Apple today is tooting its horn that 10 billion applications have been downloaded from its App Store. Launched in July 2008, the App Store is a digital media repository of applications in diverse categories including games, entertainment, health, utilities, sports, weather and more. The applications run on Apple’s popular iPhone, iPod touch devices, iPad tablet […]
More ink has likely been expended on Freedom (by Jonathan Franzen) than on any other book in the U.S. this year. Even the high priestess of American TV Oprah Winfrey has given her imprimatur to the novel naming it to her much followed Oprah’s Book Club – 2010 Selection. Given so many adulatory reviews for […]
There’s a big battle brewing in the e-book reader arena. U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble today launched a color version of its Nook e-book reader, the NOOKcolor. Based on the Android software from Google, Nookcolor sports a 7-inch, color touch-screen and built-in mono speaker to listen to audiobooks or music. The device costs $249. The […]
(For SI blog reader Guruprasad) Remind us never ever to heed the requests of these old fogies from Mysore. At the insistent request of one such individual with antediluvian tastes, we watched the old Amol Palekar starrer Gol Maal the other day. Our principal takeaway from the film – Whatever you do in life, make […]
We are Family: Ohhh, We are a Box Office Disaster There are bad Bollywood movies. Then there are very bad Bollywood movies. Finally, there are the disgustingly, terribly bad Bollywood movies like We are Family (Kajol, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal) that are unworthy of even being screened in theaters. Surely, a special place is […]
We’ve never been great fans of Indian IT giant Wipro’s Chairman Azim Premji. But tonight, as we slowly sip our White Russian into a stupor the old man Premji is our hero. Really. In a blistering attack penned in an Indian newspaper, Premji belatedly questions in rhetorical style the wisdom of a poor country like […]