| Dragoman Overland Offer Unique Family Adventure Tour in India
Dragoman Overland are the first company to offer truck based family adventure travel, and following the success of their African packages, India is the next country to get the family adventure treatment! The brand new 10-night family adventure tour in India is expected to sell like hot chapattis, with camel and elephant rides, tiger safaris and a visit to the Taj Mahal just a small selection of the package's varied inventory. The tour departs Delhi 17th October or alternatively a Christmas departure (21st December) is available. For more details of the tour, please visit http://www.dragoman.com/destinations/tripdetails.php?cat=FIN (PRWeb) April 12, 2007 -- Families searching for varied adventure travel in India should certainly consider Dragoman Overland's brand new family adventure travel package to India this October half term.
African chimp gives birth to female baby
Bogor, West Java (ANTARA News) - An African chimpanzee gave birth to a female baby at the primate center in the Taman Safari Indonesia (TSI) parl in Cisarua subdistrict, Bogor district, recently, a spokesperson said. Wiki, the chimpanzee (20), gave birth to Windi, and Kobi (15) was the father of the newly-born, TSI spokesperson Nur Syamsiah said here Monday. Wiki gave birth to the baby on March 29 after a pregnancy of 236 days. The newly-born brought the number of chimpanzees born in the conservation institution to 8, Nur said. A member of the endangered species could live for about 40 years in their natural habitat, and 60 years in conservation area. The weight of a female chimpanzee ranges from 25 kg to 50 kg, and a male chimpanzee from 38 kg to 70 kg. The Taman Safari, or Indonesian Safari Park, is a drive-through game park built for animals in an environment as closely as possible to their natural habitat.
Microsoft Introduces Silverlight Plug-In at NAB
On Monday, Microsoft introduced video professionals attending the NAB conference Silverlight, a Mac and PC-compatible web browser plug-in similar to Adobe's Flash paired with what the company considered video streaming superior to Apple's QuickTime. The program, which is currently available as a public beta (or "technology preview"), is available for download with a general release planned later this month according to Macworld News. Previously known as WPF/E, Silverlight is designed around vector-based graphics, text, animation, media and overlays while using existing back-end web and infrastructure tools such as Apache, PHP, JavaScript and XHTML. On the Mac end, Microsoft has stated that the plug-in works with both Firefox and Safari while on the Windows end the plug-in is designed around Internet Explorer 7.
MS aims at iPhone-like browsing
Microsoft today issued a response to the iPhone's mobile version of Safari with Deepfish, the codename for a new technology designed for Windows Mobile 5 or 6 smartphones to provide a more desktop-like web browser experience. The software automatically creates a complete image of a website, preserving the formatting intended by its creator; instead of using a touchscreen, however, the Microsoft-developed component uses the joystick or keypad to guide a selection box over an area to zoom in for a closer view of an image or text. Pressing the select button on the phone again lets the user switch between dynamic elements such as hyperlinks and text forms. Deepfish is currently available for free only on a first-come, first-serve limited public beta, Microsoft says: when an unspecified limit is reached, downloads of the test version will stop for the foreseeable future.
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