The Department of Justice cleared Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility just hours after European regulators gave the deal the nod. Now Google is officially in the hardware business—for better or worse.

In a statement, the Department of Justice said it was closing its investigation into the Google-Motorola deal and also closing a probe into the sale of Nortel’s patents by a consortium led by Apple. In other words, everyone is happy with their patents.

For Google, there’s a larger issue ahead. Google has become hardware happy overnight and Motorola Mobility could be a distraction. Google absorbs about 19,000 employees once the deal closes. Motorola Mobility will contribute revenue growth to Google, but the device maker doesn’t bring a lot of earnings to the party.

Source: ZDNet.com

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.9. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 90 bug fixes, some of which are security related.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9:

Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. (CVE-2011-4885)
Fixed bug #60150 (Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif header). (CVE-2011-4566)

Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.9 include:

Fixed bug #55475 (is_a() triggers autoloader, new optional 3rd argument to is_a and is_subclass_of).
Fixed bug #55609 (mysqlnd cannot be built shared)
Many changes to the FPM SAPI module

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.9, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.9.

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The founders of Google Inc. (GOOG) and EBay Inc. (EBAY) attacked Hollywood-backed anti-piracy legislation in the U.S. House and Senate that they said would threaten the technology industry and lead to Web censorship.

The Internet executives said the bills would have a “chilling effect on innovation” and give the U.S. government the “power to censor the Web using techniques similar to those used by China, Malaysia and Iran,” according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers and published today in newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

Lobbying in Washington by Internet companies and motion- picture studios has intensified as a House committee prepares to vote tomorrow on the Hollywood-supported bill, which has become a flash point in the debate over how to curb online trafficking of illegally copied movies, television shows and music.

The controversy has drawn in Google co-founder Sergey Brin, PayPal Inc. co-founder Elon Musk, EBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) co-founder Jerry Yang, who were among 16 Internet executives signing today’s letter.

The House bill, and similar legislation in the Senate, would let the Justice Department seek court orders requiring U.S. Internet-service providers, search engines, payment processors and ad networks to block or cease business with non- U.S. websites linked to online piracy.

Read the full news at Bloomberg.com

Scope of the services

The consultants will provide programming support, troubleshooting, processing support, and monitoring daily data processing for the data warehouse. They will work with an IT team of database administrators, programmers, web designers and provide all technical activities related to the data warehouse and the application.

Mandatory skills

Design and develop web-based CBIDAS services and functions for an Inspection Web Portal.
Minimum 2 years experience with Web Center Suites.
Able to use Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Visio.

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I am looking to purchase photoshop for my home computer. We use photoshop cs3 at school and I would like to work on projects at home at the most affordable cost. We use most of the features of cs3 at school. What is the major difference between the original photoshop and photoshop elements?

Answers:
MARY – “Photoshop Elements is a significantly scaled down version of the full blown version of Photoshop.You can do some of the same things in Elements as you can in Adobe Photoshop, but you have much more flexibility in Photoshop. Simply put, Photoshop is the pro version of the software and Elements is more geared toward hobbyists.

The cost of the two software packages reflect these differences. But, the good news is that, as a student, you can buy Photoshop at a sizable discount. I believe the Student/Teacher version of Photoshop is about 20% of the cost of the regular version. So, if you’re thinking of buying Photoshop, doing it when you’re a student is definitely the way to go.”

SCRAWNY – “Essentially, Elements is a “junior” version of Photoshop. Photoshop is much more powerful in what it can do. It costs more too.”

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Job Position Needed:Web Designer

Job Description:
Loewy Design, an award winning interactive agency based in Melville NY, seeks a full-time Web Designer to join our team. Our new designer will have at least 3 years of agency or in-house interactive experience and is passionate about building exciting user experiences that exceed our client’s expectations. You’re a total team player with an entrepreneurial sprit and you enjoy problem solving with our strategists, information architects and technology team.

This is a jr. to mid-level full time position perfect for a Long Island resident who is tired of the NYC commute. Applicants must be able to display a stellar online portfolio with a description of your role in each project.

Qualifications:
• Minimum of 3-6 years interactive design experience
• Intimate Knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator
• Strong understanding of designing intuitive site functionality, interaction, & site architecture
• Solid foundation in typography, layout, and design (BFA preferred)
• Flash and motion design
• Comfortable owning projects from the conceptual stage through to production
• HTML/CSS/Javascript coding is a plus but not essential
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to multi-task and adapt to frequent and unexpected change

Responsibilities
- Create design experiences that push innovative technology
- Conceptualize and design websites, ecommerce sites, web apps and mobile sites
- Design and develop creative online marketing campaigns including emails, landing pages, social media and banners.
- Excellent creative/aesthetic judgment and the ability to communicate it
- Maintain knowledge of current industry marketing trends and best practices
- Likes to have fun and is not afraid of hard work or long hours when required
- Assist in mentoring and education of jr. designers
- Champion the improvement of creative processes
- Contribute to our blog and marketing efforts
- Represent Loewy Design at industry functions as a way to promote our capabilities and to aid in recruiting efforts.

- All candidates must reside within 25 miles of Melville, NY.

Click here to view more details of the job listing.

Tutorial on how to create a vector effect in Photoshop CS5.

Opera 11.51 was released on September 1, 2011. It’s a minor update which fixes a known security issue, improves stability and offers full-screen support in Mac Lion.

Of more interest to web developers is Dragonfly 1.1 — Opera’s Firebug-like console. I gave version 1.0 a glowing review in May, but there were a few minor niggles which caused concern. More than 200 bug fixes and interface updates have been implemented in the latest edition, so let’s look at the highlights…
DOM Inspector

Perhaps the biggest problem with Dragonfly 1.0 was the lack of links and line numbers to styles in CSS files. That problem has been addressed and I suspect many developers will be thankful.

The Inspector now supports pseudo classes and pseudo elements. This includes ::before and ::after which now appear as nodes within the DOM tree. It’s a fantastic facility which is yet to appear in competing tools.

A new button is also provided which allows you to toggle states including :link, :visited, :hover, :active, :focus and ::selection. While a similar function exists in Firebug, few developers know about it and Dragonfly’s implementation is superior.

Finally, there’s an new “Search” tab which allows you to locate elements by text, regular expression, CSS selector and XPath (e.g. (e.g. enter //div to find all div elements in the page). Very useful.

JavaScript Debugger
An improved search facility has also been implemented within the Scripts tab. It’s possible to search using text or regular expressions across a single file or all JavaScript files. You can also include or omit dynamically-injected scripts.

Network and Resource Inspectors
It’s now possible to inspect POST data sent via standard or multi-part forms. A new search field is also provided in the Resource Inspector.

One of the primary criticisms of v1.0 was Ajax monitoring. Dragonfly 1.1 is better and, given my limited test, it correctly reported all background XMLHttpRequest calls. Unfortunately, the returned message body is still shown as an encoded base64 string so it’s impossible to directly inspect JSON data. Opera — please, please address it in the next version!

Read entire article at Sitepoint

Nowadays, in this trendy world, people get very uptight when they do not look entirely presentable. This would also be the case in web designing.

Every individual would definitely want their website to look good, if not, to the best they can. Here are a few things we could look out for when wanting to create a professional looking webpage.

Color Schemes and Themes.

When designing, always choose matching colors. An example of a matching color would be to have a dark background, with visible words and designs. With the dark theme, try not to mix too many bright colors into the design. What we should NEVER do, is to mix two very different colors, such as purple and yellow. Now, of course, it would depend on the purpose of the website, but those two colors are too striking for one who wants it to look more professional.

Web Design Themes must always suit the company or rather, the organization / etc. If the website was made to cater for a food company, it would be wise to stick to that particular category, rather than to revert to a different theme, such as machinery.

Fonts should be used in regard to the formality of the website. A simple sans-serif font would suffice in most cases. Exceptional cases such as design and art groups might want to use fanciful designs and fonts. Of course, that’s only if you know what you’re doing.

Finally, we must always try to think of our visitors, see the way they see. The resolutions and file sizes of the pictures must not be too large in terms of size. This is to allow maximum compatibility and cater our visitor’s needs.

So, planning is something we should always do, before attempting something.

In a recent post to his blog Rob Diana has posted a summary he’s created of web scripting programming language job trends, complete with stats and graphs generated from Indeed.com and SimplyHired.

August is one of the months that I devote to job trends. Last week I focused on the trends for traditional languages like C++ and Java. Today, we return to what I call the web and scripting languages. You may be wondering what I mean by “web and scripting languages”, and my list currently includes Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Flex and Groovy.

According to the results on Indeed Javascript is in huge demand right now, completely overshadowing the others on the list. PHP came in second here. The results from SimplyHired show a similar story, but the gap between Javascript and second place – Flex – is a bit smaller. PHP came in third here.

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