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Paris, June 4 : Russia's Maria Kirilenko beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands in straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals of the French Open.

It took Kirilenko, the world No. 12, more than two hours for the 7-5, 6-4 victory Monday, reaching her first-ever quarterfinal at Roland Garros.

The Russian started the match down 0-3, but managed to pull out the first set despite five double faults and 17 unforced errors.

New Delhi, June 4 : India's homegrown networking site WorldFloat has started a new gaming feature that allows users to make money, even as plans are afoot for another add-on to help people source money from large numbers of people for their projects.

Founder of WorldFloat. com Pushkar Mahatta said the new feature called "treasure hunt" was already gaining popularity among users in India as well as in other countries.

He said the games offered at the WorldFloat site were skill-based, and one can make up to Rs. 10,000. "These are not chance-based. You get to make more money, if you spend more time and have the skills."

Chennai, June 4 : Neelam Upadhyaya admits that a foothold in Telugu cinema helps many actresses gain entry into Bollywood but adds that it's not applicable to everyone.

"I agree most southern actresses aspire to make a career in Bollywood, but it's not the case with the entire industry. I enjoy working in south so much that I eagerly look forward to shoot in Hyderabad because I'm in love with the city," Neelam told IANS.

Neelam, who hails from Gujarat, made her cinematic debut with Telugu romantic-drama "Mr. 7".

At its annual TechEd North America conference, software giant Microsoft
is set to show off the enhancements which it has brought aboard most of
its business infrastructure software, with the aim of facilitating the
enterprise users in the deployment of hybrid cloud services that are
capable of allocating resources as required.

The enterprise
infrastructure software improvements to be announced by Microsoft come
nearly a year after the company's roll out of a major revamp of some

In a Monday confirmation that HTC One handset is arriving on the Verizon Wireless, a spokesperson for the carrier said in a brief statement on Monday that Verizon will start selling the handset this summer.

As of now, Verizon is only carrier which does not offer the late February-launched HTC One, which is one of the most popular smartphones of the spring, boasting exceptional antenna reception largely because of its aluminum body.

According to several reports, including those from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, despite the fact that Apple's progress in working out deals with leading music labels for its much-rumored `iRadio' Internet radio service is quite noteworthy, it still is running against time with regard to a deal with Sony Music, especially if it intends announcing the service at the next-week-scheduled Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).