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Other news this morning, President Bush, as we mentioned, in Afghanistan for the first time. He's there right now. It's his first visit to a war zone since spending Thanksgiving in Iraq back in After a short visit in Afghanistan, the president is going to fly to New Delhi in India. And that is where we find White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux.
Hey, Suzanne, good morning to you. Of course it was widely expected, but still a surprise, nevertheless. We got details only after the president landed on the ground. But make no mistake, this is a very critical time for both leaders. For Afghan President Hamid Karzai, he has seen security deteriorate in his country over the last year or so.
And for President Bush, of course he wants to express solidarity and support. At the same time, pull U. Now both leaders were asked a number of questions, but of course this is on the ground where al Qaeda used to operate quite confidently before September It's where the Taliban fell.
It's also where President Bush got the question why is it the U. What's happening is is that we've got U. His first stop, of course, New Delhi, where he's going to be meeting with the Prime Minister Singh to talk about nuclear energy, a partnership they're hoping with India to establish.
The very controversial proposal, however, may not actually be worked out during this trip. Both leaders saying that perhaps that will happen later on down the road. Should also let you know, Soledad, that already protesters are coming out in New Delhi, tens of thousands, some chanting death to Bush, waiting for his arrival.
Now this is a country that is fairly friendly to this administration when you take a look at the polls, perhaps a greater approval than the United States. But it also has a very large Muslim population, a population that clearly does not like this president or his policies -- Soledad.
Suzanne Malveaux in New Delhi for us this morning. Suzanne, thanks. And, obviously, we'll continue to check in with Suzanne throughout the morning. Developing story to get to out of Baghdad this morning, a massive car bomb tore through a crowd near a theater there, at least 23 people are dead, many more are injured.
Let's get right to Arwa Damon. She joins us live from Baghdad this morning. What's happening now? As you say, the most recent attack happening in the neighborhood of New Baghdad, in eastern Baghdad. At least 23 people killed and 58 wounded in that attack, that car bomb that went off close to a movie theater there. Now this street that the incident happened on is kind of the heart of the New Baghdad neighborhood.
It's the main drag. It's always crowded. There are street vendors, shops, cafes, movie theaters, mosques, the kind of places that most people in the rest of the world wouldn't really think about going to twice. But here in Baghdad, we have, once again, an example of just how dangerous and challenging it can be for Iraqis to go about their daily lives.
Now also bearing in mind that this is the second time in 24 hours that that main drag has been targeted. Earlier in the day, an IED detonated close to a bus station in central Baghdad. Three Iraqis were killed and seven were wounded in that attack. And since the bombing of the Al-Askariya Mosque a week ago, in the capital alone, at least Iraqis have been killed in a variety of attacks.
Now that number is likely to be higher, given that there are a number of incidences that are not always reported to the authorities. And given the violence over the last few days, pretty much any notion that the situation in Iraq is under control is pretty much dissolved -- Soledad.
And those pictures behind you that we're showing at the same time, Arwa, really, I think, reinforce that as well. Arwa Damon has our update for us from Baghdad this morning, thank you. The Saddam Hussein trial taken a new, probably more serious, tone. Today more hard evidence is being introduced that prosecutors say will link Saddam Hussein directly to murders in Let's get right to Aneesh Raman.
He's live for us on the phone from Baghdad. Hey, Aneesh, good morning. As you mentioned, a new tone to the courtroom. It is much more somber. The defendants, especially Saddam Hussein, have been quiet in court, interrupting, in rare instances, the judge as these proceedings go forward.
A number of documents being presented by the prosecution, death sentences, execution orders, some signed by Saddam Hussein himself. Another document deciding what to do in terms of the execution of a number of 12 to 17 year olds who the government, Saddam's government, believed were involved in the failed assassination attempt on the leader in July Now because of these documents, and because of the fact that they very directly link these defendants to the crimes at hand, we have seen, as I said, a much more somber tone.
All defendants have their own lawyers in court. The chief lawyer for Saddam Hussein, who walked out after 10 minutes yesterday, has not returned.
Currently, we are in a lunch recess. Microsoft made some bold moves to ensure they had a position within the new online world. Through both acquisition and invention, Microsoft has over the last 10 years positioned themselves as one of the most popular online consumer platforms.
They have a well defined revenue stream and they have stickiness to them. The stickiness comes from the connections that you make using the products:. In recent years this form of stickiness has become commonly known as a social networking application. Once a user has committed energy into a platform they are likely to stick around, unless they find something far superior or their current investments starts to cost too much. This can happen if the provider creates a pain real or hyped for the user.
You can probably imagine the thought process behind trying to leverage this high value brand into the online world. Something else was also stirring underneath the exterior consumer products. Developers were getting more than curious about how to plug into the value being provided to the users through the products.
Hacks for Messenger and Spaces were already emerging on blogs and forums and the APIs involved in creating these were about to be exposed. With the brand shift to Windows Live came an attitude shift to developers on the newly branded Windows Live products. While developers were not entirely embraced, they were starting to be supported in some form.
This was certainly not something that happened over night, there are still APIs that are wished for but not available, but the surface area that you can program against has been increasing steadily over the last few years.
You are probably wondering what impact this has on you as a developer. In the same way that Windows changed the way developers wrote software for PCs, the new cloud services are changing the way that developers can write code for their online applications.
The opportunities to place your application in the hands of the millions of users that already have a commitment to the Windows Live products are numerous and potentially very rewarding.
To make your life more interesting, the world of online users that utilize the Windows Live products is incredibly diverse and segmented. If you want to create a Web site for rock climbers that live in Manhattan you can be fairly certain that large percentage of them will have a Live ID the standard Windows Live authentication to log in to a Hotmail, Messenger, or Spaces account. Letting a user log in to your site with their existing credentials does several things:. Several technologies have emerged to enhance the users experience when working in a browser: smarter use of JavaScript in manipulating components of a Web page, which has been brought about by a wide adoption of standards across the browsers, AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML enables parts of a Web page to refresh without the whole page refreshing, and browser plugins such as Flash and now Silverlight.
Building a RIA is not as simple as it may appear. Web sites are no longer online brochures with text and pretty pictures formatted and laid out in a way that pleases the eye. Until then, no new listings can be posted or extended, and no new accounts can be created. Microsoft representatives responded on Friday with a statement from the company: "We have learned a tremendous amount from our experience with Windows Live Expo and believe this decision, while a hard one, will serve to more effectively focus our resources towards other priority online service investments for our customers.
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