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  • Hungama launches Saregama Classic Catalogue

    Hungama launches Saregama Classic Catalogue

    MUMBAI: This summer, Hungama, India’s largest music service, invites its listeners to take a walk down memory lane as it teams up with Saregama, India’s oldest and largest music company, for a musical match made in heaven. Adding to its already impressive tracks, Hungama will now boast of a comprehensive collection of evergreen classics such as  O Mere Dil Ke Chain, Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya, Kahin Door Jab Din Dhal Jaye to name a few that have been an unforgettable part of Indian cinematic history. Additionally, Saregama’s rich musical heritage will also enable Hungama subscribers to access an eclectic mix of devotional music and regional hits.

     

    Retro music will be forever digitized and etched into the memories of Hungama subscribers as #HungamaGoesRetro and the catalog hits the service with over 100 playlists and over 25 artist radio stations dedicated to eras, musicians, composers and artists. With #SaReHungama listeners will be hit by a wave of nostalgia as they reminisce the melodious era of music. Along with these, over 7 Live radio stations that are being dedicated to genres and composers; Bollywood Classics, Love Classics, Retro Upbeat to 70’s Black & White Classics,  RD Burman and Kishore Kumar, will be launched.

     

    With this addition, Hungama will introduce ‘Timeless Tuesdays’, where listeners will experience the #HungamaGoesRetro vibe. From Kishore Kumar’s peppy numbers to Mohammed Rafi’s heart-breaking romantic classics, this April on Hungama, users can relive the golden era of Bollywood music. With this latest addition subscribers can listen to timeless hits from movies like Waqt, Kabhie Kabhie, Karz, Anand, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, China Town, Mughal-E-Azam, Khamoshi, Saath Saath, Howrah Bridge, Aradhana, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and many more.

     

    Speaking on this occasion Neeraj Roy, MD & CEO of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment said, “We are thrilled to associate with a seasoned music company like Saregama and bring their priceless collection of songs for our subscribers. Music transcends barriers of time and space, and Saregama’s classic collection is an example of just that. Their Bollywood, regional and evergreen classics continue to be relevant and much loved among listeners of all age brackets. We have ardently worked on providing engaging content for our consumers, with the addition of this collection we aim to create value and acknowledge India’s rich music heritage.”

     

    Vikram Mehra, Managing Director, Saregama India Ltd. added, “We are delighted to partner with Hungama as part of our endeavour to take the evergreen music to masses in high quality.”

  • txtWeb releases T20 pack ahead of IPL

    txtWeb releases T20 pack ahead of IPL

     

    MUMBAI: The Indian Premier League (IPL) season is just around the corner and as the excitement builds up, txtWeb has released a T20 pack to aggravate this cricket fever.

     

    This pack allows fans to stay on top of all the milestones of the game including everything from live scores, match schedule, cricket facts, team points, a game and more. To access the app users just have to SMS T20PACK to 51115.

     

    txtWeb director Aminish Sharma said, “Whether or not the fans have access to Internet or TV, they will not miss a single moment of the cricket action. Each and every mobile phone user across India can stay tuned with all the matches, schedule, points and the interesting happenings with this T20pack.”

     

    The pack is currently live on Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel, Idea and Tata Docomo.

     

    User gets charged 50 paise or Re 1 per SMS. With recent collaboration with network carriers Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel, Tata Docomo and Idea and OEM players like Karbonn mobiles, txtWeb is live on 51115.

     

    txtWeb is currently being used across 1000 cities and towns and has built a strong developer community and powerful user base using one or more of the 3500 monthly active apps built by developers and businesses across India.

  • Hungama.com augments ‘Studio Diaries’ part 2; ties-up with Facebook

    Hungama.com augments ‘Studio Diaries’ part 2; ties-up with Facebook

    MUMBAI: Hungama.com has launched the second part of the ‘Hungama Studio Diaries’ by tying-up exclusively with Facebook. The ‘Studio Diaries’ are video capsules of current musical icons that paid homage to Kalyanji-Anandji at the Hungama Studio launched exclusively over the social media platform.

     

    The association, which began with the launch of the first video in March 2015, has, within a short period of its launch, registered over 1.5 lac views from across the globe and has seen thousands of interactions over Hungama.com’s Facebook. The video is a montage of artists that sang the hit song ‘Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas’ created by legendary duo Kalyanji-Anandji. Musicians like Arijit Singh, Daler Mehendi, Shaan, Pritam, Amit Trivedi, Hariharan, Abhijeet and Armaan Malik are seen in the video performing their own renditions of the timeless classic at Hungama Studio.

     

    Part 2 of the Hungama Studio Diaries just came out today exclusively on Facebook and will show Atif Aslam, Shraddha Kapoor, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain, Sivamani, Leslie Lewis, Benny Dayal, Ankit Tiwari, Vasuda Sharma, Aakriti Kakkar, Kanika Kapoor and Runa Rizvi performing their renditions of Kalyanji-Anandji’s hit numbers ‘Har Kisiko Nahi Milta’ and ‘Laila O Laila’.

     

    Speaking on the association with Facebook and success of the first video, Siddhartha Roy, CEO of Hungama.com said, “Hungama Studio has conceptualized this track to celebrate the evergreen music of Kalyanji-Anandji. The video of the renditions sung by this generation’s most loved artists has been appreciated by one and all over Facebook. The idea to exclusively launch this video over Facebook has brought about massive consumer reach and great results, seeing its success we are all set to launch the 2nd part of our video series. Our association with Facebook has been mutually beneficial, with this we hope to continue building on our space of original content and sharing this exclusively with our subscribers.”

  • Air Canada digital strategy leaps ahead with Apple Watch app

    Air Canada digital strategy leaps ahead with Apple Watch app

    MUMBAI: Air Canada has developed an app for the recently unveiled Apple Watch that will make it even more convenient for customers on-the-go to obtain important travel information and initiate tasks such as checking-in.

     

    “Air Canada is excited to offer customers the convenience of our new Air Canada app for Apple Watch. The app will allow customers to easily check their flight status and boarding times. They will also be able to save precious time with notifications that prompt them to check-in and board. The app further advances Air Canada’s mobile strategy of innovating with the latest technology to provide customers a wide variety of options for managing their travel using their preferred personal device,” said Air Canada vice president of marketing Craig Landry.

     

    With its Glance feature, the Air Canada app for Apple Watch readily provides customers with personal and relevant information about flights departing within a 24-hour window. Essential information can be displayed on the user’s Apple Watch and is frequently updated during the day of travel, including Actionable Notifications for check-in and boarding. The app also includes a hand-off feature to enable customers to begin more complex tasks, such as checking-in, that can then be completed either on an iPhone or Mac computer.

     

    The Air Canada app for Apple Watch will be available in the Apple Watch App Store on 24 April. The Air Canada app for iPhone is available from the App Store.

  • Airtel reboots ‘My Airtel’ mobile application

    Airtel reboots ‘My Airtel’ mobile application

    MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel has launched an all new avatar of its ‘My Airtel’ mobile application. The application has been redesigned on Android to follow an intuitive and easy to use interface, which allows customers to conveniently discover, access and self-manage Airtel services across mobile, fixed line and DTH platforms.

     

    The new version of the ‘My Airtel’ application also comes loaded with a wide range of fresh features and capabilities and fits within the company’s wider agenda of driving an enhanced digital experience for customers. The new ‘My Airtel’ application is now available for select users and will be rolled out for all customers over the next few days.

     

    “With design simplicity, intuitive commerce flows and high performance as our priorities, we at Airtel have been working towards re-energizing the experience our customers enjoy while interacting with us through our online properties. A first step in this very direction – the all new My Airtel app has a contemporary design interface that will simplify our customer journeys and allow them to do much more – efficiently and effectively. I would like to encourage all our customers to experience the bigger and better version of My Airtel and enjoy the Airtel Surprises that come along with recharges,” said Bharti Airtel director – consumer business Srini Gopalan.

     

    Customers can now use ‘My Airtel’ app to recharge any mobile number, and receive ‘Airtel Surprises’ coupons with exciting offers like coupons worth value of first, birthday week and many more in weeks to come.

     

    In partnership with mydala, a coupon and discount marketing platform present in 200 cities in India, ‘Airtel Surprises’ will leverage a series of exclusive tie-ups with merchants across categories like shopping, food, wellness, entertainment – and offer coupons for popular brands like PVR Cinemas, Café Coffee Day, Flipkart.com. amazon.in, Ebay.in, Myntra.com, Archies, VLCC, among others.

     

    Additionally, the newly added ‘I Want To’ feature will allow customers to make their frequent tasks (e.g. recharge of a specific prepaid mobile number) a quick action on their application’s home screen.

     

    The in-application payment experience and card store feature have now been upgraded and Airtel’s payment stack is now PCI-DSS certified to ensure a safe, secure and faster check out experience for customers across My Airtel and also the PC and mobile web experiences. Push notifications with alerts such as low balance, pack expiry and payment due date will also be available on the app. Additionally, customers on ‘My Airtel’ will not incur any data charges for using the application.

     

    Betting big on delivering an improved online experience for its customers – the company has already launched a new fast-loading homepage for its website www.airtel.in, a new 4G experience at www.airtel.in/4G and an omni-channel experience to order a brand new Xiaomi RedMi 4G atwww.airtel.in/mi. Airtel is currently focused at re-engineering its online experience to ensure improved interfaces, reduced load time, payment failures etc. 

  • Downloads soar for Reliance Communications’ cricket World Cup app

    Downloads soar for Reliance Communications’ cricket World Cup app

    MUMBAI: As the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 now moves towards the knock-out stages, the global cricketing body today said that the action on the pitch during the Pool stages has been matched with remarkable levels of interest in the tournament across all online channels from around the world.

     

    For example, the official ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 App, which it launched in partnership with Reliance Communications, has seen success for a cricket app reaching over 3.35 million downloads, claims ICC. It has topped the charts as the number one downloaded sports app in 48 countries.

     

    The app, which is available for free download via the Google Play and Apple App stores, has received rave reviews with the ICC CWC Match Centre, in-match clips, fixtures, exclusive videos and real-time statistical updates being enjoyed worldwide.

     

    On the official tournament website, traffic levels have grown over 1,500 per cent since the last major ICC event and there have been over 26 million unique visitors to the website since the beginning of the tournament, claims ICC. These visitors have made up over 225 million page views.

     

    Of particular interest has been the new ICC Cricket World Cup Match Centre. The Match Centre has the fastest live scores available online and now offers real time statistics and insights using live and historical ICC Cricket World Cup data to deliver match analysis to fans around the world. The video clips of match action from the tournament itself have been popular with fans from over 200 countries watching back on the best moments from on the pitch, with over 24 million video plays combined across website and app.

     

    On social media platforms too there has been more interest than ever before for a global cricket event as millions of people interact with the tournament. Additionally, the exclusive post-match player of the match Twitter Mirror selfies gives the opportunity to ask the winning captain a question via the Global Broadcast using the hash tag, #AskCaptain. Fans have also used the Google + Facepaint feature to show their colours on the big-screens of all the grounds and over on Facebook millions have watched the latest episodes of #CWCDaily.

     

    On Twitter, the discussion around #cwc15 has also been very large, with over eight million tweets sent around the tournament with over 800 million live tweet impressions from the group stages. This comprises a 250 per cent growth in the conversation around #cwc15. The tournament’s match hashtags have also regularly trended on both Twitter and GooglePlus.

     

    Globally on Facebook, 36 million people have generated 341 million interactions with cricket becoming a regularly trending topic throughout February and March.

  • Zee adds &TV HD, Ten Cricket channels to mobile app

    Zee adds &TV HD, Ten Cricket channels to mobile app

    MUMBAI: Zee, which launched its Family App across 10 Asian Pacific countries last month, has expanded its product offerings by adding two new channels on the app namely – &TV HD and Ten Cricket.

     

    Ten Cricket will be available Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Israel, Fiji and Philippines, whereas &TV HD will be available in these countries as well as Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. 

     

    The current conversion from download to usage is above 80 per cent for Zee Family.tv.

     

    “Currently the app is on free trail till 31 March and will be launched as a pay product from 2 April ensuring high quality and hassle-free viewing experience of the Zee Family channels with Catch up options,” said Zee business head Asia Pacific Sushruta Samanta.

  • Contest for PMO mobile app launched; winner gets trip to US

    Contest for PMO mobile app launched; winner gets trip to US

    NEW DELHI: A contest has been launched for development of a mobile app for the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).  

     

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his recent address at the 25th foundation day of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) had announced the intention to launch a mobile app for PMO. 

    The Government’s citizen engagement platform MyGov will host this contest in association with Google. The contest will be organized over the next three months in three areas of ideation, wireframe development and app development. The best app will be then presented to the PMO. The team developing the wining app will get a chance to visit the headquarters of Google in the United States. 

    The contest is open for all citizens of India above the age 18 years, who are registered on MyGov (https://mygov.in). Participants can submit their entries on the contest page. Each phase will be assessed by an independent jury constituted by MyGov. 

    Speaking on the launch, Communication & Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said views of the citizens collected through the MyGov and other forum have been incorporated into railway and Union Budgets. 

     

    The need to tackle benami properties and the idea for introduction of sovereign gold bound scheme have come through some suggestions from the people. He said this Government wants to take follow up action on ideas obtained through crowd sourcing and also wants to use social media for public good. 

    Deputy secretary R S Sharma gave an overview of the Digital India programme, whose aim is to first digitally connect all citizens of the government and then digitally empower them in participative process of policy making and being continuously informed of various government initiatives and programmes. 

    MyGov CEO Gaurav Dwivedi charted out the evolution of MyGov, since its launch on 26 July last year and laid out some key features of the newly released MyGov Version 2.0. Google India managing director Rajan Anandan, who is MyGov’s partner in the contest, spoke of Google’s commitment to partner India’s digital drive at multiple levels.

  • SDI Media to deliver content directly to iTunes

    SDI Media to deliver content directly to iTunes

    MUMBAI: SDI Media has been added to Apple’s short list of vendors approved to deliver media assets directly to iTunes.

     

    Direct delivery enables significant reductions in time-to-market and increases accessibility for iTunes delivery workflows of audio, video, subtitle and metadata assets. SDI Media has been delivering content to Apple for the last four years and has been awarded this designation as a result of maintaining exceptional quality deliveries.

     

    As a direct-delivery vendor, SDI Media adds even greater workflow efficiencies to its global service offering, reinforcing their continued dedication to provide clients the most complete end-to-end localization solution in the industry.

     

    “SDI Media is proud to be recognized and approved by Apple for the quality of our deliveries. We continually strive to provide the greatest breadth of high quality localization services in the industry; with the added ability to deliver directly to iTunes we further strengthen our competitive advantage and assist in our client’s constant challenge of reducing time to market,”said SDI Media CEO Walter Schonfeld.

  • ICC launches official mobile App for World Cup

    ICC launches official mobile App for World Cup

    MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC), in partnership with Reliance Communications, launched the official ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 app, which will be available for free download from the App Store and Google Play.

     

    The ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, 11th edition of cricket’s flagship event, gets underway on 14 February and will see 14 of the best teams in the world compete for cricket’s top prize.

     

    The app will have a number of unique features and has been designed to enhance the user experience and enjoyment of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. It will keep fans thrilled with its innovative features and allow everyone to keep themselves up-to-date with all the latest news during the tournament – along with experiencing the best of ICC’s digital activations for the World Cup. So fans can play the Official ICC Cricket World Cup Fantasy League, pick their greatest all-time World Cup XI, play the official ICC Cricket World Cup quiz or look back over the 100 greatest World Cup moment countdown all on their smartphone or tablet.

     

    The app will provide access to the new ICC match centre that will keep fans abreast of the live action with the fastest source of live scores and ball-by-ball commentary. It will also contain video highlights and the most important moments of the match that will ensure that those who haven’t caught the action live on television will not miss out on anything. The video highlights will include all the dismissals, the magic moments, the big innings, the best dismissals and the post-match press conferences.

     

    When they choose their side, they will be notified of the latest news and updates surrounding their team throughout the tournament. In addition, the App will list all the relevant tournament statistics, so that scores, the top of the charts in run-scorers and wicket-takers, are all within easy reach.

     

    The App will also have details of all the fixtures and results. Viewers can read the reports that will be carried for every match and catch all the breaking news and any exclusive interviews that are conducted during the course of the tournament. There will also be interactive features of the app, where viewers can express their opinions through various polls that will sync with in-broadcast and get involved via the Social Hub section.

     

    The ICC will also have several former legends of the sport contribute exclusive columns that will offer their perspective on the spectacle that will be the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, all of which can be accessed through the App.