MindPlus: Colonel Gaddafi dies of wounds: NTC official

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Colonel Gaddafi dies of wounds: NTC official

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(Reuters) - Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered in his capture near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, a senior NTC military official said.
National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked.
"He was also hit in his head," the official said. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."
There was no independent confirmation of his remarks.

MindPlus: LIBYA: COLONEL GADDAFI has been captured and wound...

MindPlus: LIBYA: COLONEL GADDAFI has been captured and wound...: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/us-libya-idUSTRE79F1FK20111020 (Reuters) - Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured...

LIBYA: COLONEL GADDAFI has been captured and wounded near Sirte - NTC Officials

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(Reuters) - Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs near his hometown of Sirte at dawn on Thursday, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid said.

Majid reported the capture after Libyan interim government fighters took the town on Thursday, extinguishing the last significant resistance by forces loyal to the former leader and ending a two-month siege.

"He's captured. He's wounded in both legs ... He's been taken away by ambulance," the senior NTC military official told Reuters by telephone.

Gaddafi was trying to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked, Majid said. The head of Gaddafi's armed forces Abu Bakr Younus Jabr had been killed during the capture of the Libyan ex-leader, he added.

Majid said NATO warplanes struck the convoy and hit four cars as it headed west. Ahmed Ibrahim, a cousin and adviser of Gaddafi, was also captured.

In the capital Tripoli, sounds of gun shots were heard and people cheered in the street: "God is Great, God is Great, Gaddafi has been captured.

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US Rating Downgrade - Mr. Deven Sharma Alumni of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi and President of Standard & Poor’s shakes the world

Mr. Deven Sharma Alumni of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi and President of Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies has now shaken up the world. On August 5, Mr. Deven Sharma, President of Standard & Poor’s which is the world’s foremost source of financial market intelligence, providing independent credit ratings ,indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data struck off the 'AAA' rating of the US, considered the Gold standard in the world of finance, for the first time since 1914. 
Mr. Deven Sharma born in 1956 got his Bachelor’s Degree from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India and then Master’s Degree from University of Wisconsin and a Doctoral degree in Business Management from Ohio State University in 1987.

Mr. Deven Sharma has work with Dresser Industries and Anderson Strathclyde. After that he has worked 14 years for Booz Allen Hamilton.Mr. Sharma left the company as a partner then he joined McGraw-Hill in 2002 .He served Executive Vice-President of Global Strategy of McGraw-Hill Companies Inc till 2007. Mr. Deven Sharma was named President of Standard & Poor’s in August, 2007.

On August 5, 2011 Friday afternoon, Standard & Poor’s officials told Mr. Barak Obama's The President of USA treasury department that the ratings major's analysts have come to a decision that the US no longer deserves to be among the best rated countries in the world. After six hours and a flurry of emails, phone calls and conferences between top officials in the Mr. Barak Obama administration and Sharma's team of number-crunchers, the world got to know of the unprecedented move - something that was in the air for a few months but which appeared more like a distant possibility: The US' country rating was downgraded one notch to 'AA-plus'. And suddenly the 57-year old Mr. Deven Sharma was in the spotlight, hailed by a select few, but criticized by several in the financial world. 

Mr. Deven Sharma took over as the president of Standard &Poor’s  in August 2007, just when the sub-prime crisis in the US housing sector was getting out of hand, and credit rating agencies were picked as one of the perpetrators of the meltdown for their flawed ratings models of housing loans. Over the last four years as the head of one of the foremost rating agencies in the world, Sharma has faced several US Congressional grilling, but has negotiated most of those with much élan, people who have followed him closely say. In a recent interview, Sharma admitted that over the last four years, comments made by US lawmakers have changed to appreciation from strong criticism. 
No wonder the veteran of several testimonies in the US congress has been able to stand up to the global criticism from all quarters for their critical decision. Since Friday evening, Sharma, along with Mr. David Beers, his top lieutenant on the ratings side, have stood firm alongside Standard &Poor’s analysts and defended the controversial and unprecedented decision saying that such a step was necessary and it was done for the benefit of investors. 
People who followed Mr. Sharma's recent messages to the world said that there was enough evidence that a rating downgrade was more of a probability than not. Late last month, in a Congressional hearing during the height of uncertainty about raising US debt limit, Sharma was non-committal about what ratings decision his company would take. A Bloomberg report said that he told US lawmakers that S&P was waiting to see what the final proposal would be before deciding whether to keep US debt at the firm's highest ratings level. 
While the world criticized Standard &Poor’s for their historic decision, some even questioning the data the analysts used but back home there are some who think Sharma and his men have done a great job. 

Blackberry Torch Smartphone,Blackberry Smartphone

Blackberry Torch is a Blackberry Smartphone.The Torch is the first Blackberry smartphone having a touchscreen with the sliding Qwerty Keyboard. Torch runs

On the latest Blackberry 6 Operating System.

Blackberry Torch Specification

• Network: Quad band GSM/HSDPA
• BlackBerry 6 operating system
• Touchscreen with sliding QWERTY keyboard
• Optical Trackpad
• 3.2-inch color display
• Video player with recording
• Video format support: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV3
• QWERTY keypad
• Camera: 5.0 MP camera (JPEG encoding) with flash, 2x digital zoom, image stabilization and auto-focus
• Ringtones: MIDI, MP3Connectivity:
• Connectivity: 3G; Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR; 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi; 3.5mm stereo headset, Micro-USB
• Dimensions: H/W/D – 111 x 62 x 14.6 mm
• Weight 161.1 gm
• Mobile instant messaging
• 512 MB RAM/512 MB Flash/4 GB Flash & 4 GB MicroSD
• Facebook/ Twitter MySpace
• Screen resolution of 480 x 360 pixels
• Music player with 3.5 mm headset jack
• You Tube Enabled
• Blackberry Map and Messenger
• Video playback and streaming
• Battery1300 mAhr removable/rechargeable lithium-ion cell
• Battery life: 18 days (GSM) or 14 days (UMTS) standby; 5.5 hours (GSM) or 5.8 hours UMTS)   talk

Price: Blackberry Torch costs around 24000 Indian Rupees.

Apple and Samsung leave Nokia behind with sales of smartphones – Apple becomes the number one supplier of smartphones on Planet

Just four years after entering the market of smartphones with iphone in 2007, Apple became the No. 1 maker of smartphones on the planet. In the second quarter of 2011, Apple sold more smartphones than Nokia and Samsung. The cell phone market has changed a great deal in recent years, and company’s who used to rule the roost is now seeing their fortunes change. New manufactures have taken the lime light as tastes and technology changes. Recently released figures show that Apple and Samsung leave Nokia behind with sales of smartphones. After releasing the iPhone back in 2007 the company has seen massive unit sales which continue to increase. The company currently has an 18.5 percent share of the smartphone market, while Samsung were just behind on 17.5 percent. Cnet are reporting that according to Strategy Analytics Apple achieved this with sales of over 20 million iPhone’s. Samsung has seen big improvements in sales with sales of 19.2 million handsets which have been helped with the success of the Galaxy range of handsets. Nokia’s the former number one continues with the company seeing its market share falling from 38.1 percent a year ago to only 15.2 percent.

The smartphone market is continually changing, and during the past year the Finnish manufacturer Nokia has seen consumers turning their backs on the devices for more advanced operating systems from Apple and Android. Sales of Nokia's smartphones powered by Symbian operating systems started to plummet in February after the company's chief executive officer announced transition from Symbian platform to Windows Phone operating system. The drop off in sales has seen Nokia looking to the Microsoft and its Windows Phone operating system.

Apple is likely to continue its success with the release of the next iPhone in September, with a recent survey finding a high percent of consumers planning on picking one up. Samsung may have been top of the tree if the latest Galaxy S II handset had been available in the US. The handset has already proved to be a massive success in the places it is already available, and there is no reason why that can’t continue once it arrives. Samsung introduced its Galaxy S II flagship smartphone in May, 2011, and sold three million units of the device by early July. The model is available from more than 145 vendors in 120 countries. Nokia only introduced its N9 and Oro smartphones in Q2. The N9 is the first and the last and smartphone powered by MeeGo operating system. The handset sports impressive design and feature-set, but it will only become available in September, 2011, which means that it will face competition from loads of rivals, including Apple and Samsung. Nokia Oro is a smartphone in golden enclosure that is based on C7 low-cost smartphone platform from Nokia.

Around the world the smartphone market grew by an impressive 76 percent with 110 million handsets shipping. Apple managed to double its market share for all types of mobile phones to 5.6 percent in the second quarter. This was the biggest leap for any manufacturer, and kept Apple in fourth place overall.

Nokia were still top but saw its market share dropping to 24.2 percent from 33.8 last year; this position is mainly down to its entry level devices sold in emerging markets. Samsung are also successful selling more basic devices around the world and has the second biggest market share. The company did see its market share fall by a small amount as consumers moved away from Samsung’s cheaper handsets.