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England spinner Danny Briggs has been ruled out for the rest of their winter tour with a sprained ankle.

The Hampshire left-armer, 21, suffered the injury during a fitness session.

He will miss Sunday's fifth and final one-day international against India - the hosts lead the series 3-1 - as well as the Twenty20 series in New Zealand.

Yorkshire batsman and part-time spin bowler Joe Root will replace him in the squad to face New Zealand, the England and Wales Cricket Board has confirmed.

4 & 6 February: T20 warm-ups v New Zealand XI (Whangarei) 9, 12 & 15 February: T20 internationals (Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington) 17, 20 & 23 February: ODIs (Hamilton, Napier, Auckland) 27 Feb-2 March: Warm-up v New Zealand XI (Queenstown) 6-10 March: 1st Test (Dunedin) 14-18 March: 2nd Test (Wellington) 22-26 March: 3rd Test (Auckland) Briggs was the only member of the one-day squad not to have played a single match during the India tour, but had been in contention to feature on Sunday.

He will also miss the England Lions' tour of Australia next month.

Root's promotion means he will be part of all three England squads for the New Zealand tour, which starts on 9 February in Auckland with the first of three Twenty20 matches.

The 22-year-old was named in the Test squad ahead of Eoin Morgan and Samit Patel on Thursday, as well as being a late addition to the one-day group.

An England and Wales Cricket Board spokesman said: "Danny Briggs has been ruled out of the current one-day series, the New Zealand Twenty20s and the Lions tour with a right ankle sprain sustained during a fitness session.

"Joe Root will replace Briggs in the Twenty20 squad in New Zealand."

England Twenty20 squad for New Zealand (updated): Stuart Broad (captain), Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Michael Lumb, Stuart Meaker, Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, Joe Root, James Tredwell, Chris Woakes, Luke Wright.

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Fifth one-day international, Dharamsala

England 227-3 (47.2 overs) beat India 226 (49.4 overs) by seven wickets

Ian Bell struck an unbeaten 113 as England sealed a seven-wicket victory in the final one-day international, India winning the series 3-2.

In the first international played at Dharamsala, Tim Bresnan (4-45) twice struck in successive balls as India were 226 all out having been put in.

Suresh Raina (83), dropped on five and 61, made his fourth consecutive fifty.

But Bell shared in three 50 stands and hit his first overseas ODI hundred as England won with 16 balls remaining.

The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association stadium, India's 43rd one-day international venue, provided a stunning spectacle, nestling in the snow capped foothills of the western Himalayas.

"Dharamsala proved to be very generous hosts as they provided England with a seaming wicket that they were only too happy to exploit. Tim Bresnan's elbow injury didn't prevent him taking four wickets, but Steven Finn and James Tredwell were again the pick of the bowlers.

"Ian Bell rode his luck in the opening overs but a perfectly paced century consolidated his spot at the top of the order, and Eoin Morgan also finished the series in style with a run-a-ball 40. England can draw positives from the series, but weaknesses remain when confronted with more typical Indian conditions."

Cold early morning conditions proved more to England's liking when Alastair Cook won the toss for the first time since the opening match, which the tourists won by nine runs.

The entire playing area was covered in snow less than three weeks ago and despite the continuing early chill in the air Bresnan found some noticeable away swing which produced two slip catches as the Indian batsmen were exposed by the moving ball, as if at Trent Bridge in May.

Rohit Sharma was sharply taken to his right by James Tredwell and after a near replica edge next up, Virat Kohli was pouched at the fourth attempt by the spinner, with Cook poised underneath, like a midwife at a birthing pool, for any spillage.

Steven Finn maintained the pressure by squaring up the dangerous Yuvraj Singh, the leading edge drifting in the high altitude to backward point to dismiss the left-hander for a duck.

Tredwell was in the action again in the 10th over when he clutched Raina's edge off Chris Woakes in his left hand as he dived full length at second slip but the ball escaped from his grasp.

Woakes, brought in for the errant Jade Dernbach, was soon hit for three fours in an over by the pugnacious Raina but a quirk in the laws led to England's next success.

Dharamsala became international cricket's newest venue on Sunday

The umpires deemed that Bresnan had been off the field too long to be able to bowl immediately so Cook turned to Tredwell, who struck with his second ball as Gautam Gambhir (24) cut lazily and Bell held a smart low catch to his left to bring India skipper Mahendra Dhoni to the crease in the 13th over.

Finn was brought back in a bid to make a breakthrough and he did so in the second over of his new spell when Dhoni was trapped on the crease lbw for 15.

India needed a partnership and it was provided by Raina and Ravi Jadeja, who recorded the fifty stand from 76 balls by dispatching Joe Root down the ground and into the upper tier.

Raina was reprieved again when Cook fumbled at backward square-leg off Tredwell, but in his next over the redoubtable Kent spinner collected his 11th wicket of the series when Jadeja's agricultural swipe at a turning ball looped gently to backward point.

England claimed the important scalp of Raina in the 42nd over when the left-hander was deceived by a slower ball from Woakes to give Bell his third catch of the innings, though Samit Patel conceded 12 and 15 in separate overs as 49 were mustered from the final eight.

Bresnan, left out of the tour to New Zealand to rest an elbow problem, ended the innings in the final over with India some distance short of what was considered a par total.

2013: India 3-2 England 2011: India 5-0 England 2008: India 5-0 England 2005-06: India 5-1 England 2001-02: India 3-3 England Cook and Bell were determined not to suffer the same fate as the Indian top order and overcame some fortuitous early edges with calm assurance as the 50 arrived in the 11th over.

When Ishant Sharma nipped one to breach Cook's defences, England seemed content to keep wickets in hand, although Kevin Pietersen could not resist a short ball and Jadeja took an excellent running catch on the boundary.

Jadeja, India's leading wicket-taker in the series, was not introduced until the 27th over, at which point England looked in command.

But the purposeful Root, yet to make fewer than 30 in his short ODI career, had an uncharacteristic rush of blood with 84 still needed when he made no contact with a pull shot at a turning delivery from Jadeja and was bowled.

However, Morgan, who had made only 13 in his previous three innings, launched Ashwin down the ground for six to record the fifty stand in his 40 from as many balls, leaving the adroit Bell, the only centurion in the series, to hit the winning run.

England next travel to New Zealand, where they play three Twenty20 internationals, three one-day internationals and three Tests beginning early next month.

We are using archive pictures for this series because several photo agencies, including Getty Images, have been barred from the ground following a dispute with the Board of Control for Cricket in India, while other agencies have withdrawn their photographers in protest.

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Captain Alastair Cook said lessons were learned from England's 3-2 one-day international series defeat in India.

Having lost three matches in succession, England finished the tour with a seven-wicket win in Dharamsala.

"It's disappointing in a couple of those games we didn't play as well as we could have done but we've learned a lot about certain players," Cook said.

"When we played well we showed we're a match for anyone and to win twice out here, we can be quite proud of that."

The five-match series was England's first under new one-day coach Ashley Giles and their first opportunity to play under the new ODI rules, which dispense with the bowling powerplay and allow a maximum of four fielders outside the 30-yard circle during non powerplay overs.

S Raina (Ind) 92 (4 inns) R Jadeja (Ind) 64 (4 inns) I Bell (Eng) 58 (5 inns) J Root (Eng) 54 (4 inns) Ian Bell, who made 85 in the first match and an unbeaten 113 in the closing victory, finished as England's leading runscorer with 234 runs at an average of 58, while Kent spinner James Tredwell, in for the rested Graeme Swann on the trip, was the top wicket-taker with 11 at a cost of 18 apiece.

"We've all learned a lot from this tour," Cook said in Dharamsala. "It's the first time with the new regulations and my stand-out performance was the way Tredders [Tredwell] bowled today, he's been fantastic all tour he just gets on with his job and it's great to have such strength in depth in that department."

England were dismissed for 155 and 158 during the series but finished with a win after bowling out their hosts for the first time in the five matches and reaching their target of 227 with 16 balls to spare.

"I thought the way we learnt throughout this tour showed quite nicely in that game," Cook added.

"We bowled a bit better, yes conditions were a bit more in our favour, but we used that and put the ball in a lot of challenging areas and when you get the opposition 50-4 you put yourselves in a very strong place.

J Tredwell (Eng) 11 (5 inns) R Jadeja (Ind) 9 (5 inns) T Bresnan (Eng) 7 (4 inns) S Finn (Eng) 7 (5 inns) R Ashwin (Ind) 7 (5 inns) "When we got Dhoni out as well we were right on top, and we knew chasing 220 with these new regulations, if we had wickets in hand towards the end, we should get there. I thought the way Ian Bell played was fantastic.

"It's disappointing in a couple of those games we didn't play as well as we could have done and that's slightly frustrating but with a young squad we've learned a lot about certain players, Joe Root has come in and done very well, Steven Finn has done very well as well so we've learned a lot and the relationship with Gilo has gone nicely."

Bell who passed 4,000 ODI runs and recorded his third century - the other two both at Southampton - was named man-of-the-match and said: "Our bowlers set the tone and 220 was a nice target to go after. Throughout my one-day career I seem to have got good starts and not gone on so to be not out at the end of the game is a massive step forward.

"We came here to win the series but there are some good things we can take from it."

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England batting coach Graham Gooch is relinquishing his one-day duties to focus on the Test side.

Graham Thorpe will take over as batting coach of the one-day team for the forthcoming New Zealand tour.

“Graham will be focusing his attention on working one on one with our Test players”

Hugh Morris ECB managing director It comes after Ashley Giles took control of the one-day and Twenty20 squads from team director Andy Flower.

"Graham Gooch is going to focus now on Test cricket," said England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) managing director Hugh Morris.

Morris added: "We would like to focus on that area of the game. We've got back-to-back Ashes series coming up and a five-Test series against India in 2014.

"That's an enormous amount of very high-profile Test cricket and Graham will be focusing his attention on working one on one with our Test players."

The new rotation approach has been adopted to bring more balance to the coaches' workloads, especially with a growing international cricket programme.

A similar tactic has been adopted with frontline players - James Anderson, Graeme Swann and Jonathan Trott have not been involved in the current ODI series, for example.

4 & 6 February: T20 warm-ups v New Zealand XI (Whangarei) 9, 12 & 15 February: T20 internationals (Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington) 17, 20 & 23 February: ODIs (Hamilton, Napier, Auckland) 27 Feb-2 March: Warm-up v New Zealand XI (Queenstown) 6-10 March: 1st Test (Dunedin) 14-18 March: 2nd Test (Wellington) 22-26 March: 3rd Test (Auckland) Morris said Thorpe was ready to step into the role vacated by Gooch: "Graham Thorpe, who has been working with the performances programme and the Lions, will be going as the one-day coach to New Zealand.

"(Thorpe's role) is for this tour initially and then we'll assess the situation at the end of that.

"We're very fortunate to have two (batting coaches) who've played 100 Test matches for England.

"Graham Thorpe is a very experienced one-day cricketer and Graham will have worked with a lot of the players who are going to New Zealand.

"He's made a really good impression as a batting coach and he's really looking forward to it."

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The Women's World Cup has been running since 1973 - longer than the men's event, which did not start until 1975.

For the 10th edition of the tournament - and the third hosted by India - which starts on 31 January, the format is unchanged from the 2009 event, with eight teams divided into two groups of four.

Each team plays the other three teams in its group once on a round-robin format, with the top three teams in each group qualifying for the Super Six phase.

In the Super Six, each team plays three games against the qualifiers from the other group, while carrying through their results against the other qualifiers from their original group.

There are no semi-finals - the first and second-placed Super Six teams progress straight to the final on 17 February, while there are also play-offs for third/fourth, fifth/sixth and seventh/eighth place.

Here is the lowdown on the eight competing teams, their tournament history, prospects for the competition and the players to keep an eye on.

Tournament history: Winners in 1973, 1993 and 2009, having been runners-up on three successive occasions in 1978, 1982 and 1988.

Last time out: Winners. Easily won their first five games, only losing one game to Australia when their place in the final was already secured, and beat New Zealand in the final.

Recent ODI form: Came from 2-0 down to beat India 3-2 in their last 50-over series, in July 2012.

Colvin was one of the leading wicket-takers at last year's World Twenty20

Did you know? Captain Charlotte Edwards is the most-capped player in women's one-day internationals, with 160 appearances including 86 as captain. However, she is 15 short of the all-time women's ODI captaincy record, held by Australia legend Belinda Clark.

Player to watch: While wicketkeeper/batter Sarah Taylor has taken the headlines after it emerged she could play men's county second XI cricket this summer, her Sussex team-mate Holly Colvin has also been invited to train with the men's second team. Still only 23, the left-arm spinner has played an increasingly important role in the England attack and was one of the leading wicket-takers at the World Twenty20. Having hit the winning run in the 2009 World Cup final, she has also shown steady improvement with the bat, when called upon.

Verdict: Led well by captain Edwards and coach Mark Lane, they have one of the most exciting talents in world cricket in Sarah Taylor, while Lydia Greenway is the star of a slick fielding unit. The spinners will have a key role to play, while pace bowler Katherine Brunt is a wicket-taking threat with the new ball. The cup holders will settle for nothing less than retaining the trophy they won in Sydney four years ago - though Australia may stand in their way again.

Tournament history: Their best finish was as runners-up to Australia in 2005.

Last time out: Third. Their only defeats were by finalists England and New Zealand, and two wins over Australia ensured they pipped the Southern Stars to third place.

Recent ODI form: Lost 3-2 to England, having led 2-0, in their last ODIs in July 2012.

Raut made her international debut against West Indies during the last World Cup in 2009

Did you know? Wicketkeeper Karu Jain from Bangalore is back in the India squad after more than four years in the international wilderness - having played the last of her 37 ODIs against England in September 2008.

Player to watch: With India's fortunes often relying on captain Mithali Raj to lead from the front with the bat, opener Poonam Raut has a key role to play in taking some pressure off the skipper in getting runs on the board.

Verdict: Tournament hosts for the third time, a Super Six place should be the minimum India will expect. Should be comfortable playing on home soil, but will still face an uphill struggle to make the final ahead of England, Australia and New Zealand.

Tournament history: Finished fifth in 2005 and 2009, their best performances in the 50-over format.

Last time out: Fifth. Beat South Africa in the 2009 group stage, lost all their Super Six games but beat Pakistan to fifth spot.

Recent ODI form: Came back from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with South Africa on home soil in January.

Taylor has won two International Cricket Council cricketer of the year awards

Did you know? Barbados wicketkeeper Kycia Knight has recently been joined in the Windies squad by her twin sister Kyshona. Team-mate Anisa Mohammed also has a cricketing twin sister, Alisa, who has played for Trinidad & Tobago but has not yet received an international call-up.

Player to watch: Opener Stafanie Taylor has been the ICC's reigning women's ODI cricketer of the year for the last two years, setting the tone with some powerful hitting at the top of the order and providing a good platform for Deandra Dottin and skipper Merissa Aguilleira.

Verdict: Qualification for the Super Six should not be a problem for West Indies, but their further progress may depend on whether they can get their hard-hitting batting line-up to fire on a consistent basis as the tournament goes on.

Tournament history: Quarter-finalists in 1997, their best finish was sixth in 2000.

Last time out: Eighth. Picked up the wooden spoon in 2009, losing all three group games and the seventh-place play-off to South Africa.

Recent ODI form: Their last ODI series was way back in April 2012, losing 2-1 to West Indies in the Caribbean.

Siriwardene has captained Sri Lanka in 34 of her 61 one-day internationals

Did you know? All-rounder and former captain Chamani Seneviratna is Sri Lanka's most-capped player in one-day internationals, having played 67 games since her debut in 1997, a few days after her 19th birthday.

Player to watch: Captain Shashikala Siriwardene, who made her international debut just under a decade ago, has a key role to play, both in the middle order and as a front-line off-spinner.

Verdict: Will be Group A's outsiders, but if they can cause a shock against West Indies - as they did with a Duckworth-Lewis success at the World Twenty20 - then they could sneak into the Super Six.

Tournament history: The most successful side in World Cup history - winners in 1978, 1982, 1988, 1997 and 2005, and runners-up in 1973 and 2000.

Last time out: Fourth. As hosts, won two of their 2009 group games and were the only team to beat eventual winners England (in the Super Six) but lost to India twice, including the play-off for third place.

Recent ODI form: Beat New Zealand 3-1 in their Rose Bowl series in mid-December.

Meg Lanning has scored three ODI centuries; the Australian record is held by Karen Rolton, with eight

Did you know? Off-spinning all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar, who was born in India, is the ICC's top-ranked female bowler (and top all-rounder) in Twenty20 international cricket. She is second behind England's Katherine Brunt in the ODI bowling rankings, and second in the all-rounder charts behind West Indies' Stafanie Taylor.

Player to watch: Opener Meg Lanning is in top form, hitting 87, 72, 103 and 38 in the four-match ODI series against New Zealand before smashing 76 and 64 in two T20 games against the same opposition. The 20-year-old, who made her debut just over two years ago, averages 50 in one-day international cricket.

Verdict: Will be targeting their second world title in four months after pipping England to the World Twenty20 in October. A strong all-round side have the potential to go all the way again

Tournament history: Winners in 2000, runners-up in 1993, 1997 and 2009.

Last time out: Runners-up. Eased through the group stage with a 100% record and finished top of the Super Six table after only one defeat, by England - who beat them again in the final.

Recent ODI form: Lost 3-1 to Australia in their Rose Bowl series in mid-December.

Bates represented New Zealand at basketball in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing

Did you know? Lucy Doolan displayed her all-round cricketing skills in two matches against England at the last World Cup. In the Super Six, she took over as wicketkeeper after Rachel Priest was hit in the face, took a catch behind the stumps, then bowled six overs after Priest returned. Then in the final, Doolan top scored with 48, batting at number nine, before taking 3-23 from 10 overs of off-spin.

Player to watch: White Ferns captain Suzie Bates will enter the tournament on a good run of form with the bat, having made 38, 122 not out, 59, 49 and 54 in her last five ODI innings.

Verdict: Will be determined to add to that solitary ICC global tournament win in 2000 - having been perennial losing finalists or semi-finalists in recent years. Should have no difficulty in making the Super Six, but may have to beat either England or Australia to reach the final at their expense.

Tournament history: Their best finish was sixth in 2009.

Last time out: Sixth. Beat Sri Lanka in the group stage, beat West Indies in the Super Six but lost to them in the play-off for fifth.

Recent ODI form: Won a tri-series against Ireland and Bangladesh in Dublin in August 2012.

Pakistan will be competing at their third World Cup

Did you know? Pakistan have only competed at two previous Women's World Cup tournaments, losing all five games in 1997 - the last time India hosted the event.

Player to watch: With spin likely to play a big role in the tournament, slow left-armer Sadia Yousuf, who was their joint leading wicket-taker at the World Twenty20, can expect plenty of bowling for Pakistan.

Verdict: With their preparations disrupted by their games being switched to Cuttack following political protests in Mumbai about their involvement, the build-up has not been easy for Pakistan. Realistically, they must target the game with South Africa, with the winner likely to reach the Super Six phase.

Tournament history: Their best performance came when they reached the semi-finals in 2000.

Last time out: Seventh. Lost all three group games in 2009, before beating Sri Lanka in the play-off for seventh.

Recent ODI form: Drew 2-2 with West Indies in January, having won the first two games.

Brits captained South Africa at the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean in 2010

Did you know: South Africa are the only team to have hosted a World Cup and failed to finish in the top four on home soil - coming sixth in 2005.

Player to watch: Former captain Cri-zelda Brits is another player who has returned after taking a year's break from international cricket. Her experience of more than a decade at the top level will be a vital part of South Africa' middle order.

Verdict: Will take heart from their recent performances in the Caribbean. If they can beat Pakistan, they should reach the Super Six, which would be an achievement in itself.

Statistics correct at the start of the tournament

BBC Radio will have ball-by-ball commentary on all of England's games and the final at the ICC Women's World Cup, with live text commentary on England's televised games on the BBC Sport website.

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Worcestershire have announced a post-interest profit of £225,009 for the year ending 30 September 2012.

Despite a disappointing campaign in which they suffered relegation, this is the third successive year that the club has made a profit.

A major factor in the positive figures is the money made from land leased to a hotel company.

The club are currently building new facilities which they hope to use to increase their revenue streams.

"This will create a truly 365-day-a-year business with a long-term viable and sustainable future, ultimately allowing further investment both on and off the pitch," chief executive, David Leatherdale said.

"As we head into 2013 it is hoped the visit by Australia on the 2-5 July, as they warm up for the eagerly anticipated 2013 Ashes series, will also give the club and city a boost at the height of summer."

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Lancashire have signed Leicestershire all-rounder Wayne White, who has agreed a three-year contract at Old Trafford.

The 27-year-old is their third new arrival ahead of the 2013 season.

Former Australia opener Simon Katich and ex-England paceman Kabir Ali have also joined the Red Rose, who were relegated to Division Two of the County Championship in September.

White began his career at Derbyshire, making his first-class debut in 2005, before moving to Grace Road in 2009.

"I am excited at the prospect of challenging for trophies in all three formats," he told the club website. 

“I have enjoyed my time with Leicestershire, and it will be a wrench to leave, but I am looking forward to a new, exciting chapter in my career with Lancashire”

Wayne White "Playing at Old Trafford is something I am really looking forward to.

"Working with Peter Moores and his staff is a great opportunity for me and I am excited by his plans for the playing squad.

"I have enjoyed my time with Leicestershire, and it will be a wrench to leave, but I am looking forward to a new, exciting chapter in my career with Lancashire and to be part of a successful playing squad."

Lancashire coach Moores added: "Wayne is a rapidly emerging cricketer, whose passion to improve and win trophies will match that of the rest of the squad.

"He will give us the depth we need to compete in all three competitions and create healthy competition within the squad for a position in the first team."

Meanwhile, Leicestershire coach Phil Whitticase told BBC Radio Leicester that he was disappointed by White's decision to leave.

"It came as a bit of a shock to us," he said. "We had discussions with Wayne at the end of the season and he said he felt he needed opportunities elsewhere and wasn't committed to the club.

"He was moving forward as a player and we saw him as a part of what we were doing, but obviously he's made the decision that he wants to further his career elsewhere. I only want players here that are committed to Leicestershire."

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Essex head coach Paul Grayson has said the arrival of Australia batsman Rob Quiney will ease concerns over a drain of talent in April.

The Chelmsford club could be without Alastair Cook, Ryan ten Doeschate, Owais Shah and Ravi Bopara for the start of the 2013 season.

"We needed to bring somebody in," Grayson told BBC Essex.

Born 20 August 1982 in Brighton, Victoria Two Test appearances, scoring nine runs in three innings Averaged 36.48 from 55 first-class matches with Victoria, scoring seven 100s and 16 50s Two domestic one-day centuries with an average of 37.57 from 50 innings "We're one of the few counties hit badly by the IPL. Potentially you're losing four of your best players."

Opening batsman Cook is rarely seen in action for his county due to his commitments as England Test captain.

Ten Doeschate and Shah will be on IPL duty, potentially until the end of May, which is a prospect all-rounder Bopara is also considering.

But Grayson has recruited 30-year-old Quiney, a top order batsman with two Test appearances to his name, initially until the end of the FL Twenty20 competition in mid-August, at which point the Essex coach has said they will "revisit" the arrangement.

"Australia are touring this summer, he's keen to play county cricket and he wants to get back into the Australia side," he added.

"I see this as something hopefully long term - if he does well for us we could maybe have him back for two or three years. It's nice to get continuity in the side and hopefully he can give us that."

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England captain Alastair Cook says he does not remember talking to umpires about Steven Finn's tendency to break the stumps in his delivery stride.

Finn had Suresh Raina caught at slip in the fourth one-day international but umpire Steve Davis called dead ball.

The umpires said they warned England that would happen after the first ODI.

Cook said: "Apparently the umps were pretty clear that they had told us that so I must have been deaf when I was listening to them."

The match officials are understood to have notified England that any further disturbance of the stumps would lead to a dead ball after Finn twice knocked the bails off in the first of the five-match series.

Raina, who was on 41 at the time, went on to make an unbeaten 89 as he led the hosts to a five-wicket win.

"There was a little bit of confusion," said Cook. "Apparently we had been told that because he knocked them over twice in one of the previous games he was a 'serial offender' and that he was going to get called straight away.

"In the heat of the moment I think a few of us might have forgotten that. Whether we'd been told that, I wasn't entirely sure.

"You've got to clarify these things. I couldn't remember the conversation but they're convinced they had it and I'm going to have to take their word for it."

"Either umpire shall call and signal dead ball when the striker is distracted by any noise or movement or in any other way while he is preparing to receive, or receiving a delivery.

"This shall apply whether the source of the distraction is within the game or outside it. The ball shall not count as one of the over."

Cook also seemed unhappy that Finn has been singled out, and thinks it might be because Finn's tendency to disturb the bails at the non-striker's end had been brought to the attention of the same umpire last summer.

South Africa Test captain Graeme Smith complained about being distracted and Davis did not give the batsman out when Finn had seemingly dismissed him in the Headingley Test.

Cook said: "Bowlers have knocked the stumps off before. It's only because Finny did it a couple of times in that South Africa series that it's happened.

"Finny's bowled 60 balls today and he knocked them off once, so he's probably bowled 61 with the dead ball.

"I know it's a tough job for the umpires but it's obviously frustrating because at that time that wicket would have put us in just a slightly better situation than we were.

"It's obviously frustrating when those little things don't go your way."

Despite India taking an unassailable 3-1 lead in the series, Cook was pleased with his side for a much-improved performance.

England were bowled out for 158 and 155 in the previous two matches but made 257-7 in Mohali.

"We stuck in there with the bat," Cook said.

"Throughout the first 30-40 overs it nipped around for the seamers. We did have the real tough end of conditions, but we held our nerve, which we had not done in the last two games.

"We can take really good stuff out of it. The last two games we couldn't really do that."

India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni paid tribute to his side for closing out the series and singled out Rohit Sharma, who scored 83 in his first ODI for over a year, for praise.

Dhoni said: "We all know Rohit is a gifted cricketer and it was a very good performance from him. He is a natural puller of the ball and once he got to his 50, he converted it to a big one.

"The conditions in this series have not been typical subcontinent conditions, except Kochi, so to win has been a good achievement."

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Gloucestershire chief executive Tom Richardson has announced he will step down in September.

Richardson has been with the club for 12 years and played an instrumental role in the the development of their Nevil Road ground in Bristol, which is due to be completed next summer.

"It's a natural break point," he told BBC Gloucestershire.

"The pavilion will have been completed at that stage and it feels like the right time to do something else."

He continued: "The development is massive for the club. There's a real buzz about the place and a lot of positive things happening.

"Hopefully we've taken a big step forward in the last few months."

Gloucestershire first submitted plans to extend and develop their ground in 2009.

The club wanted to increase the capacity to 17,000 and upgrade facilities in a bid to bring international games to Bristol.

Disputes over the plans delayed their progress, but the development was approved in May and building work is under way.

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England were thoroughly outplayed for the third game in succession in Wednesday's fourth one-day international in Mohali, meaning their slim chance of winning the series has gone.

The final match in Dharamsala - a ground in the foothills of the Himalayas - will now effectively be a dead rubber and when England look back at what wrong in this series, they will have to focus first and foremost on the batting.

"Fica (Federation of International Cricketers Association) has said they have "significant concerns" over safety in Pakistan ahead of their new Twenty20 League.

"Pakistan is a country with a huge passion for the game and it has produced many world-class cricketers. However, players have to listen to their union when it comes to safety concerns.

"Let's hope these concerns will ease over time and players can begin to tour Pakistan once again when the only worries will be about winning games"

That has been the biggest problem with scores of 150 in the second and third matches, which is very rarely enough to win matches, and the 257 at Mohali was below a par score.

The two new white balls did nip around at the start of England's innings which made run scoring hard work but apart from an outstanding innings from Joe Root, England would not have got 230 let alone the 280 they should have been looking at.

It should not be forgotten that England have left only one established batsman (Jonathan Trott) at home for this series, as opposed to three bowlers (James Anderson, Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad), so it is a concern that their batting has at times looked naive and unable to adapt to the match situation.

The one big positive to take from the batting is the way Joe Root played in his first one-day international series.

I picked the young Yorkshire batsman as one of my players to watch in 2013, because he instantly looked at home in international cricket - rather like Graham Thorpe and Marcus Trescothick did when they started their careers.

I have seen him play for Yorkshire, where he often bats in the middle order in one-day cricket, so I was aware he had the capability to play all around the wicket.

He has a mature head on young shoulders and the thing which impresses me most is his ability to understand and play to the situation. England scored 100 off the last 10 overs in Mohali and, together with a brief cameo from Jos Buttler, he was responsible for England reaching 257.

"The Test and one-day series in India have confirmed to me that DRS has to be used everywhere in international cricket, and the sooner the ICC insist on its use the better.

"There have been enough umpiring decisions made during the last couple of months to prove that its use will enhance the quality of the game. It's time it became uniform around the world."

I said before this series that England would want to add some depth to their squad, and they will be pleased to see Root progressing very nicely. Kevin Pietersen is also now back in the one-day team and James Tredwell's intelligent bowling proved he can play alongside or compete with Swann for a place in the full strength 11.

However, they will also look at the likes of Craig Kieswetter, Samit Patel and Jade Dernbach and question whether they have done enough to remain in the squad for New Zealand or go back to the domestic game and still learn what it takes to perform consistently at international level.

I supported Kieswetter and Dernbach in this column last week and I still believe they have plenty to offer. But they will have realised they still have plenty of tough lessons to learn to become consistent performers which is required at the very top level.

After the magnificent Test series victory before Christmas, England will have wanted to win this one-day series in India too.

But the management team will have learned a lot about each individual player, the team and the squad which will help as they plan ahead for Champions Trophy in England this summer and then aim to win the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.

Alec Stewart was talking to BBC Sport's Marc Higginson

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Fourth one-day international, Mohali

India 258-5 (47.3 overs) beat England 257-7 (50 overs) by five wickets

India took an unassailable 3-1 lead in the one-day series against England following a five-wicket win in Mohali.

Alastair Cook (76), Kevin Pietersen (76) and Joe Root (57 not out) all hit half-centuries as England made 257-7.

Rohit Sharma scored 83 to get India off to a good start, before Suresh Raina finished the job with an unbeaten 89.

Raina had been caught at slip on 41, but umpire Steve Davis called dead ball because bowler Steven Finn's knee broke the stumps at the non-striker's end.

That problem summed up England's display in the field as their bowling attack struggled to seize the initiative from the Indian batsmen.

"Either umpire shall call and signal dead ball when the striker is distracted by any noise or movement or in any other way while he is preparing to receive, or receiving a delivery.

"This shall apply whether the source of the distraction is within the game or outside it. The ball shall not count as one of the over."

Finn, with his extra pace and nagging line, was England's most effective bowler but was again left to reflect on a problem where his knee clipped the stumps in his follow-through.

The problem first became apparent in August 2012, when Finn was denied South Africa captain Graeme Smith's wicket because of a dead ball. The 23-year-old paceman might have got England back into the fourth one-day international had the problem not reoccurred when India still needed 80 runs to win.

Raina took advantage of the reprieve to lead his team to a convincing victory, which was achieved with two and a half overs to spare.

England will also regret a poor umpiring decision from Sudhir Asnani, which ended the innings of Cook with his team well placed on 132-1 in the 32nd over.

The skipper looked on course for a century until he missed a Ravichandran Ashwin delivery and was hit on his pads. Despite the ball appearing to pitch outside leg stump, Asnani raised his finger.

The tourists had been watchful early on - the only blemish being the loss of Ian Bell (10) after the opener came down the wicket to Ishant Sharma and got a thick outside edge to Bhuvneshwar Kumar at third man.

Cook relished the challenge of building an innings, while Pietersen battled hard against the seaming ball. Neither player was particularly fluent - Cook effective on the sweep and cut and Pietersen happy to rotate the strike - but the hard work looked to be paying off until Cook's dismissal.

"The lack of seam support for Steven Finn cost England dear once more - as it has done throughout this one day series - 258 should have been a more challenging target for India.

"Finn was by far the most potent threat, but his desire to get as close to the stumps as possible in his delivery stride proved very expensive when Suresh Raina was reprieved by a dislodged bail.

"Joe Root's innovative maiden ODI fifty was a joy to watch. He has shown that he is very much a man for all formats and could yet be added to England's squad for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand."

Eoin Morgan (3) followed soon after, when he chipped Ashwin to the back-pedalling Yuvraj Singh at mid-off, and Samit Patel (1) gave a return catch to Ravi Jadeja (3-39).

England appeared to be stumbling but Root, who had been pushed down the order, took advantage of being dropped on nought to help Pietersen steer England towards a more challenging total.

Root, 22, scored at virtually a run a ball as he showed a canny knack of finding the gaps on both sides of the wicket - the highlight being a six into the leg-side off Ashwin.

Pietersen had earlier posted his slowest ODI fifty but he also upped the tempo and smashed Sharma into the stands with a mighty six before being bowled.

An aggressive cameo from Jos Buttler (14 off nine balls) complemented Root's clever strokeplay and helped England add 100 runs in the final 10 overs.

England got off to a good start with the ball when Tim Bresnan had Gautam Gambhir caught behind, while Rohit Sharma was struggling against Finn.

However, the early pressure did not bring enough wickets and India started to take control once the expensive Jade Dernbach (1-59 from 9.3 overs) was brought into the attack.

James Tredwell removed both Virat Kohli and Singh to leave India 90-3, but Rohit Sharma took the momentum away from England with some dashing strokeplay.

He was eventually trapped in front by Finn, but Raina stepped up to steer India to their target with his 79-ball knock.

The fifth and final match of the series will be played in Dharamsala on Sunday.

We are using archive pictures for this series because several photo agencies, including Getty Images, have been barred from the ground following a dispute with the Board of Control for Cricket in India, while other agencies have withdrawn their photographers in protest.

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Graeme Swann has admitted he needed his current break from England duty.

The 33-year-old spinner returned home after the Test series win in India and has been watching the ongoing one-day series from his Nottinghamshire home.

"I did need a rest after the exploits of the winter," Swann told BBC East Midlands Today.

"A lot of people are against having a rest and having family time, but it prolongs your career. If you are my age, it really makes a difference."

9 February: 1st T20, Auckland 12 February: 2nd T20, Hamilton 15 February: 3rd T20, Wellington 17 February: 1st ODI, Hamilton 20 February: 2nd ODI, Napier 23 February: 3rd ODI, Auckland 6-10 March: 1st Test, Dunedin 14-18 March: 2nd Test, Wellington 22-26 March: 3rd Test, Auckland Note: List does not include warm-up games Swann played a leading part in England's first series victory in India for 27 years by taking 20 wickets, but did not return to the sub-continent with the touring group after Christmas and New Year.

And although he has found it strange to be at home when England are playing, it has given him a chance to recharge his batteries before linking up with the squad again for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand, the first time Swann will have played against the Kiwis in Tests.

"I do miss it," he said. "It's tricky being at home because you lose track of time and when the games are going on.

"I have two young children and they take up a lot of my time. You end up flicking the television on and there's a game there and it's strange you are not involved in it.

"But I'm very grateful I was given a chance to miss a few games."

Swann, who was talking a snowy Trent Bridge, also has the summer's Ashes series against Australia on his mind.

"For an Englishman, it's huge," said Swann, who has been awarded a testimonial by Nottinghamshire this year.

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“When you are on the field there is no love lost and it is absolute carnage out there”

Graeme Swann on playing in the Ashes "We have had some amazing Tests against the Indians and South Africa, but nothing quite matches the Ashes.

"And for Nottingham to host a Test match - and the opening Test match of this series - is fantastic and I cannot wait to play in it.

"We get such a good crowd here filling the ground every day. The atmosphere is always electric.

"When you are on the field there is no love lost and it is absolute carnage out there. It's brilliant to play in and I can't describe it any other way than that.

"I have been really lucky to play in a couple of (Ashes) series so far and, as long as I stay in good shape, I'll be able to play in another one this summer."

Swann is convinced the much-publicised off-field problems which affected the England squad in the middle of last year are very much in the past.

"We had our problems last summer but that has all been dusted over now," he said.

"In India, for the Test series, the camaraderie and team spirit was as good as I have known in a sports team. We will need that again this summer and I am sure we will have it.

"That win was very special. Of all the things you want to tick off on your list of playing cricket, winning in India was definitely one of them."

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Venue: IndiaDate: 31 January-17 FebruaryCoverage: Ball-by-ball commentary of all England's games and the final on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra & BBC Sport website; live text commentary on England's televised games on BBC Sport website & mobiles

Coach Mark Lane has warned England that retaining the Women's World Cup this year will be harder than winning it.

England lifted the trophy with a thrilling four-wicket victory over New Zealand in Sydney four years ago.

Captain Charlotte Edwards will lead the team in India as they attempt to defend their title. Their first match is against Sri Lanka on 2 February.

"Defending a title is harder then winning it in the first place," Lane told the BBC's Test Match Special.

England women in "a good place" for World Cup defence

"Once you get to number one, you have to stay ahead of the pack and a lot of that comes down to hard work.

"We are there to be shot at but we are not worrying about what other people think. We are concentrating on what we do.

"We know what we are going to do and we will be focused on that."

Edwards is one of eight players in the 15-strong squad who were in the victorious 2009 squad.

England World Cup squad: Tammy Beaumont (wk), Arran Brindle, Katherine Brunt, Holly Colvin, Charlotte Edwards (capt), Georgia Elwiss, Lydia Greenway, Jenny Gunn, Danielle Hazell, Amy Jones (wk), Heather Knight, Laura Marsh, Anya Shrubsole, Sarah Taylor (wk), Danielle Wyatt.

Full World Cup squad details

28 Jan Warm-up v Pakistan (03:30 GMT)

30 Jan Warm-up v New Zealand (03:30 GMT)

2 Feb Group A match v Sri Lanka (03:30 GMT)

4 Feb Group A match v India (03:30 GMT)

6 Feb Group A match v West Indies (d/n) (09:00 GMT)

Full World Cup fixture schedule

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IDG News Service - The seventh-grade classroom at Aptos Middle School buzzed with animated kids, many of whom whispered to friends and shot curious looks at the visitors scattered around their classroom.

Local politicians, the superintendent of schools and media visited the classroom of 25 kids last Friday to watch a special lesson designed to teach children how to protect themselves online. All 55,000 elementary to high school students in San Francisco got the lesson on the same day, part of fulfilling a new requirement to a U.S. law called the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA). To get federal funding, public schools have to instruct students how to protect their privacy, avoid cyberbullying and practice ethical behavior online.

You can watch an IDG News Service video of the classroom here.

The U.S. is the only nation that requires online safety instruction at public schools, but other countries may soon join it. The European Commission is mulling over a law that would mandate educating kids about online safety, and in the UK, newly appointed adviser on childhood, Claire Perry, is talking about the need to make online safety part of the public school curriculum.

But much of what is taught about online safety is not rooted in evidence, according to Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute, a global organization based in Washington, D.C.

"There's precious little research on the effectiveness of online safety education," said Balkam, who also worries that a fear-based message about the dangers online can overlook the Internet's many benefits.

The U.S. Department of Education cites a 2008-2009 poll that shows 28 percent of students reported being bullied at school, while 6 percent were bullied online.

The next public event to draw attention to kids' use of the Internet is coming up on Feb. 5, when the EU and U.S. will observe Safer Internet Day.

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Computerworld - The falling price of bandwidth and rising consumer demand has motivated a variety of organizations -- from retailers to music publishers and credit unions -- to add video to their websites.

In fact, eMarketer, a market research company, forecasts a 5.6% increase in the number of people who will view online videos in 2013 compared to last year.

"We're seeing videos show up in a much broader range of verticals and a much broader range of enterprises," even in mid-sized companies, for uses including training apps, videoconferencing and CEO broadcasts, according to Robert Mason, a Gartner analyst.

Mason says he's seen an upsurge in using video as part of unified communications. "Video is becoming much more a part of the mainstream experience," Mason says.

Some companies are using video in an attempt to set themselves apart from the competition.

Zappos.com, an online shoe and apparel store known for its friendly and unscripted customer service, added videos to its website in 2009. Visitors to the site have the option to view a video with a live person describing a product and, in some cases, demonstrating it.

"The videos did several things for us," says Austin Blair, photo/video manager for Zappos, based in Henderson, Nev. "Since we don't have a brick-and-mortar store, the videos allow us to show the quirkiness in the Zappos culture. Otherwise there's no customer service interaction unless a person calls us."

The 30- to 45-second videos "provide certain things you can't get from the written description or a still image," says Blair. "For example, you can see the flexibility of a shoe, which may help the customer make a buying decision."

Getting the videos up and running was not difficult. Some front-end development work went into getting a player live and some other tasks, says Blair. "We were able to use a customizable player that we integrated into the site. In-house developers had the back-end process up and running within a month," he explains.

Once the coding was done it was just a matter of putting the products Zappos wanted to showcase on video and uploading the videos to the site. The company started with only a Flash player and has since moved to HTML5, which supports mobile devices also.

Currently the video department consists of 14 people. An internal IT team handles testing and pushing changes to the video player, and two editors handle everything else involving the videos.

Filming, editing and pushing videos to the FTP server requires a 24-hour turnaround, says Blair. "The actual process of recording and producing the videos has become very streamlined." The company creates several different file types including Flash and MP4 files for mobile devices, and archives the videos on a six-month rolling rotation.

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Computerworld - An individual who inadvertently exposes the contents of his computer over an unsecured wireless network still has a reasonable expectation of privacy against a search of those contents by the police, a federal judge in Oregon ruled last week.

The ruling involves John Henry Ahrndt, a previously convicted sex offender who was sentenced to 120 months in prison for possession of child pornography on his computer.

Ahrndt had argued that some of the evidence that was used against him in court had been gathered illegally. He had filed an appeal asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland to suppress the evidence on the grounds that his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search had been violated.

Oregon District Court Judge Garr King initially denied Ahrndt's motion to suppress but picked up the case again last year after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed King's first ruling.

In a 34-page ruling last week, Kerr granted Ahrndt's renewed motion to suppress the evidence gathered by police from his hard drive and also ordered his subsequent testimony to them to be suppressed as well.

Ahrndt's case goes back to 2007 when one of his neighbors, a woman referred to only as "JH" in court documents, connected to the Internet using her own wireless network. When JH's network temporarily malfunctioned, her computer automatically connected to Ahrndt's unsecured wireless network.

When JH subsequently opened her iTunes software to listen to music she noticed that another user library called "Dads LimeWire Tunes" from Ahrndt's computer, was also available for sharing, court documents said.

When JH clicked on the folder she immediately noticed that it contained a lot of files with names suggesting explicit child pornography. She informed the county sheriff's department which then sent a deputy to take a look at her discovery.

JH showed the deputy a play list of about 25 picture and video files with pornographic titles that she had found on the folder. After consulting with his supervisor, the deputy then asked JH to open one of the files and discovered that it did indeed contain an image depicting child pornography.

Based on that discovery, law enforcement agents obtained a search warrant to search Ahrndt's home. They seized a computer, a wireless router, several hard disks and other storage media from Ahrndt's home. A forensic investigation of the seized equipment turned up about 20 images depicting child porn.

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Infoworld - Samba 4.0 is a milestone release that brings Active Directory functionality to the open source SMB/CIFS (Server Message Block/Common Internet File System) file and print server. Samba 4.0 can serve as an Active Directory Domain Controller, provide DNS services, handle Kerberos-based authentication, and administer group policy. The Samba 4.0 Domain Controller can even be managed using the native Windows Active Directory admin tools.

However, there are restrictions in this release -- mainly issues with file replication -- that limit the number of Domain Controllers you can join to only a single domain. Support for cross-forest trusts and multiple domain controllers is still to come. When that support arrives, Samba will be truly useful as an Active Directory replacement. Until then, the Domain Controller functionality is suitable mainly for testing. Not many environments can make good use of a single domain controller.

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Beyond file and print servicesSMB is the protocol behind all network file communication used natively by Windows Server and Windows clients; it's also known as CIFS. Support for SMB/CIFS on other operating systems has primarily come from the Samba project. Samba started back in 1992 as a way to connect Unix and Linux machines to Microsoft's LAN Manager network operating system. It's provided the plumbing necessary for Unix and Linux machines to connect to Microsoft networks ever since.

The most common use of Samba is still in the client role, but that has changed along the way with the ability to provide file and print services to Unix and Linux clients, as well as systems running various versions of Windows.

Samba has maintained a solid capability as a file server and client but has never had the ability to function as an Active Directory Domain Controller until now. Samba 4.0 has been under development for quite a long time, and the Domain Controller functionality has been available in beta form during the later stages prior to release. Samba 4.0 delivers a stable release of this new capability but in a severely limited form.

For Samba 4.0 to be useful in large and multisite environments -- the sort that rely on Active Directory -- it will need to support cross-forest trusts and multiple domain controllers. Support for multiple domain controllers requires directory and file system replication to maintain the user database and the sysvol and netlogon shares. (The sysvol share stores the Group Policy Template along with other system templates and scripts, and the netlogon share contains system-wide logon scripts for the likes of assigning home directories and updating virus definitions.) Directory replication works reliably in this release, but the file system replication piece remains under development.

Samba 4.0 installation and setupThere are a number of ways to get Samba 4.0 installed, depending on your system and how you want to go about testing. You can download the latest release in gzip form and install it yourself. The Samba Wiki has a complete how-to detailing the process step by step. For popular distributions such as Ubuntu, there are packages available for installing using the normal methods. From a terminal window in Ubuntu 12.10, you can simply type:

apt-get install samba4

For the purposes of this review I downloaded the Excellent Samba4 Appliance, a ready-made virtual appliance based on SLES 11 SP2 64-bit and Samba4 Stable 4.0.0. The Excellent Samba4 Appliance virtual machine is available in the OVF format; in a VMware image that will work with VMware, VirtualBox, or KVM; and in a VHD file for use with Microsoft's Hyper-V. I chose the VHD file and installed it on an HP ProLiant DL385 G7 server running Windows Server 2012.

You must run a script to initialize a number of settings (IP address, domain name, admin account name, and so on) before you can actually start the Samba Domain Controller. Once you've entered the required information, the script (dcpromo.sh) will configure the appropriate DNS settings and create default DNS records. DNS is a requirement for Active Directory and must be running to enable client machines to connect to the domain.

Configuring an Active Directory domain in Samba is straightforward, though not as easy as in Windows Server. It's a much easier process on native Windows as the pieces come with Windows Server and you don't have to download anything. Many of the configuration tasks are handled in Windows Server 2012 with wizards.

Managing the Samba Domain ControllerWith your Samba Domain Controller up and running, you can use the standard Windows Active Directory administration tools to manage computers and users. The Excellent virtual appliance provides the 32-bit installer for Windows XP and Windows 7 in the /srv/www/htdocs directory. (If your Samba distribution doesn't include them, the tools are freely available from Microsoft's website.) You can get to the files on the Excellent Samba4 Appliance by opening a Web browser and entering the IP address of the appliance. It will present a list of files that you can then right-click on and save or run.

Microsoft's administration tools come in the form of an .msu file, which will add options to the "Turn Windows features on or off" area of your Windows client machine's Control Panel. Once the installer finishes, you'll have to open Control Panel, find Programs and Features, choose "Turn Windows features on or off," then navigate to the Role Administration Tools section (see Figure 1). From there, expand the AD DS Tools section and choose the AD DS Snap-ins and Command-line Tools. Note that the Active Directory Administrative Center requires Active Directory Web Services, which Samba 4 does not support. If you want to use PowerShell, you should check Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell as well.

Figure 1: From the Role Administration Tools section of the Control Panel on your Windows client machine, expand the AD DS Tools section and choose the AD DS Snap-ins and Command-line Tools.

PowerShell offers a number of built-in features to query and manage an Active Directory installation. Choosing to install the Active Directory Module makes these AD-specific commands readily available at the PowerShell command line. As an example, the dsquery command will return a wide range of information about the directory including computers, groups, servers, and users. There are also command-line tools such as dsadd, dsmove, and dsrm for adding, moving, and removing objects, and plenty more. Help is available for any of the commands by typing the command followed by /? at the command line.

One of the other big uses for Active Directory is in the area of GPO (group policy objects) and permissions. Samba 4.0 fully supports GPO settings for both computers and users. Group policy is especially useful for such capabilities as blocking access to Control Panel on a Windows machine so that normal users can't alter settings or install software. When you create a group policy, it is tied to a specific OU (organizational unit). Once set it applies to all computers or users in that OU.

The Microsoft Group Policy Management Editor provides the means to create or edit a group policy that will be attached to a specific domain. Figure 2 shows the GP Demo policy for the Linux.tstsamba.com domain and the default rules. You can restrict specific pieces of Control Panel such as the Add or Remove Programs feature, or choose to prohibit access to the Control Panel altogether.

Figure 2: Viewing the GP Demo group policy through the Microsoft Group Policy Management Editor.

Another management option is Webmin. This freely available tool installs on the system running the Samba 4 server and provides a Web-based interface to manage a wide range of internal server settings (add administrators and users, create new file shares, share printers, allow and deny hosts) and software. I was able to get it running on the Samba 4 appliance with just a few minor tweaks to the configuration settings. Figure 3 shows the Webmin Samba module, which includes an icon labeled SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool). This is the native Samba management tool (see Figure 4), which handles all of the traditional Samba user administration and server settings.

In short, Samba does not yet offer GUI tools for managing the Domain Controller or GPO settings from Unix or Linux, but there are Python-based hooks into the internals of Samba 4 that should make these easy to build.

Figure 3: The Webmin GUI on Samba (above) and Figure 4: The native Samba Web Admin Tool (below).

The bottom lineSamba 4.0 is definitely a zero point release, meaning it still has some growing and maturing to do. It is a good first step in providing a completely open source solution that mirrors much of Microsoft's Active Directory core functionality. Although the Domain Controller in Samba 4.0 appears to be stable, the single-domain limitation currently restricts it to small deployments. An obvious use case would be in education and training, where Samba 4.0 would provide a good platform for teaching domain administration. But in the real world, most small workgroups for which the Samba Domain Controller is suited will choose to do without.

On the plus side, there are new Python-based programmability features in Samba 4.0 that could prove useful to anyone looking for a way to either expand or more fully utilize the Samba 4 server functionality. PowerShell provides another avenue to script actions against a Samba Domain Controller.

The bottom line: Samba 4.0 is definitely early code and not enterprise-ready yet. As it matures, it will present an interesting option to larger organizations that rely on multiple Active Directory domains. If the Samba team meets its goal of a 9-month release cycle, we can hope to see a more scalable and useful version by late summer or early fall.

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Computerworld - Analysts are unsure whether RIM's new enterprise mobility software, now available for download, can halt the migration away from BlackBerry smartphones.

The new BES 10 tool set combines security, device and application management for multivendor tablets and smartphones.

The new BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10) software supports devices running BlackBerry, Android and iOS operating systems. The software will also run on the BlackBerry 10 smartphones that are slated to be unveiled on Jan. 30, Research in Motion said.

The software carries a one-time fee of $99 per supported device when installed on a corporate server. A limited 60 day free trial download of the software is also available.

While RIM said that BES 10 offers capabilities not available on competitive mobility management products, analysts say that it's future is largely tied to any success by the two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones.

One, dubbed the Z10, will have a 4.2-in. touchscreen, according to multiple unconfirmed reports. The other device will have a physical keyboard, according to earlier RIM statements.

RIM's future success "is more about the devices, but the BES 10 server support is especially important for enterprises," said Phillip Redman, an analyst at Gartner, in an email.

However, he added, "I don't think that BES 10 is going to convince IT or users" to go with RIM.

RIM today touted its 10 years of enterprise mobility management expertise and called its software both cost efficient and reliable, and the most widely used device management system worldwide. Previous versions of BlackBerry Enterprise Server software are used by thousands of companies, RIM said.

RIM won't say how many existing BES licenses have been sold, but has said there are more than 80 million BlackBerry smartphone and tablet users globally.

The success of BES 10 could come from RIM's decision to support Android and iOS devices as well as its own, analysts said. BlackBerry is now struggling with a share of about 5% of the smartphone market because many of its past users have converted to Android or iOS, according to several analysts.

Providing a single console to manage BlackBerry, Android and iOS devices could prove a path to renerwed relevancy, analysts said.

BES 10 also offers a way for businesses to manage apps that workers get through the BlackBerry World for Work online store. IT shops can push and install mandatory apps to employees, whether they use corporate-owned devices or their own.

In addition, BES 10 is integrated with Active Directory and can help provide VPN and encryption security to devices.

The software includes new BlackBerry Balance technology, which allows for two different secure spaces within the device OS to separate corporate from personal data, said Jeff Holleran, senior director of enterprise product management at RIM.

"The feedback from hundreds of enterprise customers who tested it is that this a big win for them," Holleran said.

When a user of a BlackBerry 10 device searches through email and other messages, Balance makes it possible to see work and personal emails simultaneously, while the two versions of an inbox (personal and corporate) are segregated on the OS.

Holleran called that Balance functionality unique.

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IDG News Service - Access to software collaboration site GitHub appeared to be restored in China on Wednesday, just as former Google executive Kai-Fu lee criticized its blocking as a senseless move that would harm the nation's developers.

GitHub, a U.S. site known as a repository for open source code, had been at least partially blocked in China as early as last Thursday, with access completely cut on Monday. But it was unclear why government censors had targeted the site, with speculation pointing to GitHub's links to Chinese online train ticket buying plugins, which authorities have been trying to regulate.

Starting on Wednesday, however, China's censors had unblocked the site, according to Internet monitoring group GreatFire.org. But access to the sites have been slow and sometimes infrequent, caused by local Domain Name System (DNS) servers caching the earlier blocked results, GreatFire.org said in an email.

GitHub, which had also noticing the initial blocking, could not be immediately reached for comment.

Other foreign sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have long been blocked in China for their potential to spread anti-government views and information. At times, Google services and LinkedIn have also seen their access slowed or temporarily cut.

But the blocking of GitHub gained greater attention in the country after the former head of Google's China operations and celebrity Kai-Fu Lee posted about it on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter.

"GitHub is the preferred tool for programmers to learn and connect with the rest of the world," he said in his Chinese-language post. He added that the site supported no political ideology, nor contained any reactionary content. "Blocking GitHub is unjustifiable, and will only derail the nation's programmers from the world, while bringing about a loss in competitiveness and insight."

Lee's post was re-tweeted over 80,000 times on Sina Weibo, and featured in news articles on Wednesday. In another post, he later compared the blocking to trying to catch a mouse by burning the entire house down.

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Computerworld - Dell is planning to release by mid-year a computer that's all of 3.5 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. It's not much bigger in girth than a USB stick, and is similar in design.

This Wi-Fi enabled device is designed to be plugged into something, most likely a monitor or TV. It has two USB ports for a keyboard and a mouse and, alternatively, Bluetooth capability. It displays at 1080p and can support touch screens.

The device will be powered by an ARM system-on-a-chip manufactured by an undisclosed vendor.

The device doesn't yet have a real name -- Dell is calling it "Project Ophelia."

Dell's "Project Ophelia" is a computer that's all of 3.5 inches long and 1.5 inches wide -- not much bigger than a USB stick and similar in design.

Ophelia isn't trying to be Chromebook-like (less keyboard and screen) and do most of its work in the cloud. It's far from a fat client PC, but it can run applications natively as well from the cloud. The application model is more like a tablet.

The device will cost less than $100.

"It's a radical rethinking of how best to support end user computing," said Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT. It's not simply a thin client device, he says - "it's steps beyond that."

King said Dell may have a problem marketing the device and in educating potential users about its role.

The "Project Ophelia" product was developed by Dell's Wyse unit, which is long known for making thin clients.

This device, though, -- perhaps reflecting the influence of Dell -- is not a corporate thin client. It's clearly designed to appeal to consumers, BYOD workers, and creative IT managers.

The device will run Android OS Jelly Bean, have 8GB of memory to support applications, music, video and presentations, and a microSD slot up to 32GB of storage.

The ideal connection is through a Mobile High Definition Link (MHL) enabled interface to a monitor.

The MHL Consortium, whose founders include Nokia, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba, says there are more than 200 unique MHL-enabled products available today.

Ophelia can also be powered through a USB port.

The device will be loaded with Dell's PocketCloud, which provides remote desktop access.

Jeff McNaught, executive director of marketing and chief strategy officer for Dell Cloud Client Computing, says "the use cases [for the device] are incredibly broad."

The education market, for instance, has lot of potential uses, he said.

Schools could provide the devices to students instead of tablets or PCs. A student can plug the device into monitors at home and school.

Businesses could use it like they use thin clients today. Deployment of the Ophelia device may be a little easier, with less wires and easy portability.

McNaught also touts Ophelia's use in signage displays and sales presentations. Someone could take the device into a meeting and plug it into a large monitor.

Before it became part of Dell, Wyse was prone to trying new ways to extend mobility.

In 2007, the company released a laptop thin client with no disk drive or fan and a long battery life. It was using a browser with an embedded version of Microsoft Windows XPe.

A lot has changed since then; the spread of Android operating system, app stores and services such as Dropbox.

While Ophelia can run native applications, McNaught sees it as more of a device for working in a cloud-enabled environment. "A personal cloud is made up of devices that you already own," he said, which includes everything from a home PC to a virtual machine at work.

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Durham all-rounder Dale Benkenstein has been named as captain of the MCC squad to play Warwickshire in the Champion County match in Abu Dhabi in March.

The 38-year-old played against the MCC with Durham in 2009 and 2010.

Hampshire captain Jimmy Adams, Somerset duo Steve Kirby and Peter Trego, and Middlesex batsman Dawid Malan are among the squad members.

Meanwhile, Rajasthan Royals pair Rahul Dravid and Shaun Tait will play for the MCC in the Emirates T20 Trophy games.

Dravid, 40, enjoyed a glittering career with India as Test captain while Australian Tait, 29, is a feared paceman in short-form cricket despite injury problems earlier in his career.

Sussex and Warwickshire will provide the opposition in Dubai in the build up to the Champions Trophy.

Adams said his selection was a huge honour and that he was relishing the game.

"I was really surprised when I heard about being involved in the curtain raiser," Adams told BBC Radio Solent.

"It's a huge honour really, I never expected to be in the mix for those type of things.

"At the start of the year you always think it would be nice to get that acknowledgement, and I'm delighted to get the call and to be able to go."

John Stephenson, MCC head of cricket and manager of the squad in the United Arab Emirates, added "It will be a wonderful experience for the younger members of the MCC squad to share a dressing room with world-class players."

There are two further slots for players yet to be confirmed - one of which is likely to be a wicketkeeper.

MCC squad: Dale Benkenstein (Durham, captain), Jimmy Adams (Hampshire), Joe Denly (Middlesex), Rahul Dravid (India - Twenty20 only), Simon Kerrigan (Lancashire - Champion County match only), Steve Kirby (Somerset), Dawid Malan (Middlesex), Sam Northeast (Kent), Alan Richardson (Worcestershire), Shaun Tait (Australia - Twenty20 only), Peter Trego (Somerset).

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Essex have signed Australia batsman Rob Quiney as an overseas player, initially until mid-August.

The 30-year-old Victoria left-hander has two Test appearances, both coming against South Africa in November.

Born August 20 1982 in Brighton, Victoria Two Test appearances, scoring nine from three innings Has taken no Test wickets from 150 balls Averaged 36.48 from 55 first-class matches with Victoria, scoring seven 100s and 16 50s Two domestic one-day centuries with an average of 37.57 from 50 innings "I am delighted to have signed a contract to play for Essex this summer," he told the club website.

"I am very excited about the plans for Essex this season and I look forward to helping our drive to securing silverware in 2013."

Quiney, who can also bowl right-arm medium, added: "The 2012/13 (Australian) season has been an amazing one for me, fulfilling my ambition of playing international cricket and I am now able to achieve one of my other major cricketing ambitions by playing county cricket."

Essex's new player failed to make an impression for his national team in his two Tests, however, being dismissed for a duck in two of his three innings and only making nine in the other.

Despite that, Quiney is still likely to figure in the selectors' thoughts for this summer's Ashes series in England.

He scored 938 Sheffield Shield runs at an average of 49.38 in 2011/12 and was voted Australian domestic cricketer of the year.

In his career, he has scored 3,101 first-class runs, including seven centuries, at an average of 36.48. He has also scored 1,766 runs in one-day matches.

Quiney has also featured for Rajasthan Royals in the 2009 Indian Premier League tournament and Melbourne Stars in Australia's Big Bash.

Essex head coach Paul Grayson said: "It's an exciting signing for the club. Initially, he is coming over for the start of our season and will probably be with us until the end of the Friends Life t20 competition.

"We'll revisit the situation then because obviously Australia are touring over here and he wants to try to make a big impression with them.

"I've met Rob and spoken to him a few times. He's a quality player and a very good man who comes highly recommended from some good people that we know."

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Infoworld - Rather than merely devising a mobile application strategy, development shops need to view mobile apps as just one component of a larger, "omni-channel" application architecture, according to an analyst report released this month.

The Forrester Research report, entitled "The Future of Mobile Application Development," urges an omni-channel approach in which software services and applications work everywhere. Netflix, which works on tablets, mobile devices, TVs, laptops and game consoles was cited as an example.

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Forrester stresses the use of modern applications requiring multichannel clients and elastic infrastructure. "To me, the modern app is something which is essentially designed for the cloud," Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond, a co-author of the report, said in an interview. "It's designed to connect those devices over public carrier networks back to those existing systems, which might be in the data center."

Software development for mobile devices is not just about adding Objective-C or JavaScript developers, Forrester says. "We're moving to a world of multiple endpoints, hybrid-use personal and corporate devices, and lightning-fast client device turnover." The report also charges that development shops have gotten complacent building MVC (model view controller) applications and the easy days for software development shops are ending.

Mobile context, the sum total of what customers are saying and experience in mobile engagement, is the future of mobile development, the report states. With companies targeting more devices and platforms, client-side development costs will increase, and applications will need to be built faster than ever. Reducing the costs of software innovation is necessary. "The only way to survive this Catch-22 is to lower the cost of testing new ideas and make it quicker and cheaper to separate the good ideas from the bad," said Forrester.

But the future of mobile application development requires more than adapting to smaller screens, different programming languages and new operating systems, Forrester says. "We're entering a new age of application development that creates modern, compelling systems of engagement and links them with systems of record and systems of operation."

In other highlights:

Forrester advises combining discrete services into new solutions. Modern applications are composites built from multiple URL endpoints and application frameworks, with the goal of getting to market quickly.Stand-alone mobile applications will evolve into pluggable mobile services. "The days of the stand-alone app, with its own icon on the screen and self-contained sets of services, may soon be over. We're seeing a trend where platform vendors are offering more and more platform-specific services that developers leverage."Managed APIs are being used to expose application services to third-party developers, thereby creating a "headless" version of services that can be incorporated into digital products and software services. Developers, though, have to think about security, authorization, and real-time management of data.Benefits of a mobile service must outweigh inhibitors to adoption. Services must be immediate, simple, and contextual.Sensors like barometers and chemical sensors will reveal more information about the users' environment. For example, dual cameras in phones enable depth perception and development of 3D content.Motion, voice, and touch will redefine the user interface, with improved display technologies and simplified development tools for motion sensors shifting control of mobile phones to motion and voice. Developers will need to think about supporting more-sophisticated access mechanisms. Reprinted with permission from InfoWorld. Story copyright 2012 InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Batsmen Eoin Morgan and Samit Patel are expected to be left out when England's Test squad for their forthcoming tour of New Zealand is named on Thursday.

England are set to name a 15-man squad, having taken 18 players to India.

After three Twenty20 internationals and three one-dayers, the three-Test series begins in Dunedin on 6 March.

Jonny Bairstow should be included after missing the one-day series in India because of family illness, but spinner James Tredwell may also miss out.

4 & 6 February: T20 warm-ups v New Zealand XI (Whangarei) 9, 12 & 15 February: T20 internationals (Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington) 17, 20 & 23 February: ODIs (Hamilton, Napier, Auckland) 27 Feb-2 March: Warm-up v New Zealand XI (Queenstown) 6-10 March: 1st Test (Dunedin) 14-18 March: 2nd Test (Wellington) 22-26 March: 3rd Test (Auckland) Bairstow will be the spare batsman and reserve wicketkeeper if England keep faith with the top six that finished the Test series in India, with Nick Compton and Joe Root retaining their places.

With England only expected to play one spinner in the Tests, Monty Panesar should travel as Graeme Swann's back-up, meaning there may be no place for Tredwell, who had joined the India tour as cover.

Stuart Meaker - briefly England's 19th man in India because of injuries to fast bowlers - may also miss out.

Batsman Kevin Pietersen, who is being rested from the limited-overs leg of the New Zealand tour, should return as England look to field their first-choice XI.

They will also announce one additional bowler to join the one-day international squad for New Zealand - which is likely to be Jade Dernbach, Chris Woakes or Meaker.

England Test squad for New Zealand (probable): Alastair Cook (capt), Nick Compton, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Matt Prior (wk), Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Steven Finn, James Anderson, Monty Panesar, Graham Onions.

England Twenty20 squad for New Zealand (announced on 23 December): Stuart Broad (capt), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Tim Bresnan, Danny Briggs, Jos Buttler (wk), Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Michael Lumb, Stuart Meaker, Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, James Tredwell, Luke Wright.

England ODI squad for New Zealand (announced on 23 December): Alastair Cook (capt), James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ian Bell, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler (wk), Steven Finn, Craig Kieswetter (wk), Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott, plus one player to be named.

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IDG News Service - With a tough 2012 behind it, Advanced Micro Devices hopes to return to profitability this year through cost-cutting, new chips and other measures, executives said Tuesday.

The moves include releasing new chips this year for laptops and tablets and generating more revenue from its embedded and custom chip business, the executives said.

AMD ended 2012 on a sour note. On Tuesday, it reported a loss for the fourth quarter of $473 million, including charges related to a restructuring and the reduction of purchase obligations from contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries. AMD's fourth-quarter revenue fell 32% year over year to $1.16 billion.

The company has been taking steps to help it save money. It's selling its Austin campus, which it hopes will net it $150 million to $200 million, and it will continue with a previously announced lay-off plan this quarter, executives said on AMD's quarterly earnings call Tuesday. It said in December that it would lay off 15% of its workforce.

AMD is also cutting research and development costs and trying to save money by designing chips to standardized testing and manufacturing procedures, the executives said.

But in the short term, the going will continue to be tough for AMD.

"We expect continued choppiness in the PC market in the first half of 2013, and will closely manage the business as we reset, restructure and ultimately transform AMD," said CEO Rory Read on the call.

Chip sales started to slow in the second quarter and affected the company for the rest of the year, said CFO Devinder Kumar.

The release of new A8 and A10 quad-core chips later this year should boost AMD's core processor business, he said. The chips, code-named Richland, will deliver up to 40% more performance than AMD's existing "Trinity" chips, AMD says.

They'll start appearing in PCs in the first half of this year, ahead of the important back-to-school and holiday PC sales cycle in the second half.

AMD also hopes to find success in the tablet market with the launch of chips code-named Temash and Kabini, also in the first half this year. AMD showed Temash in a Windows 8 tablet at the International CES show earlier this month. Temash is targeted at tablets priced between $499 and $599. AMD has almost no presence in the tablet market today. Its latest chip, code-named Hondo, is used only in tablets from Fujitsu and Vizio.

"Our company hinges on the products we create," Read said.

AMD has strong design wins in its embedded and custom processor businesses, Read said. The company will try to expand its existing embedded chip business by moving into higher volume segments, Read said. He claimed AMD already has customer wins there but said he couldn't discuss them due to confidentiality agreements.

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Second one-day international, Kimberley:

New Zealand 279-8 (50 overs) beat South Africa 252 (49.1 overs) by 27 runs

New Zealand clinched their first series victory in South Africa in any format with a 27-run win in Kimberley to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the one-day international series.

The Kiwis, who lost both Tests by an innings, made 279-8, anchored by Kane Williamson's unbeaten 145.

In reply, Graeme Smith (66) and Colin Ingram (79) steered the Proteas to 167-1 with nearly 20 overs left.

But the hosts collapsed to 252 all out with no fewer than five men run out.

4 & 6 February: T20 warm-ups v New Zealand XI (Whangarei) 9, 12 & 15 February: T20 internationals (Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington) 17, 20 & 23 February: ODIs (Hamilton, Napier, Auckland) 27 Feb-2 March: Warm-up v New Zealand XI (Queenstown) 6-10 March: 1st Test (Dunedin) 14-18 March: 2nd Test (Wellington) 22-26 March: 3rd Test (Auckland) South Africa were without limited-overs captain AB de Villiers, who is serving a two-match suspension because of their slow over-rate in the first ODI.

The final game of the series takes place in Potchefstroom on Friday, before the Kiwis host England in February in March.

The tour starts with two Twenty20 warm-up games in Whangarei on 4 and 6 February against a New Zealand XI which will include former Black Caps captain Ross Taylor.

Taylor was replaced as skipper by Brendon McCullum last month after refusing to give up the limited-overs captaincy and decided to take a break from cricket, missing the South Africa tour, while New Zealand Cricket issued a public apology for the way he was treated.

Also in the squad for those warm-up games is wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi, 31, who was born in New Zealand but appeared in four ODIs and three Twenty20 internationals for Australia between 2008 and 2009.

He has now completed a four-year qualification period since his last appearance for the Aussies in January 2009, and is eligible to represent his homeland.

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