We’ve always been more fascinated with Apple than any other tech company. More than Microsoft and even more than Google, Apple has so inveigled itself into our mindspace that we went and got ourselves an iPhone in July a few months after we purchased a $49 iPod. Maybe because Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs has been […]
English Forrest Gump (1994) – This Tom Hanks movie swept the Oscars in 1994. Passengers – New movie featuring Anne Hathaway (of Devil Wears Prada fame). Foreign Character (Dutch, 1997) – Directed by Mike van Diem from the novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk. There has been considerable speculation in the media that Surya’s upcoming Tamil movie […]
Voila, a wonderful new way to waste time. We just discovered an ad-free and free legal music service called Lala that provides a decent selection of Hindi, Tamil and Kannada songs. Lala claims to offer a whopping six million songs. No, we didn’t count. Registration is simple and took us only a few seconds. Lala works in a […]
The blithering idiots at Sun Microsystems, the sick man of Silicon Valley, have done it again – delivered yet another lousy quarter. Sun today announced preliminary results for its first quarter (of fiscal 2009) ended September 28, 2008 and they are UGLY. Sun expects revenues for the quarter of $2.95 billion to $3.05 billion, compared […]
We love the Canadian stand-up comedian Russell Peters (his parents are originally from India). The guy is absolutely hilarious. Here’s what Russell Peters had to say about Bollywood and Aishwarya Rai to the Indian media the other day: I wouldn’t watch a Bollywood film even if I am at the lowest point of my life. […]
Greedy U.S. corporations and venal American politicians are the biggest killers of jobs for U.S. workers through their support for outsourcing to third world countries. And their biggest accomplices have been Indian companies and their hordes of low wage coolies. Here’s a partial list of Indian companies that are among the most prominent job killers for American […]