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o RIAA
Lobbies for Copy-Protection for Digital Radio
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Report: "The Passion" Still Most-Pirated 'Net Film; Studio Spoofing
Increases
o
Search Engine Firm Ask Jeeves Acquires Desktop Search Provider
Tukaroo
o U.K.
Online DVD Rental Service Video Island Raises $11 Million
o
Mobile Multiplayer Game Networking Firm Terraplay Raises $7.9
Million
o Report: Global Demand for
Mobile Phones Set to Soar
o
Briefly Noted: Wayne Rosso -
Optisoft, Nikon - TiVo, LodgeNet - Scripps Networks, Trymedia
Systems, 3-megapixel camera phones - digital camera sales, Morrissey
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--Account Executive for Award Winning Marketing Firm
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--PricewaterhouseCoopers' Entertainment and Media Outlook
--Position Your Company for Success - with Technology PR Experts
--Innovative Technologies to Link Project
--Interoperability: Solutions and Best Practices, June 24 -
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--Preserving the Benefits of Open Source While Managing Risks -
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o RIAA Lobbies for Copy-Protection
for Digital Radio
Washington -- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
is actively lobbying for copyright protection to be added to the
medium of digital radio, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The
RIAA has argued for anti-piracy measures "in documents and meetings
at the FCC and in communications with other industry trade groups,"
and planned to make the issue a focus of a Congressional hearing on
digital copyrights that was postponed this week due to the Reagan
funeral. So far, only about 100 U.S. radio stations have adopted
iBiquity Digital's HD Radio technology, which allows traditional
stations to transmit a digital signal alongside their traditional
analog signals. "We're in favor of HD radio," RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol
told THR. "It offers great benefits for consumers and everyone
involved, but we're not blind to several concerns. Someone could
cherry-pick songs off a broadcast and fill up a personal library and
then post it on Kazaa." Consumer electronics firms and broadcasters
say the RIAA is exaggerating the potential for digital radio piracy.
"They've sold a half-million digital radios in Great Britain over
the past five years, and this problem hasn't come up," Consumer
Electronics Association vice president Michael Petricone told THR.
"It's premature to ask the FCC for restrictions on devices for a
problem that might not exist."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q55D32788
http://www.ibiquity.com/hdradio
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o Report: "The
Passion" Still Most-Pirated 'Net Film; Studio Spoofing Increases
Los Gatos, Calif. -- "The Passion of the Christ" was the
most-downloaded movie on peer-to-peer file-sharing systems for the
second month in a row, according to data from Los Gatos,
Calif.-based BayTSP, a marketer of anti-piracy solutions that also
monitors traffic on file-sharing networks. BayTSP found a total of
37,609 copies of "The Passion" available for download in May,
followed by "Hellboy" (33,650), "Van Helsing" (30,666) and "The Lord
of the Rings: The Return of the King" (28,593). The firm said Kazaa
averaged 2.7 million daily users in May, down from 2.9 million in
April, followed by P2P network eDonkey, which averaged 2.2 million
daily users. BayTSP also noted that movie studios flooded Kazaa's
Fast Track network with "spoofed" or corrupted movie files in May --
in an attempt to thwart piracy -- as evidenced by the average number
of files available in each user's shared folder increasing from 203
on May 10 to 371 on May 31.
http://www.baytsp.com
http://www.jgpr.com/documents/P2PReportsMay.pdf
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o Search Engine
Firm Ask Jeeves Acquires Desktop Search Provider Tukaroo
Emeryville, Calif. -- In a move into the desktop search market,
where larger rivals Google and Microsoft are making headway, search
engine provider Ask Jeeves announced that it has acquired Tukaroo, a
San Jose, Calif.-based developer of desktop search technology.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2003,
Tukaroo makes desktop search and file management software designed
to enable users to access, view and manage data on their computers
in real-time. Steve Berkowitz, the CEO of Ask Jeeves, said that the
acquisition fits in with the company's growth strategy, which it
began in 2002 with the acquisition of the Teoma search engine.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040609/sfw050_1.html
http://www.ask.com
http://www.tukaroo.com
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o U.K. Online
DVD Rental Service Video Island Raises $11 Million
London -- Video Island, a U.K.-based online DVD rental service,
announced on Thursday that it has raised $11 million in its second
round of venture capital financing. Cazenove Private Equity led the
investment round; Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures also
participated. Founded in 2002, Video Island offers a catalog of
15,000 titles under three flat-rate monthly subscription packages
that allow a differing number of DVDs to be checked out at a time.
Like Netflix, Video Island delivers movies to subscribers via the
postal service and does not charge late fees, although Netflix's
library is somewhat larger with 20,000 available titles.
http://www.videoisland.com
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o Mobile
Multiplayer Game Networking Firm Terraplay Raises $7.9 Million
Stockholm, Sweden -- Terraplay Systems, a provider of multiplayer
gaming network systems for consoles and mobile phones, announced on
Thursday that it has raised $7.9 million in a recent round of
financing, provided by Nordic Venture Partners and existing
shareholders. Sweden-based Terraplay said it launched its first
real-time mobile and console-based commercial multiplayer gaming
systems during the first quarter of 2004, allowing subscribers to
play against each other in real-time across a wide range of mobile
devices and platforms. The company is partnered with M7 Networks in
the U.S. to provide its technology to video game publishers and
wireless carriers.
http://www.terraplay.com/news_fset.asp?id=88
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o Report: Global Demand for Mobile
Phones Set to Soar
London -- Demand for mobile phones is surging the world over,
according a new report conducted by market research Gartner. The
report found that total global sales of mobile handsets soared by
34% to more than 153 million units in the first quarter compared to
the same quarter last year. Gartner said that such a good start to
the year could mean that as many as 600 million handsets would be
sold by year's end. In Western Europe, where demand was much
stronger than expected, the recent launch of 3G services by Vodafone
(U.K.), T-Mobile (Germany) and TIM (Italy) should lead to a
considerable rise in 3G phone sales in the second quarter, Gartner
said. Although its market share in Western Europe shrank from 34% to
29%, Finnish giant Nokia still leads the pack after selling more
than 44.2 million handsets, a 5-million-unit year-on-year increase.
Nokia's loss was mostly Motorola's gain, and the company pointed to
particularly robust sales in Europe as the reason behind its
increase in sales from 16.7 million units in the first quarter last
year to more than 25 million units this year.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z2DA12688
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> DMW Events:
Washington
Digital Media
Conference
June 18,
2004
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Register online or by Phone
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323-822-0936
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Elliot Maxwell - Fellow, Center for the Study of American
Gov., Johns Hopkins Univ.,
Distinguished Research Fellow,
eBusiness Research Ctr, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Doug
Lowenstein - President, Entertainment Software Association
Mitch Glazier - SVP,
Gov. Relations & Legislative Counsel, RIAA
Caroline Little - CEO,
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Dr. Magid Abraham - President, CEO & Co-Founder, comScore Networks
William Allman - SVP & GM,
Interactive New Media, Discovery Networks
Aileen Atkins - SVP, Business Affairs, Napster
Larry Blosser - Of Counsel, Gray Cary
Jody Brannon - Executive Producer, USAToday.com
Pat Breslin - CEO,
Relatable
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.
Sarah Deutsch – VP & Associate General Counsel,
Verizon
Allison Dollar - Co-President,
Interactive Television Alliance
Tim Dunne - VP, Digital Media,
Nextel Communications, Inc.
Eugene Evans - President, Infinite
Ventures
Reed Freeman – Chief Privacy Officer,
Claria Corporation
Gerald Gordon -
President & CEO, Fairfax County Economic Dev. Authority
Rags Gupta - COO, Live365
Chris Haines - Managing Editor, USNews.com, U.S. News &
World Report
Stewart Halpern - Managing Dir., Digital Entertainment
Research, RBC Capital
Bill Holland - Washington Bureau Chief, Billboard Magazine
Mark Jacobs - CEO, Mythic Entertainment
Marc Juris - President, Fuse (a subsidiary of
Rainbow Media Holdings LLC)
Scott Kauffman - CEO, MusicNow
Marty Lafferty - CEO,
Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA)
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
Mark Myers - Vice President of
Strategic Alliances, Convera
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)
Laurence Roth - VP, Mktg & Bus.
Dev./Co-Founder, Cinea
(Dolby Labs subsidiary)
Warren Schlichting - Vice President, New Business Strategy,
Comcast
Dan Scherlis - CEO, Etherplay
Ari Schwartz - Director,
Consumer Democracy & Technology (CDT)
Ned Sherman - CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Media Wire
Paul Sherman - President & Publisher, Tech Wire Media Group
Sherrese Smith - Assoc. Gen. Counsel,
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Christina Tancredi, SVP
of Marketing, Advertising and Sponsorship Sales,
Music Choice
Yoav Tzruya - VP of Technologies &
Markets Strategy, Exent
Technologies
Stephen Warley - General Manager,
TVSpy (a Vault
service)
Debbie Weil - Publisher, WordBiz Report
Michael Weiss -
CEO, StreamCast Networks (owner, Morpheus P2P
software)
Gabe Zichermann - VP, Strategy & Communications, Trymedia
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o Briefly Noted: (Madrid)
Wayne Rosso, the former president of peer-to-peer file-sharing
software distributor Grokster, has resigned from his current role as
president of Optisoft, a Spanish company that distributes the
Blubster and Piolet file-sharing applications. Rosso reportedly
resigned amid disagreements over the company with Optisoft founder
Pablo Soto. Rosso also said that he is starting a new peer-to-peer
venture, but did not provide details on the new company.
http://p2pnet.net/story/1630
http://www.blubster.com
(Melville, N.Y.) Camera maker Nikon announced that it has
partnered with TiVo, a provider of digital video recorder services,
to offer TiVo subscribers the ability to view images from Nikon's
"Legends behind the Lens" series of photographs from world-renowned
artists through TiVo's home media features. TiVo announced yesterday
that it would make its home media features, which enable music,
movies and pictures stored on a TiVo to be displayed on home
entertainment systems, available to all of its subscribers at the
same cost as regular TiVo service.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040609/nyw144_1.html
http://www.tivo.com
http://www.nikonnet.com
(Sioux Falls, S.D.) LodgeNet, a provider of broadband interactive
television services to hoteliers, said on Thursday that it partnered
with television producer Scripps Networks to offer programs from
Food Network, Home & Garden Television, DIY and Fine Living in rooms
where LodgeNet's video-on-demand service is available. South
Dakota-based LodgeNet's "TV Unlimited" service is offered in more
than 2,200 U.S. hotels.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040610/cgth016_1.html
http://www.scripps.com
http://www.lodgenet.com
(San Francisco) Trymedia Systems, a provider of digital rights
management technology that protects music and video games
distributed on disc and through peer-to-peer services, announced on
Thursday that it has opened an office in London, and also moved into
a larger headquarters in San Francisco.
http://www.trymedia.com
(Seoul) Reuters on Thursday reported on the wave of new camera
phones being released in Asia that have resolutions of up to three
mexapixels, and how the higher-quality cameras may result in
decreased sales of standalone digital cameras. Casio will release a
3.2-megapixel camera phone in Japan this month, while other Asian
manufacturers including LG, Samsung and NEC are offering at least
two-megapixel camera phones. Although digital cameras are also rated
on factors like zoom, auto-focus and storage capacity, "the
emergence of the 3.2-megapixel phone will have a direct negative
impact on the digital camera market from three megapixels on down,"
J.P. Morgan analyst Hisashi Moriyama told Reuters.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V21D13788
(Manchester, England) The Manchester Evening News announced on
Thursday that its website received a record number of hits after
reporting on a comment made by former Smiths frontman Morrissey at a
concert in Dublin last weekend. After announcing to the crowd the
news of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's death, Morrissey added
that he wished it had been George W. Bush who had died instead. The
English paper also reported a record number of U.S. Internet users
posted comments relating to the story on its site, after it was
linked to on the U.S.-based Drudge Report.
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=124653
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N2A252288
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Classifieds: > #1 Mobile Media Firm in U.S. is Looking For LA
Sales Manager
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> Account Executive for Award Winning Marketing
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> Web Project Manager
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projects. All applicants must have hands-on interactive project
development skills and management experience. Clients include:
Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, World Bank, Arlington County, DEA,
and ATF. Send resumes to
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> Senior Financial Analyst
Online Resources, a leading provider of online banking to
financial institutions across the United States is looking for a
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expenses against budget; support management in the annual budget
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> Sr. Product Manager
Responsibilities: Develop and drive the product vision, product
plans and product management framework for the ARC DC product
line. Lead the cross-functional product management team in the
mgmt of product portfolio analysis, product development and
release schedules and feature list mgmt. through all aspects of
the product planning process. Require: Min. 7 yrs in the airline
industry with exp. in: Product Mgmt or project mgmt in : Airline
Marketing, Sales, Revenue Mgmt, Pricing, or Finance. Strong
leadership and team building skills. Must have at least a BA/BS
in business or technical field. Send resumes to
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