Do you know who is the highest tax payer in India? Let me tell you. Mr. Mahesh Gordhandas Garodia is highest tax payer in India. He has paid a tax of Rs 20 crores. Whereas, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has become the highest taxpayer among sportspersons in the country for the last quarter of 2009, while film stars Akshay Kumar and Aamir Khan are at top positions in Bollywood. Below is list of popular actors, entrepreneurs, politicians and cricketers and their tax payment for last quarter of 2009.

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Dependency injection or DI is one of the important concepts in computer programming. It refers to the process of supplying an external dependency to a software component. Let’s try to understand the concept of Dependency Injection. There is a consumer who needs a particular service to accomplish a certain task. Without dependency injection, the consumer would be responsible for handling complete life-cycle of that service. Life cycle means instantiating, opening and closing streams etc of that service.

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Development of Avatar commenced in 1994 by Cameron, who wrote an 80-page script for the film. Filming was supposed to take place after the completion of Titanic, and the film would have been released in 1999, but according to Cameron, “technology needed to catch up” with his vision of the film. In early 2006, Cameron developed the script, the language, and the culture of Pandora. He has stated that if Avatar is successful, two sequels to the film are planned.

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Although 3 Idiots team has all the reasons to celebrate as the movie has become such a great hit, author Chetan Bhagat does not seem to be the part of celebration. The famous author of the book five point someone on which this movie is based seems to be hurt by the fact that his name was neither in opening credit when the film starts nor in the closing credit roll. His name comes very late which seems to be a problem to Mr. Bhagat. He says “The key plot points, the characters, incidents, messages, story – it’s an adaptation.

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iPhone is the most popular internet and multimedia enabled smartphone in the world. The iPhone can work as a camera phone, a portable media player, and an Internet client with facilities like e-mail, web browsing, and Wi-Fi connectivity. In 2007, Apple announced that the iPhone would support third-party “web applications” written in Ajax that share the look and feel of the iPhone interface. Today we have thousands of third party iPhone apps.

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With the New Year lying on the brink, students are geared to appear for lot of competitive exams over the next 4-5 months. A large number of students appear for engineering entrance exams every year. Toughest of all the exams is Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), for admission into prestigious Indian Institute of Technologies. Then, there is All India Engineering Entrance Exam for admission into various NITs and other central and deemed universities. There are many state level entrance and other private exams for state government and private colleges.

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Have you ever thought about the total number of websites on internet? Well, according to the Netcraft Web Server Survey, as of December 2009 there are around 233,848,493 websites are available on world wide web. There has been an increase of 47 million hostnames and 7 million active websites over the last 12 months. In the month of December 2009 netcraft has received responses from 233,848,493 sites, which is an increase of 212000 since last month. This means that more than 2 lakh websites got added on internet in last one month. Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England. It provides web server and web hosting market-share analysis. However, the company is famous for its free anti-phishing toolbar for the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers.

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Bigg Boss Season 3 ended on a high note with actor Vindu Dara Singh winning the season 3 of popular TV reality show. As the winner of the contest Vindu will get prize money of Rs 1 crore. The finale of the show took place last night on Saturday. Bigg Boss season 3 started 12 weeks ago and had 15 participants initially. All participants went through a grueling exercise inside a house at Lonavala, Maharshtra. Vindu knocked down veteran actress Poonam Dhillon and emerging model Pravesh Rana in the finals to win the title. They have been staying in the “Bigg Boss” house since Oct 4 2009 without any contact from the outside world.

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Last night, I had a wonderful experience of watching “3 Idiots”. The show was houseful and everyone was pretty excited to see the most awaited movie of the year 2009. The movie had created a lot of buzz all over the bollywood before the release as the big names like Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Rajkumar Hirani are associated with the movie. 3 Idiots fulfills every promise it had made and entertains the viewers completely with its enlightening content based upon every day real life happenings. Inspired from Chetan Bhagat’s first novel, “Five Point Someone”, it starts with the story of two friends, who are in search of their third room-mate in the engineering college hostel, who actually helped them both in finding their own desired path in life.

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On a jolt to big online shopping destinations, DDoS attacks take down the websites of Amazon and Walmart. Christmas shopping took a break because of attacks on the servers of Amazon,Walmart and Expedia. Neustar is the owner of these server. It offers DNS services to many big companies like Amazon, Walmart, under the name of UltraDNS. There a drastic slowdown while surfing these websites.One time there was a complete crash also. The attack was a severe DDoS (Distributed Denial of service) which started at 4:45 p.m. PST on thursday. The source of the attack is still unknown.

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