MUMBAI: A sharp fall in ringtone revenues will be more than offset by growth in full-track downloads, streamed music services and ringback tones, according to a new report from Juniper Research which forecasts that global revenues from mobile music services will reach nearly $14.6bn by 2013.
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MUMBAI: There is a palpable jubilant air at Resul Pookutty's residence in Goregaon in suburban Mumbai as excited cheers of Jai Ho... resound in the air since Monday morning.
Buzzing with family members, neighbours and well-wishers, the excitement level at the Pookutty household was apparent as he has become the first Keralite to win an Oscar ever.
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MUMBAI: Audio engineer H Sridhar has had a great part in the success of A R Rahman. Sridhar, who passed away on 1 December 2008 of a cardiac arrest, was the chief sound engineer for almost all of Rahman's films and also created the final copy of Slumdog Millionaire.
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MUMBAI: There's more to A R Rahman and Resul Pookutty's triumphs at the 81st Academy Awards today than the golden statuettes and the glory that the duo will carry back home.
The long suffering Indian music industry appears to have found its succour of sorts in Rahman's and Resul's wins. A 'historic win' apart, music industry veterans here believe the Oscar win for the sound and music industry will open doors for Indian music overseas.
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MUMBAI: Germany's Deutsche Welle will soon switch to FM in its pursuit of a bigger Bangladesh market share as short wave broadcast increasingly becomes a thing of the past, says a Bangladesh online newspaper.
"The number of short wave listener is falling," Grahame Lucas, who leads the South Asia team at Deutsche Welle Radio, told bdnews24.com.
bdnews24.com and DW Radio last year joined forces to deliver real-time news to a wider segment of readers both at home and abroad.
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MUMBAI: Rock band Agnee has launched a contest which is part of the Create with Agni... initiative.
Anyone can write and send in lyrics for their new �love' song. All you have to do is visit their official website, listen to the song and come up with lyrics for it. The winner will appear on MTV and feature on the cover of Agnee's new album. The final date for sending in entries for the contest is 28 February 2009.
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MUMBAI: A R Rahman capped his winning streak for Slumdog Millionaire by winning the Best original score and Best Song Oscar awards minutes earlier.
Shortly before that, Resul Pookutty became the first Indian to get the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing for the same film, Slumdog Millionaire.
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MUMBAI: Resul Pookutty became the first Indian to get an Oscar for sound mixing for a film.
Pookutty, who was nominated for Slumdog Millionaire along with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke, was at a loss for words when he ascended the dais to accept the award.
"This is unbelievable. I dedicate this award to my country. This is not just an award, it's history being handed down to me," said the 36 year old sound engineer, who has already won a CAS award and a Bafta earlier this year for ...
