MUMBAI: Veteran journalists Kuldip Nayar and N Ram will receive the Press Club’s (Mumbai) RedInk Lifetime Achievement Awards for 2013.
Governor of Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan will give the awards to the two media stalwarts and 20 other journalists across different categories on 25 May at the NCPA’s Tata Theatre.
The Lifetime Achievement Awards were selected by the managing committee of the Press Club based on a survey of leading and senior journalists from all o...
MUMBAI: Noida-based value added services (VAS) company, MoMagic Technologies bagged the ‘Emerging mobile India VAS company of the year 2013’ at the recent 7th National Telecom Awards. MoMagic have helped bridge the gap between feature and smartphones through innovative solutions.
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MUMBAI: A virtuoso display of guitar playing by 14-year-old girl Tina S of a classic rock solo has gone viral on YouTube. Tina’s incredible display of skills and dexterity while playing guitar hero Eddie Van Halen’s instrumental ‘Eruption’ has attracted more than 1.7 million hits.
Eddie Van Halen (of band Van Halen) is regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. His 1.43 minute solo Eruption on the band’s 1978 self-titled debut album is second on Guitar World's li...
MUMBAI: Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter will pen his musical journey down in an autobiography titled, 'Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It'. This will not just include his professional life but his various personal struggles including the death of his sister Leslie from a suspected overdose last year.
The tome will be published by Bird Street Books on 24 September.
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MUMBAI: Red FM has announced a 20 per cent hike in it's advertising rates with effect from 10 June 2013.
Commenting on the increase, Red FM COO Nisha Narayanan said, "Red FM as a brand has always believed in delivering true value to it’s advertisers and has commanded premium / leadership rates and has maintained a position of a market leader in terms of Volume and Value Share so far."
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MUMBAI: Micromax has unveiled the successor of its popular handset A110 Canvas 2; the dual-SIMsmartphone A110Q Canvas 2 Plus in the Indian market.
The handset is equipped with 5-inch IPS display with a 480x854 pixels resolution, android 4.2 Jelly Bean, 1.2GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal memory expandable upto 32GB via microSD, 8MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, 3G, bluetooth 4.0, WiFi, USB 2.0 and 2000 mAh battery.
The device is priced at Rs 12,100...
MUMBAI: Physical music is stagnating as digital is taking a steep rise. Digital is considered as the new area of focus but South Indian music industry which also has been growing digitally may have different side to present.
South Indian Music Companies Association (SIMCA) joint secretary Rajesh Dhupad said, “Southern music industry’s physical music has faced a stagnant growth meanwhile digital is growing at 15-20 per cent. In terms of digital, we are hoping a continuum growth in s...
MUMBAI: ‘Hum Hai Raahi Car ke’ debuts this week in 249 UFO digital theatres, while ‘Zindagi 50:50’ and ‘Ishkq in Paris’ also debut this week in 208 and 188 UFO digital theatres respectively. ‘Aurangzeb’ in week two screens in 189 UFO digital theatres, while ‘Aashiqui 2’ screens in 360 UFO digital theatres in week five.
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MUMBAI: A new world has emerged with the advent of mobile and digital platforms, with every media house wanting to engage consumers on them as consumption rises. One of the leading international music channels today, Vh1 has also forayed into the space by developing ‘Vh1 Hub’ in partnership with Techzone to help fans search and buy International music content across mobile and web.
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MUMBAI: Justin Bieber, One Direction, Selena Gomez and Ellen DeGeneres were winners of the first-ever Social Star Awards.
The awards celebrated the best in social media based on the data collected from Starcount.
Gomez was named popular actor, One Direction won in the category of popular music group and Bieber was titled as the best solo artist.
One Direction said, "We wanna say a massive thank you for the 'Best Social Star Group' of the year award. Thank you for our Sta...
