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Tech: MOTO Q Launched In India


Motorola's MOTO Q comes off as an all business mobile device. Running on Windows Mobile 5.0 it offers corporate mobile messaging support with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2. The MOTO Q also offers easy access to personal email based on POP3, web mail and Hotmail.
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Masti: Macs Goes Viral. WTF Indeed

A couple of videos were recently released to promote a new bile-yellow coloured drink called "WTF" being sold by Macs. There're 6 videos, and they're some of the weirdest shorts I've seen in recent memory. They aren't laughably bad like the whole "All I want for Christmas is a PSP" campaign launched by Sony late last year, but one gets the feeling that people are going to have mixed, well, feelings about them. They're all contained within two Youtube videos, both of which await your eyes after the jump.
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Business: The rupee rise: How you are affected

Reserve Bank of India [Get Quote], the nation's central bank, has had a tough first six months at office -- first to keep inflation under check and then to delicately address the runaway rise of the Indian rupee (against the dollar). A series of measures linked to curbing credit growth and lowering short-term interest rates twice this year, have pegged
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Tech: In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth


With its detailed satellite photos, Google's interactive map lets everyone be a virtual globetrotter. And some of the things we've found in our travels are downright bizarre.
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Movies: Chak De creates Bollywood record!

Can't get enough of your favourite Bollywood stars? Need a quick gossip fix? Then you've come to the right place. Read on as our very own starcrossed BPI (Bollywood Private Investigator), dishes out the dirt about our heavenly bodies.
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Miscellaneous: India to launch Israeli spy satellite

India will launch a foreign satellite with a 'top secret' payload in September. Although officials at the Indian Space Research Organisation are tight-lipped about the nature of the hush-hush mission, information obtained by TOI from other sources suggests that ISRO's proven four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will carry an Israeli spy satellite called TechSar, weighing about 260 kg.
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Tech: Disney Releases Mobile Comics On Airtel, Reliance, Hutch

The way they price these things...Disney has launched mobile comics - both full stories and single comic strips - on the decks of Reliance Communications, Airtel and Hutch, reports BS. They
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Movies: 'In Sholay, my fingers are cut off, not hands'

Mohanlal was a school student when Ramesh Sippy's Sholay [Images] was released in 1975, and like most of the kids at the time, he too was fascinated by it. Little did he realise then that 32 years later, he would be a part of its remake.
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LetsDiscuss: 'Eyes' in Monica Bedi's cell raise storm

Amid reports of hidden cameras being used to allegedly film underworld don Abu Salem's companion Monica Bedi in the Central Jail in Bhopal, her lawyer on Saturday demanded a high-level probe into the matter even as prison officials refuted the charge.
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IndiaShining: Bollywood theme park in Mumbai soon

Mumbai, India's entertainment capital and home to Bollywood, will soon get a theme park in a studio complex on the lines of Universal Studio in Los Angeles. This will be a state-of-the-art township with a studio, a theme park, hotels, a movie museum and shopping malls.
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LetsDiscuss: Sri Lankan Maid to be Beheaded

Rizana Nafeek, a 19-year housemaid from Sri Lanka, is on death row because the baby in her care died while she was bottle-feeding him. If her appeal is turned down, she will be taken to a public square to be publicly beheaded.
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Business: 4 investing gems from Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett, probably the greatest investor of his generation, rarely communicates his investment ideas in writing to the general public. And why should he? If someone has that extra edge when it comes to making money from the stock markets, he would rather use it for himself rather than go around sharing
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Miscellaneous: Bridge - Incredible work of art


Bridge, by Michael Cross, is a series of steps that rise out of the water as you walk across them, as if walking on water. On entering the exhibition the visitor is met by an empty expanse of water with one step at its edge: stepping on to it forces it...
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Movies: How Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) Messes with the Paparazzi


Watching Daniel Radcliffe on The Jay Leno Show and he just revealed how he likes to mess with the paparazzi. He wears the same clothes everyday when leaving movie sets! So, what does this do? This means that any photos the paparazzi take will be worthless because they will look like they were all taken on the same day. They
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Business: Google phone.

Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the mobile phone operator, about a multi-billion-dollar partnership to create a 'Google phone' which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are. The collaboration between two of the most powerful brands in technology is seen as a potential catalyst for making internet use of mobile phones as natural as on desktop computers and laptops.
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