MUMBAI: After only a few months on the market, more than a half million people in the United States have downloaded the Thumbplay® Music cloud-based, streaming music service (www.thumbplay.com) to their smartphones The popular, feature-rich app has been publicly available on all three Android, Apple and BlackBerry smartphone platforms since June 2010 Thumbplay Music was the first of its kind to launch on all three major U.S.
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MUMBAI: Berklee College of Music and MIDEM today announce a long-term partnership that will debut with the first Rethink Music conference, April 25-27, 2011, in Boston, MA.
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MUMBAI: British rock trio Muse have been nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Artist in the Alternative Rock Music Category. The nomination follows on the heels of their 2010 MTV Video Music Award win for "Best Special Effects" for their video for "Uprising."
The American Music Awards will air live on ABC on Sunday, November 21st at 8 p.m. ET. For the fourth consecutive year, the winners will be determined by viewer voting on www.abc.com and www.amavote.com.
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MUMBAI: ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) held its 30th annual Awards tonight at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Hosted by ASCAP Senior Vice President, International Roger Greenaway and Vice President, Membership Seán Devine, the gala dinner and awards presentation honored those songwriter, composer and publisher members of PRS for Music -- the UK's Performing Right Society -- whose repertory is licensed by ASCAP and was among its most performed works in the U.S. during 2009.
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MUMBAI: MTV EMA 2010 is looking to make the biggest digital impact of the year with a number of cutting-edge online, mobile, social media and interactive elements that allow music fans to connect with each other and with the show across multiple platforms.
MTV EMA 2010 is sponsored by the new Suzuki Swift, Calvin Klein Jeans and Dell.
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MUMBAI: Videocon Mobile phones has announced its foray into the Android market with the launch of �Videocon Zeus'. The company is extending its range of mobile phones and is introducing additional four new phones along with Zeus.
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Radi-oh! is about the effervescent careers and lives of the Radio Jockeys, those gifted, garrulous people who unobtrusively take their place beside us in our cars, living rooms, kitchens, offices and gyms as we drive, work, walk and jog about our lives.
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NEW DELHI: Rajiv Takru on Wednesday assumed charge as Additional Secretary in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. He comes in place of Uday Kumar Verma, an IAS officer from Madhya Pradesh in the 1976 batch, who was moved as the new Secretary in the Ministry Of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises from 1 September.
Prior to his appointment, Takru was Director General of National Institute of Fashion Technology under the Ministry of Textiles.
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BANGALORE: The Great Indian October Fest (TGIOF) is poised to grow larger this year with 75,000 footfalls expected across its three-day course starting 22 October in Bangalore. Last year this annual event attracted 50,000 people.
Four International bands from Italy, the UK and Canada will be among the 22 performers which include a medley of local Bangalore bands as well as bands from across India covering genres ranging from Electronica Rock to Classical Rock to Metal to Reggae and Indi Rock as well Bollywood contributions from Shaan, Mohit Chauhan and DJs Aqueel and Chico.
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MUMBAI: On this Saturday's episode of Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar, heartthrob John Abraham was in a particularly mischievous mood! Hearing that talented contestant Abhilasha speaks many languages, he insisted that she proposes to anchor Manish Paul in Hindi, then rejects him in Marathi and finally accepts John's proposal in chaste Malayalam when he goes down on a knee with a red rose … ! Abhilasha said, John Abraham proposing to me was certainly something unbelievable. I was on the seventh heaven!...
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