Coruscant Tec, a mobile content developer and aggregator and a recipient of the prestigious Red Herring Asia 100 awards, has collaborated with Soundbuzz to offer its database of images to Soundbuzz partners.

Coruscant Tec was the first to offer Uncle Pai’s comics, Man’s World magazine, Rave magazine, MF Hussain’s painting, videos and images from the Surabhi foundation and other such eclectic content for mobiles. Through this partnership Soundbuzz partners will have access to Coruscant’s entire databank of images including Man’s World magazine’s swimsuit collection, photos from Rave magazine and MF Hussain’s paintings.

Soundbuzz has a strong presence in the mobile content space with the likes of Airtel, Hutch, Reliance, Tata, mobile2win and Onmobile to name a few.

“We have always believed strongly in providing users eclectic content straying away from the mainstream Bollywood dominated content. We are glad that Soundbuzz sees value in this content and is keen on offering it to their customers”, said Ajay Adiseshann, founder and MD, Coruscant Tec & PayMate.

Soundbuzz is Asia’s largest online and mobile music retailer operating stores in 13 markets in Asia, plus the Soundbuzz Online Music Store in the United States. The company was established in 1999, ahead of the global online music phenomenon spearheaded by Napster.

More than 420M music tracks were purchased legally in 2005, up more than 20 times since 2003. Digital downloads achieved revenues in 2005 of USD1.1Bn, of which about 40 percent was derived from mobile music purchasing