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Closing Bell, Market Summary: 12/16/2008

2008-12-16T19:01:00.000-08:00

Dows 8,924.14 up 359.61 (4.20%), Nasdaq 1,589.89 up 81.55 (5.41%), S\&P 500 913.18 up 44.61 (5.14%).
The Federal Reserve today lowered the Fed benchmark interest rate to the range of zero to 0.25 percent, the lowest level on record. The Federal Reserve also said that it will use "all available tools" to combat a severe financial crisis and prolonged recession. The stock market soared after the rate cut to close more then 300 points higher.
Crude Oil was down 91 cents to $43.60 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Minissha Lamba In Bikini On Cover Of Maxim India October 2008 Issue

2008-10-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

Minissha Lamba In Bikini On Cover Of Maxim India October 2008 Issue
Date: 10/11/2008:
Minissha Lamba is being featured in bikini phoots for the October 2008 edition of Maxim India . The photos will be part of the Maxim India October 2008 edition. Minissha recently was seen in Kidnap (2008) oppsoite Imran Khan and Sanjay Dutt .

Gul Panag On Cover Of Maxim India September 2008 Issue

2008-09-12T17:14:00.000-07:00

Gul Panag On Cover Of Maxim India September 2008 Issue
Date: 09/12/2008:
Miss India in 1999 Gul Panag gave a great phoot to Maxim for the September 2008 edition of Maxim India . The photos will be part of the Maxim India September 2008 edition. Her next big release is Hello, one Night At The Call Center (2008) due out in October 2008.

Deepika Padukone On Cover Of Maxim India August 2008 Issue

2008-08-10T16:08:00.000-07:00

Deepika Padukone On Cover Of Maxim India August 2008 Issue
Date: 08/10/2008:
Deepika Padukone gave a great phoot to Maxim for the August 2008 edition of Maxim India . The photos will be part of the Maxim India August 2008 edition. Her next big release Bachna Ae Haseenon (2008) is also due out on August 15, 2008.

Deepika Padukone Tops The Maxim Hot 100 List India

2008-08-08T16:07:00.000-07:00

Deepika Padukone Tops The Maxim Hot 100 List India
Date: 08/07/2008:
Deepika Padukone has been selected the winner of the worlds most famous list. The world"s largest Men's magazine Maxim India has decided to debut the list in India with LG Scarlet as the title presenters. Deepika was choosen from reader reaction, industry feedback along with other factors. Deepika joins ikes of previous no 1's Lindsay Lohan, , Eva Longoria, , Marissa Miller, who have topped the list. Deepika Padukone is also a new comer to the Indian film inductry with her debut film last year Om Shanti Om (2007) and second movie will be Bachna Ae Haseenon (2008) is due for release Aug 15.

Amrita Arora On Cover Of Maxim India July 2008 Issue

2008-07-19T16:06:00.000-07:00

Amrita Arora On Cover Of Maxim India July 2008 Issue
Date: 07/19/2008:
Amrita Arora gave a great phoot to Maxim for the July 2008 edition of Maxim India . The photos will be part of the Maxim India July 2008 edition.

Shveta Salve In Maxim India May 2008 Issue

2008-06-05T16:05:00.000-07:00

Shveta Salve In Maxim India May 2008 Issue
Date: 06/05/2008:
Shveta Salve gave a great phoot to Maxim for the May 2008 edition of Maxim India . Shveta become very famous for her participation on season one of the dancing star TV show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, by Sony Entertainment Television. She was favoured to win the title all the way thru but ended up losing to Mona Singh , of popular TV show 'Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin'.

Shreya Saran On Cover Of Maxim India June 2008 Issue

2008-06-04T16:04:00.000-07:00

Shreya Saran On Cover Of Maxim India June 2008 Issue
Date: 06/04/2008:
Shreya Saran will grace the cover of Maxim India 's June 2008 issue. Shreya is wearing a beautiful blue bikini on the cover of the magazine with more beautiful pictures on the inside. Shreya is an Indian actress and mostly acts in movies made in south India. Shreya became well known after her role alongside Rajinikanth in Sivaji, The Boss.

Soha Ali Khan On Cover Of Maxim May 2008 Issue

2008-05-16T16:02:00.000-07:00

Soha Ali Khan On Cover Of Maxim May 2008 Issue
Date: 05/16/2008:
Soha Ali Khan will grace the cover of Maxim India's May 2008 issue. Soha had just recently been in the news regrading your gun licences, which has now been taken away from her by the courts since she had gotten it when she was under the age limit for owning a gun. Soha now will be seen in a different light with her sexy images within the Maxim India magazine along with an interview.

Katrina Kaif On Cover Of March 2008 Maxim India

2008-03-15T16:01:00.000-07:00

Katrina Kaif On Cover Of March 2008 Maxim India
Date: 03/15/2008:
Katrina Kaif will be featured on the March 2008 cover of Maxim India . The magazine will also feature a interview with the Bollywood star Katrina.

Aishwarya Bachchan Kanya Mahavidyalaya

2008-01-29T06:56:00.000-08:00

Aishwarya Bachchan Kanya Mahavidyalaya
Date: 01/29/2008:
On Jan 27, 2008, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan laid the foundation stone at a ceremony to launch a college for girls named "Aishwarya Bachchan Kanya Mahavidyalaya" in Daulatpur village, Uttar Pradesh. Others at the ceremony included her husband Abhishek Bachchan and father in law Amitabh Bachchan .

Kim Sharma On Cover Of Maxim

2008-01-19T06:55:00.000-08:00

Kim Sharma On Cover Of Maxim
Date: 01/19/2008:
Kim Sharma will be the next Bollywood film actress to be on the cover of Maxim India . Kim will be featured on the January 2008 cover of 2nd Anniversay Mega Issue of Maxim Magazine with many other picture within the magazine. Kim will join other Bollywood stars who have already made there presence in Maxim India, and they include such stars as Malaika Arora Khan , Celina Jaitley , Mallika Sherawat , Amisha Patel Shilpa Shetty , Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra .

Microsoft offers Fast Buyout Offers

2008-01-08T06:59:00.000-08:00

01/08/2008:
Microsoft has offered to buy Fast Search and Transfer (Fast), a Norwegian enterprise search company, for $1.2 billion. This will place Microsoft in a good position of enterprise as it try to become one stop shop for the enterprise with its wide range of products.

Panasonic 150 inch HD plasma TV

2008-01-07T06:58:00.000-08:00

01/07/2008:
Today at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled a 150 inch HD plasma TV, making it the world largest TV to date. Its screen is equivalent of nine 50 inch sets and features 8.84 million pixel image resolution. Panasonic has also has a 103 inch version, which cost $70,000 when it was launched. The price for the 150 inch has yet not been set. Panasonic also releaved a ultra thin 50 inch panel that is less then an inch thick. Panasonic also plans to intergrate Google Inc.'s YouTube and Google's Picasa, photo sharing site in future versions of it TVs.

Wikia Launched

2008-01-07T06:57:00.000-08:00

01/07/2008:
Today, marks the enterance of a new way of searching. Jimmy Wales, cofounder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and his team have launched Wikia to give the online community a new way to search for information. Will this new search engine hurt the established search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and the others? Only time will tell. It will take sometime for Wikia to reach the online community and enchance Wikia. The concept behind Wikia is similar to encyclopedia Wikipedia and hence will allow the online community to help better the search engine experince and put the results best suited for a given query in front of the searcher.
Wikia has been backed by the funding from Amazon.com, venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, Netscape Communications cofounder Marc Andreesen, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Lotus Development founder and Electronic Frontier Foundation cofounder Mitch Kapor.

Karishma Tanna On Cover Of Maxim

2008-01-02T06:54:00.000-08:00

Karishma Tanna On Cover Of Maxim
Date: 01/02/2008:
Karishma Tanna , TV actress, will be featured on the next edition of Maxim India. Karishma has acted in TV series Kyunki, Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and Kkusum, and has acted in Bollywood movie Dosti Friends Forever with Akshay Kumar and Bobby Deol.

Gauri Khan On Cover Of Vogue

2007-12-21T06:56:00.000-08:00

Gauri Khan On Cover Of Vogue
Date: 12/21/2007:
Gauri Khan , wife of the Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan will be seeing on the cover of India's next edition of Vogue magazine which will hit the news stands on Dec 20, 2007. The photo were taken at her home in Mumbai, named Mannat. Gauri was recently seen in a small apperance in her husband's movie Om Shanti Om (2007) .

Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar 2008 Launched

2007-12-21T06:53:00.000-08:00

Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar 2008 Launched
Date: 12/21/2007:
Kingfisher Airlines, CEO Vijay Mallaya and John Abraham launced the sixth edition Kingfisher swimsuit calendar 2008 at a ceremony in Taj Hotel Mumbai. This year the pictures were taken in such location like Ladakh, Andaman and Nicobar, Bay of Bengal, Udaipur, Goa to mention a few. The photo were taken by India’s ace photographer Atul Kasbekar and include pictures of India's leading models like Shruti Agrawal, Preeti Desai, Monikangkana Dutta, Deepti Gujral, Sheetal Menon, Mesissa Mehra and Tamara Moss.

Jamie Lynn Spears says she's pregnant

2007-12-20T06:51:00.000-08:00

Jamie Lynn Spears says she's pregnant
Date: 12/20/2007
Jamie Lynn Spears announced to OK! magazine that she is pregnant and the father of the baby is her longtime boyfriend, Casey Aldridge. The 16-year-old is Britney Spears' younger sister and currently stars on TV show Zoey 101.

Deepika Padukone Brand Ambassador For Levi

2007-12-11T06:50:00.000-08:00

Deepika Padukone Brand Ambassador For Levi
Date: 12/11/2007:
Deepika Padukone has been signed by Levi Strauss Signature as their national brand ambassador. Deepika has risen to fame recently due to the great success of her first movie, Om Shanti Om. Levi also announced a new contest, Dart-to-Win, in which provide a life time opportunity for fans to meet and greet with Deepika. The contest will start on Dec 11, 2007 and end 10th January 2008.

Google Enables More Apps for the iPhone

2007-12-07T10:26:00.000-08:00

12/07/2007:
Today Google announced that is has optimized the Google Search, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Reader for the iPhone which builds upon other Google products like Maps and YouTube that are already available. When a iPhone user visits the Google main site, the iPhone is automatically detected and the apps are made avaialble to the user via iPhone's Safari browser. In other news, Google introduced the addition of AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) To Gmail.

Yahoo Flickr Image Editing Tools

2007-12-05T10:27:00.000-08:00

12/05/2007:
Yahoo's online photo sharing service Flickr, an online photo sharing website, today announced the introduction of new online digital imagee editing tools that can be used by members to edit photos. The tools suite will be provided by Picnik. Flickr was purchased by Yahoo back in 2005 at which time, Yahoo discontinued it's own Yahoo Photos service for Flickr.

Abu Dhabi Invest In Citigroup

2007-11-27T10:25:00.000-08:00

Abu Dhabi Invest In Citigroup
Date: 11/27/2007
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority will invest $7.5 billion in Citigroup. This will help Citigroup with the need capital to offset big losses from mortgages. Dubai International Capital also has announced it has acquired a stake in the Japanese electronics and media company Sony Corp.

Vudu Box Allows To Watch DVD-quality movies

2007-09-18T10:35:00.000-07:00

09/18/2007:
Vudu, Inc., in Santa Clara, California, will be introducing a new TV set top device called Vudu box. The Vudu box is scheduled to be launced later this year for around $300. The device will be directly connected to your TV via HDMI, component or composite video connections and will be capable of displaying DVD-quality movies instantaneously using a peer-to-peer technology. This means that the movie will not be downloaded from a central location but instead from other online Vudu box.

Google soon to lauch the gPhone?

2007-08-27T10:34:00.000-07:00

08/27/2007:
Google maybe close to the launch of it's phone service. The mobile phone is called gPhone and is awaiting final ok and carrier agreement before it launch. Recently there was news that Google may be interested in bidding on spectrum. Lets see if Google will lauch the gPhone?