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Fifty Shades of Grey movie director revealed
Author E L James has revealed on Twitter the name of the director, who will direct the movie adaptation of her best selling novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' The 50-year-old writer wrote on Wednesday that she was delighted and thrilled to tell that Sam Taylor-Johnson of 'Nowhere Boy' fame has agreed to direct the film of 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' People magazine reported As far for the rest of ...
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Tamara Ecclestone shows off new name Mrs Rutland on personalised knickers
Sexy Tamara Ecclestone showed off her curvaceous butt in custom-made knickers, that had her new name printed on them, in a Twitter snap. The F1 heiress, who tied the knot with Jay Rutland last week, wore bikini bottoms bearing the words 'Mrs Rutland' in diamante inscription, the Daily Star reported. Ecclestone, 28, wrote "so happy to be" alongside the picture. ...
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New Twitter account casts Taylor Swift as feminist
A new Twitter account that re-imagines Taylor Swift as a feminist has amassed 80,000 followers in six days The account, FeministTaylorSwift (@feministtswift), is the brainchild of self-proclaimed feminist and Taylor Swift fan Clara Beyer, who is the senior linguistics major at Brown University, ABC News reported. She studied the pop star's lyrics with a feminist slant while addressing issues ...
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Facebook looking to partner with Samsung to boost mobile advertising sales
With the growing mobility of internet, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed potential partnership with Samsung company's president Shin Jong Kyun during Mark Zuckerberg's Asia tour. According to Bloomberg report, the partnership would reportedly focus on advancing mobile-advertising sales. Facebook has been strongly encouraging advertising on mobile. In April, Facebook Home had been ...
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Helen Flanagan robbed after tweeting she was alone at home
Helen Flanagan was held hostage by armed raiders at her 2.8million dollars home after divulging on Twitter that she was home alone as her boyfriend was away on holiday. The former 'Coronation Street' star was traumatised by the late-night ordeal hours after she tweeted that she was missing her beau, Scott Sinclair, the Sun reported. She reportedly told a friend that she could have been ...
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The English Patient
"The English Patient" is a is a huge, brooding expanse of a film that intricately tangles love and tragedy and passion and anger and violence and war into one giant collage that sometimes threatens to engulf the viewer with all its complexities. Yet, the true irony is that, after leaving the theater, I felt like there wasn't as much to the film as I had felt there was while watching it. The story ... ...
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Cracked in 60 seconds
appadvice.com . The publication said FAU researchers used an AMD Radeon HD 6990 to determine that Apple pulls from a list of a mere 1842 words to generate these passwords. The time dropped to 50 seconds when researchers used a faster CPU. According ...
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Govt still mulling online gambling
Legislation to legalise online gambling could take at least another two years to be wrapped up. Two years after the Gambling Review Commission recommended online gambling be legalised as a matter of urgency, committee members still have to accept the report and it will be at least two years before legislation is enacted. The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) committee on Trade and ...
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John McAfee rants on YouTube
John McAfee, anti-virus software guru, outside the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City, in December. Eccentric software pioneer John McAfee is back in the spotlight ? lashing out at the anti-virus software that bears his name in a profanity-laced video. McAfee, an American who helped create the anti-virus software industry, generated a media frenzy at the end of last year when he fled ...
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Social Media Usage Up Traditional Media Suffers
Last 3 years consumers have massive embraced social media. In 2012 consumers were spending 3 hours and 7 minutes online for social media, on a daily basis. How does your strategic media planning ...
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SMEs push Facebook’s number of active advertisers past one million
Facebook confirmed on Tuesday that it has reached the one million active advertisers mark. The company confirmed that approximately one million marketers used the social network for advertising over the course of the last 28 days. It was found that the majority of advertisers on the site ...
On the record
Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
Hassan Rouhani
Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
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Hyatt Regency New Orleans
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