that they do for all other teams. Tottenham spend massive amounts of money every season - especially in comparison to Liverpool and Arsenal, and perhaps only less than Manchester United and City, and Chelsea.
For all the sum of his parts, Kaka's season with Real Madrid has somehow gone unnoticed.
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The Brazilian has sailed through to April, and he has neither been applauded by the media or had his performances scoffed at.
It has been a perfect scenario for the former Milan player especially in a city that lives, breathes and eats football - particularly the nitty statistics.
http://www.sportingo.com/football/a13290_kaka-ready-shine-galacticos-against-barcelona-el-clasico
Aston Villa fans could be forgiven for a collective feeling of déjà vu. After playing rather brilliantly in the first half of the 2008-09 season, they fell away as the long season began to take its toll.
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It was all going rather well until March 2009, when a sudden disastrous streak of four Premier League losses in a row left them with no chance of the fourth UEFA Champions League place. Martin O'Neill, in fact, only won his first March games in charge of Aston Villa this season, in one of the stranger statistics around.
Another weekend over and so many talking points. This is what we learned from around the top leagues in Europe this weekend, as the football season edges ever nearer to a climax.
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PORTSMOUTH SHOCK SPURS TO REACH FA CUP FINAL
The chimes they are a' changin'. Despite Portsmouth's ongoing troubles this season they reached the FA Cup final a day after being relegated from the Premier League. You couldn't really make it up.
It has been an agonizing recent stretch for Phil Mickelson. His wife, Amy, and his mother, Mary, are battling breast cancer, and as Golf.com's Cameron Morfit reports, Mickelson has flown to Houston for treatments, even enlisting one of Amy’s doctors to caddie for him. Yesterday, with his family by his side at Augusta National, Mickelson won his third Masters title, defeating Lee Westwood by three strokes.
And what of Tiger Woods, who finished tied for fourth with K.J. Choi. "Woods wouldn't say where he'll play next — options include the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, the flagship Players Championship at Sawgrass (where he last visited to perform his televised mea culpa), or the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, in early June," says SI.com's Gary Van Sickle. "He would say only that he's taking some time off to re-evaluate things. What things? He didn't say." The sports world takes a breather after a busy weekend. Some highlights on what to check out today (all times Eastern).http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/12/sports-update-masters-recap-red-sox-twins-in-new-stadium/
What is it? A vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline. One dose is expected to immunize a person against the H1N1 virus. Ontario is recommending that children under 10 years old get two half-doses, a minimum of 21 days apart.
What additives are in the vaccine? The vaccine contains an adjuvant, or a compound that boosts the immune system, making the vaccine more effective. The H1N1 vaccine marks the first time Canada has licensed a flu vaccine containing adjuvant; in Europe, adjuvanted flu vaccines have been used since 1997. The adjuvant in Canada’s H1N1 vaccine is derived from squalene, a natural oil extracted and purified from fish.
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Sports+What+risks+does+H1N1+vaccine+carry/2874935/story.html
The field for this year's Kentucky Derby picked up two new shooters Saturday when the previously unheralded pair of Line of David and Stately Victor pulled off upsets in the Arkansas Derby and Blue Grass, respectively. But the prospective field for the Derby on May 1 will be in flux right up to entry time on April 28, both because there are currently more than the maximum number of 20 horses who are being pointed for the race and there is uncertainty over the prospects of some horses currently in the top 20. The most notable question marks surround Noble's Promise, who was fifth in the Arkansas Derby, and Interactif, who was fourth on Polytrack in the Blue Grass. Both are in the top 20 in terms of earnings, so if they were to drop out, that would allow horses on the outside to get in. If more than 20 horses enter the Derby, the criteria to determine the starting field is earnings in graded stakes races.
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/triplecrown2010/news/story?id=5079216
he NBA draft pool just keeps growing, with three more early entrants announcing their decisions Monday.
Syracuse’s Wes Johnson, a junior forward and the Big East player of the year, leads the pack. Fellow Big East star forward Devin Ebanks of West Virginia will forgo his final two years of eligibility to turn pro. Both players plan to hire an agent, thus ending their college careers.
North Carolina forward Ed Davis will also leave school two years early. The 6-foot-10 Davis missed his team’s last 13 games with a broken wrist.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The young fellow who scored the final NBA points at the Meadowlands was surprised to hear that he shares the same last name with the guy who scored the first two points at what was then known as Brendan Byrne Arena.
Surprised, but not dumbfounded.
Because if there is one thing Terrence Williams learned in college from Louisville coach Rick Pitino, it was to respect the elders, including former Net Buck Williams, who made it possible for Terrence's generation to earn millions.
"He would talk about all the older guys he thought were great, Buck Williams, Bernard King, Junior Bridgeman, Dr. Dunkenstein (Darrell Griffith), stuff like that. So you've got to get a little history class before you actually get to play for him," Williams said.
AUGUSTA, GA. -- A few days before the start of the 74th Masters golf tournament, CBS Sports and News President Sean McManus said that his network was "not going to pull any punches" in its coverage of Tiger Woods, who was making his return to golf after a five-month absence in the wake of his now well-documented off-the-course transgressions and precipitous fall from grace.
On the same conference call, Lance Barrow, the executive producer for CBS golf telecasts, also insisted the coverage will be "just like normal on Saturday and Sunday. We will cover a golf tournament. It will only be what the story lines are. I don't anticipate doing anything different than what we normally do."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/12/AR2010041203946.html
Events such as the Masters golf tournament remind Bryant Gumbel why he does "Real Sports" on HBO.
The monthly newsmagazine marks 15 years on the air this week, standing even more alone as a home for strong television journalism than it did in 1995. Gumbel, its host, suggests the deals that media companies make to televise sporting events -- for example, CBS and ESPN for the Masters -- keep competitors largely out of that business.
A phrase he can't stand is "broadcast partner."
No longer do sports fans in Seattle cross the region's busiest freight-train tracks to reach Seattle Mariners, Seahawks and Sounders FC games.
Contractors for the Washington State Department of Transportation sealed off the crossing at Royal Brougham Way South at 11:30 a.m. Monday, putting an end to a hazardous era in the city's major-league sports.
From now on, pedestrians, cars and bicycles travel on a new two-lane overpass that rises from Brougham across the north-south trackway, then spirals down to surface level at Fourth Avenue South.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011590727_crossing13m.html
MINNEAPOLIS -- Despite a $550 million price tag, the Minnesota Twins' new ballpark has some drawbacks compared with the Metrodome. For one thing, the box seats are lower, closer to the field, allowing the players to better hear drunk, balding, 300-pound men yell that they need to get the piano off their backs.
"They're down closer, so you can hear a lot more one-liners than we did in the Metrodome," manager Ron Gardenhire said with a smile. "And if something goes wrong, we'll definitely hear a lot of one-liners."
Another issue is that outfielders can no longer say they lost a fly ball against the dirty Teflon roof or in the lights hanging from the ceiling. Ex-Twin Marty Cordova would have been at a complete loss, though he probably could have claimed he lost the ball in the sun. "You can use that now," center fielder Denard Span said. "You couldn't use it for 30 years here, but you can say 'I lost it in the sun' again. That's still not a good excuse, though."
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=5079974
The Indian Premier League's [ Images ] new franchise Rendezvous Sports World (RSW) has threatened to sue IPL commissioner Lalit Modi [ Images ] for breaking the confidentiality terms.
Modi, who is an avid user of the micro-blogging website Twitter, disclosed the details of the stakeholders in the new Kochi team through his tweets.
Modi disclosed the names of the free equity holders in Rendezvous, a move which put Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor [ Images ] in a fix, as Sunanda Pushkar, the lady whom he is reportedly planning to marry, figured in the list.
All of us Xbox 360 owners have, at one time or another, found ourselves stuck with spare Microsoft Points after purchasing a game, dashboard theme, or avatar item. Annoying, right? Right!
Furthermore, we know who to blame: Microsoft. The company’s insistence on selling Microsoft Points in bundles that do not match up with prices of the online content is both crafty and frustrating.
Whereas games on Xbox Live Arcade always cost 400, 800, or 1,200 Microsoft Points, Microsoft sells its ‘currency’ in bundles of 500, or 2,100, or similarly obscure numbers. The logic is simple: people will find themselves with spare Points hanging around, and feel compelled to buy another game. It’s a little sneaky, though no doubt good for business.
http://www.inquisitr.com/69650/bravo-microsoft-points-changed-for-the-better/
Microsoft [MSFT] have confirmed that they will be taking responsibility for providing firmware updates to Windows Phone 7 devices when the new OS launches. Right now, Microsoft leave that to the device manufacturers.
Updates will arrive on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices in a couple of different ways. For small updates, they will be received over the air (OTA) using either a 3G connection on the phone or the WiFi connection if available. Larger updates will be downloadable in the Zune Manager software and when tethering a phone to a computer, you’ll be able to update your device.
http://www.gadgetvenue.com/microsoft-manage-windows-phone-7-firmware-updates-04123050/
Microsoft plans to fix the 'F1' security bug that has been plaguing Internet Explorer users for six weeks in its monthly set of security patches tomorrow.
Microsoft, which will be fixing 25 security vulnerabilities in all, made the announcement through its Advance Notification Service late last week. It will release 11 bulletins addressing vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Exchange.
The F1 bug was announced at the beginning of March. Detailed in Microsoft security advisory 981169, it concerned a vulnerability in VBScript, exposed on supported versions of Windows 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003 via Internet Explorer. Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista are immune to the bug, which allows arbitrary code to be remotely executed on a compromised system.
http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/8688/microsoft-to-fix-f1-bug/
Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) notched small increases in their share of the U.S. online-search market in March, while Google Inc. (GOOG) posted a slight decline, according to market research firm comScore Inc. (SCOR).
Americans used search giant Google for 65.1% of their 15.4 billion core searches last month, down from 65.5% in February. Microsoft's share was 11.7%, compared with 11.5% in the prior month.
Yahoo rose 0.1 percentage point to 16.9%. Ask Network, owned by IAC/Interactive Corp. (IACI) captured 3.8%, followed by AOL Inc. (AOL) at 2.5%.
Microsoft search-engine Bing, which launched in the summer, saw large growth in comScore's analysis of Web sites where search activity is observed. Bing's queries grew 7% to 1.6 billion searches. Microsoft has made a deep-pocketed push for market share, as it makes constant feature upgrades and strikes deals with hotter companies like Twitter and Facebook.
The new release of Visual Studio offers software develoeprs the next version the .net framework, new dev tools plus a new integrated development environment.
The product introduces a new programming language, F#, a functional programming language, which Microsoft hopes will get adopted by algorithmic traders in the City. The .net runtime environment is also 80% smaller, which should speed up distribution of apps.
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-fud-blog/2010/04/microsoft-tackles-coding-error.html
oogle has rewritten its Google Docs code using HTML5 and a new JavaScript layout, to improve the speed of its offline editing functionality within its online Docs applications.
Google hopes these changes will make its Docs messaging and collaboration tools more suitable for today’s office workers, many of which have been using Microsoft Office or similar applications.
Google Apps Manager Anil Sabharwal said in his blog post:
The new Google Docs editors will take advantage of faster rendering engines in modern browsers as well as new web standards like HTML5.
At the moment workers create documents and print out or e-mail them to co-workers to edit. These are then e-mail them back to the document creator, who adds more changes, Anil told eWEEK.
Microsoft Corp. introduced a family of cellphones tailored to young consumers, seeking to improve its fortunes in the mobile business through a device designed around social-networking features.
The two phones, dubbed Kin One and Kin Two, were designed by Microsoft with touch-sensing screens and slide-out physical keyboards. They will be offered in the U.S. beginning in May by Verizon Wireless, the carrier owned by Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC. Vodafone will sell the devices in the fall in the U.K., Germany, Italy and Spain.
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