15

Jul

Bollywood’s phone problems

Phones are landing Bollywood stars in trouble. This week saw two controversies where phones played an enabling role – the Mallika Sherawat MMS case and the Salman Khan tapes.

ToI talks of how such MMS clips benefit Cellcos and rants about the inadequacy of IT laws in the country. While it may be true that the cellcos like any content that spurs SMS/MMS/Data traffic, I’m sure there are more legal ways to do it. Countries with high mobile penentration should take a cue from South Korea where camera-enabled mobile phones are required to make “camera shutter” sounds, of at least 64 decibels, when a picture is taken.

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15

Jul

Phoney videos

Rashmi Bansal, Editor and Publisher of a youth magazine called JAM – Just Another Magazine blogs about how mobile phone technology can change the business of film-making.

Nokia is airing a commercial which focuses on how mobile technologies can potentially change film-making. The url www.mobifilms.net appears at the bottom of the screen.

Take a look at JAM TV

At JAM, we use a 2 megapixel camera phone to make short films which are hosted on our website. The section is called JAM TV. We’ve even had a ‘hit’ – our Rabbi Shergill film has been downloaded over 7000 times.

She has some neat ideas too

Today phone providers offer restaurant listings. What if u could actually view a 1 minute video of the restaurant – see what it’s like? You might pay 5 bucks to see such a film, before spending 500 bucks there.

The possibilities, really, are endless. ‘Interestingly shot’ and ‘nominally priced’ would be the two key factors in success.

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