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Aug 23rd
HP discounted tablets and Touchpad rates. The $99 HP tablet has arrived. Hewlett-Packard TouchPads are being liquidated in the wake of HP’s announcement that it is shuttering the WebOS device business. HP announced a fire sale over the weekend. The company’s website listed the 16 GB model at $100 and the 32 GB version at $150.
Across the Internet Sunday and Monday, people were frantically trying to find out where they might score that one $99 tablet. At this point, it appears that brick and mortar stores More >
Aug 23rd
Indian politics and social issues are in an interesting process these days. The Jan Lokpal bill is proposed by Anna Hazare, who belongs to an NGO in Maharashtra, India. Anna Hazare is a well known activist and a recipient of Padma Bhushan Award in 1992. Through out his life the ex-militia fought for many social issues like prohibition of alcohol, removal of untouchability and development of grain bank, watershed program, milk production, education, conducted collective marriages and gram sabhas for the people.
With this type of back ground as the social activist Anna is the right person to lead a cause like anti corruption bill. People has no doubt of intentions and sincerity regarding Lokpal bill as in the early 2000s Anna Hazare led a movement in Maharashtra state which forced the state government to pass a stronger Maharashtra Right to Information Act. This Act was later considered as the base document for the Right to Information Act 2005 (RTI), enacted by the Union Government. It also ensured that the President of India assented to this new Act.
Now Anna is protesting for the approval of Jan Lokpal bill. Hazare initiated a Satyagraha movement for passing a stronger anti-corruption Lokpal (ombudsman) bill in the Indian Parliament as conceived in the Jan Lokpal Bill (People’s Ombudsman Bill).
The Jan Lokpal Bill was drafted earlier by N. Santosh Hegde, former justice of the Supreme Court of India and Lokayukta of Karnataka, Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court and Arvind Kejriwal, a social activist along with members of the India Against Corruption movement. This draft bill incorporated more stringent provisions and wider power to the Lokpal More >
Aug 19th
“Fright Night” is an action comedy than a straight-out horror film. Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) is a nerd who has joined the cool crowd recently by dropping his oldest friend “Evil” Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) for a hot cheerleader girlfriend (Imogen Poots). Jerry Dandrige (Colin Farrell) is a single man, handsome and charming, who lives next door to the Brewsters to which charley’s mom (Toni Collette) takes a liking to. Charley’s friend Ed notices that students are going missing from their classroom and begins to suspect Jerry may be a vampire. Ed’s attempts to convince Charley that Jerry is actually a vampire fail, but when Ed himself goes missing. Charley goes to the only person who might have the answer: Peter Vincent (David Tennant), the Las Vegas magician who boasts of supernatural knowledge on how to kill vampires.
Fright Night makes use of an ideal location: Las Vegas, a city of the night. It takes place in a suburban housing development of eerie isolation. Fright Night was More >
Aug 19th
HP, the largest computer manufacturer is in talks to buy Autonomy, an enterprise infrastructure software company. A report from Bloomberg states that HP is all set to buy the European infrastructure software company Autonomy for $10 billion.
Hewlett-Packard will discontinue its line of products running its WebOS operating system, including TouchPad tablets, the company said today.
Autonomy’s main technology, ‘Intelligent Data Operating Layer‘ (IDOL), allows search and processing of text taken from database, audio, video or text files or streams. The company’s software allows enterprises to provide insight and structure to electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video.
HP also reported that it is exploring ‘strategic alternatives’ for its Personal More >
Aug 16th
Elvis Presley died at the age of 42 on August 16, 1977. Mr. Presley had been found unconscious in a room at his Graceland home and was declared dead at a Tennessee hospital an hour later due to drug overdose.
A 15,000 to 20,000 devotees and fans of Elvis Presley from all over the world including Japan, England and Germany gathered at Presley’s home in Graceland and held a candlelight vigil to mark the 34th anniversary of the rock star.
Elvis Presley was born in a two-room house in 1935 and performed with his parents at camps and church meetings in his childhood. More >
Aug 15th
JAI HIND! The world’s largest democratic country India celebrating its 64 years of independence from british rule. Till today Indians remember those legends like Gandhi, Bhagat singh and Netaji who sacrificed their life and motivated thousands of indians to fight for freedom.
India got freedom from foreigners but after 64 years its still fighting to get freedom from corruption, terrorism and many more issues. More >
Aug 14th
The country Band Sugarland is about to perform at the Indiana State fair, but the state collapsed due to wind. The wind just picked up and the stage just caught and the roof just caught and it went up like a sail and then it crashed forward into the people standing in the front. There were people trapped underneath and everyone was running and screaming. They were asking any medics or nurses not to leave. More >
Aug 10th
London riots started as a result of fatal shooting of London Police continued for 3 days burning the London city. On Wednesday the London forces are able to control the situation by making thousands of arrests. Now the rioting has spread from London to Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool.
The capital, is calm on Wednesday where hundreds of shops were shuttered or boarded up as a precaution. Massive police presence on the streets seemed to dissuade the rioters from wreaking more havoc. But as the riots spread to other big cities and a copycat violence, looting and arson erupted last night in More >
Aug 10th
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales have been blocked by a patent law suit filed by Apple. A German court granted Apple a preliminary injunction against the Korean company Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet sales in UK as well as Europe. Regional Court of Düsseldorf issued an injunction prohibiting the sale and importation of the Galaxy 10.1 throughout the European Union except for the Netherlands.
Samsung was sued by Apple over the look and feel of the Galaxy S products and the ruling was given on the grounds that it infringes the iPad’s design. Up to $350,000 fine for each violation and potential jail time for Samsung’s leadership if the infringement continues.
Apple issued a statement: “It’s no coincidence that Samsung’s latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging. This kind of blatant copying is wrong, and we More >