—Hungama Mobile has announced the appointment of three senior management executives: Anand Jhingan, who has formerly worked with IBM, JP Morgan, Sun amongst others, will be Senior VP, International Mobile. Hemant Jain, formerly with Reliance World, Radio City, Indian Express, will be Senior VP, Mobile Domestic Business and Mana Chhatrapati, formerly MD Cider Computer, will be CTO.

—Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) India has appointed Rajneesh Chopra as Director, Windows Live Commercial. Chopra will drive the adoption of Windows Live in India, ramping up services like Hotmail, MSN Messenger and Spaces. Chopra joins from Web18, where he was head of marketing for their online portals. Prior to joining Web18, Chopra was head of the CRM initiative at Indiatimes.