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Apple App Store Hits 10 Billion Download Milestone

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Jan 222011
 
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Apple today is tooting its horn that 10 billion applications have been downloaded from its App Store.

Launched in July 2008, the App Store is a digital media repository of applications in diverse categories including games, entertainment, health, utilities, sports, weather and more.

The applications run on Apple’s popular iPhone, iPod touch devices, iPad tablet and lately the Mac as well.

Applications on the App Store come be free or paid.

Cheap desi SOBs will be glad to know that there are tons of free applications.

Here’s a time line of downloads from the App Store since its launch:


Here are a few applications we’ve downloaded from the App Store to our iPhone:

NDTV Live TV (news), Hindu Reader (news), Mastersoft (Chess), Wikipanion, Flixter (for movies), Netflix (watch full movies), Bloomberg (news), Amazon.com (shopping), AP Mobile (news), Skype (free audio and video calling), Groupon (coupons) and Facebook (social networking).

One of new favorites is the Skype application. The app lets you do audio and video calls even on the move if you have an iPhone.

The enormous popularity of the App Store is a big weakness for rival smartphone vendors like RIM (Blackberry), Nokia, the Android-based phone peddlers like Motorola, et al.

Now that the iPhone has come to Verizon as well, we’re likely to see even faster growth in downloads from App Store.

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India Digest – Dogs Eat Dead Body, Congo Virus Vacationing in Gujarat & More

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Jan 212011
 
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* How the Poor Die in India Every Day – A short piece on how a poor laborer screwed by the Chhattisgarh government lost his son
(Hindu)

* Only in India Stories – Stray Dogs eat a dead body in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. No, we’re not surprised. After all, it’s Tamil Nadu!
(Times of India)

* More Cases of Congo Virus in India – As if all our Indian diseases were not enough, the Congo Virus has now struck Gujarat. Two more cases of the deadly Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) have come to light.
(Hindu)

* Wipro says Ta-ta to joint IT CEOs Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe – After an unimpressive 3rd quarter, well, someone had to pay the price.
(ET)

* George Orwell’s Birthplace Protected Site – How many of you schmucks knew that British author George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1984,, Burmese Days) was born in Bihar as Eric Arthur Blair?
(Bihar Times)

* Bollywood News – If it’s Bollywood, can the Flop King Abhishek Bachchan be far behind. Rumors of trouble between Mr.Aishwarya Rai and Mrs. Aishwarya Rai are making the rounds.
(NDTV)

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Dhobi Ghat Review – Less Dhobi, More Phony

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Jan 212011
 
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Say, since when does a New York desi living the good life in a plush, sea-facing apartment in Mumbai with a maid on hand to make and serve tea get her clothes washed by the Dhobi, an almost bygone relic from a different era.

Hellloo, washing machine!

Executives at GE, LG, Samsung et al if are you reading this, a huge opportunity beckons. ;)

And since when does a NRI daughter of a millionaire builder moving around in fancy, chauffeured cars seek close friendship with a humble Dhobi, do a photo portfolio for him and importune him to show her around the city?

Boy, would we love to meet such babes (small tits notwithstanding), particularly if they are willing to jump in bed with you after the first meeting and the next morning tell you how cool it was. As the girl does in this movie.

Phony Tale
Dhobi Ghat a.k.a Mumbai Diaries (written and directed by Kiran Rao) has a phony air to it, largely due to Kiran Rao’s abortion of a story.

Notwithstanding the title, there’s not much of Dhobi Ghat (washermen’s workspot) seen in this unconvincing triangular love story.

Strangely (given the English title Mumbai Diaries), Mumbai, the pulsating, throbbing city of dreams and sole survival hope for millions of desperate, starving Indians, never comes to life though we’re treated to a few hackneyed shots of heavy rains accompanied by cliched lines, local trains and, of course, the must-show Gateway of India edifice.

And the four key characters are not really interconnected as you might have been led to believe by the trailer.

Fresh Faces Delight
Tired as we’re of endless subjection to duffers like Abhishek Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor et al making monkeys of themselves in movie after movie, it pleased us no end to see three fresh faces. Continue reading »

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India Digest – Incest Rape Up, Aussies Say No, Body-less Head Found

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Jan 202011
 
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* Incest Rapes Increase – If Indians are making news, you can be sure it’s for all the wrong reasons.

Indian fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles and sons are screwing raping their close family members more often than before.

No kidding.

More details here.

Only in India News 1 – What’s wrong with these Tamils? 92% of Chennaiites will not have sex with a person of different religion or ethnicity.

This is what happens when you drink Cooum water and watch Rajinikanth movies.
(Outlook)

* Australia Says No to Indian Beggars – Australian government said Up Yours to Indian Foreign Minister S.M.Krishna’s plaintive cries for Uranium to power nuclear power plants.

Australia is miffed that India has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. SI strongly supports India’s decision not to sign NPT.
(Times of India)

* Mobile Number Portability – At last, fed-up subscribers can now say Up Yours to their cell phone service provider and jump ship to another provider without losing their telephone number.
(Hindu)

* Body-less Head Found – Headless bodies are so 2010. A plastic bag containing the severed head of a woman and a dead baby was found in a Tamil Nadu bus.
(Times of India)

* Indian Intelligence Chiefs (RAW & IB) – Interesting details on the ascension and background of new RAW chief Sanjeev Tripathi and new IB Director Nehchal Sandhu.
(Outlook)

Only in India News 2 – There was no stampede on the road to Sabarimala, claims police in the South Indian state of Kerala where 102 people died in a stampede last week. Too much of Toddy makes one speak too much nonsense.
(BBC)

Bollywood – Peepli Live out of the Oscars race. No, we’re not surprised.
(Deccan Chronicle)

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Incredible India 59 – More Indian Dads, Uncles, et al Getting Kick Out of Raping Family Members

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Jan 202011
 
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More Indian fathers, uncles, brothers, grandfathers et al are finding their thrill in raping young girls, teenagers and other women among their family members.

Even as overall rape has gone down by a modest 0.3%, incest rape is up sharply by 30.7% in 2009 over the prior year, according to India’s National Crime Records Bureau.

The number of reported incest rapes in 2009 was 404 compared to 309 in 2008.

Now before you schmucks scream that these are small numbers in a country with 1.1 billion mosquitoes people, let’s remind you that these are only reported Incest Rape cases.

Given the strong stigma associated with any kind of rape in India, the number of Incest Rape victims are likely to be several times higher.

We’d reckon at least a few thousand Incest Rapes occurred in India in 2009.

Chattisgarh in North India is India’s numero uno state for incest rape with 107 cases (26.5% of total incest rapes). Maharashtra came in second with 76 cases of reported incest rape.

South Indians Less Given to Incest Rape
Take this any way you want but South Indians are less likely to get a thrill from Incest Rape compared to people in other corners of India.

About 10% of reported Incest Rapes happened in South India.

Of the 404 cases of Incest Rape, the four South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu accounted only for 42 cases out of a total 404 Incest Rape cases reported.

But among the big cities, Bangalore came second with 15 cases, trailing only Delhi (19 cases).

However, when it comes to other rapes, South Indian states like Andhra Pradesh scored high (1186).

The below table is adequate testament to the trials women face in Incredible India.

And as always in India, official statistics are only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Overall, of the 21,397 reported Rape cases in India, 11.5% (2,470) of the victims were girls under 15 years of age, 15.6% (2,912) were teenaged girls (15-18 years), 59.8% (12,812) were women in the age-group 18-30. 3,124 victims (14.6%) were between 30-50 years while 0.4% (95) were over 50.

Hey, what’s that noise?

Oh, merely the rape victims wailing Mera Bharat Mahaan.

Related Stories:
Incest and Other Rapes in India
Tourists Beware – India a Major Rape Destination

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Watching From Paris With Love

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Jan 202011
 
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The mailman brought us two DVDs today from Netflix – From Paris with Love (John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and Temple Grandin (Claire Danes).

Since Travolta is a bigger name and given our weakness for action thrillers, we’re watching From Paris With Love first.

The 93-minute movie was released in early 2010 in the U.S. but didn’t do well at the box office.

The folks at Wiki describe the film as one of the biggest flops of 2010.

No matter.

How bad can it be compared to our usual diet of Bollywood and Kollywood films.

By the way, Pierre Morel is the director.

We’ll update this post after we finish watching From Paris With Love.

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