As almost universally expected, Amazon will launch its tablet Wednesday at an event in New York City. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos himself will do the honors. Dubbed Kindle Fire, the device is said to be a 7-inch touchscreen tablet running a custom version of Google’s Android software. Pricing for the Kindle Fire is still hush-hush. […]
Pankaj Kapur’s directorial debut film Mausam has fared fairly OK at the U.S. box office. That’s rather unfortunate because Mausam (Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor) is a mediocre piece of shit. But as if we’ve often bemoaned, you can take the Chutias out of India but you can’t take the Chutianesss out of Indians. Whether in […]
A new study by market researcher Strategy Analytics estimates that the Apple iPad accounted for 80% of tablet shipments (i.e. 6 million units) in North America during the second quarter of 2011. The Boston researcher reckons that despite Apple’s tight grip on the American tablet market, it’s not impossible for Amazon and other tablet vendors […]
Oh yeah, SI is jumping on the Amazon streaming bandwagon. Like millions of Americans, we too are hopping mad at the Netflix bastards for hiking their fees by a whopping 60% for customers on the DVD+streaming plan. So when we read Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ note today on the e-commerce web site that the company […]
Oh Baby, Oh Baby! Besides sending us into an orgasmic swoon, Dakshin Express on Oak Tree Road in Edison (NJ) evoked nostalgic memories of that incredible shithole. Which shithole, you ask? India, of course. 😉 The vaguely human-looking waiters at Dakshin Express look like they’ve just escaped their cages from the nearest zoo and the […]
By Naveen After reaching a bit too late for the 9:50 pm show and quite a bit early for the 10:35 pm show, being a cheap Desi I decided to sneak into Screen 2 where the Bollywood movie Mausam was playing. Two minutes of cacophonic nonsense in the name of a song on Punjab’s Sarson […]