Continuing its string of software acquisitions, IBM is acquiring business intelligence software firm Cognos for $4.9 billion in an all cash transaction. Cognos’ products are said to be complementary to IBM’s database and middleware components. The deal values Cognos at $58 per share, 9.5% higher than its closing price on Friday. IBM executives said that […]
Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan’s reincarnation-based film Om Shanti Om handily beat Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya featuring debutantes Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor at the U.S. box office for the November 9-11 opening weekend. According to U.S. box office numbers, Om Shanti Om came in at a respectable No-11 with a weekend gross collection of $1.76 million. […]
On Monday, Intel plans to release new 45 nanometer chips made from Hafnium – in stead of the old silicon dioxide – in an effort to cut power consumption and boost processor speed, according to the WSJ (subscription required). Besides a $999 quad-core model for high-end PCs called the Core 2 Extreme QX9650, Intel plans to […]
Asingamana Tamil Magan would be a more apt name for this repellent farce of a movie featuring Vijay in a double role opposite the young Delhi girl Shriya Saran. Abomination Par Excellence Even in the long gone days of silent movies, film-makers would not dare to unleash an abomination like Azhagiya Tamil Magan on viewers. […]
Although Saawariya never rises to the great heights of Luchino Visconti’s black and white film Le Notti Bianche, it’s still one of the finest love stories to emerge out of the augean pits of Bollywood in recent years. Like the Italian film Le Notti Bianche (1957), Saawariya is also an adaptation of Russian author Fyodor […]
When limitless ambition collides with limited talent on the Bollywood Highway, the end result is a road wreck called Om Shanti Om. A dispiritingly commonplace theme of reincarnation packaged in a disjointed, tracing-paper-thin plot with ho-hum performances by the lead actors renders a mediocre movie that only addled fans of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan would love. Shahrukh Khan’s […]