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Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
AR Rahman lost the Oscar 2011
AR Rahman, who was nominated for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards for the year 2010, for his score in 127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyle, has lost the Oscar.
The Oscar for Best Original Score went to Toy Story Musician, Randy Newman for 'We Belong Together' from Toy Story 3.
AR Rahman, has also lost the Oscar for best original score category, which went on to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Social Network.
Florence Welch and AR Rahman performed the 'If I Rise' on stage prior to the award being announced.
AR Rahman had earlier lost the BAFTA. Rahman had only won the Best Original Song award at the 16th Critics' Choice Movie awards held...
Salman in love with Brit model Hazel?
Though believed to have sworn to celibacy, as though determined never to let a girl distract him again, Salman Khan has surprised us.
The actor has recently found a female companion who he loves spending time with. Rumour has it that Sallu and British model Hazel are getting close to each other rather well. She took him out for a bike ride in Pune about two weeks ago, post which they spent a lot of quality time together. The weather in that city is such that you can't blame the two, but they have sure become the talk of town in Mumbai.
Salman and Hazel have been shooting together for Siddique Lal's Bodyguard for some time now but sparks...
Third batch of Indians arrives from Libya
Mumbai: The third batch of 67 Indians arrived in Mumbai from Libya early on Monday morning. So far, over 500 Indians have returned from strife-torn Libya on special Air India flights, but thousands are still stranded.
Two more Air India flights will soon leave to ferry more Indians back home. Three navy ships as well as a chartered passenger ship have also set sail as part of India's Operation Safe Homecoming.
The first batch of 291 people from Tripoli landed in the national capital late on Saturday night at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The second flight with 237 Indians on board landed at the IGI airport early on Sunday.
Those...
Oscar Awards Winners 2011
Academy Awards 2011 winners:
Tom Hooper bags the Best Director award for 'The King's Speech'. So far, 'Inception' won 4 Awards: Best Visual Effect, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Cinematography. 'The Social Network' got 3 Awards: Best Film Editing,Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score.
Christian Bale and Melissa Leo won their first Academy Awards for their respective supporting roles in the movie "The Fighter". Leo was so overcome by her win that she dropped the F bomb during her acceptance speech. Bale, later while accepting his award said, " Bloody hell, its such an honour,I am hoping not to drop the 'f' bomb like...
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Google blunts Facebook phone app on Android
Google has stepped up its data battle with Facebook by blunting the social networking site's app on its phones.
An update for its latest mobile operating system will see users' Facebook contacts disappear from the phone's address book.
Google said it took the action as it was no longer willing to exempt Facebook from its data-sharing rules.
The decision has been seen as indicative of growing tensions between the two internet giants.
The contact-altering update applies to the Gingerbread version of Google's Android mobile operating system - currently only available for the Nexus S and Nexus One handsets, which are manufactured for Google.
Makers...
Intel launches high speed Thunderbolt connector
Chip manufacturer Intel has announced it is to roll out a new technology for connecting computers and peripherals.
The system, known as Thunderbolt, promises transfer speeds twice as fast as USB 3.0.
However it won't reach its theoretical maximum because Intel has opted to use copper wires rather than fibre optic cables.
The company said it would gradually move to higher speeds over time.
Apple will become the first manufacturer to use Thunderbolt, on its Macbook Pro computers.
The Cupertino firm is said to have been a major driver of its development, although it remains to be seen how may other manufacturers will adopt the new standard.
Light...
Deutsche Bank gets 1bn won fine after Korea market fix
Deutsche Bank has been fined 1bn won ($887,000) after South Korea's regulators said its staff manipulated the country's stock market.
The fine is the largest ever handed down by Korea's stock exchange, KRX.
On Thursday, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) said Deutsche Bank staff colluded to force down the value of the stock index so that they could profit illegally.
Deutsche Bank said it was "disappointed" with the FSC's findings.
Closing rush?
The FSC started its investigation into Deutsche Bank's staff after the main KOSPI stock index fell 2.8% in the last 10 minutes of trade on 11 November.
That drop earned the staff profits of...
Friday, February 25, 2011
Apple’s Mobile Browser is Fastest
Sick of waiting for pages to load on your mobile device? Get an iPad or iPhone. That’s the upshot of a mobile browser speed study done by a company called Gomez. They found that Apple’s mobile version of Safari was fastest and BlackBerry’s browser the slowest.
According to Gomez, the iPad fully loads pages in 8.4 seconds on average. The iPhone comes in second at 19.7 seconds, followed by Android at 36.5 seconds, and Blackberry at 61 seconds.
Gomez also analyzed perceived page loading times--that is, how long it took each browser to load the items visible "above the fold" on screen (i.e. the elements visible to you when you first visit the...
'Campus placement' at Tihar, 14 get jobs :: New Delhi
It was a special campus placement session. Eight companies came calling and interviewed 46 candidates. Fourteen were given job offers while the rest hope to make the cut in the next couple of days. What's special about that? Well, the 'campus' was Delhi's Tihar jail and the candidates inmates serving time there.
At the end of the day, what the lucky 14 held in their hands weren't just job letters — they were tickets to a new life of dignity.
"This is not just an appointment letter. It is an assurance of a rehabilitated life in society which would have otherwise maybe shunned me. I can now hope for a speedy acquittal by sending this letter...
No hike in railway fares, sops for Bengal
The 2011-12 Railway Budget presented by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday saw no increase in passenger fares, 56 new trains and a clear focus on election-bound West Bengal, where her party, the Trinamool Congress, will be hoping to unseat the long-ruling Left Front government.
Apart from announcing no hike in passenger fares, Banerjee also cut booking rates for non-AC and AC tickets by Rs 10 and Rs 5 per ticket respectively.
Among the new trains that will be introduced, the Duronto (non-stop) trains will be introduced in 9 routes, including Allahabad-Mumbai, Pune-Ahmedabad, Sealdah-Puri, Madurai-Chennai, Chennai- Thiruvananthapuram...
Indian state allows claims against Coca-Cola
NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian state has passed a law allowing residents to seek compensation from soft drink giant Coca-Cola for alleged environmental damage from a former bottling plant.
Coca-Cola Co.'s Indian subsidiary, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages, says the legislation passed Thursday by Kerala state is "devoid of facts, scientific data or any input from or consideration given to" the company.
Environmental activists and local residents say the plant in Palakkad district contaminated ground water, caused severe water shortages and leeched dangerous chemicals before it was shut down in 2004.
Coca-Cola denied the allegations. A Kerala committee...
Login Edit Feedback Christchurch earthquake: Levels of liquefaction 300 - 500 pc worse
The level of liquefaction after Tuesday's 6.3 magnitude aftershock dwarfs the amount caused by the original earthquake that hit Christchurch in September, Mayor Bob Parker says. He says the amount of damage is particularly high in the city's eastern suburbs. "The scale of this is huge. "Possibly 300 to 500 per cent the level of liquefaction we had in September." Liquefaction happens when soil is subjected to severe shaking, causing it to lose strength or stiffness. It is most likely to occur in soils with poor drainage. At a press conference this evening, Mr Parker also reminded Christchurch residents to conserve water amid efforts to rep...
Man kills daughter after failed rape attempt
Palwal, Feb 24 (PTI) A man was arrested for allegedly killing his eight-year-old daughter after she resisted his attempt to rape her in the district here, police said.
The victim, a student of class three, had gone missing since November 28 last year and a report had been filed with the police in the connection, they said.
The police yesterday recovered a decomposed body of a girl near a railway crossing here, which was later identified by the victim's mother.
The father of the girl first tried to rape her and later strangulated the minor to death when she resisted him
and then dumped her body near a tree, they said.
Victim's mother alleged...
Facebook will NOT end on March 15th. Hoax news story spreads like wildfire
Heard a story that Facebook is going to end on March 15th? You should take it with a pinch of salt.
A story is spreading like wildfire across Facebook this weekend, claiming that the world's most popular social network is closing on March 15th.
The reason? CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims that "managing [Facebook] has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness."
There's only one problem with the story. It's not true. Facebook is not going to end on March 15th, and Mark Zuckerberg never said any such thing.
But that's not stopping many many Facebook users spreading the message.
Many of the messages include a link to an apparent news...
Thursday, February 24, 2011
No Oscar For This Year
Hollywood, CA. Protesting stars force cancellation of Academy Awards!
The list of Hollywood stars boycotting the 83rd Academy Awards has grown so long that organizers have been forced to pull the plug on Sunday’s ceremony. Unnamed sources say ABC will air a re-broadcast of last year’s Oscars telecast in its place.
What started out as a boycott by a few disgruntled A-listers has grown into a protest movement inspired by recent events in the Middle East. At the core of the dispute are unfair labor practices and human rights abuses that the stars are forced to endure every Oscar season. The movement reached the tipping point when the Academy...
FACEBOOK WILL END ON MARCH 15th! - incident 2day
PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March. Managing the site has become too stressful.
“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”
Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.
“After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them...
Libyan leader blames al-Qaeda for uprising - incident2day
LIBYAN LEADER Muammar Gadafy has blamed al-Qaeda for the unrest which is threatening his regime of more than 40 years.
“It is obvious now that this issue is run by al-Qaeda,” he asserted in response to a statement of support from the network’s north African franchise. He said that young people staging the uprising are being manipulated by al-Qaeda and reiterated a claim made on Tuesday that they were on drugs. He warned that the organisers of the rebellion would be prosecuted in the country’s courts and scolded parents for failing to keep their children at home.
Col Gadafy said Libyans had “no reason to complain” about their lives – unlike...
Oscars to continue on ABC TV through 2020
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - ABC television will broadcast the annual Oscar ceremony until 2020, extending its current agreement by six years, the TV network and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Thursday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - ABC television will broadcast the annual Oscar ceremony until 2020, extending its current agreement by six years, the TV network and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Thursday.
ABC, a unit of the Walt Disney Co, has broadcast the Academy Awards -- traditionally the most-watched non-sporting event of the year -- to U.S. viewers for decades.
"This contract ensures that the Oscar...
Priyanka warms up to Kareena
Mumbai Mirror reported on December 21 on ceasefire between Kareena and Priyanka. At the Mumbai Police Mela organised then, Piggy made the first move and called Bebo on stage. A six-year-long cold war ended.
Technically, Bebo should have made the second move but it seems Piggy is keener. So be it. At the Filmfare Awards rehearsals on Friday night, Priyanka went up to Bebo and gave her a warm hug. Kareena, who was scheduled to rehearse after Piggy, had to wait for a long time because a lot of changes were being added to Piggy's performance. Kareena was apparently getting very restless in the interim and she walked down to the rehearsal hall....
Sachin Tendulkar New house 1200 crores
It's official. Master-blaster Sachin Tendulkar may be tossing a coin before he puts his money on this. The Little Master is close to buying a villa in the Rs 1,200-crore Champion Reef Golf Country located near Kolar. Promoted by Bangalore-based realty major Confident Group, the sprawling villa project running alongside an 18-hole golf course is spread across 371 acres.
Sachin was seen teeing off in style at the Champion Reef golf course on Tuesday. Sources told TOI that Sachin has set his eyes on the Presidential and Imperial range of mansions at Champion Reef measuring 4,000-6,000 sft and costing anywhere between Rs 2-3 crore.
"Sachin has...
