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 […]
When it comes to begging, none can beat Indians. With several centuries of diligent practice behind them, Indians have honed begging into an art form. Not long ago, we were at the receiving end of one such beggar in Jersey City, NJ. We were standing on Newark Ave in Jersey City (NJ) considering which of […]
(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 […]
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 […]
Our credit card has been hacked (sigh, what’s new) and bad guys are running amok with it in Texas, eating at McDonald’s, shopping at WalMart and filling up their cars. 🙁 Booh, they steal our credit card and eat at McDonald’s! Man, what’s wrong with these modern-day criminals. These motha*ckas got no class. Schade, none […]