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Report: U.K. Song Download Sales Reach 500,000
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News.com: Labels Looking to Limit CD Burning Capabilities
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Nintendo to Preview Next-Generation GameCube Console at E3 2005
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McDonald's to Offer Free Song Downloads from Sony Connect Store
o AG Interactive Acquires
European Mobile Content Publisher K-Mobile
o Digital Media Chipmaker Cradle
Technologies Secures $12 Million
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Briefly Noted: Microsoft -
Windows Media Player 10, Chinese government - online games
censorship, MEF - U.K. ringtones sales charts, Motorola V710,
VeriTouch - fingerprint scan media player, Abebooks, Comcast - Games
on Demand, Vivendi Universal Games, Liemandt Foundation -
educational game developers, Tira Wireless - iFone, DVD-D, Bay Area
- digital radio transition
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o Report: U.K. Song Download Sales
Reach 500,000
London -- The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) reports that
sales of digital music downloads in the U.K. have now surpassed
500,000 for the year. The lion's share of these downloads were sold
by OD2, which powers the leading U.K. online music stores. Napster
recently launched its service in the U.K., although its initial
sales were not included in the report. "Investors are showing
confidence in the future of music and putting their money into new
download stores, and music consumers are voting with their wallets
and buying in the hundreds of thousands," said BPI chairman Peter
Jamieson. Apple also plans to soon launch its iTunes Store in the
U.K.; by contrast, the U.S. version of Apple's store has sold over
70 million songs in just over a year.
http://www.bpi.co.uk/news/press/news_content_file_793.shtml
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040602/media_music_downloads_1.html
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o News.com:
Labels Looking to Limit CD Burning Capabilities
San Francisco -- Citing the unfettered copying of CDs enabled by
CD burners, the major record labels are currently testing technology
that would limit the number of times a CD may be copied, and
eliminate the ability to make copies of copies, CNET News.com
reported on Wednesday. Anti-piracy firms SunnComm and Macrovision
are developing such technologies in cooperation with the labels,
with SunnComm and BMG already testing a "secure burn" solution and
Macrovision expected to release its technology within several
months. "If there's somebody who's making 25 copies for the world
and finds they can't do that, then few people will probably
complain. But if someone finds they can't make a copy for their kid
so he can play it in the car, you're going to have a lot of people
returning broken CDs," Mike McGuire, an analyst with GartnerG2, told
News.com. A Macrovision executive told News.com that the labels are
also interested in further limiting the amount of copying that can
be done with songs purchased from online services like iTunes and
Napster.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R13922678
http://www.sunncomm.com
http://www.macrovision.com
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o Nintendo to
Preview Next-Generation GameCube Console at E3 2005
Kyoto, Japan -- Japanese video games firm Nintendo has announced
that it will preview its next-generation GameCube video game console
at next year's Electronic Entertainment Expo gaming industry
convention. The company could then launch the console in Japan by
Christmas 2005, with an eye toward a possible spring 2006 launch in
the U.S. "Rather than offering a new edition of the same thing, we
want to offer new ways of game playing," senior managing director
Yoshihiro Mori said of the device. The company did not reveal any
other details of the console as part of the announcement.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=dev&aid=3528
http://www.nintendo.com
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o McDonald's to
Offer Free Song Downloads from Sony Connect Store
London -- Fast food restaurant chain McDonald's has partnered with
Sony Music on a promotion to offer free music downloads from Sony's
new online music store, The Financial Times reported. Free downloads
would be included when McDonald's customers purchase the
restaurant's signature Big Mac sandwich. Sony launched its Connect
online music store last month, to compete with rival services from
Apple, Napster and others. Similar promotions have seen Napster
downloads offered by Heineken and Energizer, and Apple offering
songs on bottles of Coca-Cola.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C2D512578
http://www.connect.com
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o AG
Interactive Acquires European Mobile Content Publisher K-Mobile
Cleveland -- AG Interactive, a division of greeting card publisher
American Greetings, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired
European mobile content publisher K-Mobile. Financial terms of the
deal were not disclosed. Paris-based K-Mobile offers a library of
12,000 ringtones and 2,000 games under its Kiwee brand in Belgium,
France, Spain and Germany. Ohio-based AG Interactive will add
K-Mobile's offering to its network of sites, which includes
eGreetings.com and BlueMountain.com.
http://www.k-mobile.com/EN/default.asp
http://corporate.americangreetings.com
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o Digital Media
Chipmaker Cradle Technologies Secures $12 Million
Mountain View, Calif. -- Cradle Technologies, a developer of
multiprocessor components for real-time video, audio and imaging
applications, said on Thursday that it has raised $12 million in a
new round of venture funding. The round included a $7 million
investment from Investor Growth Capital, as well as participated
from previous investors Charter Venture Capital, East Gate Capital
Management, Prodea, NeoCarta Ventures and Smart Technology Ventures.
"This additional capital will allow us to ramp up our sales and
marketing activities and more rapidly build our revenue stream,"
said Arthur Chang, the CEO and president of Cradle Technologies.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040527/275135_1.html
http://www.cradle.com
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Digital Media
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June 18,
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Caroline Little - CEO,
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Doug
Lowenstein - President, Entertainment Software Association
Mitch Glazier - SVP,
Gov. Relations & Legislative Counsel, RIAA
FEATURED SPEAKERS
William Allman - SVP & GM,
Interactive New Media, Discovery Networks
Aileen Atkins - SVP, Business Affairs, Napster
Larry A. Blosser - Of Counsel, Gray Cary
Jeff Briggs - Founder, President & CEO, Firaxis Games
Matt Bromberg - Vice President & GM, AOL Games
Jeffrey Bronikowski - Vice President, eLabs, Universal
Music Group
Ron Chaimowitz - President & CEO, PlayTV Inc.
David Del
Beccaro - President & CEO,
Music Choice
Tim Dunne - VP, Digital Media,
Nextel Communications, Inc.
Rags Gupta - COO, Live365
Stewart Halpern - Managing Dir., Digital Entertainment
Research, RBC Capital
Mark Jacobs - CEO, Mythic Entertainment
Marc Juris - President, Fuse (a subsidiary of
Rainbow Media Holdings LLC)
Scott Kauffman - CEO, MusicNow
Kevin Lapidus - General Counsel,
YellowBrix, Inc.
David Leibowitz - Managing Partner, CH Potomac
Lon Levin - SVP, Regulatory Affairs,
XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc.
David Levine - CEO, Butterfly.net
David Lipsey - VP, Media & Entertainment, Artesia
Karen Litsinger - VP & Associate
General Counsel, America Online, Inc.
Lydia Loizides - Analyst,
Media & Ent., Ziff Brothers Investments
Adrian McAloon - Director of Marketing, Ztango
Chris McAndrews - SVP & General Manager,
Nationalgeographic.com
Patrick McQuown - President, Proteus
David Oxenford - Partner, Shaw Pittman
Jonathan Potter - Executive Director, Digital Media
Association
Larry Rebich - VP of Program
Acquisition & Market Dev., SIRIUS Satellite Radio
Wayne Rosso - CEO, Optisoft, SL (former President of
Grokster)
Ned Sherman - CEO, Digital Media Wire
Paul Sherman - Publisher, Tech Wire Media Group
Sherrese Smith - Assoc. Gen. Counsel,
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Gabe Zichermann - VP, Strategy & Communications, Trymedia
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access and market media and entertainment.
Washington Digital Media Conference
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o Briefly Noted: (Redmond,
Wash.) Microsoft on Wednesday released the first test version of its
new Windows Media Player 10 software, which aims to make it easier
for consumers to integrate music, movies and pictures on their PCs
with an emerging line of new portable devices. The devices will
support new Microsoft synchronization technology that more
intuitively moves media from computer to portable device, and
supports content from subscription-based services like Napster and
CinemaNow.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040602/tech_microsoft_1.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H50921678
(London) Online games in China will soon need government approval
before they may be released in the Communist nation, TheRegister
reported. Games that challenge China's constitution or sovereignty,
and anything that threatens "state security, damaging the nation's
glory, disturbing social order and infringing on other's legitimate
rights" will be banned. The government has already censored one PC
title, "Hearts of Iron," in which Tibet is depicted as an
independent nation.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/01/china_bans_games
http://www.xinhuanet.com
(London) The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), a consortium of
mobile entertainment publishers, in association with The Official UK
Charts Company, which compiles music sales data for the U.K., have
published the first top twenty chart for U.K. ringtones sales data.
A ringtone for Eamon's "F**k It (I Don't Want You Back)" was the top
seller for the period of May 10-23. "Persuading ringtone providers
to share their confidential sales data was initially a challenge.
However, we are now seeing more companies wanting to join," said
David Simmons, head of the MEF ringtones initiative. Participating
ringtone vendors include Amplefuture, Buongiorno/Vitaminic,
Infomedia, Musiwave, Opera and Phonefurniture.
http://www.mobileentertainmentforum.org
(Libertyville, Ill.) Cell phone maker Motorola on Wednesday
introduced the V710, a 1.2 megapixel camera phone with integrated
video capture and playback, and an MP3 player. The company financed
a short "advertainment" film featuring the device called "String
Theory," which was directed by indie filmmaker Scott Sanders.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040602/cgw027a_1.html
http://hellomoto.com/producer
(New York) Consumer electronics developer VeriTouch has
introduced its iVue Personal Media Player, which secures digital
media content like music, movies and video games by requiring a live
fingerprint scan before a file may be copied, shared or otherwise
distributed. With massively popular file-sharing networks like Kazaa
and Morpheus, the only true solution will be encrypting content at
its origin, and protecting all further distribution through secure
playback devices like iVue," said VeriTouch CEO Gary Brant.
http://www.veritouch.com
(Philadelphia) Cable TV operator Comcast on Wednesday a premium
video games-on-demand service for its high speed Internet customers
at Comcast.net. The $14.95 per month service, powered by
Maryland-based Exent Technologies, will offer PC games including
Atari's "Dead Man's Hand" and Scholastic Media's "Clifford Thinking
Adventures" and "I SPY Fantasy." The service will also provide
original content from G4techTV, the Comcast's video gaming and
technology cable network.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040602/phw019_1.html
http://www.exent.com
http://www.comcast.net
(Victoria, B.C.) Abebooks, an online marketplace for used, rare
and out-of-print books, announced on Wednesday that it is expanding
its service, allowing users to now also buy and sell new books.
http://www.abebooks.com
(Los Angeles) Game publisher Vivendi Universal Games on Wednesday
shipped its "Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage" and "Spyro
Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy" titles for Nintendo Game Boy Advance.
Developed by Troy, N.Y.-based Vicarious Visions, both titles feature
multiplayer modes for up to four players. VU Games said its "Crash"
franchise has sold 30 million units since debuting in 1996, while
the "Spyro" franchise has sold 12 million units since 1998.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040601/sftu096_1.html
http://www.vugames.com
http://www.vvisions.com
(Austin) A nonprofit family foundation has launched a contest
challenging college student video game developers to create a title
that "secretly" teaches middle school subjects to kids. The Liemandt
Foundation organized the contest, with help from Trilogy, NCSoft and
the Digital Media Collaboratory at the University of Texas. Judging
criteria for the contest will be skewed 70% entertainment value and
30% educational value.
http://www.hiddenagenda.com
(London) Tira Wireless, a provider of technology used to port
wireless games between platforms, said on Wednesday that mobile game
publisher iFone will use its Tira Jump solution to port titles under
its licenses from Atari and Hasbro for J2ME-enabled cell phones.
http://www.tirawireless.com
http://www.ifone.com
(London) TheRegister reports that a French company has developed
a new disposable line of DVDs, which will become unplayable within
24 hours of being removed from their packages and exposed to the
air. Denys Arcand's "The Barbarian Invasions," along with 700 other
movie titles, will soon be available in the disposable DVD-D format.
Another company, Flexplay Technologies, has also seen its EZ-D
disposable DVDs distributed by Disney's Buena Vista Home
Entertainment, despite complaints from numerous environmental
groups.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/01/self_destructing_dvd
http://www.dvd-d.com
(San Francisco) The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported on
the slow transition of some Bay Area radio stations to digital
broadcasting. Because of its large hills and buildings, the city has
some of the worst FM reception in the country, and so is an ideal
early adopter for iBiquity Digital's HD Radio. However, only six
area stations have made the conversion, and only 110 of the
country's 10,700 commercial stations are broadcasting digitally.
Radios costing over $400 needed to pick up the digital signal are
also an impediment, causing analysts to estimate it could be another
20 years before all radios become digital.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q12932678
http://www.ibiquity.com
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