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10 tech and startup companies hiring actively in Asia this week

10 tech and startup companies hiring actively in Asia this week


Each week, Tech in Asia Jobs brings you some of the most popular jobs around Asia. Here, we round up 10 companies that are actively hiring across various regions and job functions on Tech in Asia Jobs. If you see a company or job role you’re interested in, be sure to click in and find out more about what it’s like to be working with them!
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Agate
Indonesia
Games
Agate Studio is a game developer based in Bandung, Indonesia that focuses on entertainment games and serious games. We aim for our crews to reach their fullest potential without ignoring their feedback for improvements. We'll make sure that your talent won't go to waste, and perhaps even help you learn talents you may never even realize you had.
Hiring:
Junior Gamification Programmer, 3D Artist, Technical Artist, and 19 more…


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Snaphunt Pte Ltd
Singapore
Human Resource
Snaphunt is a specialist recruiting platform that takes the pain out of hiring and job searching. We help people find jobs they love and companies hire employees who stay longer. Looking for a new role? Submit your CV on https://snaphunt.com Now live in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Hong Kong, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka.
Hiring:
Partnerships & Business Development Executive, Product Manager (EdTech Startup), Lead Data Scientist, and 347 more…


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Aspire
Singapore
Lending, loans, and credit
Headquartered in Singapore, ASPIRE is a technology organization that serves small businesses with convenient & inclusive financial services across SEA. We built Aspire from the ground with one thing in mind- serve small business owners with speed and simplicity. Aspire is backed by Y-Combinator - #1 startup incubator in the world - and has raised to date USD 41.5M by some of the world best VCs
Hiring:
Senior UI/UX Designer, Credit Risk Analyst, Customer Success Lead, and 10 more…




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theAsianparent
Singapore
Digital Media
theAsianparent is a reproductive health-tech company that reaches out to 30 million mothers every month through our parenting website and app. Our vision is to improve the overall health of pregnant women and families in South East Asia by helping them navigate their most important moments with data-driven solutions in the form of content, community and physical products.
Hiring:
Strategy and Financial Planning Analyst, Research Manager, Regional Finance & Operations Manager, and 5 more…




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CreITive
Singapore
Creative Development, Web Development
We love helping companies to design, build, launch, and maintain bespoke web&mobile digital products. CreITive is a global technology partner for companies needing rapid innovation to differentiate from their competition. We combine our tech background with creativity to tailor smart web and mobile solutions that solve real life problems.
Hiring:
Solution Architect, Data Engineer, and Senior UX/UI Designer.


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barePack
Singapore
Service Providers
barePack is developing a reusable container lending service to help busy foodies who are looking for convenient alternatives to single-use plastics with an app enabled lending platform.
Hiring:
Fleet Operations Specialist.


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Indonesian rental marketplace Cumi banks seed funding from East Ventures

Indonesian rental marketplace Cumi banks seed funding from East Ventures

Indonesia-based rental marketplace Cumi has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from East Ventures to speed up its growth in the country.
From left: Cumi founders Pandu Wirawan (COO), Christian Sugiono (CEO), and Yazid Faizin (CMO) / Photo credit: Cumi
First launched in May 2018, Cumi’s platform aggregates vendors from 12 categories, including automotive, fashion, pocket wifi, cameras, toys, books, and gadgets, among others.
The company requires merchants to pass identity checks using phone numbers, bank account information, and ID cards as part of its selection process.
“The trend of sharing economy has long shifted the behavior of the generation today. Now enforced with the influence of social media and access to information, we witness a fast-growing demand from millennials today to publish themselves even more and have as many experiences as they could while keeping them on budget,” said Cumi co-founder and CEO Christian Sugiono.
Cumi stands for cuma minjem, or “just renting” in the Indonesian colloquial language. With the fresh funds, the company aims to expand its user base, acquire more talent, and extend its footprint in Indonesia.
Pandu Wirawan, the startup’s co-founder and chief operations officer, said that Cumi aims to become the top destination for all rental items not just in Indonesia, but also in all of Southeast Asia.
The startup said it has positioned itself as a contender in Indonesia’s burgeoning sharing economy, which is projected to grow to US$335 billion in 2025 from US$15 billion in 2014.
Cumi claims to have 5,000 users and 500 verified vendors from various locations across the Jakarta Metropolitan Area, Surabaya, and Bali.
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Live report: Will Google Chrome OS change Linux?

Live report: Will Google Chrome OS change Linux?
















Google announced its open source Chrome OS last July and it has been a little more than a mystery to the wondering public since that time. Now, an official first look is mere hours away.

At 10:00 am PST (1:00 pm EST), Google will present a live webcast of Chrome OS, the search giant's attempt to "rethink what operating systems should be." Speakers this afternoon will include Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS.

Besides finally getting to see just how Chrome will be laid out, we will get an overview of the underlying technology and find out about the operating system's 2010 launch schedule.

What we know about Chrome OS already:

* It will be free and open source
* It is built on the Linux Kernel but has a totally new windowing system.
* It will support both x86 and ARM architecture.
* It will run Web apps as if they're native desktop apps.
* It is not a handset OS like Android, but there will be "overlap" in functionality
* Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba have all voiced support for Chrome OS.
* Chrome OS Director Matthew Papakipos is director of the HTML 5 Open Web Platform efforts at Google.
* The underlying security architecture of "standard" operating systems is being completely redesigned.

Until today, these facts have only raised more questions. Far too many to even list here. Hopefully, once the Webcast gets rolling, we'll be able to finally put the most basic of these questions to rest.
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Will Firefox beat IE9 to Direct2D rendering?

Will Firefox beat IE9 to Direct2D rendering?



It was a principal element of the Day 2 keynote at Microsoft's PDC 2009 conference last week in Los Angeles: an early demonstration of code being worked into Internet Explorer 9 that replaces the browser's outdated reliance upon the (very) old GDI rendering library, with new code utilizing Direct2D -- a library that borrows processing power from the GPU. But with the project only having begun last October, it could still be several months before Microsoft creates still more features to make IE9 worthy of a point-release.

By that time, Mozilla could very well have absorbed Direct2D capability into Firefox, if it accepts the contribution of engineer Bas Schouten. By modifying a recent daily build of the organization's "Minefield" track for Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1 for Windows, Shouten was able to graft Direct2D support onto the browser, which also usually relies on the old GDI library. The results were Web pages that were as instantaneous to the eyes as the demos we saw of Direct2D rendering on IE9 test code last week.

In a personal blog post Sunday, Schouten discussed some of the difficulties he faced in working Direct2D rendering capabilities onto Mozilla's "Cairo" graphics engine -- difficulties peculiar to Firefox that IE9's developers may not be troubled with: "Direct2D has been implemented as a Cairo backend, meaning our work can eventually be used to facilitate Direct2D usage by all Cairo based software. We use Direct3D textures as backing store for all surfaces. This allows us to implement operations not supported by Direct2D using Direct3D, this will prevent software fallbacks being needed, which will require readbacks. Since a readback forces the GPU to transfer memory to the CPU before the CPU can read it, readbacks have significant performance penalties because of GPU-CPU synchronization being required. On Direct3D10+ hardware this should not negatively impact performance, it does mean it is harder to implement effective D2D software fallback. Although in that scenario we could continue using Cairo with GDI as our vector graphics rendering system."

Although the improvements in on-screen rendering are not something our Betanews CRPI JavaScript performance suite would be able to track, those performance hits Schouten mentioned are indeed something we could see. In tests this morning on Windows 7 RTM using last night's private build of Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1, versus Schouten's remodeled build, the Mozilla build posted a CRPI 2.2 score in Windows 7 of 13.88 -- the best score turned in by a Mozilla browser to date -- versus 12.31 for Schouten's version. At least for now, the rendering improvements come at a cost.

But can those improvements more than make up for the implementation cost, which at the moment Betanews estimates to be about 12.8%?

Betanews tests this morning revealed the answer, quite surprisingly, to be no. Compared to the current daily Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1 build, timing the page loads for 28 major Web sites on Windows 7 RTM, the Schouten build with Direct2D installed only rendered pages about 5.2% faster than the Mozilla build, according to a geometric mean of the differences in render times. The Schouten build only renders 7.3% faster overall than Internet Explorer 8 by that same formula, which is not even close to the speed gains we saw on Microsoft's own in-house tests of Direct2D on IE9 code last week.

Where the Schouten build did see gains was on very content-rich sites such as the Chinese Web portals, such as qq.com and xunlei.com. But that build also crashed for one of those sites -- sina.com.cn -- and it also crashed for plain old, American aol.com, for reasons we couldn't ascertain. (Perhaps it doesn't like the new branding campaign either.) For content-light pages such as Google and Ask.com, the Schouten build was measurably slower than both the Mozilla build and IE8. It's worth noting here that IE8 is very competitive against Firefox in render times for sites with moderate content, and even on a few sites with heavy content (the Chinese portals, for instance). However, when the content load gets great or when content may be composited from multiple sources (as appears to be the case with Blogger.com), IE8 becomes exponentially slower, with some load times exceeding one minute.

Your eyes may tell you the Schouten build renders faster -- as ours did right at first -- but that conclusion may derive from the feeling of speed you see from a page appearing all at one time. The test build may actually be much faster at snappy rendering, but that's not the entire job; in fact, the page loading portions of our CRPI tests indicate that the test build may actually be slower at that part than the Mozilla build.

Integration is the key to making Direct2D work in place of GDI in the browser; and if this early test build is any indication, Microsoft could be further along in this process than Mozilla after all.
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Windows 7 Family Pack priced at $150

Windows 7 Family Pack priced at $150



Microsoft has placed a $149.99 price tag on the Windows 7 Family Pack, which lets as many as three PCs in a single household upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium edition. Users in Canada will pay $199.99.

Microsoft's official blogger Brandon LeBlanc confirmed the three-license pack last week, but did not include the price.

"We have heard a lot of feedback from beta testers and enthusiasts over the last 3 years that we need a better solution for homes with multiple PCs," LeBlanc wrote. "I'm happy to confirm that we will indeed be offering a family pack of Windows 7 Home Premium (in select markets) which will allow installation on up to 3 PCs."

Prior to LeBlanc's announcement, the three-license pack was rumored due to terms discovered in a leaked version of Windows 7 Home Premium Edition.

The Windows 7 Family Pack will be available on October 22, the same day the operating system is released to the public.

Additionally, Microsoft has announced Windows 7's Anytime Upgrade pricing, the scale for users who purchase machines with Home Premium or Starter Editions and wish to upgrade.

# Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Home Premium- $79.99
# Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Professional- $114.99
# Windows 7 Starter to Windows 7 Ultimate- $164.99
# Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional- $89.99
# Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate- $139.99
# Windows 7 Professional to Windows 7 Ultimate- $129.99
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AMD claims six-core Opteron performance lead over Intel Xeon

AMD claims six-core Opteron performance lead over Intel Xeon



Just last month, AMD began shipping its first 6-core, 45 nm Opteron server CPUs with "Istanbul" architecture, with the top-of-the-line 2.6 GHz, 4- and 8-way 8435 SE selling for $2,649 in 1,000-unit quantities ("trays"). Perhaps ahead of schedule, yesterday AMD cut the tape for a 2.8 GHz 4- and 8-way model 8439 SE model that one-ups its own June release. Its tray price: $2,649.

And while a new entry on the high end usually triggers a price drop for existing models, it may yet be too soon for AMD to drop the price of the 2.6 GHz model below its June price. In an interview with Betanews, AMD's Opteron product manager Steve Demski said that won't be much of a problem, since in this economy and with the current state of data center architecture, high wattage and higher performance are less of a factor than ever before.

"In general, I won't say that the SE is a dying breed, but it's a small percentage of our overall business. We still do have some of these high-profile customers that do want that extra performance, and they're willing to pay more for it. But as a percentage of our business, I want to say it's less than five percent," admitted Demski. "Not to say that it doesn't matter to the people who want that performance; it does."

AMD's strategy, revealed last May, is to address what it believes to be four market segments: a mainstream and three offshoots. The high-performance and low-power divisions are obvious, but then AMD is gambling on a lower power market segment, for server farms that are truly dedicated to "going green." Yesterday's releases address the "very high performance" and the "generally lower power" shades of these two more obvious market sub-segments, with the 2.1 GHz six-core, 4- and 8-way, low-power 8425 HE priced at $1,514. Using AMD's Average CPU power metric (ACP), the 8425 HE is AMD's 55W part, while the 8439 SE runs at 105W ACP.

In the two-socket bracket, AMD introduced a high-performance 2439 SE, which has the same power and performance profile as the 8439 SE, only priced at $1,019. The 8425's counterpart on the 2-socket side is the 2425 HE priced at $523, followed even lower down by a 2.0 GHz 2423 HE priced at $455. Meanwhile, the "older" 2.2 GHz 2427 HE remains at $455.

There might not be much cause for complaint here, however. Competitor Intel's most recent price list (PDF available here) continues to show not one six-core processor in its Xeon 7400 series lower in tray price than $2,301.

In SPECpower_ssj_2008 benchmark tests AMD conducted on the standard six-core 2.6 GHz 75W Opteron 2435 introduced last month and the 2425 HE 55W at 2.1 GHz introduced yesterday (again using AMD's metric, which doesn't align with Intel's Thermal Design Point or TDP), both processors yielded the same score of 1228 at 100% load point. "But the power consumption of the HE system is 49 watts lower [221W versus 270W] than the power consumption in the standard system," remarked Demski. "This is the exact same platform; we swapped CPUs and took the measurement again.

"So you're saving 49W per 2P system. Let's do some math here: If you've got 49W of system [savings] and you have a rack of servers, you've got 42 1U servers in that rack, that's over 2,000 watts of power you're saving by going to the HE model. If your cost per watt is $5 -- which I would argue is conservative -- you're saving $10,000 a year on that one rack. And you can imagine the cloud guys -- they don't build by rack, they build by container, which has 5,000 or more servers per container."

On the other side of the equation, server admins and IT professionals will be watching the benchmark charts to see if AMD's latest claim is proven and officially filed. Though the SPEC organization does not show an official claim this afternoon, AMD is claiming that a four-way Tyan Transport TX46 server with 64 GB of RAM, loaded with four 2.8 GHz Opteron 8439 SE CPUs, posted a peak performance SPEC_int_rate2006 score of 417.

Compare this against the 274 score that AMD's quad-core "Shanghai" series 3.1 GHz quad-core Opteron 8393 SE posted, and you might file these results under "D" for "Duh." Here, 150% the processor provides 150% the performance -- what's new with that? The first bullet point this 417 score (if it holds up) should provide is the fact that the 8439 uses the 8393's same power envelope; you can swap out the quad-core with a six-core and not suffer a power cost.

But bullet point #2 has a lethal tip to it, and again if the score holds up, it will be extremely impressive news, and the first time in years that AMD can submit a performance score to SPEC without accompanying it with lower-power explanations and best-case-scenario apologies. According to SPEC's latest list of official scores, a four-way IBM System x 3850 M2 loaded with four 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon X7460 processors -- Intel's highest performer in its six-core line, selling for $2,729 -- posted a 294 peak score on the same test. That's the highest-performing X7460 in the list; a Dell PowerEdge R900, a Fujitsu Siemens Primergy RX600 S4, and an HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with a quartet of X7460s all posted peak scores of 291.

Maybe the Opteron SE series only sells to less than 5% of AMD's customer base, according to Steve Demski. But whenever AMD boasts a performance lead (and it's backed up by independent tests, which have yet to be revealed), it always manages to make a dent in 100% of Intel's customers' minds.
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Firefox 3.6 needs more, better features to compete against Chrome 3

Firefox 3.6 needs more, better features to compete against Chrome 3



Last April, Mozilla gave the first public indication of the feature set it was planning for the version of Firefox that could be released in the fall of this year. Among them were the following: a thumbnail preview mode for tab switching using Ctrl+Tab; an integrated, if limited, version of the Ubiquity command line tool; live theme changes without reboots; a new and more fully loaded "New Tab" feature; a complete status window that answers to the URL about:me; and integration of the desktop Web application platform Prism.

But in releasing the first public edition of the Firefox 3.6 alpha, code-named "Namoroka," general testers will find none of these features -- at least, not yet. Only in the private nightly builds may some testers begin to see features including Ctrl+Tab preview, but now it's believed that integrated Prism and other features will not make it into the final release.

According to Mozilla's official schedule, whatever front end enhancements the organization will end up making to this particular release, will have to be ready for Beta 1 sometime next month. Meanwhile, testers will have to deal with a 3.6 platform that's slightly faster than Firefox 3.5.2 in some respects, but noticeably slower in others, most likely due to developers' error control code as indicated by Betanews performance tests.

What Firefox aficionados say they love most about the browser compared to Google Chrome -- currently its biggest competition as an alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 -- is its rich feature set and customizability. Chrome, by contrast, is fairly bare-bones, although its bare chassis can now claim to be nearly twice as fast as Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP SP3, the fastest (though arguably the least secure) of Microsoft's three modern operating systems. Although Chrome has demonstrated some fancy windowing functionality, probably as a show of Google's prowess in producing something more resembling an operating system; and last week it adopted something that could be laughably described as "themes", Google's developers are finding buckets full of performance for Dev channel editions on an almost daily basis.

Since Betanews' tests just last Friday, Chrome 3 has clinched nearly one point of performance, and on our Windows XP SP3 physical test platform is now flirting with 20 times the performance of IE7 on Vista, now at a record 19.90 on our XP index. This while Mozilla's public release of Namoroka Alpha 1, on our Windows 7 RTM index slips almost one full point over Mozilla's final Namoroka release candidate, due mainly to visibly slower scores in the general math departments. The latest private daily build of Firefox 3.5.3 "Shiretoko," however, gained back some ground to pull just ahead of the stable 3.5.2.
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First Google Chrome 4 reveals the beginnings of cloud synchronization

First Google Chrome 4 reveals the beginnings of cloud synchronization

With Google, one tends to learn the meanings and intentions behind the many events in its development programs pretty much as they happen. For example, the distinctions between what goes on in the Chrome browser's development channel ("Dev") and what happens in the beta channel, have frequently been explained to us after the fact.

Today, we learned one new fact about the Dev channel: It's where the company will be rolling out its integration between the browser and other services -- potentially even with Google Apps. Square one begins with the Bookmarks synchronization service that comes as part of Google Accounts. That service makes its first appearance today with the first Dev build of the browser to bear the number "4." The announcement that Google's open-source Chromium team had developed a library for hooking into Google Bookmarks came just two weeks ago.

Of course, that "4" is not supposed to mean anything specific. Like a child who finishes cleaning his room the moment he shouts, "I'm finished," there's no specific reason for us to assume that Chrome 3, the subject of both the Dev and beta channels, will necessarily drop into the Stable channel anytime soon. When that happens sometime this week or this year, Chrome 2 users will wake up one day and find Chrome 3, which Betanews tests show should be a faster browser than version 2 by as much as one-third.

For now, the first Chrome 4 bears little difference from the previous developer build 3.0.197.11 except for continued acceleration (more on that in a moment) and the option to enable Google Bookmarks for testing. It requires a command line launch, as in chrome --enable-sync (Windows XP users can invoke Run from the Start menu); from there, the Sync my bookmarks command appears on Chrome 4's Tools menu.

In typical Google fashion, the program ascertains as much as it can without asking the user what she wants. All the tool requires is the user's account name and password. If bookmarks already exist in the account, then Chrome 4 imports them; if they don't, the browser exports the bookmarks that already exist, into that account.

Once again, Google is demonstrating how it's tailoring its browser to netbook users. They won't be using their portable netbooks full-time, and Chrome may or may not be the browser they use on their PCs. Currently, the Google Toolbar on Internet Explorer and Firefox are capable of performing browser synching functions, provided you save your bookmarks in the Toolbar and not the browser (or import them into the Toolbar from the browser). Typically, these users will prefer to use the same brand of browser on their netbooks as on their main PCs, though an easy method to sync bookmarks between the two browsers automatically could compel netbook users to try Chrome instead.

In initial tests of the first Chrome 4 on our physical Windows XP SP3-based test platform, the browser scored a record 20.09 on our Betanews performance index, representing over 20 times the speed of Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista, running on the same machine. Improvements in JavaScript execution this round were only minor, but rendering speed continues to improve, although the latest Apple Safari 4 browser remains the fastest renderer in our test suite (4.53 versus 4.48).

The Chrome browser continues to lack some of the other features found in Google Toolbar, such as language translation and AutoFill for forms. However, we get the impression that we may start to see more of those features creep into the new Chrome 4 development track, whenever Google gets around to it.
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Windows 7 upgrades, Family Pack will come to Europe after all

Windows 7 upgrades, Family Pack will come to Europe after all

On September 1, Microsoft announced this morning, it will be making upgrade editions of Windows 7 available to European customers, as originally planned, apparently with Internet Explorer 8 included. These editions will be publicly available on the originally planned global availability date of October 22, although pre-orders will begin September 1.

This leaves a one-week window in which European customers may continue to pre-order full versions of Windows 7 Home Premium at the upgrade price, which is currently €119.99 for most European customers, £79.99 in the UK. While we do know that €119.99 will be the upgrade price for Home Premium from September 1, and that the full version price will be somewhat higher, we do not know as of yet the specific breakdown for the upgrade prices for the Professional and Ultimate SKUs. These prices did not yet appear on Microsoft's online retail sites in foreign countries, as of 12:15 pm EDT Monday afternoon.

European customers may also expect pre-order availability of a three-license Family Pack version of the Home Premium SKU, though prices there have also not been released. Versions without Windows Media Player, marked with a prominent "N" and a big red box, will also be available for all SKUs in both full and upgrade editions, but for no discount off the regular price.

Currently, pre-orders for the full edition of the Windows 7 Professional SKU are selling for €285 / £189.99, and the Ultimate SKU for €299 / £199.99. Microsoft's Web site does show the non-UK prices to be limited time discounts, however, which suggests that on September 1 their prices may climb to €309 and €319 (the UK site does not show full pricing as presently discounted).

The summer recess has precluded the European Commission from issuing an opinion on Microsoft's decision three weeks ago to reverse course on offering "Windows 7 E" without Internet Explorer 8 pre-installed. It therefore appears that, for now, the distribution of Windows 7 worldwide will go forward precisely as originally planned.

However, Microsoft is not saying at this time whether Windows 7 SKUs being prepared for October shipment are being pre-equipped with the ability to offer the "ballot screen" -- the ability for customers to select the Web browser of their choice, download it, and install it. Technically, it's possible for Microsoft to deploy a kind of hotfix that's downloaded during the latter stages of the installation process, containing the instructions necessary to bring up the ballot screen -- this way, the company would not need to issue recalls on box shipments that have already been made, or to have OEMs undo Windows 7 installations that are already present on new PCs.

But for Microsoft's proposal to work completely as it has planned, the manufacturers of the alternate browsers listed -- Mozilla, Apple, Google, and Opera Software -- would have to be on board. Specifically, they would need to be able to provide users with destinations for the ballot screen to download and install browsers, in accordance with the Windows 7 installation instructions. Objections already lodged by Opera's and Mozilla's chiefs suggest that at least some would not be on board with this idea; and that even if the EC gives the go-ahead to the browser screen, the Windows 7 installer might not be able to make the necessary handshakes to enable alternative browsers.
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Open source project makes ADO.NET data accessible with PHP

Open source project makes ADO.NET data accessible with PHP

Microsoft's most recent Web-driven database technology is ADO.NET, although only the first three letters of its name have been a throwback to its predecessor: There's nothing "ActiveX" about ADO.NET whatsoever. Up to now, its purpose has been to expose data through HTTP Web services that can be utilized by JavaScript clients (read: common Web pages) as well as by .NET applications including Silverlight.

But that fact has kept the pairings of ADO.NET with ASP.NET, and PHP with MySQL, separate and distinct from one another.

So with PHP being the more popular language, known to and practiced by an estimated 9.4% of the world's developers -- making it the #4 language in the world behind Java, C, and C++, according to standards group TIOBE -- that pairing works against Microsoft, and keeps MySQL in the driver's seat for as long as Oracle wants to keep it there.

This time around, Microsoft has decided its way out of that tangle is to let others solve the problem, and then to endorse (and, when warranted, to fund) the result. An independent, Pune, India-based firm called Persistent Systems, Ltd. Has spearheaded an open-source project to develop a kind of command-line re-interpreter, whose purpose is to make ADO.NET data accessible through PHP. It's called PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services, and its setup is deceptively simple. ADO.NET already generates XML code in Atom format that specifies the formats of Web-addressable resources.

At design time, the PHP Toolkit re-interprets this schema and produces a series of proxy classes, which the Web developers then explicitly includes in his PHP code. The classes behave like objects, with members pointed to like columns in tables.

So for instance, in classic fashion, you can create a loop clause that iterates through each member of a table, and then prints (or, more accurately, echo-es) the contents of members of that table into slots in the PHP code. The XHTML produced for the client contains those contents. It's all done with very minimal adjustments in the way PHP would normally handle tables; all it really needs is to include the proxy classes generated by the Toolkit, using the keywords require_once and define.

ADO.NET Data Services is supported by Service Pack 1 of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 as well as by the latest Expression Web 3, and will be a key component of Visual Studio 2010.
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