|  24 Jun 2009

Nokia rolls out N86 in India

MUMBAI: Nokia has announced the launch of N86 Smartphone in the Indian market. The handset loaded with 8 megapixel camera is designed to with photography in mind, including 8 GB of internal memory for up to 4,000 images. Like any high-end digital camera, the memory can be increased with an...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

Travis Mccoy, lead vocalist & songwriter for alternative Hip Hop Band Gym class heroes honours Indian Hiv/Aids activist with MTV international's 2009 staying alive foundation award

MUMBAI: Indie rock band Gym Class Heroes lead vocalist & songwriter Travis McCoy, and Georgia Arnold, Senior Vice President, Social Responsibility, MTV Networks International and Executive Director, Staying Alive Foundation, today announced Mandakini Behara who runs the Utkal Network of People...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

Fever 104 FM launches innovative new show "Fever No. 1 Show"

MUMBAI: Fever 104 FM, India's leading FM channel has once again set an example of path breaking programming with the Fever No.1 Show... which is determined to kick start early mornings in a completely fresh & new manner. With an introduction of yet another radio innovation in the form of a...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

Zakir Hussain, Suresh Wadkar to perform together for first time

MUMBAI: Ustad Zakir Hussain and Suresh Wadkar will be coming together for a concert at the Shanmukhananda Auditorium Mumbai on 8 July. The concert is scheduled on the auspicious occasion of Ashadi Ekadashi  The two musicians have been freinds for a long time, however, they never have performed...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

RJs Jaggu and Tarana bid adieu to Radio One

MUMBAI: The curtain will fall on a long association when popular Radio One morning jocks Jaggu and Tarana quit the organisation by the end of this week. The wellknown RJ jodi co-hosted the breakfast show, �Good Morning Mumbai' from 7 am – 11 am for the past seven years. Radio One Ahmedabad...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

DMB releases album after four years

MUMBAI: Dave Matthews Band's �Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King' released under the Warner Music label this month. Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King is the bands seventh studio album and its first since 2005's �Stand Up'. The 13-track record was written by Dave Matthews Band and produced by Rob...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

Arctic Monkeys third album 'Humbug' ready

MUMBAI: Arctic Monkeys unveiled their third album �Humbug'. �Humbug' features 10 brand new Arctic Monkeys' songs produced by Josh Homme in the Mojave Desert and Los Angeles and James Ford in Brooklyn. The band will be headlining the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August and touring over the...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

MySpace to cut 300 positions internationally

MUMBAI: Social networking site MySpace has said that it will be closing at least four offices outside the US and cut down 300 international positions as a part of its cost cutting excercise to narrow its territory coverage. The move comes a week after the company announced it would cut around 30...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

Khayyam gets first K L Saigal Memorial Award

NEW DELHI: Eminent music director Khayyam, known for music in films like Muzaffar Ali's �Umrao Jaan' and �Kabhi Kabhie' got astanding ovation as he received the K L Saigal Shikhar... Award for Life Time Achievement at a grand musical soiree here last weekend.

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 |  24 Jun 2009

HTC ties with Airtel to launch Android handset in India

MUMBAI: HTC Corporation and Bharti Airtel have joined hands to launch India's First Android powered mobile phone, The HTC Magic.

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 |  24 Jun 2009

Twitter's music services on upswing

MUMBAI: Awareness of Twitter more than doubled in the first quarter of 2009 reaching a 52 percent awareness level among US audiences, according to a recent report by The NPD Group, a leading market research company. Among music buyers, awareness of Twitter reached 67 per cent in the first quarter....

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 |  24 Jun 2009

'Los Premios MTV 2009' to Rock Multiple Cities in Latin America and the US

MUMBAI: MTV Latin America, a subsidiary of Viacom International Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), announced today that it will rock multiple cities in Latin America and the US with a revamped version of its annual international award show, Los Premios MTV Latin America 2009. Bogota and Los Angeles are...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

Opus 1 music library, an AECG company appoints Shauna Krikorian head of film licensing & Stacey Palm head of TV licensing

MUMBAI: Shauna Krikorian and Stacey Palm, two seasoned music industry professionals, have joined AECG as Head of Film Licensing and Head of TV Licensing, respectively, at Opus 1 Music Library, an AECG company, it was announced today by President & CEO Alan Ett. Krikorian, formerly Director of...

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 |  24 Jun 2009

Rediffusion Y&R bags bronze in Radio Lions

MUMBAI: Rediffusion Y&R has bagged the Bronze Lion for its child literacy message campaign entry �Vandana' done for the American India Foundation. In the Radio category, Virgin Atlantic, South Africa campaign, created by Network BBDO, Johannesburg, won the Grand Prix. The other three radio...

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