Watching Greenberg

It’s just 9:05PM ET here and we’re already semi-sloshed on Ginger Brandy and Seltzer Water. The peerless maestro Ennio Morricone’s La Ballata Di Hank McCain (‘gli Intoccabili’) is playing on our PC as we type this stuff. Is life good or bad? We have no idea Hell, who gives a f*ck! All we know is […]

Is Multitasking Really a Good Thing for iPhone OS?

Yipee, multitasking (and a bunch of other features like folders) is coming to the iPhone. A few hours ago, Apple previewed its iPhone OS 4 software with multitasking for third party apps as the highlight. Scheduled to debut this summer, the multitasking capability for third party apps is supposed to provide developers seven new multitasking […]

Apple ‘Sells’ 300,000 iPads; We Predict Disaster

Apple this morning boasted that it sold some 300,000 iPads in the U.S. as of midnight Saturday, April 3. The figure for the newly launched tablet devices include deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores. Wonder how many of the units shipped to channel partners like […]

Holy Cow, iTunes Hits 10b Songs Milestone

The iTunes juggernaut shows no sign of slowing down. Apple is blowing the trumpet that its iTunes digital media store has sold 10 billion songs. We’ve played a tiny part in helping Apple reach this extraordinary milestone by purchasing over 100 songs from iTunes. Besides English, iTunes has a huge collection of Tamil, Hindi and […]

Music We’ve Recently Acquired – 3

We’re suckers for anything old. Why do you think we’re besotted with budiyas like Rajshri, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Madhavi, Tabu, Meenakshi Seshadri, Vimala Raman et al. ๐Ÿ˜‰ It being Friday, we sauntered over to Apple’s digital media store iTunes and bought ourselves a bunch of mostly old Hindi songs, tracks that we’ve already listened […]