Filed under: Cellphones As one astute tipster's pointed out, the XPERIA X1a is now available for pre-order on the Best Buy site. Now that the phone's really, finally, almost here are you totally psyched? Or have you been too busy playing with your G1 to notice? Like we saw last week , the phone will retail for $799.99 in its unlocked form, and .. more »

India's stainless steel importers, including utensil manufacturers, have urged Finance Minister P Chidambaram not to impose import duty on the alloy, saying it would lead to a monopoly of low-quality domestic products in the market... more »

Obama vowed to pass a stimulus plan as his first act and suggested he would be more aggressive than the Bush administration in rescuing Detroit. (Remarks) .. more »

In honor of NANOWRIMO, I thought I’d share with you some of the ways writing a novel has impacted my business! I’ve been writing memoir and fiction for about five years. On a couple of occasions I’ve tried to write a novel. So far… not so good. But I’m determined. This summer I started again. I knew my weaknesses and .. more »

O.K., everybody. This is a full four-punch Ticket video. And we don't give out many of those. Required viewing from the folks over at 236.com ("Political comedy: Unfair and Unbalanced"). This one is especially for political fans who thought maybe that third and final presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama might have .. more »

Yuri Luzhkov has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last decade to support ethnic Russians and stoke separatism in nations on Russia's borders... more »

Fullerton India has received another capital infusion of \$50 million from its parent... more »

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Everyone has this problem - you have tracks in your iTunes library that don’t have album artwork.With the release of iphone and ipods this album art became a major part in our music listening experience. There are many online tools available to automatically fix this.But it won’t work for the tracks that came from some obscure CD that .. more »

Technical Analyst, A Suresh Kumar Iyer, Asit C Mehta Investment Interrmediates, while commenting on the market said, ``In the last week, the Nifty, as we mentioned in the last weekly outlook, bounced back. The Nifty opened with a positive bias at 3,272.90 and reached a high of 3,648.25 on Tuesday. However, the early gains were wiped off towards .. more »

Firefox user Asian Angel loves Portable Firefox for projects like creating a Google Chrome clone, but you can also use it to run multiple, sandboxed instances of the browser at the same time. What's the point? Well, it lets you log into multiple accounts at the same service (like Gmail) in different windows, and run certain extensions and styles .. more »

The Treasury was always intended to be at the heart of the American government. George Washington's first Cabinet appointment was his treasury secretary. The Treasury building is connected to the White House by an underground tunnel. .. more »

Indiabulls Securities puts HOLD on DLF Ltd .. more »

Investment bank Morgan Stanley said on Monday it signed a letter of intent to sell up to 20 per cent of the company to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. .. more »

Jenna Fischer shows off a strapless Gustavo Cadile gown on the red carpet at the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre on Sunday (September 21) in Los Angeles. The 34-year-old actress from The Office hosted the first annual “Fur Ball” in Los Angeles last Sunday. The eve... .. more »

  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , India’s No 1 IT exporter is in deep trouble in the US market. Almost 80% of its clients have reduced or stopped business due to economic recession in US.   Some of its top clients like USAA,AC Nielson,Citibank,Boeing have drastically reduced the business and even stopped moving ahead with .. more »

AIG in trouble; India’s Tata AIG policy safe: Srcs.. more »

The high interest rates might have slowed down the sales of many two-wheeler majors but Bajaj Motors continues with its focus on big bikes. At one time it seemed Bajaj would surpass Hero Honda's share, but its still lagging far behind. .. more »

The slowdown in the Indian economy has been on expected lines and a robust revival is seen next fiscal year thanks to the measures being taken by the government.. more »

In the biggest ever cut in jet fuel prices, state-run oil firms on Sunday slashed aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices by over 16 per cent in step with softening international oil prices. .. more »