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SAMSUNG B5722

The famous mobile phone manufacturers ‘Samsung’ is now ready for compete with other mobile phone manufacturers with the launch of dual sim GSM phone titled “Samsung B5722″ in Indian markets. It is the first dual Sim phone from ‘Samsung’. It comes with many features, which include 2.8-inch capacitive touch screen supported with 256k colors and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, 3.2-megapixel camera with LED flash, digital zoom, mobile tracker, Digital Natural Sound Engine (DNSe) technology, FM Radio with RDS, FM recording, Buetooth v 2.1 with A2DP, USB v2.0, and support for MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player and MP4/H.263/H.264 player. The most important feature of this phone is that it allows users to use two SIM cards at the same time and switch between them without restarting the phone. It has 30MB internal memory which can be expandable up to 8GB by inserting a microSD card into the phone. It runs on Samsung’s TouchWiz Lite v 1.0 user interface which allows the users to access the social networking sites by single touch. It’s another feature Palringo messenger allows the users to access AIM, Google Talk and ICQ. It works on 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and GSM 900 / 1800 MHz networks and its standard Li-Ion 1200 mAh battery offers 4 hours and 30 minutes of talk time and 400 hours of standby time. This amazing phone will be available in pink and dark brown colors at the price of Rs 11680 in Indian markets.

SAMSUNG

Samsung’, one of the largest electronics companies ,its headquarters is situated in Seocho Samsung Town in Seoul, South Korea. The Samsung group of the company was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chull. In 1951, it was incorporated as Samsung Corporation. The global market leader Samsung’s important brands are Samsung Electronics, Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering & Construction. The Samsung electronics company was founded in 1969 and this company originally manufacturing electronic appliances such as TVs, calculators, refrigerators, air conditioners and washers. The company had more than 60 products, including DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory and hard drives, digital displays such as LCD displays, plasma displays and LED displays, home electronics such as TVs, DVD players, Blu-ray players, home cinema systems, set-top boxes and projectors, mobile devices such as mobile phones, MP3 players, digital cameras and camcorders, computing products such as monitors, laptops, UMPCs, CD and DVD Drives, laser printers and fax machines and home appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines, microwaves, ovens, vacuum cleaners and air conditioners. The company was founded a major global construction company in 1974. The company is a top rated electronic and IT brand in various reports. In 2006, Business Week rated Samsung as 20th on the Top 100 global brands and the Number 2 in the electronics industry. Business Week also ranked the company as 20 in a ranking of the “Top 100 Most Innovative Companies”. In January 2007, BrandFinance ranked the company as the Number 1 global brand in electronics. The company’s mobile phones became the world leader, and the year by year it introduced new model handset in the world . From 1990 until today, Samsung continues to make a great history in mobile phone Industry.

82ND ACADEMY AWARDS, 2010

Academy Award or Oscar Award is one of the most honorary award in the film industry of the world. These awards are given by ‘Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’, California in the most famous award ceremony . Now, all the movie lovers in the world is eagely waiting to knew the winners of this year’s prestigious Oscar award. The nominees for the ‘82nd Academy Awards’ were announced on 2nd February, 2010 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. This is the first time that ten movies are nominated for ‘Best Picture’ category. The big-budget science-fiction movie “Avatar” and war movie “The Hurt Locker” were reached in the nomination list by gaining ten nominations including ‘Best Picture’ category. Other pecularity of this nomination list is that ‘Avatar’ director James Cameron and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow who is the director of ‘Hurt Locker’ is competing for ‘Best Director’ category. The people of India are unhappy, because their previous year’s double Oscar award winnner music maestro AR Rahman is not included in this year’s nomination list. Rahman’s song ‘Na na’ from the film “Couples Retreat” has failed to bag a nomination in the original song category for the Academy Awards. It is the 82nd Annual Academy Award ceremony and the winners will be announced on the ceremony on 7th March 2010 at the ‘Kodak Theatre’ in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. This award ceremony will be hosted by the famous actors Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. So get ready for watching this amazing award ceremony.

82ND ACADEMY AWARDS, 2010 - NOMINATION LIST

BEST PICTURE

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

BEST DIRECTOR

James Cameron - Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
George Clooney - Up in the Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS

Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Helen Mirren - The Last Station
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Penélope Cruz - Nine
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mo’Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman - The Messenger
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter - Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell - District 9
Nick Hornby - An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche - In the Loop
Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophète (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Mauro Fiore - Avatar
Bruno Delbonnel - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Barry Ackroyd - The Hurt Locker
Robert Richardson - Inglourious Basterds
Christian Berger - The White Ribbon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit à la Berlin

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

BEST MAKEUP

Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

FILM EDITING

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

BEST SOUND MIXING

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

BEST SOUND EDITING

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

James Horner - Avatar
Alexandre Desplat - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders - The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer - Sherlock Holmes
Michael Giacchino - Up

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog
“Down in New Orleans” from The Princess and the Frog
“Loin de Paname” from Paris 36
“Take It All” from Nine
“The Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart

ACADEMY AWARDS

Academy award is one of the most honorary award in the world for the film industry. This prestigious award is given annually by ‘Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’, US to those people including directors, actors, and writers who showed their talent in the film industry. These awards are given in the most prestigious award ceremony. This award ceremony is considered to be the “big day” of all the movie crews. Oscar award winners gets a huge respect all over the world. Academy award winning movies will be marketed all around the world. Oscar being the highly reputed movie awards and is the main national film award in U.S.A. Lots of supporters view this award ceremony lively and through medias. This is the prestigious moment of all the country and all the people are eagerly waiting for their country to win. The jury or selecting panel are highly confidential and no results will be leaked before the ceremony. Each and every shots will be analyzed and a final result will be through the majority of voting in jury members. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 and now the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony will be held on 7th March 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. This award ceremony will be hosted by the famous actors Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

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82ND ACADEMY AWARDS, 2010 - WINNERS LIST

BEST PICTURE

The Hurt Locker

BEST DIRECTOR

Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart

BEST ACTRESS

Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mo’Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Up

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) Argentina

BEST ART DIRECTION

Avatar

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Mauro Fiore - Avatar

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

The Cove

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Music by Prudence

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Logorama

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

The New Tenants

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Young Victoria

BEST MAKEUP

Star Trek

FILM EDITING

The Hurt Locker

BEST SOUND MIXING

The Hurt Locker

BEST SOUND EDITING

The Hurt Locker

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Michael Giacchino - Up

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“The Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart