Apple today announced record fiscal fourth quarter results, the company’s first earnings announcement after its iconic co-founder Steve Jobs died earlier this month. For the three months ended September 24, 2011, Apple reported a profit of $6.62 billion (7.05 cents per share) on revenues of $28.27 billion. During the same period last year, Apple’s net […]
We rented the 2010 Canadian movie Good Neighbors after reading the blurb about a serial killer on the loose and three nervous young people in an apartment. Well, our fertile, febrile imagination conjured up scary visions of a thriller, a whodunit and a fierce-looking serial killer scaring the bejesus out of the gals he’s raping […]
After the great New Jersey Samosa lawsuit, the stage is now set for the Mother of All Biryani Battles. Big Indian legal fights in the U.S. are all about life-changing things like Samosas, Biryanis and, who knows, maybe in the future, even Gulab Jamuns and Jalebis. 😉 No kidding, guys. And the venue for the […]
Sri Lankan Tamil hedge fund billionaire will be a guest of the American prison system for the next 11 years for insider trading. The sentence is the longest ever for insider trading. Judge Richard J.Holwell, who sentenced Rajaratnam today, also fined him $10 million and ordered the forfeiture of $53.8 million. Judge Holwell said: Insider […]
For some odd reason, Biryanis have become a big thing on the East Coast lately. From Massachusetts to Georgia and perhaps even beyond, it seems like every other day a Biryani place is opening up in one city or the other on the Eastern seaboard. In Edison, New Jersey, the two well-known Biryani places are […]
The first reviews of the iPhone 4S are out. And predictably enough, the reviewers can’t stop gushing about Apple’s newest phone. New York Times: This phone comes dangerously close to displacing a $200 point-and-shoot digital camera. ….It’s even more amazing how Siri’s responses can actually form a conversation. Once, I tried saying, “Make an appointment […]