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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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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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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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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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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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Movies: Bipasha-Saif going around?

The latest talking point of Bollywood is the chemistry shared between Bipasha Basu and Saif Ali Khan while the two were shooting for Abbas-Mustan
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Movies: Wow !!! Mallika charges 10 min Rs. 1.5 crore


Well, Mallika Sherawat (Dasavaratham actress) is recently in news (she always ) because of her 10 min Rs. 1.5 crore act in Himesh Reshammiya
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Miscellaneous: Definitely Bangalore - Technology on the Street


Bangalore, the Garden City of India, is also known to be the IT Capital of the nation. As the IT Service sector is booming by providing 24/7 support to its clients, you can see many of the professional who are into service sector, providing support to their customers on the run with much dedication and passion. Here you can see one professional, doing his job in his laptop by sitting on the foot path as an amused policeman watching the same. A symbol of Down to Earth Customer Satisfaction or Liberalising Technology on street.
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Business: Consensual SMS advertising in India - the market heats up

Mobile service provider Airtel has tied up with UK-based Affle to provide SMS 2.0 - a new generation SMS service in which SMS messages will have colour fonts and lots of better looking emoticons. The ads are supposedly going to be shown on the mobile phone after someone sends a SMS, in those few seconds when you see the 'sending message' icon. Tolerable so far! But if this becomes like you have to listen to an ad jingle before sending a SMS message, I have serious doubts how many users would opt for it. Before this, we have seen two new start ups based on a similar consensual SMS ad marketing model - mGinger and mGarlic. These services allow their users to receive ads of their mobile phones and pay them in return. The ads served are based on the user's specifications.
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