At the announcement of the iPad 2.0 today, Apple proudly disclosed that it’d recently shipped its 100 millionth iPhone. That’s a pretty decent astonishing number for a company that entered the mobile phone business only in July 2007. We’ve been using the iPhone for nearly three years and but for the stray hiccup we’re mostly […]
IIT Delhi alumnus and Harvard MBA Rajat Kumar Gupta has been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC today charged Rajat Gupta with illegally tipping Galleon Management founder and hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with inside information about the quarterly earnings at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble as well […]
Ah, how we wish we were across the pond, living in London instead of the recession-hit United States. Blessed we are not. Let there be no mistake. The U.S. has a lot of things Ice Creams, and flavors too, in its favor. Sure, we have our Italian Ice Creams, Ben & Jerry’s, Rita’s Ice, Starbucks […]
In an age when most people find it difficult to read anything beyond those stupid 64-character twitter feeds, does it f*cking matter that the Amazon Kindle e-reader is coming to the AT&T retail stores (company-owned only). Of course, it doesn’t matter. Amazon’s move to bring the Kindle to AT&T stores is part of the e-tailer’s […]
Most Indian restaurants in New Jersey are bad. But some like Volga in the Parkway Plaza on Oak Tree Road in Iselin (NJ) are hopelessly, disgustingly, obscenely bad. So horribly bad that to even think of the dump gives us the heebie-jeebies. Volga Iselin (NJ) – Serves Pathetic Indian Food As we walked into Volga […]
The King’s Speech won the prestigious Best Picture Oscar tonight at the 83rd Annual academy awards ceremony. It got 12 nominations and won four. Here is SI’s Review of The King’s Speech: King’s Speech Review – May All You Schmucks Rot in Hell if You Don’t Watch this Gem Steven Spielberg presented the award in […]