Remember Satyam Computer Services, the mother of all Indian corporate crooks. Yes, the same scumbags that falsified years of accounts to boost revenues and profits. A short while ago, the Indian IT software house (now under new management) announced a new technique to screw upto 10,000 of its India-based employees. Describing it in corporate BS […]
If the availability of 40,000 applications has not swayed you, here’s one more reason to get an iPhone. iPorn (no, it’s not a Hindu Puja site) plans to roll out a new version of its free mobile adult entertainment site tailored to the iPhone on June 8 to coincide with the Apple iPhone World Wide […]
If Akshay Kumar’s forthcoming Kambakkht Ishq is indeed a remake of the 2002 Kamal Haasan-Simran film Pammal K. Sambandam, it’s a harbinger of more crap for Akshay Kumar fans and Bollywood addicts. And a reflection of the utter poverty of ideas and the current comatose state of Bollywood. Because Pammal K. Sambandam is garbage, plain […]
We just noticed something interesting. As many of you know, Microsoft is getting ready to launch its Bing search engine on Wednesday. Guess, where Microsoft is advertising Bing? On Google! Yes, Microsoft is using its arch-enemy Google’s AdWords text ad program to peddle its Bing search engine. How galling and how humiliating it must be […]
Update: Kavya Shivashankar is Spelling Bee 2009 Champion Folks, two rounds of the Spelling Bee 2009 are already over. And so far, our desi kids have covered themselves with glory. As we type this post, Round Three is going on in Washington DC . There are at least 31 Desi students among the 293 contestants who […]
(Based on recommendation of SI reader yourmate) Fast horses. Fast guns. Fast women. Is there any other movie genre that has captured the imagination of millions of movie fans the world over as much as the Western? We doubt it. And when you think Western, you think of Once Upon a Time in the West. […]