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 […]
Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal has turned out to be a dud at the U.S. box office for the November 23-25 weekend. At the box office, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal brought in a pitiful $66,011 and came in at No-40. Featuring John Abraham, Arshad Warsi and that non-actress Bipasha Basu, Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal is the […]
Reeling from massive losses due to its disastrous missteps in the subprime mortgage segment, embattled financial services giant Citigroup is getting a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Gulf nation Abu Dhabi through a sale of Equity Units convertible into shares. The Abu Dhabi investment is expected to close within the next several days. The badly-needed cash […]
As expected, Indian-American Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. Attorney for Minnesota has stepped down from her post. Our Kerala immigrant will take up a new position at the Justice Department in Washington as an adviser on legal policy issues in January. After the New York Times hatchet job on Rachel Paulose last week, we never had any […]
In one of the ironies of life, Saawariya – the better movie of this Diwali -has collapsed in its second week at the U.S. Box office while that crass, crude Shahrukh Khan film Om Shanti Om continues to rule in the U.S. For the November 16-18 weekend, Saawariya’s gross collection came in at $150,208, down 72.3% from last week. […]
Vel featuring Surya, Asin and Vadivelu is a little better than Azhagiya Tamil Magan but that’s small consolation for Tamil movie fans. Vel’s biggest weakness is its pedestrian, beaten to death simplistic story of two brothers separated when young and growing up separately. Repeated in Hindi, Tamil and other Indian language films ad nauseum ad infinitum […]