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Film: "Yamla Pagla Deewana"; Starring: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Kulraj Randhawa, Anupam Kher, Nafisa Ali; Directed by: Samir Karnik; Rating: ***

When was the last time you went to see a movie to watch a real-life film family have fun? Was it 40 years ago in "Kal Aaj Aur Kal" when the Kapoor khandaan, grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor, son Raj and grandson Randhir Kapoor got together to show us how the generation gap can smother a free flow of ideas and emotions within a family?

New 4G services are being provided by T-Mobile USA MVNO Simple Mobile. It implies that T-Mobile has made up its mind to brand its HSPA+ network as a "4G" offering which has trickled down to the companies for making a sale of its service again.

The new 4G ad by Simple Mobile shows the offering as a super hero, as against a 3G character shown by a simple walker.

An IBM computer achieved the first place in the practice round on a famous quiz program, 'Jeopardy!' which had two other top contestants, displaying that artificial intelligence has progressed a lot in developing the process of how humans think.

The director of IBM Research, John Kelly said that they had produced a computer system that could understand the natural human language, which otherwise is extremely hard a thing to do for a computer.

The BlackBerry PlayBook which was sold along with its Wi-Fi features will enable tethering to a BlackBerry smartphone, thereby providing users with the tablet access to the cellular network of the smartphone. Along with all the usual features like calendar, messaging and Web-browsing features operating on the smartphone, according to the RIM officials, as they informed on Thursday.

The number of South Bay researchers, researching on all topics ranging from close-to-Earth asteroids to pollen-based drug delivery, got national honours last Wednesday. This team of scientists comprised of a record number of researchers, and all of them are high school seniors.

A few of their projects are extremely cutting-edge, such that there isn't any scientific literature for them to infer on, like for instance the work done by Roshni Bhatnagar at The Harker School.

An unknown Verizon-branded handset has come up in a range of images linked to HTC's all new Sync software. Mysteriously though, the unknown device seems to have no buttons on its facade.

The never before seen image has started speculation that HTC might be trying to develop an Android smartphone for the purpose of Honeycomb, the tablet-optimized version of the mobile OS of Google which will not need a similar button layout like in the cell phone versions.

The rendering might as well be a simple placeholder, despite the Verizon branding being seen as an improbable feature for a generic picture.