If Danny Boyle had made Salaam Bombay, would the movie have been subjected to the same venomous attacks that some members of the Bollywood ignorati have heaped upon his new award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Most likely, yes. A lot of calumnies would have been heaped upon Danny. After all, Danny is a gora, a westerner from the […]
Of the 40 finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search 2009 competition, eight are desis (many seem to be South Indians). Often referred to as the Junior Nobel Prize, the Science Talent Search is America’s oldest and most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors. Seven former finalists have won the Nobel Prize. Numbering […]
Machi, Idhu Oru P**lu Padam da (Buddy, Villu is Total Garbage). To describe this satanic piece of shit Villu as a movie is akin to considering nature’s freaks like Hitler, Prabhakaran and Stalin as humans. Are Prabhu Deva, Vijay and Nayantara utterly bereft of shame that they stoop so low as to unleash bizarre rubbish on […]
Come April, Apple will jack up prices of some singles in its iTunes digital media store (largest online store for Indian songs??) to $1.29. Currently, single tracks are 99 cents with most albums at $9.99. At Macworld,  Apple today announced a new three-tier pricing structure – the songs will be available at one of three price […]
Folks, it’s CES time. So you’re gonna see a lot of digital media stories here for the next few days. Roku, which now lets Netflix subscribers stream movies and TV episodes to their TV sets via a $99 box, will soon bring a similar capability to Amazon.com. In the near future, Roku box owners like […]
First, consumers got the $99 Roku box that lets them stream movies from DVD rental service Netflix directly to their television sets via a broadband connection. Then came other boxes like game console Xbox 360 and LG Blu-ray DVD players that provide a similar Roku-like functionality. Now things have gotten even better with LG Electronics […]