Hot Fact of the Day – Apple Ships 100m iPhones

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 […]

OMG, OMG, SEC Charges IIT-D Alumnus Rajat Gupta in Rajaratnam Insider Trading Scandal

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 […]

Temple Grandin Review – Different, Not Less

(For SI blog reader Gandhiji & his/her/their many avatars) We live in an age when the trivial, insignificant, repetitive and talentless often triumphs over talent, the original and the substantive. And never more so than in the movie business. Movie after movie (be it Indian or Hollywood) has either love or action as their raison […]

Three Seconds Review – Not in Stieg Larsson Class

Stieg Larsson’s greatest achievement was to bring Swedish crime fiction to the world stage. Who having read Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy can ever forget the bisexual eccentric abused tattoo freak Lisbeth Salander or the journalist Mikael Blomkvist as they hunt down some of the most viciously bad guys in the icy corners of Sweden putting their […]

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