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Report: U.S. Mobile Video Services to Generate $5.4 Billion by 2009
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Pirated Games, Modified Game Consoles Reaping Profits in China
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Report: One in Three U.S. Homes Will Have Video-on-Demand By 2008
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Bundled Broadband Services Provider RCN Files for Bankruptcy
o Survey: Brits Spend More on
Cell Phones than Gas, Electricity
o "American Idol" Series Breaks
Text-Messaging Event Record
o Report: Record Labels Cashing
In On Master Recording Ringtones
> DMW Announcements:
--Washington Digital Media Conference - June 18,
2004
> Featured
Advertisement:
--Digital Media Law Report - Volume 3 - March/April
--Tech/Marketing Writing For
Advanced Technologies - DC, MD, Nationwide
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Briefly Noted: Snip 'n Send,
Naked News - GoConnect, G-Net Media - Mag Rack, Speedco Shooting
Sports - National Rifle Association, Ubisoft - "Uru: The Path of the
Shell," Olympics - Euro 2004 - mobile multimedia
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Job/Event/Marketplace Classifieds:
--Sr. Product Manager
--Federal Business Development
--Tech/Marketing Writing For
Advanced Technologies - DC, MD, Nationwide
--IT Recruiter
--Technical Recruiter
--Project Manager
--PricewaterhouseCoopers' Entertainment and Media Outlook
--Senior Director - Corporate Communications
--Supplier Diversity Summit at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 21, Chicago,
IL
--Interoperability: Solutions and Best Practices, June 24 -
Orlando, FL
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o Report: U.S. Mobile Video Services
to Generate $5.4 Billion by 2009
Scottsdale, Ariz. -- Mobile video services in the U.S. are
expected to generate $5.4 billion in annual revenues by 2009, fueled
by greater bandwidth on 3G networks, and advances in compression
technologies and multimedia cell phones, says Arizona-based market
research firm In-Stat/MDR. A recent survey found that 13.2% of U.S.
wireless users are extremely or very interested in purchasing mobile
video services, whose availability is currently limited but will
expand with market launches in late 2004 and throughout 2005.
"Interest in mobile video is higher than for all other prospective
mobile multimedia services covered in this survey, including gaming
and music services," said In-Stat/MDR's Clint Wheelock. In-Stat/MDR
estimates that in 2009, 22.3 million Americans will be able to view
video on their cell phones, and 31.1 million will use video
messaging, adding to the projected 14.9% of total wireless data
revenues that will be generated by mobile video services.
http://www.instat.com/press.asp?ID=976&sku=IN0401657MCD
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o Pirated
Games, Modified Game Consoles Reaping Profits in China
Beijing -- While Sony's PlayStation 2 sells for $240 in China --
about a quarter of the average annual income of an urban worker --
and games go for between $24 and $50, illegally modified consoles
that sell for $180 and can play pirated games are outselling
official models by two or three times, Reuters reported. "The
scenario which occurs in the United States where the PS2 is cheaper
than the PC just doesn't work over here," said Chen Danian, COO of
Chinese online games firm Shanda Interactive Games. Although Sony
has only released six official PlayStation 2 games in China since
launching the console there in January, gamers can find most titles
on the black market for about $0.85 each. Sony rival Microsoft has
yet to launch its Xbox game console in China.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A12E12868
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Report: One in Three U.S. Homes Will Have Video-on-Demand By 2008
Boston, Mass. -- One in three U.S. homes will have
video-on-demand (VOD) services available to them by the end of 2008,
when VOD is available in 36.5 million digital cable homes, predicts
Boston-based research firm Yankee Group. Deployments in 2003 rose
70% from 2002, and 11.4 million homes are now capable of using
video-on-demand. The firm's estimate is a bit lower than an earlier
projection, due to increased desire among cable operators to focus
on other services like HDTV and digital video recording, which are
being aggressively deployed by their satellite TV rivals. Yankee
Group advises cable operators to market VOD more aggressively to
their subscribers, as well as expand their available content
libraries. Cable firms are also encouraged to continue to deploy
digital video recording set-tops, despite their somewhat negative
impact on the use of VOD, as that impact will be limited by
video-on-demand's broader content offering and ability to support
impulse viewing.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/public/home/daily_viewpoint.jsp?ID=11455
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o Bundled
Broadband Services Provider RCN Files for Bankruptcy
Princeton, N.J. -- RCN Corporation, a provider of bundled phone,
cable TV and high-speed Internet services in major U.S. markets,
announced on Thursday that it has filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy
protection, adding that it has reached agreements with key lenders
to reduce its debt from $1.66 billion to $480 million. The New
Jersey-based company said that Deutsche Bank Securities will provide
$460 in new financing when it emerges from bankruptcy, expected in
the fourth quarter of 2004. "We continue to believe that our
strategy of selling bundled services over a broadband network will
define the future of the industry," said RCN chairman and CEO David
C. McCourt. "RCN can reduce its debt and emerge as a stronger, more
efficient company, giving us a competitive advantage in the long
run."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040527/nyth046_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/040527/rcn_bankruptcy_2.html
http://www.rcntomorrow.com
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o Survey: Brits
Spend More on Cell Phone Bills than Gas, Electric
London -- According to a new survey by market research firm JD Power
and Associates, Brits are spending as much as $83 per month for
voice, text and other mobile phone services -- more than they
currently spend on gas or electricity. JP Power said the figures
show a remarkable 14% year-on-year increase. The British --
world-renown mobile phone aficionados -- spend even more on camera
phones, more than $99 a month, while prepaid customers are spending
a good deal less per month than their monthly contract counterparts
-- just over $44. JD Power also found that the popularity of
downloading ringtones continues to increase, with 17% of those
surveyed saying that they used the service. While 11% of the
respondents received news, weather reports and sports updates on
their mobile phones, only 7% have downloaded video games to their
handsets.
http://www.jdpower.com
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o "American
Idol" Series Breaks Text-Messaging Event Record
Redmond, Wash. -- Wireless carrier AT&T Wireless announced on
Thursday that its text-message voting feature for Fox's "American
Idol" TV series once again figured as the largest text-messaging
event by a single carrier, with 13.5 million messages sent during
the course of the season. The figure -- an 80% jump over last year's
7.5 million text messages -- includes fan mail, games, sweepstakes
entries and song dedications, in addition to actual votes. The
show's viewer voting structure has generated some controversy this
season, due to reports that many millions of phone votes haven't
been counted due to busy lines, possibly created by phone hackers.
"Our sponsorship of 'American Idol' is the seminal event that got
mainstream America text messaging," said Andre Dahan, president of
AT&T Wireless mobile multimedia services.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040527/sfth021_1.html
http://www.attwireless.com
http://idolonfox.com
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o Report:
Record Labels Cashing In On Master Recording Ringtones
London -- Record labels are beginning to see major profits from cell
phone ringtones, a market that previously benefited only publishers
but is now being cashed in on by labels through the introduction of
"sample" ringtones, which use actual snippets of the copyrighted
master recording, according to a report from London-based Informa.
Record labels are charging far more for sample ringtones -- as much
as four times -- than the average cost of a normal ringtone, or
between 25% and 55% of the total retail price. Some master recording
ringtones in Britain cost a whopping $7.35. "Demanding such high
percentage rates by the record companies could certainly lead to the
market being depressed," said Informa's Simon Dyson. Informa
projects that music industry revenues from ringtones will reach $5
billion in 2007, up from $3 billion last year.
http://www.informa.com
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z18E42968
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> DMW Events:
Washington
Digital Media
Conference
June 18,
2004
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Washington, DC
Register online or by Phone
www.digitalmediaconference.com
323-822-0936
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
more to come...
OVERVIEW
Media and entertainment companies are
going through a digital transformation, which is impacting
traditional business models and changing the way we distribute,
access and market media and entertainment.
Washington Digital Media Conference
brings
together decision-makers from the leading
media, entertainment and technology
companies in the Greater Washington, DC area
for a 1-day executive forum
focused on business, legal/policy and
technology
developments impacting digital media.
Get a unique view of the future of media and entertainment from
the inside. Gain insight into new business opportunities driving
the transformation of entertainment and media businesses. Take a
hard look at how traditional challenges to sustainable business
models are dissolving, only to be replaced by new obstacles, and
how we can prepare now to overcome them. Examine media and
entertainment-based technologies emerging today and explore how
these technologies are driving the transformation of the media
and entertainment industries.
How are traditional business models being
reinvented? What are the challenges and opportunities involving
digital media? What do you need to do to stay competitive in the
technology age? Be a part of this inaugural event, which brings
together the business and government leaders who are transforming
the Greater Washington, DC area into a center for digital media
innovation and development.
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>Tech/Marketing Writing For
Advanced Technologies - DC, MD, Nationwide
Oppenheimer Communications
documents/markets new hardware and software, including user
interfaces and internal system design (APIs, communications
protocols, register control in ASICs). Users guides, reference
manuals, online help, design/functional specs, white papers, data
sheets, product briefs. For both instruction and sales,
Oppenheimer Communications can craft the ideas and images that
inform and persuade. Visit www.OpComm.com. Contact Info: Contact
Steven@OpComm.com or call 301 468-9233
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o Briefly Noted: ((Palo Alto,
Calif.) Snip 'n Send, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up, announced
on Thursday the launch of a service that lets users create cell
phone ringtones based on songs from their personal CD collections.
The ringtones are created using a Web-based application and then
sent to users' phones for $1.49 each. Mobile portal Primetones.com
will be the first to offer the service, which Snip 'n Send says "is
not designed, or intended, to foster unlawful copying of copyrighted
recordings."
http://www.primetones.com/snip-n-send.asp
(Toronto) Naked News, a television news show hosted by nude
anchors, on Thursday announced a distribution partnership with
GoConnect to deliver its programming to cell phones. Users of Pocket
PCs or smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile, who subscribe
to Australia-based GoConnect's m-Vision service, will receive over
200 minutes per month of Naked News video news and entertainment
segments.
http://www.m-vision.tv
http://www.nakednews.com
(New York) G-Net Media, a produce and publisher of video
game-related programming, said on Thursday that it has partnered
with Mag Rack, Rainbow Media's magazine-format video-on-demand
service, to launch 24seven gamer, a Mag Rack program featuring video
games. The service, available in limited deployments from operators
including Cablevision, Charter, Comcast and Insight, will offer
strategy guides, reviews and coverage of the recent E3 convention.
http://www.g-net.tv
http://www.magrack.com
(Grapevine, Texas) Speedco Shooting Sports, a rifle manufacturer
and video game developer, announced on Thursday that it has signed
an agreement with the National Rifle Association (NRA) to sponsor
"Varmint Hunting," a new title that is one of thirteen currently in
development by the company. Texas-based Speedco has thus far
released one game, the massively multiplayer online PC title "Xtreme
Accuracy Shooting."
http://www.nra.org
http://www.speedcoshooting.com/Pages/Games/speedco_games.htm
(San Francisco) Video game publisher Ubisoft said that it will
release the final expansion pack in its "Uru: Ages Beyond Myst" PC
game franchise on July 13. "Uru: The Path of the Shell" was
developed at Spokane, Wash.-based Cyan Worlds, and will be offered
on its own as well as in a boxed set of all titles called "Uru:
Complete Chronicles."
http://www.ubi.com/US/News/news_2004-26-05_uru_shell.htm
(Amsterdam) The Olympic Games in Athens and Euro 2004 soccer
championship in Portugal this summer will showcase a wealth of both
online and wireless audio and video services, Reuters reported.
Wireless carrier T-Mobile will offer subscribers video or photo
highlights of a favorite soccer team for $5.43. "For us this is a
great opportunity to show to our customers the photo and video
services they can get on their mobile phone," said Pim van der Feltz,
a marketing director at T-Mobile. For its part, the European
Football Association is offering live streaming audio commentary
from all 31 games, plus video highlights, for just under $20. The
Olympics won't be streamed online due to broadcast TV deals, but
Samsung and carrier Cosmote are developing the first wireless portal
that will provide Olympics schedules, medal tallies, maps and
athlete biographies to cell phones.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K13E42868
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Classifieds:
> 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
jobs@arccorp.com
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> Federal Business Development
Successful candidates must possess 5 plus years in major account
sales of computer related systems or software of which 3 plus
years selling information technology services to corporate and
government clients. Salary to 90k plus 150 comp plan. MD, DC, VA.
Strong Federal Government Exp Clearance Pref. Send resumes to
mark@allandavidrecruiters.com
_________________>Tech/Marketing Writing For
Advanced Technologies - DC, MD, Nationwide
Oppenheimer Communications
documents/markets new hardware and software, including user
interfaces and internal system design (APIs, communications
protocols, register control in ASICs). Users guides, reference
manuals, online help, design/functional specs, white papers, data
sheets, product briefs. For both instruction and sales,
Oppenheimer Communications can craft the ideas and images that
inform and persuade. Visit www.OpComm.com. Contact Info: Contact
Steven@OpComm.com or call 301 468-9233
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> IT Recruiter
Our client is a $1 Billion IT consulting firm with local offices
in Tysons Corner, VA. Seeking an IT recruiter to help scout
talent for open IT requirements. 2-3 yrs of IT recruiting
experience is desired but not required. 1-5 years of some type of
recruiting experience is required, can be from contract or perm,
IT or Acctg/Fin, or any professional level placements. Must have
agency experience, comp is half base half commissions. Send
resumes to
brock_boyd@cmicareers.com
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> Technical Recruiter
ProLink is seeking energetic Technical Recruiters with past exp.
sourcing, screening & qualifying IT professionals. Min. 3 plus
yrs of recruiting exp. using Internet recruiting tools,
networking & direct headhunting skills; Proven track record
recruiting from the systems integration consulting industry and
through your established network; Effective negotiation and
closing skills. EOE offering a competitive compensation and
benefit package. Send resumes to
resumes@prolinkservices.com
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> Project Manager
The SAVVIS Project Manager is responsible for managing the
client relationship with respect to all aspects of service
delivery. Key qualifications include 2-4 years of working
experience in Project and/or Program Management position with
demonstrated evidence of ability to manage large projects.
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience Technical
Certification (PMP, CCNA, MCP, CISSP) desirable. Please send
resumes to amiller@savvis.net
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> PricewaterhouseCoopers' Entertainment and Media Outlook
Purchase the book every entertainment and media executive must
have. The PricewaterhouseCoopers' Entertainment and Media
Outlook: 2003-2007 analyzes key trends and forecasts spending in
the U.S. and Canada across 14 industry segments, including a
Global Overview that forecasts spending and analyzes trends
worldwide (also sold separately).
More
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> Senior Director - Corporate Communications
Direct and manage the Corporate Communications Team's
strategic planning, researching, writing and editing of all
press releases, bylined articles, collateral, client success,
internal communications and other creative pieces regarding
Manugistics' demand and supply chain management solutions and
services.. This person will be the primary contact for Media
Relations, manage global press release calendar and manage the
outside PR Firm. Proven experience communicating and interacting
at the Executive level and ability to develop and execute
Corporate Communication Plans. 10-12 years of exp. in Marketing,
PR or Media Relations. Experience with technology or software is
highly desirable. Please send resumes to
Lmartin@manu.com
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> Supplier Diversity Summit at SUPERCOMM 2004, June 21, Chicago,
IL
The Supplier Diversity Summit at SUPERCOMM 2004 in Chicago is a
forum for MWDVBEs and corporate supplier diversity teams to stay
current on the latest business, political, regulatory and
technical activities in the telecommunications industry. For more
information on the summit, visit
http://www.tiaonline.org/events/supplierdiv2004.cfm
Send inquiries to
lream@tiaonline.org
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> Interoperability: Solutions and Best Practices, June 24 -
Orlando, FL
Are you trying to reach the first responders marketplace?
Showcase your Interoperability solution to potential buyers,
Government Procurement /Acquisition officials, at this event.
Dereck Orr, Chief of Staff for the SAFECOM project, DHS and Gary
Rogers, Program Manager, DHS - ODP will keynote. Register at
http://www.aeanet.org/events/fljs_tdc062404.asp Send
inquiries to
jennifer_gabriel@aeanet.org
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