Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi, who launched his political party on Tuesday. The actor, who bid adieu to film career to enter politics, recalled this to respond to criticism by his rivals that he comes from a glamorous field and hence does not know the problems of the common man.

The film star, who announced his entry into politics on August 17 Sunday, unveiled an agenda tilted as much towards the middle class as to the poor. He expressed a firm resolve to fight political corruption “at the top” as it was the fountainhead of graft.

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Gujarat government too has finally agreed to implement Sixth Pay Commission recommendations. The great news for around 3.5 lakh state government employees comes almost a fortnight after Union government agreed to implement the sixth pay commission proposals.

Unlike Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh where economy is in tatters, the state government in Gujarat enjoys relative prosperity and state coffers seems to be overflowing with funds.

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Aaron Sorkin, writer of The West Wing, is writing a movie about the online social networking site Facebook. the film will be based on an upcoming book by “Bringing Down the House” author Ben Mezrich about the controversial and complex dorm-room origins of Facebook.

News of the project leaked out after the screenwriter opened a Facebook account to help with his research.

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Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention drew more than 38 million viewers Thursday night across multiple channels. The number could be higher, because this research didn’t count PBS and C-SPAN.

Obama reached nearly a quarter of U.S. households. He was a bigger draw this year than the Oscars (32 million) and the “American Idol” finale (31.7 million). He was bigger, too, than the Olympics Opening Ceremony from Beijing (32.6 million).

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1) Usain Bolt breaks the 100 meters world record. Bolt already owned the record and in front of a packed Bird’s Nest stadium he ran 9.69 seconds. He thumped his chest in triumph over the last few meters before his ‘marksman’ celebration which became one of the lasting images of the Games.

2) Michael Phelps roars in triumph and relief after American team mate Jason Lezak overtook France’s Alain Bernard on the final leg of the 4×100 freestyle relay to keep alive Phelps’s dream of beating Mark Spitz’s record from 1972 of seven golds in a Games – a dream he was to realize.

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Yahoo BOSS is an API that allows for use of search results from Yahoo’s search index.

Under the surface though, Yahoo has removed the 5,000 query per day limit, you’re unrestricted in how you present the data returned, you can re-order the data, and no attribution is required.

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Nokia announced a pair of smartphones that it said balance a mobile professional’s business needs with robust multimedia functionality.

Today, missing our expectations by a small margin, Nokia has officially taken the wraps off their new pair of handsets – the Nokia N79 and Nokia N85. As the successor to the Nokia N81, the dual-sliding Nokia N85 offers a newly uprated 5 megapixel camera, fitted with the dual-LED flash and the Carl Zeiss optics that Nokia loves to use on their higher-megapixel cameraphones. Additional to that some GPS, 3G (HSDPA), WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, 2.6-inch AMOLED display, and microSDHC card slot, and you’ve got the makings of a serious handset. The Nokia N85 runs on S60 3rd Edition and is fully N-Gage compatible.
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After long time in development, a new feature that suggests queries as letters and words are typed into Google search engine, is being rolled out over the next week.

Google Suggests is targeted to help users better formulate queries, reduce spelling errors and save keystrokes. Suggestions are based upon query popularity, so when the smallest amount of input is entered in the search bar, the most popular terms are yielded. As more variables are entered, the more specific the suggestions become. (more…)

The Fight between Facebook and the makers of the game – Scrabble has come to an end finally with the later emerging as the winners.

The legal proceedings against the app had started in January when Mattel (the makers of the game) decided that Scrabulous was infringing on copyright and trademarks. It is believed Mattel wants to deploy its own version of Scrabble to the social networking world.

Facebook has decided to jump overboard and abandon the Facebook application ship before a court in India could push them. Which is more than a little odd, as usually you might expect it to wait for the legal ruling before taking the action.

Initially, the game was blocked in the US and Canada, but the ban appears to have spread worldwide with the exception of India.

Facebook today announced that it now has over 100 million ‘friends’ worldwide.

Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla  brothers have created a new application, Wordscraper, with circular tiles and a few new rules that they hope will withstand legal action. Scrabulous wasn’t banned in India because a lawsuit is in the works there and Facebook awaits the decision.