Heroes........................
By the promos and title i thought its going to be a war movie, But i was wrong its not a war movie,surprizingly its a inspirational movie.
The story starts with a normal plot.................Two friends love to do all things which normal youth will dream off(Roaming with GirlFriends, Disco and all the stuff...) And the graduation day comes, where the both of them are defaulters and adviced to do a short movie on a topic to get the degree.
The idea they come up with is quite interasting, "Few reasons why not to join indian army". One person decided to help them out with a task, Three letters-Three different places they need to take those there(These letters are the last letters of the army persones to there home).
First to punjab--Cute preity zinta riding a tractor(the widow of salmaan).Taking care of the whole family.The story is normal.Both asks them questiones abt salmaan and at end they decide that "Do not join indian army".
Second to Himachal Pradesh--Dashing Sunny Deol(Brother of army officer bobby deol).Here we feel whats the role of bobby deol in the film?Some unreal fight(Its always true with sunny afterall)when sunny is not having legs.Now some unclerence in the youths mind but still the answer is same "Do not join indian army"
Third to a commanding officer asking for a leave(From dino Mario)--Directed to the dinos mother and father by the youths.Father is angry on dino as he didnt listened him.Youths mind changes ("We need to do something now"). Now they help the family with changing the mind of father.....................
Last Youths opened a college(A Different unexpected end) where salmaan comes as a army officer(this is son of first salmaan)
Heroes A Good One to Watch
Golmaal Returns or Old Ideas Returns
Ubuntu 8.10 Mobile Revolution Out
On 30th Oct. Ubuntu realesed its new product Ubuntu 8.10 featuring as New Mobile Revolution.
The site says
Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition delivers the features you need for an increasingly mobile digital life, including 3G wireless support and guest sessions that lets users temporarily share computers without compromising security. Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition consolidates its support for virtualization with an integrated Virtual Machine builder, More
Apple introduces new Mac Laptops
Apple introduced 2 new laptops they did make a splash by cutting the price of an existing, entry-level MacBook, by $100 to $999 - making it the first sub-$1,000 Apple notebook. Rumors over the past week of an even lower priced laptop turned out to be unfounded.
Apple announced two MacBook models that will sell for $1,299 and $1,599. In addition, he premiered MacBook Pro laptops, popular with more hard-core computer users, that will cost $1,999 and $2,499.
Nokias new 6212 Classic Featuring NFC
Nokia introduced new Classic 6221 with NFC
A short-range wireless communication technology for electronic devices, with a reach of a couple of inches, NFC enables users to receive new content such as Web links, audio files or contact data directly to their phone. Users can also personalize and edit their own NFC tags -- be it for writing calendar entries or setting the alarm clock. Interestingly, playing the role of a wallet, this new NFC-enabled handset also allows users to access services and information as well as conduct payments and book tickets with a single tap of the device. Tickets can be booked over the air, which obviates the need to wait at the service counter. Users can store their credit card information on the device and access the account online from the handset. However, all of this can be done after subscribing to a service and installing an appropriate secure application. To ensure secure transactions, which Nokia guarantees, the handset can be set to allow payment only after the transaction is authorized via an additional password.
Samsung offers new HSUPA
High-Speed Uplink Packet Access(HSUPA) aims to offer mobile broadband for cellular phones. Conventional 3G offers upload and download speeds of around 384Kbps, whereas HSUPA (High-Speed Uplink Packet Access) allows upload speeds to 2Mbps. Samsung has joined the league of phone-makers offering HSUPA by launching its very first handset that supports this technology. Called the SCH-M470, the phone is a slider-type handset and features a 2 megapixel camera.
Along with HSUPA, the phone promises to offer efficient Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0 support, video-calling, push-button email, and Google search functions. The phone is compatible with Windows Mobile. Gartner, a market research firm, has predicted that global HSUPA mobile phone market would grow from 77 million units in this year to 280 million units in 2009, and 600 million units in 2010.
Arman Malik URF Karan Singh Grover BioGraphy from WIKI
His Personal life
I am 24-(2008)(Post-production)
Bhram-(2008)coming up soon
Windows 7 in upcoming future- Bill Gates
Expect the next version of Windows (Windows 7) sometime in the next year or so -- as hinted by none other than Microsoft Boss Bill Gates. "That'll be sometime in the next year or so that we'll have a new version," Gates is reported to have said during a Q&A session at a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Miami. The audience had gathered to hear him talk about corporate philanthropy. Gates added, "I'm super-enthused about what it (the new version) will do in lots of ways." However, he didn't give details as to what changes or features the new version would have.
Samsungs new the 2 ON Phone
Samsung Telecommunications India (STI) today announced the launch of Samsung 2ON, described as the first Dual Standby CDMA cum GSM handset. What's different about the phone, Samsung claims, is its 2 SIM slots -- one for GSM and the other for CDMA. The 2ON is capable of operating on almost all telecom services (GSM and CDMA) in the country. Samsung also claims it is the first CDMA phone to support both Tata Indicom and Reliance Communications (RCom) value-added services (VAS) on the same handset.
Housed in a stylish metallic design, the 2ON comes with a 2.3-inches TFT touch-screen, a 2 mega pixels camera, micro SD card slot up to 1GB, and MP3/AAC+ player. The handset packs a slew of software including Handwriting Recognition, File Viewer, Sketch Memo, Advanced Organiser Capability with Functional Screen, plus India-specific Hinglish, Mobile Prayer, and Panchang. The phone comes with a 1200mAh battery for extra power for switching between two networks. It doubles as modem to access Internet at speeds of 153kbps on CDMA network.
Google Docs
If there's one thing users want to change about Google Docs, it's the application's inability to work offline. But all that's about to change now. Google says it has started working towards an offline feature of Google Docs that will allow users to edit documents offline (sans any Internet connection). This is indeed good news for those who are always on the fly, and want to be able to access Google Docs at the most unlikely moment and at the most unlikely place. Initially, only the Word processor will get this ability with users being able to view and edit documents offline. Subsequently though, users will be able to view their Spreadsheet documents offline as well. However, they won't be able to edit these documents. Meanwhile, Google says it's early days still and that they are working towards adding more capabilities including being able to edit spreadsheets and presentations and so on.
How does the feature work? Changes made when in offline mode are temporarily stored on the user's PC, and automatically get synchronized with Google Docs servers when the PC goes online (is connected to the Internet). Google says it is also planning to add this feature to other hosted services in the Google Apps suite including Gmail, Calendar, GTalk. etc.
Photoshop Express Launched Today
Today, Adobe Systems is opening "Photoshop Express", its eagerly-awaited Web-based image editor meant for all those wanting to be able to touch up, share, and store photographs. What's more, the service that is today going live in beta test mode, is available for free along with 2GB of storage at www.photoshop.com/express.
"Photoshop Express" requires Flash Player 9 to run. As a photo-sharing site, it will allow users upload photos onto albums, organize them, make them public for sharing else share them through email links, and generate and email Flash slide-shows. For editing purposes, "Photoshop Express" will not only provide tools for adjusting exposure, color, and sharpness but also special effects that help transform poor pictures into something a tad more interesting. And unlike Adobe's desktop software, "Photoshop Express" will offer a snapshot history of all edits. "Photoshop Express" will also allow users work with third-party Web sites. For instance, Facebook photos can be opened and edited directly in "Photoshop Express". When done, they can be sent back to Facebook as well.
LG LAunches new phones KF510
The new slim phone boasts of Interactive Touch Lighting system that allows the user to scroll and navigate animated multifunction menu with a fingertip. The LG-KF510 is equipped with number of features including a 3 megapixel camera with a power flash and a one-second response time. It also has an advanced MP3 player with which the user can automatically sort music into play lists or categories. Another striking feature of this phone is that its battery saves power capacity through Auto Luminance Control (ALC) which self-adjusts to the brightness of the LED screen.
The LG-KF510 is available in two colour schemes Stardust Dark Gray and Sunset Red on the full metal exterior. Speaking during the launch, Dr Skott Ahn, CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications, said that 2008 marked a new paradigm in mobile phone design for the company. With its sleek aesthetic and superior technology, it will appeal to many discerning consumers that value both style and substance, he added.
Sony Ericsson W890 Available
Ridhima Gupta and Arman Malik on new turn in Dil Mil Gaye
Yes thats true Arman is back thats old arman is back nice to be heard na?
Well due to bad beh. of rhidima gupta arman turns to be wild again so wait is over for old dil mil gaye watch and enjoy............................................................
AMD started Toliman
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has started volume shipping its "Toliman" triple-core Phenom processors exclusively to PC makers and OEMs, as was announced in September last year.
According to an extremetech.com report, the company plans to officially launch "Toliman" chips in the first quarter of this year.
Another report suggests that initial products in the "Toliman" series will include: the 2.1GHz 8450, 2.3GHz 8650, and 2.4GHz 8750. Of which, AMD has begun shipping the 2.1GHz and 2.3GHz processors to Dell (for their OptiPlex 740 desktops) and to HP (for their AL195AW desktops) respectively.
The triple-core Phenoms are said to be less power-hungry than AMD's four-core Phenoms -- with a power consumption of 89W as compared to the 95W of the latter. The triple-core Phenoms support socket AM2+ motherboards while featuring AMD's HyperTransport 3.0 technology.
For AMD, the triple-core chips might be an effective way to sell quad-core chips that failed to run at expected speeds. Incidentally, the triple-core Phenoms are the same quad-core ones -- with one core disabled.
Leslie Sobon, director (Product and Brand Management -- Desktop Division) of AMD, said that the first "Toliman" samples had been sent to partners last year with glitches being fixed later. He claimed the triple-cores allowed for 30 percent added performance over dual-cores, while the quad-cores made for another 20 percent performance over triple-cores.
Incidentally, AMD's roadmap, released in September last year, also mentioned a second "Heka" triple-core chip in 2009 and a Gen-Next "Regor" dual-core chip the same year.
Western Digitals new My PAssport Essential usb drive
Western Digital (WD) have today introduced their "My Passport Essential" portable USB drives. These new drives are designed to complement WD's 'My Book' family of external drives. They introduce a sleek new form that WD claims feels good in your hand, as well as fits neatly into your pocket or purse. "My Passport Essential" portable drives sport a glossy black finish, and put nearly a third of a terabyte of digital storage into the palm of your hand.
At less than five ounces of weight, the drives are truly light and portable; they also don't need an external power adapter as they're bus-powered. They come equipped with Windows only-compatible sync and encryption software. Despite their dimunitive size, they are capable of securely carrying thousands of songs, videos, and photos, WD claims. With WD sync software, consumers can carry desktop content along with them by way of simplified synchronization of essential personal files and Microsoft Outlook data on PCs. In the event drives are misplaced, data remains protected with 128-bit encryption. The drives have Google software allowing users to quickly locate files with Google Desktop Search, manage photos with Picasa photo organizer software, and simplify Web searches with Google Toolbar search bar. Speaking at the launch, Sharad Srivastava, director sales (India and South Asia) of Western Digital, said, "The newly designed 'My Passport Essential' drives are the perfect travel-friendly storage device to hold the rich media content generated by higher resolution photos and HD videos and music."
Jumper Review
Yet the journey is just beginning…Rice finds that he is not the only Jumper when he encounters Griffin (Jamie Bell) and the two evade the Paladins, those who are sworn to kill all the Jumpers. Roland (Samuel L Jackson) is the main goon and is sensational looking with his platinum hair and grimacing face. Roland has been determined to capture and kill Rice since the bank vault heist and through countless trips to Italy, New York, Michigan and everywhere in between, it is Jumper vs. Paladin. In the end, of course Rice is victorious and the answers that he seeks are his next chapter: The search for his mother who left him as a young child. He comes across her in his travels, but her appearance is not yet explained.
Google DoubleClick Merger
The deal was given a clean chit by the regulators based on several factors
After the acquisition of DoubleClick -- a company that offers online ad-serving and management technology to advertisers, Web publishers, and ad agencies -- Google Chairman and CEO, Eric Schmidt, said, "We are thrilled that our acquisition of DoubleClick has closed. With DoubleClick, Google now has the leading display ad platform, which will enable us to rapidly bring to market advances in technology and infrastructure that will dramatically improve the effectiveness, measurability, and performance of digital media for publishers, advertisers, and agencies, while improving the relevance of advertising for users." On the flip side, the merger will bring along a definite reduction in headcount -- in the US and in other regions as well, as Schmidt published on the Official Google Blog yesterday.
Sonny Ericsson's K800i
Samsung L74W
The solid-feeling L74W is actually rather slim, measuring approximately 25mm thick. Its metal body is a nick magnet, though; the black surface seemed to pick up scratches at the slightest tap. The camera itself feels quite durable, but you won't keep it in pristine shape for long. A 3-inch touch screen LCD takes up the entirety of the camera's back. It serves as the camera's primary control interface, supplemented only by two buttons and the zoom rocker. Every setting, from flash to white balance, must be changed through the touch screen menus. As with most touch screen interfaces, navigating with the L74W's screen feels awkward and unresponsive, and repeated taps are often necessary to access the right function.
10,000 B.C. A Avrage One
It was a time when man and beast were untamed and the mighty mammoth roamed the earth. A time when ideas and beliefs were born that forever shaped mankind. 10,000 B.C. follows a young hunter (Steven Strait) on his quest to lead an army across a vast desert, battling saber tooth tigers and prehistoric predators as he unearths a lost civilization and attempts to rescue the woman he loves (Camilla Belle) from an evil warlord determined to possess her.
Aside from its plot holes, storytelling deficiencies and often terrible special effects, there were really only three things I could think about while watching 10,000 B.C.: colored contacts aren't distinctive, they're distracting; Roland Emmerich is essentially Michael Bay with more ambition; and in the wake of 300, all historical epics may in fact need that cartoonish, desaturated patina in order to be taken seriously. Why one would be paying attention to any of these things during an opus as sweeping and melodramatic as this film should be is a testament as to how effective the end result is. But as the default cartoon/parody version of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, 10,000 B.C. is a big movie whose charms are sadly small and superficial at best.
In the film, Steven Strait (The Covenant) stars as D'Leh, a young mammoth hunter who finds his mettle tested when slave traders invade his village and kidnap his beloved companion Evolet (Camilla Belle). Following the traders' trail through dangerous lands with the help of village elder Tic'Tic (Cliff Curtis), D'Leh begins to come of age, both as a hunter and a man. But when he arrives at an enormous construction site where Evolet is sentenced to be sacrificed to the gods, he quickly realizes that he must learn what it takes to be a leader.
The film's very first scenes are the ones featuring the worst special effects -- seldom have I felt less convinced that actors were in a given location than when projected here against detached wintry backdrops, or running alongside massive, computer-generated woolly mammoths. But worse than this is the fact that the movie is shot virtually without any style, as if set design and CGI would compensate for Emmerich's lack of directorial panache. I wouldn't have argued this at the time of its release, but 300 has really changed the defining look of these historical epics, perhaps for some years to come. Watching perfunctorily-shot exchanges between two extras from those cavemen TV commercials, the film feels more like a Saturday Night Live skit than any kind of authentic epic.
That said, Emmerich is actually a competent director, in the sense that -- visually speaking -- everything in his film makes sense. It's in this modest regard that I count him as superior to the aforementioned Bay, who sometimes ignores great stretches of necessary visual coherence in order to exercise his frenetic "creativity." Additionally, Emmerich's vision is larger and more ambitious: Where Bay seems content to make movies bigger and louder, Emmerich wants to expand their scope and really create a universe. Mind you, neither are destined for directing awards any time soon, and in fact there are plenty of stunning gaffes in 10,000 B.C., but I can respect its ambition enough to ignore some of those shortcomings -- for a while, anyway.
Overall, 10,000 B.C. is one of the more inoffensive films I've seen this year, even if it isn't very good. Unlike garbage like Fool's Gold, Emmerich and his cast and crew seem to be interested in trying something, even if collectively they don't pull it off. So I don't recommend the film, and in fact disliked it a lot, but there's nothing aggressively bad or painful about it. There have already been and will be plenty of awful pictures in 2008, but the worst ones will haunt you long after you've left the theater. In which case, the best thing that can be said about 10,000 B.C. is that it won't spend the next 10,000 years, much less 10 minutes, in your mind once you've seen it -- especially if you can ignore those contact lenses.
Microsoft releses IE 8 beta for developers
Now at the ongoing MIX08, Microsoft's Web designer and developer conference, the software giant has shown the first IE 8 beta and announced its availability for download by developers.
IE 8 beta 1 is a developer preview for Web designers and developers to help prepare their Web sites for the new version. Some of the features designed for developers include a developer toolbar and improved interoperability and compatibility. The integrated developer tools will help quickly debug HTML, CSS, and scripts in a visual environment.
Two days ago, Microsoft also announced that IE 8 will be set to render content using methods that give top priority to Web standards interoperability -- and this will be the default. The new version includes two new features, Activities and WebSlices. "Activities" are contextual services that will provide quick access to external services from any Web page. The feature will look up information related to data on the current page and send content from the current page to another application. "WebSlices", as the name suggests, will enable Web sites to expose portions of their page that users can subscribe to, and bring that content with them on their links bar wherever they are on the Web. Users will be able to receive update notifications when the content changes.
Apple Partners Nike, Samsung Adidas
Apple and Nike have announced that together, they are going to work with several gym equipment manufacturers such as Fitness, Precor, Star Trac, and Technogym and some health clubs like 24-Hour Fitness, and Virgin Athletic to help exercise-enthusiasts keep track of their health regime.
users will be able to plug their iPod nano into an iPod dock on their cardio gym equipment like treadmills, stair climbers, and stationary bikes. While they are sweating it out, the iPod will allow them record their workout data, as also upload and track this data at the nikeplus.com Web site. To make it even more interesting, they will be able to compare notes with other fitness-freaks on the site, and set exercise goals for themselves. Another instance of tech focusing on fitness is the partnership between Samsung and Adidas; they're coming out with a fitness program dubbed "miCoach" that comprises a mobile phone acting as a fitness trainer; a heart rate monitor tuning into the rhythm of the user's body; and a stride sensor to measure speed and distance while running. The phone in question is a camera-clad quad-band slider from Samsung, optimized for music-listening and data storage. It offers latest-generation phone features. "miCoach" works as a pedometer, heart rate monitor, and MP3 player -- all in one. Once a user is connected to the heart rate monitor and step counter, "miCoach" will provide information about the user's heart beat, distance covered, and running time when he/she plans to go for a run. All this information gets stored on the mobile phone, and can be accessed by the user later through earphones. It can also be uploaded onto miCoach's fitness Web site to keep track of the user's fitness regime; like in case of the Apple-Nike partnership. All said, for Samsung and Adidas, this is a first but for Apple and Nike, their association dates back to over a year ago when they introduced the "Nike+ technology".
Dil Mil Gaye Star One Arman Malik Gone
The famous Series from Star One Arman Malik gone for some days by geting angry onm rhythima
AMD Opteron Launch
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) has announced that its quad-core Opteron chip (previously codenamed "Barcelona") for servers is ready for launch. The company will start shipping the B3 version of the chip to channel and distribution partners this week.
Earlier, a 2007 release was announced for the quad-core chip but due to a bug discovered in the chip before its launch, the B2 version was distributed only to a select high-performance computing market. The company declared a 2008 release last December. And now that the bug problem is said to have been solved, AMD will start pushing out its product to a wider audience.
t is learnt that system vendors like Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP) will be adopting AMD's quad-core chip. The chip will be integrated in their upcoming servers to be made available in the second quarter of this year. HP s upcoming ProLiant DL585 will be using the processor.
The Opteron is AMD's first quad-core chip for servers; Intel being the first to introduce its quad-core chip for servers in 2006. Intel implemented the method of putting two dual-core chips together to create its quad-core chip. AMD, on the other hand, has integrated all four cores onto a single chip.
Intel anounces Atom
Intel has announced naming (branding) its new family of ultra-small, low-power processors for ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) as "Atom".
Described by the company as "a fundamental new shift in design, small yet powerful enough to enable a big Internet experience on these new devices," "Atom" joins other Intel brands, including Core, Core 2, Celeron, and Xeon.
The "Atom" family of processors is based on a new microarchitecture; meant for smaller devices with lower power consumption, Intel said.
A typical "Atom" chip is less than 25 square millimeters, with 11 of the chip's dies (slivers of Silicon with 47 million transistors each) capable of fitting into an area that's less than the size of a US penny.
Two of the members of the "Atom" family; previously codenamed 'Silverthorne' and 'Diamondville' have already been discussed at length, and are scheduled to ship towards the middle of this year. Both 'Silverthorne' and 'Diamondville' are based on Intel's 45 nanometer chipmaking technology.
'Silverthorne' integrates a new low-power state, enabling it to shut down in between processing tasks, thereby reducing power consumption. Meanwhile, 'Diamondville' is said to sport a design much simpler than that deployed by standard Intel chips.
Sangli on Fire
Hi Friends this blog is all about technology and Entertainment Posts but why a local one
Because my home town is SANGLI a city in maharashtra india
Yesturday our Pollice Chief Attacked on a Social Worker and all this starts all sangli was on fire between the peoples supportrd the social worker and the pollice and all transport all schools everything goes down. All lifestyle of peoples got desturbed i have never seen sangli as quite as this in last 22 years. What to say now but i am very disappointed with this situation.
Googles Undersea Cable
Google said Monday that it was part of a six-company consortium that would build a new $300 million high-capacity underwater fiber-optic cable linking the United States and Japan.
Google is the only member of the consortium that is not a telecommunications company. When rumors of its participation in the project first surfaced last fall just as rumors of a Googlephone were spreading, they sparked speculation that Google, which joined a bid for wireless spectrum in the United States, had broad ambitions in the telecom area.
Google itself, however, is trying to preclude that speculation. The company is essentially confirming what The New York Times reported last fall when those rumors first spread: Google is joining the project to cut the high costs of sending massive amounts of search, video and application traffic around the world.
IBMs new z10
The mainframe, the aged yet surprisingly resilient survivor of computing, is getting a face-lift. A model called the I.B.M. z10, which is being introduced Tuesday, is far faster and has three times the data-juggling memory of its three-year-old predecessor, the z9.
But the significance of the new machine, analysts say, is that it is a big step in a broad campaign by I.B.M. to make the mainframe computer a high-performance, energy-efficient engine for running all kinds of nonmainframe software.
The goal, according to I.B.M. executives and analysts, is to recast the mainframe as a nimble supercomputer in corporate and government data centers, running Web-based programs, Linux, advanced data mining and business intelligence software.
To do that, I.B.M. has refined its mainframe hardware and come up with new software tools, as part of a five-year, $1.5-billion overhaul.
“The mainframe’s ability to survive is only as good as its ability to innovate and compete for these new computing workloads of the future,” an analyst at Forrester Research, Brad Day, said. “And I.B.M. is starting to succeed at that.”
The stakes are high. Though the sales of mainframes account for less than 4 percent of I.B.M.’s revenue, the sales of mainframe software, storage and services are a big, profitable business. The overall business dependent on mainframes represents about 25 percent of company revenue and nearly half of its profit, said A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.
At Hannaford Brothers in Scarborough, Me., a supermarket chain with stores in five states, the company has consolidated many programs onto its two mainframes. They include its consumer Web site, its Web portal for tracking shipments from suppliers and store and customer data that were once housed on computers in individual stores.
“The mainframe has become very flexible and very scalable for us,” said Bill Homa, Hannaford’s chief information officer.
Simens MenPower Cut
Siemens is to cull 6,800 jobs at its troubled corporate telecommunications unit, after announcing last summer that a relatively small 600 would have to go.
Siemens Enterprise Communications division (SEN) plans to cut 3,800 jobs directly, including up to 2,000 in Germany. SEN's headquarters and other administrative and support functions are expected to be hardest hit.
The main reason for the restructuring is that Siemens has failed to find a buyer for its division. When Siemens created a network partnership with Nokia, some of its activities became obsolete. Talks with Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, and buyout firm Cerburus to sell off these assets led nowhere. However, sources say these negotiations are still ongoing.
IE 8
Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year.
Microsoft executives are expected to reveal further details about the browser's features at the software maker's upcoming Mix conference in Las Vegas next week.
Last year at Mix, Microsoft outlined some of the features planned for IE8, including standards compliance and tools to ease web development.
Microsoft and HDDVD
Microsoft will end production of the external HD DVD drive for its Xbox 360 video game console
The company said it would, however, continue to offer warranty support for the peripheral.
"HD DVD is one of the several ways we offer a high definition experience to consumers and we will continue to give consumers the choice to enjoy digital distribution of high definition movies and TV shows directly to their living room, along with playback of the DVD movies they already own," Blair Westlake, a corporate vice president of Microsoft's media and entertainment group, said in a statement.
The drive, which currently costs about $130, was intended as Microsoft's answer to Sony's PlayStation 3 console, which contained an integrated Blu-ray Disc drive.
Microsoft is just the latest top-tier tech company to abandon the failed high-definition disc format. Along with Toshiba, Intel, and NEC, Microsoft was one of the most prominent supporters of the standard.
Intel 8-core
For those craving more performance than can be delivered by four processing cores and a single graphics card, Intel has introduced the new Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. Formerly codenamed "Skulltrail," this platform supports two Intel quad-core processors, and offers a choice of multi-card graphics solutions.
First unveiled at the 2007 Intel Developer Forum, Skulltrail combines Intel Desktop Board D5400XS and Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors, and is mainly targeted at power-hungry gamers, who can use multiple graphics card solutions from either Nvidia or ATI. In addition to PC gamers, the new platform is also targeted at 3D animators, digital audio artists, and high-definition (HD) video editors who create video games for consoles and desktops.
it seems that the Rajnikanth-Aishwarya Rai pair on screen is truly jinxed.
Ash has often been approached to star in the Tamil superstar's films like Chandramukhi, Sivaji: The Boss and his latest film, Robot.
But a source tells us that Ash has opted out of Shankar's Robot as well. This, despite the fact that she was apparently offered Rs 6 crores for the film, the highest ever for an actress.
It seems Shankar asked for dates spread over two years for Robot. But Ash, who reportedly wants to start a family soon, could not spare dates over such a long time.
Blackbery Perl now in india new phone
A day after Valentine's Day, Vodafone and Research in Motion (RIM) have launched the stylish BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smart phone in the country.
Highlights of the new Pearl are: built-in GPS, rich multimedia features, and powerful communication capabilities of the BlackBerry solution, to name a few.
Nokias New Service
At the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona in Spain, Nokia has announced the beta version of Nokia Maps 2.0 -- among other announcements.
Nokia claims Maps 2.0 takes mapping and navigation to the next level by enhancing pedestrian navigation, adding multimedia city guides, offering satellite images, and sporting a redesigned user interface (UI).
Googles New Product
Google has expanded its free software suite 'Google Apps' with a new version that allows users to collaborate on documents, calendars, and presentations within an organization.
Google Apps "Team Edition" is targeted at both employees and students. Any group can verify their business- or school- email address, and can instantly start sharing documents and calendars securely without getting the IT department involved.
Once a user has signed up for the "Team Edition", he/she is allowed to invite others to join, or identify people within the organization already using Google Apps -- to collaborate and share documents.
Anyone who signs up from a user's domain is automatically added to the user's group, even without an invitation.
"Team Edition" currently covers Google Docs, comprising documents, spreadsheets, and presentations; Google Calendar; Google Talk; Start Page for Apps services; and customized content.