MUMBAI: U2 Manager and Principle Management CEO Paul McGuinness heads a stellar lineup of music industry luminaries who will be speaking at the third annual Music Matters forum, which takes place from 3 to 5 June at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong.
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MUMBAI: Los Angeles-based web and music service Napster has launched its DRM-free digital music stores. Napster announced that it will sell DRM-free tracks for 99 cents and albums at $9.95, which is comparable with Apple's iTunes Plus DRM-free songs.
Prior to this Napster had offered songs protected with Microsofts Windows-based DRM (digital rights management) system, which prevented users from illegally making multiple copies or distributing music tracks to other people.
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MUMBAI: Logitech announced the launch of Pure-Fi mobile speaker system on 20 May. The speakers can play music from the mobile, even when it is in pocket.
The speakers use Bluetooth wireless technology, with the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP). Users can stream the audio up to 33 feet away from the phone. The speakers also work as a wireless speaker phone.
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MUMBAI: AOL Music announced the launch of two new websites dedicated to urban and country music genre. The sites are named The Boot and The Boom Box.
Surfers can have an access to their favorite artists, including video and song premieres. The site also provides news, photos, exclusive interviews and original editorial features.
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He's touted to be the youngest CEO of a FM radio station in the country. To add to his challenges, Nishant Mittal heads his organisation in a state that offers four countries as neighbours to India, a diverse cultural panorama that the station needs to continually needs to address. Radio Misty is a part of the PCM Group, one of the largest groups of eastern India, with interests in tea gardens, construction work, ISP and Cable TV. The group set up Radio Misty after obtaining licenses for Sili...
MUMBAI: A survey conducted in San Diego by Sonoro audio states that despite the wide popularity of portable music sources, consumers prefer to listen to some form of radio more than MP3 players and CDs.
The study states, 57 percent of the time is spent listening to some form of radio, AM, FM or Internet. According to Arbitron and Edison Media Research, 33 million Americans 12 and older listen to Internet radio stations during the week, up from 29 million in 2006
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MUMBAI: Samsung has launched a new music phone F400. A dual slider phone, it's specially designed for the music lovers. The phone features high-powered speaker of Bang & Olufsen.
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MUMBAI: Radio City 91.1 FM, is championing the cause of music by highlighting the monotony of noise prevalent in the domain. The FM station has unleashed its new campaign 'Baaki Shor Machaayein, Radio City Music Sunaaaye', showcasing its claim on music on Tuesday, all over the country.
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MUMBAI: Sun TV Network Kal Radio is launching its FM station SFM in Kochi on 21 May. The launch is through subsidiary company Kal Radio.
With this, SFM's total number of stations have gone up to 38 in India. SFM already operates in Chennai, Combaitore, Tirunelveli, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati, Madurai, Tuticorin, Lucknow, Bhopal, Pondicherry, Calicut, Indore, Vijayawada, Varanasi, Tiruchy, Rajahmundry and Kanpur among others.
SFM will launch seven more stations across the country as it holds license for 45 stations across the country....
