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Item Name Samsung Galaxy Pro B7510  Price $200 Description Samsung’s QWERTY messengers have not exactly been setting the world on fire. They have done well though to set the scene for this one. The Samsung Galaxy Pro B7510 follows on the heels of Omnia and Corby. It puts Android in a time-tested form factor and is ready to entertain upgraders coming from dumbphones and PocketPCs alike. Available Stock 5 Features  Key features 2.8" 256K-color TFT capacitive touchscreen of QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) resolution Full four-row QWERTY keyboard ARMv6 800MHz CPU, 270MB RAM, 180MB of user-available storage Android 2.2.2 (Froyo) with TouchWiz 3.0 UI Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support 7.2 Mbps HSDPA Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g, n with hotspot functionality GPS with A-GPS connectivity; digital compass 3.15 MP autofocus camera QVGA video recording @30fps microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v3.0 microSD slot (up ...

New Delhi:   Anna Hazare is under arrest and has been produced before a magistrate. The police action foiled his plan to fast at Delhi's JP Park, but the 74-year-old has not eaten or even had water since early morning.  (Read: Who is Anna Hazare)         Mr Hazare's "preventive arrest" came after three hours of his being under "preventive detention." The Opposition has slammed the government, saying it is Emergency again. The government says it was "a painful duty"; in a very high-level huddle, senior ministers Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram met Rahul Gandhi a little after noon on Tuesday. At 7.30 am on Tuesday morning, minutes before Mr Hazare was to set out for his fast against corruption, about a dozen policemen in plain clothes detained him at fellow-activist Prashant Bhushan's residence at Supreme Enclave in Delhi's Mayur Vihar, where he was staying.   They tried to whisk him away in a white Innova car, but hundreds of angry pro...

Peeved over the “attitude of the Congress” in Parliament which was paralysed over the detention of Anna Hazare, Opposition leaders would meet later on Tuesday to decide their course of action, including a proposal to boycott proceedings for three days. In an early morning crackdown, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare and his close aides were detained by police after the Gandhian vowed to go ahead with his fast for a strong Lokpal and defy prohibitory orders at the venue of his agitation. High drama was witnessed in Mayur Vihar area in east Delhi when police detained the 74-year-old Gandhian at about 7:30 am from an apartment about three hours before he was to sit on his agitation. A large number of supporters opposed the action and shouted slogans supporting him. Home Secretary R K Singh said Mr. Hazare was detained because he said he intended to defy prohibitory orders and sit on fast at JP Park in central Delhi. Delhi Police had denied permission for his fast after he refused to a...

Story:  Amitabh Bachchan, a principal of a premier college in Bhopal, is forced to resign from his post after he makes a controversial statement about India's reservation policy. Having alienated himself from his well-wishers and students, which includes his dalit protegee, Saif Ali Khan, he tries to rebuild life again. More importantly, he tries to save the Indian education system from unscrupulous sharks like Manoj Bajpayee who want to totally commercialise it and convert it into India's largest money-making enterprise, courtesy private coaching centres, capitation fee etc.  Movie Review:  Filmmaker Prakash Jha is a breed apart. Beginning as a premier proponent of India's parallel cinema movement in the 1970s-1980s, he never chose to lose his moorings. Instead, he opted to increase the contours of his canvas by opting for a kind of cinema that combined art with mainstream, meaning with masala. Hence the importance of films like Gangajal, Apharan, Rajneeti, w...

With just around a month to go for the re-launch of the East India Company - the world's first multinational whose forces once ruled much of the globe - its new Indian owner says he is overwhelmed by "a huge feeling of redemption". It's been a long, emotional and personal journey for Sanjiv Mehta, a Mumbai-born entrepreneur who completed the process of buying the East India Company (EIC) in 2005 from the "30 or 40" people who owned it. Acutely aware that he owned a piece of history - at its height the company generated half of world trade and employed a third of the British workforce - Mehta, now the sole owner, dived into the company's rich and ruthless past in order to give it a new direction for the future. With a $15-million investment and inputs from a range of experts - from designers and brand researchers to historians - Mehta is today poised to open the first East India Company store in London's upmarket Mayfair neighbourhood in March. ...

A total of 99 people have so far been charged with offences connected with the violence and looting in London over the last three days. At least 40 of them appeared in court yesterday as surprising details emerged of the kind of people allegedly involved. One was a man who was about to join the army while others included a youth worker and a forklift truck driver. Other cases revealed the tactics allegedly used by suspects during the disturbances. Officers allegedly found text messages on 25-year-old Kieron Samuels' phone following his arrest for looting JD Sports, which appeared to show the co-ordination behind the riots. Camberwell Green Magistrates Court heard the texts included: 'F*** the fees! 'Everyone in south link up – bring your bags and trolleys!' Samuels, of Peckham, was remanded in custody. The majority of those who appeared at Camberwell were charged with burglary over the looting of branches of Currys, H&M, JD Sports and a string of mobile phone shops...