MUMBAI: MUMBAI: The Supreme Court of the United States denied cert in F.B.T. Productions, LLC, et al v. Aftermath Records, et al. In doing so, the Supreme Court let stand the Ninth Circuit's September 3, 2010 unanimous decision that addressed royalties under a traditional music recording agreement for new methods of music distribution, such as iTunes and cellular phone ring tones.
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MUMBAI: Shazam, the world's leading mobile discovery company, today announced a major update to its Shazam App for iPhone, iPod touch and Android which brings with it an exciting new feature called Shazam Friends.... Shazam Friends is an innovative way for Shazamers to discover and share new music with their friends on Facebook. The new feature provides a real-time feed of songs that friends have tagged, creating a continuously updating list giving every Shazamer a new and powerful dimension for music discovery.
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MUMBAI: In late October 2010, LimeWire shuttered its file sharing services, months after a federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and found the peer-to-peer (P2P) service liable for copyright infringement. According to The NPD Group, a market research company, the percentage of the U.S. Internet population using a P2P file-sharing service to download music has fallen from a high of 16 percent in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2007 to just 9 percent in Q4 2010 when Limewire ceased its file-sharing operations.
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MUMBAI: In the mobile handsets market dominated by a near-100 per cent 'Total Awareness' of multinational brands Nokia and Samsung, Indian consumers lapped up mobile phones with advanced features at affordable prices from new and emerging brands, reveals the Mobile Handsets Usage And Satisfaction Study 2011 of over 4,425 respondents conducted by CyberMedia Research (CMR). Easy availability and a promise of efficient after-sales support became the other key motivators for end users to show increasing preference for new and emerging brands....
MUMBAI: Red FM undertook the Totka activity with Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), a cleanliness drive across Delhi, to ensure that the Indian Cricket Team wins the quarter final match against Australia, on Wednesday, 23rd March, 2011. Starting from Sadar Bazar at 10.30 am to Karol Bagh at 1.30 pm, followed by RK Puram at 3.30 pm and finally at Ashok Vihar at 6 pm, the execution of the Totka activity was carried out with MCD councilors for each area. Red FM OB RJs were constantly on the move and managed to garner participation from people....
MUMBAI: Film lovers can now watch the latest blockbusters and favourite films in High Definition (HD) right on their PC, thanks to Intel Insider, a feature with which movie buffs can download and stream HD movies from Hungama.com for PCs powered by the 2nd Generation Intel Core processor. Intel, in association with Hungama Digital Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, is making available a selection of famous Bollywood and international movies, including blockbusters from Yash Raj Films, Paramount Pictur...
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment has acquired the digital rights from labels and content owners across the country, and aims to monetize the same on digital platforms. Looking at the popularity of regional content in B and C towns and in rural India, the company has scaled up its activities in the direction. It has tied up with more than 100 labels to add regional content. Shemaroo has digital content,...
MUMBAI: NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it will begin selling the Xperia arc SO-01C smartphone through all DOCOMO sales channels nationwide in Japan on March 24.
The Xperia arc SO-01C is powered by Android 2.3, the latest version of this operating system. A maximum downlink of 14 Mbps is possible in this first handset to be compatible with DOCOMO's new extra-high-speed downlink service, which is scheduled to launch in HSDPA service areas around June.
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MUMBAI: Sufi Singer Tochi Rainaa is the chosen Anokha artist for this month on PlanetRadiocity.com with his latest single - World Cup Cricket Anthem sung in Sufi style. PlanetRadiocity.com has designed a special micro site with interviews, videos, pictures and an assorted playlist with the gifted singers' best songs.
In a two hour-long special on PlanetRadiocity's show Dedication Top 10 with RJ Rahul, Tochi will delight the listeners with yet unreleased Sufi rock compositions by him and his band Bandagi.
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MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi's Hi Mumbai show premiered the soundtrack of the movie, Teen Thay Bhai, on Monday, 21st March, 2011. The cast and crew of the movie consisting of Om Puri, Shreyas Talpade, Ragini Khanna, Deepak Dobriyal accompanied by producer Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, director Mrigdeep Singh Lamba and music composer Ranjit Barot, were live on the show. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra unveiled the music live on air.
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