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  • Times Internet launches gocricket.com

    Times Internet launches gocricket.com

    MUMBAI: Times Internet recently launched a cricket portal – www.gocricket.com – a cricket news destination with original, editorial content, deeply integrated video features, and a rich, cross-platform experience. 

     

    Cricket fans will be able to watch Pepsi Indian Premier League 2014 anytime, anywhere on gocricket’s multiple digital platforms. Gocricket launches live on web, iPhone, Android, iPad, and WAP, readily enabled for featured phones and low bandwidth users as well. And when Pepsi IPL begins, the website will also feature a video scorecard, with real time video clips integrated into the scorecard. 

     

    “We are also proud to announce that one of India’s most successful captains, Sourav Ganguly, will exclusively share his critical insights into the game on our platform.” said gocricket.com business head Ruchir Khanna in a statement. “Gocricket will be the most comprehensive web and mobile cricket destination, offering a multimedia experience.”

     

    Sourav Ganguly on his part added: “I am extremely happy to be associated with go cricket.com and be involved as a guest editor. We will bring cricket news to you like never before. Stay with us.”  

     

    Along with rich photos and videos, gocricket will also feature writing from around the world, connecting cricket fans with experts and writers. It will distinguish with cricket records and trivia, making it simple and easy for the fans. In one sentence, gocricket aims to be consumers’ first stop for all cricket content needs.

     

  • WWE app surpasses 10 million downloads

    WWE app surpasses 10 million downloads

    MUMBAI: WWE’s mobile application has surpassed 10 million downloads in 220 countries since it launched in August 2012. The WWE App will be a key component in the delivery of WWE Network, the first-ever 24/7 streaming network that launches on Monday, 24 February.

     

    WWE Network will be available through the WWE App on TV via connected devices including Roku streaming devices, Sony PlayStation(R) 3, Sony PlayStation(R) 4 and Xbox 360. WWE Network will also be available through the WWE App on iOS devices, including Apple iPad and iPhone, Amazon’s Kindle Fire devices and Android devices, as well as on desktops and laptops via WWE.com.

     

    Through the WWE App, the company keeps fans connected with a second screen experience during its flagship TV programs. The experience includes live match continuation during TV commercial breaks, backstage content, live polls, photos and exclusive information on WWE superstars and divas. WWE Network will offer fans a similar interactive fan experience for all original programming and live events via the WWE App.

     

    Over the past year, the WWE App has been downloaded more than six million times with more than 500,000 fans experiencing its second screen capabilities on Monday nights.

     

    The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE continues to be committed to provide family friendly entertainment on its television programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing platforms. WWE programming is broadcast in more than 150 countries and 30 languages and reaches more than 600 million homes worldwide. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, Istanbul and Tokyo.

  • Motivator retains Apple media mandate as AOR for iPhone, iPad and Mac

    Motivator retains Apple media mandate as AOR for iPhone, iPad and Mac

    MUMBAI: Motivator, one of the country’s leading media agencies has retained the Apple brand media mandate for the iPhone iPad and Mac product. The account is under the Ingram Micro & Redington account, the exclusive distributors for Apple products in India.

     

    Motivator won the account after a month long pitch process in December. The pitch process included higher weight for strategic strength, ability to think fresh ideas and execute them in alignment with Apple guidelines, Digital capability and precision execution. Motivator was chosen on the basis of strength of its strategic recommendation, its understanding of brand Apple and its executable ideas leveraging Apple’s iconic status without making it populist.

     

    The iPhone account will be handled in New Delhi while the iPad and MAC mandates will be out of the Bangalore office. The agency has been handling the Apple account for the last 14 months. Motivator will also leverage GroupM’s specialist practices- Digital, Mobile, Activation, Social, Search, Analytics, Content and Trading. Apple India spends Rs. 150 Cr. on media including Print, Radio, Digital, Activation and Out of home, with Iphone leading the contribution with more than 70%.

     

    In the last few months, the iPhone grew by 400% on the back of its new product launches and Buy Back offers. Ingram Micro and Redington decided to put the Iphone business on review given their ambitious growth plan.

     

    Rabe. T. Iyer, Managing Partner, Motivator confirmed the news and affirmed that a top team is already in place to deliver from Feb 1st onwards. “Apple’s Iconic status coupled with ‘less is more’ approach puts a huge responsibility in building cutting edge solutions keeping to the brand standard, we have successfully done this for the last 14 months and are confident of pushing the envelope further to win in the market place”. He further added, “This year the emphasis is going to be on powering iPhone sales through innovative digital solutions besides a strong content strategy across platforms. Print’s tactical use will have to be balanced by creative use of media to keep the brand in the desirable space.”

  • Sony LIV releases app update for iOS7 compatibility

    Sony LIV releases app update for iOS7 compatibility

    NEW DELHI: Sony LIV, Multi Screen Media (MSM)’s video-on-demand service, has updated its application to be compatible with the recently launched iOS7. 

    On the all new iOS 7 platform, users can log in via Google + and can also share videos via WhatsApp. The innovative app experience matches the redesigned user interface and enhanced functionality of the new iOS mobile operating system.

    The Sony LIV app also recently featured as the best new application on the iPhone and iOS devices. 

    Sony Entertainment Network executive VP – new media, business development and digitalsyndication Nitesh Kripalani

    Speaking on the revamped version of the app and its success, Sony Entertainment Network executive VP – new media, business development and digital/syndication Nitesh Kripalani said, “This is indeed one more feather in the Sony LIV cap iPhone, undoubtedly is one of the most loved, sophisticated and successful mobile handsets today. The new iOS7 is visually as well as functionally very advanced and we have updated our app to match this high level of sophistication. We want to be available wherever our user is and being compatible with the iOS7 was a natural progression. To now also be featured as the best new application on iOS is undeniably a rewarding and very elating moment for us.”

    The Sony LIV application offers 18 years of rich and exclusive content from Sony Entertainment Television, covering genres including drama, comedy, thriller, reality shows and many more. It offers users their favourite current and archive shows from Sony, through a single log-in, seamless and engaging experience. The application also packs in features like multi-bitrate video streaming which provide users with better quality videos, based on their internet connection speed.

    Apart from being available on Apple iOS, this premier video-on-demand brand is available online, on Google Android, Java, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 PCs and tablets. It offers an immersive user experience through various innovative features. Users can use the Mood Wheel on Sony LIV to watch their favourite video as per their mood/genre; they can create playlists of their choicest of shows through My Q and be rewarded as a LIV Guru, by consuming Sony LIV content.  In addition to original complete content, Sony LIV also offers short content formats like Catch-up episodes, Quickisodes and Short crunch episodes.

  • Mantri Developers launches mobile app

    Mantri Developers launches mobile app

    MUMBAI: Mantri Developershave have launched a mobile app – Mantri Corp – that allows interested buyers one touch information access for all their projects. 

    Supported by GPS, Mantri Corp app aims to reach out to its customer base in India and abroad. The app is currently available on iPhone, iPad running iOS Version 6.0 and Android Phones and Android Tablets running Version 3.0 and above. The app will also be available on iOS devices running the latest iOS7 version launched by Apple.

    The app features Mantri Developers projects in Residential, Offices, Retail, Mantri Education, and Hospitality segment. Mantri Corporate App comes loaded with many features that include project gallery, details like specifications, floor plans, club house details, locations etc.

    In addition to this interested buyers can connect with Mantri Sales team using the Mobile App. Taking a step further the app also gives the user an opportunity to explore Mantri projects offline when Wi-Fi or 3G connection is not available. It also guides one to the route to any Mantri project from the current location.

    Snehal Mantri while releasing the app said, “In this fast paced world it is important to stay connected and have one stop solution at our finger tips. The Mantri Corp App is a sincere effort to bringing Mantri Developers closer to its stake holders and potential buyers and keeps them updated with all the information at every point of time according to their need. This is just the beginning; we will be adding many more features in the app in near future.”

    The App also has inbuilt notifications which will update the users on the Hot Offers, Events happening at Mantri Developers, Mantri Square, Mantri Junction etc. The higher version of the app will include new features where all existing Mantri home owners will be able to access their reward points ‘Mantri Insignia’ using the mobile App.

    Appface Technologies CEO Edvin Varghese added, “Smartphone apps will play an integrating role for Home Automation products going forward. We are happy to associate with a market leader like Mantri Developers which always offers cutting edge technology and convenience to its customers.”

    The Mantri Corp apps will be scaled up to offer Smart Home Services to all Mantri Customers. Features like “Security Management, Lighting Controls, A/C Control, Heater Control, Media Management” etc. will be offered on the app for the convenience of Mantri Home owners going forward. 

  • Digital magazine app Flipboard valued at $800 mn

    Digital magazine app Flipboard valued at $800 mn

    MUMBAI: Flipboard, a magazine app for mobile devices, has been valued at $800 million after a round of funding raised $50 million from investors including Goldman Sachs and Rizvi Traverse Management.

    The app first launched for iPads in 2010, but has since been downloaded by more than 85 million users on a range of Android and iOS devices. In the last six months its user base has grown, and it now reports nearly 200,000 new downloads each day.

    Billing itself as a ‘personal magazine’, Flipboard provides users with the ability to search content from different online publications, as well as aggregating articles from links posted to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

    The app then formats this content to allow users to ‘flip’ through it or even create their own publications to share with friends. Celebrity users include Al Gore, who posts articles he has read and enjoyed, and Ashton Kutcher, who created a magazine about Steve Jobs prior to the release of his biopic Jobs profiling the Apple founder.

    Platforms that aggregate content from other publications have seen increased interest from investors and are seen by some as an effective way to increase engagement with old media on the web and mobile devices.

    However, others see their business model as a parasitic. McCue, who founded the app with former iPhone engineer Evan Doll, reports that around three million magazines have been created on the service and that the platform is expanding through desktop apps and new partnerships.

    Publishing company Random House announced last week that it would be making two custom magazines for its readers; one concerning the extended universe of George R. R. Martin’s ‘Song of Ice and Fire’ books and another based around Margaret Atwood’s new ‘MaddAdam’ novel and curated by Atwood herself.

  • Thinkbox: Portable devices account for 1.5% of TV viewing

    MUMBAI: New TV viewing figures from Thinkbox reveal that 98.5 per cent of television viewing is still done on the traditional TV set in the UK, while 1.5 per cent is on other screens such as tablets and mobile devices.

    The average daily TV viewing in the UK (during January to June 2013) was four hours, one minute a day per person. This was comprised of three hours, 58 minutes a day of linear TV on a TV set – this is three minutes a day less than the same period last year – and three minutes, 30 seconds a day via devices such as tablets, smartphones and laptops. The majority of this is on-demand viewing, with some live streams.

    Viewing on non-TV devices via established services such as ITV Player, Sky Go, 4OD and BBC iPlayer, as well as new services like Dave on-demand, accounted for 1.5 per cent of overall TV viewing in the country during the first half of 2013. This is a slight increase from the full-year figure for 2012, when it accounted for 1.2 per cent.

    According to Broadcasters‘ Audience Research Board (BARB), it‘s estimated that 58 per cent of households own digital TV recorders, and in these homes 83.8 per cent of linear TV was watched live during the period, down from the 84.4 per cent in the same period a year ago. Also, 81 per cent of all time shifted viewing is watched within two days of recording, while 47 per cent is seen within 24 hours of it being recorded. BARB‘s figures suggest that the growth in the number of TVs that is recorded and played back is slowing down.
     
  • Explore India’s history with the ANS Navigator app for iPhone

    Explore India’s history with the ANS Navigator app for iPhone

    MUMBAI: Powered by the iGO Navigation Engine, the ANS Navigator app for iPhone now includes the historical monuments content package.

    With this application upgrade, the ANS Navigator enables the user to explore India like never before. Know more of India‘s iconic heritage spanning 1000 years of history, and discover India‘s ancient temples, caves, governmental buildings and much more in almost 1,000 cities and settlements. The historical monuments database with more than 3,700 items not only unfolds the vast cultural heritage of India, but also allows one to visualise & understand the significance of the monuments by means of richer content such as descriptions, pictures and visiting times.

    Built from authentic sources such as the Archaeological Survey of India, historical monuments is the virtual passport to almost 3700 historical sites that constitute India‘s rich heritage.

    If you‘re looking for a taste of India‘s world class highlights, and want to explore some of its hidden gems, this app will lead the way and eliminate the hassle associated with travelling so that you can experience incredible India.

    The ANS Navigator App, which is designed to guide users to their destination faster and safer by offering a set of advanced and location-specific features, runs on NNG‘s renowned iGO Navigation Engine which has proven to be one of the most popular navigation applications globally.

  • BIGFLIX launches BIGFLIX HD app for iOS users

    BIGFLIX launches BIGFLIX HD app for iOS users

    MUMBAI: BIGFLIX, India‘s first video-on-demand service launches BIGFLIX HD app for users across the world who can now enjoy watching movies in high definition on their apple devices i.e iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, laptop and desktop.

    BIGFLIX HD is the advanced and upgraded version of its predecessor. With the iOS app of BIGFLIX being amongst the top grossing entertainment app on iTunes, BIGFLIX HD will continue to allow users to stream over 2000 titles, this time in high definition.

    Featuring HD quality content, the iOS app – BIGFLIX HD – offers viewers a seamless viewing experience that is available across multiple devices i.e. Apple users subscribing through iTunes can avail the services across all their Apple devices.

    This means that you can watch a part of a movie on your iPad at home and then proceed to continue watching it (from where you left off) on your iPhone on your way.

    BIGFLIX boasts of the largest library of HD quality movies which includes both timeless classics and new releases across Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, etc.

    The company is also the first to start the trend of releasing select new movies within 14 days of their theatrical launch. The thrill of watching an adventure film or enjoying the effects of animated films can now be experienced with the BIGFLIX HD app for iOS.

    Speaking on the upgraded version BIGFLIX business head Shreyash Sigtia said, “The BIGFLIX app for iOS has been designed to offer a user friendly experience featuring high-quality movie content, which makes it easy for users to find their favorite movies as well as discover new launches on the platform. The app has been amongst the top grossing entertainment app on iTunes, hence, we decided to upgrade BIGFLIX HD and offer a high quality entertainment experience to our Apple users.”

  • Zoho launches Card Scanner app for iPhone

    Zoho launches Card Scanner app for iPhone

    MUMBAI: Zoho has announced the launch of Card Scanner, an online business card scanning application for Zoho customer relationship management (CRM).

    With this application, users can take a photo of a business card and Card Scanner converts the image to text that is automatically saved either as a new contact or lead in Zoho CRM or as a new contact in Card Scanner.

    Card Scanner is currently supported iPhone and will support iPad and Android devices going forward.

    With the launch of Card Scanner app, Zoho users can now eliminate the process of manually entering data into their CRM module. The Card Scanner extracts names, company information, phone numbers, email addresses, Twitter handles and other card information – regardless of business card size, font and format.

    Users who don‘t use Zoho CRM can store card information in the Card Scanner‘s native contact manager.

    To avoid errors (poor lighting conditions, multiple photo angles, complex logos) that could impact the quality of data extraction, the application highlights unclear images in red. This allows users to easily identify and rectify information before saving.

    The key features of the app are- saves time and resources, eliminates importing from spreadsheet, automatically locates address on the map, scans business cards in five languages and increases social connections. If the business card includes a Twitter handle, it automatically downloads the photo from the Twitter profile and syncs it with Zoho CRM.

    Zoho chief evangelist Raju Vegesna said, “Entering data manually into any CRM application is a daunting task. Automating this process and making it simple for our users is the primary idea behind the launch of our new mobile app for Zoho CRM – Card Scanner. The App lets users save business cards on their iPhone while at meetings, events, conferences and trade shows – thus saving time and digitizing the process.”

    The app is currently available for the iPhone at $4.99.

    Zoho is a division of Zoho Corporation a privately-held company, with offices in California, Austin, New Jersey, Chennai, Singapore, Tokyo and Beijing. Customers use Zoho products to run their business processes, manage their information and be more productive while at the office or on the go. Zoho has online products – from CRM to mail, office suite, project management, invoicing, web conferencing and more.