ITS TIME FOR BLACKBERRY 10

Blackberry has been the epitome of a business smartphone for some time now. But over the past few years, the Canadian firm manufacturing it, Research in Motion (RIM), has lost precious ground to emerging mobile operating systems such as Apple's iOS and Google's Android in terms of sheer innovation.

Saturday, 24 March 2012

Denying sex to spouse on first night ground for marriage annulment: Delhi high court

Wilful denial of sex, including that on the first night after wedding, by either of the spouse amounts to cruelty and can be a ground for dissolution of the marriage, the Delhi high court has ruled.  pay per click advertising Justice Kailash Gambhir gave the verdict, upholding the lower court's decree of divorce to a man having a "sex-starved marriage" as his wife refused to have sexual intercourse with him on the wedding...

Sine Mora

This time-sensitive shooter is hard as hell, but undeniably fun. Gamezone Review Rating Seeing as how we won’t be getting another good “bullet hell” shooter for the next few months (Rising Star Games will release Cave’s Akai Katanaover the summer), fans of the not-so-traditional shooter line are searching for anything to bide their time with.  Fortunately, the lunatics over at Grasshopper Manufacture (and I say that with...

Wishtel launches two 'Ira' Android budget tablets, starting Rs. 4,000

Wishtel India has launched 2 tablets in the Indian market, the Ira Thing and the Ira. The two tablets are priced at Rs. 4000 and Rs. 5,500 respectively, plus tax. The specifications of both the budget tablets are the same apart from the fact that the Ira Thing has a resistive touchscreen and the Ira has a capacitive touchscreen. The battery of both the devices too is different. The Ira Thing has a 2,200 mAh battery where as the Ira has a 2,800 mAh battery. Other specifications of the device can be found in the table at the end...

Friday, 23 March 2012

New iPads face heat and Wi-Fi complaints

Apple’s new iPad is hot — the company has sold more than 3 million units on the device’s debut weekend alone. But some customers are complaining that the next-generation tablet computer is also too hot to handle, while others are moaning about faults in the device’s Wi-Fi connection....

Get a 16GB Kingston flash drive for $10.95 shipped

Jumping jack flash-drives! While supplies last (and they definitely won't last long), Buy.com has the Kingston DataTraveler 109 16GB flash drive for $10.95 shipped--the lowest price I've ever seen on a drive with that much storage space. Update: Be sure to select the "budget shipping" option. Also, remove the CA security option that is automatically added to your cart. Though it's hard to tell from the picture, this drive is&nb...

Thursday, 22 March 2012

Pakistan win by 2 runs.

Mirpur: 9.34 pm 50th Over: leading edge to third man. Single of first ball. Single off the second ball. 7 runs from 4 balls. Dot ball. Double plus overthrow. 3 runs of fourth ball. Dot ball. Double plus overthrow. 3 runs of fourth ball. Fifth ball, OUT! F.O.W. 233/8 . Abdur Razzaq moves across but fails to connect , the slower balsl hits the inside of his bat then on to the stumps. 4 runs off 1 ball. Single of the last ball....

Cause of male baldness found

Scientists have finally identified the culprits that are responsible for causing baldness in men. They are a enzyme known as prostaglandin D2, also known as PGD2 and its derivative (15-dPGJ2). Incidentally, the enzyme and its derivative were found to show the same effect in mice as well. The results are published today (March 22) in Science Translational Medicin...

Bangladesh restrict Pakistan to 236/9 in Asia Cup final

Sarfraz Ahmed top-scored with 46 not out on Thursday as Pakistan was restricted to 236-9 by Bangladesh in the Asia Cup final. Opener Mohammad Hafeez made 40, Shahid Afridi 32, while Umar Akmal and Hammad Azam both hit 30. Pakistan made a slow start and was reduced to 55-3 due to some tight bowling and fielding by Bangladesh, but a final over of 19 runs helped the team post a defendable tota...

Congress scores in Karnataka, Gujarat; routed in A.P.

The Congress won two morale-boosting victories in a string of bypolls, results for which came in on Wednesday: it snatched a Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka — taking its strength in the Lower House up to 207 — and an Assembly seat in Gujarat, both of which have been held by its principal national rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, for the last 15 years. For the BJP, which is in power in both States, these two defeats don't augur well , especially...

Emphatic win for AIADMK in Sankarankoil

apnaaddafun.blogspot.com The ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) pulled off an emphatic victory in the Sankarankoil Assembly by-election, recording a margin of victory of over 68,000 votes. In winning the reserved seat for a fifth time in a row, the AIADMK crushed all the opponents forcing them to lose their deposit. This is the second by-poll victory for the ruling party since it came to power in May 2011. The party had...

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Quit Yahoo, get $25,000 bonus?

Here's one good thing about being a Yahoo employee: if you quit and join Yammer, a social networking service forbusinesses, in the next 60 days you'll pocket a $25,000 signing bonus. That's the offer that was tweeted on Thursday by Yammer CEO David Sacks. "They've got a lot of great engineers there," Sacks said in an interview with Reuters. "The talent has been misused by senior managementwhich has...

Soumitra Chatterjee named for Dada Saheb Phalke Award

Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who has portrayed a versatile range of lead characters in films by Satyajit Ray, has been selected for India's highest film honour - the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2012.Confirming the news, Chatterjee told IANS that he was "extremely happy" at the honour."I am extremely happy. Till this evening I had not thought of this award. But after I got the news I am extremely happy," Chatterjee...

IBPS Alerts

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Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Team India Kicked out by Bangladesh from Asia Cup

India were on Tuesday night knocked out of the Asia Cup after Bangladesh continued their giant-killing act by upsetting Sri Lanka by five wickets in the last league match. Chasing a revised target of 212 after a rain interruption, the spirited hosts held their nerve to make their maiden entry into the summit showdown of the tournament where they will meet Pakistan on Thursday. Nasir Hossain (36 not out) hit the winning boundary straight down...

Mukul Roy sworn in as Railway Minister

Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy was on Tuesday elevated to cabinet rank to take over as Railway Minister replacing Dinesh Trivedi, who was forced to resign after Congress caved in to Mamata Banerjee’s pressure. Widely expected to roll back at least the lower class passenger fare hike proposed by Mr. Trivedi in the Railway Budget, Roy, 57, was sworn in as cabinet minister at a special but brief ceremony by President Pratibha Patil at the...

Supreme Court dismisses govt.’s review petition on Vodafone verdict

The Supreme Court today dismissed Government’s plea seeking review of its verdict which held that Income Tax Department does not have jurisdiction to levy Rs. 11,000 crore as tax on the overseas deal between Vodafone International Holdings and Hutchison Group. A bench comprising Chief Justice S. H. Kapadia and Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan dismissed the Centre’s review petition in the Vodafone tax case during an in-chamber proceeding. In the...

Saina Nehwal Wins the Swiss Open Grand Prix

Saina Nehwal ended her title drought by winning the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold title in Basel at the expense of former world No. 1 Shixian Wang on Sunday. The Hyderabad girl's last international title was at the same event (March 20, 2011) and by making a successful title defence, Saina has reasons to feel happy in the run-up to theLondon Olympics, especially for the way she got the better of two Chinese stars - Xin (F) Liu (quarters)...

Monday, 19 March 2012

RIM slashes Playbook 64 GB price in India

RIM slashes Playbook 64 GB price in India apnaaadfun.blogspot.in Canadian firm Research in Motion (RIM) has slashed the price of its 64 GB version of tablet PC PlayBook by around 18 per cent to Rs 19,990. In December last year, RIM had slashed the price of its PlayBook to Rs 24,490 for the 64GB version. It was retailing for Rs 37,99...

Jet discontinues JetLite, merges with Konnect

As part of a strategic rebranding and restructuring exercise announced last July, Jet Airways, on Monday, said, effective March 25, its low-cost arm JetLite would cease to operate, after being merged with the other no-frills brand JetKonnect. “Effective March 25, JetLite will cease to operate separately, but will come under the JetKonnect brand, enabling guests to avail themselves of a single superior in-flight product in the full service (Jet...

Mamata has her way, Trivedi to quit

Apnaaadafun.blogspot.in The embattled Railway Minister, Dinesh Trivedi, agreed to resign on Sunday evening, four days after he presented the Railway budget that angered his leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. “She [Mamata Banerjee] spoke to me. The Trinamool Congress wants me to resign,” Mr. Trivedi told journalists. “I told her [that] I will abide by the party's [decision] and resign.” Sources in the Prime Minister's...

Sunday, 18 March 2012

VICTORY FOR INDIA

Mirpur: VICTORY FOR INDIA AS DHONI SLAPS ONE PAST COVER 9.22 pm 47th Over: Ind 318/3 First ball. low full toss andFOUR!!!. down the leg side Kohli clips to fine leg boundary. Last ball of the over, Raina picks up another FOUR!!!through midwicket region. 9.12 pm 46th Over: Ind 307/3 OUT!!! F.O.W 305/3 Rohit Sharma 68 (83b) went for a pull but ended up top edging it straight to Shahid Afridi at midwicket. 9.09...

Two Italian tourists abducted by Maoists in Odisha: Police

BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR (ODISHA): Two Italian tourists have been abducted byMaoists from the tribal-dominated Kandhamal-Ganjam border area in Odisha, said police on Sunday, which is monitoring the situationclosely. "There is information about abduction of two persons by Maoists in Kandhamal district. Further details are awaited," Director General of Police Manmohan Praharaj told PTI over phone. Home secretary...

Polling for Andhra by-elections begins

Polling for by-elections to seven Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh started this morning amid tight security. Six of these constituencies - Kollapur, Nagarkurnool, Mahbubnagar, Kamareddy, Adilabad and Station Ghanpur - are in Telangana region, while the seventh, Kovvur, is in coastal Andhra. Voting began at 8 a.m and will continue till 5 p.m. The total number of eligible voters is about 13 lakh. The state’s Chief Electoral...