MUMBAI: Motorola will be downing shutters on its Motomusic store in India from 15 July.
In a notification put up on the Motomusic site, the company says -'From midnight of July 15th, the store will not be available for purchases or redemptions and your account and previous purchases will not be accessible.'
Motomusic India has put up a notice asking its users to download all the songs purchased, back them up and redeem any vouchers and prepaid coupons before 15 July. Motomusic A...
MUMBAI: After lying low for a couple of years, music director Jeet Gannguli, part of the Jeet-Pritam duo, returns to the Bollywood music circuit with Inox Motion Picture's forthcoming film 'Morning Walk'.
The film marks the comeback of the music director after a long hiatus. Though his last project �Cheeti Cheeti Bang Bang' in 2008 was an animated movie, it did not create any ripples at the box office.
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MUMBAI: The BBC's Global News division attracts a record weekly global audience of 238 million people to its international news services including BBC World Service and the BBC World News television channel, according to independent surveys. Last year's audience totalled 233 million, says the company.
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MUMBAI: BBC Radio UK has launched a unique "radio visualisation" venture, wherein the audience can watch popular radio shows online.
The trial version, which runs until 31 July as an enhanced online version of some of the BBC's most popular shows, will begin by offering an enhanced, online version of Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 5 Live show. The Chris Moyles Show and Switch on BBC Radio 1, Material World on BBC Radio 4 and The Hub on BBC 6 Music are the other shows that will follow
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MUMBAI: After their successful foray into the rock genre with feature film �Rock On', the musical trio of Shankar Ehsaan and Loy are now hunting for the most talented rock band to promote young and talented music bands who want to make it big in the Indian music industry.
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MUMBAI: Paul, Ringo, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison came to the E3 conference in Los Angeles for the world premiere of The Beatles: Rock Band. The game was revealed at Microsoft's E3 press conference on 1 June, 2009.
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MUMBAI: My FM has moved away a step from the barrage of film music on the FM airwaves with a three hour weekend ghazal show, Shaam-e-Ghazal which will air every Sunday at 9 pm. The show was launched on 31 May 2009.
Hosted by RJ Ayaz, Shaam-e-Ghazal aims to capture the essence of a laid back Sunday evening, with selected ghazals to pamper listeners' tastes.
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MUMBAI: Harpist Fatma Ceren Necipoglu, one of the presumed victims of the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic on Monday, was one of the rising stars of classical music in Turkey.
She was on her way back from Brazil where she held two recitals at the Fourth Rio Harp Festival when her Air France plane traveling between Rio de Janeiro and Paris went missing. Thirty-seven-year-old Necipoglu was an academic at the Eskisehir Anadolu University Conservatory and was one of the most respected harpists from Turkey.
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MUMBAI: Reliance ADAG's Big 92.7 FM has been roped in as the official radio partner for the 10th Idea International Indian Film Academy (Iifa). The three-day event will commence from 11 June in Macau, China.
This is for the second consecutive year that the radio station has been appointed as the official partner for the awards.
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MUMBAI: FM radio operators in the north east are lobbying hard to get their voice heard - one of TRAI's recommendations last year on third phase of private FM radio broadcasting in 2008 was the relaxation of fee structure for North-East and Jammu and Kashmir.
The players, particularly in the north east, are now hoping for approval of the proposal by new Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni.
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