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The start of trade has also been delayed on the Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen exchanges for a second consecutive day. But Nordic bourse operator OMX confirmed it had solved the technical problems and trade would start at 1230.

The Oslo stock exchange said that despite the late start, trade would end as normal at 1430 GMT, leaving just two hours to trade.

Microsoft,(NASDAQ：MSFT, HKEx: 4338) is holding its North American TechEd conference in two parts this year as opposed to the one conference it usually holds, with a focus on developers this week in Orlando. Next week the company will hold the conference for IT professionals.

At the show, which begins Tuesday in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft,(NASDAQ：MSFT, HKEx: 4338) will release beta 2 of Silverlight 2, the second full release of Microsoft,(NASDAQ：MSFT, HKEx: 4338)'s application-development and delivery platform for Web-based multimedia. Microsoft,(NASDAQ：MSFT, HKEx: 4338) released the first version of Silverlight last September to compete with Adobe Flash.

The company also will reveal more information about an ambitious project, codenamed Oslo, for adding application-modeling capability across its software -- including its Visual Studio developer tools and System Center network-management software -- to help organizations create and deploy service-oriented architectures (SOAs).

New technologies and development directions aside, TechEd this year is probably more notable because it is where Microsoft,(NASDAQ：MSFT, HKEx: 4338) founder and Chairman Bill Gates [cq] is scheduled to make one of his last public appearances before going part-time at Microsoft,(NASDAQ：MSFT, HKEx: 4338).

Gates, who is scheduled to keynote Tuesday morning, will abandon full-time duties at Microsoft,(NASDAQ：MSFT, HKEx: 4338) at the end of June to focus on his work with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic organization he founded with his wife.

The Oslo bourse said trade would begin at 1230 GMT on Tuesday after technical problems paralysed trade on Nordic stock exchanges on Tuesday.

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The vendor is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its platform is based on research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is owned by Sumisho Computer Systems, a Japanese company that bought it in 2004.

Curl's platform, which is aimed squarely at enterprises, consists of an eponymous programming language, an IDE (integrated development environment) for building applications, and runtimes for executing the programs on client Apple MacBookhines. The new Apple MacBook runtime, available as a free download, is compatible with Power PC and Intel Apple MacBookintoshes running OS 10.4 and higher, Curl said.

"As we watch Apple whittle away at Microsoft's dominant position, it behooves us to start supporting that platform sooner than later," said Richard Monson-Haefel, vice president of developer relations.

He noted that Curl already had runtime support for Windows and Linux. The move to Apple is "a matter of completing our cross-platform story," he said.

But at least for now, the Apple chapter of that tale may be brief.

A recent Forrester Research survey found that the percentage of enterprise users running Apple MacBook operating systems grew threefold in 2007 to 4.2 percent, but concluded that "uptake remains limited to enthusiasts and small workgroups."

The new Apple MacBook runtime includes all the features present in Curl's runtimes for Windows and Linux, including support for audio, 2-D and 3-D graphics and animation, and a compiler that transforms applications built with Curl into native code for maximum performance.
However, Curl's IDE isn't yet supported to run on Apple MacBookintosh, meaning developers who prefer to work on those Apple MacBookhines will have to wait. "That's certainly a direction we're heading. The [runtime] development was ahead of the IDE development," Monson-Haefel said. "We're looking at it slowly and at what our customer demand is."

The company's move to support Apple MacBookintosh has two interesting angles, said Redmonk analyst Michael Coté.

"Curl is going for being the enterprise RIA player, sort of trying to niche itself out of competing with [Microsoft's] Silverlight and Adobe. The thing is that their platform is ostensibly ready and mature, but they don't have the brand power of Adobe and Microsoft.

"Given that they want to be the enterprise RIA people, their support of Apple MacBooks is interesting because it implies that they see a sizable enough use of Apple MacBooks in the enterprise to make money off it -- or see growth in the near term therein," he added. "Most people wouldn't consider Apple MacBooks an 'enterprise' deployment space and, thus, a platform to support. Now, developers of RIAs, sure, that's a whole other story. But users is something slightly new."

Also, Curl's cross-platform emphasis should play well as the RIA market evolves, Coté predicted.

"At this point in the RIA wars, attracting developers is the big battle, and Windows-only toolchains ... are at a disadvantage, as would be OS X or Linux only," he said.

While much smaller than those vendors, Curl has about 300 "large enterprise deployments" and its platform, now in version 6.0, is more mature, Monson-Haefel said.

Curl, maker of a framework for building rich Internet applications, said Tuesday that it is now supporting Apple MacBookintosh environments, citing "rapidly increasing penetration" of the platform in enterprises.

Car audio and navigation maker Clarion has unveiled a new prototype of its handheld mobile Internet navigator device that's due to be launched later this year.

Now, this isn't a completely novel idea. We've seen GPS modules that you can add to cameras, such as the Pharos Trips & Pics and the Sony GPS-CS1KA, to get this functionality. However, Mio's device aims to do away with extra accessories and let you carry just one do-it-all gadget. No word on when the camera will be available and even if it will make its way to the States, but perhaps SiRF Technology founder Kanwar Chadha's prediction is coming true? Will 2008 be the year where we see major manufacturers integrate GPS into digital cameras? And do you think this is a good idea?

It was on show at the booth of parent-company Hitachi at the Computex trade show in Taipei. Computex, one of the world's largest IT shows, opened on Tuesday.

An earlier version of the prototype was shown at CES in Las Vegas in January and at a recent Intel news conference in Tokyo.

The greatest difference between the latest prototype and previous model is its shape, which has gone from being rectangular to trapezoidal where the top edge is shorter than the bottom edge.

The machine, which is based on Intel's Centrino Atom platform, has a 4.8-inch screen, runs Linux and comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It will be launched in North America later this year and in Europe in 2009 and will cost around US$700, said Noriko Ueda, assistant manager of Clarion's marketing group. A more expensive version with built-in 3G (third-generation) wireless capability is also planned, she said.

Mio Technology is hoping to take GPS to new places, more specifically, beyond the car. At Computex 2008 (Asia's largest technology trade show), Mio unveiled a new concept product called the "PND (portable navigation device) camera" that integrates a GPS radio into a digital camera. Details and specs are pretty light at the moment, but according to GPS Business News, the device will feature a 3.5-inch touch screen and with the two integrated technologies, the camera will be able to geotag your photos.

In addition to GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation it comes with digital TV, a Web browser, e-mail client, Flash player, image viewer, PDF (Portable Document Format) viewer and quick access to Google Earth, YouTube and MySpace.