CNETAnalysis: Call it the week of Windows 8 : Microsoft wasted no time luring developers at its Build 2012 conference in Seattle Tuesday towards the new OS, which was officially released last Friday. Among the showcasing going on, the Softies have focused on W8 apps for the Windows Store, including ones for PayPal, ESPN and Dropbox. Microsoft also revealed that four million people have made the switch to Windows 8 since the OS was made available Oct. 26, a number that’s sure to peak developers’ interest. The company did not, however, make mention of Surface tablet sales. What the apps are all about Dropbox’s new app “offers cloud based storage and synchronization service for photos, documents and videos on Windows 8,” Microsoft wrote in an official blog post. Look for it in the Windows Store soon. With the ESPN app, news, scores and videos are all aggregated, plus ESPN The Magazine, podcasts and photo galleries all make the cut. For sports-specific fans, W8 lets users pin whatever sport they choose and their favorite teams to their Start screens, too. With PayPal, the Windows 8 API lets devs use the service within any Windows Store app to actually get paid. Twitter, Microsoft also announced in its blog post, is also working on a Windows 8 app, a tidbit the social network later confirmed with a tweet. That app won’t see the light of day for a few months, however.
CNews Karachi. July 05: A Pakistani Scientist in Britain has invented a new chemical for processing plastic (polythene) bags which has the quality of dissolution after its use in 105 days.A manufacturing unit for these plastic bags was being set up in Turkey while interest has been shown in the setting up of a big unit and manufacturing firm’s head quarter in Karachi which will be used to supply such dissolvable polythene bags to Asian countries. The Director of UK based firm Bio Plast Biodegradable Plastics GL Punn while leading a 15 member delegation called on EDO Municipal Services City Government Masood Alam. The Executive Director of Bio Plast Pakistan Muhammad Hanif Awan and M. Sultan Mehmood Awan was also present on this occasion. The Director of Bio Plast informed the EDO Municipal Services about the characteristics of new chemical. He said that the firm was going to set up its first plant in Turkey which will be operative in next two months. The delegation also praised the vi