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o Nokia to Introduce Video Game/Cell Phone Hybrid Device
o Internet Relay Chat Network DALnet to Ban File-Sharing
o Hearing Scheduled in Verizon, RIAA Dispute Over Subscriber Identity
o TiVo Ups Price of "Lifetime" Membership to Program Guide Service
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> Featured: Game Developers Conference Mobile, I.D. Magazine
o Briefly Noted: MPEG-4 Systems Patent Portfolio License, 2003 Interactive
Achievement Awards, Overture - ESPN.com, Verizon Wireless - ABC TV, Star
Wars Fan Film Awards, Palm Digital Media - Lightning Source, THQ -
"Summoner: A Goddess Reborn," Electronic Arts - "Battlefield 1942: The
Road to Rome," IFilm, Espial, "The Sims Online"
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> Events: Digital Music Forum: March 3 | NYC, Games & Mobile Forum:
April 28 | NYC, Global Entertainment & Media Summit
> Marketplace: 2000 Honda Accord, Entertainment & Corporate Legal
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o Nokia to Introduce Video Game/Cell Phone Hybrid Device
London -- Mobile phone maker Nokia on Wednesday plans to unveil a mobile
phone that doubles as a handheld gaming device, a multi-billion dollar
market dominated by Japan's Nintendo, Reuters reported. Nokia's first
product, called N-Gage, will be similar to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance,
the top-selling mobile gaming device on the market. Nokia will begin
publishing games for the device on "wafer-sized memory cards," with Sega
coming on to publish a "Sonic the Hedgehog" title for N-Gage.
http://shorterlink.com/?RZFWOB
http://www.nokia.com
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o Internet Relay Chat Network DALnet to Ban File-Sharing
San Francisco -- DALnet, an Internet relay chat (IRC) network that has
been online since 1994, has told its users that it will soon ban
file-trading on its network, Wired News reported on Tuesday. As of March
1, chat rooms on DALnet dedicated to file-trading will be prohibited;
about 300 music and 50 movie-trading rooms were active on Tuesday. "What
it comes down to is that DALnet is an Internet relay chat network, and not
a file-sharing network," DALnet's chief operations officer, who is known
as MirclMax, told Wired News. "There are plenty of other places people can
go to find/trade files. DALnet is the place to go for people who want to
chat."
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57542,00.html
http://www.dal.net
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o Hearing Scheduled in Verizon, RIAA Dispute Over Subscriber Identity
Washington -- U.S. District Judge John Bates has set a hearing date of
February 13 in a dispute between Internet service provider Verizon and the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Verizon has appealed
Bates' ruling ordering it to turn over the identity of an alleged music
file-trader to the RIAA; the company has also petitioned for a stay of
Bates' Jan. 21 order. The RIAA has until Feb. 7 to respond to Verizon's
request for a stay, and then Verizon has until Feb. 11 to submit further
comments.
http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/court-schedules.html
http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/02-ms-323.pdf
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o TiVo Ups Price of "Lifetime" Membership to Program Guide Service
San Jose, Calif. -- TiVo, maker of personal video recorders that let
viewers pause and record live television, has raised the cost for
purchasing a "lifetime" membership to its service -- which automatically
updates TV program listings -- from $249 to $299. The fee covers the
"life" of the actual device, not the subscriber, and averages about four
years, according to the company. The price hike is likely an effort to get
consumers to opt for its more lucrative $12.95 monthly service.
http://www.tivo.com/2.0.asp
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Briefly Noted:
(Denver) MPEG LA, a group of technology firms holding patents on emerging
MPEG-4 video technology, announced on Tuesday the availability of its
MPEG-4 Systems Patent Portfolio License. The license "provides fair,
reasonable, nondiscriminatory access under a single license to essential
MPEG-4 Systems intellectual property owned by many patent holders,"
including Apple, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
(ETRI), France Telecom, Philips, Mitsubishi, Samsung and Sun Microsystems.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/230350337&ticker=
http://www.mpegla.com/mpeg4s/m4s_agreement.html
(Los Angeles) The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) on
Tuesday announced finalists for its 2003 Interactive Achievement Awards,
to be held in Las Vegas on Feb. 27 as part of the D.I.C.E. Summit (Design,
Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) on game design. In addition to the Hall
of Fame award, which this year will go to Sega's Yu Suzuki, awards will be
given for the overall game of the year, as well as top PC and console
titles, as voted on by Academy members. A full list of finalists is
available at the link below.
http://www.interactive.org/awards/6th_annual.asp
(Pasadena, Calif.) Overture Services, a provider of pay-for-performance
search engine listings, announced on Tuesday an exclusive two-year
agreement with sports site ESPN.com to provide paid search listings.
ESPN.com will feature Overture search boxes throughout its site, and will
offer up to seven Overture results under a delineated "sponsored links"
heading. Pasadena-based Overture's listings are culled from a base of
73,000 advertisers who bid for placement on keywords relevant to their
business
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030204/40141_1.html
http://www.overture.com
http://www.espn.com
(Bedminster, N.J.) Verizon Wireless announced on Tuesday a promotion that
will see its products featured in an episode of the ABC TV comedy series
"8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter." The company will use the
Feb. 11 episode of the program to promote its "The Simple Ways to Win
Sweepstakes," asking viewers to observe how characters in the show use
their Verizon Wireless phones, and submit their answers on ABC.com.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030204/nytu083_1.html
http://abc.abcnews.go.com/primetime/8simplerules/verizon/index.html
(San Rafael, Calif.) Lucasfilm, director George Lucas' production company,
and online short films site Atom Films announced on Tuesday the second
annual Star Wars Fan Film Awards, recognizing the best Star Wars-related
films created by fans of the film franchise. George Lucas will once again
choose the competition's best overall entry, while Atom Films will host
the films and handle submissions. Winners will be announced at the
Comic-Con International comic book and pop culture convention, taking
place in San Diego July 17-20.
http://www.starwars.com/community/news/2003/02/news20030203b.html
http://www.starwars.atomfilms.com
(Maynard, Mass.) Palm Digital Media, a unit of handheld device maker Palm,
said on Tuesday that it partnered with Lightning Source, a provider of
digital content distribution services, to offer a selection of classic
literature that gives students, teachers and administrators unlimited use
of up to 500 e-books for an entire school year. The Classics Collection
will offer a range of titles, available for licensing starting from $499
per year for 250 titles.
http://www.lightningsource.com
http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com
(Calabasas Hills, Calif.) Game developer THQ said on Tuesday that it
shipped "Summoner: A Goddess Reborn" for Nintendo GameCube to retailers.
The title is based on Illinois-based developer Volition's "Summoner"
role-playing game franchise, and was developed for THQ by Seattle-based
Cranky Pants Games.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030204/40214_1.html
http://www.crankypantsgames.com
(Redwood City, Calif.) Video game developer Electronic Arts announced on
Tuesday that it shipped "Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome," a
multiplayer expansion pack for its popular "Battlefield 1942" PC title, to
retail stores. Sweden-based game developer Digital Illusions created the
game for Redwood City, Calif.-based Electronic Arts.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030204/40143_1.html
http://www.dice.se/start_ie.jsp?language=en
(Los Angeles) IFilm, a provider of online short films and movie clips, as
well as movie marketing services, announced on Tuesday that it has
appointed Adam Frank as CEO of the company. Frank previously served as
chief operating officer under exiting CEO Kevin Wendle, who will remain on
the company's board and executive management committee. Los Angeles-based
IFilm also announced that it achieved profitability for the 2002 fiscal
year.
http://www.ifilm.com
(Ottawa, Canada) Espial, a provider of embedded software for delivering
interactive programming to TV and wireless devices, announced that it has
named former OpenTV president and chief operating officer Martin Leamy as
its new CEO. Ottawa-based Espial's co-founder Jaison Dolvane was named
president, and will focus on strategic initiatives and corporate
development.
http://www.espial.com/index.php?page=news_pr&viewpr=208
(Los Angeles) The Los Angeles Times on Tuesday reported on "The Sims
Online," the much-hyped online version of the top-selling PC simulation
game from Electronic Arts that has thus far seen lackluster sales and
reviews. Since its release in December, 105,000 software units were sold;
of these, 80,000 played the 30-day free trial, and now only 40,000 of
these are actually paying the game's $10 monthly subscription. Electronic
Arts is now working quickly to change the online game, adding or removing
elements based on feedback from players. "Do I wish we shaped the
expectations differently? Of course," Gordon Walton, the game's executive
producer, told The Times. "But all we can do now is cope with what's
happened. The way we're doing that is to give players what they want as
quickly as we can."
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-sims4feb04001428,0,1150747.
story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
http://www.ea.com/eagames/official/thesimsonline/home/index.jsp
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