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We wish the father of the internet had said that!

But there’s no Santa Claus behind that white beard – his proclamation comes courtesy of Cassette Boy’s naughty re-edit of Digital Revolution, a four-part BBC Two documentary coming in 2010.

Digital Revolution has been in production since July, and has been posting raw video rushes along the way. Hence Cassette Boy taking the lead in a competition open to budding mashup artists and budding filmmakers.

By the way – you get points for correctly naming all the tech culture luminaries featured therein.

Source: Robert Andrews

Doon School alumnus Nikhil Deogun will start the new year as the managing editor for business day programming at CNBC, Media Decoder reported. He is currently international editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Deogun is among the highest ranking journalists of Indian origin in American journalism and will be a rare Indian top editor on American television. Mumbai-born Hari Sreenivasan was recently in the news for his move to PBS.

Deogun was born in Assam, grew up in Calcutta and holds a B.A. from Muskingum College, Ohio, and a masters in journalism from the University of Missouri (via SAJA Forum).

Source: Sruthijith KK

Sidharth Bhatia, who has helmed the editorial pages of DNA since the daily’s launch in 2005, has stepped down. He confirmed the development.

With this, two senior editorial staffers have stepped down at the Mumbai-headquartered daily in as many months. Editor-at-large Ayaz Memon had resigned last month. The daily is widely believed to be going through a shakeup, but CEO K.U. Rao denied anything was unusual. “This is all part of normal attrition,” he said.

Bhatia has worked as a journalist for 33 years, starting as a reporter at the Free Press Journal in 1976. He has worked in senior roles at The Independent, The Observer and on the India Business Week show on Star TV. He also helped launch French daily Le Matinal in Mauritius.

Related

• Subhash Chandra Assumes An Active Role In DNA’s Operations; Delhi Edition Soon?
• Well Known Sports Journalist Ayaz Memon Quits DNA As Editor At Large

Source: Sruthijith KK

Nice write-up, Ankur.

Very useful insights from Yogi, Pradeep Rao and Abhilash.

I have been using an iPhone here in US and Canada but it got stolen a few days before my relocation to India.

I wanted to see if if its worth buying a new one when I get back to India but doesn’t look like it owing to its high price, lack of Apple support, limited data plans, lack of wireless infrastructure (3G).

Source: Neil Mukherjee