Few months back it was Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim Helu, who was richer then American software czar Bill Gates and now it’s our Mukesh Ambani, Wow! He has surpassed everybody in the world to be on the top of Billionaires list. Following a strong share price rally on in his three group companies, India's most valued firm Reliance Industries, Reliance Petroleum and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure, the net worth of Mukesh Ambani rose to $63.2 billion (Rs 2,49,108 crore). In comparison, the net worth of both Gates and Slim is estimated to be slightly lower at around $62.29 billion each, with Slim leading among the two by a narrow margin. While most of Mittal's wealth comes from his steel empire, ...

eBay India, India's leading online marketplace, announces a high profile charity auction of Indian cricketing hero Yuvraj Singh's Honda City. This charity auction is aimed at raising money for Bharmour Development Agency, an NGO working towards the development of agriculture and local tribals in Bharmour. Yuvraj is very emotionally attached to this car, he never wanted to sell it, as he had bought this car from his first earning when he started playing for India, his first kamai. But his mother made him understand the value of his car and that auctioning it will help out for a social cause.Yuvraj Singh will personally autograph the car and handover the keys to the winner in Chandigarh. ...

 Read an article in rediff.com today, about Aamir Khan launching his website tomorrow. But same time he has stopped writing for his blog and had said “Alvida” to all his readers, fans and friends that he made during his bloging period. It was nice to see busy actor sharing his daily experience with all his fans, felt like he is one of us and not a big super star. Though his blog was just about his films but still….   Updates: As I was so interested in what Aamir Khan had done with his website or how will it look like and bla-bla. So just woke-up and straight went on his website, wow was my first word because the website-cum blog is very ...

Microsoft has rolled out a new offering which bundles its Windows Live web services together. Chris Jones,Vice President of Windows Live Team, has announced the release of new Windows Live Suite on Windows Live Wire Blog.Windows Live Suite is a set of Windows Live online services bundled into a single download, its latest effort to compete with Google Inc's growing array of applications delivered over the Web. Included in the suite, which will allow for a single installation of any or all of these Windows Live services, are: Windows Live Mail (the desktop client) Windows Live Messenger Windows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live Writer Windows Live Toolbar Windows Live OneCare Family Safety The suite of ...

TouchGraph provides a hands-on way to visualize networks of interrelated information. The technology is based on the believe that "Existing data sets can reveal new insights when visualized effectively". It facilitates information discovery by integrating graphic visualization with traditional table and tree components. The technology can be connected to any on-line or off-line data source to generate reports in formats ranging from Excel spreadsheets to images to PDF files. TouchGraph was founded in 2001 with the idea to create visual browser for Google. Some of the implementation of TouchGraph technology are : TouchGraph Facebook It lets you see how your friends are connected, and who has the most photos together. TouchGraph Google ...

In the press release of 26th June, Microsoft promised to release a single installer which will give customers the option of an all-in-one download for the full Windows Live suite of services, and added Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta and Windows Live Folders Beta ( later on renamed to skydrive) to the managed beta testing of Windows Live Suite. According to reports of NYTimes, Microsoft will release the Windows Live Software suite sometime this week NYTimes Reports,This week, it plans to turn that strategy upside down, making available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software services delivered on the Internet, a practice increasingly referred to as “cloud” computing. The initiative is part of an effort to connect Windows more seamlessly to a growing ...

A Bangalore-based IT professional, Laxman Kailas K has landed in the police net after he allegedly uploaded a blasphemous matter about Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji on the social networking site Orkut. Kailas has been working in a giant information technology (IT) firm in Bangalore since 2001 and hails from Tamil Nadu. The cyber cell of city police (Pune) was investigating the crime for the last ten months on a complaint registered by Dhiraj Ghate (32) of Ambilodha colony with the Vishrambaug police, Pune on November 11, 2006. On that day, infuriated members of various political parties (mainly BJP)and organisations forcibly closed down city’s cyber cafes. How Cyber crime squad of the police traced Laxman ? Contacted Google Office in Banglore for the IP Address. ...

  Reliance Entertainment Pvt Ltd, a company of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has launched its Video on Demand online services, Bigflicks.com. It mainly targets NRIs residing in United States, Canada, UK, Australia, West Asia and Europe. BigFlicks currently have around 200 movie titles in Hindi, English and various Indian languages. It will offer 1,000 movies for downloading within 2-3 months and 2,000 titles within 1 year. Cost for downloading a movie varies from $4.49 to $19.99. The revenue model is based on downloading on rent or owning a title without advertisement, while the other model offer free online streaming with advertisements. These advertisements could be in the beginning of the movie or in the middle of the film. The ...

Forget about going to a planetarium. Google has announced a nifty extension to its Google Earth expanded its view which allows users to scan different areas in the universe, from distant galaxies light years away, to constellations, planets and other extraterrestrial wonders. It will also help you in learning the lifecycle of a star and different kinds of galaxies. You must download the new version of Google Earth to get the features, then you're on your way to checking out planets in motions and supernova explosions.The add-on is available on the latest version of Google Earth, and hitting the "Switch between Sky and Earth" button on the top toolbar immediately offers an upward view with seven optional layers: Constellations Backyard astronomy (info ...

  Microsoft has launched an experimental demonstration site Tafiti that combines Live Search with Microsoft Silverlight. The demonstration is to show the strength of Windows Live Suite (especially Live Search) and Microsoft Silverlight (latest release to counter Adobe Flash) Tafiti uses MS Silverlight 1.0 RC and AJAX to provide rich, cross-platform user experiences and leverages the following Microsoft services on the backend: Live Search for Web, Books, Blogs, News, and Images Live ID Live Spaces What Microsoft means by Tafiti? Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share ...