Hindustan Times Introduces Garcia Redesign; Mint Launches In Chennai

Readers of Hindustan Times woke up to a new young look to their 85-year old newspaper on Saturday. The paper implemented the redesign—done by leading newspaper designer Mario Garcia—with plenty of colour all over the paper (including headlines) and several new features. Promising more for the reader, editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan wrote: “The new look is just the topmost layer of what we have in store for you, our readers.” Read Narayan’s piece introducing the new design and other offerings. Readers of contentSutra will be familiar with the new look. We first reported that HT was being redesigned under Garcia, and also brought you a preview of the new look.

Will Pricing Strategy Help Tata Docomo Succeed?

If Aircel is redefining how telecom operators approach value added services and GPRS in India, Tata Docomo is doing its bit to change billing practices. The joint venture between Tata Teleservices and Japanese telecom major NTT Docomo officially began rollouts (pdf) on June 24th, with a plan to invest $2 billion for its pan-India GSM services. [...]

Media planners welcome new-look Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times’ makeover, which was unveiled with its July 11 edition has gone down well with media planners, who have appreciated the new look and found it ‘refreshing’, ‘youthful’ and ‘giving a web feel’. Exchange4media spoke to some media planners to know more about this new look.

Digitoon #32: Making Better Use Of Statues

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Media Monday: India News Digest

Mobile Monday is our weekly Digest that brings you snippets of Buzzing stories related to Indian Media. IPTV- Some questions answered: Well, we have been hearing about it a lot. IPTV can change the face of Television, especially in a country like India. But with the pathetic state of even BB in India is [...]

Of cyber cafes, advertising and Ideacts

Of cyber cafes, advertising and IdeactsTelevisionpoint.comIn November 2007, Ideacts Innovations raised $5 million from Sequoia Capital. Around the same time, the company expanded to Pune and began tying up with ...

eLearning – Is it the way forward?

There was an IDEA Cellular ad where a kid was denied admission in the city and our Sirjee gets a brilliant idea and sets up schools in each village through a mobile phone. That is virtual education by extending the classrooms in a virtual way. That idea is a ahead of its time and with [...]

India DTV vs Iptv – What Is Your Choice

Entertainment is India is mainly constituted by Television sets. Before 2 years these TV entertainment was possible by cables but now other than these cable services people now have DTH and IPTV services. Are you looking for DTH and IPTV service providers and their tariffs? Are you looking for a comparison between DTH and IPTV services in India? If YES is the answer for the question then you are at the perfect place now. The following guide gives you details what you desire. Here it goesDTH is nothing but direct to home service in which the user will receive the pictures from the dish that is being kept in their houses from the satellites. As if now there are 6 DTH service providers in India and 7th service provider will be available shortly. List of service providers and their tariff details as follows, 

Weekly Digest (3rd July-10th July 2009)

Date: 3rd to 10th July 2009 Segments: Editors Picks, Earnings, Your Picks, Events, Lists For Previous Editions: Weekly Digest Archive Budget Coverage – Union Budget 2009: Govt Job Portal, STB Duty-5%, Smart Cards, DAVP Waiver, Disinvestment, Railways – Union Budget 2009: Digital & Media Stocks Drop Sharply – Budget 2009 WebStream: ET Now, NDTV, UTVi, Indian Govt; Facebook, Coveritlive Editor: By far [...]

Allowing staff to use Orkut? Better take cover

Allowing staff to use Orkut? Better take coverTimes of IndiaThe survey has also revealed that Indian IT managers are dangerously ill-equipped to prevent threats inherent to Web 2.0 the current wave of websites, ...