iPhone Turns 5, Still the Smartphone Leader

Five years back today, i.e. January 9, 2007, smartphone history was made with the launch of the iPhone. Launching what subsequently became the world’s favorite smartphone at the 2007 Macworld, Apple co-founder and then CEO, the late Steve Jobs said: iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any […]

Abhishek Bachchan Drinks Deep from Cup of Failure, Again – Players a Box Office Dud

If there’s one thing Bollywood’s flop king Abhishek Bachchan is used to, it’s failure. Some Indian movie stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan (at least, lately) and Aamir Khan have the Midas Touch and set the box office registers ringing. Au contraire, Abhishek Bachchan has the Jonah’s touch. Surely, Abhishek’s movie distributors and Bollywood […]

Players – Hell, What a Bunch of Jokers

Thank God for Abhishek Bachchan. Just when life was getting so insufferably boring in Amreeka that we even entertained fantasies of ending it all with a Saturday night special to our head, comes Bollywood’s numero uno buffoon with his hallmark simian antics in the new film Players. Abhishek Bachchan – Antithesis of Acting They say […]

Movie Critics Bugger Abhishek’s Players

Flop king Abhishek Bachchan can go only one way in Bollywood. Down, down, down. Predictably enough, the clown’s latest film Players is drawing withering scorn from critics. Here’s what a gaggle of critics had to say on Players: * Deccan Chronicle: The audience’s intelligence is insulted throughout in this endless horror show of pyromaniacal explosions, […]

Indian IT Firms Staring at Slowdown

The Indian IT industry, which has been steadily growing over the last two decades by providing low-cost IT services to western companies, faces uncertain times in the near term. Slowdown in 2012 Analysts see all four major technology sectors computing hardware, enterprise software, IT services and telecommunications equipment and services experiencing slower growth in 2012. […]