Veteran Bollywood actor Shammi Kapoor has died in the western Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) at the age of 79.

Kapoor had been suffering for some time from kidney disease and had been admitted to hospital last week.

He belonged to a famous family of filmmakers and actors, and was a prominent star in 1950s and 1960s.

One of the most popular actors of his generation, Kapoor starred in hits like Junglee, An Evening in Paris, Chinatown and Kashmir Ki Kali.

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan tweeted that with Kapoor’s death the “flamboyance and joie de vivre of the [film] industry [was] lost”.

Shammi Kapoor acted in more than 100 films. Fans called him the “Elvis Presley of India” for his frenetic and nifty dancing.

He developed a style of his own and moviegoers flocked to the theatres just to see Shammi Kapoor’s antics and mannerisms.

With his infectious on-screen persona and energy, Shammi Kapoor was Bollywood’s first real star, say correspondents.
‘Yahoo!’

The actor was also a keen internet buff and amongst the first Indians to have a website of his own.

When Yahoo opened its office in Mumbai several years ago he was invited by its co-founder Jerry Yang.

At the launch, Kapoor was pleasantly surprised to hear the band playing his Yahoo song from the film Junglee [or Wild], made famous years before the internet existed, and so called for his famous cry of “Yahoo!”.

Later, Mr Yang told him how inspired he was by the Yahoo song and the way the actor had used the word in his inimitable style in so many of his films.

“It was all very flattering. Many of my relatives still call up and ask whether I own Yahoo,” he told the BBC in an interview.

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President Noynoy “PNoy” Aquino’s administration urged by Former Finance Secretary Gary Teves Wednesday to ask Congress for help in raising new taxes now while he can still wager some of his political capital, as gauged by his high popularity rating.

Teves said,

“Popularity ratings do not stay at the same level too long… We might be acting too late in raising additional revenues. Why wait for 2013 if we can do it earlier?”

Teves, also a former Representative of Negros Oriental, said if President Aquino pushes for tax bills later instead of earlier, the political realities that come with the 2013 midterm elections will become constraints.

Teves added that Aquino administration’s current efforts to plug revenue loopholes and curb tax leakages may be insufficient to enable the country to weather rising prices worldwide.

“Commodity prices are up and oil prices are up. [President Aquino] has no buffer. He needs a buffer,” Teves said.

Teves also advised against the enactment of new laws that will provide more tax relief and exemptions, saying such laws deprive government of funds it needs to implement good governance programs.

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After fending off an unexpected challenge from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Dallas Cowboys have kept tackle Doug Free.

According to various reports, Free and the Cowboys agreed to a four-year deal worth $32 million that includes $17 million guarantee.

While Free will not be able to practice until Aug. 4 as the league year starts, but he will be allowed to attend meetings in San Antonio.

Free, a four-year veteran, became the full-time starter at left tackle in 2010, after Flozell Adams was cut. Free could be moving back to the right side, with the arrival of first-round pick Tyron Smith.

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Morgan Keegan has an Outshine rating and a $ 35 price target on shares of Aruba Networks Inc. (NASDAQ : ARUN).

In a note to clients, Morgan Keegan composes,

“We recently hosted a group meeting with Aruba’s CEO and CFO. Our takeaways are Infrastructure Software & Security positive and reinforce our belief that underlying market fundamentals remain solid and that the company’s competitive positioning is strong.

“We believe win rates remain well north of 80 % driven by TCO savings, better network management and QoS functionality, and strong user-centric security.” .

Combining inexpensive Wi-Fi gear from Aruba Networks with a discounted Microsoft Lync Server 2010 for voice, video and workplace collaboration has helped the Yes Prep Public Schools in Houston save significant monies.

Shares of ARUN shares are down 80 cents to $ 30.20, a loss of 2.6 % in pre-market this morning.

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After seeing that Glee’s Chord Overstreet had been axed from the hit show, we were beside ourselves with unhappiness with the posssibility of never seeing Sam Evans at McKinley High ever again.

Nevertheless, it appears as though we WILL see him return to the McKinley and New Directions should he want to return to the show.

Despite getting him out from the show, it is thought that the show’s bosses have done a U turn and have uncovered that they would welcome Chord back.

A source explained to TVLine : “His option to be a series regular was just not picked up at this time. If Chord wants to appear on Glee, the choice is his.

“The Glee writers like his Sam character, and have plans to write for him. He and his reps have been told that he is welcome back to Glee, and everyone hopes he will show up on August 10 when filming begins.

The source added : “If Chord has a great season, which we expect he will, then he will become a regular like Harry (Mike Chan), possibly as early as January.” .

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A team of hackers called A Team managed to gather a whole bundle of information that is personal including names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers and posted them online making up all these data being offered for everyone. However, amazingly, their targets were not important companies or government officials, but rather other hackers. A-Team’s desire was to disclose the identities of the Lulz Security group in order to deflate their ego and indirectly aid officials in catching them.

LulzSec Boat, seen from their website

A-Team sneered at the other group in their latest post stating that LulzSec lack the skill to do anything more than go after the low-hanging fruit. Hack attacks that took place in recent weeks against companies such as Sony or websites such as senate. gov raised serious concern regarding the existence of many organized hacker teams. Furthermore, on Monday, another security branch was aimed at the Fox News Twitter page.

Nonetheless, what one doesn’t tacking into account is the fact that the hacking stage is a every man for himself scene with many rival groups and lone wolves fighting for dominion. Lately the member of LulzSec have held the limelight after directing several attack towards the C.I.A., Sony and the Arizona state police. They compromised the personal information of tens of thousands of people, while managing to successfully conceal their identities. As a result they became a very tempting target for other hacking groups that were just as talented as them.

Only at the end of last month, LulzSec announced they planned to dissolve. However the police continue the pursuit of the former groups members and if they are caught there is an important possibility that other hackers led the police to their doorstep.

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