The yawning gap between market leader Apple and the rest of the Tablet vendors (Motorola, Samsung, Acer, Asus, HP and the like) is growing wider. A couple of days back during a visit to Staples, we found the U.S. office supplies store offering $100 instant rebate on all tablets except the Apple iPad and HP’s […]
Even after today’s announcement about a streaming deal with Universal Pictures, Amazon’s instant movie collection is still an anemic 2,100. Including TV shows, Amazon has some 9,000 titles in its Instant Video collection. That’s nothing compared to the tens of thousands of titles Instant Video leader Netflix has amassed. For the benefit of the schmucks, […]
(Recommended by SI Blog reader VJ Cool & Ganesh) Indian thieving swines can’t make movies. Now, repeat that after us a million times. We just finished watching the 1997 Italian film La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful). Completely swept away. That’s what we were by the sheer beauty of the film. Directed by Roberto […]
Just as we were at a loss for a good Indian entertainer in these hot summer days, comes a new twist in the latest episode of the Great Samosa Battle of New Jersey. Think of it as Season 2 of the Great Samosa Lawsuit. On one side of the Samosa legal battle, you have a […]
The majority of Indians are still riding the slow, shuttle train as far as the Internet is concerned. Average Internet connection speed is one of the lowest for a fast-growing, high-profile nation like India, if you go by the numbers for Q1, 2011 from a recent study by Akamai. The study shows that average Internet […]
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is holding strong at the U.S. box office even in the second weekend. ZNMD’s second weekend box office numbers were way, way better than Singham’s (Ajay Devgn) first weekend numbers. Now, how does that make you feel Chutia (of course, we mean you, Ajay Devgn)? Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is the […]