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Nov 26th
Bigg Boss Season 5: Pooja Mishra was nominated every week since the beginning of the show but saved by her loyal fans each time. At last this week she is not nominated for elimination and she is the house caption too. Look at the irony that we got news that Pooja Mishra was asked to leave by Bigg Boss himself for her violence and physical abuse towards the house mate and MTV VJ Siddharth Bharadwaj.
From the first day itself PM starts to show her colors. She was never friendly with anyone even with those who try to be nice to her. She is really very unpredictable. The lady who is short tempered and has the gift of picking fights with random inmates More >
Oct 20th
Samsung unveiled the first smart phone ‘Galaxy Nexus’ running on Google’s latest version of the Android operating system. Samsung and Google introduced the high-end model at an event in Hong Kong, after delaying the launch last week as a tribute to the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Apple is Samsung’s biggest customer for microprocessors.
The Galaxy Nexus will be the first phone to have the new Android 4.0 operating system with a 4.65-inch high-definition “super” AM-OLED display and a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and features such new functions as face recognition to unlock the phone.
The Galaxy Nexus enables you to voice type. It has an in-line spell checker and talk to text where the user can type anything by speaking. The Galaxy Nexus comes with a 5 mp camera, with zero shutter lag and can record full HD video. It comes with the Android Beam feature, an near field communication based technology that allows you to quickly share photos, maps, contacts and videos by simply tapping two phones together. More >
Oct 20th
Muammar Gaddafi, former Libyan leader died of wounds suffered in his capture on Thursday near his hometown of Sirte according to a senior NTC military official.
Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked.
“He was also hit in his head,” the official said. “There was a lot of firing against his group and he died.”
Muammar Gaddafi death occurred after an eight-month-old uprising against his rule.
This is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts More >
Oct 13th
RIM,the makers of BlackBerry smartphone are working frantically to end a three-day global service disruption as the issue continued for the third day and now people of US have found the similar problems with their Blackberry smartphone.
Blackberry’s owner, RIM, blamed the latest outages on a backlog of emails to Europe from Asia and the Americas.
“It is a backlog issue,” RIM software vice president David Yach says.
“Clearly we have a backlog in Europe… as you can imagine, with the global reach of Blackberry and people using it to contact others around the world, there’s a lot of messages to Europe from Asia and the Americas.
“Over time that backlog has built up and affected our other systems.” More >
Oct 11th
NFL: Detroit Lions made the long-awaited return on Monday night by beating Chicago Bears. Matthew Stafford threw two touchdown passes and Jahvid Best added an 88-yard scoring run in Detroit’s 24-13 victory over Chicago. The Bears looked nervous from the start by the noise level at Ford Field. They committed nine false start penalties and struggled to protect quarterback Jay Cutler.
The Lions are now 5-0 for the first time since 1956 and this was their first regular-season Monday night game in a decade. Matthew Stafford threw a More >
Sep 29th
Amazon’s Kindle fire tablet launched for $199 after much waiting. The kindle fire costs $199 and will run on modified version of Google’s Androd operating system which may prove as the latest and biggest challenger to Apple Inc.’s dominant iPad. The tablet has a 7-inch screen and can access Amazon’s app store, streaming movies and TV shows. The sales start from Nov 15 and the pre-orders started from 28th September.
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos said during the launch, “We asked ourselves, Is there some way we can bring all of the things such as web service, Prime, Kindle, More >
Sep 26th
Boeing delivers the first 787 Dreamliner on Sunday. The first one goes to Japan’s All Nippon Airways, which has been printing the 787 logo and “We Fly 1st” on its business cards for years. The new jet, which was supposed to be flying passengers three years ago, has been delayed by production and design problems.
Boeing expects to deliver a combined 25 to 30 of the 787s and new 747-8 this year. To meet the high demand Boeing has set an ambitious goal of building 10 per month by the end of 2013. No one has ever made a large plane that fast. The 787 list price runs between $185 million and $218 million. More >
Sep 26th
Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder attended the 63rd Emmys but didn’t walk the red carpet together. The Vampire Diaries co stars have been dating for a while but want to be on low profile.
When asked about their walking together on the red carpet of Emmys she said “If I was standing next to him, I’d be his arm candy, I get a little bit nervous. He makes me giddy.”
Dobrev lists out the good qualities of her love Ian Somerhalder. She previously said that they get along so well because they More >
Sep 23rd
HP named Meg Whitman, the former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman as its president and CEO in the place of Leo Apotheker. Apotheker has been harshly criticized before and in a bid to restore investor confidence HP took this step.
Whitman is an Internet retail expert who transformed eBay from a few dozen employees in 1998 into a global Internet retail powerhouse. Her elevation surprised many with its hastiness and Apotheker becomes the third straight HP CEO shown the door.
“Some might be saying maybe Meg Whitman isn’t the right person, either. She’s not a hardware person,” said Auriga analyst Kevin Hunt. But HP “just needs someone to set the direction.”
Whitman said HP remained committed to completing a review of its PC division before the year ends, and expected to close the pricey $12 billion acquisition of British software maker Autonomy Corp Plc as planned.
HP’s shares closed down 4.8 percent at $22.80, wiping out much of Wednesday’s 6.6 percent gain.
“We would view any decision not to conduct a comprehensive search of internal and external candidates for a permanent CEO role as unsatisfactory and More >