Eid Edition

CONTENTS

• Java Script

• iOS vs. Android

• Robotics Tech

• Petrol Engine

• Sony Walkman

• Google Fiber

• Tech Updates

• Social Issues

• Digital Brain

• Dell Alien

• Smart Watch

• Al-Khuarzami

• Nokia 808

And much more . .

JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich, who worked for Netscape and he named JavaScript initially as Mocha.

After a while, Mocha was renamed as LiveScript and finally it was renamed to JavaScript as we know it to-day. Because Netscape added the Java Technology in its web browser; that is reason LiveScript name was changed to JavaScript. It was in the year 1995 when JavaScript was first deployed in the browser of Netscape; the Netscape Navigator version 2.0B3. Soon after its success, Microsoft also tried it but used a different name; Jscript in order to avoid any possible trademark issues later. The Jscript was first deployed in Internet Ex-plorer 3.0 which was introduced in the year 1996. After its introduction, Jscript or JavaScript has undergone many changes and improvements and has become one of the most powerful scripting languages for the web. JavaScript is born - the second and third generations

Netscape 2 was released in early 1996 and offered completely new technologies created by the Netscape group, the most important of which were frames and JavaScript. JavaScript was a programming language written by Brendan Eich that was able to be embedded in Web pages and could process numbers and modify the contents of forms. While in development, JavaScript had been known as Mocha then LiveWire then LiveScript. Its core script syntax closely resembled Java, so it was renamed JavaScript when it was released. The way it referenced forms, links and anchors as children of the document object, and inputs as children of their parent form became known as the DOM level 0. The same year, Netscape passed their JavaScript language to the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) for standardisation. The ECMA produced the ECMAscript standard, which embodied the JavaScript core syntax, but did not specify all aspects of the DOM level 0. With the release of Netscape 3 later in the same year, Netscape had produced JavaScript 1.1, which could also change the location of images, bringing on a wave of Web sites that used this most popular of Web page effects, making images change when the mouse passed over them. The images were also referenced as children of the document object and thus the DOM level 0 was completed. When the World Wide Web was first create in the early 1990s all web pages were static. When you viewed a web page you saw exactly what the page was set up to show you and there was no way for you to interact with the page. Being able to interact with a web page - have it do something in response to your actions - re-quired the addition of some form of programming language to "instruct" the page how it should respond to your actions. In order to have it respond immediately without having to reload the web page this language needed to be able to run on the same computer as the browser displaying the page. At the time there were two browsers that were reasonably popular - Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Netscape was the first to bring out a programming language that would allow web pages to become interactive - they called it Livescript and it was integrated into the browser (meaning that the browser would interpret the commands directly without requiring the code to be compiled and without requiring a plugin to be able to run it). This meant that anyone using the latest Netscape browser would be able to interact with pages that made use of this language. Another programming language called Java (which required a separate plugin in order to run) became very well known and so Netscape decided to try to cash in on this by renaming the language built into their browser to Javascript. Note that while some Java and Javascript code may appear similar, they are in fact two entirely different languages that serve completely different purposes. Not to be left behind Internet Explorer was soon updated to support not one but two integrated languages. One was called vbscript and was based on the BASIC programming language and the other was called Jscript and was very similar to Javascript. In fact if you were very careful what commands you used you could write code that would be able to be processed as Javascript by Netscape Navigator and as Jscript by Inter-net Explorer. At the time Netscape Navigator was by far the more popular browser and so later versions of Internet Explorer implemented versions of Jscript that were more and more like Javascript. By the time that Internet Explorer became the dominant browser Javascript had become the accepted standard for writing interactive processing to be run in the web browser. The importance of this scripting language was too great to leave its future development in the hands of the competing browser developers and so in 1996 Javascript was handed over to an international standards body called ECMA who then became responsible for the subsequent devel-opment of the language. As a result of this the language was officially renamed ECMAScript or ECMA-2Advantages Javascript is executed on the client side This means that the code is executed on the user's processor instead of the web server thus saving bandwidth and strain on the web server.

Introduction to Java Script

• -JavaScript is a scripting lan-guage that is mainly used in order to add interactivity to the HTML pages, Remember that scripting language is not like ordinary computer programming languages; scripting languages are light weight programming languages.

• JavaScript is embedded directly in to the markup code or the HTML code.

• One of the main advantages of using JavaScript is that it is an interpreted language in which scripts are directly executed without preliminary compilation.

By M. Mohsin

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Summer in the northern hemisphere this year has so far been a bit of a disappoint-ment. Mobile music

lovers can at least look forward to a new batch of Walkman digital music

and video players from Sony while we wait for the sun to shine. The new additions include three 7-mm (0.275-inch) thin models and new flagship series players that run on the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) flavor of Google's Android operating platform. Two feature Bluetooth technology for wireless connection to headphones or speaker docks, and there's one that benefits from noise-canceling circuitry. . The new flagship F800 Series players come in 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB models and are all powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 dual-core proc-essor and run on Android 4.0 (ICS), which means a host of pre-installed apps including email, maps and media gallery and full ac-cess to Google Play. There's built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a 3.5-inch multi-touch LCD display and they can handle MP3, (non-DRM) WMA and AAC-LC, HE-AAC, Linear PCM and FLAC audio files (sadly no OGG show-ing) and MPEG4, AVC (H.264/AVC), and (non-DRM) WMV9 video files. They feature an S-Master MX Digital Ampli-fier, and include Sony's Clear Audio technolo-gies for the promise of deep bass, crystal clear highs, and reduced leakage between

stereo channels. The company also claims that such sound-enhancing wizardry can also restore some sonic detail in heavily-compressed audio files. The F800 Series battery is claimed to be good for 25 hours of audio or 4.5 hours of video playback and takes about four hours to recharge. These players come bundled with MDR-EX0300E in-ear phones. The 8-GB S774BT has the same audio file support as the F800 Series players apart from HE-AAC and FLAC, and the same video format support, but the onboard battery should be good for 36 hours of audio or six hours of video playback between charges. This model is just 7 mm thin. It has a 2-inch QVGA LCD display and Bluetooth wireless connectivity. This model is supplied with MDR-NWBT10 Bluetooth headphones and MDR-EX083E in-ear cans. The E570 Series is available in 8 GB and 16 GB flavors, and a red or black finish, but doesn't benefit from Bluetooth. They have the same size screen, thickness, audio and video format support and playback time as the S774BT but come with noise-canceling cir-cuitry that, when combined with the supplied with MDR-NC033E noise-canceling head-phones, is claimed to reduce background noise levels by 98 percent.The introductory level 8 GB E474 has the same thickness as the S770BT and E570 Series players, and

the same feature set and format sup-port as the latter players but does-n't benefit from noise-canceling tech-nology. This model comes bundled with MDR-EX083E in-ear phones All of the new models are com- patible with Sony's E473K portable speaker dock and its Music Unlimited subscription service. The full range is available in Europe from this month, with the F800 and E470 Series enjoy-ing a Stateside release in August. The 16-GB F800 Series will retail for US$269.99 and the 32 GB will cost $299.99. The E474 is priced at $89.99.

By Zobia Zafar

Tur t le Beach Headsets

CES 2012 sees the debut

of two more premium

gaming headsets from

Turtle Beach – the Ear

Force XP400 and XP300,

where you can see the

former depicted above.

Both models have been

specially optimized for

wireless game audio and chat on the Xbox 360,

not to mention playing nice with the Sony PS3

as well. These headsets deliver whole new lev-

els of convenience and versatility, while ensur-

ing the renowned game audio performance

that is associated with Turtle Beach as well.

With the new XP400 and XP300 headsets, wire-

less Bluetooth chat will also be a staple feature,

something that only the acclaimed XP500 head-

set previously offered, helping those who are

on a tighter budget to get more bang for their

hard-earned buck. Apart from that, recharge-

able batteries and new 5GHz dual-band Wi-Fi

RF wireless technology will make sure that you

will more or less do away with interference

even when there are wireless networks at

home.

Sony's new flagship Walkman

music player

The Robotech Phenomenon

In 1985 a bold new animated television series chal-

lenged the hearts and minds of an entire global

generation. The series

was ROBOTECH - and it went

on to become, and still is, a

worldwide phenomenon

spawning legions of loyal fans

from Chicago to Cape town,

from Perth to Paris. For many

young viewers, ROBOTECH

represents the first animated

television program that enter-

tained its audience while treat-

ing them with respect and intelligence.

The original 85-episode ROBOTECH saga produced

by Harmony Gold has aired in over 140 countries,

and is still aired in dozens today. The stories are as

fresh and exciting today as they were when they

were first broadcast. Aside from this landmark pro-

gramming, the ROBOTECH universe fostered several

major toylines; dozens of science fiction novels; a

successful role-playing game system; over 300 comic

books; annual fan conventions; and a current mer-

chandising program which includes among other

things T-shirts, model kits, CD Soundtracks, video-

games and novels. Some of the past and present

licensees include: Matchbox Toys, Playmates Toys,

TDK Meditative, Tiger Electronics, DC Comics/Wild

storm Productions (a division of AOL Time Warner),

Ballantine/Del Rey Books (a division of Random

House), Changes Apparel, Revell Inc., Warren Com-

pany, Palladium Books, Ther-

mos, One Stop Posters,

Hanes, ADV Films, Family

Home Entertainment, Am-

scan Inc., Peter Pan Industries

and over 50 others.

ROBOTECH is not nostalgia -

it is an ongoing, vital phe-

nomenon which continues to

grow internationally. What is

even more remarkable, is

that there are thousands of websites across the

internet dedicated to ROBOTECH and related sub-

jects illustrating its seamless transition into the new

millennium and the loyal "Gen X" following.

ROBOTECH is a sweeping science-fiction anime epic

of humans defending their home world against alien

domination. The saga is told through the eyes of

characters caught up in a series of wars that erupts

when a mysterious spacecraft crash-lands on Earth

at the turn of the millennium. The secrets of alien

knowledge aboard this vessel were unlocked, lead-

ing to the development of "Rob technology" and the

creation of a vast arsenal of robotic "mecha" to

defend the Earth against the alien threats that

would eventually strike to lay claim to the mysteri-

ous power source known as "protoculture."

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Google has launched an experimental

high-speed network for Internet ac-

cess in Kansas City, U.S. Theoretically

the network is capable of 1 gigabit per

second speed.

During the tests, conducted by Google

engineers, the download speed of this

network reached 973 megabits per

second, according

to BGR. While this

internet service

has been made

available only in

certain areas of

the metro area,

but Google plans

to expand the ter-

ritory.

Residents of the area can now apply

for the service by pre-registering at

the project website of Google Fiber.

People can pre-register till September

9, 2012. Google has divided Kansas

City into different zones called fiber-

hoods, and depending upon certain

parameters company will announce

the list of successful applicants on

September 10.

For this ultra high speed internet, two

tariff plans have been announced – $

120 and $ 70 per month

Subscribers of the first tariff plan (for

two years contract, $300 construction

fee is waived) will get access to

Google Fiber TV, a free tablet Nexus 7,

a TV Box with 2TB external hard drive,

network device

Network Box,

and one tera-

byte of “cloud”

storage on

Google Drive.

Subscribers of

the second tar-

iff plan sign

one year contract with Google. They

are provided with Network Box, and

terabyte of space on Google Drive.

Acording to recent State of the Inter-

net report, in the last quarter of 2011,

the average speed of Internet in the

United States was 5.8 megabits per

second. After the test Completion in

U.S, hopefully they will spread this

service in other countries too includ-

ing Pakistan.

Social Media - Google launches 1 Gbps internet

By Qurat ul Ain Farid

Technology updates...

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UCLA researchers found that older adults who regularly used a brain fitness program played on a computer demonstrated significantly improved memory and language

skills. The team studied 59 participants with an aver-age age of 84, recruited from local retirement communities in Southern California. The volunteers were split into two groups: “The First group used a brain fitness program for an average of 73.5 (20 minute) sessions across a six-month period”, while a “Second group played it less than 45 times during the same period”. Researchers found that the first group demonstrated significantly higher im-provement in memory and language skills, compared to the second group. The study's findings add to the field exploring whether such brain fitness tools may help im-prove language and memory and may

ultimately help protect indi-viduals from the cognitive decline associated with aging and Alzheimer's disease. Age-related memory decline affects approxi-mately 40 percent of older adults and is charac-terized by self-perception of memory loss and decline in memory performance. Previous stud-ies have shown that engaging in mental activi-ties can help improve memory, but little re-search has been done to determine whether the numerous brain fitness games and memory training programs on the market are effective in improving memory. This is one of the first studies to assess the cognitive effects of a com-puterized memory training program.The re-search was conducted by Dr. Karen Miller, associate clinical professor, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and Dr. Gary Small, professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Semel Insti-tute. The research was presented Aug. 3 at the an-nual convention of the American Psychological

• Samsung unveils impressive Exynos 5 Dual Core SoC.

• Microsoft to use 'Windows 8' as re-placement for 'Metro' branding.

• Version 22 of Chrome delivers more

secure Flash support in Windows.

• Digia buys Nokia's Qt business, will

port it to iOS, Android, Windows 8.

• Google hit with record-setting $22.5 million fine over FTC violation.

• Google expands Knowledge Graph, trials Gmail content in search.

• Average global Internet speeds in-creased 25 percent in one year.

• NASA sending Radiation Belt Storm Probes to study the Van Allen Belt.

• Flexible lithium-ion battery technol-

ogy is on the march.

• Gamera II human-powered helicopter

flight record confirmed by NAA.

• Lenovo announces ThinkPad 2 - its first Windows 8 tablet.

• 3DCone lets iPhones shoot 3D stills or video.

• Lapka turns your iPhone into an envi-ronmental monitoring station.

• Solar-powered Silent Falcon UAV

unveiled.

• Valve: Non-gaming software titles

coming to Steam September 5.

• HP planning $8 billion charge within Services segment for Q3.

• Dell unveils 27-inch UltraSharp AH-IPS display, costs $799.

• Rumor: Microsoft removing features in Office 2013 for Windows RT.

The RT-AC66U 802.11ac Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 Gigabit Router is the

first wireless router-from Asus to support the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard. Other than that it's basically the same as the Asus RT-N66U router. That said, the RT-AC66U offers very fast Wi-Fi on the 5GHz frequency band, both with Wireless-N clients and AC clients. In fact it's the fastest of the few 802.11ac routers currently available on the market. The router also has very good range and its USB ports provide more than just the support for external storage and printers.

Like the RT-N66U, the RT-AC66U meets its downfall on the 2.4GHz band, where its performance was close to terrible for a router of its tier. Its Web interface, while fun to use, could also use some improvement.

3 By Malik Ghulam Murtaza (Lahore Garrison University)

By Hafiz Ali Hanif

Memory Improves for Older Adults Router

By M. Mohsin

In today's world, with growing population, urbanization and change in lifestyle, senior citizens in Pakistan may have tough last few years of their lives lying ahead. Thanks to the traditional family system, unlike the industrial nations in the West, old-age people are revered in the society and given due deference. They are almost always anointed as the head of the household despite being unable to work, and family decisions are taken with their due consultation. Sen-ior citizens in Pakistan have recently become visible. Until about two to three decades ago, their lifespan was around less than 60 years. However, things are changing with the fast-paced life and the general struggle keep up with the times, social and family structures are changing. According to World Bank statistics, the world’s population of the elderly has been steadily increasing since 1948 due to declining fertility and increasing life expectancy. The world’s elderly population (60 years and older) reached 251 million in 1950 and 488 million in 1990. It will reach 1,250 million in 2025 an increase of 146 per cent. In Pakistan many people leave their parents in old-homes while they go abroad for a better future. Loneliness is an-other problem which seniors suffer from. For this purpose, we need to establish day-care services where seniors can avail of library facilities, recreation programmers and organ-ize social functions. These are some of the challenges which the government and society have to face jointly. This requires political will and an urgent need to plan for the fu-ture. Every year we observe the International Senior Citi-zens Day by holding seminars, walks and meetings. This is not enough. We must do something concrete which would have long and lasting benefits.

Choose your own watchbands: The SmartWatch ships with a clas-sic black wristband and Sony also sells five other colors including pink, mint, grey, white or blue. Furthermore, an included adapter allows you to use any 20mm wristband of your choice. Battery Life: Sony advertises that the SmartWatch will last 3-4 days with typical usage, and up to 14 days standby. I found these claims to be accurate and the SmartWatch easily lasted 4 days between charges when I was using it.

Smart Watch

Senior citizen in Pakistan

A Social Issue

Dell's enthusiast gaming PC division has built a legacy on designing over-the-top desktops and notebooks, that push the boundaries of performance and style with an unmistakable design flair. We've been pretty impressed with the Alienware sys-tems we've looked at thus far, and though they tend to run a pre-mium in terms of price, performance and design

quality generally scale along with that higher price tag. On the test track, Alienware notebooks have racked up some of the best performance numbers we've seen and the company's desktops rank right up there as well. One shape the Aliens have never assumed previously, however, is the small form-factor desktop. And let's be honest, systems in this weight class generally aren't known for their gaming prowess but usually serve as home theater or mainstream PCs. The folks at Alien-ware have a different sort of vision for their next alien life form and if you weren't paying attention, you'd almost mistake it for a game console rather than a PC. But you're here at HH, so you're obviously paying at-tention. And so are we. You could say the Alienware X51 gaming PC system got our attention when it hacked into our news channel not long ago. So we decided to send a peaceful return transmission and allow it to touch down on a test pod in our lab. But first, we interrupt this program to allow the Aliens a bit of air time in this hands-on demo. Then get set for the specifics, the benchmarks and our analysis. The Alienware team played it smart configuring the X51. If you're a gamer, you need a fair bit of CPU horsepower and clock speed to drive data requests to the primary graphics engine that ultimately works the magic of rendering shaders and pushing pixels to the screen. However, you darn sure better have a decent GPU at the ready, so Alienware's choice of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 555 was spot-on. The GeForce GTX 555 is a 288 CUDA core machine and while you may be lulled into thinking it's a midrange workhorse, it's actually no slouch, as you'll see in the benchmarks that follow. Also, backing Intel's quad-core Core i5 CPU is 8GB of DDR3-1333 system memory and a fairly peppy 7200RPM 1TB WD hard drive. Again however, the X51's component selection is a bit deceiving and perhaps underwhelming at first glance, so let's get a closer look at the hardware and go under the hood.

Dell Alien ware X51, SFF PC

By Nauman Khan

By Tayyaba Ikram (Punjab University Lahore)

By Marva Shahid

Event Check MCS Fun Festival�

Sat Aug 25 2012 at 03:00 pm | Venue : Dolmen Mall, Lahore, Pakistan | Created By : Taha Naqli 4

Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn

Musa Al-Khwarizmi

Event Check P@SHA Career Expo 2012 - Lahore Sat Sep 08 2012 at 09:00 am | Venue : LUMS | Created By : PASHA We are bringing the P@SHA Career Expo this year again. The event is to be held in Lahore in September (the confirmed date will be communicated later) at LUMS. Please bring some form of identification with you. Entry is free. The objectives are: Connect ICT companies with job seekers Workshops and panel discussions on Interview Techniques, Career Growth, Communication Skills & opportunities within the ICT sector Counseling activities Idea-storming Entrepreneurship Session

By Faaiz Shabbir & Qurat ul Ain

5

During the "Dark Ages" Muslims not only transmitted an-cient knowledge to the West but also, they refined it and significantly went on to make their own schorlarly discover-ies that would change the world in which we are living to-day. some of those acheivements were made by Muslim secular orientation yet many of other revolutioneries were also prac-ticing Muslims that incorpoated Islamic thpught into their work. Major contributions were made from a diverse range of Muslim sects and groups. Commonly known as " Father of Algebra" is also a Mathe-matician ,Astronomer and Geographer. The word Algebra is derived from Al-Jabr, oneof the operations to solve quadratic equations, as described in his book Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala.His systematic approach to solving linear and quadratic equations gave shape to the desciplines of moderen days algebra. His equations are linear or quadratic and are composed of units (numbers), roots (x) and squares (x2). He first reduces an equation to one of 6 standard forms, using the operations of addition and subtraction, and then shows how to solve these standard types of equations. He uses both algebraic methods of solution and the geometric method of completing the square.

what is easiest and most useful in arithmetic, such as men constantly require in cases of inheritance, legacies, partition, lawsuits, and trade, and in all their dealings with one another, or where the measuring of lands, the digging of canals, geo-metrical computations, and other objects of various sorts and kinds are concerned. This does not sound like the contents of an algebra text, and indeed only the first part of the book is a discussion of what we would today recognise as algebra. However it is impor-tant to realise that the book was intended to be highly practi-cal, and that algebra was introduced to solve real life prob-lems that were part of everyday life in the Islam empire at that time.

He shows how to multiply out expressions such as (a + bx)(c + dx).

The next part of al-Khwarizmi's Algebra consists of applications and worked examples. He then goes on to look at rules for finding the area of figures such as the circle, and also finding the volume of solids such as the sphere, cone, and pyra-mid. This section on mensuration certainly has more in common with Hindu and Hebrew texts than it does with any Greek work. The final part of the book deals with the compli-cated Islamic rules for inheritance, but require little from the earlier algebra beyond solving linear equations. Al-Khwarizmi also wrote a treatise on Hindu-Arabic numer-als. The work describes the Hindu place-value system of nu-merals based on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0. The first use of zero as a place holder in positional base notation was proba-bly due to al-Khwarizmi in this work. He also wrote an important work on astronomy, covering calendars, calculating true positions of the sun, moon and planets, tables of sines and tangents, spherical astronomy, astrological tables, parallax and eclipse calculations, and visi-bility of the moon. Although his astronomical

work is based on that of the Indians, and most of the values from which he constructed his tables came from Hindu as-tronomers, al-Khwarizmi must have been influenced by Ptolemy's work too. Al-Khwarizmi wrote a major work on geography which give latitudes and longitudes for 2402 localities as a basis for a world map. The book, which is based on Ptolemy's Geography, lists with latitudes and longitudes, cities, moun-tains, seas, islands, geographical regions, and rivers. The manuscript includes maps which on the whole are more ac-curate than those of Ptolemy. A number of minor works were written by al-Khwarizmi on topics such as the astrolabe, on which he wrote two works, on the sundial, and on the Jewish calendar. He also wrote a political history containing horoscopes of prominent per-sons.

As late as 1565 English writer J. Halle wrote “This "Araby worde Algebra sygnifyeth as well fractures of bones as sometyme the restauration of the same.”

.OS Compatibility: A Waiting Game

If you want to make sure you always have the latest and greatest features that your chosen

smartphone operating system offers, you have no choice but to buy an iPhone. That's because Android

makers are very slow about updating their phones to Google's latest Android OS releases--and sometimes

don't update their phones at all.

Winner: iPhone

Gaming: A Growing Giant

The iPhone (and iPod touch) has rapidly become a major player in the mobile video game market, with tens

of thousands of great games. The growth of the iPhone as a gaming platform, in fact, has led some observ-

ers to forecast that Apple is well on its way to eclipsing Nintendo and Sony as the leading mobile game

platform.

While Android has its fair share of hit games, the iPhone has the clear advantage here.

Winner: iPhone

GPS Navigation: Free Wins

As long as you’ve got access to the Internet and a smartphone, you never have get lost again thanks to the

built-in GPS and maps apps on both the iPhone and Android. And while both platforms sport GPS appsthat

can give drivers turn-by-turn directions, only one has a high-quality, spoken turn-by-turn GPS app that’s also

free: Android.

Android users can use Google Maps Navigation, an app that’s not available for iPhone, to get free turn-by-

turn directions to virtually anywhere. While there are lots of other GPS apps for both platforms, there’s no

equivalent free app for iPhone--for now. In iOS 6, turn-by-turn directions are coming to the iPhone for free.

Winner: Android

Flash: A Difficult Choice The iPhone famously doesn’t run Flash--and never will--and makers of Android tablets trumpet that their

devices do. If tablets using Android can run Flash, will Android phones be able to do the same?

The answer is sort of--and only older models. That's because Adobe, the makers of Flash, have ceased de-

velopment of Flash for Android. While older Android devices can use Flash, Adobe has said it will no longer

support Flash on Android 4.1 and higher, and that it will no longer be available for download through

Google Play after August 2012.

Winner: iPhone

Battery Life: Consistent Improvement

Because of the greater variety of hardware used in Android phones, Android’s battery life is more varied

and, on average, less than the iPhone’s. While early iPhone models had batteries that required a charge

nearly every day, that’s no longer true. With recent models, it’s easy to go days at a time without needing a

charge.

Winner: iPhone

Screen Size: How Big Is Too Big?

If you're looking for the biggest screens available on smartphones, Android is your clear choice. It's not

uncommon to find Android phones with 4.3-inch screens, and the HTC One X offers a 4.7-inch screen, while

the Samsung Galaxy Note stretches the ruler at 5.3 inches. So, for sheer size, Android it is.

Winner: Android

User Maintenance: Storage and Battery

Apple prizes elegance and simplicity in the iPhone above all else. That’s a major reason that users

can’t upgrade the storage or replace the batteries on their iPhones (it’s possible to get replacement iPhone

batteries, but they’re have to be replaced by a skilled repairperson). Android, on the other hand, is open to

user customization, meaning that users can change both phones’ memory and battery.

The trade-off is a bit more complexity and a bit less elegance, but that might be worth it compared to run-

ning out of memory or needing to pay for a battery replacement equal to a large percentage of the cost of

your iPhone.

Winner: Android

Cost: Is Free Always Best? expect to spend $199-$299 (with two-year contract) for the newest and best Android phones or iPhones.

Winner: Tie

Bottom Line The decision of whether to buy an iPhone or Android phone isn’t as simple as tallying up the winners above

and choosing the phone that triumphed in more categories (6-5 for the iPhone, with two ties, for those

counting). That’s because all of the categories won’t count for the same amount to all people. Some people

will value hardware or carrier choice more, while others will care more about battery life or mobile gaming.

While it should be no surprise that the guy writing an iPhone website might prefer the iPhone, Android

phones are good choices for many users. You’ll need to decide what factors are most important to you and

then choose the phone that best meets your needs.

iPhone vs. Android

By Qurat ul Ain Farid

By M. Nauman Khan

With its groundbreaking 41MP image quality, Carl Zeiss lens, and PureView imaging technology, you’ll

take the best photos ever with a smartphone. For example,

when you want a 5MP photo, PureView packs the goodness of 7 pixels into 1 for sharp, clear, and ready to share photos. Film in high definition and hi-fi. There’s 1080p Full HD video recording with up to 4 x lossless zoom that’s smooth and completely silent. And it’s the world’s first device to include Rich Recording. This combines a unique digital microphone and Nokia algorithms to record distortion-free audio at

levels of up to 140 dB.

6 By Asad ur Rehman

User-created passwords could one day become obsolete, if research led by Chun-Liang Lin at the National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan, proves successful. The industrious team behind this groundbreaking new technology, which creates a fully-encrypted password out of a user’s heartbeat, could forever change the way we access our protected and valuable personal information. Email passwords, bank account passwords, and more could all be accessed with the touch of your finger and verified with the beat of your heart. How does it work, though? According to a recent article in New Scientist, the team over at the National Chung Hsing University has successfully tested the concept of translating a human heartbeat into an encryption key by using and electrocardiograph (ECG) reading from a person’s palm and capturing the unique signature a person’s heart makes. Once extracted, a secret key is generated as part of an encryption scheme. Because a person’s heart-beat is com- pletely unique, and also has an irregular pattern that never repeats, the encryp- tion scheme is based on the mathematics of the chaos theory, whereby small changes to initial conditions lead to different outcomes. The encryption scheme is based on a very sophisticated math algorithm that can figure out when the user is the right user based on missed beats, length of beats, and other small tale tale signs. 'Because elec-trocardiogram signals vary from person to person, and can be used as a new tool for biometric recognition,' say the researchers at the National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan. Lead researcher Chun-Liang Lin used two ECG readings from people's palms to determine the unique mathematical properties of their heartbeat. They found that the number could be used as a pass-word, and that the system is highly secure. In other words, you won’t ever get the same key twice. Lin and his colleagues hope to build this system into external hard drives and other devices that can be also be encrypted, decrypted, and ac-cessed, all by simply touching them. Of course, their research brings about some very interesting possi-bilities regarding the security of information and files. This new technology could alleviate the headache suffered when your per-sonal accounts are attacked, as anyone who has ever had the misfor-tune of getting their Twitter or Facebook account hacked know all too well. User-generated passwords would no longer be easily hacked through malicious programs. The need to physically write down a password or store it on your computer would practically be elimi-nated. If implemented by various institutions like banks or credit card companies, access to your financial information would be secured even further and accessible via a biologically unique pass-word only available via your touch. And those are merely a sample of potential benefits to Lin’s research. As we recently highlighted in an article on picking strong pass-words and keeping them that way, no password is every truly safe, but if the research being conducted by Lin’s team can make it harder for intruders to access our data while making it easier on us, then that will definitely put all our hearts and minds at ease.

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Scientists have created the smallest petrol engine in the world ( less than a centimeter long not even half an inch ), small enough to power a watch or any small gadget. The mini-motor, which runs for two years on a single squirt of lighter fuel, is set to revolutionize world technology. It generates 700 times more energy than a conventional battery. It could be used to operate laptops and mobile phones for months doing away with the need for charging. Experts believe it could be phasing out bat-teries in such items within just six years. The engine, minute

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How Difficult is the Education in Rural Areas

This is a story of a man belonging to a humble background whose sheer determination, hard work, zeal and mother’s consistent support helped him to achieve what very little men from his village can even dream about. Years ago, Saifullah Zia as a small child in Sakhi – a vil-lage in Gujranwala – had a vision. He dared to pursue it. Sakhi is a scantly populated area with educational opportunities close to nil. Saifullah himself was forced to leave his village and move to the bustling city of Gujranwala to pursue a degree in civil engineering. How-ever, years later after becoming a well established businessman in Is-lamabad, he refused to turn his back on his roots. Instead, he went back to the village of his birth, knocked at every door and advocated for the cause of female empowerment and education. He strongly believed that it was imperative for the next generation of women to have a sound education. He was of the opinion that only educated mothers would pro-duce educated children. When he first began his mission, the number of students were a mere eight. However, with unwavering dedication and creating self-awareness amongst the locals, it was not long before this figure reached an impressive six hundred. As expected in our part of the world there was a great deal of resentment and opposition. People did not see the sense in educating their females as their lives were very much confined to the domestic tasks within the four walls of their house. Nev-ertheless, he was adamant in his view and set up vocational training centers in the summers. Here the women were given sewing machines free of cost and were taught the basic skills to earn their livelihood. I would like to conclude by saying that with the passing of time and the development of industrialization and modernisation, villages are no longer looked upon as the illiterate, poverty-ridden areas they used to be. Many urbanites have now involved themselves in social work to im-prove the lives of the villagers. The locals now have access to vast amounts of information available through the media which has made them aware of the outside world and provided them with the incentives to improve their situation. Saifullah Zia and many others are persistently striving to help the youth realise their dreams. It is now up to them to come forward and make the most of the opportunities available to them.

iHome’s twisting, topsy-turvy iH41 dock / alarm clock for the iPhone and iPod touch won’t make a lick of sense unless you habitually go to bed watching movies on your iPod. Then, it all clicks: simply twist it onto its side when you’re horizontally dozing to watch a movie as you tumble off to dreaming. The next morning, your iPhone will be fully charged and serenade you with a suitable wake-up tune: for example, Electric Six’s High Voltage. $79.99 with re-mote. By M. Nauman Khan

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