The News Review:

- Briton on lads’ holiday to Thailand dies in freak accident after…
- Google’s pen Source Android S Will Free the Wireless Web
- – DAWN – RSS Feeds; June 23 2008

Briton on lads’ holiday to Thailand dies in freak accident after…
Daily Mail – Jun 23, 2008
Scott Mitchinson 30 was killed as he walked from a bar to his hotel with his girlfriend in Bangkok Thailand. Mr Mitchinson and his girlfriend Khun Wanidar 32 who works in a bar in the city’s main nightlife district of Pattaya were walking in heavy rainstorms in the early hours of Thursday morning when Mr. Mitchinson suddenly collapsed and began to convulse.

Google’s pen Source Android S Will Free the Wireless Web
Wired News – Jun 23, 2008
Google had dispatched him to Germany to meet with a small group of local mobile programmers. The morning of his talk Morrill dresses in his usual uniform an untucked button-down over a silk-screened T-shirt this one with the image of a friendly green robot the Android icon. He walks into the conference room of the Innside Hotel and stops. There are almost 200 people more than twice what he expected. A dozen developers are sitting on the floor in the back of the room computers propped on their knees. There are hobbyists chief technical officers indie programmers and students. Morrill runs through his prepared remarks then starts taking questions… In London registration for the developer’s conference filled up in two hours. Fanboys were putting up sites for the platform: AndroidGuys Phandroid Planet Android. In Thailand the government carved out an entire floor of Software Park — a federally funded business incubator housed in a skyscraper north of Bangkok — for Android development work. In Japan quickie books on Android programming were appearing in major bookstores. In Chennai India attendees at a Nokia developer conference compared notes on Android’s coding kit during the presentations. As soon as programmers started playing with the emulator they saw how big Google’s ambitions were. The company was trying to make programming for a cell phone analogous to programming for a PC or the Web.

- DAWN – RSS Feeds; June 23 2008
Pakistan Dawn – Jun 23, 2008
About 100 military and police raided a village in Yala province suspected of harbouring militants fighting for a separate state. A group of rebels shot at the authorities who returned fire killing two of them. The rest fled the scene but the security forces tracked some of them down and killed another four suspects while five police officers were wounded in the clash. Also Monday two men on a motorcycle shot dead a 37-year-old Muslim woman in Yala while in nearby Pattani province a rubber vendor was killed in a similar attack local authorities said… Wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team from Quaid-i-Azam Internatonal airport was escorted to the team hotel in tight security. (Posted @ 10:00 PST).

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