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Monsoon Multimedia Sued In US Over GPL Violation; Already In Talks To Settle Out Of Court - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 25 Sep 2007 10:25 AM PST

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed a copyright infringement suit in the US against Noida headquartered Monsoon Multimedia, alleging a violation of the GNU General Public Licence version…

Qualcomm Eyes 2010 For Launch Of Mobile TV Service - 3 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 19 Sep 2007 06:57 PM PST

Nikhil’s written quite a bit on Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO versus Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) DVB-H mobile TV technologies, with readers offering insightful comments on the two rival technologies. Just adding…

UT Starcom To Offer IPTV Solution To Bharti Airtel - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 17 Sep 2007 05:52 PM PST

Networking services provider UT Starcom is set provide its IPTV solution to telecom major Bharti Airtel. [via Economic Times] The RollingStream solutions—an end-to-end Internet Protocol Television solution—will allow Bharti to…

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At Indian Idol, It’s A Volume Game
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 13 Sep 2007 12:29 AM PST

“The mountains are raging”, says Pradip Pradhan, secretary of Indian Idol contestant Prashant Tamang’s fan club. A businessman has offered Rs. 1 crore to the singers campaign. People are going…

NDTV Convergence Ties Up With Japanese Digital Media Operator - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Thu 06 Sep 2007 11:36 PM PST

NDTV Convergence has a struck a deal with Japan’s The New Media Group (TNMG), a digital media platform developer and operator in the Asia-Pacific region, for syndicating its television channels…

TRAI Issues Paper On Regulation Of IPTV In India - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 06 Sep 2007 08:10 AM PST

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out with some observations regarding IPTV regulation, which has been an issue of much debate between telecom operators, cable TV operators…

Mobile TV Revenues Currently Weak, Costs High - Sony Pictures Entertainment - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 04 Sep 2007 01:57 AM PST

There’s not much money in the mobile TV business for now, according to Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Networks Asia’s General Manager Ricky Ow. [via Indiantelevision.com] SPE’s AXN channel offers customised…

Industry Moves: Shishir Joshi Takes Over As Mid Day Multimedia Group Editorial Director - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 28 Aug 2007 06:09 PM PST

Former TV Today executive editor and Mumbai bureau chief Shishir Joshi took over as Mid Day Multimedia’s group editorial director. [via Indiantelevision.com] Joshi will oversee the digital content of Mid…

Sunsilk Gang Of Girls Ties Up With Zoom, Oxford Book Store
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 28 Aug 2007 03:32 AM PST

Branded community site Sunsilk Gang of Girls has tied up with BCCL owned TV channel Zoom for a reality show called ”Spotlight Mein”, reports Indiantelevision. Four contestants will be selected…

MTV To Create Short Content For Mobile - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 23 Aug 2007 06:45 PM PST

Digital will be an area of focus for MTV this year, says GM and VP (Creative and Content) Ashish Patil in an interview with Radioandmusic.com. They’re planning to launch a…

Dubai Investment Group Picks Up 40 Percent In Time Broadband - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 23 Aug 2007 04:48 AM PST

The Dubai Investment Group has picked up 40 percent state in Indian IPTV company Time Broadband via their subsidiary Dubai Ventures, as per a release. Now, last year, Time Broadband…

India TV Revenues To Double By 2010 boosted by IPTV And Digital Cable - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 22 Aug 2007 06:47 PM PST

Hong Kong-based media research firm Media Partners Asia (MPA) forecasts the doubling of India’s television industry revenues by 2010 boosted by increased average revenues per user from digital cable and…

Canaan Partners Invests $5.25 million In Interactive Media Co Cellcast Asia - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 21 Aug 2007 01:12 AM PST

Canaan Partners has led a $5.25 million first round investment in Cellcast Asia Holdings, an interactive digital broadcaster. In India, Cellcast produces live, interactive pay-to-play programming like Bid2Win in India,…

On Channel [V]’s Claims Of New Media Friendliness - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 21 Aug 2007 12:00 AM PST

Amar K Deb, head of Channel [V], in an interview with Indiantelevision.com claims that the channel is “new media friendly”. Yeah, right: Channel [V] introduced blogs into their content mix…

Goldstone Acquires IPTV Rights To 3500 Video Titles From Echelon Studios - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 20 Aug 2007 08:08 PM PST

Goldstone Technologies, and IPTV content provider has signed a deal with LA based Echelon Studios for over 3500 video titles for its video-on-demand content service, reports Business of Cinema. The…

WatchIndia Adds Three Zee Channels To Its Portfolio - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 16 Aug 2007 11:23 PM PST

WatchIndia, a online TV service, has launched three new Zee channels - Zee Cinema, Zee Punjabi and Zee Gujarati. The release claims that the service had over 1 lakh unique…

IOL Targets 28 Cities For IPTV By March 2009; A Losing Battle Against DTH And CAS? - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 15 Aug 2007 10:32 PM PST

IPTV was launched commercially in Bangalore a couple of days ago (after a soft launch on the 30th of July), and Mahendra Chouhan, Director of IOL Broadband, an IPTV content…

Palador Resolves Dispute With UTV, Raises US$6 Mln Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Thu 09 Aug 2007 10:02 PM PST

Palador, which specializes in foreign-language film distribution, said it has settled its dispute with UTV and separately, raised US$6 million in funding from private investors after a 15 percent dilution…

Gartner Sees IPTV Subscribers Crossing 75,000 By 2011 - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 08 Aug 2007 08:13 PM PST

Gartner expects India’s IPTV subscriber base to cross 75,000 by 2011. [via Economic Times] Now, with such a projection what does one make of MTNL’s target of hitting the 40,000…

Industry Moves: Content Security Firm Irdeto Names Sanjiv Kainth As Country Manager - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Fri 03 Aug 2007 12:47 AM PST

Digital TV, IPTV and mobile content security company Irdeto appointed Sanjiv Kainth as country manager, India and area sales director, South Asia. Kainth has previously been Onida’s all India service…

Zee’s Chandra Sees 50% Higher Profits For Networks From Digitisation - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 01 Aug 2007 09:02 PM PST

Zee TV founder and chairman of Essel Group Subhash Chandra expects digitisation to give a 50 percent profit boost to 20 percent of the TV broadcasting companies, which are making…

Airtel Seeks Permission For Mobile TV Pilot - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 30 Jul 2007 09:27 PM PST

Now that public broadcaster DD has piloted Mobile TV with Nokia, mobile operators don’t want to miss out. Financial Express reports that Bharti Airtel has asked for permission for its…

Earnings: UTV Net Profit More Than Doubles Helped By Gaming Acquisition - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 29 Jul 2007 07:25 PM PST

Media and entertainment company UTV Software Communications Ltd (UTVSOF.BO, UTVSOF.NS) posted a 168 percent jump in Q2 earnings as a jump in gaming revenues following an acquisition offset a steep…

Zee Ropes In Zapak For Ravana Game - 4 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 29 Jul 2007 07:14 PM PST

Zee TV’s mythological serial Ravana will soon don its gaming Avataar to be created by Zapak.com. [via exchange4media] “Mythology is a concept that can easily be taken up for gaming.…

Malaysian Pay-TV Firm Astro to Launch India Ops This Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Thu 26 Jul 2007 04:55 AM PST

According to a Reuters report, Malaysian pay-TV firm Astro All Asia Networks Bhd is planning on launching its Indian operations this year with expectations to break even from 2012. Astro’s…