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After a couple of break-ups that made headlines, director Vikram Bhatt says he is not really looking for love any more. While he is not bitter about it, the filmmaker admits that he doesn’t need the constant presence of a woman to complete his life.

“I have realised that no one but you can complete yourself. It is actually nonsense to seek someone to be complete in life. You can be single and still so complete,” Bhatt, who directed Aamir Khan-starrer hit film “Ghulam”, told IANS.

“I am not at all unhappy in my current state and am in fact raring to go as far as my personal and professional life is concerned,” the 43-year-old said.

The director, who has dated actresses Sushmita Sen and Ameesha Patel, is single now, but neither has he closed himself from the outside world nor is he turning out to be a recluse.

“I am happy to be living life the way it is currently and don’t intend to mould it any differently. However, I am not bitter at all. Why should I be? But now the love which comes to me has to be really special,” he adds while looking forward to a new phase in his personal as well as professional life.

When Bhatt broke up with Ameesha, he had refused to divulge any details about what had transpired between them. He said: “What’s the point of going into the past and talking about why and when it happened?”

He was also in for a surprise when Ameesha threw a birthday party for him along with other friends soon after their break-up.

After loving three women in his life for a major duration – his ex-wife Aditi, Sushmita and Ameesha, it appears Bhatt has just grown over love and is taking it rather easy with no strings attached.

“See, the fact is I don’t see myself reaching home in the night, feeling lonely and then getting the feeling that ‘arrey yaar, it’s bad to be alone; I should rather hook up with someone’.

“Yes, I will give love a chance but then it has to be indeed ‘love’. Let that happen naturally,” said Bhatt, whose film “Ankahee” was said to be loosely based on his relationship with his ex-wife and former girlfriend, Sushmita.

The director, who has made horror movies like “Raaz” and 1920″, is currently gearing up for the release of “Shaapit”. Starring singer Udit Narayan’s son Aditya, Shweta Aggarwal and Rahul Dev, the film hit screens Friday.

Game Developer conference that was held this week became a warm up for the major event that will conducted next week at MIX. Well-known company such as Microsoft launched XNA Game Studio 4 that is created in order to develop games for 7 Series devices.

In case you want to know more about news from Shawn Hargreaves of the Windows Phone 7 Series development team, you are able to visit a post which is located in his site. There you will find the latest news about XNA Game Studio as well as Windows Phone. Almost the whole post tells about capabilities that will probably be used by developers. Also one can view a few words about 7 Series devices which will integrate WVGA displays and has the resolution of 800×480 pixels. It should be mentioned that a future update will be available with support for HVGA displays which offers 320×480 pixel resolution. Fortunately, one can expect that Windows Phones will be available with a lower starting price point.

In fact Toshiba is a bit late to the Blu-ray party, it introduces the BDX2000. It is considered to be a sleek unit that is available with a pull-down front panel. It includes the display, disk tray, SD card slot and controls as well.

Such buttons as play, stop, pause, power, and eject are located beneath the flap. On the whole, the effect is quite pleasing. And it is possible to view the display in case flap is closed.

The BDX2000 backs up BD Live that is connected with the help of its Ethernet port. It is impossible to update the firmware through the Internet, it is necessary to download new firmware releases and later burn them to disc.

It has a straightforward menu which includes a number of icons that can be selected using the remote that has a plastic feel, moreover, it is not so heavy. As for the menus, one can find a few odd quirks that allow BD Live players to have a simple setting in order to enable as well as disable the facility.

The unit integrates some other handy options such as audio test tones, adjustments dedicated for relative volume levels and also adjustable audio delay used for the HDMI output due to which one can undergo perfect sync.

It would be right to note that the last year was really hard for most businesses, but as for cybercriminals, it was considered to be the best one.

Data released by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) revealed that total losses of 2009 year amounted to US$559.7 which is considered to be higher compared to the year of 2008.

The use of the FBI’s own name was considered to be the most frequently reported scam. It was used in order to trick as well as try victims into handing over cash or sensitive information. An e-mail claiming from FBI Deputy Director John Pistole was involved in such scam. The scammers tricked people in the following way: in order people could receive an even larger sum of money they had to pay bogus fees, but as a result they never got a payout.

Total complaints of 2009 increased up to 22.3 percent compare to the previous year. About 257,284 complaints were posted by victims and $265 million was registered in losses.

Among other scams, one can note the non-delivery of merchandise or payments which are regarded as a common form of fraud on online marketplaces like eBay and advance-fee fraud that is almost the same as the John Pistole scam.

There are cases when victims receive e-mails from an unknown person that claims to be a hitman hired in order to assassinate them. In case victims do not send $800 to the U.K. within 72 hours, the hitman asks to cancel the job.

Finally OnLive disclosed some details concerning pricing. In case you want to become a user of Onlive you will have to pay $15 per month, but it does not mean that you will be able to play any full games. In fact, it is necessary purchase or at least rent games in order you could stream to your computer, but still prices are not known. Even if OnLive provides lower distribution costs, it will be hard enough to compete with actual hardware for all but the most dedicated gamers.

Let’s imagine that you spend about $300 on a new console every five years, it is about $5 per month that is considered to be less than a subscription to OnLive. For example, you purchase one new game every two months that requires $60 each, which means that you spend about $35 every month. It means that publishers have to offer games for $40 or less via OnLive in order the proposition could be worthwhile.

If publishers diminish the price of the game, the consumer will become more concessive. You will be able to receive instant gratification and also an opportunity to play everywhere, but still you will be unable to buy, sell or trade used games, moreover, nobody will guarantee that you will have the possibility to play that game that you bought 10 years from now.

In fact, one should say that the prospect of game rentals touches more questions.

Nokia disapproved the anti-trust allegations which were denounced by Apple on Friday. According to the statement, the allegations were planned in order to side-track attention from free-riding off of Nokia’s intellectual property.

Nokia became the initiator of this legal battle and brought before a court against Apple regarding ten patent disobedience related to WiFi connectivity, UMTS (3G), as well as GSM. Apple, in its turn, accused Nokia of several copyright claims which involved violation as well as willful sustaining the custody of patent information. Moreover, Apple charged Nokia with unjust and unfair payment in form of royalties.

Nokia claims that Apple turned unfounded debate into a multi-count federal law suit, furthermore, the company used unproven facts, ambiguous litigation theories and deceptive characterization.

Nokia accuses Apple of misleading characterizations, revisionist history, flawed as well as contradictory legal theories and unsupported allegations in order to have a possibility to turn these useless negotiations into a multi-count federal lawsuit.

Both companies ask the US International Trade Commission to cease importing phones of the other party. But still the final decision will be taken only by June 2011 by ITC.

Netfix conducted $1 million contest in order to better its movie recommendations and as a result it became a successful research as well as business hit, for that reason the company decided to plan another one.

All in all, smart computer scientists as well as statisticians dig through the video rental site that led to one major downside. A couple of researchers showcased that anonymized data, launched for the contest that offered movie recommendations and also choices made by hundreds of thousands of customers, can be identified.

As a result the Federal Trade Commission showed its interest towards such action as well as KamberLaw L.L.C drew a lawsuit.

Neil Hunt, Netflix’s chief product officer said that the F.T.C and the company finally reached an understanding and also settled the lawsuit. The resolution of both matters reveals particular parameters, i.e. the way the company is going to use its data in any future research programs. Moreover, Netflix is going to discover ways in order to work with the research community.

The three-year rivalry that started in 2006, provided $1 million to the first group that was able to improve the predictive accuracy of the movie recommendation software by 10 percent.

The pre-order day of the iPad started, but it does not mean that Apple is alone in the tablet game. HP offers Flash which can be regarded as the killer app of its sort-of-codenamed slate. HP Slate is based on a multitouch-friendly version of Windows 7 that is able to offer more flexibility than Apple’s rigid iPad OS. Bur still its hardware specs, availability, pricing, content partnerships and even the name are still not known.

If you look at the Adam’s specs, you will see that it is considered to be the anti-iPad. It is equipped with a 10-inch, transflective LCD PixelQi screen, that can switch between color and black and white modes. The operating system as well as Web browsers of the device rely on Flash. Moreover, it has a camera. Firm release date, app support as well as price are still not disclosed.

The CrunchPad is a simple Web tablet. The weight of the device is 2.5 pounds, it comes with a 12-inch screen which able to back up Flash. It lacks a SIM card slot for 3G. The name of the product is the JooJoo. It has a price tag of $500 and will be available from March 25.

Still one can look at Archos that is available for $179. It is powered with a 600 MHz processor, moreover it offers a full Android operating system. The device is expected to appear in the market in April.

Not so long ago the Federal Communications Commission released a free broadband speed test that can be used for checking the speed of your Internet connection. With the help of the test you will be able to know how fast the connection allows to download as well as upload data. As result a user can compare the results revealed by the FCC test with the speeds promised by your Internet service provider.

In case you want to take advantage of the test, you can visit the homepage of broadband.gov, but you should know several things about the test before using it. Mind that it is not just a free public test, moreover, it is able to store your test data and use some of your information in order to form its national broadband strategy.

In order to use this test, your PC should include Java for running it. It is important to know that the FCC cooperates with two independent diagnostic companies that test your broadband. In fact, the testing will be assigned at random to one of these companies.

According to FCC, the M-Lab test is not able to operate with the Chrome, Safari and Opera Web Browsers.

Dell Home releases its 5.54-lb. Dell Studio 15 Intel Core i3 2.13GHz 15.6” Widescreen Notebook is available in Black Chainlink and has a price tag of $599 with $12.95 for shipping. The device is powered with an Intel Core i3-330M 2.13GHz dual-core processor, and is equipped with 15.6″ 720p LED-backlit widescreen LCD. The device offers 4GB RAM together with 500GB 7200 rpm hard drive. It includes dual-layer DVD burner as well as 802.11g wireless. There is also a webcam with the help of which one can make video calls. The notebook packs in 6-cell battery and runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.