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Blue-eyed blonde American teen Alexandria Mills has won the Miss World crest for 2010, beating more than 100 other hopefuls at a glittering observance in south China.

Mills, an 18-year-old from the south US state of Kentucky, wept as outgoing Miss World Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar put the tiara on her head and directed her to a diamond-shaped throne assessing the pageant’s 60th anniversary.

The 1.75-metre attractiveness in white – a expert form recorded with the Elite Models bureau – signalled to the barracking gathering at the 2000-capacity Beauty Crown Theatre in the holiday resort village of Sanya on Hainan island.

During the two-hour affray, which every year sketches a international TV assembly of about one billion, Mills said her month expended exploring China with the other 114 Miss World hopefuls had made a “big impact” on her life.

Botswana’s Emma Wareus was second, and Venezuela’s Adriana Vasini put third in the pageant, which was first held in 1951.

The pageant got off to a colourful start with a presentation by dancers and drummers from China’s Li ethnic few assembly, who mostly reside on Hainan isle, which was hosting the happening for the fifth time in eight years.

Before the contestants whirled in nationwide costume for the “Dances of the World” segment, viewers were treated to a video montage of the women’s whirlwind trip of China – from the Great Wall to the buying malls.

Early very well liked Mariann Birkedal of Norway, recorded by British bookmaker William Hill as the woman to trounce before Mills, completed in the peak seven.

A win for Norway could have initiated a mix in Beijing, where the government is angry that the Oslo-based Nobel managing assembly bestowed this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Aldorino, 24, said she had relished her year as Miss World, saying that in all the nations she had travelled to, one thing had stayed the same: “The grin on a child’s face, and that’s what has apprehended the moment”.

The affray emphasises the significance of benevolent humanity work.

Miss “Beauty with a Purpose” – Kenya’s Natasha Metto, who has worked on combatting an outbreak of parasitic Jigger fleas in her homeland – acquired a “fast-track” location in the last assembly of 25, but was then eliminated.

Ireland’s violin-playing Emma Waldron, who won the gifts challenge and completed in the peak five, wowed the assembly by welcome them in Chinese, while Miss China, Xiao Tang, talked mostly in English.

The happening competitors the Miss Universe pageant belongs to by US tycoon Donald Trump, which was won by Mexico’s Jimena Navarrete in August.

In 1951, Sweden’s Kiki Hakansson became the first Miss World. Oscar-winning American player Halle Berry was a finalist in 1986.

Venezuela and India have made the most Miss Worlds, with five titleholders each. Bollywood celebrity Aishwarya Rai took the crest in 1994.

In 2002, the pageant was shifted from Nigeria to Britain after more than 200 persons past away in clashes sparked when a bulletin proposed the Muslim prophet Mohammed would have selected a wife from amidst the contestants had he been alive.

A controversial mobile phone application, which helps a cell phone user read the text messages of others secretly, has been removed from sale by internet search engine Google. Google said the application, called SMS Secret Replicator, violated its terms, The Independent reported on
Friday.
Once installed on a mobile phone, the Android phone application automatically creates carbon copies of incoming text messages and forwards them to a selected number - prompting fears it could be used by jealous lovers and even work colleagues to snoop on private messages.

Jealous lovers are encouraged to secretly set up a password-protected application on their partners' phones and set it to forward text messages to their own, the paper said.

"The app is unique because there is no visible icon or shortcut to access it, so once it's installed, it will continue to monitor without revealing itself," the developer DLP Mobile was quoted as saying.

Its chief executive, Zak Tanjeloff, said the application was "certainly controversial but can be helpful to people in relationships where this type of monitoring can be useful".

The app's creators have given it the slogan "nothing is secret". Google confirmed it had suspended the application.

Bawa, Telugu movie staring Siddharth and Praneetha hit the big screen on Friday. Reviews and ratings of the film flowing in. Although some of the fans think that the movie was great entertainment, and many others think that the film was less than expected.

Cast: siddharth , Pranitha Subhash, Rajendra Prasad, Brahmanandam, Ali, Ahuti Prasad, Raghu Babu, Nassar, Narsing Yadav, Rajitha., Surekha Vani, Vinayaprasad, Master Bharat, Master Sajjan, Master Hritwik, Samrat Reddy
Cinematographer: Arvind Krishna
Editor: Goutham Raju
Director: Rambabu (Director)
Producer: M L Kumar Chowdary
Music Director: Chakri
Lyricist: Chandrabose, Bhaskara Bhatla , Vanamali, Venigalla Rambabu

n addition to Siddharth and Praneetha, videos, also known comedian stars Rajendra Prasad and he played an important role in the film. Ahuti Prasad, Tanikella, Samrat, Sindhu Tolani, Brahmi, Ali, Kashi Viswanath, Bharat Babu, Raghu Babu, Prasad and Vienna forms the rest of the crew.

The film is directed Rambabu and music is the Chakri. Dialogues Veera Pothana while producer ML Kumar Chowdary.

Bugatti Automobiles announced to introduce its latest sports car “Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport” worth Rs. 16 crore in India. The company claims it to be the most expensive car being launched in Indian market.

Bugatti Automobiles Sales Market Manager (Middle East, Europe and India) Guy Caquelin said, “Bugatti has been doing well in America, Europe and the Middle East. Now we see India as an emerging market for us, hence we have decided to bring the car to India.”

The premium sports car incorporating 8 litre engine with 16 cylinders is made at the company’s hand headquarters Molsheim in France using components such as titanium, carbon fibre and magnesium.

Exclusive Motors Managing Director Satya Bagla said, “The Bugatti Veyron is four times more expensive than what’s being sold in the India. So we are currently testing the customer response.”

He also declared that delivery of the car would take around 6-8 months from the date of order.

Besides being the costliest car in the country, the company claims that the Bugatti Veyron is also the fastest car in the world with a top speed of 407 km/hour with an acceleration of 0-100km/hour in 2.7 seconds.

Till date, the most expensive cars in Indian market include the Rolls Royce Phantom and the Maybach that cost around Rs. 5 crore.

Kim Sharma Photoshoot For Maxim Magazine’s Indian edition for the month of October 2010.

After missing several deadlines Mobile Number Portability (MNP), which allows subscribers to retain their numbers even after changing service operators, will be launched from November 1, Telecom Minister A Raja said today.
''The MNP will be partially operational from November 1.

We wanted to inaugurate it in Haryana,'' Mr Raja told reporters here.

Speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of an event organised by the BSNL, Mr Raja said in the first phase, the MNP will be launched in 11 circles and the implementation will begin from the second or third week of November.

''An official announcement about this will be made on November 1,''he said.

The implementation of MNP has already been delayed four times due to several reasons including the absence of the necessary infrastructure.

Initially, MNP was to be implemented by December 31, 2009 in all the metros along with the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

The deadline was then changed to March 31, 2010 and then to June 30, 2010. The June 30 deadline was again deferred as operators were not ready with the infrastructure to provide the service.

The Department of Telecom (DoT) had given licences to Syniverse Technologies and MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions, a 74:26 joint-venture between US-based Telcordia and Deepak Talwar Consultants Pvt Ltd to implement the Number Portability service.
--UNI

After three decades and more than 220 million units, Sony has stopped selling its Walkman cassette player in Japan, the company said, admitting the gadget could not keep up in the digital age.

Cherished by a generation of joggers, school children and music fans since its launch in 1979, the Walkman revolutionised the way people listened to music but has since been overtaken by another icon of the modern era -- the iPod.

"The music-listening style of our customers has shifted so much to digital audio," Sony spokeswoman Hiroko Nakamura told AFP. "We have decided to end shipments because demand for the cassette-type Walkman has decreased."

Models on the company's Japanese website were marked "production completed".

The consumer electronics giant said that Chinese-made Walkman cassette players would still be exported to markets such as North America, Europe and Asia.

The July 1, 1979 rollout of the portable cassette player helped transform Sony into a global electronics powerhouse.

The Japanese giant sold 30,000 Walkmans in the first two months after its launch, and 50 million within a decade.

Three decades on, however, Sony has found itself struggling against rivals such as Apple, which has enjoyed immense success with its iPod music player.

Times have changed since Sony engineer Nobutoshi Kihara sketched out designs for the Walkman by hand.

Sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman, who was thrown out of US for spying, has posed in lingerie with a gun for a magazine.The flame-haired agent, 28, has not shied away from publicity since returning to her native country in July and this shoot will certainly do nothing to quell the public’s fascination with her.
Clad in skimpy black lingerie, complete with suspender belt, she appears on the cover of this month’s Russian Maxim with her finger poised on the trigger of a gun, reports the Daily Mail.

While the other agents sent back to Russia have kept a low profile, Chapman certainly seems to making the most of her newfound fame.

The new Acer Aspire 5742z is an affordable price 15.6-inch display laptop powered by the Intel Pentium processor and DDR3 memory .It is pre-loaded with the Windows 7 Home basic OS .

Acer Aspire 5742z laptop specifications :

• Processor : 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium processor P6100 , 3 MB L3 cache
• Motherboard Chipset : Intel HM55 Chipset
• Display Screen Size : 15.6-inch HD LED
• Memory : 2GB DDR3
• Hard Disk Drive : 500 GB HDD
• Optical Drive : DVD Writer
• LAN : Gigabit Ethernet LAN
• Wireless LAN : WiFi
• Sound speakers
• In-built Webcam
• Card Reader : Multi-Card Reader
• Bluetooth
• USB Port : 3 x USB Ports
• Battery : 6 Cell
• Operating system : Windows 7 Home Basic
• Colour : Black, Red, Brown

Acer Aspire 5742z Price

The new Acer Aspire 5742z laptop is available in India at price of Rs.28,800 .

According to an information published in DigiTimes , technology giant Google has informed its technology/hardware partners that the Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) operating system (OS) will hit the engineer samples of the tablet PCs set to show up in December.
Notebook pc brands such as Asustek Computer, Acer and Micro-Star International are expected to release their tablet PCs in January, 2010 at CES (Consumer Electronics Show). The South Korean electronics giant Samsung is also expected to showcase its Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) updated Galaxy Tab along side HTC and Motorola.
Google is all set to launch the Android 4.0 (to be named Icecream) in the 2nd half of 2011. Technology experts believe that Google will gradually be able to increase its share in the tablet PC market after the launch of Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) OS.
Google is betting high on the cost benefit that Android adoption will to the manufacturers, which is usually US$50-60 for Windows OS but only US$10 for the license of Android. The price gap of over US$30 between Intel processor and ARM processor is also a factor for players to go for Android platform.

Bollywood popular villain Gulshan Grover is all set to board on the Hollywood flight with the movie titled The Driver where he will be romancing Latino Salma Hayek.
Directed by Hollywood ace filmmaker Bill Duke, the film is all about hope.
The BAD MAN met Bill at a charity event in LA, when he was offered to read the script of the film. Gulshan in the film plays the role of a rank and file accountant who decides to give up his mundane life and follow his dreams. He starts his journey of dreams with his wife (Salma). On the way he comes across people inspires and shocks him.
The film would be a big starry delight which will include Will Smith, Janet Jackson, Queen Latifa, Whoopie Goldberg and many other famous comedians will play guest roles in it.
Gulshan Grover has number of Hollywood projects in his hands like Prisoners of the Sun, Nephilim, British picture Honour Killing and an Indo-French film I am Kalam.

Adobe Systems India has announced the launch of Adobe Acrobat X software family.

Comprising Acrobat X, Reader X, the Acrobat X Suite and new document exchange services at Acrobat.com, the suite empowers professionals to innovate and create higher-quality content, driving tighter collaboration and productivity across teams in today's dynamic business environments, claims the company.

Acrobat X brings unique Dynamic PDF capabilities that allow businesses and governments to do more with PDF documents – create, share, review, make it interactive – while leveraging must-have security and authentication features," he said.

Acrobat X delivers new actions to simplify multi-step document preparation and publishing processes; new customization capabilities in PDF Portfolios unify multiple file types into a compelling presentation.

New document services available at Acrobat.com give individuals the ability to collaborate more efficiently. Integration with Microsoft SharePoint enables consistency of PDF documents across the enterprise; re-use of content is now easier with higher quality export to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

Taylor Swift “Mean” Lyrics

You don’t know, but you don’t know
Someday I’ll be living in a big ole city
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Some day I’ll be big enough so you cant hit me
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?

SBI Mutual Fund has unveiled a new fund named as SBI Debt Fund Series - 90 Days Fund - 35, a close ended debt scheme. The New Fund Offer (NFO) price for the scheme is Rs 10 per unit. The new issue will be open for subscription from 20 October and will close on 21 October 2010.
The investment objective of the scheme is to provide regular income, liquidity and returns to the investors through investments in a portfolio comprising of debt instruments such as Government Securities, PSU & Corporate Bonds and Money Market Instruments maturing on or before the maturity of the scheme.
The scheme offers two options viz. growth and dividend payout option.
Maturity date of the scheme would be 90 days from the date of allotment of units.
The minimum application amount is Rs 5000 and in multiples of Rs 10 thereafter.
The scheme will not charge any entry and exit load. The exit load is not applicable since the scheme will be listed on National Stock Exchange.
The scheme would allocate up to 100% of assets in Government of India dated Securities and Treasury Bills, PSU & Corporate Bonds/Debt Instruments, Money Market Instruments. Exposure to securitized debt may be to the extent of 40% of the net assts.
CRISIL Liquid Fund Index will be the benchmark index for the scheme.

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambanis new 27-storey Mumbai skyscraper likely sets a record as the worlds most expensive residential home, according to Forbes magazine.
"Indias richest man, and the fourth-richest man in the world, has eschewed understatement," the magazine said reporting Ambanis plans to move into the 570-foot building, called Antila, this month.
Noting that the home is worth 630 million pounds, or $1 billion, as reported by the Telegraph, Forbes said in its last ranking of worlds most expensive homes in November 2009, The Manor, Candy Spellings Beverly Hills mansion, won out at a price tag of $150 million.
New mansions may have come on the market since, "but even given those facts, at $1 billion the Antila outprices any home on the market, anywhere in the world, by an order of magnitude," it said.
"Given the enormous gap between the Antilas sale price and the known closing cost of any home sold in recent years, theres an awfully good chance that this is the most paid for a home, ever," Forbes said noting the highest price paid for a home in 2010 was somewhere between $47 million and $72 million for Le Belvedere, in Bel Air.
According to reports, the "awfully strange-looking tower" has a health club, gym, dance studio, a ballroom, guestrooms, numerous lounges, a 50-seat screening room, an elevated garden, three helipads, and underground parking for 160 vehicles.
The Indian building is a skyscraper, which is bound to fetch more than a single-family home - even a stately 19,500-square-foot building across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art such as Helus, Forbes said. "But Ambani is moving in with his wife, three children and a modest 600-person staff. That makes it a residence, and by my count, the worlds most expensive," it said.

Videdeocon Mobile Phones announced its entry in the Android phone market, by launching 'Videocon Zeus' in the Indian market.
'Videocon Zeus' is Android 2.1 (Éclair) ready with a large 3.2 inch multi-touch (capacitive) screen with 600 MHz Qualcomm Microprocessor, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, A-GPS and Push Mail among many other features.

Alongside with Zeus, the company is extending its range of mobile phones and is introducing additional four new phones.

The Android powered Zeus replicates the PC experience for the user on the move. The Android Operating System provides a seamless integration of the device with the Internet and also provides an intuitive access to over 70,000 applications in the Android marketplace for easy download and installation.

''The Preloaded Applications on the Zeus opens up a whole new dimension of internet for the user,'' a company release said here.

Other mobile phones introduced are Videocon V1410, V1603, V1475 and V1606.

Cheryl Cole is all set to release her second album, ‘Messy Little Raindrops’ on November 1. There are eight cracking new tracks, recorded during one of the most turbulent years of her life, reports the Sun.One song in particular, “Happy Tears”, goes straight for love rat ex-husband Ashley's jugular. The lyrics include lines about slashing his tyres, burning his suits, knocking back apologies, blocking calls and selling all her diamonds.

As Cheryl might say: "Divvint mess with me, pet." At first it sounds like a weepy heartbreaker with the opening lines: "I cried when I heard you were cheatin''/I cried when I said I was leavin''/I cried when my heart stopped believin''/But I''m all out of tears." But the chorus explains these are no tears of pain. Oh no. Just "happy tears".

The X Factor judge didn't write the song herself but approved the lyrics. Her debut album, ‘3 Words’, is triple platinum - more than 900,000 copies - and she has sold over 1.5million singles and according to the sources, her latest album is shaping up for a similar success. Her first single from it, “Promise This”, is already out, with more pop than bubble wrap.

Jr. NTR and Kajal Agarwal starrer Brindavanam got an average review after the much awaited movie hit the screens. As per the review from different websites, the movie got an average rating too.

Brindavanam is Telugu Movie with NTR in lead role. Brindavanam is directed by Vamsi Paidipalli and important roles are played by Kajal, Samantha etc. Brindavanam is a family movie and NTR is donning the role of a lover boy for the first time. Brindavanam is expected to be a commercial entertainer with family sentiment.

Contradictory to the average rating of the movie, Brindavanam music has already stole the hearts of many and with the success of the music; the film is expected to be a hit.

Sources have reported that the performance of Jr. NTR is notable both in the comedy and action parts. However, public has shown dissatisfaction with his dance moves and told that it was not up to expectation of the people. The storyline although with some impractical things was good as it is a family entertaining pack.

The movie produced by Dil Raju got 3 stars rating out of 5 from Supergoodmovies while PMR has given it a rating of 4 stars out of 5.

Terry Kennedy:Since that time, skateboarding was first adorned with the presence of Terry Kennedy, we fell in love with him. He was funny and charismatic. He was the breadwinner, I did it out of gang life ordained in Long Beach, not intact (the bullet scars decorate his body), but at least in one piece. I spent two weeks on the road with Terry a few years ago at Red Bull’s Seek & Destroy (which returns in May 2011), and I learned about the family, Terry and as skateboarding and that families are at the center of his world.

Recently, BET became fascinated with charm and Terry gave him his own television show, “Being Terry Kennedy,” which premieres tonight. Show follows Terry around, documenting his skate / rap / tycoon everyday life. TV shows slippery slope for the skaters, you can easily hit and hit it hard, but Terry has promised me that he would not fall prey to the traps, which are connected skating show yielded in the past.

You have television shows. What is the deal with that?
I clicked on the family, skateboarding career, music, and I, being young, up and coming mogul.

I’ve seen at the bottom of a press release that you are also looking for love. Are you going to be crying, looking at the cold girl?
No, not at all. Not at all. I was a little too tough for that person. I come from a background where, if I did that the next time I come home it would be a problem.
It must be tough for a guy like you who has a lot of money to find a girl that is not only your money.
It is. What’s so funny is my dad back in my life lately and all the conversations we have. He is so over me with such a situation. He wanted to, “Do not nobody pregnant. Make sure you find the right girl!” Between him and my grandmother is such a battle, when I bring her home. They’re like, ‘What do I do? As her background? “It’s like, damn, dude, relax!

There golddiggers, you should beware.
Yes, there are, and they are big, they’re doing. You should be careful out there.

How much of your immediate family played in the show?
80 percent of the show. When I go out of the League, I do not talk to them much about it, but I want to receive information and to know that I will not undermine our family or my career. I always come to them no matter what and talk to them about everything. They are my backbone.

Do you have a lot of weight on your shoulders, taking care of the family. How hard it is to know everything going for you?
It was like that since early on. I lost my mother when I was 15 years. I lost my father in my life when I was 5 years old, he had just come into my life three months ago. I’m 25 now. I still carry a lot because I’ve never had my parents there, and it is difficult for the child. This immediately helped me to grow up and fight for my brother and my grandmother to get them out of the situation. It was a lot of pressure on my shoulders, but he made me the person I am today. I am so strong-minded I can allow things to go back, and I can concentrate, because all the difficulties I was dealing with the early stages.

Do you have a guy Baker / Deathwish skateboards family member, Antwuan Dixon, that comes from similar backgrounds.
Same background. His brothers are living that lifestyle, but they gang fireworks, and also locked up now and do the time. But if you come from California, from all areas of Long Beach, Carson, Compton, family Theotis Beasley from Inglewood, and they all gang fireworks as well. If you come from any of those places, it’s kind of hard. There’s a band on every corner.
Do you get nervous for Antwuan? He has an amazing talent.
It hurts me. I take this to heart. We used to call him Candy. He came when he was 15-years-old just eat candy and best perfume ever and just wanted to skate. Now I’m talking to him like an older brother, straight from my heart. I know it’s bad with my brothers because I had my brothers that go through the same role, in and out of jail. But I’m telling him that he was able to change their lives. You’ve got to give and giving you to do it right. This is something that Andrew Reynolds has taught me, “the only way you can do for them to do it right.” So the best thing I can do for them is to stay on this forum. I tell him not to take yourself down, you have to be strong for his mother and brother.

Starting from the same background Trife Jereme Rogers.
No! Hell no! Jereme I love to death, but I have them to the same talks with him. Why would you give something that made you [skateboarding]? This is something that I do not understand. Why do not you stop skating? That’s who you are as a person. I never put skateboarding on the back burner. Skateboarding will always be first in this life of mine, because that is what I am and what brung me in these situations.

What is your opinion on rap Rogers?
It is different for me to rap, I’m through the material. I shot, I lost my mother, I happen to make it a skate … It’s not even about the rap for me, it is about therapy.

Rogers had a song about getting ticket. This is a rough business.
Ha! Stop it. Come on. We had such a positive conversation, and you should throw away the key in it.

Explain to me why you are doing television. You saw what happened with Ryan Sheckler: It was such a reaction. Editing has the potential to make you look wrong. What caused you to feel confident enough to think it was the right move for you?
I’m going to be honest, my story may not come through soft. Everything that I have experienced in my life … that’s what I want to teach everyone in my city and inner cities across the country and in my African American culture, do not be afraid of who you are. If I was afraid of who I am as a person, whom I’ll never be on the phone with you right now, I would never have friends like Andrew Reynolds, I would never skateboarder, nothing would ever be for me. That’s why I wanted to do a TV show to show, I come from the same situation or worse, as many African Americans, and I was able to prevail because I stayed true to what I believe in.

Tata DoCoMo plans to launch the most awaited third-generation mobile (3G) mobile services by this Diwali. Tata DoCoMo will be the first private operator to launch the 3G services in country. Company may introduce high-speed internet, video calls and other high-end 3G services. Tata has already started bundling its 3G enabled SIM with smartphones like HTC Desire.

Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh (West), Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are the circles where Tatas will rollout 3G services. Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone Essar are also lined up and may announce their 3G services rollout by the year-end.
Presently 3G mobile services is being provided by telecom PSU MTNL and BSNL. Now it’s interesting to see the tariff strategy telecom operators will adopt to compete for big pie in market share.

Nayanthara Hot  Stills from Movie "VILLU"

Idea Cellular, a leading mobile telephony brand, has launched a 'Language Helpline' for conversational support.
The helpline will facilitate day-to-day conversations in 16 different languages, said Idea on Tuesday.

Any of the over 650 million mobile users in the country who have to move out of their homes for career, education, travel and other prospects in life; or need to communicate with people talking different languages in their own surroundings, can now avail this service from Idea.

For instance, a Bengali speaking person who needs to have a conversation in Marathi, with a vegetable vendor or a cab-driver in Kolkata, can dial 9088012345 and seek assistance on Marathi.

The caller needs to verbalise his message and the same will be translated by the Idea Helpline agent, instantly on the phone. Input to the agent needs to be given in Hindi or English only for translation in the desired local language.

Callers can call any of the 22 customer care helplines of Idea from anywhere in the country, to get assistance on the language spoken in the circle where the call is being made.

Internet giant Google will soon launch a car that can drive by itself.
Google engineers have tested a "self-driving" car on the streets of California and covered 140,000 miles on the road, BBC reported.

The cars use video cameras mounted on the roof, radar sensors and a laser range finder to look out for traffic, software engineer Sebastian Thrun said.

There is, however, a trained driver in stand-by mode, ready to take control.

Thrun, a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, said safety was the "first priority" in the project.

Routes are pre-planned, mapped first by real drivers, and local police are briefed in advance, he said.

He pointed to figures from the World Health Organisation that over 1.2 million people were killed each year on the roads, and said that number could be reduced.

"We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half."

"It (the project) provides a glimpse of what transportation might look like in the future thanks to advanced computer science. And that future is very exciting," he said.

According to scientists the humble red onion could help prevent heart disease. They have discovered that the vegetable - commonly used in Mediterranean and Indian cuisine is instrumental in removing bad cholesterol, which can cause heart attacks and strokes, from the body.
But the vegetable’s health benefits do not stop at that, it also plays a vital role retaining good cholesterol, which help protect against heart disease, in the body.
Scientists in Hong Kong fed hamster who had been placed on a high-cholesterol diet with crushed onions.
They found that after eight weeks, bad cholesterol levels, or low density lipoprotein (LDL) levels in their, had fallen an average of 20 per cent.
However, the high density cholesterol levels of hamsters showed no change.
A Daily Mail report quoted Zhen Yu Chen, who headed the research as saying that the results support the claim that regular consumption of onion reduced risk of coronary heart disease. The research was carried out at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
According to Chen, despite extensive research on onions, little is known of how their consumption interacts with human genes and proteins involved in cholesterol metabolism within the body.
He said that they had undertaken the study to characterise the interaction of onions with enzymes in an attempt to explore the underlying cholesterol-lowering mechanism.
Although white onions are more widely used in Britain, red onions are more commonly used in India, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Red onions are much sweeter than the white variety and are often consumed raw in salads.

Mumbai terror attack accused Mohammad Ajmal Kasab's former lawyer Abbas Kazmi became the first contestant to be evicted from the ''Bigg Boss'' house.

Kazmi, who entered the "Bigg Boss 4" house in Lonavala with 13 other contestants, received the lowest votes in comparison to TV actress Sara Khan, model Hrishant Goswami and former woman bandit Seema Parihar, who were nominated with him.

Parihar bagged the maximum votes.The show went on air on Colors channel Sunday with Bollywood star Salman Khan.

Devinder Singh alias 'Superchor Bunty' was asked to leave the reality show following unruly behaviour in the house Monday."Bigg Boss" requires the contestants to survive in a house for three months without communicating with the outside world, and being under constant camera surveillance.

UGC NET Result 2010 | UGC NET Exam Results 2010 – CSIR | www.csirhrdg.res.in | NET Result June 2010

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) UGC NET Exam Results which was held in June 2010

CSIR result 2010 or CSIR UGC NET Result June 2010 or CSIR Exam result June 2010 has been announced by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India on the official website of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) at csirhrdg.res.in.

Get Result:

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Crook bollywood movie starring Imraan Hashmi, Neha sharma and Arjan Bajwa is released on 8th OCt 2010.

The theme of the movie is based on the racism attacks on Indians in Australia.The movie is joined venture of Bhatt brothers (Mahesh and Mukesh) and is produced by Vishesh films. The movie is directed by Mohit Suri of Kalyug fame. Music is composed by Pritam.

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The poster boy of Bhatt camp, Emraan Hashmi is in the lead and opposite him is the debutant Neha Sharma.

The movie also stars ‘Fashion Fane’ Arjan Bajwa.

The movie is about Jai (Emraan Hashmi) who has a flair for getting into trouble. Jai believes that “it is good to be bad”, which is also the tag line of the film.

Crook deals with the dilemma of selecting between good and bad.Crook is an upcoming Bollywood thriller film scheduled for release on October 8, 2010.

(Reuters) - Logitech International SA showed off on Wednesday its $300 set-top box for the soon-to-be-launched Google TV, the first glimpse of what the Web search giant's holiday-season television-streaming product will look like.

The $299.99 Revue is touted as a way for users to watch both television programs and Web content -- Google has already landed deals with the likes of Time Warner Inc's HBO and News Corp -- on a TV that Japan's Sony Corp will build and sell.

But Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGC Partners, said consumers might balk at the price tag.

"That's a piece of change," Gillis said. "The price point, as Apple has pointed out, for a device like this is about $99. So, it's expensive and yet another box you've got to plug in."

Apple Inc last month unveiled a Web-to-TV device for $99 called Apple TV, which is expected to battle Google TV as well as cable companies for control of the digital living room.

Gillis expects sales of the Logitech Revue to largely be confined to consumers of "cutting edge technology."

Logitech on Wednesday also unveiled other peripheral products for Google TV, including a keyboard controller and a video calling device.

Google Inc has signed content partnership deals with a range of media and Internet companies, including NBC/Universal for CNBC programming and Amazon.com Inc for video-on-demand movie and TV show titles.

Devices powered by Google TV will be launched this month.

Web search king Google is chasing the $70 billion TV advertising market, but the world's most creative and deep-pocketed technology companies such as Microsoft Corp and Apple have struggled to crack the market.

Google TV presents a new outlet for the company's trove of video at social networking website YouTube.com. But the company also faces resistance from media companies, who are concerned that Web-enabled TV could harm their traditional TV business with numerous cable carriers.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bernard Orr)

Google has now taken tourism to the next level by allowing people worldwide to watch from the comfort of their home monuments like Stonehenge, the streets of Italy's Pompeii, and the remote landscapes of Antarctica.

But instead of the usual Google Streetview cars which have become a familiar site on British streets, new snaps were taken using a special Google tricycle.The Street View trike, as it is known, was sent around the world to photograph some of the hardest to reach places on the planet.

The trike carries a mounted Street View camera, and a specially decorated unit with imaging & GPS technology, the Daily Mail reported. Google's Brian McClendon, head of engineering, Google Earth and Maps, introduced the new feature by saying how thrilled he was that all seven continents could now be accessed using the technology. He took the pictures of the penguins in the Antarctic.

"We introduced Street View back in May 2007, enabling people to explore street-level imagery in five US cities. We were excited to share a virtual reflection of the real world to enable armchair exploration," he added.

Twitter on Monday announced that Dick Costolo has become its chief executive officer (CEO), replacing Evan Williams, co-founder of the micro-blogging service.

Costolo, a Google veteran who joined Twitter last year as its chief operating officer (COO), took over the new role of CEO effective immediately.

During his year at Twitter, Costolo "has been a critical leader in devising and executing our revenue efforts, while simultaneously and effectively making the trains run on time in the office," Williams said in a post on Twitter's blog announcing the hand-over of the reigns.

"Starting today, I'll be completely focused on product strategy, " said Williams, who co-founded Twitter in 2006 with Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone.

Twitter, which allows users to post status updates with a 140- character limits, has witnessed repaid growth in user base since its launch.

Williams said there are 300 people now working at Twitter, compared to about 20 when he took the CEO job two years ago.

"Back then, people were creating about 1.25 million tweets a day -- compared to 90 million today. In those same two years, we grew from 3 million registered users to more than 165 million today," he noted.

Shreya Saran at South Scope Cine Awards

Big Boss season 4 Participants
Big Boss season 4 is finally on air. This established reality show kick started on the channel Colors last night i.e. Sunday.
The host of this TV show, Salman Khan received all the fourteen contestants amidst much fanfare in his trademark bindass style.
These are the fourteen contestants who are slated to be a part of this season 4:
Aanchal Kumar: Aanchal works as a model but it was her alleged relationship with cricketer Yuvraj Singh that got her a place in this show.
Abbas Azmi: Abbas works as a lawyer. He earned fame after he fought the case of Ajmal Kasab, the key-accused in the Mumbai attacks.
Ashmit Patel: He is an actor by profession and the sibling of actress Amisha Patel.
Begum Nawazish Ali: This is an alias name taken by Ali Saleem who is the host as well as a scriptwriter of a well-known talk show in Pakistan.
Bunty chor: The infamous thief who is rumored to have more than 500 cases running on him and is considered the inspiration behind the movie Oye Lucky Lucky Oye.
Hrishant Goswami: He works as a model and won the Gladrags Manhunt 2004.
Manoj Tiwari: He acts in Bhojpuri movies.
Rahul Bhatt: The hot handsome hunk son of the Bollywood film maker Mahesh Bhatt.
Sakshi Pradhan: Sakshi won the MTV reality show, SplitsVilla season 2. She got into a controversy due to an alleged MMS.
Sameer Soni: Sameer is a well-known TV actor and an established model. He also made it big by plating the role of a gay designer in the Bollywood blockbuster Fashion.
Sara Khan: Sara is the beautiful and shy TV actress.
Seema Parihar: Seema is a dacoit who was in the Beehar area of Chambal for around 18 years. There are many cases against her still running in the court.
Shweta Tiwari: Shweta is a well-known TV actress who has recently separated from her husband, Raja Choudhary.
Veena Malik: Veena is a Pakistani model and former girlfriend of Pakistani cricketer Mohammed Asif. She was in the news recently during the Pakistani spot fixing scandal.

2010 Common Wealth Games is to start very soon, its tickets have already been on sale since June 4, 2010. The sale of the tickets will likely to remain on till the inception of each sport event. Almost a number of 1.7 million tickets are available for the general public to watch this gigantic game.

The cost of tickets is subject to the popularity of the sports and seating location. Sports with mass fame cost more pennies. The cost of opening ceremony ticket is set from Rs 1,000 to Rs 50,000 for the best seat. But, the cost of closing ceremony is cheaper.

Where to buy CWG 2010 Tickets

The easiest way to avail the 2010 Common Wealth Games tickets is to visit the official website called Commonwealth Games Ticketing Website. There are 30 retail outlets in Delhi that are accredited to sell tickets. If you have purchased ticket from online, you need to cash in it against a real physical ticket from any one of the authenticated retail outlets.

Call assistance to buy the ticket is 1800-200-1294.

Microsoft plans to unveil smartphones using the latest version of its Windows operating system on October 11 which will be sold exclusively by AT&T, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the launch plans," said the US software giant will offer three Windows Phone 7 smartphones with handsets made by South Korea's Samsung and LG Electronics and Taiwan's HTC.

The Journal said AT&T will be the initial exclusive US carrier for the phones, which will go on sale the week of November 8.

Microsoft's Windows operating system has been steadily losing out to Apple's iPhone, Research in Motion's BlackBerry and Google's Android mobile platform and the launch is being seen as a way to claw back market share.

Google URL Shortener is a service from google which creates short URL for any long URL you have. Back in December of 2009,  Google launched Goo.gl — and unfortunately, Goo.gl was only accessible through the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner at the time. But on Thursday, it getting its own website (http://goo.gl), where now users can directly access and utilize the product at any time.

The Google URL Shortener also allows you to track the clicks on the short URL you created with goo.gl. And also provides click statistics such as which sites of the URL was clicked along with country, browser and platform information for each short URL you created.