HP has launched its own online music service called “Connected Music” in India and it will be integrated into the company’s netbooks. HP India has collaborated with Universal Music India and Hungama.com, which itself is an online media company to provide premium music content to HP’s customers. It spans almost all genres and a catalog that comprises of approximately 20000 artists. Consumers...

Times Internet, the digital arm of the Times Group has launched mobile apps for its music streaming service, Gaana. The apps are free to download and are  available for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Java enabled phones. The company says that Gaana is India’s largest music service on the web. It has around 1 million songs which users can stream now over all the prominent platforms. However, we would...

Bindass, the Indian youth centric TV channel has come up with a new Facebook app which gets its social media fans to view its television content. The idea is simple. The Bindass Facebook Jukebox app lets you vote for Indian song and add a dedication for your friends. Depending on the votes given towards the featured songs every day, Bindass TV airs the most voted songs and shows the dedications given...

Amazon is all set to take on Apple iTunes. Today, music has gone digital. Gone are the days of CDs, cassettes and any hardware music device. People purchase, access and listen to their songs online or offline albeit digitally. Amazon has been the online shopping go-to platform since the late 1990s. When music had still not gone digital (Steve Jobs had not thought of iTunes and digital music just yet),...

Indian music label, Saregama India has launched launched an Internet radio offering on its website. The service is free to listen and has music channels being streamed in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam, Hindustani, Carnatic, Marathi, Punjabi and Instrumental categories. This Internet radio offering does provide some good content from the stables of the iconic music label. The radio player...

Yesterday, we saw the launch of a new kind of social network which wants to solely focus on creative collaboration. We knew that Shekhar Kapur and A.R Rahman’s Qyuki was coming. We had written about Cisco acquiring a 17% stake in the startup earlier this year in February. Qyuki is now live and I signed up to check it out and see if it will make a dent in the Indian creative universe. First Thoughts: Qyuki...

Hungama, the online music marketplace which caters to Bollywood and South Asian content, has announced the complete overhaul of their website and service. The new website is built completely in HTML5 and sports a rather nice interface. The website looks appealing and is easy to use and has none of its previous clutter. It has been launched as a beta. The new website is not only a storefront but also...

After having kept Apple users in India waiting for the service since a long time, the company has officially launched the iTunes Store in the country. The store has also launched in Russia, Turkey, South Africa and 52 other countries. Apple users can now use the store to download music, videos, films from Apple’s plentiful ecosystem of digital media. The company has also announced that users will...

nexGTv, the mobile TV service developed by Digivive has announced the launch of its own English music channel called nexGTv Music. The service has 300 popular English songs at the moment and will add more songs in the future. The company says that this new initiative was completely driven by consumer demand. The nexGTv service  currently has around 100 live channels which range from sports, movies,...

NH7, the indie music website has launched their first mobile app just before they kick off their Weekender festival tour. NH7 Weekender, billed as the happiest music festival in the country will be kicking off tomorrow. The app which is available on both iOS and Android will not be restricted to NH7 Weekender alone but will showcase all the upcoming music, cultural and literary festivals in the country....