The new comScore marketshare numbers for smartphone platforms are out. And Google’s Android platform has increased its market share to nearly 44% for the three months ending August 31. Some 84.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones, up 10% from the preceding three month period. How long before every mobile phone in the U.S. […]
It was less than five years back that history was made. The exact date was January 9, 2007. Until that moment, no one ever thought a phone could be sexy. After all, in the pre-iPhone era a mobile phone was just a device for talking or texting. Or playing a rudimentary game while you were […]
Several decades back, there were two kinds of cinema theaters in India. The first were the regular, brick and mortar single-screen theaters. Most of the movies we watched were in these single-screen theaters as the multiplexes made their advent only after we left Indian shores heeding the call to go Head West. Now, thanks to […]
It’s been a while since we were completely held captive by a film. So we trolled the eddies and gullies of Netflix’ vast DVD cornucopia until we stumbled upon a movie that was as far removed from a boring Indian romance as Mercury from Pluto. And the movie we picked – Cell 211 (2009). Directed […]
In hopes of riding the current tablet wave sweeping consumers, E-commerce behemoth Amazon.com today launched a $199 tablet it’s calling the Kindle Fire. As expected, it’s a 7-inch touchscreen device running a custom version of Google’s Android software. Can Kindle Fire Catch Fire with Consumers? Key Features * The dual-processor tablet weighs 14.6-oz, is WiFi […]
By Naveen After reaching a bit too late for the 9:50 pm show and quite a bit early for the 10:35 pm show, being a cheap Desi I decided to sneak into Screen 2 where the Bollywood movie Mausam was playing. Two minutes of cacophonic nonsense in the name of a song on Punjab’s Sarson […]