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This just in: Indiagames has tied up with Microsofts Entertainment & Devices Division, and will be e-tailing Microsofts gaming console - the xBox 360 - as well as peripherals including keyboards, mice, game pads, steering wheels, joysticks and web cameras. The products will be made available at Indiagames virtual shopping portal IGShop. Indiagames will offer a special price to subscribers of its "Games on Demand" service. Vishal Gondal, CEO of Indiagames says in the release that though theyre beginning IGShop with products from Microsoft, and they will be adding more products.

Games on Demand is a subscription based service that allows broadband subscribers from Airtel, BSNL, You Tele, MTNL and Tata VSNL access to over 300 games at relatively low costs. So effectively, Indiagames has used the service not just to get subscription revenues, but also to create a captive audience for maybe its own games, products and peripherals, and marketing.

Perusing the revamped Ask.com a few thoughts quickly come to the fore: Nice interface, like the icons, the results aren’t bad and it’ll never catch Google. It’s that latter thought that bugs me. Why? A few key players have become so entrenched on the Web and creatures of habit like me just make them more dominant. Here’s [...]

Bangalore based online DVD rental company SeventyMM has acquired 100 percent stake in Delhi based co Madhouse Media for an undisclosed sum, reports Business Standard. Wed reported earlier at the beginning of the year that Madhouse Media had received $228,000 from the Delhi based Band of Angels of Delhi, as well as the Mumbai Angels and a few other private investors. The company has been focused largely on North Indian markets of Delhi-NCR, Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. Madhouse offers DVD rentals via the Internet, SMS and phone for home delivery, and has set up a return route by establishing a network of Movie Points and Skypak dropboxes. SeventyMM, on the other hand, has $7 million in funding from Matrix Partners.

Is the fledgling organized DVD rental business ripe for consolidation yet? Perhaps the entry of much larger players in the Home Video business (both sales and rental) has necessitated this move: Nimbus is pumping in $34 million, Reliance Entertainment is launching Big Flicks and will have synergy with sister concern Adlabs, and Moser Baer has changed the game by putting up DVDs for sale at as low as Rs. 34. In this context, I guess consolidation was necessary for both Seventy MM and Madhouse, and others might also combine forces. Pranav of Startup Dunia has a chart comparing some of the DVD Rental companies.

Saavn, an online Bollywood community operated by Bollywood content distributor BODVOD has inked a deal with Internet TV service Joost, reports Business of Cinema. Saavn will provide Bollywood movies and music videos to Joost. Says Joost EVP (Content strategy and acquisition) Yvette Alberdingk Thijm "There is a growing appetite for Bollywood films and music around the world, but until now, there hasnt been widespread access to great Bollywood programming. As a global distribution platform, Joost is a destination where people connect over their favorite programming, and our partnership with Saavn demonstrates the range and depth of the programming on Joost."

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Six Apart is revamping its leading Movable Type blogging software and turning it into a componentized platform with new enterprise and social media capabilities. I talked to Chris Alden, executive vice president and general manager of Movable Type, about the new version, MT 4, which is being rolled out in beta this week as a [...]

The Saffronart online auction is being held on the 6th and 7th of June, reports IBNLive. The auction features drawings, paintings and sculptures from artists like Tyeb Mehta, F N Souza, M F Hussain, Jogen Chowdhury, Ganesh Pyne, Bikash Bhattacharjee and others. The total value of the works is estimated at between Rs. 35 and 40 crores.

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An update on the impending Spice Telecom-Idea Cellular merger: Mint reports that Aircel cellular, of which 74 percent is owned by Malaysian telco Maxis, is also in talks with Idea and Spice for a three way merger. The merger will give the combined entity greater bargaining power for procurement of equipment, handsets etc.

Meanwhile, before the Spice Telecom IPO, the company has sold stake to Lehman Brothers and Spinnaker Investments for around $30 million, reports ET. Theyve apparently picked up around 20 percent of the 138 million shares at Rs. 45 per share, as a part of a pre-IPO placement. The company is expected to file a draft Red Herring Prospectus tomorrow. Post IPO, the Modis will hold 41 percent stake, while Telekom Malaysia will hold 39 percent stake in the company.

Apparently, the merger talks will be stalled now until after the Spice IPO, which is expected to help the companys valuations. And I suppose all this talk about mergers will help the companys IPO, so it works out rather well for Spice Telecom - merger or not.

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Computer scientists at U.K.s Swansea University are working on a collaborative project that uses new mobile phone technologies to help villagers in India record and share their stories and experiences, according to a report in this Web site. The StoryBank project is providing people in the Indian village of Budikote, 100km from Bangalore, with mobile devices that allow them to make videos, record sound and take photographs, and then edit the material into short films or "stories". The idea is to tweak this pilot and adapt it for U.K. consumers looking for new ways of creating and editing videos, music and pictures to share with other users. 

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available in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Trivandrum, Pune and Ahmedabad to begin with, and will be extended to Delhi, Kolkata and Vizag within a couple of weeks. Paymate intends to launch hotel booking via SMS shortly. Paymate has a tie-up with Citibank, and is funded by KPCP and Sherpalo Ventures [via release]

-- As per an article in the Times of Inda, "companies are trying to encrypt card details onto SIM cards, to target people using even the entry-level handsets. Those with sophisticated handsets can download a software to facilitate the process." Banks are keenly interested in mobile payments: ICICI and SBI have done pilot projects with Airtel and mChek. Standard Chartered and HSBC are also evaluating the m-payment option. The primary concern remains that of security.

Im just wondering about how much an RFID chip would add to the cost of a handset, though there are security concerns with those as well.

Indian newspapers logged double-digit sales and advertising revenue growth last year despite the onslaught of cyberspace, according to a study reported by news agencies. Indian newspaper sales grew a robust 12.93 percent in 2006, while global sales ticked up a mere 2.3 per cent, according to the World Association of Newspapers that represents more than 18,000 publications on the five continents. On the advertising revenues front, newspapers in India, the worlds second largest market for newspapers after China, saw a 23.18 percent jump versus a lackluster 3.77 percent rise worldwide. Advertising revenues in the United States, the largest newspaper advertising market in the world, dropped 1.68 percent in 2006. The trend spells good news for the Indian media scene, which has witnessed a slew of new publications on newsstands in recent years. Publishers will be thankful that advertising revenues, and not just journalists salaries, are ticking up.

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Ask has breathed some new life into search with a major site overhaul. Dubbed Ask3D, the revamped site combines search suggestions, results and related structured data on a single page. “Search today puts so much onus on users to hunt and peck through millions of blue links,” said Ask CEO Jim Lanzone. “Search doesn’t have [...]

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A week or so ago, I published a podcast at IT Conversation with Scott Mace interviewing Gary Edwards about OpenDocument. Edwards is the president of the OpenDocument Foundation. OpenDocument Foundation is a non-profit that works to promote the OpenDocument file format–an XML file format for office documents. There’s no question that businesses want [...]