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Sony Vaio VGX-TP1 2007-02-05 09:26:00 An eye-catching design and quiet operation make this Media Center PC a living-room contender, though it's a bit pricey given its feature set.The Sony
VAIO VGX-TP1 is certainly eye-catching: This white-gray circle looks more like a stand to place something on than a PC. But a PC it is, and it's meant to fit unobtrusively into your living room, your bedroom, or any other room where you want to watch TV and have the functionality of a Media Center PC along for the ride.Measuring about 10.6 inches in diameter and less than 4 inches in height, the unit has impressive features for its compact size. You get a 1.83-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 5600 chip, 2GB of RAM, a 300GB hard drive, integrated graphics, a multiformat DVD burner, built-in wireless capability, an ethernet port, and Windows Vista Premium Home. A matching wireless keyboard and remote that are comfortable to use and equally compact complete the package.The preproduction unit I looked at was fairly easy to set up, though I did have to
Viacom Demands Video Removal From YouTube 2007-02-05 09:21:00 Google told to remove over 100,000 Viacom
clips from YouTube
.Media conglomerate Viacom International today upbraided YouTube for continuing to host throngs of Viacom videos without permission and demanded that over 100,000 of its clips be removed from the popular video-sharing site owned by Google.Viacom, whose properties include Comedy Central, MTV, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, and VH1, ran out of patience after months of discussions with Google and YouTube, the company said in a statement.This could mean the end of second-day looks at comedy clips from The Colbert Report and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart."It has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content available to YouTube users," the statement reads.YouTube and Google have failed to deliver efficient filtering tools, so that "vast amounts" of unauthorized Viacom video exist on the video-sharing site, the company said.YouTube acknowledged receiving a Read more:Removal
Dell Investors Sue PC Maker Over Accounting Practices 2007-02-05 09:15:00 Shortly after the resignation of its chief executive, Dell reeled from another blow as a group of investors filed a lawsuit alleging that the company had used illegal accounting methods to hide secret kickback payments paid by Intel.The payments from Intel were meant to ensure that Dell used only Intel processors in its PCs, according to the suit. The investors filing the suit Wednesday asked the U.S. District Court in Austin, Texas, to give the case class-action status, saying that Dell shareholders were harmed when Dell inflated its profits.The investors claim that Dell's profits were inflated by hundreds of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported today.Intel Denies ChargesIntel denies the charges. A Dell spokeswoman said the company did not comment on pending litigation. In May, Dell announced it would also began selling PCs and servers using chips from Intel's rival, Advanced Micro Devices.The new accusation echoes several ongoing lawsuits against the two companies. Read more:Investors
PS2 Sales Surpass Successor 2007-02-05 09:12:00 Japanese shoppers opt for older console over hard-to-find PlayStation 3.TOKYO--Sales
of the almost 7-year-old PlayStation 2 beat those of the brand-new PlayStation 3 in Japan in late January for the first time, according to sales figures published today.For the week of January 22 to January 28, sales of the PlayStation 2 totaled 20,995 units while those of the PlayStation 3 were 19,996, said Media Create. The research company receives data from around 3000 stores across Japan and uses that to estimate nationwide sales.Sony AdjustsThe figures amount to more bad news for Sony Computer Entertainment, which missed its initial shipment target for the console. The company had hoped to ship 2 million PlayStation 3 consoles worldwide between the Japan launch on November 11 and the end of 2006 but it didn't accomplish that until mid-January. It's sticking by its next shipment target of 6 million consoles by the end of March.Sales of the PlayStation 2 have been so good that Sony this week rais Read more:Successor
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Intel Speeds Up Silicon Photonics 2007-01-22 19:31:00 Researchers at Intel
have announced the world's fastest silicon modulator--an advance that could cut bandwidth costs and make computers run faster and cooler.Today's computer processors are strictly electronic devices, transmitting data by means of electrons traveling through copper wires. But this technology is relatively slow and produces heat. Now, researchers at Intel have developed an optical device that could play a key role in replacing electrons and copper wires with photons and beams of light. The team has demonstrated a record-breaking silicon modulator that can encode data at a rate of 30 gigabits per second--nearly as fast as many nonsilicon modulators currently used in fiber optics hardware.A silicon modulator that can operate at these speeds, says Mario Paniccia, Intel research fellow and director of the Silicon
Photonics Technology Lab, could make it possible to design faster computers that include photonic chips. In addition, Paniccia says, it could be part of an all-
X-men the animated series. season 1-5 2007-02-06 17:04:00 NOTE:ALL LINKS ARE WORKING AT THE TIME OF POST. IF THERE IS AN DEAD LINK PLZZ REPORT IN THE SHOUT BOX.AND APPRICIATE THE UPLOADER FOR UPLOADING THESE FILES!!!DOWNLOAD WITH FULL POTENTIALSeason 1:1. Night of The Sentinels (Part 1)2. Night of The Sentinels (Part 2)3. Enter Magneto4. Deadly Reunions5. Captive Hearts6. Cold Vengeance7. Slave Island8. The Unstoppable Juggernaut9. The Cure10. Come the Apocalypse11. Days of Future Past (Part 1)12. Days of Future Past (Part 2)13 The Final DecisionSeason 21. Till Death Do Us Part (Part 1)2. Till Death Do Us Part (Part 2)3. Whatever It Takes4. Red Dawn5. Repo Man6. X-Ternally Yours7. Time Fugitives (Part 1)8. Time Fugitives (Part 2)9. A Rogue’s Tale10. Beauty & the Beast11. Mojovision12. Reunion (Part 1)13. Reunion (Part 2)Season 3:1. Out of the Past (Part 1)2. Out of the Past (Part 2)3. Phoenix Saga Part 1: Sacrifice4. Phoenix Saga Part 2: The Dark Shroud5. Phoenix Saga Part 3: Cry of the Banshee6. Phoenix Saga Part 4: The Starjammers7. Read more:animated
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Kodak's Restructuring Plans 2007-02-08 19:45:00 Company plans to cut up to 7000 jobs this year as it transitions to digital technologiesAs part of a four-year turnaround plan, Eastman Kodak
expects to cut 5000 to 7000 jobs by the end of 2007 in an effort to reduce its administrative overhead and boost profits from digital photography instead of standard film, the company told investors today.Kodak leaders had already cut 1200 jobs during the fourth quarter of 2006, bringing the total jobs lost to 23,400 since the company first announced its restructuring plan in January 2004. By the end of this year, that total could reach 30,000, nearly half of the company's size in 2003.The company has already cut excess jobs from its manufacturing division, and will trim the remaining jobs from its selling, general, and administrative unit, Kodak Chief Financial Officer Frank Sklarsky said in a release. The move will reduce administrative overhead from Kodak's current level of 18 percent of revenue to just 14 percent to 15 percent.The company h Read more:Restructuring
HP Appoints New General Counsel 2007-02-08 19:39:00 Hewlett-Packard appointed as its new general counsel the lawyer it hired last year to conduct an independent investigation into the spying scandal at the company.Mike Holston, a partner at Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius, will take on the new position starting February 22. He succeeds Ann Baskins, who resigned in September.HP has been embroiled in a scandal regarding the tactics it used to investigate an internal information leak. The company is being investigated for approving illegal methods used to obtain information about journalists and employees.Holston's InvestigationHolston revealed the results of his investigations into HP's probe at a press conference in September. He named HP executives who approved or were present at meetings that detailed the tactics company officials and third parties were using to investigate the information leak.He also disclosed plans at HP to use false information to lure reporters into identifying the leak. Holston said Mark Hurd, chairman and CEO of HP, Read more:Counsel
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Amitabh Denies Gifting Bentley Car To Abhishek , Delhi Govt. Orders An Enquiry 2007-02-08 19:33:00 The whole media and news channels were all over proclaiming that megastar Amitabh
Bachchan gifted a 2 to 2.5 crore Bentley
car to son Abhishek
as a birthday gift on 5th February . Some favourable sources like IBN and Aaj Tak even showed a Delhi number plate and a picture of the white car .However , Mr. Bachchan has categorically denied having gifted the car to Abhishek( to the leading news channel NDTV) .What cannot be denied is that the car was definately there in 'Jalsa' on the said date .The question is , if it was not Mr. Bachchan , who gifted it ? Maybe family friends Amar Singh or Mulayam Singh !If anyone has the answer please let us know as the Delhi government has ordered an enquiry about the car .While on cars and the Bachchans' , the director of the forthcoming Amitabh Bachchan starrer 'Eklavya' , Vidhu Vinod Chopra has gifted a Rolls Royce to the megastar for his excellent performance in the movie .
2007 : Fine Year And Year Of Fines For Anurag Kashyap 2007-02-08 19:29:00 Anurag Kashyap
will at last have a release in 2007 , 'Black Friday' , directed by arguably the most controversial director of recent times , will hit the screens on 9th February . Anurag is also racing ahead with the shooting of his 'No Smoking' . Besides , two films written by him are official entries at prestigious film festivals . Looks like 2007 will be Kashyap's year .While on Anurag Kashyap and 'No Smoking' , the unit members have decided to charge a fine from anybody found smoking on the film's set . But that hasn't made the director kick his habit of holding the cancer stick between the lips ." I have told producer Kumar Mangat to deduct all my fines from my renumeration , " smiled Anurag taking a puff at his ciggerette Read more:Anurag Kashyap
Karan To Announce His Next After ´Koffee 2007-02-08 19:26:00 All animated about the show starting both on Star World and Star One from February 11 at 9 p.m. , Karan
, as expected, has picked Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukherji from his friend-list to open the series `Koffee With Karan'Isn't it a good idea? They will be seen together for the first time on my show after `Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'," says Karan. In an easy-going banter, he talks about getting "petrified" by the thought of including in the guest list this time, people other than his friends in Bollywood.Karan somehow sounds apologetic about having not yet announced his next big project. "I will soon announce my next film. I have not done it because I am so tied up with my new season of `Koffee With Karan'."
Vidya Balan Turns Down Telugu Version Of ´ L.R. Munnabhai 2007-02-08 19:23:00 Vidya Balan
would have got one more chance to play Munna Bhai's girlfriend in 'Lage Raho Munnabhai
' (LRMB) . Only thing , this time it would have to be in Telugu
.Prabhu Devaa , who will be directing the Telugu remake of LRMB , was keen on casting Vidya opposite superstar Chiranjeevi . But Vidya Balan
politely declined the offer for two reasons : her hands were full because of which she couldn't allot early dates to the project ; and Vidya can't speak Telugu Read more:Vidya
Salaam-E-Ishq´ - Father Salim Khan wanted Sohail´s Track Edited Out 2007-02-08 19:17:00 It can now be told . The length of 'Salaam
-E-Ishq' had always been a concern for it's makers . Around the time its first copy was to be out , the producers showed it to Salim
Khan ( of salim-Javed fame) to take an objective opinion . The veteran writer was frank enough to say that if anything could be deleted , it was his younger son Sohail Khan's entire track because , according to him ,it was not connected with other tracks in the film. However , since Sohail Khan and Isha Kopikar's scenes provided comic relief in the film ,the makers did not delete them . Anyway , that apart , one needs to admire Salim Khan because it requires a great deal of objectivity to be able to say that the scenes of one's own son need to be deleted to improve the pace of a film . Read more:Edited
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King Khan´s Gift To Alma Mater 2007-02-08 19:07:00 Watching Shah Rukh Khan anchoring the third edition of 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' (KBC) is not the only reason for jubilation for those associated with Hansraj College , Delhi University (DU) . There is another reason too . King Khan has sent a cheque of Rs 20,000 for his alma mater as a token of his love for the college. Being a Hansraj graduate , Shah Rukh shares a special relationship with his alma mater . While Amitabh Bachchan may have missed visiting Kirorimal College when he came to accept a doctorate degree in DU , Shah Rukh Khan has made short visits to the college while being in the capital . He also came to celebrate the college's golden jubilee a few years back . This time , the Bollywood star has sent a cheque of Rs 20,000 along with a message for his college.This is the first time the star has sent a cheque to the college."Even though there are changes in the college and students move on , they still feel a sense of belonging which is evident from Shah Rukh's gesture , "
Rituparna in the Big league in Bollywood! 2007-02-08 18:28:00 National Award winning actress and glamour queen of Bengal, Rituparna Sengupta has bagged two more of her prestigious project in Bollywood. Purely on talent she has signed a mega film opposite Punjab da puttar Sunny Deol in Ashwin Choudhery's GURUDAKSHINA. Says Rituparna, "I have always been a fan of Sunny Deol since college I still remember the mass hysteria when GADAR was released. I'm just looking forward to working with Sunny Deol and Ashwin Choudhery."When asked about her transition from Bengal cinema acting with director like Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna sen Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Sandip Roy and acting in out and out commercial film in Bollywood, she says,"I have not come to Bollywood to act in run of the mill films. In the last one year since I'm here, I have signed 6 Hindi films which are different from each other. I m confident of my acting skills and I am sure will make my mark in Bollywood too. And since I have also done a lot of glamorous role in Bengali cinema it should no
Sanjay Dutt gets another day's respite 2007-02-08 18:24:00 A special court handing out sentences in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts Wednesday gave actor Sanjay
Dutt one more day to surrender, pending his plea for release on probation.Dutt had urged for leniency before the special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Preventive) Act (TADA) court that convicted him in November 2006 for possessing illegal arms but absolved him of terror conspiracy.The special court gave him time till 1 p.m. Thursday to surrender as a decision on his plea for release was pending and the argument between the defence and prosecution remained inconclusive Wednesday.The court, which had granted him a one-day bail extension Tuesday, heard arguments of the prosecution on Dutt's application seeking benefit under the Probation of Offenders Act."The argument of prosecution on Sanjay Dutt
's plea was inconclusive and will continue on Thursday. He will get one more day to surrender before the court," Special Judge Promod Kode said after hearing daylong arguments from the acto Read more:respite
Why see 'Parzania', Gujaratis ask five years after riots 2007-02-08 17:50:00 As the fifth anniversary of perhaps the most macabre sectarian conflagration in Gujarat's history approaches, there is something eerily familiar about emotions surrounding the decision not to show "Parzania
", director Rahul Dholakia's celluloid reminder of those events.A bizarre cocktail of ideological conviction, commercial calculation, unstated fear and pure bigotry has upstaged the movie's release in the state. For most ordinary Gujaratis, the decision by cinema owners not run the movie has none of the lofty dimensions of a freedom of expression debate. For them it is just another movie whose screening or lack thereof makes no difference."Ema shun? Evun to chale (What's the big deal? It is okay)", is how a young woman at Wide Angle multiplex on the city's upscale S.G. Road reacted when asked what she thought of the decision.Her young male friend was even more dismissive, albeit distinctly happy with his painful attempt at punning when he said, "We have seen the real riots
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Security Vendors Nearing Extinction 2007-02-08 20:06:00 Vendors such as Microsoft and Cisco are integrating security functions into their products, making standalone products redundantStand-alone security vendors are going the way of dinosaurs.That was the assessment offered today by Art Coviello, president of RSA Security Inc., at the company's annual security conference, which is being held in San Francisco this week. RSA is EMC Corp.'s security division.Delivering a keynote address Tuesday morning, Coviello said the trend by vendors such as Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and EMC to integrate security functions into their core technologies is diminishing the need for add-on products from pure-play security vendors. RSA itself was one such stand-alone vendor until it was acquired by EMC last year."Our industry is ripe for a transformation" Coveillo said. "The transformation I am talking about will bring an end to the stand-alone security industry within two to three years." With the exception of two or three vendors, t Read more:Vendors
Was That a Vista Fix Released on Patch Tuesday? 2007-02-15 18:28:00 Researchers and customers alike are keeping close tabs on the operating system for the first confirmed vulnerabilityUsers can chalk up a critical vulnerability -- now patched -- in Windows Vista
, a Microsoft security manager said Wednesday. Though if people want to get picky, the fix for the company's malware scanning engine isn't really for a flaw in the operating system's core code. And therein lies a debate.The question of whether Vista was patched against its first remote code vulnerability may be academic in the long run, but researchers and customers alike are keeping close tabs on the operating system for the first confirmed vulnerability. Microsoft has repeatedly touted Vista as its most secure version of Windows ever.Tuesday
, it released 12 security updates to fix 20 vulnerabilities, 11 of them pegged as "critical" in the company's four-step scoring system. One of the bulletins, MS07-010, patched a critical bug in the malware scanning engine used by Microsoft's security l Read more:Patch
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Microsoft: Don't Ask Us About Next OS 2007-02-15 14:39:00 Microsoft wants everyone to focus on Vista and forget about whatever may come down the operating system pike.Microsoft wants everyone to focus on Vista and forget about whatever may come down the operating system pike.In a tightly-worded statement issued late yesterday and attributed to Kevin Kutz, the director of the Windows client group, the company said it "is focused on the value Windows Vista will bring to people today. We are not giving official guidance to the public yet about the next version of Windows, other than that we're working on it."Kutz was replying to speculation that the next version of Windows -- with codenames ranging from "Vienna" to "Windows 7," depending on the pundit -- would be out before the end of 2009. The chatter was fueled by Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development in Microsoft's Windows core operating system division, who spoke to reporters last week at the RSA conference.At the time, Fathi said the follow-on to Vista would likely show up in Read more:Microsoft
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