MUMBAI: Consumer electronics company Sony is bringing some of the top music and movie titles in entertainment history to consumers in an easy-to-use, portable electronic format.
The company is introducing a new series of its MicroVault Click USB flash drives pre-loaded with a choice of either Thriller: 25th Anniversary Edition... – the best-selling album of all time – or the movies The Da Vinci Code and Men in Black.
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NEW DELHI: MTV UK will axe 80 jobs, or around 10 per cent of its workforce, as part of its parent company Viacom's global plan to save $250 million in 2009.
London-based MTV UK and MTV International, part of Viacom's MTV Networks division, have cut between 70 and 80 jobs out of a workforce of around 750 based in Camden and Oxford Street.
MTV UK, which comprises channels like MTV One, VH1 and TMF, told its staff that it would begin a 30-day consultation on the cuts which are expected to affect most of the departments.
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MUMBAI: Britain could be ready to migrate from analogue to digital radio as early as 2017, according to the final report of UK's Digital Radio Working Group (DRWG).
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MUMBAI: Even as the Goa government insists that it has banned parties throughout the day from 23 December 2008 to 5 January 2009, the Percept-backed Sunburn Festival says it is on track to begin on 27 December at the popular Candolim beach.
Sunburn director Nikhil Chinapa, one of the chief forces behind the venture dubbed as 'Asia's largest music festival' that will see DJs from all over the world converging in Goa, says 'Sunburn runs from 12 noon to 10 pm on private property and has t...
MUMBAI: Shibani Kashyap has struck a deal with networking site, ibibo.com to launch her single track online with her band Sojourn.
Says Kashyap, There are no physical sales; so there is no point in investing in a non- film album. The Internet seems to be a better place with net savvy audiences picking songs online.... The singer would be getting a share of the digital downloads from ibibo.com.
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MUMBAI: The Recording Industry Association of America has abandoned mass lawsuits against Internet users who steal music, and instead would work with Internet service providers to discourage piracy, says a Reuters report.
The RIAA, which represents major US record labels, will have the ISPs send warning notices to users who illegally download music files.
Since 2003, the music industry has sued about 35,000 Internet users for music piracy.
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MUMBAI: Indian music label HOM (House Of Music) Records has decided to put the launch of Pakistani rock band Roxen's new album on hold in the light of the recent attacks on Mumbai.
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MUMBAI: While the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai celebrates its golden jubilee year, the college's annual cultural fest, Mood Indigo '08, that begins this week, promises to be the cherry on the pie.
With MI getting bigger and grander, year on year (last year MI saw 65000 participants), both in terms of popularity and budget, MI'08 aims to be the most happening college festival of all time.
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MUMBAI: In an evening of glitz and glamour, the Eighth Indian Telly Awards 2008 honoured the shining stars of the Indian television industry.
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge, aired on Zee TV, won the Best Singing Talent Show award at the event.
Star Plus was awarded the best entertainment channel while the best Hindi movie channel went to Max.
Times Now walked away with the best English news channel while Aaj Tak bagged the Hindi news channel of the year. CNBC TV18 won the best ...
MUMBAI: Fox has ordered 13 episodes of Glee, an inspiring musical comedy series from Ryan Murphy.
The show follows an optimistic high school teacher as he tries to transform the school's Glee Club and inspire a group of ragtag performers to make it to the biggest competition of them all: Nationals. The show will debut in 2009 and features a soundtrack of hit songs from past to present.
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