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	<title>A blog about technology and how it interfaces with life. &#187; Daily News</title>
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		<title>Rumours that Facebook going to Charge Held False By Facebook Home Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abhivibhuti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook Charging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook no more free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rumours that Facebook going to Charge Held False By Facebook Home Page]]></category>

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<p>Is Facebook going to charge users for its service from 2011 onwards? Do we all have to subscribe to the Facebook money plan in order to use this service further? These are some of the Facebook charging in 2011 rumors. Facebook…Charged service…New Subscriptions…These are some terms that we all are hearing since last few days. The Facebook charging in 2011 rumors are actually spreading even today like fire over the World Wide Web to inform users about the drastic step to be taken by this social networking giant. However, the good news is that Facebook itself has announced that it will take ‘no charges’ and that the service will remain free. There is no plan of charging the customers at any cost.</p>
<p><strong>The Spread of Facebook Charging in 2011 eRumor</strong></p>
<p>This time the rumor for Facebook sparked via several group messages and feeds on Facebook pages as well as via emails, which stated that this social networking giant will now be charging its members. The fees might go up to £$14.99 per month. Further, most of us came across a new price grid for members, which was as follows:</p>
<p>“Facebook have introduced their price grid for $6.99 for silver member services per month, $9.99 for gold member services per month, and $3.99 for bronze member services per month. However, one can get rid of these services by copying and pasting this message before midnight. When you will sign in the next day morning, a prompt for payment info will appear.”</p>
<p>Further, even the news channels such as The Weekly World News have revealed of Facebook charging users.</p>
<p><strong>Proving the Rumor as False</strong></p>
<p>Although Facebook has not officially reacted to the rumor, we know that the home page still mentions of its free service. You can find this out by visiting the home page after logging out. The Facebook charging in 2011 rumors sparked after this famous site made a few modifications. So, it might be due to these changes that the rumors got the sustenance to spread. However, an official Facebook page of the September month revealed that Facebook has plans to charge its users and that the service will always remain free. Moreover, Facebook does not get benefit for charging a subscription fee. This is because it generates most of its revenue from the ads viewed by over 800 million active users.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Facebook_HomePage.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1862" title="Facebook_HomePage" src="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Facebook_HomePage.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="505" /></a></center></p>
<p>Is Facebook going to charge users for its service from 2011 onwards? Do we all have to subscribe to the Facebook money plan in order to use this service further? These are some of the Facebook charging in 2011 rumors. Facebook…Charged service…New Subscriptions…These are some terms that we all are hearing since last few days. The Facebook charging in 2011 rumors are actually spreading even today like fire over the World Wide Web to inform users about the drastic step to be taken by this social networking giant. However, the good news is that Facebook itself has announced that it will take ‘no charges’ and that the service will remain free. There is no plan of charging the customers at any cost.</p>
<p><strong>The Spread of Facebook Charging in 2011 eRumor</strong></p>
<p>This time the rumor for Facebook sparked via several group messages and feeds on Facebook pages as well as via emails, which stated that this social networking giant will now be charging its members. The fees might go up to £$14.99 per month. Further, most of us came across a new price grid for members, which was as follows:</p>
<p>“Facebook have introduced their price grid for $6.99 for silver member services per month, $9.99 for gold member services per month, and $3.99 for bronze member services per month. However, one can get rid of these services by copying and pasting this message before midnight. When you will sign in the next day morning, a prompt for payment info will appear.”</p>
<p>Further, even the news channels such as The Weekly World News have revealed of Facebook charging users.</p>
<p><strong>Proving the Rumor as False</strong></p>
<p>Although Facebook has not officially reacted to the rumor, we know that the home page still mentions of its free service. You can find this out by visiting the home page after logging out. The Facebook charging in 2011 rumors sparked after this famous site made a few modifications. So, it might be due to these changes that the rumors got the sustenance to spread. However, an official Facebook page of the September month revealed that Facebook has plans to charge its users and that the service will always remain free. Moreover, Facebook does not get benefit for charging a subscription fee. This is because it generates most of its revenue from the ads viewed by over 800 million active users.</p>
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		<title>Farmville and Starcraft Gaming Guides: Playing Farmville</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abhivibhuti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmville and Starcraft Gaming Guides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starcraft]]></category>

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<p>Because of these online games’ immense popularity, <strong>Farmville and Starcraft gaming guides</strong> can be found all over the internet.  Strategies and tips to improve your game, as well as instructions for beginners, are available online.</p>
<p>Farmville is a very popular Facebook game application that is played within the browser.  The game basically allows you to vicariously live a life on the farm.  You can grow, harvest, and sell your own virtual crops.  Throughout the game, you earn game coins which you can use to upgrade your farm, buy new seeds, and set up your farm any way you see fit.</p>
<p>The game is very simple, but surprisingly – or perhaps because of its simplicity &#8211; it is actually fun to play.  With parental guidance, even a little child can learn to play the game easily.  It is ideal for the casual gamer to play once in a while just to break the monotony of any given day.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1844 alignright" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial;" title="starcraft-front" src="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/starcraft-front-300x294.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="206" /></p>
<p>The game graphics are adequate and good enough, but the soundtrack can be boring after a while since the song is just played in the background over and over again.  However, there is an option to turn off the music.  There is also a photo option which allows you to take pictures of your farm that you can share with friends to update them on your progress.  Likewise, you can invite Facebook friends to be your neighbors or to help you out on some farm tasks.  You can also have friendly competition among yourselves to see who can sustain the best farm.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>For more <strong>Farmville and Starcraft gaming guides</strong>, you can find tips and strategies for beginners, intermediate, and advanced players online.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/images-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1845 alignleft" title="images (1)" src="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/images-1.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="137" /></a></p>
<p>Because of these online games’ immense popularity, <strong>Farmville and Starcraft gaming guides</strong> can be found all over the internet.  Strategies and tips to improve your game, as well as instructions for beginners, are available online.</p>
<p>Farmville is a very popular Facebook game application that is played within the browser.  The game basically allows you to vicariously live a life on the farm.  You can grow, harvest, and sell your own virtual crops.  Throughout the game, you earn game coins which you can use to upgrade your farm, buy new seeds, and set up your farm any way you see fit.</p>
<p>The game is very simple, but surprisingly – or perhaps because of its simplicity &#8211; it is actually fun to play.  With parental guidance, even a little child can learn to play the game easily.  It is ideal for the casual gamer to play once in a while just to break the monotony of any given day.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1844 alignright" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial;" title="starcraft-front" src="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/starcraft-front-300x294.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="206" /></p>
<p>The game graphics are adequate and good enough, but the soundtrack can be boring after a while since the song is just played in the background over and over again.  However, there is an option to turn off the music.  There is also a photo option which allows you to take pictures of your farm that you can share with friends to update them on your progress.  Likewise, you can invite Facebook friends to be your neighbors or to help you out on some farm tasks.  You can also have friendly competition among yourselves to see who can sustain the best farm.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>For more <strong>Farmville and Starcraft gaming guides</strong>, you can find tips and strategies for beginners, intermediate, and advanced players online.</p>
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		<title>BIG Boss Season 5 Photos and Videos here</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abhivibhuti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIG BOSS Season 5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jashpal Bhatti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salman Khan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanjay Dutt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharukh khan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/30sld4.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1838" title="30sld4" src="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/30sld4.jpg" alt="" width="370" height="452" /></a></p>
<p>So the time has arrived, hold your breadth&#8230; soon you will come to know who all are going to be there in the BIG BOSS Season 5.</p>
<p>Let me tell you about some news which is there in air&#8230; Like:</p>
<p>Jaspal Bhatti, the most popular social satirist in India, is expected to add some humour to the fifth season of Big Boss.</p>
<p>Last year rumours were rife about actor Shah Rukh Khan hosting the controversial reality show Bigg Boss. But it was frenemy and actor Salman Khan, who took charge as the host of the fourth season of the show succeeding the earlier host, actor Amitabh Bachchan.</p>
<p>Actor, producer and writer Kamal Rashid Khan will give his second appearance on the most popular reality show Bigg Boss. He was evicted from Bigg Boss 3 for throwing a water bottle on designer Rohit Verma. This time he is planning to carry some iron bottles with him to Bigg Boss 5 house.</p>
<p>Sanjay Dutt who taught gandhigiri in “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” is coming with the Big Boss 5 show as a new anchor along with the last year’s host and superstar Salman Khan, on this Gandhi jayanti, 2nd October.</p>
<p>This time as we all are aware that we are gonna have more masala as we have two hosts this time Salman and Sanjay. So Lets see what all we see in this episode.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/30sld4.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1838" title="30sld4" src="http://www.xcellextech.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/30sld4.jpg" alt="" width="370" height="452" /></a></p>
<p>So the time has arrived, hold your breadth&#8230; soon you will come to know who all are going to be there in the BIG BOSS Season 5.</p>
<p>Let me tell you about some news which is there in air&#8230; Like:</p>
<p>Jaspal Bhatti, the most popular social satirist in India, is expected to add some humour to the fifth season of Big Boss.</p>
<p>Last year rumours were rife about actor Shah Rukh Khan hosting the controversial reality show Bigg Boss. But it was frenemy and actor Salman Khan, who took charge as the host of the fourth season of the show succeeding the earlier host, actor Amitabh Bachchan.</p>
<p>Actor, producer and writer Kamal Rashid Khan will give his second appearance on the most popular reality show Bigg Boss. He was evicted from Bigg Boss 3 for throwing a water bottle on designer Rohit Verma. This time he is planning to carry some iron bottles with him to Bigg Boss 5 house.</p>
<p>Sanjay Dutt who taught gandhigiri in “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” is coming with the Big Boss 5 show as a new anchor along with the last year’s host and superstar Salman Khan, on this Gandhi jayanti, 2nd October.</p>
<p>This time as we all are aware that we are gonna have more masala as we have two hosts this time Salman and Sanjay. So Lets see what all we see in this episode.</p>
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		<title>Inflation soars to 9.78 percent &#8211; Watch for Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abhivibhuti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inflation soars to 9.78 percent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As India&#8217;s wholesale price index soared to 9.78 percent, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee expressed concern over the situation and said that the government and the central bank would &#8216;collectively&#8217; tackle the inflationary pressures. According to the latest government data, India&#8217;s wholesale price index, the country&#8217;s main inflation estimate, rose 9.78 percent in August, higher than 9.22 percent recorded earlier, thus taking the rate to its highest in over a year.<br />
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<p><strong>Pranab on credit rating downgrade</strong><br />
Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, on August 6, called the situation arising from the downgrading in the US top-tier credit rating as grave. Expressing concern at the situation in New Delhi, Mukherjee said the government needed time to study the impliacations of the downgrading to arrive at a conclusion.</p>
<p><center><object id="ql4b05mu" width="432" height="418" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="flashvars" value="player.v=734a8b17-044f-4579-868f-c0b1c0c7fe4e&amp;configCsid=MSNVideo&amp;configName=syndicationplayer&amp;mkt=en-in&amp;brand=v5%5e544x306&amp;linkoverride2=http%3a%2f%2fvideo.in.msn.com%2f%3fmkt%3den-in%26vid%3d%7b1%7d%26from%3d&amp;linkback=http%3a%2f%2fvideo.in.msn.com%2f" /><param name="base" value="." /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="src" value="http://img.widgets.video.s-msn.com/fl/customplayer/current/customplayer.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" /><embed id="ql4b05mu" width="432" height="418" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://img.widgets.video.s-msn.com/fl/customplayer/current/customplayer.swf" flashvars="player.v=734a8b17-044f-4579-868f-c0b1c0c7fe4e&amp;configCsid=MSNVideo&amp;configName=syndicationplayer&amp;mkt=en-in&amp;brand=v5%5e544x306&amp;linkoverride2=http%3a%2f%2fvideo.in.msn.com%2f%3fmkt%3den-in%26vid%3d%7b1%7d%26from%3d&amp;linkback=http%3a%2f%2fvideo.in.msn.com%2f" base="." quality="high" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" /><a href="http://video.in.msn.com/watch/video/pranab-on-credit-rating-downgrade/fd4h39j4?cpkey=6605a2d1-0852-4d6c-8d76-5865a1f43ee1%7c%7c%7c%7c&amp;src=v5:embed::" target="_new" title="Pranab on credit rating downgrade">Video: Pranab on credit rating downgrade</a></object></center><strong>Govt monitoring oil prices after Libya unrest</strong><br />
Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, on February 25, tried to soothe nerves over spiralling crude prices following the Libya crisis, saying the government was keeping a vigil on the situation. He added that markets should not get unnecessarily agitated over the issue.</p>
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<p>As India&#8217;s wholesale price index soared to 9.78 percent, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee expressed concern over the situation and said that the government and the central bank would &#8216;collectively&#8217; tackle the inflationary pressures. According to the latest government data, India&#8217;s wholesale price index, the country&#8217;s main inflation estimate, rose 9.78 percent in August, higher than 9.22 percent recorded earlier, thus taking the rate to its highest in over a year.<br />
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<p><strong>Pranab on credit rating downgrade</strong><br />
Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, on August 6, called the situation arising from the downgrading in the US top-tier credit rating as grave. Expressing concern at the situation in New Delhi, Mukherjee said the government needed time to study the impliacations of the downgrading to arrive at a conclusion.</p>
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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, on February 25, tried to soothe nerves over spiralling crude prices following the Libya crisis, saying the government was keeping a vigil on the situation. He added that markets should not get unnecessarily agitated over the issue.</p>
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		<title>Chinese want to capture an asteroid into Earth&#8217;s orbit</title>
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<p>While most astronomers seem to be understandably worried about the best way to steer asteroids <em>away</em> from Earth, Chinese scientists are instead trying to figure out how they can capture nearby asteroids into Earth orbit. And then mine them.</p>
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<p>At first glance, nudging an asteroid <em>closer</em> to Earth seems like one of those &#8220;what could possibly go wrong&#8221; scenarios that we generally try and avoid, and for good reason: large asteroid impacts are bad times. The Chinese, though, seem fairly optimistic that they could tweak the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid by just enough (a change in velocity of only about 1,300 feet-per-second or so) to get it to temporarily enter Earth orbit at about twice the distance as the Moon. The orbit would be unstable, and eventually (after a few years) the asteroid would head back out into space from whence it came, but it would stick there long enough for us to poke around on it.</p>
<p>While the Chinese are likely going to start small (the prime candidate right now is a 30-foot-wide rock), they&#8217;re thinking bigger. Much bigger. Like, over a mile bigger, since a metallic asteroid that size would be worth an absolutely staggering amount of money. Now, were something to get screwed up and that mile-wide metallic asteroid <em>hit</em> Earth instead, we&#8217;d be looking at something like a 24-mile-wide crater and a fireball so large that trees 200 miles away would spontaneously burst into flames, among other fun effects.</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s just assume that these Chinese science dudes know exactly what they&#8217;re doing and that they&#8217;ll be able at some point to nudge one of these huge asteroids into temporary Earth orbit. Then what? Well, there&#8217;s science to be done of course, but they estimate that a two-kilometer-wide metallic asteroid (about 1.2 miles across) could be worth something like 25 trillion dollars, which would handily pay down the entire U.S. national debt with barely enough left over to restart the space shuttle program. Sweet! Except, sweet for China. Not us. Oh well.</p>
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<p>While most astronomers seem to be understandably worried about the best way to steer asteroids <em>away</em> from Earth, Chinese scientists are instead trying to figure out how they can capture nearby asteroids into Earth orbit. And then mine them.</p>
<p><a name="more"></a></p>
<p>At first glance, nudging an asteroid <em>closer</em> to Earth seems like one of those &#8220;what could possibly go wrong&#8221; scenarios that we generally try and avoid, and for good reason: large asteroid impacts are bad times. The Chinese, though, seem fairly optimistic that they could tweak the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid by just enough (a change in velocity of only about 1,300 feet-per-second or so) to get it to temporarily enter Earth orbit at about twice the distance as the Moon. The orbit would be unstable, and eventually (after a few years) the asteroid would head back out into space from whence it came, but it would stick there long enough for us to poke around on it.</p>
<p>While the Chinese are likely going to start small (the prime candidate right now is a 30-foot-wide rock), they&#8217;re thinking bigger. Much bigger. Like, over a mile bigger, since a metallic asteroid that size would be worth an absolutely staggering amount of money. Now, were something to get screwed up and that mile-wide metallic asteroid <em>hit</em> Earth instead, we&#8217;d be looking at something like a 24-mile-wide crater and a fireball so large that trees 200 miles away would spontaneously burst into flames, among other fun effects.</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s just assume that these Chinese science dudes know exactly what they&#8217;re doing and that they&#8217;ll be able at some point to nudge one of these huge asteroids into temporary Earth orbit. Then what? Well, there&#8217;s science to be done of course, but they estimate that a two-kilometer-wide metallic asteroid (about 1.2 miles across) could be worth something like 25 trillion dollars, which would handily pay down the entire U.S. national debt with barely enough left over to restart the space shuttle program. Sweet! Except, sweet for China. Not us. Oh well.</p>
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