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o Report Shows Growth of U.S. Internet Penetration Slowing
o Princeton Researcher to Present Controversial SDMI Findings
o Publisher Ziff Davis Media Replaces CEO
o California Legalizes Online Horserace Wagering
o Corporate Streaming Services to Generate $5 Billion by 2005
o High-Speed Cable 'Net Access Jumps in Second Quarter
> DMW Panel Discussion: Microsoft vs. AOL | August 30 | D.C.
> DMW Panel Discussion: iTV | Sept. 5 | New York
o Briefly Noted: Xbox delay, Nintendo Pokemon Crystal, Print-on-demand,
Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, Liberty Livewire - Lockheed Martin,
Intel, Arcade Planet - Yahoo Games, Google competitors
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o Report Shows Growth of U.S. Internet Penetration Slowing

Milpitas, Calif. -- The number of U.S citizens accessing the Internet from
their homes rose 16 percent last year, from 88.2 million last July to
102.1 million last month, according to recently published figures from
measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. The figures represent a slowdown,
when compared with the 41 percent rise in home Internet access between
1999 and 2000. Currently, 58 percent of Americans have home Internet
access, up from 39 percent in 1999.
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/hot_of_the_net.htm
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o Princeton Researcher to Present Controversial SDMI Findings

Washington, D.C. -- Princeton researcher Edward Felten will present his
findings that describe weaknesses in copyright protection technologies
developed by the recording industry on Wednesday, despite a threat from
the RIAA and technology developer Verance that doing so may result in
legal action. Felten's paper will be presented at the USENIX Security
Symposium in Washington; Felten and USENIX in June filed suit asking a
federal court to rule that he and other scientists should be able to
present their research at conferences without fear of legal repercussions,
which could include prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act. The DMCA states that circumventing a copy-protection technology can
be considered a criminal offense, a provision that is currently seeing its
first use in the case of Russian hacker Dmitry Sklyarov, who currently
faces such charges from the Justice Department. Felten's research was part
of a challenge posed by the recording industry's Secure Digital Music
Initiative (SDMI) to see if anyone could in fact crack its security
technology.
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/tech.html#sdmi
http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/20010606_eff_felten_pr.html
http://www.sdmi.org
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o Publisher Ziff Davis Media Replaces CEO

New York -- Ziff Davis Media, a publisher of technology-related magazines
and websites including ZDNet.com, announced that it has replaced James D.
Dunning, Jr. as chairman, president and CEO of the company. Board member
Avy Stein will replace Dunning as chairman and CEO until a replacement can
be found. Stein is a founding partner of Willis Stein and Partners, which
acquired Ziff Davis Publishing from Ziff-Davis Inc. in April 2000. The
company gave no explanation for the action, but maintained that it is not
seeking buyers for any of its titles and is still committed to the
launches of four new magazines. New York-based Ziff Davis Media laid off
50 employees, or about 5 percent of its total workforce in May, amid the
ongoing decline in online advertising. The company also recently closed
its Family PC magazine and its Zcast.tv streaming site.
http://www.ziffdavis.com/news/default.htm
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o California Legalizes Online Horserace Wagering

Sacramento, Calif. -- Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill into law Monday that
makes it legal to wager on horses over the Internet or by phone in
California, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The law, which goes into effect
on Jan. 1, lets users make "advance deposits" into Internet accounts that
they can then use to bet on horses. Davis, who earlier vetoed a similar
bill, was persuaded by a change in federal law, a recommendation from the
state attorney general and a more solid belief that minors will be
prohibited from gambling online under the new bill he signed.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6872353.html?tag=cd_mh
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o Corporate Streaming Services to Generate $5 Billion by 2005

Scottsdale, Az. -- Providing streaming media services to businesses will
generate over $5 billion in revenues by 2005, according to a report
published Tuesday by market research firm Cahners In-Stat Group. Over
21,000 corporate sites will pay outside firms for streaming services in
2001, with that figure leaping by a factor of 10 to 225,000 in 2005, the
report predicts. "The fastest return on investment is obtained by
utilizing an outside streaming media service provider, who brings
extensive hosting infrastructure, digital asset management capabilities,
and a variety of other services that help companies get the 'best bang for
the buck' from this technology," said Gerry Kaufhold, principal analyst
with In-Stat's Multimedia Broadband Services Group. Medium-size companies,
with lots of branch and remote offices but not enough funds to create
their own network, are predicted to be the biggest market for corporate
streaming media services.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/212260088&ticker=
http://www.instat.com/catalog/cat-dt.htm#mb0107sm
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o High-Speed Cable 'Net Access Jumps in Second Quarter

Washington, D.C. -- Nearly one million Americans ordered high-speed
Internet access through a cable operator provider during the second
quarter of 2001, according to a survey of members of the National Cable
and Telecommunications Association. The addition of 920,000 new
subscribers brought the total of cable modem customers to 5.5 million, or
8.5 percent of the total number of cable subscribers currently eligible to
receive the service. The report also said that 1.3 million subscribers
upgraded to or signed up for digital cable TV service, bringing the total
number of U.S. subscribers for that service to 12.2 million.
http://www.ncta.com/press/press.cfm?PRid=169&showArticles=ok
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> Digital Media Wire Presents a Panel Discussion:
"Microsoft vs. AOL: The Battle of the Internet Titans"

McLean, VA | Thursday, August 30th at The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner

This panel of journalists, policymakers and others will discuss the
increasing rivalry between these two monolithic companies -- and how their
competition will affect the development of the Internet for years to come.
For more information and to register:
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MODERATOR:
Paul Sherman - Editor | Potomac Tech Wire

SPEAKERS:
Declan McCullagh - Washington Bureau Chief | Wired News
Edmund Sanders - Staff Writer | Los Angeles Times
***Additional Panelists TBA***

MEDIA SPONSOR: Potomac Tech Wire

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> Digital Media Wire & iLounge Present a Panel Discussion:
"iTV: Defining the New Face of Television"

NYC | Wednesday, September 5th at the Verizon Headquarters

This panel of players ranging from content providers to middleware
developers will discuss the new face of television, which will include an
amalgam of services like email, IPGs (interactive program guides), PVRs
(personal video recorders), enhanced TV, etc., and what it means for
Hollywood, the tech industry and most importantly, the consumer.
For more information and to register:
http://www.digitalmediawire.com/NYCitv.html

MODERATOR:
Lydia Loizides - Senior Analyst | Jupiter Media Metrix

SPEAKERS:
Sean Bratches - EVP, Affiliate Sales & Marketing | ESPN
Tim Larcombe - Regional President iTV, North America | AGENCY.com
David Nathanson - VP, Broadband Strategy & Channel Development | FOX
***Additional Panelists TBA***

SPONSOR: Verizon

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o Briefly Noted:

(San Francisco) A possible glitch in a piece of equipment designed by
Intel may cause a delay in the manufacturing process for Microsoft's Xbox
video game console, CNET reported on Tuesday. The problem, which was
confirmed by "several sources along the Xbox manufacturing chain," will
likely not affect the game's Nov. 8 launch date, if the company adequately
speeds up its production schedule.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6869737.html?tag=mn_hd

(Redmond, Wash.) Nintendo said on Tuesday that its "Pokemon Crystal" title
for the Game Boy handheld has sold 600,000 copies since its release two
weeks ago. The company's Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver games were the
two top-selling video games in 2000. To date, Pokemon games have sold more
than 85 million copies worldwide.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/212260139&ticker=
http://www.pokemon.com

(San Francisco) Several providers of print-on-demand services have
announced that they will raise prices for their titles, responding to
demands from retailers that they should have to pay less for them, Wired
News reported on Tuesday. E-publishers Xlibris and 1stbooks.com are set to
raise prices as much as 30 percent, while iUniverse has said that it will
wait and gauge the market. "The problem is that this wonderful,
tree-saving, warehouseless method of book publishing is being imposed upon
a horse-and-buggy model of sales," said Xlibris author and NPR commentator
Judith Jaquith.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46012,00.html

(Washington, D.C.) The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, a group
commissioned by the U.S. Copyright Office to hold hearings that will
determine what rates will be paid to stream music online, heard testimony
on Tuesday from several recording artists, Variety reported. Session
guitar player Harold Bradley said that he will greatly benefit from
royalties paid to labels and artists for streaming music, adding that
"radio just fell through the cracks," because in terrestrial radio only
songwriters and music publishers receive royalties.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010814/02/music-internet
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/carp/

(Santa Monica, Calif.) Liberty Livewire, a provider of audio and video
services to the film and TV industries, said that it has partnered with
Advanced Software Resources to develop a Hollywood-based service center
for digital encoding, archiving, searching, retrieval and distribution of
all forms of media for the film and television industry. The Digital Asset
Management and Distribution Center will combine Santa Monica-based Liberty
Livewire's services with digital storage library technology that Advanced
Software Resources has licensed from Lockheed Martin. The Center is
scheduled to open in November 2001.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010813/lam106.html
http://www.libertylivewire.com
http://www.lmils.com/

(Los Angeles) Intel announced on Tuesday that it has developed technology
that helps to create more life-like 3-D images for interactive
applications such as games, by correctly modeling light reflection
properties of 3-D objects. The Light Field Mapping technology will be
marketed to game developers and 3-D scanner developers. Intel predicts it
will be in use in the marketplace within 18 months, with broader diffusion
coming in two years.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010814/140322.html
http://www.intel.com/research/mrl/research/lfm/

(Livermore, Calif.) Game developer Arcade Planet said on Tuesday that it
has licensed 35 Java-based classic board, card, and word games to Yahoo
Games. The deal also gives visitors to Yahoo Games access to Livermore,
Calif.-based Arcade Planet's PrizeGames.com, which offers 25 additional
online games where players can compete for prizes.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.081401/212260369
http://www.arcadeplanet.com

(San Francisco) Wired News featured an article on Tuesday on companies
that are attempting to improve on the accuracy and relevancy of Google's
search engine. New search tools such as WiseNut, Teoma, Lasoo, CURE and
Vivisimo use everything from new algorithms to geographically-organized
results to try to bring more efficient and relevant searches to users.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,45905,00.html
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> Correction:

A story in yesterday's edition of Digital Media Wire listed the wrong Web
address for Indianapolis-based OpenGlobe. The company can be reached at
http://www.openglobe.net

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> Verance, Client Service Rep. (Western Region) - Los Angeles

Responsible for the day-to-day servicing of the advertiser/agency client
base, which includes training clients in all aspects of utilizing the
various Media Information Group systems and product offerings, encoding
content, utilizing the website for registering content, producing and
understanding reports and utilizing these reports to further their
respective business. Minimum 3 years advertising industry-related
experience.
Send resumes to: jobs@verance.com
http://www.verance.com
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> Maxim Online, Jr. Web Designer - New York City

Must have experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, Fireworks, and
understand multiple browser and platform issues. Responsibilities include:
designing marketing contests and advertorial projects; designing party
pages to promote magazine events; designing banners to promote marketing
and editorial projects; and maintaining subscription pages throughout the
Maxim website.
Send resumes & URLs to: maximonlinejobs@hotmail.com
http://www.maximonline.com
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> CNET Networks, Editor at Large - San Francisco

This newsroom leader is expected to write an average of 1-3 stories per
day if needed, and on a more analytical & exclusive basis than the average
reporter's assignment. Other duties include proposing and writing Special
Reports, news analyses, features and investigative stories. This position
also plays a key role at budget meetings, performs editing functions as
needed and serves as a mentor for less experienced reporters.
Send resumes to: careers@cnet.com and seanl@cnet.com
http://www.cnet.com

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> 9th Annual SHORTSPAN Film & Video Festival - Pacific Northwest Tour: Aug. 3-13

SHORT MOVIES! Dreamspan presents the 9TH Annual Short Attention Span Film
& Video Festival. Shortspan is a non-stop two hour program of ALL NEW
two-minute-or-shorter films, including Michael Moore's "Testify," Canadian
David Weir's collaboration with Douglas Coupland, "Night Shift"-- and 57
more shorts! The tour kicks off in the Pacific Northwest and will travel
to 30 North American cities! Pac NW tour dates are:

VANCOUVER, B.C.: The Blinding Light Cinema - August 3rd and 4th - 8:30PM
SEATTLE, WA: 911 Media Arts Center - August 9th and 10th - 8PM
PORTLAND, OR: Northwest Film Center - August 12th and 13th - 7:30PM
http://www.dreamspan.com/shortspan
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