| Interview : Ajay Devgan: I don't belong to any camp
Known as a versatile actor Ajay Devgan is spinning out one hit comedy film after another and the recent one was Rohit Shetty's SUNDAY. Normally, Ajay is accused of avoiding the media, but we managed to have a discussion on whole lot of things. He was candid as well as casual during the conversation. Here are the excerpts.
After having done the role of an honest police officer in GANGAAJAL Any special reason for accepting the role of corrupt cop in SUNDAY?
Actually, I was charmed by the story of the film. Can you imagine what will happen if Sunday' disappears from one's life? The story of this film is its specialty and here we don't have to make faces to make the audience laugh. I think that if one's intentions are right, everything is possible. And this is what I have done.
New Latino Wave Helps Revitalize Detroit
Gang violence was rampant and the housing stock crumbled. "It wasn't a neighborhood where you could walk down the street," Southwest Detroit Business Association deputy director Edith J. Castillo said. "Now, you can actually walk down West Vernor. You can take your family out for ice cream after church." Castillo's nonprofit is one of several working with city officials and businesses to resurrect the area. More than $200 million has been invested in southwest Detroit in the past 15 years, which has attracted retail and new homes, including an $11 million condo development. "It's one of the few places in the city where you are seeing a lot of private investment," said Olga Savic, of the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., the city's public/private development arm.
HD DVD camp implodes
The emerging story of CES so far is the seeming implosion of HD DVD. After the defection of Warners to rival Blu-ray camp, the format – backed by Microsoft and Toshiba – is left with just Universal and Paramount as the only major studios to support the hi def disc. The HD DVD camp turned a crisis into a disaster when it cancelled its scheduled press conference at the show and then – perhaps unsurprisingly – cancelled all media interviews at the show. It's left observers with the impression that the HD DVD group is in disarray and on the verge of collapse. Blu-ray, on the other hand, is only to eager to parade spokespeople talking up its own format. Whatever happens next its clear that consumers are the ones who are suffering.
Scots football stars team up to support the union
Scotland, as part of the UK, is a permanent member of the UN security council, and as a result, an integral part of one the five most powerful nations on earth. A go-it-alone Scotland would be a political minnow in terms of UN relations. In economic terms, an independent Scotland would give up its status as part of the 5th largest economy (GDP nominal), to 36th, slotting in between Thailand and Venezuela, or didn't Alex Salmond tell you that? In other words, voting SNP is the political/economic equivalent of cutting off your nose to spite your face, but as an Englishman, I implore you to do just that - you've been a weight around our necks for too long already. .
LG sets the benchmark with launch of features-rich 'Viewty' mobile
L-R: Andrew Song, General Manager of LG Gulf, K.W. Kim, President of LG Electronics - Middle East and Africa, and Y. D. Park, Regional Executive Product Manager, along with Jini Kim, GSM Marketing Manager, during the launch of the LG Viewty phone in Dubai. .
Norwegian broadcaster: P2P experiment "extremely positive"
Solheim said in an interview (republished on NRK's blog in English) that the experience will likely "clear the rights for this kind of distribution of more content." Since the experiment's inception just over a month ago, Nordkalotten 365 has been downloaded over 90,000 times—shocking to NRK, since Norway is a small country of only 4.6 million. Not only that, but the people downloading have been good torrenters too. The files have had ratios close to 95 percent, which Solheim said saved license fee payers 95 percent of all distribution costs. "People are happily seeding the files," Solheim said. There was also less resistance to the project than he thought, once the network was able to get the message across that BitTorrent isn't "illegal." Solheim said that the managers of Nordkalotten 365 were surprisingly open to the idea, even composing their own music to avoid dealing with licensing fees.
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