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Amazing: Finding taste-buddies just a click away!
2007-06-13 16:35:00 Internet, which for years now has helped link people through e-mails, chat rooms and matrimonial services, will now enable those with similar tastes to come together and share their gourmet preference.Future Today Inc, a new media company founded and run by an Indian origin Columbia University graduate Alok Ranjan, has launched a new online video community, iFood.tv aimed at bringing together food lovers of the world to a single platform.The formal launch of the community follows a four-month experiment with a Beta edition of iFood.tv, which incidentally received most of the traffic from the US, India, Canada and the UK.The service would help people find friends with similar eating habits--such as those who prefer 'gulab jamun' over 'chaats'."Food is a common thread which binds people across the globe. More individuals want to discuss their food habits or get cooking tips by leveraging the web as a medium," Future Today CEO Alok Ranjan said in a statement announcing the launch o... More About: Internet , Click , Amazing , Taste
Get Paid To Be A Surf Junky!
2007-06-08 16:33:00 Sign up today and start getting paid to surf using our Surf Junk y browser. You can get up to $.75 per hour with regular activity and you will earn for 3 levels of referrals! Your statistics are updated in real time and you get paid every month!www.surfjunky.com/?r=rahulryd More About: Paid , Get Paid To
3 Human Wonders - Amazing worth Seeing It
2007-05-30 17:54:00 The Millau viaduct is part of the new E11 expressway connecting Paris and Barcelona and features the highest bridge piers ever constructed. The tallest is 240 meters high and the overall height will be an impressive 336 meters, making this the highest bridge in the world.Parking in GermanyA Volkswagen Polo is loaded in the care towers of hte VW Autostadt in Wolfsburg, northern Germany on Wednesday. The Autostadt, situated next to Volkswagen's headquater, is the company's theme park, and distribution centre where daily 5,500 visitors view Volkswagen brands like Bentley, Audi, Lamborghi.First Air Conditioned Bus Station in Dubai More About: Human , Amazing , Wonders , Worth , Uman
Microsoft Office bus in China
2007-05-20 07:49:00 Microsoft Office bus in China More About: Microsoft , Microsoft Office , Micro
Gold Plane - Amazing
2007-05-16 17:41:00 Have a look at new plane designed by Boeing... for the sultan of brunei. All that shines inside the flight are made of pure gold like wash basin, frames,etc... More About: Gold , Amazing , Plane , Plan
Best Smiles of the year 2006
2007-05-12 15:12:00 Best smiles of the year 2006 - Really Cool... More About: Smile , Mile , Smiles , Year
World's Largest Plane - Amazing
2007-05-09 18:31:00 World's Largest AircraftThere was a little excitement at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas with the arrival of the world's largest aircraft, a Russian Antonov 225. It was there to deliver a very large power transformer for Nevada Power, which has been built in Turkey. Apparently G.E. or Westinghouse weren't capable, or they lost the 'bid' to Turkey.Note the wingspan is just about a football field length. Aircraft specifications are at the bottom.Some of the specs are"Wingspam - 290 Ft.Height - 89.4 Ft.Length - 276 Ft.Number of wheels - 24Max T.O. Weight - 1322,750 lbs. (Over 660 Tons)Max payload - 551,150 lbs. (Over 275 Tons)Engines - six Lotarev D-18T TurbofansMax Speed - 530 MPHCruise Speed - 495 MPHRange - 8310 Miles Only one aircraft built and it's not for sale. More About: World , Amazing , Plane , Plan
Microsoft opens window to buy Yahoo!
2007-05-05 16:29:00 Microsoft Corp has intensified its pursuit of a deal to take over Yahoo Inc, asking the company to re-enter formal talks, the New York Post reported on its Web site on Friday.While the two companies have held informal deal talks over the years, the latest approach signals a new urgency on Microsoft's part, the paper said, citing unnamed sources.The approach follows an offer Microsoft made to buy Yahoo a few months ago, the Post reported, but Yahoo spurned the advances.The Post said Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo.Source: Expressindia.com More About: Microsoft , Pens , Soft , Micro
Amazing Made in India PC for just about $100
2007-05-01 18:24:00 While global computing giants like IBM and AMD are yet to give shape to their ambitious plans for a computer that costs 100 dollars or less, an India n company has already set its eyes on 10 million potential customers with its up-and-running PC priced at Rs 4,500 only.The machine, launched by Chennai-based Novatium Solutions in 2004, costs a little over 100 dollars as of today in the US currency, thanks to the depreciation in the greenback, but it was priced at less than 100 dollars till a few months back.Novatium is targeting 10 million users in the next five years for this innovative product, company CEO Alok Singh said from Chennai. The company has already started a successful commercial pilot for its NetPC computer in Chennai, he said.Courtesy: Expressindia.com More About: Amazing , Made in India , Made
Cricket World Cup: Australia completes hat-trick
2007-04-29 08:02:00 Australia have stamped their authority on the cricket world by winning their fourth and the third successive World Cup defeating Sri Lanka in a rain-shortened match at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown (Barbados) by 53 runs.The World Cup final, shortened to 38 overs a side due to an almost three-hour rain-delayed start, failed to live up to its expectations of being a thriller as more rain delays saw Sri Lanka needing to score 269 runs in 36 overs to win their second title thanks to the Duckworth-Lewis system.And Australia?s win was not without its share of drama, as after the 33 overs, it seemed that Sri Lanka had conceded the match after being offered the lights by the umpires. The Australian players started celebrating their fourth World Cup triumph with the scoreboard also flashing the team from Down under as the winner but then the umpires decided to play the remaining three overs in growing darkness as the premier One-Day tournament descended into a farce.Sri Lanka ended their... More About: Cricket , Australia , Cricket World Cup
Google beats Microsoft - Amazing
2007-04-28 18:55:00 Google Inc has knocked Microsoft Corp from its perch as the world's top-ranked brand, according to findings released on Monday.The rankings, compiled by market research firm Millward Brown, also put Google ahead of well-established brands like General Electric Co, No 2; Coca-Cola Co, No 4; Wal-Mart Stores, No 7; and IBM, No 9.Some key factors seen this year in building brand recognition ranged from corporate responsibility to serving customers in emerging markets like Brazil and India, according to the study.The top-ranked brand from a non-US-based company was China Mobile, which dropped a spot but still came in at No 5.The rankings were based on publicly available financial data along with primary research, including interviews with a million consumers worldwide, Millward Brown said.For Google, which ranked No 7 a year ago, the jump to the top underscores how quickly the Web search leader has become an everyday name. The company uses relatively little advertising, instead relying ... More About: Google , Amazing , Soft , Beats
Amazing Scene - Niagara Frozen
2007-04-26 17:49:00 This pictures was taken when niagara falls was completely frozen in the year 1911. A Very rate photos. I read of this but never saw the photos before this. Makes you wonder just HOW COLD and HOW LONG it was that cold. More About: Amazing Facts , Amazing , Scene , Niagara , Frozen
WEIRD FACT OF THE DAY
2007-04-18 17:30:00 In the U.S., the sport that causes the most injuries among the age group of 15-24 is basketball.The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. More About: Weird , Fact , The D
Women use Net to do tasks, than to have fun
2007-04-15 18:25:00 A study indicates that more women than men go online in the United States, defying the perception of the Internet as a male-dominated realm.Approximately 97.2 million women use the Internet in the US, compared to 90.9 million men, according to research by eMarketer.Women are inclined to use the Internet to accomplish tasks instead of as a diversion, said eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson, author of the "Women Online" report, yesterday."Females, especially adult women, are more likely to use the Internet to get things done, rather than to have fun," the eMarketer report states."Many adult women, busy juggling work with their relationships and child-caring responsibilities, don't have time to surf the Web for video."Seventy-eight per cent of male US Internet users will watch video online this year while only 66 per cent of the female users will, according to eMarketer.Reasons given for the difference in video-viewing proclivities included men adopting new technologies fas... More About: Have , Tasks , To Do , Task
Google CEO, Co-Founders Get $1 Salary
2007-04-11 17:27:00 The three executives who run Googl e Inc. each drew a salary last year of $1. But Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin more than made up for it in the large stakes they own in the online search leader, which has made them billionaires.Besides his $1 salary, Schmidt, who was No. 116 on Forbes magazine's most recent ranking of American billionaires, received a bonus of $1,723 and "other compensation" valued at $555,742, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The bulk of that other compensation, $532,755, was for personal security.Google's shares closed 2006 at $460.48 on the Nasdaq Stock Market, up 11 percent for the year. The stock started at $85 when it went public in August 2004.Schmidt, 51, owns 10,096 of Google's Class A shares and 10.7 million of its Class B shares. At the end of 2006, those securities were worth about $4.9 billion.Brin, 33, and Page, 34, shared the No. 26 spot on the Fo... More About: Sala , Salary , Under
Fun Facts: How Tech Companies Got Their Names
2007-04-08 11:32:00 Here?s some fun facts: A list of how companies got their names. The list isn?t exclusively tech companies, but some of the more interesting stories are from web-tech leaders.Keep in mind that this is from Wikipedia, so I wouldn't want bet the farm on the veracity of them all, but it's still some good trivia for the boring work party this evening.Apple - for the favourite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple orchard. Apple wanted to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by other computer companies at the time.eBay - Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group. ?Echo Bay? didn?t refer to the town in Nevada, ?It just sounded cool,? Omidyar reportedly said. Echo Bay Mines Limited, a gold mining company, had already taken EchoBay.com, so Omidyar registered what (at the time) he thought was the second best name: eBay.com.Googl... More About: Google , Companies , Yahoo , Facts
An Amazing Calculator
2007-04-08 10:11:00 An Amazing Calc ulator - Calculates/ Converts Almost anything...Just check out this Amazing Calculator... Its called the Power toy Calculator. Used for Graphs and Conversions of almost all kinds...Convert length, mass, time, velocity, and temperature with the Windows XPAlso has a History Window for you to View your Calculations!!You can download it here:http://download.microsoft.com/downlo ad/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/PowerCalc PowertoySetup.exe
Some Interesting Facts
2007-04-08 09:18:00 Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.1. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long2. Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile3. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.4. A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)5. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.6. One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny7. The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language - 1928. Slugs have four noses9. Sharks can live up to 100 years10. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.11. Kangaroos can't walk backwards12. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday13. The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 188714. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.15... More About: Interesting , Facts , Amazing Facts , Interest , Sting
Almost Faster Than Superman - Amazing
2007-04-04 18:27:00 Almost Fast er Than Superman : France Rail Train Sets New World Record A French high-speed train has smashed the world speed record on rails after reaching 357.2mph. The specially-designed bullet train easily topped the old speed record of 320mph, also set by a French train in 1990.The double-decker TGV, short for "train a grande vitesse", hurtled along a new stretch of track from Paris towards Strasbourg as crowds watched from bridges over the line.It had been equipped with larger wheels and a beefed-up 25,000-horsepower engine.The souped-up train recorded 357.2mph on the speedometer - about the speed of a short-distance freight propeller plane. Britain's fastest Virgin trains reach a maximum speed of 125mph."We saw the countryside go by a little faster than we did during the tests," train driver Eric Pieczac said. "I'm proud to have fulfilled the mission." "Everything went very well," he added. Alain Cuccaroni, in charge of the technical aspects of testing, said the feat was about... More About: Amazing , Most , Erma
Interestingly Amazing Facts
2007-03-30 19:33:00 Interestingly Amazing Facts and never heard before!The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.All babies are color blind when they are born.There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'. More About: Amazing Facts , Interest , Sting
Amazing: Things you don't see every day!
2007-03-28 13:22:00 Things you don't see every day! It is really Amazing . More About: Ever , Things , Thing
School drop-out Gates to get Harvard degree
2007-03-25 15:17:00 Microsoft founder Bill Gates , 51, is to return to Boston for a prestigious Harvard degree.Three decades after dropping out from the elite Harvard University, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, 51, is to return to Boston for a prestigious Harvard degree.The honourary doctorate is to be presented at school graduation ceremonies in June.Gates was only 19 when he threw in the towel on his studies at Harvard. He returned to the West Coast, where he and several friends founded the software company Microsoft. The university said on Friday that Gates, who has set up a research foundation against diseases, was a huge friend of humanity who had long since earned the degree. More About: School , Degree , Drop
Forget the cup, get this ball!
2007-03-23 17:34:00 Indian Bollywood film actress Mahima Choudhary displays one of two diamond studded cricket balls at a function in Mumbai .Bollywood actress Mahima Chaudhary at the unveiling of the diamond-studded cricket balls which are to be presented to the best Indian and international players at the ongoing World Cup. The balls, valued at about Rs 30 lakh each, was launched by the jewellery firm Gitanjali Gems Limited along with a new sports range ?Sporteratti? in city on Tuesday. Indian women cricket team captain Mithali Raj was also present on the occasion. More About: This , Ball , Forge
'Wiki' is now a word
2007-03-18 06:43:00 If you think "wiki" doesn't sound like English, you are right. But it's English now.This word born on the Pacific Island of Hawaii finally got an entry into the latest edition of the online Oxford English Dictionary along with 287 other new words. It has earned it."Word s are included in the dictionary on the basis of the documentary evidence that we have collected about them. A while ago this evidence suggested that wiki was starting to make a name for itself," OED chief editor John Simpson said in a statement."We tracked it for several years, researched its origins and finally decided it was time to include it in the dictionary," But "Wiki Wiki", meaning "quick" in Hawaiian, has a very different meaning in its new host language: a type of Web page designed so that its contents can be edited by anyone who accesses it. That the word acquired a new meaning is attributed to the fact that commenting and editing on Internet websites became faster, the OED's principle editor of new wor...
World Cup 2007 Opening Ceremony!!
2007-03-14 17:00:00 Cricket Fever ~ World Cup 2007 Opening Ceremony !!Performers dance as fireworks illuminate the night sky in presence of the all 16 countries cricketers during the opening ceremony of the ICC World Cup Cricket 2007 in Trelawny, 11 March 2007Fireworks burst over Trelawny Stadium during the opening ceremony for the Cricket World Cup .India's cricket team enter the stadium during the opening ceremony of the Cricket World Cup in Trelawny, JamaicaEngland's cricket captain Michael Vaughan, left, and teammate Andrew Flintoff watch the opening ceremony of the ICC Cricket World CupAll 16 countries cricketers watch as illuminations light the night sky during the opening ceremony of the ICC World Cup Cricket 2007 in Trelawny, 11 March 2007.West Indies cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers speaks during the opening ceremony of the ICC Cricket World Cup at Trelawny Stadium, JamaicaMembers of the New Zealand cricket team arrive in stadium to participate in the opening ceremony of the Cricket World C... More About: World Cup 2007
West Indian Energy - World Cup Action Begins...
2007-03-11 14:57:00 Sobers ready to declare World Cup openWest Indies legendary all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers will officially open the World Cup later on Sunday at the culmination of a two-hour, 45-minute ceremony. "It's a great honour to declare the Cricket World Cup open. I'm taking it in my stride and I'm looking forward to the occasion," said 70-year-old Sobers from his home in Barbados.The former West Indies skipper said he was excited that cricket's showpiece event was coming to the region for the first time. "It will be phenomenal for the Caribbean, especially for those people who haven't had the opportunity to see a Cricket World Cup. It will be a fantastic experience."The ceremony, which is being held at the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium, comes two days before the first match of the seven-week event takes place. That will see hosts West Indies facing Pakistan at Sabina Park on Tuesday. The ceremony, which has been called 'West Indian Energy', will feature reggae star Jimmy Cliff as w... More About: Action , World Cup 2007
Amazing Air Crafts - Not Everyday Seen!
2007-03-04 06:42:00 Amazing Air Craft s - Not Ever yday Seen! More About: Amazing
Britney Spears goes Bald! Hot or Not?
More articles from this author:2007-02-18 17:00:00 Britney Spears goes Bald! Hot or Not?Pop star Britney Spears has shocked observers again, this time by sporting a shaved head.She showed her new look when she dropped into a tattoo parlour in Los Angeles, swiftly attracting a crowd of curious passers by. She went to the Body and Soul store last night to get a couple of tiny tattoos on her wrist, a pair of pink and red lips.The surprising display came as the star was once more the subject of intense media scrutiny amid reports that she had checked in - and quickly out of - rehab. Syndicated entertainment TV show "Extra" first reported that Spears, who has been criticised for partying too much recently, had gone into a treatment facility.Celebrity website TMZ.com then said the 25-year-old had gone into a treatment centre but checked out one day later. Neither revealed their sources.People magazine's website, quoting "a source", said Spears had gone in and out of rehab, and identified the facility as Eric Clapton's Crossroads centre ... More About: Britney Spears , Britney , Pear , Pears 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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