Indian selects film on farmers suicides as its official entry to Oscars
Posted on 25. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Entertainment
India sends the satirical movie about farmers suicides “Peepli Live” as its official entry to Oscars.
The movie has drawn much accolades from film critics and even the country’s Prime Minister has been selected as India’s entry to Oscars for the Best Foreign Film category.
Peepli Live movie has been a satirical take on how papparazzi and [...]
Google sees Bing not Facebook as its main threat
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Buzz
Eric Schmidt, the Google’s chief executive says that Bing is their threat, not Facebook or the otherwise Apple.
While Eric described Apple as a decent competitor and Facebook as one company of consequence that is doing excellent job in the social networking arena it is still Microsoft’s new-generation search engine, Bing that will be Google’s main [...]
Future School Project in Japan aims to bring digital textbooks and wired classrooms
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Technology
Japan to pilot on the idea of digital textbooks in classrooms. The island country will be experimenting with the idea of digital textbooks (electronic textbooks) at schools.
Starting the experiment with primary schools, the initiative is to promote the role of IT within classrooms for all the digital natives and wired generation.
Under this new ‘Future School’ [...]
As many as 60 whales feared dead at Spirits Bay in New Zealand
Posted on 22. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in General
About 60 whales feared dead at Spirits Bay in New Zealand. The whales were feared dead in mass beaching at a remote bay in New Zealand. The weather too has not been co-operative to aid the conservative personnel put the whales back into the seas.
A pod measuring 80 whales stranded at Spirits Bay (320 [...]
Paris denied by Japan
Posted on 22. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Entertainment
Troubled Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton was denied entering into Japan on Wednesday. The denial of Paris’ entrance comes in the wake of the star pleading guilty to misdemeanor drug possession in Las Vegas.
It is noted that Japan has one of the strictest immigration laws which deny entrance to those convicted of drug possession and [...]
Asia the fastest growing market for Facebook
Posted on 21. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in General
Facebook says that it’s fastest growing market is from Asia; with new subscribers and active subscribers to the social networking site coming from the Asian countries.
One of the company’s senior executives, said that Facebook market is expanding in those regions of china where access restrictions prevail.
The company has had its sales office in Singapore open [...]
Vintage Les Paul guitar stolen eight years back shows up on eBay
Posted on 21. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in General
The owner of a vintage guitar Gibson Les Paul Special, he lost eight years back had a pleasant surprise- to find his stolen guitar at eBay auction.
Doug Duncan, the 57-year-old owner of 1957’s Gibson Les Paul kept on looking for the stolen guitar. The musician owner; however, had signed up with the site for email [...]
Lady Gaga named worst dressed female in Showbiz
Posted on 20. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Entertainment
The meat dress that the singer-performer Lady Gaga donned at the recent MTV Video Music Awards function at Los Angeles fetched her a title she probably hates to boast – the worst dressed female in showbiz.
The ‘Bad Romance’ singer irked fans and equally animal lovers by strutting in an animal flesh derived outfit at the [...]
Katy Perry and Lady GaGa tie with 5 nominations each for the MTV European Music Awards
Posted on 20. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Entertainment
Singers Lady GaGa and Katy Perry are dominating MTV European Music Award (EMA) award nominations. The singers claim 5 noms each.
BBC reports that the two singers are up against each in the categories of best pop, best female singer, best song and the best video. Lady GaGa also figures in the best live act while [...]
Typhoon Fanapi hits Taiwan forcing thousands of evacuations
Posted on 20. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Buzz
Tens of thousands of Taiwan residents were evacuated as strong Typhoon Fanapi struck southern part of Taiwan. The power and transport services disrupted as the typhoon flooded the island.
Typhoon Fanapi happens to be first major storm that struck the island in 2010 and after crossing Taiwan the typhoon reached Fujian province of China.
According to the [...]
