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The story of this game is easily told: two teams did their damndest to lose the game. It was touch and go for a while there, but finally, South Africa held on grimly and in the face of stiff competition from England, managed to seal the defeat they had snatched from the jaws of a certain win. Time was when a captain who opened with spin would be greeted with oohs and admiring aahs. Over time, that ploy has gone from 'surprise' to 'standard', so prima facie, Graeme Smith tossing the ball to Robin Peterson first up on a dry, dusty track that screamed 'slow turner' was nothing to get worked up about. What makes it worth noting is history: ever since its return to international cricket, South Africa has played it strictly by the numbers. In this World Cup, the Proteas for once seem willing and able to think outside of that comfortable box, and the side looks all the more formidable for it. The real highlight of the opening over of the England innings therefore not the fact of spin, but the aggressive field Smith set for it, with slips in place and, halfway through the first over, a silly point added on (While on that, it did seem a bit strange for the South African skipper to be demonstrating the sort of skill in handling spinners as an attacking weapon that has been missing from the likes of Kumar Sangakkara and MS Dhoni). The master stroke lurked in the outfield. Andrew Strauss has been talking up his golf-derived big hitting prowess ever since that tie against India; against a left arm spinner, a left handed batsman looking to hit long was almost guaranteed to go on the on side. Smith had a long on in place for the first ball of the innings; more significantly, the fielder posted there was AB de Villiers, the brilliant leader of an outstanding fielding side. It all came together perfectly: Strauss skipped a step down and launched into his golf drive before he had really gotten a feel for the lack of pace in the wicket; he put the ball up in the air towards deep mid on and AB, running in off the line, timed his headlong forward drive perfectly to hold a catch probably only he could have conceived, let alone executed. As if to underline just how much thought had gone into that, Smith promptly waved him back to his more usual position of cover point. Getting Kevin Pietersen's wicket two balls later seemed equally inevitable, the right-hander has hard hands, which prescribes disaster on a slow pitch against a slow bowler with a new ball. Pietersen pushed, got the edge, and put slip in business. Ian Bell, supposedly a good player of spin, skipped down the track, was deceived by a delivery the bowler held back and found that he was nowhere near the pitch of the ball, but pushed hard at it anyway. Petersen checked in the follow through, dived to his left and took a blinder with the width of a blade of grass between ball and turf. England was 15 for 3, and that was the game right there, everything that followed played to that script. England seemed to be in some kind of mental warp, unable to adjust to conditions radically different from the 'hit through the line' track they played on in Bangalore. Or perhaps "unable" is the wrong word, they just didn't bother. The three top batsmen between them faced a mere 13 deliveries, clearly, assessing conditions was not part of their agenda. It seemed a bit strange for Smith to take Peterson out after a spell of 4-2-4-3, and to bring pace at both ends shortly after, rotating between Steyn, Morkel and a somewhat wayward Kallis. And it could be argued that this strange step allowed Jonathan Trott and Ravi Bopara to settle down to a spell of nudging, nurdling accumulation. The possible explanation is that the Proteas captain wanted to get through some overs of seam, get the ball softened up a bit before putting his spinners back in play. The two batsmen played in contrasting styles. Trott looks assured, as you would expect from someone in the midst of a fine vein of form; Bopara, in for Paul Collingwood, looked edgy in his running and calling and, against Morkel in particular, seemed to regularly lose track of his off stump, but showed sufficient nous to hang in there, suss out the conditions, and use soft hands to work the ball around. What made the going doubly hard for the batsmen was the Proteas fielding. You'd have thought the Power Plays lasted for 50 overs, Smith consistently had five, six inside the ring, and with de Villiers leading the fielding effort, batsmen had to claw runs out of nowhere (After 11 overs, for instance, England managed just 13 singles against 49 dot balls). If Smith had reckoned that his spinners would really come into play with the softer ball, he read it right. Bopara and Trott added 99 in 25.1 overs without ever looking dominant; just staying out there against a tight bowling attack and razor sharp fielding put enormous mental stress, and it showed in the way both batsmen left soon after their respective 50s. First was Trott, pushing hard at an Imran Tahir delivery that dipped on him and bounced; the bowler flung himself to his left to grab a return catch that was not quite in the Petersen class, but close. Matt Prior seemed in the mood to take on the spinners; Smith brought back Morne Morkel and the quick struck with a delivery very tight on off stump ine that climbed to find the edge to van Wyk behind the stumps. The bowler provided his captain with a bonus immediately after when he jagged one in on the seam to trap Bopara in front; Smith immediately switched Steyn on at the other end and the fast bowler struck with a sizzling full length ball, first up, that nailed Tim Bresnan's pad in front of all three stumps. That was it as far as any remaining England hopes were concerned, with Tahir running through the tail to end the innings on 171 in the 46th over. In an example of excellent handling of the richness and variety of the Proteas bowling attack, the three quick bowlers had a combined spell of 20 overs, 1 maiden, 67 runs and three wickets; the spinners combined for 25.4 overs, three maidens, 96 runs and 7 wickets. And there was a symmetry to the effort, Petersen took out the top three; the seamers accounted for the middle; Tahir had four including three of the last four. England, which consistently talked up what a world class bowler Graeme Swann is, gave the ball to Yardy to open the bowling. Perhaps the thinking was, a left arm bowler worked for SA so maybe a left arm bowler will work for us too. Not. Yardy, in each of his first two overs, made the twin errors of dropping it short and giving it width, and the Proteas with Hashim Amla in particularly ornery mood, raced off to the sort of start that makes an anti-climax of a short chase. By the time Swann came on in the 7th over, Amla was in cruise mode while at the other end, Smith was clearly biding his time. And it began to look as though all South Africa had to do was walk the dog home from the park. Smith went in the 15th over, defending tentatively to Swann and getting the faintest edge behind that the third umpire had to rule on. Amla went in the 18th, getting cute on Broad and trying to run him down to third man only to deflect the ball onto the stumps. But the score was 75 for two, Kallis had already started stroking the ball smooth as you like, and the dismissal of the openers looked like aberrations in a pre-scripted story. Credit where due, England's bowling, especially after Broad and Swann teamed up, was far better than the ineffectual display against India and Ireland suggested was possible. Broad got swing and pace in the air and seam off the deck; Swann bowled very tight lines and got the ball to drift, turn and bounce. Trouble was, Strauss was forced to bowl Swann in a prolonged spell, by the 20th over, the spinner had already gone 7-1-25-1, and there was little left in the tank. His exit, coupled with the fact that Yardy had already gone 5-0-30-0, seemed the opportune moment for South Africa to seal the deal, but incredibly, the Proteas chose that very moment to implode. Kallis chased a wide one from Broad in the 19th to get the faintest edge; de Villiers, who wasn't a shadow of his normal free-stroking self, left one alone from Anderson just outside his off stump, and saw it jag back in and flick the top of off; full-fledged panic then set in, with the highly rated Faf du Plessis scampering down the track to Broad only to play the ball to short leg, from where the relay to the keeper found the batsman yards out of his crease; Petersen drove at a perfectly innocuous Yardy delivery outside off with the flattest of feet, and gave the bemused Prior another catch to complete. It was funny, really, the batsmen nicked, Prior missed, the batsmen shrugged and nicked again till Prior, bored with dropping them and making glum faces, clutched on. South Africa went from 124/3 in 31.5 overs to 127/7 in 36.6. How do you explain that, except to say that South African batsmen appear to have raised their ability to choke under pressure to a whole new level? The side has talent, actually, it has an embarrassment of riches in that area. But this display will likely confirm that it lacks 'bottle'; that for all its on-paper all-round skills, it is incredibly brittle. Hell, the latter batsmen made Yardy look life-threatening, is how bad the Proteas batting was. And it stayed that way until Dale Steyn put things in perspective, smacking him and Kevin Pietersen around for fours. Pietersen, hernia and all, had been pressed into the attack to provide a better spinning option than Yardy, whose performance yet again leaves you wondering just what he is doing in this side. With the bat he is a good two notches out of his pay grade at #7; with the ball he is a sight for sore batsmen's eyes (okay, batsmen's sore eyes). Steyn and van Wyk showed far more grit than their betters, handling both seam and spin effectively, if not prettily, until the Power Play effect struck, and van Wyk impossibly attempted a cut from off middle stump to chop the ball onto the timber, with 12 runs still to get off 22. Not to be outdone, Steyn greeted Broad with a forward defensive pad in front of the stumps; a single toTahir later, Morne Morkel seemed to say okay, if all those great batsmen can't do it, why should I bother, aimed an almighty heave at Broad, and gave Prior one last thing to do before joining the celebratory huddle as England pulled off the unlikeliest of wins, by six runs. On balance, a game that had the potential to be a cracker turned into one big yawn. South Africaimpressed with the ball and in the field; with the bat, they were a shambles. England was ordinary with the bat and, got just about passing grades in the field if you were feeling generous, and barring Swann and Broad, had nothing to boast about with the ball. Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) put it best when, on Twitter, he said, "The problem with keeping the minnows out of the World Cup is, you don't know who the minnows really are." Today, it looked like two minnows were locked in competition out there for the wooden spoon.
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Man jailed for abusing ex-lover on Facebook
SOME angry men choose to post pictures of their ex-girlfriends to get back at them after a nasty break-up. But a New Zealand man has the distinction of being the first to be jailed for posting a photo of his naked ex-girlfriend for millions of Facebook users to see. Joshua Simon Ashby, 20, was sentenced to four months in jail on Friday in Wellington District Court, reported New Zealand's The Dominion Post. After the break-up of his five-month relationship with his girlfriend who was not named, he posted the photo after an "irresponsible drunken rage", said the judge. The photo of the woman, standing naked in front of a mirror, was posted on her Facebook profile which he had illegally accessed. The Facebook profile was visible to her 218 friends, but Ashby made it publicly accessible so all 500 million Facebook users could view it. He also changed her password so she couldn't access it. His girlfriend's friends sent her an SMS to inform her of what had happened. Facebook blocked public access to her profile only 12 hours later. Ashby also sent text messages including threats such as "I'm going to kill you" and "dead b****" to her on July 23. Ashby is believed to be the first person to be sentenced for a crime committed using social media under the seldom-used morality and decency section of New Zealand's Crimes Act. Judge Andrew Becroft said he was adapting an old print law for the Internet age. "Technology can't be used in this way," he warned. "You would do incalculable damage to someone's reputation." As he committed his Facebook attack, Ashby also stole two of the woman's dresses and soaked them in water before cutting them up. The couple briefly reunited after she forgave him, but they broke up again during a drunken argument in October. He shoved her to the ground and broke her cellphone in half. Referring to Ashby's act of publishing his girlfriend's naked photo on Facebook, Judge Becroft told Ashby that the victim felt degraded. "She was embarrassed, felt exposed and ridiculed and couldn't sleep after."
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Computerworld - Android smartphones beat out iPhone and BlackBerry devices for the first time in the U.S. in the latest Nielsen survey conducted just prior to Verizon Wireless sales of the iPhone.
Android devices made by several manufacturers were used by 29% of the U.S. market in the November-through-January reporting period. In comparison, Apple iPhones and BlackBerry devices from Research In Motion each had a 27% share, Nielsen reported.
In Nielsen's most recent report from December, the three top smartphone operating systems were in a "statistical dead heat," a Nielsen spokeswoman said Friday. "I would say [today] is the first time we allude to Android being the lead," she said.
Microsoft's Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 smartphones had a 10% share of the U.S. market from November through January, while WebOS from Hewlett-Packard had 4% and Symbian from Nokia had 2%.
Nielsen relied upon 14,701 postpaid mobile subscriber surveys to obtain its latest results. In contrast, Gartner, IDC and other analyst firms use sales and shipment figures for their analysis.
The Nielsen blog uses guarded wording to describe Android's position at the top, which some analysts have also pointed to in recent months. "Android appears to be pulling ahead of RIM BlackBerry and Apple iOS," Nielsen said.
Still, RIM and Apple came out on top compared with competing device makers such as HTC and Motorola. That's because RIM is the only maker of its BlackBerry devices, and Apple is the only maker of iPhones, while the Android OS is used by several manufacturers. For Android smartphones, HTC had 12%, Motorola had 10%, Samsung had 5% and all others had 2% of the market.
In another finding, using the same sample, Nielsen found that Android "seems" to be attracting more younger consumers. Among smartphone customers aged 18-34, Android was used by 14%, while the iPhone was used by 12% and the BlackBerry was used by 11%.
Customers aged 25-34 years constitute the largest smartphone user group, slightly ahead of the 35-to-44 age group. The third-largest smartphone customer group is aged 18-24, according to Nielsen.
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With the tablet wars now fully engaged, the next salvo from Samsung is likely to be a medium-screen device to fit between its existing Galaxy Tab models, creating a range that market leader Apple doesn't offer for its iPad .
Samsung's invitation to a media event at the Cellular Telecommunication Industry of America conference on March 22 in Orlando asks, "What's your Tab life?" with the numbers "78910," widely taken as an indication that a version with an 8.9-inch screen will fit between the seven-inch and 10.1-inch versions.
"Come discover what the buzz is all about and join us on our journey as we experience a world of endless technological possibility. We'll unveil our latest mobile products and innovations and explore the exciting new consumer lifestyles they make possible," the invite reads.
Does Size Matter?
Just as the iPad is a larger version of Apple's iPod touch, the Galaxy Tab is a larger version of the Galaxy S smartphone variants Samsung offers through the top four U.S. wireless carriers. The seven-inch Tab was released last year and the 10.1-inch version last month at the Mobile World Conference. The iPad is only available with a 9.7-inch screen, and the size is continued in the new iPad 2 unveiled this week.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made some waves last October when he took a shot at smaller tablets, saying seven-inch devices sacrificed necessary display size in order to fit in people's pockets like a cell phone.
A selection of sizes might be important for people who travel with tablets, and larger screens may offer more usage possibilities as tablets compete with PCs.
"Seven inches is too small for content creation, but may be OK for content consumption," said Gartner Research analyst Michael Gartenberg.
But he added that display is only one of many considerations. "At the end of the day, the battle is not going to be won by speed of display but on who is going to deliver the apps that consumers are looking for," he said.
Apple offers about 64,000 apps for the iPad, while Google's Android Market has only a handful optimized for tablet use, Gartenberg noted. "That's the single biggest differential. Otherwise it's just hardware , and consumers don't care about hardware."
Improvement Needed
Sales figures for the Galaxy Tab are unclear, with Samsung officials saying two million have been shipped. The Tab had an advantage over the original iPad with its dual cameras, but the iPad 2 will not only have cameras, it has been slimmed down to 8.8 millimeters.
That led Lee Don-joo, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile division, to tell the Yonhap News Agency that "we will have to improve the parts that are inadequate."
The Tab is priced at $599, but Verizon Wireless recently cut the price to $499, and Sprint Nextel offers it for $299 with a two-year contract. The basic iPad 2 sells for $499, and Apple is dropping the prices of its older models $100.
Taken From : http://blogs.computerworld.com/17922/android_30_tablet?source=rss_blogs
This week, a bit of a debate is raging across the Intertubes: What makes one tablet better than another? Is it the tablet's hardware -- the chips, ports, and RAM -- or the software, the seemingly endless lines of code that put all those parts to work?
It's an important question many of us will soon face as we make some tricky comparisons: iPad 2 vs. Android. The Motorola Xoom vs. the LG G-Slate. With each passing month, the number of options is only going to increase.
The truth, of course, is that both hardware and software are important things to consider when picking out a tablet (or a smartphone, laptop, or practically any other type of technology, for that matter). Anyone who says specs are irrelevant is merely playing a marketing game to make his product look good.
You start with the hardware: Does the tablet you're eyeing have enough processing power to give you the speed you need? Does it have basic things like a USB port and MicroSD slot -- and if not, do you mind? How important is size: Do you want 7 inches, 8 inches, or 10? (Hey, we're talking about tablets here, pal. Get your mind out of the gutter.) These are all things you'll have to think about; if the tablet you pick doesn't have the body you want, it'll only be a matter of time before you end up feeling frustrated.
Once you've found a form you like, though, the tablet's software -- namely, its operating system -- is probably going to have the biggest impact on how your journey turns out. Using the iPad, with Apple's iOS operating system, is a drastically different experience from using an Android tablet like the Motorola Xoom. And figuring out which option is right for you isn't always easy.
Yesterday, we looked at how Apple's new iPad 2 stacked up next to the emerging army of Android 3.0, aka Honeycomb, tablets. We talked about some of the advantages Android's new tablet operating system holds over Apple's iOS. But to really get a feeling for where Honeycomb shines -- and where it still needs polish -- you have to go beyond the basics and spend some time exploring the platform's many nooks and crannies. Honeycomb, after all, isn't the same Android you've used on your smartphone.
I first experienced Honeycomb back at Google's Android event in February. Since then, I've made it my business to learn the OS in and out. I've whittled away many an hour swimming through the software, and I've discovered some pretty interesting things along the way.
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Tuesday marked the announcement of the greatly awaited Apple iPad 2. It was unveiled by Steve Jobs, who also introduced the senior vice president of iOS software who spoke about an update to Apple’s mobile operating system.
The new iPad2 is slimmer than the first iPad and has several new features that are in direct competition with some of the Android units.
Besides the iPad 2, the new iOS 4.3 will be out March 11, the same day as the new iPad 2tablet. The iPad2 will come with the new operating system, but the original iPad, as well as the third- and fourth-generation iPod Touch, the iPhone 3GS and the GSM iPhone 4 by AT&T can download it for free. The CDMA iPhone sold by Verizon will not be able to take advantage of this new update.
The iOS 4.3 will give users faster web-browsing via an updated version of Mobile Safari, which will have an improved version of Apple’s Nitro JavaScript engine. This new version will let iOS devices use JavaScript at a rate that is twice as fast as before. The majority of popular websites use JavaScript, so this should mean a very noticeable boost in speed.
Apple also said that users who upgrade to the new iOS 4.3 get to enjoy improved media sharing between compatible devices. This means that iPad and iPhone users can stream any music, movies, and television shows from their iTunes library on their computer right to another device via a local Wi-Fi connection. Plus, AirPlay support has opened up in iOS 4.3 and will let third-party apps and Websites have access to full audio and video streaming via AirPlay.
Now that iOS 4.3 is coming out, any iPhone 4 can function as a mobile hotspot. This personal hotspot capability lets iPhone 4 users share a 3G connection with other devices using Wi-Fi, which matches one of Android’s long-standing abilities. Up to five devices will be able to be used at once. You will be able to hook up three Wi-Fi, one Bluetooth and one USB device. It has yet to be announced the fee for this hotspot, but this could be why Verizon’s phone isn’t included. Verizon already has a hotspot functionality so it doesn’t need the new software.
The Verizon iPhone will be updated separately because it uses a different baseband chip than the other iPhones, and needs a different firmware and Apple is possibly waiting until Qualcomm comes up with a dedicated update for the chip inside the Verizon type iPhones.
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