Amitabh Bachchan launches Big Boss season 3
On October - 5 - 2009
After the super popular show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, Amitabh Bachchan is all set to play the host again. And this time, Big B will be seen playing the host of a reality show Big Boss in ‘Bigg Boss Season 3’.
‘Bigg Boss Season 3’, soon to be telecasted on Colors, will have some unique elements which were not there in earlier seasons. The channel claims that popularity of ‘Bigg Boss Season 3’ will surpass popularity of first two seasons of Bigg Boss.
Big B will be seen playing the role of ‘Pop Philosopher’ in the show. He will help participants to untangle their emotions and relationship with other members inside the house….take a look!
Foreigner among 5 perish in UN office suicide blast
On October - 5 - 2009
ISLAMABAD: Five people including two women and a foreigner were killed and four injured in a bomb blast at UN’s World Food Programme office, said Senior Superintendent Police, Tahir Alam Khan, here at WFP office while talking to journalists.
The SSP said the dead included Mrs. Gul Mukhtar, who was a receptionist, Mrs. Farzana Barkat, an Assistant at WFP and a foreigner Boton Ali, an Iraqi national.
He said the security arrangements were satisfactory at WFP office but said, “It was a well planned blast”. He added that the nature of blast still could not be confirmed. Tahir Alam said the bomb blast occurred at the office near reception at 12noon.
“We are getting the list of employees and visitors to investigate everything properly and relief activities are underway,” he said.
The SSP said that as many as 100 employees work in the office, adding that all died and injured persons were shifted to hospital.
To a question whether it was a parcel bomb, he said, “We are still in process of investigation and every thing would be checked properly.”
Interior minister Rehman Malik also confirmed four Pakistanis and one Iraqi national were killed Monday in a suicide blast inside a United Nations office in the heart of the capital Islamabad.
“According to the latest reports, five people have been martyred — one of them is an Iraqi national. Four people have been injured, all of them are Pakistanis,” Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters.
Initially, police had already confirmed that two Pakistani women and one Iraqi man, all staff members of the World Food Programme, had died in the blast.
Interior Minister also constituted a joint investigation team, headed by DIG police, for determination of responsible culprits who carried out blasts.
The blast raises questions as to how the bomber managed to evade tight security at the heavily fortified office of the World Food Program. It could also hamper the work of WFP and other aid agencies assisting Pakistanis displaced by army offensives against al-Qaida and the Taliban in their strongholds close to the Afghan border.
The blast Monday shattered windows in the lobby of the compound in an up market residential area of Islamabad and left victims lying on the ground in pools of blood, witnesses said.
“There was a huge bang and something hit me. I fell on the floor bleeding,” said Adam Motiwala, an information officer at the U.N. agency who was hospitalized with injuries to his head, leg and ribs.
Police official Bin Yamin said the attacker, who was between 22 and 26 years old, detonated his explosives in the lobby, killing three people, including an Iraqi working for the WFP. The two other dead were Pakistani women. Several others were injured, two of them critically, the WFP said in a statement.
“This is a terrible tragedy for WFP, and for the whole humanitarian community in Pakistan,” said WFP Deputy Executive Director, Amir Abdulla, speaking from the agency’s headquarters in Rome.
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TomTom Launches Two New Navigation Gadgets
On October - 5 - 2009
TomTom today launched a couple of navigation gadgets in the form of the TomTom XL 325 and the TomTom XL 325-S. The former features a 4.3-inch widescreen with maps of U.S. only and TomTom’s famous Fold & Go EasyPort mount. Meanwhile, the latter has the same specs with the addition of text-to-speech functionality. The TomTom XL 325 is priced at $130. Sadly, there is no info on pricing of the TomTom XL 325-S. Stay tuned for more updates.
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MetroPCS Lands Motorola VE440
On October - 5 - 2009
Today the Motorola VE440 became available for sale from MetroPCS. This monoblock-style phone is billed by Motorola as a music phone and has dedicated music keys, a 3.5mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth, and support for microSD cards up to 8GB. The VE440 is a tri-band 800/1700/1900 CDMA device that is limited to 1x data but it has GPS. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel fixed-focus camera and support for MetroPCS’ chatLINK service. The VE440 costs $129 and is available online.
Illuminated Emoticon T-Shirt
On October - 4 - 2009
Check out this techie T-shirt that has four different emoticons which you can choose to illuminate to reflect your current mood. Yu can choose from a happy face, a sad face, a winking face or a surprised face which are all framed by a glow in the dark/UV reactive border.
The Illuminated Emoticon T-Shirt requires 4xAAA batteries and goes on sale 20th of November 2009 for about $48.
Choose from four different light-up emoticons
Press the front of the light-up panel to change
Glow-in-the-dark screen print design
Requires 4xAAA batteries
Thanko’s Latest 8GB PMP
On October - 4 - 2009
Thanko has started to sell their brand new Portable Media Player in the Japanese market. Known as the Thanko DTLMP45AV, the gadget features a 4.3-inch LCD display with a 480 x 272 resolution and a 8GB of internal memory, which is upgradable via a microSDHC card slot (up to 8GB). The player also supports DivX, FLV, RM, RMVB, WMV and H.264 file formats. If you want one, you can buy this portable gadget for 14,800 Yen or around $164.
