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Mobile Tie Ups – Airtel – Babajob / RCom – BBC
Content and Carriers seem to be gelling well these days as two more tie up announcement sprung up with regards to telecom providers tying up with content providers. Here are the updates:
Blue collar Jobs on Airtel Powered By Babajob
Airtel has tied up with Bangalore blue collar jobs service Babajob to launch as sms based service [...]
Michael Jackson Can Bring Down Giants – Nearly Puts the Web on a Hold
26th June, the day when Elvis did his last concert, the day MJ took his last breath. Even though the occassion demands it the place is not perfect for a Michael Jackson obituary, so we won’t talk much on the glory and guts of him as a path breaking artist. However, the scene is perfectly set to talk about the impact of his death to prove a measure of his genius.
2008 Beijing Olympics – CCTV Joins Hands with Adobe, Enthusiasts Lose Money Over Fake Tickets & Media Village Houses Expensive Internet for Journos
Owing to the immense popularity of the Games, hundreds of conglomerates have been looking forward to make a quick killing during the event. One very notable tie up, in this regard, is between CCTV International Networks Ltd (CCTV.com) and Adobe Systems Inc, in their efforts to deliver the Games’ coverage through the web. Since CCTV.com happens to own the online video rights to the Olympic Games for mainland China and Macau, it promises to deliver the coverages to millions of sports fans in that area through their “Olympic Network TV Station”, a next generation online TV station based on Adobe Flash and Flex technology.
Radio One gets on mobile while mCarbon to launch interactive SMS service in India
Radio One, the joint venture between BBC and Mid-Day has now came up with service for its mobile customers. The service will be provided along with OnMobile Global Limited, a Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) company. The audience can just dial a number to listen to selected programmes on Radio One.
Select programmes will be available [...]
Alarm! Internet Growing Glocally!
Its often said that the world is colorful. As the internet is growing at an alarming rate, internet companies are adding many languages to their websites to increase the usage and traffic of their websites locally across the globe. India, the largest democratic country has more than 1 billion people speaking across the 1000 languages [...]
BBC now on Youtube!!
Television giant, BBC has stepped into the popular video sharing website YouTube, so as to facilitate the channel’s reach to millions of internet users across the world.
Around 30 news clips have been gathered from the BBC’S 58 international news bureau and its 250 correspondents worldwide and they are available everyday. The users have the option [...]
BBC World ties up with MSN India
BBC World Service and MSN India have joined hands to make the news content of the BBC Hindi website, available to the users of MSN Hindi.
MSN India executive producer Krishna Prasad said, "BBC is known worldwide for quality and objectivity in its reporting. We are extremely proud to be associated with an organisation as reputed [...]
BBC Choose Microsoft for web2.0
BBC is teaming up with Microsoft to develop next generation internet services. Microsoft will work on formulating the BBC’s digital strategy, which includes plans for an online archive and updated website redesigning the present site in the form of Web 2.0 to accommodate more audio and video and introducing services that allow users to create [...]