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Sanjaya malakar and other top nine finalist from American idol will perform in different parts of the country. “American Idol” tour will include St. Paul on Aug. 4.Then they will be stopping at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland on Aug. 13.They will also be at Indiana state fair Grandstand, 1202 E. 38th St on Aug. 16 .The tickets are priced at $65, $55 and $47 and will start selling at 10 am May.

Paris Hilton the heiress of Hilton Empire is again in trouble again for violating probation on drunk reckless driving. Now she will go to jail from june 5 for violating her probation for alcohol related reckless driving. Her license was suspended in January. She was in three years probation for the same offence in September 2006. Her reality show “The simple life” will return to airwaves for a fifth season.

The latest news that said Transportation Security Administration has lost information about 100,000 employees is simply shocking. The employees who are affected are those who worked for the homeland security agency from Jan 2002 to August 2005.The information were mainly bank data payroll information and social security numbers. And it has been lost from a controlled area from TSA headquarters. What should the TSA employees be looking out for? They should be constantly monitoring their credit services. The authorities have promised to pay for one year of credit monitoring services. What about the time after one year? Last year a laptop went missing with information of about 26.5 million military personnel and was later found and they reported that data has not been copied.

British-born Indian Upen patel was born in August 16 1980 in London. He has modeled for many famous brands like Westside, Hugo Boss, Zaf, Tuscan Verve, Bed Paul Smith and Zegna. He made his debut in bollywood film in “36 china town” . He has also acted in “namaste London” and Shakalaka Boom Boom. He sings also in Shakalaka Boom Boom. He got the Best Debutant actor Award at the Zee Cine Awards held at Malaysia and the GIFA award for his debut performance in 36 China Town.

His mother Lata K. D. Patel was the mayor of Brent in 1996 -1997 and his father owns several petrol stations there. His mother is the youngest woman to be voted to the office of Deputy Mayor or Mayor in Britain. His family migrated from Ahmedabad to Uganda and in the 1970s from Uganda to Britain. He is the youngest among five siblings who are lawyer, teacher and chartered accountant. His home is at Wembley north London. He finished his computer science degree at Hertfordshire University. He started modeling at sixteen and won a national competition as UK’s no 1 Indian male model. He went to Mumbai and signed up a Indian modeling agency Atul Kasbekar’s Matrix three months after graduating. Upen is also applying for dual citizenship to become a resident in India. Once he was known was Amrita Arora’s boyfriend. He has a cookery show and is ranked by Hi Blitz magazine as one of India’s most beautiful people. He is the next person to look out for in Bollywood.

Britney spears who was planning to do a live show at a Los Angeles night club was cancelled at the last minute. Her people thought that she was not ready after many rehearsals and it is now rescheduled.

Now the new schedule is to perform on Wednesday the Anaheim House of Blues in Southern California with four backup singers. This is supposed to be her first show after being in the rehab. She was rehearsing at Forty Deuce in Los Angeles and is planning to make a slow comeback instead of a big one.

Spams can be annoying and damaging if it contains virus and it tricks you into giving out your personal information like passwords and credit card information.

IDC a research analyst firm expects spam to be around 40 billion this year. This rise in spam is because of image based spam that can bypass anti spam filter. Spam can also spoof email sender identity. The major e- mail servers like yahoo and gmail have anti spam tools which automatically redirect spam from your inbox to spam folder. Hotmail has sender id email authentication technology which verifies the domain against the owner of the domain and intercepts unreliable messages.

There is no ideal spam filter that safeguards each one entirely, but anti spam software can help out. Some are free which can be downloaded from tucows.com and
www.download.com

Most popular free anti spam solution is spamfigher from www.spamfighter.com
If you can afford the major providers of established antivirus software Symantec has Norton 360 and Norton internet security 2007.Trend micro inter security 2007 has anti virus, firewall, home network control, spy ware protection, parental controls, wireless network monitoring-secure internet security 2007 recognizes phishing threats and filters them into a separate email folder.

According to Ricky Hoggard, Sanjaya was not the lowest vote receiver last week. How did he get booted ? To know more about who got the lowest go to Ricky Hoggard. Anyway Sanjaya is going places. He has been appearing on a variety of TV talk shows and also appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on April 23 to read the famous Top 10 list. He attended a White House correspondents’ dinner . He was a guest of People magazine.

There have been rumors for some time that Google is building a phone though Google has denied it. There are reports to show that it is true. On one hand Google is in talks with Orange to create a ‘Google phone’ which can help in surfing the net faster. It is reported to be mass market device, low cost, internet connected with widescreen design.  It is aimed to handle voice over internet calls and is developed by a 100 person mobile phone group at Google which also includes Andy Rubin the creator of sidekick. A Google representative has acknowledged that Google is working on is own mobile device. Google spokesperson Erin Fors said that they are in touch with industry leader to develop innovative services for users worldwide. This device is intended to be available to emerging market customers.

After purchasing adscape the video game advertiser recently google is in talks with advertising giant double click. Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL are also bidding for the company. Doubleclick owned by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman is planning t sell the online graphical ad server. Hellman & Friedman purchased DoubleClick for $1.1 billion in 2005. Now the price tag is $2 billion reportedly. DoubleClick has their beginnings in the early days of the webadvertising business.It has 1500 advertising customers including AOL and Myspace. It had a $150million in sales in 2006.

 Recently googles announced partnership with EchoStar the U. S. satellite TV broadcaster and google will use its expertise on search based algorithms and provide contextual TV advertising as well. EchoStar’s is reported to have 13 million subscribers.

Now google is ranked number one search-related advertising and the estimated market share is about 70 per cent. Google will analyze the data and determine how and where advertisements are to be placed and it will also cater to the audience according to demographics. Google has also announced a $600 million data center in Berkely County, South Carolina.

One month after Vista was unveiled Microsoft is claiming to have sold more than 20 million Windows Vista licenses. Does that mean that everyone is upgrading to Vista? Like everyone I would advice you to be cautious. Vista has lots of complaints with pocket pc, games, iPod’s, printers, cameras and other peripherals. Many games freeze or sometimes do not load into the system. Pocket pc is sometimes not compatible with Vista. Many drivers are not available for Vista. The software and hardware manufacturers do not have Vista-friendly versions of their products. Presently Vista is avoidable but after a year it might be necessary.

Sanjaya and his sister Shyamali Malakar became famous as the siblings on American Idol. His sister was eliminated while he went on to be among the top 11 . Born to an Indian father and an mother of Italian descent, Sanjaya attended Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington for one year before transferring to Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way. judge Simon Cowell has threatened to quit if Malakar wins.There has been lot of criticisms about his singing qualities and recently a source close to Sanjaya’s family revealed Sanjaya has been devastated by recent bad press he’s received over singing. “He’s so young and so sensitive, it’s hard for him to go out on that stage and not have that devastation affect his performance,” said the source. The judges have criticized him a lot as though he shouldn’t be on the show. If so why did they select him in the first place? Many feel that there is a media conspiracy against him even though he is not the worst performer in the current list. His idol is Stevie Wonder and he is compared to El DeBarge, of “Rhythm of the Night” fame.

One of the reasons has been the sharp rise in yen by almost 3% on Tuesday. Japans bank had more money with them and the liquidity was high so they are able to lend with more than .5% interest per annum will produce highly due to leveraging effect.

Another reason was the sudden plunge in shanghai market to the tune of 9%. There have been rumors that china was likely to raise interest rate and clamp down on errant investors.

There is also a concern of bubble growing.

The stock markets all over the world fell for almost a whole week.The markets were very volatile and it fell on this friday as well.Oil prices fell on friday with Light, sweet crude for April delivery fell 36 cents to settle at $61.64 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.Brent crude for April lost 3 cents to settle at $62.08 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.the reason beng tensions over possible sanctions in Iran .

The wall street had a steep fall yesterday and staged a comeback later. After falling 209 points the Dow Jones industrials staged a comeback to end at 34 points lower. There is still anxiety in the wall street with high volatility and nervous investors.The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 3.65, that is 0.26 percent, at 1,403.17. Earlier it dropped 26 points .Nasdaq composite index also finished down 11.94,that is 0.49 percent, at 2,404.21. Earlier it fell 56 points.Dow Jones industrial average was down 60.16, or 0.49 percent, at 12,208.47. The Institute for Supply Management’s index ofassessment of manufacturing activity was at 52.3, stronger than the 50.0 analysts expected.The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note falling to 4.53 percent from 4.57 percent . The maket fall is expected to go on for a few more days.The stocks began to fall after there is a general fear that many fo the economies are slowing down especially the chinese and the US.

Japan’s Nikkei stock fell 0.86 percent. Hongkong market opened on positive note on thursday and Nikkei still down around 200 points.singapore also openend lower.Today is also supposed to be a roller coaster ride in the stock market.

Stocks markets all over the world are tumbling which started yeserday. China’s Shanghai Composite Index and the Shenzhen Component Index both plunged more than eight percent each its severest drops in a decade. Australian stocks joined the worst sharemarket rout since September 11, 2001 fell by more than 3 per cent when the markets opened today morning. Wall street shares also declined steeply with Dow Jones plunging 3.17 percent.New Zealand share prices plunged 2.9 per cent in the first hour of trading. Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan  had warned that the US economy has been expanding since 2001 and that there were signs that the current economic cycle was coming to an end. There is also the  rising tension about Iran’s nuclear program also served to undermine investor confidence. Shangai stock has started to come back today.
Indian stocks also tumbling ahead of the finance ministers budget speech today.

Experts are of the opinion that this is a correction and not a start of a long bull market because the outlook on long term look strong. While some experts advice to go in and buy at the lower prices, others advice to get out of the market immediately.

After legal wrangling for almost 2 weeks the judge has finally decided that Anna Nicole smith should be buried in Bahamas.Her mother and her partner Howard K stern wanted custody of her body. The judge made the final decision after he talked to her first husband and father of her late son.Smith’s first husband Billy Smith has testified that she would prefer to be buried nearby her son at the Bhamas.He didn’t appear at the court but testified over the speaker of a lawyers cell phone.

Britney is back in rehab in an undisclosed location. There has been reports that she has gone back to the same Promises Malibu Treatment Center. Her mother is reorted to have drove her to the center. The center is known for the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse. Her appearance in family court for child custody dispute with Federline was cancelled on thurdsay. Her ex-husband had also been concerned about her and promised to look after their two children when she is in rehab. He also encouraged her to go to rehab. She is also scared that she will loose custody of her kids to Federline.The rehab programme is expected to last 40 days.

Britney Spears checked into rehab for a second time in the Eric Clapton’s Crossroads center in Caribbean island of Antigua and checked out before her first day was finished. Spears’ manager, Larry Rudolph said Spears had voluntarily checked herself into an undisclosed treatment facility. She was earlier spotted by celebrity photographers at a Los Angeles hair salon shaving her own head and getting tattooed. She was later wearing a wig. She tattooed a “cross”on her body and had a pair of red and pink lips inked on her wrist. Some weeks back she was photographed in December without wearing underpants when she was with heiress Paris Hilton. After she filed for divorce from her husband she was seen partying heavily.

Anna Nicole Smith who became famous for fighting for her billionaire husbands estate died on Thursday at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and casino in Florida. She was rushed to a hospital after a private nurse found unresponsive .During her final days she was drinking heavily. Smith’s sixth-floor suite in the hotel had no illegal drugs, only prescription medicine, lots of prescription medicine Xanax, Provigil, Vicodin and of methadone .Her son Daniel smith has died just five months ago without any obvious disease but due to the he ill-effects of methadone and anti-depressants. Smith had checked in on February 5th at 8 p.m as a guest and was due to check out on Friday, February 9th.

The hotel security called 911 and she was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital at 2:10 p.m and pronounced DOA at 2:49 p.m. Smith’s companion, Howard K. Stern, was with her when she died and has reported to Entertainment Tonight that her temperature was

running 104 degrees the night before. Smith’s attorney, Diane Chokondik, stated that Smith had flu-like symptoms for the last couple of days before her death. Entertainment Tonight’s Mark Steines stated that Smith had to take an ice bath on February. Prescription drugs were found in the hotel room. There has been reports of video of her being put onto an ambulance being purchased for the amount of roughly US$500,000.
Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County medical examiner, said the autopsy excluded any physical injury, blunt-force trauma or asphyxia, meaning Smith didn’t choke to death on her own vomit. “This is clearly a sudden, unexpected and unexplained death,” he said.
While she had no “intact” pills in her stomach, toxicology tests will need to be completed, lasting three to five weeks, Perper said.
Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in November 28, 1967in Houston, Texas, USA. She began to be noticed after she became Playboy’s 1993 Playmate of the Year. She managed to secure a contract with Guess jeans ad campaign. She was on the cover of New York magazine on August 22, 1994 issue titled White Trash Nation. Her lawyer filed a $5,000,000 lawsuit against the magazine claiming unauthorized use of her photo claiming that she was told that the photo was for “All-American-woman look” while the editor argued that he just chose the picture which was unflattering. Later she was performing at a Houston strip club when she met oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall and they began a relationship. He lavished gifts on her. She divorced her husband Billy on February 3, 1993, in Houston. Smith, at the age 26, and Marshall, age 89, were married in Houston On June 27, 1994,.There were speculation that she married him for his wealth while she denied that she was a gold digger. He showered her with gifts and money. Marshall died on August 4, 1995, in Houston thirteen months after his marriage to Smith .

Within weeks of J. Howard Marshall’s death She joined forces with J. Howard’s other son, James Howard Marshall III, whom the elder Howard had disowned and fought for half of her late husband’s $1.6 billion estates against his son, E. Pierce Marshall, Howard III was also left out of J. Howard’s will. The case was highly publicized because of huge money involved and went on for a decade and many decisions had gone both for and against smith. In 1996 smith filed for bankruptcy because of a $850,000 judgment against her which isn’t related to court case. she claimed that Marshall promised half of his estate if she married him. A Los Angeles bankruptcy judge awarded her $449,754,134 roughly one-quarter of Marshall’s $1.6bn. In 2000 September and in July 2001 Houston judge Mike a rival ruling from a probate court in Texas deemed she was entitled to
nothing, and ordered Smith to pay over $1 million in fees and expenses to Pierce’s legal team. This prompted years of appeals hearings to resolve the question one way or the other.On May 1, 2006 the justices unanimously decided in favor of Smith; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion. The decision did not give Smith a portion of her husband’s estate, but affirmed her right to pursue a share of it in federal court. On June 20, 2006, E. Pierce Marshall died at age 67 after an infection. His widow, Elaine T. Marshall, now represents his estate. The case has been remanded to the 9th Circuit to adjudicate the remaining appellate issues not previously resolved.
she had her own reality TV series on the E! cable network focues on her peronal life,rated very high. She also appeared in some films like Wasabi Tuna (2003),Be Cool (2005) and Illegal Aliens (2006). In October 2003, she became a spokesperson for TrimSpa through which she claimed that she lost up to 36 kg. On September 7, 2006S a baby girl was born to smith, and was named Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas while loosing her son three days later when he was visiting his mother . He is reported to have died from a lethal combination of Zoloft, Lexapro and methadone. He is buried in Bahamas .A paternity battle has brokenout with the birth certificate recorded the baby’s father as Howard K. Stern. Her ex-boyfriend, entertainment photojournalist Larry Birkhead, has filed a lawsuit challenging the paternity and claiming that he is the father of the child. On February 9, 2007, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt claimed that he should be the biological father of the child. Anna Nicole’s sister the baby could be the result of the preserved sperm of her late husband oil giant J. Howard Marshall. Her bodyguard Alex Denk has come forward and said that he could be the father of the baby girl Dannielynn and that he had a two-year secret relationship.Till now there are five persons who can be the father of the child. According to a ruling by the judge Smith’s body is to be preserved until February 20.

The refrigerator pictures are taken from the fridge that was in the room of Anna Nicole Smith’s bedroom in the Bahamas show several bottles of Slim-Fast and methadone. . Pictures of the fridge That is quite the odd combination you would think. Autopsy reports showed that her son had died from a combination of the methadone drug . There is another battle going on for the Bahamas mansion where anna had been living. She had claimed that G. Ben Thompson, gave her the house. But Thompson said he had only loaned it to Smith. He had the locks changed after her death.Smith’s lawyer and companion, Howard Stern changed the locks again last Sunday. Smith’s mother, Vergie Arthur, was also seen entering the white house.She wants to take custody of her grand daughter and bury her daughter in texas while Stern wants to bury her in Bahamas.

The nanny of the baby Alexis has come foreward claiming Anna gave her instructions to underfeed the baby so that she would look sexy.Smith, tried to kill herself two separate times.”On the first occasion, she drank in my presence an entire bottle of what I believed to be a sleeping aid,” and later she also tried to drown herself in a swimming pool. Alexis also claims that Stern rescued Smith from the pool. Alexis also heard Stern say after the rescue, “If anything happens to you, I would go to jail.”

Arthur Smiths mother wants to be named the guardian of the child and sought an order fearing the child will be taken out of the country. An injuction was issued by the judge in Bahamas on tuesday to prevent the baby from being take out of the country until the custody issue is resolved.

In another development Anna”s incarcerated ex-boyfriend claiming he could be the babys biological father.Mark Hatten, who is currently serving a seven-year sentence after being found guilty of making terrorist threats against Anna Nicole and beating up her neighbour, has written a letter from prison, asking for his DNA should also be considered in an upcoming genetic test to determine who the father of the five-month-old is.According to him he gave a sperm sample to his them girlfriend Anna which she gave to a doctor for future use. He feels that she had the baby through artificial insemination.