MUMBAI: And the Red FM rescue boat goes to¦.. Vakola! After three weeks to intense voting,it was the locality of Vakola that emerged as the clear winners of the 'Vote for Boat' initiative. The Red FM Rescue Boat was given to the residents of Vakola in a fun filled on ground ceremony with RJ Malishka.
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MUMBAI: Zee Marathi is set to launch Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs for kids on 7 July. This is the first time that the kids version of the singing-based reality show will be on Zee's Marathi language channel.
Zee Marathi had successfully run the four seasons of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa (two normal seasons, a 'celebrity special' and 'forty plus' age-group season) since 2005.
"Sa Re Ga Ma Pa has given us an entry into the 9:30 and 10 pm slot, which was dominated by Hindi GECs. This has helped b...
MUMBAI: Motorola has announced the launch of ZN200 phone in Brazil during September. The gadget is the low-end version of ZN500.
The ZN200 is enriched with the standard Motorola Crystal Talk Technology.
This phone is dual band and features a 2 MP camera, mp3 player with Windows Media.
Player 11, on-board image editing tools, and an integrated FM radio.
The Motorola ZN200 is said to provide 3G connectivity. Its sparse 30 MB internal memory can be increased up to 1 G...
MUMBAI: The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, is close to finishing an antitrust investigation into how royalties are collected. An AP report says the outcome might help large music retailers like Apple Inc.'s iTunes sell from one store across Europe, rather than different stores with different products in each of the 27 EU nations.
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MUMBAI: Chennai based music label and high-end audio-visual production house EarthSync has announced that their flagship product Laya Project will be in stores across India on 3 July 2008. EarthSync is committed to nurturing folk, tribal and native music from Asia, and bringing this music to a global audience by bringing together the traditional and the contemporary from around the world.
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MUMBAI: AirCheck India has compiled a comprehensive airplay chart of songs on popular radio stations across the country for the last six months.
AirCheck India, the radio monitoring service provided by Radio Computing Services, has analyzed airplay of popular songs in the first six months of 2008 and has condensed the results into a chart of the Twenty Most Popular Songs on Radio in India. The company says such charts are a standard media fixture and resource in many media markets around the world, but have not been available in systematic fashion till now.
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MUMBAI: Having composed for Jawani Diwani, Aryan, Brahm and Dil Dosti, music composer duo Siddhartth Suhas is now geared to compose the scores for atleast five new Hindi films.
Next on their list is the composition and background score for 'Hangman' directed by Vishal Bhandari, staring Gulshan Grover, Om Puri and Shreyas Talpade, followed by 'Hum se hai Jahaan' by Mashoor Amrohi.
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MUMBAI: TBWA\India has bagged the creative account of Planet M retail in a multi agency pitch. The account size is pegged at Rs 200 million and the agency will be responsible for building and reconnecting the brand with the consumers in its renewed avatar.
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