The people have voted with their wallets and the result is an ignominious disaster for Microsoft’s Surface tablet. A new survey of tablet shipments in the first quarter of 2013 has come out and the numbers are nothing less than a catastrophe for Microsoft. Mon dieu, Surface tablet shipments did not amount to even a […]
All governments violate the basic rights of their citizens in the interests of the powerful and the wealthy. Nothing new about it. Right through history, it’s been that way whatever be the form of government in any country you look at. India, China, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, South Africa, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, the […]
Distressing! No, a catastrophe is the better way to describe India’s tryst with the Internet. We’re not talking of a looming catastrophe but one that’s already upon us. Save as a catastrophe, there’s no other way to describe Internet usage and penetration in India. Source: World Startup Report, March 19, 2013 Forget the unbridgeable chasm […]
After testing the Redbox Instant movie streaming service, I must say a lot of Indians will find the service very disappointing in its current incarnation. For $8 a month, Redbox Instant provides unlimited streaming of movies and lets you borrow four DVDs at the kiosks that are now ubiquitous outside U.S. grocery stores. Two Problems […]
By Araj (This interesting piece was originally penned as a comment. For the sake of a wider audience, I have published it here as a blog post with minor retouches) Pseudo-noir films have become a problem with Hollywood, of late. Nolan kick-started this trend, perhaps, with his much lauded (glorified actually) Batman trilogy and Mendes’s […]
Why is it that even top Indian movie stars, when they rarely ever land a role in a Hollywood film, get only tiny, inconsequential parts. If you thought Anil Kapoor’s role in the last installment of Mission Impossible was a joke and Anupam Kher’s brief appearance in Lust, Caution an insult, it gets worse with Amitabh […]