Boycott Bollywood

Confession: I’ve stopped watching Bollywood (loose term for Indian film industry) movies. Reason: Movies that Bollywood makes are terrible. Most are torture on cinemagoers. When the movie world has reached the distant moon Pandora (thanks to James Cameron’s AVATAR), Bollywood is still tottering in the company of “idiots.” Another Reason: Bollywood has, in fact, become [...]

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Goby Geek – the Comic Character

As technology has become a veritable backbone for the smooth functioning of companies and governments alike, the spotlight is right on the tech managers. They are expected to deliver magical answers to all intractable problems. But are they able to keep pace with the fast-changing tech world around them? Or are they usually at sea [...]

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Twitter Welcomes Robojit, the Novel Character

Leveraging the power and reach of microblogging, a tech writer has rolled out his new novel Robojit and the Sand Planet on Twitter network today (July 19). The first episode of the serial novel with 10 tweets is live now, at https://twitter.com/robojit The novel will appear on Twitter in the form of a serial with [...]

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Hello! Movie Here…I Love You, Mobile

Hello! Movie Here…I Love You, Mobile By Rakesh Raman The romantic infatuation between movies and mobiles is now touching serious limits, as most young movies prefer to embrace mobiles in one form or the other – trailers, promos, games, et al. Among the recent ones is Hannah Montana Star Moves mobile game, which is available [...]

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Releasing Soon: Movie 2.0

Releasing Soon: Movie 2.0 by Rakesh Raman You’d agree: for most of its existence, the Internet has been an underexploited medium. Especially in the corporate realm. Corporate websites tried plainly to sell products and services. Though touted as an interactive medium, the Net mostly helped companies tell only their side of the story without giving [...]

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New Dimension for Animation Flicks

Though still in the fledgling stage, 3-D animation is poised to be the next big frontier in the movie-making business. And DreamWorks Animation has plunged into this adventurous market beginning with its new movie “Monsters vs. Aliens”, scheduled for release in March. Intel is supporting this effort. So what’s the present and future of 3-D [...]

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