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o TiVo
Chief Executive Ramsay to Step Down
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SightSound Seeks Injunction to Shut Down
Napster Over Patent Dispute
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Vivendi Universal Games Lays Off 89 French Workers
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Report: E-Book Sales Up 25%; 2004 Bestsellers Include 4 Dan Brown
Titles
o Chinese Mobile Games Firm
C-Valley Gets Investments From Jamdat, THQ
o Network Video Processing Firm
RGB Networks Raises $12 Million
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Briefly Noted: Nintendo DS -
Australia, The Music Freedom Project, MSN - Moreover Technologies,
United Talent Agency - video game industry, Virgin Digital - Foot
Locker - Island Def Jam, Digimarc, Ziff Davis Media Game Group - 1UP
Awards, Ubisoft - "Myst V: End of Ages," Ad-free Google scraper
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o TiVo Chief Executive Ramsay to Step
Down
Alviso, Calif. -- TiVo, a provider of digital video recorder
equipment and services, announced on Wednesday that co-founder,
chairman and CEO Mike Ramsay will step down from his position as
CEO. Ramsay will retain his title as chairman and remain CEO until a
successor can be named, while the company has hired Howard Fischer
Associates to aid in the search. "I believe it is a natural
evolution of any company to have a transition of leadership as the
company grows and matures," said Ramsay. "The time is right for me,
personally and professionally, to bring in an outstanding chief
executive officer to lead the company so that I can focus on future
strategy." Alviso, Calif.-based TiVo claimed 2.3 million customers
for its digital video recorder service as of October, and recently
announced a new service that allows subscribers to port their
recorded TV programs to a desktop PC or laptop for viewing while
away from home.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050112/sfw051_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050112/tivo_ceo_2.html
http://www.tivo.com
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o SightSound
Seeks Injunction to Shut Down Napster Over Patent Dispute
Los Angeles -- SightSound Technologies, a company that holds
patents on the process of selling digital audio and video over the
Internet, announced on Wednesday that it has filed a preliminary
injunction against Napster, asking a judge to shut down the digital
music service while a patent infringement lawsuit is considered. In
a statement, SightSound president and CEO Scott Sander said that
Napster sidelined negotiations with his company for a license of its
audio technologies by demanding the free inclusion of a video
license at the eleventh hour. "This lawsuit is the regrettable
outcome of a long process that could have been resolved amicably,"
said Sander. "It is surprising that Napster has taken this road
given that it seems to have been working to restore its brand
value." Sander added that he believes Napster may now request a
reexamination of SightSound's patents with the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office. Last February, SightSound won a settlement in a
six-year-old patent dispute with Bertelsmann subsidiaries CDnow and
N2K. A hearing on Pennsylvania-based SightSound's request for an
injunction against Napster has been scheduled for March 3 before the
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
http://www.sightsound.com
http://www.napster.com
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o Vivendi
Universal Games Lays Off 89 French Workers
Paris -- Vivendi Universal Games, the video game publishing unit
of the Franco-American media conglomerate, told French newspaper Les
Echoes that it plans to lay off 89 employees in France, Reuters
reported. A Vivendi lawyer told Les Echoes that the company had
already transferred most of the affected workers to Coktel, a studio
that the company currently owns but is expected to sell off. The
cuts come just six months after Vivendi laid off a total of about
380 workers, mostly from its U.S. operations. On a brighter note,
Vivendi's Blizzard unit has seen record sales for its recently
released massively multiplayer online roleplaying title, "World of
Warcraft."
http://tinyurl.com/52vnc
http://www.vugames.com
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o Report:
E-Book Sales Up 25%; 2004 Bestsellers Include 4 Dan Brown Titles
New York -- The Open eBook Forum, a trade group of publishers and
e-book technology vendors, on Wednesday announced continued growth
for the industry, with e-book revenues for the third quarter of 2004
up 25% over the same period in 2003, to $3.2 million. The total
number of e-books sold during the period topped 419,999, up 11% over
the same period in 2003. The group also announced the top-selling
e-books of 2004 -- a list dominated by author Dan Brown -- whose
"The Da Vinci Code" and three other titles took the top four spots
on the roster. Other top e-book sellers during 2004 included Isaac
Asimov's "I, Robot," two titles from Greg Bear, a digital bible and
two digital dictionaries.
http://www.openebook.org/bestseller/year04.htm
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o Chinese
Mobile Games Firm C-Valley Gets Investments From Jamdat, THQ
Beijing -- Chinese wireless entertainment distributor C-Valley on
Wednesday received strategic investments from two American firms,
Los Angeles-based Jamdat Mobile and Calabasas Hills, Calif.-based
THQ Wireless -- both also distributors of mobile games. The
financial details of the investments were not disclosed. Both
companies will benefit from having their wireless game titles
distributed in China through C-Valley, which has relationships with
leading Chinese mobile operators China Mobile and China Unicom.
Other C-Valley investors include Japan's Access Co., a mobile
content delivery provider, and mobile game developer Tose Co.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050112/125399_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050112/law043_1.html
http://www.jamdat.com
http://www.thqwireless.com
http://www.c-valley.com.cn
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o Network Video
Processing Firm RGB Networks Raises $12 Million
San Mateo, Calif. -- RGB Networks, a maker of network video
processing systems, announced that it has secured more than $12
million in a new round of funding, co-led by Comcast Interactive
Capital and venture capital firm Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners. The
round also includes investments from Accel Partners and Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers. San Mateo, Calif.-based RGB's video
processing and bandwidth management products enable cable operators
and telcos to deliver and manage advanced services such as video on
demand.
http://rgbnetworks.com/news/pr_01_11_05.html
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March 2, 2005 | New York City
www.digitalmusicforum.com
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models and legal issues impacting music. The annual event
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publishers, producers and distributors, technology companies,
wireless companies, rights organizations, industry bodies, radio,
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UNION: The Outlook for Online & Mobile Music Markets
- LAWYERS, GEEKS & MONEY: The
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- THE ONLINE MUSIC MARKET:
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- THE MOBILE MUSIC MARKET: What
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o Briefly Noted: (Tokyo)
Japanese video games firm Nintendo has announced that it will launch
its DS handheld video game system in Australia on Feb. 24. The DS is
already available in the U.S. and Japan, and will sell in Australia
for a relatively cheap $152. Nintendo is expected to announce
details for the device's European launch later this month. The
company said it has now shipped over 2.8 million DS systems in the
U.S. and Japan.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=6232
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/11/nintendo_ds_oz_date
(Los Angeles) The Music Freedom Project has announced the launch
of an alternative music licensing service, designed to provide
webcasters and small AM/FM stations with music that they may
broadcast without having to pay thousands in royalties. Artists that
join in the project will make their music freely available in return
for online radio promotion, which in theory will increase CD sales.
So far, over 100 artists on labels such as Comfort Stand, Ronin
Collective and Camomille have signed up for the project, including
Seksu Roba, Wild Acoustic Chamber Orchestra (WACO) and Beef Humper.
http://i-newswire.com/pr2602.html
http://www.musicfreedomproject.com
(San Francisco) Microsoft's MSN has partnered with San
Francisco-based Moreover Technologies on a new service that will
allow users to search for blogs and syndicate blog content using the
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) format, CNET News.com reported.
Microsoft on Tuesday quietly launched a test of the service, which
is similar to one rival Yahoo recently began offering that lets My
Yahoo subscribers add RSS feeds from blogs to their personalized
news headlines. Microsoft will let users who have set up their own
blogs using its Spaces service add feeds from other blogs to their
own sites.
http://tinyurl.com/6vmex
http://www.moreover.com
(Beverly Hills, Calif.) Hollywood talent agency United Talent
Agency (UTA) announced on Wednesday that it has hired Jonathan
Epstein, president and CEO of GameSpot.com, to open a San Francisco
office for the agency to pursue opportunities in the convergence of
video games, filmed entertainment and marketing and advertising.
Epstein also served as president of GameSpy, which later merged with
IGN Entertainment. "Our strategy in adding Jon to the agency and
establishing UTA in the geographic heart of the video gaming
industry is to build a deeper, more effective relationship between
the games industry, Hollywood and brands who are seeking innovative
marketing solutions," said UTA board member Jeremy Zimmer.
http://www.unitedtalent.com
(Los Angeles) Virgin Digital, a unit of Sir Richard Branson's
Virgin Group, said on Wednesday that it has partnered with athletic
retailer Foot Locker on a promotion that will offer consumers free
downloads of tracks from Island Def Jam artists. Under the deal,
Foot Locker customers will receive 30-day free trials to Virgin
Digital, where they can download exclusive tracks from Def Jam
artists like Ludacris, LL Cool J and Ja Rule. Virgin Digital will
also power a Foot Locker Radio streaming station on its website, and
offer Foot Locker coupons in Virgin Megastore bag inserts.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050111/latu064_1.html
http://www.virgindigital.com
(Beaverton, Ore.) Digimarc, a provider of digital watermarking
and tracking technology for audio and video, announced on Wednesday
that it recently signed its third deal with a U.S. movie studio to
provide digital watermarking services to help track usage
compliance. The company's technology embeds an invisible watermark
into the video image that can be used to identify the source of
leaks in the production channel and on Internet file-sharing
services.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050112/125239_1.html
http://www.digimarc.com
(San Francisco) Ziff Davis Media Game Group, a publisher of video
game magazines including Electronic Gaming Monthly, Computer Gaming
World and Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, on Wednesday announced
winners of its second annual 1UP Awards. Readers cast over 250,000
votes online, naming Bungie Studios' "Halo 2" Game of the Year, as
well as top Online/Multiplayer title and Best Shooter game. Other
winners included Blizzard's "World of Warcraft" for top Massively
Multiplayer title, Microsoft's "Fable" for top Role Playing game and
Activision's "Tony Hawk's Underground 2" for best Sports/Extreme
Sports game. A full list of winners is available at the link below.
http://www.1up.com
(San Francisco) Video game publisher Ubisoft announced on
Wednesday that it will release the final title in its "Myst" game
franchise in the fall of 2005. Spokane, Wash.-based developer Cyan
Worlds, creator of the Myst franchise, is currently developing "Myst
V: End of Ages" for PC and Mac.
http://www.cyanworlds.com
http://myst5.ubi.com
(San Francisco) The Register recently reported on an ad-free
version of Google developed by a programmer who thinks a non-profit
version of the search engine should be available to Internet users.
"Google scrapes billions of web pages and doesn't ask permission
before making the cache copies available. This scraping is used as a
carrier for the ads that make Google stinkin' rich," programmer
Daniel Brandt writes in the source code for his Google scraper
application. "It's time for Google to give something back to the
public sector."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/11/open_source_google_scraper
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
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> Product Marketing Manager- Sorrent (Mobile Games)
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Blogdigger, a real-time search engine for syndication
technologies, seeks business partner to join technical
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> Account Executive - Inside Sales
The SAVVIS Account Executive is accountable for selling all
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> Channel Manager
Netezza is looking a for high energy individual to recruit,
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