Poor Night Shyamalan badly needs a hit.

His last Hollywood movie Lady in the Water was a box-office disaster and the one before that - The Village - didn’t do that well either.

On June 13, comes a critical test for Night Shyamalan with his new movie The Happening releasing in theaters in the U.S.

Shyamalan, who’s built a reputation for his spooky stories, received his worst drubbing at the hands of the irreverent New York Post about two years back.

Reviewing Lady in the Water for the Post, Lou Lumenick described the movie as a “charmless, unscary, fatuous and largely incoherent fairy tale.”

In the same piece, Lumenick wrote that Shyamalan had “turned into a crackpot Continue Reading…

Microsoft is getting really desperate to get people to use its crappy Live Search service.

Truth be said no sensible person would use the junk Live Search when you have a far superior alternative in Google.

And Microsoft’s desperation shows in the numerous silly antics the company has been resorting to lately in a bid to gain traction for its down-in-the-gutter Live Search.

A fortnight back, Microsoft held out the blandishment of hard cash with its Live Search cashback program that will pay users who find and buy products using the stupid search service.

Today Microsoft announced a move to get its Live Search toolbar installed on all HP consumer PCs in the U.S. and Canada starting in January 2009.

This means that the default search engine Continue Reading…