Wednesday, January 5, 2011

“Toshiba’s Android tablet to be launched soon” plus 7 more

“Toshiba’s Android tablet to be launched soon” plus 7 more

Toshiba’s Android tablet to be launched soon

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:01 AM PST


Japanese electronics manufacturer Toshiba on Tuesday has announced to launch an Android tablet soon. The tablet will be a Nvidia Tegra processor. The company is yet to name the product and was displayed among many products in Las Vegas a day before the Consumer electronics show.

Group manager of the Toshiba's digital products division, Chris Casper said, “It’ll come out in the spring of 2011 and the price, we haven’t decided yet.” Currently the demo device has Android 2.2 but Toshiba hopes to launch the model with Android 3.0.

The Honeycomb based tablet will be available from May in the markets. The Toshiba tablet features Resolution Plus for a high-def view, 10 inch screen with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, two webcams, USB connectors, Mini USB and an SD card slot.

Along with the tablet Toshiba also displayed the new version of Qosmio multimedia laptop with a built in 3D feature which does not require 3D glasses to view.

Amravati girls found in most of the porn MMS clips

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 01:01 AM PST


Two persons have been held by the Maharashtra police in Amravati, for making porn MMS clips of some 15 girls from various cities from Vidharbh. The police had according to sources arrested the men on 2nd January but the case was filed on 4th January.

The police have arrested Lokesh Gupta and Ankit Gupta and have raided a residence and a mobile shop, where 150 porn clippings were found. Sources have added that, the girls featuring in the MMS had done it to earn easy money and that the girls in the MMS were mostly from Amravati region in Maharashtra.

MMS scandals have become common these days. Many innocent girls are roped in the scandal for the sake of money. And many of them even fall for such offers just to fulfill their monetary needs.

Film maker Ekta Kapoor is now planning to make a film 'Ragini MMS', based on a story of one of such scandals in which a girl was filmed without her knowledge.

Grant Flower retires from international cricket

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 11:17 PM PST


Zimbabwean all-rounder Grant Flower has announced his retirement from cricket from all forms of the game. Flower had recently been re-selected to the Zimbabwean side after years in exile when the denounced the national side and went to play county cricket for Essex.

Flower will now look to concentrate on the coaching career. Flower had made a comeback to the Zimbabwean side as a player cum batting coach and will look to focus solely on coaching.

On his comeback to the side in 2010, he played two ODIs but did not set the stadium alight and it looked like he could be ending his playing career soon. He had had an excellent 50-overs competition for Essex, for whom he made his runs at an average of more than 65.

Icy winter weather hits southern China

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 11:09 PM PST


Icy roads kepts roads in Guizhou closed for up to 30 hours. Reuters.

Southern China, which typically has mild winters, has been hit with icy weather that has forced the evacuation of thousands.

The southern provinces of Hunan, Jianxi, Sichuan, and Guizhou have been punished with freezing rain over the past few days, killing one person and causing more than 1,200 houses to collapse, according to the Ministry of Civil affairs.

As a result of damage to homes, more than 58,000 people have been forced to evacuate. In Guizhou province alone the evacuations hit 22,800 according to the Xinhua news agency.

Weather forecasts say that the freezing rain will continue to hit the southern provinces of Guizhou and Hunan for the next week, with heavy snow forecast to plague Hunan today. Icy road conditions forced the closing of highways for up to 30 hours in Guizhou, stranding motorists.

Temperature in Delhi drops lower than Shimla

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 10:58 PM PST


The temperature in the capital on Tuesday did not rise above 12.7 degrees. The whole day cold winds had made the weather seem even colder than Shimla, where the temperature was slightly more than it was in Delhi.

Delhi experienced the coldest day with the minimum temperature of 3.7 C, which was almost five degrees less than the temperature on Monday. While, Shimla had the minimum temperature of 4.6 C and a maximum of 14.1C, which were unusually higher than the temperatures in the capital.

The extreme conditions had also delayed many flights from the capital, with a visibility as low as 50m. According to the MET officials the temperatures could further fall in the next few days.

The IG airport had implemented the low visibility procedures as the visibility has lowered to 500m at 3:43 am on both its runways. On Monday the fog conditions had started from 7:21pm and continued till 2:30 am.

Bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai in four hours

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 10:28 PM PST



Opening in June the high-speed train trip from Beijing to Shanghai will take about 4 hours. AP.

At an average speed of 350 kilometers per hour, a new high-sped rail link between Shanghai and Beijing will open in mid-June according to the Ministry of Railways.    This is a significant improvement over the 10-18 hours for a typical train trip between the cities.

Although ticket prices have yet  to be  announced, many  analysts believe a tickets will be priced to be competitive with the cost of air fare between Beijing and Shanghai.  Those flights have a price of 1,200 yuan for an hour and half flight.

While the length of rail lines between Shanghai and Beijing make up only 2 percent of the rail network, rail traffic between the two population centers handle about 10 percent of the nation’s passenger load and 7 percent of the cargo transported.   So, cutting down the time between the two cities will help reduce railway congestion and aide in economic development.

By the end of 2010, China had 8,358 kilometers of high-speed railways in service with 1,200 bullet trains in operation.   By the end of 2011, the Railways Ministry plans to have another 5,000 kilometers of high-speed lines in service.

Tomorrow never dies, eighteenth James Bond series movie

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 09:07 PM PST


Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth spy film of the James Bond series released in 1997. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh.

The film was produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and was the first James Bond film made after the death of producer Albert R. Broccoli.

Tomorrow Never Dies performed well at the box office and earned a Golden Globe nomination despite mixed reviews. While its domestic box office surpassed GoldenEye, it was the only Pierce Brosnan Bond film not to open at number one at the box office since it opened the same day as Titanic.

It follows Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering world events and starting World War III.

Taiwan to permit individual tourism from China

Posted: 04 Jan 2011 05:44 PM PST


Taipei 101, the world's second tallest building, is certain to be the destination of tourist from China.

Taiwan and China have reached a consensus which will open up Taiwan to individual tourists from China. The announcement shows that relations between China and Taiwan are thawing.

Currently, Chinese tourists may only come to Taiwan in a tour group ranging in size from 5-40 people.

The new program has several restrictions.  Those applying for a travel visa may stay only 15 days and earn a minimum of 150,000 yuan ($22,300 US), have a gold banking card and not have a criminal record.

Under the conditions of this trial program 500 visitors a day from Beijing and Shanghai will be able to visit, starting on Tomb Sweeping Day 清明节, which is April 5.

Tourists from China made 1.6 million visits to Taiwan last year.   With this new agreement in place,  the figure is expected to climb to two million in 2011.

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