- Sameer Pitalwalla has left Indiatimes to join UTV Interactive (which, we're told is the new name for UTV New Media) as Head of 3G. Pitalwalla, who was previously with Zoom (an entertainment focused TV channel from the Times Group) had switched to Indiatimes to head its Times Audience Network and Live.Indiatimes.com initiatives, as well as the Business Head of 58888 Follow. What's odd about this move is that Pitalwalla will be reporting to MK Anand (we checked), and not UTV Interactive CEO Manish Agarwal. [Press Release] - Gujarati newspaper Divya Bhaskar has launched its mobile Internet site, powered by July Systems, MediaNama has learned, via an unsolicited SMS'. The mobile website asks users if they're able to view the Gujarati text on their handsets (I couldn't), and if not, redirects them to a page where text is shown in an image format. This is a problem that many Indic language sites will face. - The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by Lok Sabha MP Rao Inderjit Singh have invited comments on "Íssues related to Paid News". The last date for submitting comments is Jan 1st 2011, and comments have to be emailed to comit@sansad.nic.in, faxed to 011-23010756 or snail-mailed to the Additional Director (IT), Lok Sabha Secretariat, Room No.156, Parliament House Annexe, New Delhi:110001 in a sealed cover. The memoranda which might be submitted to the Committee would form part of the records of the Committee and would be treated as strictly confidential and the contents thereof…
