India lost to South Africa by 48 runs through Duckworth and Lewis (D/L) method in the rain-interrupted fourth one day international here Friday, with the five-match series now levelled 2-2. India were 137 for six in 31.3 overs and needed another 129 runs for victory when rain stopped play. At resumption, the revised target required [...]
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India lose by 48 runs through D/L; series levelled
January 22nd, 2011 |
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Holly Madison Ordered To Lose Weight For “Peepshowâ€
January 12th, 2011 |
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In WTF News: Holly Madison got the shock of her life this month when producers of her popular Las Vegas burlesque show — Peepshow — ordered her to lose weight or risk losing her role in the lineup. The 31-year-old former girlfriend of newly-engaged Playboy founder Hugh Hefner says she was floored when she got [...]
Sad to lose Pathan, happy to have Gilchrist: Priety
January 8th, 2011 |
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Kings XI Punjab co-owner and Bollywood star Priety Zinta said she was disappointed to lose all-rounder Irfan Pathan but glad to buy former Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist in the first session of auction for the fourth leg of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Saturday. Kings XI Punjab went all out to buy their former player [...]
Myth busting: Eat to lose that extra flab
January 6th, 2011 |
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Please eat or you are not going to lose weight, says Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor, the size zero protagonist, standing a popular notion on its head. “As an actress, who works 18-20 hours a day under gruelling circumstances, shooting all nights; playing and feeling a range of emotions, (sometimes, I have to dance in the [...]
Serbian currency to lose 0.2 percent
December 28th, 2010 |
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The Serbian dinar (RSD) will continue to weaken against the euro on Tuesday for the second day in a row. Today the home currency will lose 0.2 percent of its value, despite the central bank’s intervention worth EUR 20mn.
800 Zastava workers to lose jobs
December 24th, 2010 |
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About 800 former Zastava car factory workers have not passed Fiat’s tests and therefore they cannot get jobs at the new factory, the Economy Ministry told B92.
The ministry says that the government will offer those workers EUR 300 for each year of service, which will be paid in January of 2011.
WikiLeaks Mirror Sites Lose Web Hosting Services
December 23rd, 2010 |
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Web host SiteGround has suspended the accounts of at least two WikiLeaks mirror sites claiming the presence of the files put the host at risk for a DDOS attack. – First it was WikiLeaks. Now, several mirror sites appear
to be in the crosshairs, as another Web host, this time SiteGround, suspended
accounts claiming the sites violated the Terms of Service, engaged in illegal
activity and were at risk for potential DDoS attacks.
According to a post by Electr…
Zillow: U.S. Home Prices Will Lose $1.7 Trillion This Year
December 9th, 2010 |
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First Case-Shiller called a double dip in home prices.Then Roubini said that the United States “real estate market, for sure, is double dippingâ€, and and predicted that banks could face another $1 trillion in housing-related losses.Now Zillow is f…
Apple iPad Sure to Lose Market Share in Face of Growing Competition
November 16th, 2010 |
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News Analysis: Competing products give consumers other choices, many of which are not tablets, cost less and are capable of doing as least as much as the Apple iPad. – The Apple iPad gives the impression of being invincible.
If you believe Apples propaganda and the clamor of the iPad partisans, the one
true religion is the iPad, and its prophet is written in the “Book of Jobs.”
The truth is, the iPads overwhelming market share has nowhere to go but
down.
Th…
Democrats lose majority in K. Mitrovica
October 25th, 2010 |
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The Democratic Party (DS) and the coalition gathered around them no longer have a majority in the city assembly of Kosovska Mitrovica. After the early municipal elections in this Kosovo town in May, DS and their partners had 16 councilors, while the Serb Progressives (SNS) and DSS parties won 14 assembly seats.
Facebook-Obsessed Are Likelier to Lose Friends: Survey
October 7th, 2010 |
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Spending too much time updating your Facebook account could have serious "unfriending" consequences, a survey suggests. – While the social networking behemoth Facebook, currently the subject
of a well-received film highlighting the relative unfriendliness of its
founder Mark Zuckerberg, can count 500 million friends, a survey of
more than 1,500 Facebook users on Twitter finds users who spend
obsessive amounts of ti…
Black holes: Win some, lose some
September 16th, 2010 |
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The more they are understood, the more mysterious they become
THE black holes that get the most press these days are the microscopic sort expected to pop out of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva and, some misguidedly fear, gobble up the Earth in the process. But not every black-hole buff’s gaze has turned to the collider. Plenty of physicists still look to the skies in search for clues to the nature of what is now believed to be as humdrum a cosmic occurrence as stars and planets. Some of what they see poses more questions than it answers.
Apart from the as-yet-unobserved microscopic variety, physicists have spotted numerous telltale signs of black holes that weigh several times the mass of the sun. These are believed to be the remnants of stars that have run out of nuclear fuel and thus collapsed through the pull of their own gravity. There are also signs of the even-more-massive brethren of these star-sized black holes—monsters which are thought to weigh between 100,000 and 50 billion solar masses and found at the centres of galaxies. …
ATandT Prepared to Lose Apple iPhone: SEC Filing
August 9th, 2010 |
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Apple’s iPhone could appear on carriers besides AT&T by early 2011, an eventuality for which AT&T seems prepared in a recent SEC filing. Rumors also suggest that Apple is preparing an iPhone for use on Verizon’s network. – AT amp;T could be preparing to lose its exclusive rights to the iPhone in
the United States,
according to the carrier’s latest 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. If the oblique statements in that filing prove accurate, it could
validate analysts’ claims that the iPhone will…
World Cup: Spain, South Africa lose
June 17th, 2010 |
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Hosts South Africa have lost their second round game of the group stage of the FIFA World Cup on Wednesday. Uruguay beat the host nation 0-3.
RIM Bold 9650, Pearl 3G Smartphones Replace Tour, Lose Trackball
April 26th, 2010 |
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Research In Motion unveils the BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphone and the petite BlackBerry Pearl 3G handset at its Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. The first Bold mobile device to support CDMA networks, the 9650 works worldwide, supporting EvDO Rev A in North America and 3G UMTS/HSPA and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks in other countries. The BlackBerry Pearl 3G is the smallest BlackBerry smartphone ever made and comes in many colors and two versions. Like its Bold 9650 brother, the Pearl 3G smartphone is expected to launch supported by various carriers beginning in May.
– ORLANDO, Fla. Research
In Motion April 26 unveiled the BlackBerry
Bold 9650 smartphone and the petite BlackBerry Pearl 3G handset, both
geared to help the enterprise phone maker expand its smartphone lead in North
America.
Unveiled at RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium here, the Bold 9650 offe…
Congress’ marches in Uttar Pradesh lose their leaders
April 20th, 2010 |
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Within a week of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi flagging off ten “chetna yatras” (awakening marches) to rejuvenate the party in Uttar Pradesh, most leaders have deserted the campaign, while vulgar dances at a rally Monday evening have embarrassed the party.
While party MPs P.L.Punia, Praveen Singh Aron and Jagdambika Pal, who were leading three of [...]
Singapore’s OCBC unit may lose 10 private bankers
April 6th, 2010 |
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Bank of Singapore, the private bank of Singapore’s second-biggest lender OCBC (OCBC.SI), said 10 private bankers have asked to leave the bank, the first challenge for OCBC after its bought ING’s (ING.AS) Asian private bank.
The bankers who may leave were part of the OCBC’s private banking unit, which was merged with the Asian private banking unit of ING this year, a spokeswoman said, confirming a story in the Business Times. Bank of Singapore has a total of 200 private bankers of which 50 came from OCBC’s private bank.
10 Reasons Why ATandT Could Lose Ground Without iPhone Exclusivity
March 16th, 2010 |
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As AT T continues to corner the mobile market with the iPhone, some are wondering what the carrier’s future would hold without Apple’s well-known mobile device. Unfortunately for AT T, that future doesn’t look as bright as it might want its customers to believe.
– Apple’s
iPhone is an unbridled success. The smartphone delivers an experience that has
yet to be rivaled in the mobile market. It offers a design that satisfies
consumer desire for a big, vibrant display that also fits easily into a pocket.
Simply put, the iPhone is a revolutionary device that h…