Over its 25-year history, Sun Microsystems has seen many talented executives come and go. Among them founder Vinod Khosla and long time CEO Scott McNealy (now Chairman). But one executive seems to have been at Sun forever even as the company’s prospects soared during the dot com days, faded subsequently and then painfully stabilized. And […]
Madhuri Dixit’s comeback movie Aaja Nachle has failed to resonate at the U.S. box office in its opening November 30-December 1 weekend dealing a severe blow to its producer Yash Raj Films. U.S. box office numbers show that Aaja Nachle brought in an embarrassingly low $257,500 and debuted at No-22 in its opening weekend. Aaja Nachle’s […]
India’s military has carried out its first launch of a single stage interceptor missile against an electronic ballistic missile as target. The interceptor missile launch took place from Wheeler Island, an island off the coast of the east Indian state of Orissa. Indian defense personnel claim that the Endo-atmospheric interceptor intercepted the missile at 15 […]
If you love movies as much as we do, you’ll love the book Eyewitness Companions – Film. For movie buffs, the 501-page book provides a nice introduction to the films business and whets the appetite for more indepth reading. Besides giving us an overview of the Story of Cinema from 1895 to the present, this book also […]
Whoever said big corporations don’t have a sense of humor better think again. Unless you’ve just come in from a different planet, you know Microsoft’s adCenter web advertising program has so far turned out to be a big dud. Launched as a me-too, belated response to Google’s highly successful AdSense program, AdCenter is struggling to […]
The New York Times has joined the chorus of movie critics that have slammed Madhuri Dixit’s new movie Aaja Nachle (produced by Yash Raj Films). Reviewing Aaja Nachle in Saturday’s edition of the NYT, Rachel Saltz writes: “Aaja,†directed by Anil Mehta, tries but doesn’t quite know what to do with Ms. Dixit, a wonderful […]