By Naveen Anil Kapoor’s eagerly anticipated Hollywood offering Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol released Thursday night in the U.S. exclusively at IMAX theaters. Anil’s Hollywood fans could hardly contain their excitement and paraded to the nearest theaters in numbers that make the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd seem like Monday morning gathering at the local Hindu temple. […]
Shahrukh Khan’s new film Ra.One is good enough for the Indian and NRI chutiyas who come merely upon hearing the name of a Khan or Rajinikant. But for discerning souls like yours truly who have higher expectations, the Bollywood super-hero science fiction flick Ra.One is a failure of imagination. One more in a long list […]
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 […]
A new study by market researcher Strategy Analytics estimates that the Apple iPad accounted for 80% of tablet shipments (i.e. 6 million units) in North America during the second quarter of 2011. The Boston researcher reckons that despite Apple’s tight grip on the American tablet market, it’s not impossible for Amazon and other tablet vendors […]
By Naveen With the engaging preview of Contagion doing the rounds on cable for the past couple of weeks, my curiosity had been whetted as to what all these A List actors were doing in the same movie. When I was asked by SI to review Contagion today, I was not going to be the […]
Whoa, get ye ready folks. Sony’s tablet challenger to Apple’s iPad is expected to hit the market next month, well in time to tap into the lucrative holiday shopping season in North America if all goes well. But all’s not likely to go well for the Sony S1 tablet if the experience of the other […]