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'But where did Salman ever go?' - Industry reacts on Wanted success

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Wanted is a huge success already and made people stand up and acknowledge Salman Khan's superstardom all over again. One of the rare action films in recent times to enjoy huge critical as well as commercial acclaim, Wanted has now completed a trilogy of sorts for 'masala' films. After Shah Rukh Khan's Om Shanti Om and Aamir Khan's Ghajini , now Salman Khan has scored in a big way with Wanted which has got raw action-n-drama back in vogue. So is Salman Khan back after a rather poor run with Yuvvraaj and God Tussi Great Ho ? Industry doesn't quite believe so. Don't be shocked because as per practically each and every film personality that this writer reached out to, the verdict is common - 'Salman Khan was never gone in the first place. He was, is and always would be a superstar.' [All listed in alphabetical order] Abbas (of Abbas Mustan fame)- "He has always been a superstar. Also he can sense a good product from quite some distance.

New App Store focuses on netbooks

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San Francisco: Intel, hoping to emulate the success of Apple's App Store, is leading an initiative that would encourage developers to sell applications for netbooks, PCs and other devices powered by its chips. The world's biggest chipmaker told its annual developer forum in San Francisco that it was creating a platform based on an App Store framework for devices running on its Atom low-power microprocessor. Apple's App Store, which allows users to shop for applications that personalise their iPhones, has been wildly successful. Paul Otellini, Intel chief executive, announced support from Acer, Asus and Dell, which are launching their own App Stores - Asus already has its own version - based on Intel's framework. He said he expected consumers to buy apps to personalise their netbooks and said the concept would be extended to desktop PCs and to smaller devices. Intel is battling to be the microprocessor provider of choice in netbooks and mobile internet devices.

Google looks for answers to Chinese market

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Beijing: Google Inc has endured the ire of the Chinese censorship machine. In its nine years in China, it has been slowed down, shut down and accused of peddling smut. The Mountain View, California, search engine also has been humbled by its main Chinese rival, homegrown Baidu Inc, which enjoys double the market share and has long been suspected of receiving preferential treatment from the government. Now, with the resignation of its popular chief of China operations, Kai-Fu Lee, Google appears to have taken another punch to the chin in its quest to win over the world's largest internet market. Lee stepped down from his post early this month to launch a $115 million (Dh422.5 million) fund to finance Chinese tech start-ups. On the surface, Google's squabbles with Chinese authorities appear to be the company's primary challenge. Over the years, service has been intermittently stopped and delayed by the government. This despite Google's agreement to block politically sensi

Atom software platform key to Intel's fortunes

Intel expects netbook software written for its lower-cost Atom processor to begin hitting online stores in the first quarter of next year, helping drive chip sales, a senior executive said. Intel expects the success of these software applications, or apps, to help increase sales of Atom processors, but it has no plans to make money on the apps themselves, Intel General Manager of Software and Services and Vice-President Renee James said in an interview. The world's largest chip maker is looking beyond personal computers for revenue as growth in its core business slows. On Tuesday, the company announced it would host a software applications development platform for its Atom, which will allow developers to write programs that work across different devices and operating systems. They will work on netbooks - cheap, no-frills mini-laptops designed mainly to surf the internet - initially. Intel itself has no plans to get into the apps store business - drawing comparisons with the likes o

PSI seeks partner for 'push-to-talk' phone software

Munich: PSI AG, the German company that makes "push-to-talk" software for mobile phones, is looking for partners to take the programme to a broader market. PSI's technology was used by German police for security arrangements during US President Barack Obama's attendance at the meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in April in Baden-Baden. Now, PSI is looking for private users. "The software has the potential to become part of the youth culture similar to the success of SMS and Twitter," Chief Executive Officer Harald Schrimpf said in an interview, alluding to the short-messaging social network. "We are open for partnerships and perhaps there is someone who is willing to invest with us." PSI's push-to-talk and locating software works on almost all mobile phones with a common network or a wireless local area network connection, Schrimpf said. The program lets groups of people talk to each other on demand, locate them on a map or messa

Work from Home and Make Money with Private Label E-book Resell Rights

Since the growth and popularity of the use of the internet everyday there is an increased number of people using the internet. Also there is an increased number of people who seek various opportunities online. Many people have been out to seek and get worthwhile work from kinds of opportunities from the internet. One of the opportunities worth trying in your endeavor to make money online or to work from home is the venture of selling private label E-books. With this kind of an opportunity what happens is that you will obtain these private label eBooks from the owners and the authors and then when you have purchased the rights you can have these eBooks as your own. When that has to been done the next thing to do is to market the product and get sales then you know you can focus on making that work and make a living a out of that. When you work from home you have a flexile schedule as you can decide when exactly to get down to your job activities. You can choose to work at night or later

Article Marketing - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Article marketing is the best thing that a web owner can do to promote his website. It is a wonderful way to promote and advertise the website. The article marketing is a technique that is being most used today for promoting the web and web based business. This is especially good for the small and medium business. All you need is good research of the keywords and then well written articles using those keywords. Your articles must be genuine, fresh and informative to attract huge number of visitors to your website. You should also keep in mind that the articles must be well targeted and according to the choice of the readers. The readers will only become visitors if they find your content interesting and compelling. The good thing that article marketing does to your online business is that it leaves link backs on various pages of the article publishing website. These link backs do two things for you 1. They increase your rating in the search engines and hence you get to better positions

5 Ways For Teens To Make Money Online

Teenagers are always looking for extra cash to buy clothes, gas, video games and other things that appeal to them. In order to buy these things and put money in their wallet. Teens need money. Here are 5 ways teens can make some extra cash online. 1. Blogging - Blogging can be a great way for teens to make money because teens usually have lots of hobbies. Why not blog about them. Blogging requires a lot of work at the start but eventually gets easier. People earn money with blogs mostly through ads so in order to be successful you will need to have a blog with a good amount of traffic. 2. Writing Articles – Teens can make money with article directories like Ehow and Associated Content. Whenever you write an article with these sites, you get paid based on the number of times that article is viewed. 3. Mechanical Turk – This site was created by Amazon and pays you to complete tasks that computers can’t do. These include finding information about businesses and writing short essays. Tee

10 Basic Steps to Start Making Money with Affiliate Marketing

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Presently, it is a highly common thing to make money online as an affiliate marketer, because virtually anybody can earn money as an affiliate internet marketer. In the followings, we will go through 10 simple but vital aspects to consider when you are earning money with affiliate marketing. 1. Choose a Niche This step is among one of the most significant steps that you have to take, to go for a niche suitable for your interest and predilection. Instead of joining numerous affiliate programs promoting hundreds of different products, you should join two or three affiliate programs advertising similar products in the same niche. 2. Choose Affiliate Programs First thing you have to do is to sign up for a couple of affiliate programs before you can start working. A thorough investigation is required before completing the sign up process. You will definitely have to explore and evaluate the affiliate programs, ensuring that the particular affiliate programs are offering products in accorda

What You Should Know About Domain Name Registration?

When you plan to set up your own website for the purpose of making money online, selection of a proper domain name is essential. Domain name is the name which describes your website. When your website comes up in the search engine results, the domain name provides some information about it to the searchers. It should not be irrelevant or misleading and should match with the content of your website. Domain name selection is the first step to get your website online. Therefore, proper care should be taken when selecting the same. The domain name selected should be short, memorable and easy to spell. It should relate to your core business. If your domain name contains more than three words, use hyphens. There are different domain name extensions available, such as, .com, .net, .org, .info etc. Of all these, .com is the most popular domain name extension (.org for non-profit organizations). Domain names are easy to register. They are also cheap ( as low as $1.99). There are hundreds of dom

Article Marketing: How To Make Money

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Article marketing is the web marketers’ favorite tool. It helps to promote the website and it also helps you to make some money. Promotion of the web and the business is a fact that every one knows today but the money making part is still unknown to many. Even the people who remain constantly around this business do lack some basic knowledge of this ability of the articles. Here are a few things that you should know before you start the article writing for the money making purpose. • You should only and only publish original content because this is the only to get some money from publishing the articles. • Try to be as unique as possible. You should stand out of the crowd to make a real impact in the market. • Try to find the niche that interests you and then concentrate on that particular niche. Trying various niches is not a good thing for the new comers. • There are various niches that you can try your hands at. Try to be clever while selecting the proper niche for you. Try to

How To Choose Web Hosting For Making Money Online

Guest post by Jason VanTrees When considering how to choose the best web hosting to use for making money online, there are some important things to consider. One should make sure that the web hosting of choice provides all the tools, resources, and value to use when creating money making web properties. Benefits of Having Good Web Hosting When marketers look for the best web hosting plan available to host their web properties, they should make sure it is fully equipped with the resources needed. Things to look for would include unlimited bandwidth, disk space, email addresses, add-on domains allowance, FTP Accounts, MySQL Databases and such. Along with so many unlimited options, there should also be access to well designed website templates to use on all your domain names hosted along with a Control Panel (Cpanel) loaded with useful features. Web Hosting Coupon Codes and Guarantees When it comes to valued and honorable web hosting, there are hosting companies available that go the extr

My Blog Is My Fortune!

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In this world of economic recession who doesn’t want to make money? And making money while sitting home and writing topics which you like the most, is definitely an inviting offer. Why not avail it? In fact the best way to do so is by creating a blog of your own. There are countless web hosting websites which help you do that, some good ones which I can think about are www.wordpress.com or even www.blogger.com . The rest depends on you and what you want to do. Making money online is certainly not a trivial job. Ask those who make small fortunes online and they’ll tell you that how much they had to do, in order to achieve their goal. There are people who start blogs, are active at first, but ultimately their blogs die down. Why does it happen? Is it that they’re not good enough? No! Some people who start blogs are much more educated and talented than those who are already the “kings of blogging”. The reason is that these people are not consistent and eventually loose heart when they’re