Worldwide PC shipments fell 5% in the second quarter but Dell’s PC shipments declined by a whopping 17%. According to the folks at market researcher Gartner, worldwide PC shipments in the second quarter of 2009 was 68.149 million units compared to 71.741 million in the same quarter of last year. Although in retreat, the PC […]
The Apple digital media juggernaut shows no sign of slowing. On the first anniversary of the rollout of its digital media application repository App Store, Apple said customers had downloaded over 1.5 billion applications from the store. The applications run on Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod devices. Apple did not say whether the downloads were […]
Folks, collections of Kambakkht ‘total garbage’ Ishq are down 55.3% in its second weekend at the U.S. box office. Kambakkht Ishq came in at No-20 for the July 10-12 weekend with a total gross of $343,468 and average gross of $3,435. Here’s how Kambakkht Ishq fared compared to a few other prominent Bollywood movies in […]
A short while ago, as we were on Apple’s iTunes digital media store to buy a Hindi song Duniya Ki Sair from Around the World in eight dollars) and that old Tamil classic Ninaipathellam Nadanthuvittal (from Nenjil Oru Alayam) for our iPhone our mind wandered on a nostalgic trip to the many happy moments spent […]
Once again (this time in a new report from the Inspectors General of various departments including Defense and Justice released yesterday), we hear that besides domestic wiretapping, former President George W.Bush also approved other forms of surveillance whose details have still not been disclosed. We are not surprised over reports of U.S. domestic snooping or […]
Borat came with both laughs and class (yes, the crass movie had a certain class to it). Alas, while Brüno serves up the laughs in abundance the class aspect has surrendered to the crass element. After a while, you get more than a little tired of the nudity, the anal bleaching, the dildos, the sex […]