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Cult of Mac | Apple News, Reviews and How Tos. Computers. CodeIgniter From Scratch: Day 1. 9 Free And Open Source Bug Tracking Softwares. A web application or a software development process always has bugs which is very normal in a hundreds of lines of code. The important part is tracking & fixing them. Whether you are a one-person-army or have teammates, it is a big time-saver to use a bug tracking software.

Besides having the bugs listed in a comprehensive way, most bug/issue tracking applications let end-users to submit bug-feature requests that will end up in a better product. Here are 9 free & open source bug tracking softwares, both desktop & web-based, for a better development process: WebIssues WebIssues is an open source issue tracking & team collaboration application that has 2 parts: The server: a PHP-MySQL based server where the data is stored, notifications are sentThe client: a desktop application for users to connect to the server (Windows & Linux supported) A permission-based user system enables the ability of "multiple users working on different projects". Issue types are flexible & customizable. eTraxis Bugzilla. Programming. PHP/MySQL. Net neutrality clone. Cloud Computing for dummies. New Media Business Models. Visual Thinking. Psychology.

Why the Web Is Useless in Developing Countries - And How to Fix It. Like many who study the struggles of developing countries, Steve Bratt has done the math on the potential of mobile phones. The United Nation's International Telecommunication Union estimated that at the end of 2010 there were 5.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide and that a full 90% of the world population now has access to a mobile network. In contrast, only about 2 billion people have Internet access. The high prevalence of mobile phones (even in developing countries, penetration rates were expected to reach 68% by the end of 2010) has led many non-profits to choose mobile networks as tools for positive change.

Mobile banking in Kenya has helped farmers increase their incomes, 300,000 people in Bangladesh signed up to learn English through their phones, and many consider mobile phones the key to developing nations. The problem is that for a person in a developing country, the current Internet is nearly useless. Why the Developing World Needs the Internet. WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices | Business. The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show. The cables, released by WikiLeaks, urge Washington to take seriously a warning from a senior Saudi government oil executive that the kingdom's crude oil reserves may have been overstated by as much as 300bn barrels – nearly 40%.

The revelation comes as the oil price has soared in recent weeks to more than $100 a barrel on global demand and tensions in the Middle East. Many analysts expect that the Saudis and their Opec cartel partners would pump more oil if rising prices threatened to choke off demand. However, Sadad al-Husseini, a geologist and former head of exploration at the Saudi oil monopoly Aramco, met the US consul general in Riyadh in November 2007 and told the US diplomat that Aramco's 12.5m barrel-a-day capacity needed to keep a lid on prices could not be reached.

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WikiLeaks: al-Qaeda 'is planning a dirty bomb' As well as causing a large explosion, a "dirty bomb" attack would contaminate the area for many years. The briefings also state that al-Qaeda documents found in Afghanistan in 2007 revealed that "greater advances" had been made in bio-terrorism than was previously realised. An Indian national security adviser told American security personnel in June 2008 that terrorists had made a "manifest attempt to get fissile material" and "have the technical competence to manufacture an explosive device beyond a mere dirty bomb". Alerts about the smuggling of nuclear material, sent to Washington from foreign US embassies, document how criminal and terrorist gangs were trafficking large amounts of highly radioactive material across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The alerts explain how customs guards at remote border crossings used radiation alarms to identify and seize cargoes of uranium and plutonium.

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