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o America Online Picks Jon Miller as New CEO
o Yahoo Buys 15% Stake in Finnish Wireless Portal Sonera Zed
o Canadian Booksellers File Motion in Protest of Amazon.ca Expansion
o Multiplayer Game Technology Firm Zona Raises $2 Million in Second Round
o NetRatings Buys Controlling Stake In French Competitor NetValue

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o Briefly Noted: IBiquity Digital - Command Audio, Jon Johansen, Kazaa -
100 million downloads, "Project Greenlight," Digital World Services - SDC,
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Movie-quality effects - TV shows, Australian law - Berman P2P hacking bill
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o America Online Picks Jon Miller as New CEO

Dulles, Va. -- AOL Time Warner on Tuesday named Jon Miller, a former top
executive at USA Interactive, as the new head of Virginia-based America
Online. Miller, who left USA Interactive for an e-commerce start-up in
June, will replace interim CEO Robert Pittman, who left the company last
month. Pittman resigned under pressure, just months after he was
dispatched by the parent company to help turn around its struggling
Internet unit. America Online has been plagued of late by slower
subscriber growth and a downturn in the online advertising industry.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020806/62440_1.html
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o Yahoo Buys 15% Stake in Finnish Wireless Portal Sonera Zed

Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Yahoo announced on Tuesday that it has acquired a 15
percent stake in Sonera Zed, a Finland-based wireless portal operator.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement gives Yahoo
the opportunity to acquire 100 percent of the company over the next two
years. The two companies have also entered into a commercial agreement to
deliver co-branded mobile services like ringtones, picture messages, Yahoo
Messenger and Yahoo Mail to European wireless subscribers. "We believe
that there are tremendous growth opportunities in consumer pay mobile
value added services in Europe and our objective, working co-operatively
with key mobile operators, is to become a significant player in this
area," said Yahoo Europe managing director Mark Opzoomer.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020806/60006_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/020806/200208060622000293_1.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-948556.html?tag=fd_top
http://www.zed.com
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o Canadian Booksellers File Motion in Protest of Amazon.ca Expansion

Toronto -- The Canadian Booksellers Association, along with retailer
Indigo Books & Music, have filed an application for judicial review in
Canadian Federal Court that would declare online retailer Amazon.com
subject to laws governing non-Canadian companies operating there and the
country's book policy. The Department of Canadian Heritage ruled in July
that the Amazon.ca operations -- instituted to save the company money on
shipping costs -- are not subject to the Investment Canada Act and the
Government's Book Policy. Seattle-based Amazon.com partnered with a unit
of Canada Post, the Canadian postal service, to fulfill a requirement that
non-Canadian companies work with Canadian firms when operating in the
country. "It is incredible that our Government could take the position
that a business of the scale and scope of Amazon.ca in Canada. would not
be subject to the Investment Canada Act and the Book Policy," said
Canadian Booksellers Association president Todd Anderson. "Our members,
including hundreds of small and medium-sized urban and rural retail
bookstores, are being denied the intent that the Act and Book Policy were
intended to provide."
http://www.cbabook.org/news/article.asp?id=24
http://www.indigo.ca
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-948578.html?tag=fd_top
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o Multiplayer Game Technology Firm Zona Raises $2 Million in Second Round

Redwood City, Calif. -- Zona, a provider of online multiplayer game
technology and game development support services, announced on Tuesday
that it has raised $2 million in its second round of venture capital
financing. Paralink Asset Management led the investment round. Redwood
City, Calif.-based Zona said the investment will be used to accelerate the
development of its worldwide sales organizations, with the opening of
offices in Japan and Korea. The company last week announced a partnership
with Taiwan-based Gamania Digital Entertainment, which developed the
"Lineage" massively multiplayer game title, to provide network support for
Gamania's next online multiplayer title.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/222180130&ticker=
http://www.zona.net
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o NetRatings Buys Controlling Stake In French Competitor NetValue

Milpitas, Calif. -- NetRatings, a provider of Internet audience
measurement services, announced that it has acquired a controlling
interest in French competitor NetValue, for $17.7 million. Milpitas,
Calif.-based NetRatings said that NetValue's services will be integrated
with its own; the company provides its services in nine countries with
over 200,000 panelists in Europe and Asia, and serves clients including
AOL, Amazon, Terra Networks, Deutsche Telecom and the BBC. "Having
successfully completed the operational integration of eRatings and Jupiter
MMXI's International audience measurement businesses, we anticipate a
smooth transition with NetValue that will enhance the range of services we
provide our clients," said NetRatings president and CEO William Pulver.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020805/sfm086_3.html
http://www.netvalue.fr
http://www.netratings.com
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(Columbia, Md.) IBiquity Digital, a developer of digital AM/FM broadcast
technology, said on Tuesday that it has acquired an exclusive license to
broadcast on-demand interactive technology from Redwood City, Calif.-based
Command Audio Corporation. Maryland-based IBiquity said the technology
will let radio broadcasters provide consumers with content-on-demand from
program selection via electronic guide to scanning content to pausing or
saving for later listening.
http://www.ibiquity.com/news/news_commandaudio.html
http://www.commandaudio.com

(Oslo) The Norwegian teenager accused of creating DeCSS, the controversial
computer code that can crack the security technology on DVD discs, will be
tried in Norwegian district court on Dec. 9. Jon Johansen's DeCSS code has
sparked a number of court cases in the U.S. challenging the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, such as that of 2600 magazine. The trial was
postponed for the summer while a technology-savvy judge was named to hear
the case; whichever judge is chosen will be accompanied at trial by a
panel of two lay assessors.
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=02/08/06/0843230
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case/

(Los Angeles) Peer-to-peer file-sharing network operator Sharman Networks,
which distributes the Kazaa file-sharing application, announced on Tuesday
that Kazaa has been downloaded a total of over 100 million times, as
measured by CNET Download.com. The controversial software has been
downloaded an average of 2 million times each week since April 2002.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/222180352&ticker=
http://www.kazaa.com

(Los Angeles) Miramax announced on Tuesday that it will produce another
"Project Greenlight" competition and motion picture in conjunction with
HBO and LivePlanet, the production company founded by actors Ben Affleck
and Matt Damon. Unlike the first contest, which featured one
writer/director winner, the second contest will feature one amateur
screenwriter and one amateur director who will be given a budget to
produce a feature film, with a making of the movie series to appear on
HBO. Submissions of screenplays and three-minute director reels will be
accepted on the website beginning Sept. 19.
http://www.miramax.com
http://www.projectgreenlight.com

(New York) Digital World Services, a division of Bertelsmann that provides
digital rights management technologies, announced on Tuesday that it has
partnered with Switzerland-based software firm SDC to develop Java-based
digital rights management software for the distribution of secure content
to mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes and PCs. The solution includes
software that protects music and video downloads to PCs and PDAs,
including Compaq iPAQ and Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus. The companies will
display the new technology next week at the Popkomm music trade show in
Cologne, Germany.
http://www.sdc.dk/sdcu/default_EN.asp
http://www.dwsco.com

(Redmond, Wash.) Microsoft said on Tuesday that game developer BioWare,
responsible for creating the multi-million selling roleplaying game
"Baldur's Gate," has signed an agreement with Microsoft Game Studios to
develop an exclusive title for the company's Xbox video game console.
Edmonton, Alberta-based BioWare, in conjunction with director George
Lucas' LucasArts, is also currently developing "Star Wars: Knights of the
Old Republic," a roleplaying game for the Xbox.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020806/sftu008_1.html
http://www.bioware.com

(Santa Fe Springs, Calif.) Memorex Products, a manufacturer of optical
storage products, announced on Tuesday that it worked with Ricoh to
develop a seven-in-one drive that, in addition to playing both DVDs and
CDs, supports DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, CD-R and CD-ROM formats. The Memorex DVD+RW/+R Internal ReWritable Drive will be sold at retail for $379.
http://www.memorex.com

(New York) New York Times Digital, the Internet unit of the newspaper
company, announced on Tuesday that Google's targeted Web search results
and sponsored links will be integrated into NYTimes.com and Boston.com
search results. When a user searches on either site, Google search results
and sponsored links will appear below links to articles relevant to the
search.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020806/62226_1.html

(Seattle) News site MSNBC.com said on Tuesday that it will provide a
direct feed of its video news coverage to Singingfish, an audio and video
search engine and subsidiary of Thomson multimedia. MSNBC will provide an
XML feed to Seattle-based Singingfish, using the recently adopted
international standard MPEG-7 metadata format.
http://www.msnbc.com
http://www.singingfish.com

(San Francisco) Wired News reported on Tuesday on the increasing
appearance of once prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to create
movie-quality visual effects in television productions, such as Fox's
"Firefly" and UPN's "Enterprise." "Technically, you could have done these
kinds of shots two or three years ago, but it would generally have cost
too much and taken too much time for TV," said Rob Bonchune, a supervising
special effects animator for EdenFX, which works on "Enterprise".
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,54329,00.html

(Melbourne) Australian newspaper The Age recently published an article
featuring the commentary of Australian legal experts on how a bill
proposed by U.S. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Ca.) that would provide legal
protection for entertainment companies that hack into peer-to-peer network
users' PCs -- to attempt to stem the unauthorized trading of copyrighted
content -- may violate Australian anti-hacking laws. "American movie,
recording and software executives could be prohibited from entering
Australia or extradited to face criminal charges."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/03/1028157861719.html
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deliver and exceed quotas in excess of $100M. Email resume to:
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Vice President, Product Development - Warner Bros. - Burbank, CA

VP to oversees all aspects of customer management, project management,
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sites and on-line collateral for WBOL clients. Set Product development
organization strategy and priorities. Build Customer relationships. BA
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jobs@fandango.com and indicate position title in the subject.
http://www.fandango.com.
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Creative Director - CareersFromHome.com - Los Angeles, CA

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Public Relations Coordinator - Gartner - San Jose, CA

Responsible for handling daily media inquiries in a timely manner and
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Management Supervisor - Grey Interactive - New York, NY

Award winning interactive agency seeks seasoned Management Supervisor with
Strong
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