If you love movies as much as we do, you’ll love the book Eyewitness Companions – Film. For movie buffs, the 501-page book provides a nice introduction to the films business and whets the appetite for more indepth reading. Besides giving us an overview of the Story of Cinema from 1895 to the present, this book also […]
Whoever said big corporations don’t have a sense of humor better think again. Unless you’ve just come in from a different planet, you know Microsoft’s adCenter web advertising program has so far turned out to be a big dud. Launched as a me-too, belated response to Google’s highly successful AdSense program, AdCenter is struggling to […]
The New York Times has joined the chorus of movie critics that have slammed Madhuri Dixit’s new movie Aaja Nachle (produced by Yash Raj Films). Reviewing Aaja Nachle in Saturday’s edition of the NYT, Rachel Saltz writes: “Aaja,†directed by Anil Mehta, tries but doesn’t quite know what to do with Ms. Dixit, a wonderful […]
Madhuri Dixit’s comeback vehicle Aaja Nachle turned out to be quite a bit of disappointment. A lightweight film with few rewarding surprises, there’s not much going for Aaja Nachle besides fine performances by Konkona Sen and Kunal Kapoor and an average performance by yesteryear Bollywood queen Madhuri Dixit (now living in the U.S.) Most of all, […]
Amazon.com’s new e-book reader Kindle got the thumbs-down in a critical review from Wall Street Journal technology Guru Walter Mossberg today. Mossberg writes that while he liked the shopping and downloading experience, the Kindle device itself is just mediocre. While it has good readability, battery life and storage capacity, both its hardware design and its […]
Dell plans to expand its manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur (near the South Indian city of Chennai) to make notebook computers and servers in 2008, Â according to Live Mint. Dell currently makes desktop computers at the Sriperumbudur facility. In the wake of accounting irregularities and a resurgent HP, some of the fizz has gone out of Dell […]