MUMBAI: As the film industry celebrates 100 years of Hindi cinema, multi-talented Hariharan believes that music will continue to be an integral part of films and play a vital role in Hindi cinema- giving films their identity along with imparting Indian cinema its unique character on global screen.
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NEW DELHI: Following objections from listeners, Radio One in Mumbai has made a public apology on its channel for some allegedly ‘sexist comment’ made by comedian Sorabh during a conversation with a radio jockey on 13 May.
Initially Radio One station director Naveen Saxena had sent a written apology to the listener, but she insisted that this was not acceptable since the programme had been aired in public. Saxena thereafter agreed to make an apology on the show aired on 21 May....
MUMBAI: South Korean phonemaker Samsung brings all app developers around the globe an opportunity to develop Galaxy-feature-specific apps to its existing and future handsets.
Samsung is launching ‘The Samsung Smart App Challenge 2013’ for Galaxy SIV, a global competition for app submissions. The competition will see 10 final winners who will receive a total of $800,000 as prize money- $200,000 will be awarded to the first place winner, three second place winners will take home $100...
MUMBAI: Cira Media made its presence in the music market with the launch of four international music channels in the space namely Clubbing TV, Juke Box, Rock TV and Dancetrippin. However, even three months after its launch the channels are still in the testing phase as the company sources in an investment of around Rs 20-30 crore.
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MUMBAI: Consumer notebook vendor and maker Asus has launched the ‘Transformer AiO’- the world’s first dual OS (Windows 8 and Android 4.1) all-in-one PC which can be transformed as a tablet. The innovative product consists of a desktop PC Station with a 3rd generation Intel Core desktop processor for outstanding Windows 8 performance, and a detachable 18.4-inch display with its own NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor for use as a self-contained tablet with Android 4.1.
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MUMBAI: Konka in collaboration with MAK Mobility Private Limited has unveiled a dual-SIM smartphone 'Tuxedo 990' in the Indian market.
The device features 5 inch WVGA IPS LCD display, android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, 1.0GHZ dual core processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory expandable upto 32GB via microSD, 5MP auto focus camera with LED flash, 0.3MP, bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, WiFi, 3.5 mm ear jack, audio call record and 2400mAh battery.
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MUMBAI: A first of its kind music school that imparts working knowledge and musical skills to meet the demands of the music industry will start its first session from September. Launched by two music professionals, music composer Ashutosh Phathak and sound engineer Nitin Chandy, ‘The True School of Music (TSM) will offer a number of music courses to both professional musicians and amateurs. Its campus, located at the city’s south-central, Lower Parel will house its international faculty m...
MUMBAI: Radio industry is all geared up for the eighth edition of Indian Radio Forum to be held on 28 May in Mumbai. The annual forum, organized by Partners in Media Asia (PIM), provides a platform for the radio and advertising fraternity to convene and discuss on advancing the role and increasing the effectiveness of the medium.
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MUMBAI - The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are pleased to announce nine projects that have been selected as part of the second Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Each project will develop an innovative communication approach to changing the global conversation about the impact of development aid.
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Leader of China Radio International (CRI) Tamil service, Kalaimagal, has offered more than 14 years of services. She by and large has worked in providing news and stories of China in Tamil
Being a Chinese by origin, Zhao Jiang aka Kalaimagal has learnt Tamil from University of China - only school in Beijing that teaches Tamil. Soon after completing her undergraduate degree in Tamil at the Communications University of China, she joined CRI. She heads a team of 18 Ch...
