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January 21, 2005 --
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Michael Powell to Step Down as FCC Chairman
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EchoStar Buys Cablevision's Voom HD Satellite
TV Service for $200 Million
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Google Loses Keyword Ad Trademark Suit in France
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Napster Raises $52.2 Million in Private Share Placement
o Sirius Satellite Radio Extends
NBA Broadcast Deal
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Briefly Noted: Supreme Court -
MGM v. Grokster hearing date, Canadian Private Copying Collective -
Supreme Court appeal, Nvidia - Sony PlayStation 3, SoundExchange -
unclaimed royalties, CNET News.com - TrackBack, Academy of
Interactive Arts & Sciences - 8th Annual Interactive Achievement
Awards
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Job/Event/Marketplace Classifieds:
--Strategic Account Manager - E-business and Games
--Director - Online Panel (Research)
--Web Consulting/Business Development Manager, iapps Division
--Senior Manager of Business Development
--Public Relations Account Manager - Andover, MA
--Senior Account Executive - Technology PR
--ClearedJobs.Net - Security Cleared Professionals
--Sales, Mktng, And Bus Dev. Executives Association - New
England/Boston
--Senior Technical Project Manager
--Sr. Java Software Engineer
--OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit - Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2005
--Tech Global Venture Congress 2005 - Jan. 27-28
--PwC Global Entertainment and Media Outlook:
2004-2008
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o Michael Powell to Step Down as FCC
Chairman
Washington -- Michael Powell, the chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) for the past four years, said on
Friday that he will step down from his post in March. "Having
completed a bold and aggressive agenda, it is time for me to pursue
other opportunities and let someone else take the reins of the
agency," said Powell, the son of outgoing Secretary of State Colin
Powell. The FCC chairman has been lauded for his hands-off approach
to regulating new technologies, such as broadband, VoIP and Wi-Fi.
"The use of cell phones, digital televisions, personal video
recorders, and digital music players, is exploding. These devices
are increasingly connected anytime, anywhere by a wide variety of
broadband networks enabling a host of competitive services and new
applications," said Powell. But Powell was also criticized for the
Commission's controversial loosening of rules on media
consolidation, decision to mandate an anti-piracy "broadcast flag"
in new television technologies, and levying of record indecency
fines against broadcasters -- over issues including partial nudity
during a Super Bowl broadcast and the subject matter covered on
Howard Stern's radio show. Powell was appointed to the FCC by
President Clinton in 1997 and promoted to chairman by President Bush
in 2000. The Washington Post reported that Kevin Martin, a
Republican FCC member whose wife previously worked for Vice
President Dick Cheney, is the likely successor.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-256206A1.pdf
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U5F223B4A
http://tinyurl.com/6y666
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o EchoStar Buys
Cablevision's Voom HD Satellite TV Service for $200 Million
Englewood, Colo. -- EchoStar Communications, a provider of
satellite TV programming through its DISH Network service, announced
on Friday that it has purchased cable TV provider Cablevision's
Rainbow DBS, which operates the Voom satellite TV programming
service, for $200 million. Founded in 2003, Voom has touted itself
as offering the largest amount of high-definition programming, but
so far has lost $76 million and claims only 26,000 subscribers.
Under the terms of the deal, EchoStar will receive Cablevision's
Rainbow 1 satellite, in addition to the company's facilities in
Black Hawk, S.D. Colorado-based EchoStar said it is "assessing how
the Rainbow satellite's flexibility can best be utilized to enhance
DISH Network's existing service," but will maintain the service for
Voom customers at least during a transition period.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050120/205894_1.html
http://www.cablevision.com
http://www.echostar.com
http://www.voom.com
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o Google Loses
Keyword Ad Trademark Suit in France
Nanterre, France -- In a ruling that may affect Google's
successful keyword advertising business in the region, a French
court has ruled the company's AdWord service infringed on the
trademarks of French luxury hotel Le Meridien when it sold ads to
competitors triggered by Le Meridien's trademark. The company must
remove text ads placed by Le Meridien competitors that are launched
when users type "Le Meridien" into its search engine within 72
hours, or face a daily fine of $195. Google must also pay a fine of
$2,500 and cover Le Meridien's court fees. The French ruling is at
odds with a recent U.S. case, where last month a federal judge in
Virginia ruled that Google did not infringe on insurance company
Geico's trademarks with its keyword ads. Google plans to appeal the
French court's ruling. "We will continue to defend against this
suit, which we believe is without merit," Google said in a
statement.
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050120-191513
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/google_adword
http://tinyurl.com/648of
http://www.lemeridien.com
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o Napster
Raises $52.2 Million in Private Share Placement
Los Angeles -- Napster announced on Friday that it will raise
$52.2 million through the sale of 7.1 million of its shares to
undisclosed institutional investors. Los Angeles-based Napster was
formerly a unit of Roxio, a successful developer of CD and DVD
burning software. Owners sold that part of the business to Sonic
Solutions in August 2004 for $80 million, in a bid to focus on the
nascent digital music service. Napster said the proceeds from the
share sale will be used for the launch of its upcoming Napster To Go
portable subscription service, and for potential acquisitions.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050121/sff018_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050121/napster_financing_2.html
http://www.napster.com
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o Sirius
Satellite Radio Extends NBA Broadcast Deal
New York -- Sirius Satellite Radio, a provider of
satellite-delivered digital radio programming, announced on Friday
that it has extended a non-exclusive, multi-year agreement with the
National Basketball Association (NBA) to broadcast games on its
service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. New
York-based Sirius offers up to 40 NBA game broadcasts each week at
no additional charge over its $12.95 per month programming fee. The
NBA agreement includes the rights to broadcast the NBA playoffs and
finals.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050121/nyf096_1.html
http://www.sirius.com
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>DMW Events:
5th Annual
Digital Music Forum
March 2, 2005 | New York City
www.digitalmusicforum.com
Digital Music Forum is the premier
event for music industry decision-makers focused on business
models and legal issues impacting music. The annual event
brings together decision-makers from records labels, music
publishers, producers and distributors, technology companies,
wireless companies, rights organizations, industry bodies, radio,
advertising, attorneys, artists investors and venture capitalists
to examine the role of digital technologies in the future of
music.
FEATURED INTERVIEW:
Shawn Fanning - Founder & Chief Strategy
Officer, Snocap
with
Chris Anderson - Editor-in-Chief, Wired
KEYNOTES:
Terry McBride - CEO, Nettwerk Productions
David Goldberg - VP & General Manager, Music, Yahoo!
Mike Conte - General Manager, MSN Marketplaces, Microsoft
PANELISTS:
Brad Duea - President, Napster
Jeffrey Bronikowski - VP, Bus. Dev., eLabs, Universal Music
Group
Ted Cohen - SVP, Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Music
Thomas Gewecke - SVP, Digital Business Group, Sony BMG
Mike Gaumond - VP & General Manager, Motorola Media
Solutions
Brian Garrity - Senior Editor, Billboard
Gerd Leonhard - Co-Author, "The Future of Music" /
Senior Advisor, Sony Net Services
Phil Corwin - Chief Lobbyist, Sharman Networks (owner of
Kazaa)
Martin J. Elgison - Partner, Intellectual Property, Alston &
Bird
Steve Marks - General Counsel, RIAA
Jonathan Potter - Executive Director, Digital Media
Association
Robert Acker - VP, RealPlayer & Music Services, Real Networks
Gary Cohen - President, MusicNow
Peter Diemer - VP Sales & Marketing, Musicrypt.com
David Card - VP & Senior Analyst, Jupiter Research
John Kilcullen - President & Publisher, Billboard
Ned Sherman - CEO, Digital Media Wire
Nancy Beaton - GM, Wireless Music & Personalization, Sprint
Ralph Simon - Chairman of Americas, Mobile Entertainment Forum
Additional speakers & keynoters to be announced
PANEL TOPICS INCLUDE:
- THE STATE OF THE DIGITAL
UNION: The Outlook for Online & Mobile Music Markets
- LAWYERS, GEEKS & MONEY: The
Clash Between Technology & Copyright Law
- THE ONLINE MUSIC MARKET:
Competition, Business Models & Courting Consumers in a
Crowded Market
- THE MOBILE MUSIC MARKET: What
Does the Future Hold for this Booming Market?
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> Featured Advertisement:
>Billboard Music & Money
Symposium - March 3, 2005
The 4th annual Music &
Money Symposium will take place Thursday, March 3, at The St. Regis
Hotel in the heart of midtown Manhattan. As in past years, The
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management and Wall Street communities for a thorough examination of
trends and opportunities in music and digital entertainment.
This year's Symposium will include a candid, one-on-one discussion
between Loeb & Loeb co-chairman John Frankenheimer and Sony BMG
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For more information and to register online, please visit:
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o Briefly Noted: (Washington)
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled Tuesday, March 29 to hear oral
arguments in MGM Studios v. Grokster, the entertainment industry's
appeal of a landmark ruling that said providers of peer-to-peer
file-sharing software are not liable for any copyright infringement
committed by users of programs like Grokster and Morpheus. The
litigation against Grokster and Morpheus was launched in 2001 by a
number of movie studios and record labels, who maintain that at
least 90% of the activity on the services constitutes copyright
infringement.
http://tinyurl.com/5txwn
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/04-00480qp.pdf
(Toronto) The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) has
announced that it plans to appeal a ruling that threw out its levies
on the internal memory of digital audio players, like Apple's iPod,
to Canada's Supreme Court. The CPCC collects "private copying
levies" placed on devices sold in Canada that can be used to make
copies of music, and distributes them to artists and record labels.
Canada's Copyright Board decided in Dec. 2003 to begin imposing a
levy on sales of iPods and other audio devices with internal hard
drives, at a rate of $15 for between 1GB and 10GB, and $25 on
devices with greater than 10GB capacities. The Federal Court of
Appeal ruled the levy was invalid in Dec. 2004. "Creators of
recorded music deserve remuneration for the use of their work," said
CPCC chair Claudette Fortier. "It is our responsibility to uphold
that principle even when new developments in technology change the
ways in which Canadians make private copies of music."
http://cpcc.ca/english/pdf/AppealFCARulingDARs.pdf
(Los Angeles) Graphics chipmaker Nvidia will provide the graphics
processing unit for Sony's next-generation PlayStation video game
console, the website X-bit Labs reported. The move is a departure
for Sony, which has usually developed its own graphics systems
in-house. "We've been working with them to produce a version that is
customized specifically to connect that to the Cell processor, so
that they could work together," Nvidia head of corporate marketing
David Roman told X-bit Labs. "The timing and everything is up to
them to disclose, although we will have some products a little bit
later this year, so this is not that far in the future on the
development side." The Cell processor is being jointly developed by
Sony, IBM and Toshiba, and will figure as the heart of the new Sony
video game console.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/editorial/display/ces2005.html
http://www.nvidia.com
(Washington) SoundExchange, the recording industry entity set up
to collect royalties paid by webcasters to stream music online and
distribute them to artists and copyright holders, announced that it
has extended the deadline for artists to claim unpaid royalties from
the period 1996-2000 until July 2005. SoundExchange said over 30,000
artists -- including The Shangri-Las, SWV and Luscious Jackson --
have not yet registered to claim their royalties, which will be
forfeited it they fail to do so. "I was very pleased that the
SoundExchange Board voted to extend the pool release deadline until
July 2005, at the earliest, recognizing the immense challenge that
we face. The Board clearly understood our mission: playing catch-up
for 80 years of recordings without a performance right," said
executive director John Simson.
http://tinyurl.com/442d2
(San Francisco) Technology publisher CNET News.com said this week
that it has become the first major media entity to integrate
TrackBack link notification capability into its stories, allowing
readers to view the response of the blog community to its reporting
and analysis. TrackBack is an emerging protocol that allows websites
to automatically store records of any links which occur between
them.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050120/205328_1.html
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback
(Calabasas, Calif.) The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS)
on Friday announced finalists for its 8th Annual Interactive
Achievement Awards, recognizing the best video games of 2004 in over
30 categories. Nominees for Game of the Year include "Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas," "Half-Life 2," "Halo 2," "Katamari Damacy" and
"World of Warcraft." The winners will be announced on Feb. 1, during
the video game industry's D.I.C.E. Summit (Design, Innovate,
Communicate and Entertain) in Las Vegas.
http://www.dicesummit.org
http://www.interactive.org
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Classifieds --
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> Strategic Account Manager - E-business and Games
Boonty is an international company which develops and sells a
premium service video game downloading platform to major
Internet Access Providers and Portals. Your primary target:
increase sales on our partner's websites. In coordination with
the Sales director, you will work closely with our US partners
(ISP, portals) More info here.
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> Director - Online Panel (Research)
The Director will lead a team of people who deliver many key
aspects of our ZoomPanel product. ZoomPanel is a MarketTools
proprietary online panel community. Require: 3-5 years Direct
Marketing background. Internet marketing, consumer promotions
or marketing research experience preferred. Some classical
brand management experience at major packaged goods companies
preferred. Creative problem solving skills a must.
International business experience and foreign language skills
a plus. Strong communication skills, oral and written,
required. Must have the ability to handle multiple projects
simultaneously. Bachelors degree required, MBA strongly
preferred. Please email your resume and salary
history/requirements to
hr@markettools.com
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> Web Consulting/Business Development Manager, iapps Division
iapps is searching for a Web Consulting/Business Development
Manager for our Washington DC office. You will be responsible
for sales, cultivating new client opportunities and growing
our existing client base. Must be very experienced identifying
clients' web challenges and developing detailed written
technical specifications for pending client engagements.
Strong presentation skills required. Knowledge of
philanthropic/non-profit sector helpful. Send resumes to
jobs@iapps.com
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> Senior Manager of Business Development
Small but growing media software company, backed by leading
venture firms, seeks a business development manager to expand
the company's strategic software and technology partnerships
and develop new revenue opportunities. This person will
identify potential customers, present solutions to senior
media executives, and manage the BD process through contract
negotiation. Significant travel is required. MBA and 5 years
BD exp. preferred. Send resumes to
jobs@lightningcast.com
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> Public Relations Account Manager - Andover, MA
PAN Communications is a full-service, independent public
relations agency dedicated to increasing its clients'
visibility, market share and profits. Based in Andover, MA,
this mid-size firm has a nationwide client base and
specializes in creating and executing public relations
programs for Technology, Professional Services, Trade Show and
Consumer clients. The ideal candidate will have 5 to 7 years
experience in high technology public relations preferably in
an agency setting and a B.S./B.A. or equivalent is required.
Proven managerial experience is a must. Please send your
resume to HR@pancomm.com.
Visit our website at
http://www.pancommunications.com
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> Senior Account Executive - Technology PR
LaunchSquad, a tech-focused PR firm in San Francisco, is
seeking a high- energy, experienced media relations
professional to join our team. The senior account executive
will work directly with LaunchSquad's managing partners on
several of the company's clients. Duties will include writing,
media pitching, strategic planning, client relations, new
business activities, and other general client work. Require 3
to 7 years of tech PR exp., strong written and verbal
communications skills, strong media pitching skills, Analyst
relations exp., Client mgmt skills. Visit
http://www.launchsquad.com for more info. Please send a
resume and cover letter to
thesquad@launchsquad.com
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> ClearedJobs.Net - Security Cleared Professionals
ClearedJobs.Net, one of the fastest growing career portals
dedicated to the security cleared community seeks individuals
for permanent and contract opportunities with a wide range of
defense firms in the D.C. Metro Area. Current openings
include: Oracle DBA's, Software Engineers, Systems Engineers,
System Administrators, Network Engineers, and many others.
Learn more by visiting our Cleared Professionals Marketplace
at
http://www.ClearedJobs.Net Send resumes to
recruiting@clearedjobs.net
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> Sales, Mktng, And Bus Dev. Executives Association - New
England/Boston
Making a bad hiring decision can cost you tremendously - in
time required to manage that person (and managing the person
out) as well as in lost sales, missed marketing results, and
under-performing alliances. Come to this interactive session
with a panelist of acclaimed speakers who have been featured
on CNN, in the Wall St. Journal, Newsweek, and hundreds of
other journals on how to hire the best. This is also a great
opportunity to network with your fellow executives. Visit
NETSEA (http://www.netsea.org)
for more information - register today. Send inquiries to
ssao@netsea.org
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> Senior Technical Project Manager
The individual working in this exciting position will provide
admin. support to member firms in the new areas of industry
technology standards, electronic commerce security, process
automation, and innovative systems. He/she will assist in the
project mgmt. of tech advances, and products and services
which benefit members and their customers, while providing
staff support for various Committees. The incumbent must work
well with people. Bachelor's degree in engineering and a min
of 5 years of exp. reqd. Please submit your resume to
mmolinas@hirestrategy.com
or view this position on the web at
http://www.hirestrategy.com/quicklinks/hire235.asp
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> Sr. Java Software Engineer
A commercial product firm seeks a senior software engineer
with 7 plus years of exp. The firm strongly prefers a
candidate that has experience on both Unix/Linux and Windows
platforms and solid experience with at least 2 programming
languages and agile programming. This position requires direct
contribution in all phases of the life-cycle, including
specification, design, coding, unit test, integration and
system test, and documentation. Strong skills in developing
and executing on business requirements are needed. Please
submit your resume to
mmolinas@hirestrategy.com or view this position on the web
at
http://www.hirestrategy.com/quicklinks/hire237.asp
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> OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit
The OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit is the source of Linux
deployment information. This unique conference brings together
Linux system administrators and architects, corporate
developers, ISVs and vendors who want to explore practical
solutions for accelerating Linux deployment and increasing
Linux business across the enterprise. Jan 31- Feb 2, 2004,
Hyatt Hotel, Burlingame, California
http://www.osdllinuxsummit.org/btw
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> Tech Global Venture Congress 2005 - Jan. 27-28
The Technology Global Venture Congress is a two-day conference
designed to address the venture capital landscape, identify
current trends in innovation, learn key technologies and
scientific discoveries and discover emerging Technology
companies. More than 35 participating VC speakers, 8 panel
discussions, VIP Cocktail reception and networking. Jan 27-
28, Madison Square Garden , NYC. Special discounted rate
($450) for Tech Wire subscribers. Register
here. Send inquiries to
tech@saeclub.com
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> PwC Global Entertainment and Media Outlook:
2004-2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment and Media
Outlook: 2004-2008 is the leading global entertainment and
media industry forecast, including in-depth global analyses
and five-year growth projections for 14 industry segments
covering every major global region. The complete 550-page
book, is available in print or electronic format. The 50 page
"Global Overview" (available in print or electronic format)or
any of the 14 individual industry segment chapters (electronic
format only) can be purchased separately for $95. For sample
content and to order,
click here.
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