MUMBAI: Sunburn 2011 has partnered Techzone to launch its WAP page across the telecom industry. The content aggregators have launched �Playground', an international mobile store where users can download more than 2,00,000+ International music tracks.
Sunburn WAP page with interactive interface is a guide for the festival from 2007. The WAP page allows customers to browse and download Sunburn's content (paid/free) through a controlled environment. As a launch offer coincides with the event, customers can download free international content worth Rs 1000 on mobile.
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MUMBAI: Renowned musicians Bickram Ghosh and Papon will collaborate with Scottish singer Rachel Sermanni for �Troikala' project, which will explore musical synergy in folk music across borders.
The musicians will work together from December 2011 to May 2012 to produce an album and will also perform a tour in India and UK. The album and concert will highlight different folk sensibilities and genre of music.
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MUMBAI: Research in Motion (RIM) has been sued by a Canadian radio and TV industry group, for naming its BlackBerry Messenger service as BBM.
BBM Canada filed the suite against RIM after failing to negotiate with the company on renaming the trademark.
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MUMBAI: Samsung has extended its popular Galaxy series with two dual-sim smartphones Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos.
The handsets run on android 2.3 gingerbread operating system with 832 MHz mobile processor and TouchWiz custom user interface. The smartphones are equipped with 2GB memory card expandable upto 32GB, and bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n connectivity.
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MUMBAI: In a rare mingling of social work and homage, renowned ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas joined marginalized children to pay tribute to the late ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh.
Udhas crooned some ghazals from the albums of Jagjit Singh and a few of his own from Hindi films. Actor-producer Abhinav Chaturvedi presented the programme.
�Prayas', a non-governmental organization headed by actor and Parliamentarian Shatrughan Sinha had organized the event. Jagjit Singh had been p...
MUMBAI: For the first time ever, music composer Pritam has collaborated with Karan Johar's Dharma Productions for their forthcoming movie Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, directed by Ayan Mukherjee.
Karan Johar said, This will be the first time Pritam will compose music for a Dharma film. We are very excited to have him on board. It will be interesting to see Ayaan and Pritam connect musically....
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MUMBAI: Rhapsody has cemented its position as the largest premium subscription music service in the United States with the announcement today that it has surpassed the one million paying subscriber milestone. On the heels of its 10-year anniversary, Rhapsody is delivering more music—averaging more than 10 million songs a day—to more music lovers than ever before.
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MUMBAI: Double Oscar-winning musician AR Rahman today said that his comments, lauding the music director of controversial film 'Dam 999' for being included in the longlist of the Academy awards, was being "twisted out of context".
At a recent film function in Agra, Rahman had lauded the composer of the film, Ousepachan, as a "fellow music director", for being one among 97 composers whose works are up for a nomination at the Oscars, states PTI.
"But some people are twisting it o...
