Several Indian movie stars, singers and directors have fancy names that are often so different from their real names. Why that should be so is not hard to fathom. As a matter of fact, it’s so simple in the Indian milieu. Indians with names like Gunasekhar Pandiarajan, Rajendra Prasad Purkoyastha, Badrinath Chattopadhyay, Sitalakshmi Ammal or Ritabadoornath […]
Sun Microsystems is bleeding in every way possible. In the latest blow to this struggling IT company, its sales chief Don Grantham has vamoosed to HP. On Monday, HP named Don Grantham senior vice president and chief sales officer, effective immediately. Grantham will report to Ann Livermore, executive VP of the Technology Solutions Group at HP, […]
The contrasts couldn’t have been clearer between the sore loser Hillary Clinton and Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama this evening. A defiant Hillary refused to concede defeat in a speech in New York even after Obama passed the 2,118 delegates needed to be nominated at the Democratic party’s convention in Denver in August. He is also […]
Poor Night Shyamalan badly needs a hit. His last Hollywood movie Lady in the Water was a box-office disaster and the one before that – The Village – didn’t do that well either. On June 13, comes a critical test for Night Shyamalan with his new movie The Happening releasing in theaters in the U.S. Shyamalan, […]
Microsoft is getting really desperate to get people to use its crappy Live Search service. Truth be said no sensible person would use the junk Live Search when you have a far superior alternative in Google. And Microsoft’s desperation shows in the numerous silly antics the company has been resorting to lately in a bid […]
Statistic of the Day – Desis in Spelling Bee 2009 15 Desis Make it to Spelling Bee Semifinals Desis Fare Well in Spelling Bee 2009 Early Rounds Indian-American Sameer Mishra has won the 2008 Spelling Bee competition. Sameer Mishra is a 13-year-old, 8th grade student at the West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School in West Lafayette, […]