Aaja Nachle – A Damp Squib

Madhuri Dixit’s comeback vehicle Aaja Nachle turned out to be quite a bit of disappointment. A lightweight film with few rewarding surprises, there’s not much going for Aaja Nachle besides fine performances by Konkona Sen and Kunal Kapoor and an average performance by yesteryear Bollywood queen Madhuri Dixit (now living in the U.S.) Most of all, […]

Mossberg Slams Amazon’s Kindle E-Book Reader

Amazon.com’s new e-book reader Kindle got the thumbs-down in a critical review from Wall Street Journal technology Guru Walter Mossberg today. Mossberg writes that while he liked the shopping and downloading experience, the Kindle device itself is just mediocre. While it has good readability, battery life and storage capacity, both its hardware design and its […]

Dell to Make Notebooks, Servers in India

Dell plans to expand its manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur (near the South Indian city of Chennai) to make notebook computers and servers in 2008,  according to Live Mint. Dell currently makes desktop computers at the Sriperumbudur facility. In the wake of accounting irregularities and a resurgent HP, some of the fizz has gone out of Dell […]

India Revamps Intelligence Setup

Following increasing incidents of terrorists strikes and bomb blasts in different corners of the country, India has set up a Multi-Agency Centre and Joint Task Force on Intelligence in its domestic spying agency, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) at Delhi. Indian intelligence officials hope that setting up the Multi-Agency Centre and Joint Task Force on Intelligence at the […]

Broadband Internet Growth Pitiful in India

Broadband Internet penetration is just not making headway in India. According to the mandarins at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the country added a mere 20,000 new broadband subscribers in October 2007 taking the total broadband subscribers to 2.69 million. The broadband picture in India looks even bleaker when you consider that the TRAI […]

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal Fares Badly in U.S.

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal has turned out to be a dud at the U.S. box office for the November 23-25 weekend. At the box office, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal brought in a pitiful $66,011 and came in at No-40. Featuring John Abraham, Arshad Warsi and that non-actress Bipasha Basu, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal is the […]

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