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JapanNews

Ozawa re-elected to third term as DPJ leader without contest

Ichiro Ozawa, leader of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), was re-elected Monday to a third term without a contest, and has vowed to take over the reins of government.

Japanese movies miss out on top prize at Venice Film Festival

VENICE -- Hayao Miyazaki's animated fantasy film "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" and two other Japanese films failed to win the Golden Lion award at the 65th Venice International Film Festival, but each of them picked up at least one prize in other competition awards.

IndustryNews

Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims

Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in...

CSS explained

If you've ever used a word processor such as Microsoft Word, you'll be familiar with what CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) can do. Basically, CSS allows web designers to define graphical elements within a web page. We can define a font type or a font colour but CSS can also do much more than this.

 

Imagine, for example, we wanted to have a box on our web page with a nice looking border and some text inside with 10 pixels of padding between the border and the text - something that might look like a restaurant menu, for example. All of this is a cinch with CSS.

 

For a more thorough overview of CSS, visit the wonderful CSS Zen Garden.

 

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