Director duo Rafi-Mecartin's Love In Singapore, a hilarious comedy presenting Mammootty as ‘Aakry Machu', a man who rose to financial heights after starting his life as a scrap dealer, is releasing on January 23, 2009. Tamil and Telugu actor Navneet Kaur is the heroin.
Director Rajbabu’s latest offering Colours, in which he teams up with Dileep once again after Chess, is far from being colourful. If screenplay is the backbone of a movie, here’s a film without a backbone. V.C. Ashok’s script is largely responsible for turning the film into an insufferable bore. Though the film has a stale storyline, it could still have been made into an enjoyable film, had the script been better and had the director been much more careful.
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Delhi 6 the much awaited Bollywood film is released on 20th Feb 2009 , it is directed by Rakeysh Mehra, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Om Puri.
The name of the movie is actually the name of Old Delhi, whose pin code is 110006. The people in Old Delhi call it "Delhi 6"
When Verizon decided to invest in FiOS and all the core technologies needed to support FiOS, Wall Street pilloried the company. Today, the company continues to make money in one of the worst economic climates since World War II and has no plans to slow down its investments in best-of-class technologies, aggressively moving forward with LTE at a time where everyone else is pulling the covers over their heads. Meanwhile, AT&T's practice of "good enough" frugality is going to end up biting it in the long run unless it gets the religion really fast that he who has the best broadband infrastructure, wins, period, end of story.
This is a story of two choices, one wireline and one wireless, one past and one present, and they all thread together into some serious brass knuckle competition down the road.
In 2004, AT&T and Verizon had to make choices on the mechanism necessary to deliver broadband services - including video - to the last mile. AT&T's U-verse solution was Fiber-to-the-Node, delivering fiber into a neighborhood, then using the existing copper for the last mile to deliver broadband and TV services. It was cheaper than bringing fiber all the way into the house because it avoided digging and trenching, contractors, and rights-of-way. Customers would get be able to get one or two HD channels into the home and that was supposed to be "good enough" for most mere mortals. New builds would get fiber straight through.
Today, neighborhoods around the country are annoyed that AT&T needs to put in ugly, above-ground cabinets to distribute high-speed services. Put them underground? Too expensive, says AT&T. So neighborhoods from coast to coast - San Francisco to South Carolina - are turning them back because there's no room and they just look ugly.
AT&T might not get the uptake it needs from U-Verse when you consider the push-back on ugly cabinets with its bottlenecked service offering to the home, which will have a tough time keeping up with DOCSIS 3.0 and digital cable offerings. Comcast is already making noises that it will go beyond 50 Mbps into 100 Mbps territory - broadband speeds that you aren't going to find on U.S. last-mile copper even if the ugly cabinets do get installed in the streets and backyards.
Verizon, on the other hand, has a product offering that is able to keep up with and potentially exceed existing and near-term future cable offerings. Running a network that can effectively support 100 Mbps to the home and that does not have bandwidth caps, PLUS all the HDTV channels you can eat is going to keep the pressure on the cable companies to upgrade plant just to keep up.
Ignore all that for a moment, and look at Verizon's core network. The dirty little secret to the FiOS build-out is that it has the core capacity to easily support backhaul from Verizon Wireless broadband offerings, be they this year's EVDO or next year's LTE. This saves Verizon money, especially as they go into LTE and move to a simplified broadband wireless infrastructure.
Meanwhile, AT&T is getting dissed by Om Malik because its 3G service doesn't have the juice to support the iPhone. Right now, AT&T is in a comfy place with an "exclusive" for the iPhone, but how long will that last once Verizon's LTE network is in full swing? Apple iPhone junkies will want the 4G fix - or some of them will end up migrating out to other phones for the speed. Given some common sense on both sides, Apple and Verizon could come to an arrangement.
Oh, and if you want another game changer to think about, an LTE phone is likely to deliver data speeds in the ballpark of AT&T's U-Verse Internet offering. It is premature to predict LTE's field performance right now, but U-Verse's max speed is 18 Mbps these days. Under perfect conditions, LTE rev 1 does around 60 Mbps, but nobody's perfect. However, if LTE users were to average around 15 Mbps in daily conditions, life gets a whole lot more interesting for Verizon - and a bit lively for AT&T.
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MADRID - REAL Madrid are in confident mood ahead of their Champions League showdown with Liverpool at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday after nine successive league wins, including an impressive 6-1 thrashing of Real Betis on Saturday.
Liverpool could not have picked a worse time to face the double Spanish champions and Dutch midfielder Rafael van der Vaart said the five-time European champions would be intimidated.
'We're Real Madrid, which is why I think Liverpool are frightened of us,' said van der Vaart. 'The team is working hard to be in perfect shape. We're anxious to do well in Europe, and I will do anything to win the Champions League.' Real closed to within seven points of Barcelona at the summit with a ruthless 6-1 destruction of Betis - with all the goals in the first half - to warn Liverpool of their firepower.
'Liverpool shouldn't fear us. They should respect us, just like we do them. We'll have the crowd on our side on Wednesday and we'll capitalise on that,' explained Portuguese centre-half Pepe.
'We need to be determined. I will be happy if we score half as many goals as we did tonight, but it will be a very different match.' Gonzalo Higuain scored his 14th goal of the season with the opener against Betis and said it was time to forget the league and concentrate on trying to turn over Liverpool.
'It's time to start thinking about the next match. The Champions League is up next and we need to maintain this rhythm,' explained Higuain.
'Wednesday's game is another final. It will be a very difficult match against a great team that does well under such pressure. We will do our best and hope to have the upper hand heading into the return leg of the tie.' Real coach Ramos, who has steadied the ship following Bernd Schuster's sacking, has not given up on the league but admits the Champions League could be an easier target for Real.
'In the Champions League our destiny is in our own hands and if things go smoothly and we don't slip up we can win it,' explained Ramos. 'In the league that is not the case so the Champions League is easier, although there are eight or so teams that could be crowned European champions. The competition is much harder.' Real have won the trophy nine times but their last success came back in 2002 and Dutch international Roysten Drenthe admitted Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres had been singled out as the main threat.
'Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard are their two danger men,' said Drenthe. 'Torres scores lots of goals and Gerrard is very dangerous shooting from long range. However, they have a lot of other players that can hurt us.' While Raul and Higuain hope to build on their goals against Betis, Dutch forward Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who scored twice against Betis, must watch from the stands after being omitted from Real's Champions League squad.
'It is a big blow and it is not going to be easy watching from the stands,' said Huntelaar. Lass Diarra was included instead of Huntelaar with Uefa rules only permitting Real to register one player who had already played this season in Europe with his previous club. -- AFP
They were putting on a brave face at Liverpool yesterday — Dirk Kuyt, Martin Skrtel and Jamie Carragher claiming in their different ways that the Barclays Premier League title was still up for grabs.
But as Liverpool prepared to fly to Spain this morning for the first leg of their Champions League first knockout round tie against Real Madrid at the Bernabéu tomorrow evening, with Manchester United boasting a seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League, there was the inescapable feeling that the Merseyside club will again have to look to Europe for salvation.
If Istanbul in 2005 papered gloriously over the fact that Liverpool finished fifth — behind Everton — in the league in Rafael Benítez’s first season at Anfield, a second Champions League final appearance in three years in 2007 provided a welcome distraction to another failed title bid.
With United threatening to equal Liverpool’s record haul of 18 domestic championships, however, the question is how long Europe can continue to provide a personal sanctuary for Benítez, the manager, after Sunday’s disappointing 1-1 draw at home to Manchester City lengthened the odds on a first league title for 19 years.
Benítez is understood to be insisting on a get-out clause being inserted in his new contract to protect his position in the event that Liverpool are sold in the months ahead, but the continuing delays in signing a new four-year, £16 million deal are looking increasingly like a smokescreen.
By putting his contractual situation firmly on the agenda in the week when Liverpool play Real, a club eager to secure his services, Benítez appears to be placing himself in the shop window and knows that the clamour at the Bernabéu to lure him is only likely to increase if Liverpool knock the Spanish side out of the competition.
Their prospects of doing just that will be improved significantly if Steven Gerrard is passed fit to play tomorrow. The Liverpool captain has missed his team’s past two league matches with a hamstring injury, but having been included in the squad to face Real, Benítez will give his talisman every chance to prove his fitness. However, Daniel Agger, the defender, will not travel because of a back injury.
Benítez will have been dismayed to hear Sir Alex Ferguson, the United manager, claiming that Real have “no chance” of winning the Champions League because “their game lacks pace”. Real have won their past nine league matches under Juande Ramos, the former Tottenham Hotspur head coach, and Benítez is unlikely to be
impressed by remarks that could serve only to galvanise their opponents.
Benítez may also be disgruntled that Roberto Rosetti, the Italian referee who awarded Chelsea a penalty that helped to eliminate Liverpool in their semi-final, second leg at Stamford Bridge last season, has been put in charge of the game.
BIRMINGHAM, England (AFP) — Guus Hiddink believes he can succeed where predecessor Luiz Felipe Scolari failed and turn Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka into a strike duo that can help Chelsea challenge for the Champions League title.
Hiddink showed his faith in the Ivory Coast striker and the French international for his first team selection against Aston Villa on Saturday.
He was rewarded with Anelka scoring the solitary goal of the game in a 1-0 win to ensure the Dutchman's short-term manager's role with the London club began with Chelsea's first victory at Villa Park in a decade.
Anelka has now struck 21 times this season, in sharp contrast to Drogba's single Premier League goal, but the pair are likely to be selected again by Hiddink for Wednesday's first leg of the Champions League tie with Juventus.
Scolari rarely played both forwards in the same Chelsea team but Hiddink said: "When they did not play together at Chelsea, that depended upon other people's style of play. That is in the past.
"My interest is only in the short future ahead for me and the team," added Hiddink, who is continuing as manager of the Russian national side.
"They played together at Aston Villa in a very important game. You cannot hide in games like that," said Hiddink, who has insisted he will leave Chelsea at the end of the season, after a match which saw the Blues leapfrog Villa into third place in the table.
"They worked very hard for the team and they helped us get the first win which was very pleasing for everyone, not just me.
"They understand that they are our first line of defence and if they can continue to play like that then there is no problem for me to use their very strong qualities as attacking players."
Hiddink stressed he'd seen no signs of the reported rifts within the dressing room and that a team hug at the end of the game in front of the Chelsea spectators was a genuine exercise, rather than a public relations stunt.
"Their attitudes have been excellent. All the players have been good. We had a good week working and there have been no signs of all the problems that have been written about. What they did with the hug was genuine.
"If you have the correct attitude you can progress quickly and that is what I would like to do.
"I was not totally happy with the performance at Villa and there are some things that I saw in the second half that we will have to work on before Juventus," he added.
"Juventus have a different style and will present different problems. They will not use long balls. Their skills will be a problem.
Villa's defeat raised question marks over whether they can last the distance in the battle for a top four finish this season.
It was a disappointing end to a very tough week for Martin O'Neill and his players, after going out of the FA Cup last Sunday to Everton and being held by CSKA Moscow at Villa Park in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup on Wednesday.
But a defiant O'Neill said his players would not be adversely affected by their first defeat in 13 league games which capped a punishing schedule of three matches in six days.
"I don't want to use that as an excuse. We are disappointed and upset by the result, but we are far from finished. There is no dent in morale whatsoever," said O'Neill.
"We will bounce back from this and we are still in their fighting for a top four finish and we will continue to do so," the former Celtic manager added.For more click here........
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