After years of sleeping with Windows and Mac OS, I’ve lately turned my roving eye toward Linux. I can’t tell you precisely when I embarked upon my affair with Linux, but my new passion is at least six months-old and you’ll be glad to know it’s lately moved into full thrust. 😉 For reasons that […]
If Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella is not in tears, he’d better be. Five months after Nadella became CEO of Microsoft, the mediocre leader of one of the world’s largest software firms is finding it impossible to move the needle on Windows Phone. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know that Windows Phone […]
Xiaomi’s Mi Pad Tablets Oh no, we’re not talking of those pads! 😉 We’re drooling over Xiaomi’s sizzling Mi Pad tablets. While IDC and Gartner market researchers and analysts are endless moaning over slowing tablet sales, Chinese smartphone and tablet vendor Xiaomi just announced it sold 50,000 Mi Pad tablets in 3m:59s. Yes, that is […]
I love America. I chose this country like millions of immigrants. I’m blessed by my life in America. Source: Dinesh D’Souza in the new documentary America: Imagine the World Without Her Folks, allow me to introduce Dinesh D’Souza to you all. Born in Mumbai (1961) into a Goan family and an American citizen since 1991, […]
As my loyal readers have long know, I’m rarely, if ever, wrong when it comes to good taste! 😉 Over the last few months, I’ve frequently mentioned that Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi is an unstoppable force. Guess what? I was right (again). Xiaomi Mi 3 A short while ago Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun disclosed that […]
So much ink was spilled on big budget Tamil movie Kochadaiiyaan (Rajinikanth, Deepika Padukone) by fawning scribes and reviewers about how the motion-capture film heralded an epochal moment in Indian movie history. Yet there’s nary a report on how much the Rs 150-crore film lost given its ho-hum response at the box office. I wouldn’t […]