Apple working on slighter, cheaper iPhone - report

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc is functioning on a smaller and less expensive
version of the iPhone, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources.

The report said, the prototype device is about one-third smaller than the iPhone 4, citing a person who had seen it. 

Apple has considered selling the new iPhone for $200 without a two-year wireless agreement, Bloomberg reported. 

 

Apple is aiming to reveal the device around the middle of this year, but the launch may be delayed or canceled altogether, the report said. 

Apple did not respond to a request for statement.
The company often develops products it never brings to marketplace. 

According to this report, Apple is also working on a dual-mode phone that would be able to work with the world's two main wireless standards. 

AT&T, which carries the iPhone on its wireless network in the United States, declined to statement. 

Verizon Wireless, which besides carry the device, could not be reached for comment.
Shares of Cupertino, California-based Apple blocked down 1 percent at $354.54 on the Nasdaq on Thursday.

I still have to find the correct man: Deepika

Mumbai, Feb 6 : She is still looking for the right man, says Deepika Padukone who is often stippled with businessman Vijay Mallya's son Siddharth after breaking up with Ranbir Kapoor. 

'I haven't attention of marriage. 

I still have to find the right man to still consider marriage,' Deepika Padukone told newspapers at Imran Khan and Avantika's wedding reception Saturday where she came with Siddhartha. 

While the reporters asked Siddharth about their relationship, he too accepted the buck on Deepika saying: '

I have planned nothing as yet. You must ask her.'
Commenting upon the rumours about his and Deepika's relationship, he said, 'I was out of the country when I heard of it, it made me laugh.' 

Deepika, who featured with Imran in 'Break Ke Baad', said it was must for her to attend her co star's wedding party. 

She said, 'I repay it to Imran Khan. I was shooting in Bhopal and have just landed and coming directly from the airport to attend the reception’.

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Dubai: Parents worried about their son's overspeeding ways or the wayward behaviour of a driver, a low cost Internet based GPS vehicle tracking system is estimated to be just the solution.

Developed by a Qatari IT service provider, the T-Qat vehicle tracking system is being touted as the only monitoring system which has a web server developed in Qatar and has an Internet based Global Positioning System (GPS) tracker adapted for local users. 

The service provider aims to make longer the service to more Gulf countries as well as Africa while subscribers outside Qatar will need to pay along with the yearly fee the monthly GSM roaming charges.

The system is expected to prove mainly useful in improving vehicle breakdown services as well as to monitor vehicles which transport school students as well as day and night shift employees of companies. 

The service contributor, Advanced Technologies and Solutions, which has developed the tracking system, is participating at the Qatar Motor Show in Doha to create awareness for the device. 

Installing the system in a vehicle can help a company or a person have complete control over the second party usage of their vehicles while sitting before a computer with an Internet connection. 

They can be able to track the vehicle's location, movement and speed travelled by the vehicle user and can also set off a speed alarm.

The current clients of the compact include car rental, limousine as well as trading and construction companies. 

The system also gives the owner of a car the ability to cut off the engine of a vehicle with a click on their laptop or a mobile via the web following necessary safety precautions. 

The Report Management System provides programmed fleet management reports on over-speeding, historical data, parking and running reports along with geographical area and mileage reports. 

The system operates with the GPS vehicle tracking device linked to the ignition system and other desired parts of a vehicle, after a subscriber has registered online with the service provider paying an annual fee.

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Oil mafia: Govt sitting on ex-IAS officer's report

Mumbai: As Maharashtra Government cracks down on the oil mafia in the wake of horrible murder of Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane, a 15 year old report on curbing oil corruption menace prepared by a former IAS officer is gathering dust at the state secretariat. 

"I submitted the statement to the Government in 1995-96. 

Nothing has been completed so far," Leena Mehendale, the then Nashik Divisional Commissioner, told PTI.
Sonawane was scorched alive by the oil mafia in Malegaon, Nashik district, on Tuesday for having fractured down on them. 

"This report came to Mantralaya (secretariat). All that we learnt was that no battle was going to be taken said Mehendale, who retired last year as Additional Chief Secretary. 

The report has noted that oil adulteration and pilferage were unchecked in the region where Sonawane was killed. It has also recommended review of licenses of vendors. 

She said, “I suggested that petrol and kerosene licenses should not be given to the same person," adding that the administration has turned a blind eye towards this suggestion, leading to rampant adulteration. 

Mehendale had discussed the issue with the then Law Secretary of Maharashtra, looking for an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). 

She recommended that rationing inspectors should get the right to file cases in court.

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The British actor Henry Cavill cast as Superman

NEW YORK – British actor Henry Cavill is going up, up and away. 

Cavill will star as Superman (and, visibly, Clark Kent) in the next payment of the movie franchise. 

Warner Bros. films announced the casting Sunday. 

 

The film is to be directed by "300" director Zack Snyder, who says in a announcement Cavill is "the perfect selection to don the cape and `S' shield." 

No label has been announced for the film, which is intended to reboot the franchise after its latest incarnation fizzled. 

The 2006 movie "Superman Returns" was directed by Bryan Singer and starred Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel.
Cavill is fairly unknown. 

He had been measured for the blockbuster roles of Batman, James Bond and even the previous version of Superman. 

He co starred on Showtime's "The Tudors."
Warner Bros. is targeting to release on December 2012.

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US famous Actor Charlie Sheen taken to Los Angeles hospital

US actor Charlie Sheen has been taken to hospital in Los Angeles with harsh abdominal pains.

Publicist Stan Rosenfield gave no other details of the 45 year old's condition. 

But the celebrity reports website TMZ reported Mr Sheen was taken by ambulance from his home following an early morning emergency call. 

Mr Sheen currently stars in the fashionable TV comedy Two and a Half Men. He also starred in the films Wall Street, Major union and Platoon. 

TMZ reported, His father, Hollywood star Martin Sheen, mother, and ex wife were with him at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. 

Charlie Sheen filed for divorce from his third wife, Brooke Mueller, in November, citing incompatible differences. 

In late October 2009 the actor was accused of causing injure to a hotel room in New York. 

After hotel security reported Mr Sheen was unmanageable, the actor voluntarily went with authorities for a psychiatric evaluation. 

However, Mr Sheen's publicist said the actor had gone to hospital because he had "an unfavorable allergic reaction to some medicine". 

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Income tax officials target leading Bollywood stars

Homes and offices of two Bollywood actresses have been raided by India's income tax officials in Mumbai. 

Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra were supposed to have "evaded income tax" on earnings from advertisements, overseas assignments and "guest appearances". 

The raids began on Monday morning and they are expected to continue on Tuesday.
Kaif and Chopra are amongst the highest paid actresses in Bollywood. 

Totally 30 tax inspectors were reported to have begun the raids on Monday which sustained till late in the evening. 

The office of a leading Bollywood photographer, Atul Kasbekar, was also raided, income tax officials told the Press Trust of India news agency. 

Reports said, the home of Chopra's secretary was also raided. 

One reporter said that income tax officials had sealed a dozen bank lockers belonging to the three, and collected a number of bank statements, property documents and details of their savings. 

A former Miss World, Priyanka Chopra, 28, made her presentation in Bollywood in 2002 with a film called The Hero. 

Since then she has acted in almost 30 films, and won a number of Bollywood awards. 

Kaif, 26, was a top model before she made her debut in Bollywood with Boom, a film which fail at the box office.

She has since turn into a sought after actress and is one of the busiest stars in the industry these days.

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Ivanka Trump tells the world she's pregnant through on Twitter

Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump and co host of "The Apprentice," announced Friday that she is pregnant. 

"I have been wanting to share some amazing news with all of you ... I'm pregnant! Jared and I couldn't be more thrilled," she said on Twitter. 

The 29-year-old got hitched to New York spectator owner Jared Kushner, 30, in October 2009. 

Trump, the heiress turned capitalist, told OK! that her brother Donald Trump Jr.'s kids were the newlyweds' motivation to start a family. 

"My brother is over-the-moon, and he's an wonderful father. And his wife is an incredible mother to their two beautiful childrens" she said in an interview with the mag. 

"It is very hopeful to see such a happy, beautiful family, and I hope to have one of my own one day.

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We can't wait to see more little running around solely to hear their imitation of grandpa's "You're fired."
And we really hope that the former model's frame will be able to handle both the Trump-ette and her.

Hawaii won't release birth information of Obama

Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie will end his mission to prove President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii because it's against state law to release private documents, his office said Friday. 

Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said, State Attorney General David Louie said, the governor he can't reveal an individual's birth documentation without a person's consent. 

"There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do inside the law to produce a document," said Dela Cruz. "Unfortunately, there are conspirators who will persist to question the citizenship of our president." 

Abercrombie, who was a friend of Obama's parents and know him as a child, launched an effort last month to find a way to dismiss conspiracy theories that the president was born elsewhere. 

The governor said at the time he was troubled by people who questioned Obama's birthplace for political reasons.

Hawaii's privacy laws have long banned the release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who doesn't have a touchable interest. 

So called "birthers" claim Obama is ineligible to be president because they say there's no proof he was born in the United States, with many of the skeptics inquiring whether he was actually born in Kenya, his father's home country. 

Hawaii's health director said in 2008 and 2009 that she had seen and verified Obama's original vital records, and birth notices in two Honolulu newspapers were available within days of Obama's birth at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu. 

This information called index data, shows a record for "Obama II, Barack Hussein, Male," according to the department's website. 

The president was born Aug. 4, 1961.
The Obama campaign issued a official document of live birth in 2008, an official document from the state showing the president's birth date, city and name, along with his parents' names and races.

Iran officials refuse fresh nuclear swap offer planned

ISTANBUL - Iran has no fresh offer to make for a nuclear fuel change at talks with world powers due to begin on Friday in Istanbul, members of the Iranian delegation told Reuters.



The Saudi owned Al Arabiya TV news channel had reported Iran would suggest a revised version of a deal which was agreed in principle at a previous round of talks in 2009 but then fell apart, but Iranian officials said, there were no such plans.




"I haven't heard about it," Ali Baqeri, a assistant to Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, told Reuters as the Iranian delegation arrived in Istanbul on Thursday.



Another official said, "There is no new suggestion. This is something formed by the Western media. Why should we offer such a thing?".

Bomb Exploded outside school in northwest Pakistan kills 1

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A bomb on a horse drawn cart exploded outside a school in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding 14 others and including children’s. 

One of the children was in serious condition, hospital official Sahib Gul said. 

The identity of the man killed in the attack in main northwestern city of Peshawar was not instantly known. 

In this blast, this also killed the horse, broke windows in the school.
No one claimed responsibility, but Islamist militants will be the chief suspects. 

Al-Qaida and Taliban extremists have basis close to Peshawar in Pakistan's border regions with Afghanistan. 

They have agreed out hundreds of bombings over the last three years, many of them in Peshawar. 

It was blurred if the school was the target, but militants have frequently bombed schools in the region, either because the army often converts them into bases or because they oppose the education of girls. 

Lady Gaga To Preview latest album At Paris Fashion Show

NEW YORK: Lady Gaga is set to Show her latest album 'Born This Way' at the fall winter 2011-2012 Paris Fashion Week. 

Gaga tweeted, 'I am the musical director for the MUGLER fashion show. I am remixing or previewing a record on Born This Way.

That would be famous fashion designer Thierry Mugler, who is well versed in putting on impressive, celebrity stuffed fashion shows in Paris. 

The LA Times renowned that Mugler's new Creative Director is Nicola Formichetti, the woman who designed Gaga's infamous meat dress, so it all seems joined. 

GaGa will release "Born This Way" and her follow up to "The Fame" in the United States on May 23 Of the new shot, she previously said, 

"The album is a marriage of electronic music with major, epic, dare I even say, metal or rock 'n' roll, pop, anthemic style melodies with truly sledge-hammering dance beats."

The Mugler show happens in Paris on Wednesday January 19, so all are expect leaks of the remixes very soon from eager audience members.

Wikileaks has been losing $ 618,000 per week since first issue

LONDON: Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblower website 'Wiki leaks' has said, his site has been losing 600,000 francs (about 618,000 dollars) every week since it first began publishing discreet cables.

According to CBS News, the financial world was shaken when rumours about a major Wiki leaks document intending to embarrass one of America's banking giants, surfaced.

Bank of America supposedly set up a crisis team to deal with the dump, and stocks fell on the rumours. 

Assange said that even though external political pressures on Wiki Leaks have not stopped them from carrying on with their mission, financial troubles have certainly caused problems. 

However, he did not talk about exactly what is costing his website so much money. 

Assange said, “We will not disclose (the banking documents we have) right away. We are too busy with the diplomatic cables and with our financial troubles."

Last year, PayPal, the online payments service had blocked donations to WikiLeaks and to a German foundation that raises funds for it following the release of 250,000 private US government cables. 

The charge at which WikiLeaks has released U.S. diplomatic cables to the public has slowed dramatically in the last few weeks.

However, Assange said that his website was running normally despite the financial difficulties. 

Facebook Rubbishes March 15 Shutdown, Its Rumors

Facebook responds to news report saying, "we are just getting started".

A tabloid called Weekly World News has develop into quite popular over the weekend after it published a news story regarding Facebook shutting down on March 15.



The reason for the shutdown was nonsensically cited as, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook "wanted his life back" and preferred "to put end to all the madness".



Zuckerberg is invented to have made this statement at a press meeting outside the social network's Palo Alto office.



The Tabloid, which is known for publishing fake news stories, seems to have tried a roll on the ever growing social network, Facebook.



"Facebook has gotten out of control," said Zuckerberg in a press convention outside his Palo Alto office," and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life.



I need to put an end to all the madness."



Facebook has crushed this silly rumor with a status message.



We didn't get the memo about shutting down, so we will keep working away like forever.



We aren't going anywhere, we are just getting started. Facebook Director of Corporate connections Larry Yu confirmed that the rumor is false.



In response to Mashable's mail about the shutdown, Yu responded, "The answer is no, so please help us put an end to this childishness."

Avatar Director James Cameron Says Battleship Movie demotes Cinema

Avatar director James Cameron has smashed the upcoming Battleship movie by claiming that it “degrades cinema” and also said that he believes that the plan of adapting a classic board game into a sci-fi blockbuster is ridiculous.

The Avatar director said, in an interview with Spiegel Online,

“We have a story disaster. Now they want to make the ‘Battleship’ entertainment into a film. This is pure distraction. 

Everyone in Hollywood knows how important it is that a film is a make before it hit theaters. If a brand has been around, Harry Potter for example, or Spider-Man, you are glow years ahead. 

And there lies the trouble. Because unhappily these franchises are becoming more ridiculous. This degrades the cinema.”

Cameron was recently annoyed with Piranha 3D describing it as “the bottom of the barrel” but now it seems it will have to create room for the Battleship movie.

Quite what Cameron will have to say about the future Monopoly movie is anyone’s guess but I bet it won’t be printable without a few asterisks.