First Blast

Introducing new models tablet computer, namely iPad. For Jobs, iPad tech gadgets into a third-generation mobile devices, that is not only limited to smart phones and laptops, but between both of these. Introduced in an exhibition in San Francisco, Wednesday, January 27, 2010, iPad will be sold with prices starting from U.S. $ 499.

The price is lower than analysts’ estimates, ie U.S. $ 1000. Apple plans to begin selling iPad within two months. According to Jobs, iPad would be useful to read books, play computer games and watch videos. He considered, this latest tablet computer “would seem more modern than a laptop and have more capabilities than a smart phone.” Read the rest of this entry »

Taiwanese mobile phone is always providing the latest innovations for the mobile market in the world, especially in Asia. Because they do not want to miss with some vendors from Asia that has begun to offer mobile phones with the operating system, Android, HTC also continue to offer a series of Android on their phones, including HTC Wildfire. If we look into the system, embedded on this mobile phone, operating system, Android v2.1 will be the flagship Wildfire eclair. This system is supported by several leading hardware, such as Processor Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz that has been equipped with 512 MB of memory capacity. Read the rest of this entry »

KARACHI: The captain of the Pakistani passenger jet that crashed in the hills of Islamabad on Wednesday was a top professional flying into one of the most testing airports for pilots, a colleague said.

“Islamabad airport’s location is not an easy destination to fly into,” Hashim Raza Gardezi, a former colleague of Pervez Iqbal Chaudhry who piloted the doomed Airbus A-321, told AFP.

The craggy Margalla Hills to the north of the capital and unpredictable wind patterns can make an approach extremely difficult he said, going so far as to describe Islamabad as “one of the worst weather conditions in the world”. Read the rest of this entry »

Now that Shah Rukh is taking time off from shooting for his various endorsements to concentrate on RA.One, wife Gauri Khan is exploring unchartered territory. She has bagged her first brand endorsement with her husband.

Very soon, the couple will be seen in a television commercial. The buzz in the industry is that they will endorse a very popular furnishing house. The shoot for the commercial is likely to take place in Mumbai.

Ad filmmaker, Sunhil Sippy, (who directed Snip) will be directing King Khan and his wife in this commercial. And in this stint, Sunhil seems to have got by with a little help from his friends Makarand Deshpande and Saurabh Shukla actively helping him out wherever possible. Read the rest of this entry »

Social networking has come a long way from just being a platform for people to meet and interact, to one of the major tools of business in the vast expanse of the Internet. That being said, the main objective of these social networking websites still remains the same – meeting and interacting with old pals and like minded people. What has changed, though, is the way the users are using them. Social networking is no more restricted to those teenagers who are looking to make new friends on the world wide web. Today, a 40-year-old businessman uses it as a recruiting tool, while a 60-year-old gentleman uses it to stay in touch will his old pals. Right from Facebook to Nexopia all the top social networking sites of the world have their own fan following. In fact, some of these websites boast of having more than a 100 million users worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

There are just so many amazing gadgets in the market right now and all of them have their own unique benefits. All this makes the need for a standardized list of cool gadgets for men 2010 all the more important. So, let’s face it, men have traditionally loved technology and this has allowed marketers and makers of the latest gadgets to aim their products at different men of specific age groups.

The choice of gadgets is indeed very vast and in each category there are hundreds and thousands of products to choose from. Cameras, video game consoles, ipods, mp3 players, watches, car accessories, mobile phones and computers are just some of the categories of consumer electronics that require constant upgrading and thus, see the advent of several new models every week. Here you will find a brief list of the very best gadgets for men 2010.

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Ajay Devgn will be romancing Kangna Ranaut in Priyadarshan’s next film, that too in a speeding subway train from London to Glassgow. Novel, isn’t it?

Well, actually, Jan de Bont’s 1994 thriller, Speed, inspires Priyadarshan’s film. De Bont’s film was about a bomb in a speeding bus that would go off if the bus lost speed.

“But the difference in my film, says Priyan, “is that we’ve shifted the terror attack from a bus to a train.” The untitled thriller goes on floors on September 1.

On choosing a train in London for shooting his film, Priyan says, “We’ve got permission to shoot at one of the London stations and inside a train. It took some effort but we did it. I don’t think it would’ve made sense to shoot the film without actual locations and the train.”

The most unusual part of the film is the casting. While Manoj Bajpai (a first for Priyan) has been cast in a positive role as the engineer trying to control the train’s speed, Ajay Devgn plays the terrorist. The last time he was cast in a negative role was in Raj Kumar Santoshi’s Khakee. Read the rest of this entry »

The tallest building in the world today is ‘Burj Khalifa’ of Dubai, UAE. Standing at a fantastic height of 2716 feet or 828m, this building breaks the record of the previous record holder, Taiwan 101. Officially opened on Jan. 4, 2010, this record breaker was welcomed with a fabulous celebration of laser show and fireworks that seemed to be shooting from the building itself. The tower itself cost $150 billion to build.

Besides being the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa also has the most stories and the highest occupied floor of any building in the world. It has been built in a ‘Y’ shape with with three wings to keep the weight balanced. The building boasts of housing the world’s first Armani hotel on the bottom floors. It also comprises 900 Dubai residences, 37 floors of office space, and a superb dining restaurant and observation deck on the 124th floor. People can ascend to the deck via the longest lifts in the world, which take only two minutes to travel 504 meters. Let’s now find out some more about the other tall buildings on this planet. Read the rest of this entry »

The promo of Salman Khan’s DABANGG is out and those who have seen it are raving about it. It looks uncannily similar to the 2009 Salman Khan starrer WANTED. However, Arbaaz Khan, who is the producer of DABANGG doesn’t think so.

Salman Khan looks very similar to his WANTED’s character in DABANGG. Even in DABANGG, he’s playing a police officer. Doesn’t Arbaaz think so? “That’s true. But Salman’s character in WANTED was very brooding, quiet and serious. Here, he is entertaining, jovial and far more verbose.” Read the rest of this entry »