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YouTube Strikes Major
New Partnership with Warner Music
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Telecom Italia to Buy
AOL Germany for $870 Million
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Belgian Court Orders
Google to Remove Articles from Google News
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China Destroys 13
Million Pirated Discs During 100-Day Piracy Crackdown
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Justice Dept. Gets First
BitTorrent-Related Piracy Conviction
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RealNetworks
Integrates Rhapsody Music Service with SanDisk MP3 Players
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Warner Licenses
Tracks for Qtrax Ad-Supported, Free File-Sharing Service
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AOL in Deal to
Provide Video Content to Intel Viiv-based PCs
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Online Video
Advertising Firm Tremor Network Raises $8.4 Million
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Satellite TV Firm
EchoStar Names New President, CFO
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Techbooks to Acquire
Whitmont Legal Technologies
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Briefly Noted
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MTV Networks Unit
Launches ParentsConnect.com
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Ocean Tomo to
Auction Off Movie Piracy Prevention-related Patents
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Amp'd Mobile
Claims 50,000 Subscribers
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CNET Networks
Launches Food Enthusiast Site Chow.com
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MyStack Taps
VitalStream to Power High School Athlete Video-Sharing Site
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Groove Mobile to
Power Mobile Song Download Service for TMN Portugal
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MicroOptical Debuts $399 Video Screen Glasses iPod Accessory
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Worldspace Satellite Radio to Broadcast Live from Virgin Festival
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Blinkx
Adds Freecaster Extreme Sports Videos to Web Video Index
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THQ
Ships "Bratz Forever Diamondz" to Retailers
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Jakks
Pacific to Make Plug-and-Play "Deal or No Deal" Video Game
Online Extras
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Verizon Launches Local Casting Call for Fios Fanatics Film
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Poll: Will Apple or Amazon be more successful at selling downloadable movies?
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o YouTube Strikes Major New
Partnership with Warner Music
San Mateo, Calif. - YouTube, the popular site that allows
people to watch and share original videos, said on Monday that it
has signed a major new deal with Warner Music Group. Under the
agreement, YouTube will distribute music videos from Warner's roster
of artists, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, artist interviews,
original programming and other special content. YouTube users also
will be able to incorporate music from Warner's catalog into the
videos they create and upload onto the site. The two companies will
share advertising revenue from both the music videos and
user-uploaded content incorporating Warner's audio. Warner's music
and other content will launch on the site simultaneously with
YouTube's new content identification and royalty reporting system,
expected go live by the end of this year.
http://www.youtube.com/press_room_entry?entry=vCfgHo5_Fb4
http://www.wmg.com
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Telecom Italia to Buy AOL Germany for $870 Million
Dulles, Va. - Continuing to shift AOL away from its
traditional Internet access model, parent Time Warner said that it
has agreed to sell its AOL Germany unit to Telecom Italia for $870
million in cash. The deal is expected to close in four to six
months. AOL Germany has operated as an Internet service provider
(ISP) for over 10 years, offering both narrowband and broadband
Internet access. As of June, the company had 1.1 million broadband
and 1.3 million dial-up subscribers. Dick Parsons, the chairman and
CEO of Time Warner, said that the deal "advances AOL's worldwide
transition from a business built primarily on providing Internet
access to an advertising-supported business model." As part of the
deal, AOL will provide co-branded audience services and content on a
joint web portal for all of Telecom Italia's residential Internet
access subscribers in Germany, and will handle all online
advertising sales.
http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1535778,00.html
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Belgian Court Orders Google to Remove Articles from Google News
Brussels - Google has been ordered by a Belgian court to
stop re-publishing articles from French-language newspapers on its
Google News site in the country, Reuters reported. The Sept. 5 court
ruling also set out a $1.3 million fine if Google did not comply by
Monday; Reuters said links and summaries of Belgium's La Derniere
Heure and Le Soir were still available from Google in Belgium on
Monday. "We are asking for Google to pay and seek our authorization
to use our content ... Google sells advertising and makes money on
our content," Margaret Boribon, general secretary at Copiepress -- a
licensing agency for Belgian publications -- told Reuters. The
French newswire service Agence France Press sued Google on similar
grounds last year, prompting the search giant to remove news
articles from the organization from Google News.
http://tinyurl.com/or52d
(Reuters)
http://news.google.com
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China Destroys 13 Million Pirated
Discs During 100-Day Piracy
Crackdown
Beijing - Chinese government authorities destroyed some 13
million pirated CDs, DVDs and software titles on Saturday as part of
a 100-day crackdown on piracy, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Ten
ministries and national departments are involved in the campaign,
which has also shut down a total of over 8,900 shops and street
vendors, 480 publishing companies and 942 illegal websites during
ongoing raids that have so far targeted more than 537,000
publication markets, shops, street vendors and distribution
companies. In a related story, last week six Hollywood movie studios
sued two Chinese retail stores for selling pirated movies, seeking a
total of about $247,000 in damages, according to U.S. News & World
Report.
http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/18/content_5105014.htm
http://tinyurl.com/o376v (AP)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060913/13movieschina.htm
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Justice Dept. Gets First
BitTorrent-Related Piracy Conviction
Washington - The U.S. Justice Department recently
announced its first conviction on criminal copyright infringement
charges related to the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
Scott R. McCausland, 24, of Erie, Pa. pleaded guilty to one count of
conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and one count of
criminal copyright infringement in violation of the Family
Entertainment Copyright Act. McCausland admitted to his involvement
with Elite Torrents, a BitTorrent tracker site that the Justice
Dept. said at its prime claimed 133,000 members and hosted 2 million
copies of pirated works. McCausland provided Elite Torrents with its
copy of "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" six hours
before it premiered in theaters -- a file that was downloaded more
than 10,000 times in the following 24 hours. The U.S. District Court
for the Western District of Pennsylvania has scheduled a sentencing
hearing for Dec. 12, where McCausland will face up to five years in
prison and a $250,000 fine.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/September/06_crm_611.html
http://www.elitetorrents.org
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RealNetworks Integrates Rhapsody
Music Service with SanDisk MP3
Players
Seattle - RealNetworks, a provider of media delivery
technology, on Monday launched Rhapsody DNA, a new technology
platform that tightly integrates its digital music service with
portable, mobile and in-home devices. In conjunction with the
launch, the company announced a partnership with flash memory
developer and MP3 player maker SanDisk, to integrate Rhapsody DNA
into its Sansa line of MP3 players. Beginning in the fall, SanDisk
Sansa e200 players will come pre-loaded with Rhapsody software, as
well as nearly 32 hours of music from both major and independent
labels. In addition, through Rhapsody the Sansa players will be able
to automatically update with new music based on a consumer's
personal tastes and historical music preferences. Seattle-based
RealNetworks said device maker Sonos has also integrated Rhapsody
DNA into its Sonos System Software 2.0. RealNetworks currently
claims 1.625 million subscribers for its Rhapsody and other premium
music services.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/sfm082.html?.v=59
http://www.sandisk.com
http://www.rhapsody.com
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Warner Licenses Tracks for Qtrax
Ad-Supported, Free File-Sharing
Service
New York - Warner Music Group announced on Monday that it
has licensed its tracks for streaming and limited downloading on
Brilliant Technologies' Qtrax, an ad-supported free file-sharing
network. Qtrax has also licensed songs from EMI, BMI and the
Association of Independent Music. "The Qtrax service represents an
innovative business model, one that offers our artists another way
to reach fans using the potential of peer-to-peer technology while
ensuring they are fairly compensated for the use of their work, said
George White, senior vice president of strategy and product
development for WMG. The Qtrax ad-supported file-sharing service --
which will use audio fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic to
ensure only licensed tracks are shared -- is scheduled to launch in
beta later this year.
http://tinyurl.com/ox2pk
http://www.wmg.com
http://www.qtrax.com
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AOL in Deal to Provide Video
Content to Intel Viiv-based PCs
Dulles, Va. - AOL said on Monday that it partnered with
chipmaker Intel to launch the AOL Video service for Intel Viiv-based
PCs, allowing AOL's library of movies, TV shows, music videos and
other content to stream from Viiv PCs to a television. PCs featuring
Intel Viiv technology will also have access to AOL Radio, AOL
Pictures and AOL Music Now. Separately, AOL announced the launch of
a program that will provide outside developers and video content
owners with open access to its video search engine. The move will
allow developers to build video search-driven applications that
access AOL's index of videos from across the web. Video content
owners also will be able to submit feeds to AOL's index.
http://tinyurl.com/zw4d4
http://press.aol.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1052§ion_id=15
http://www.intel.com/products/viiv
http://www.aolvideo.com
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Online Video Advertising Firm
Tremor Network Raises $8.4 Million
New York - Tremor Network, a developer of rich media and
online video advertising technology, announced on Monday that it has
raised $8.4 million in its first round of venture capital financing.
Masthead Venture Partners and Canaan Partners co-led the investment
round. New York-based Tremor Network has developed patent-pending ad
insertion technology that places video advertisements within banner
ads and video streams, which are used on the sites of 300 publisher
partners with a combined 70 million unique monthly visitors. The
company will use the funds to accelerate growth of its video
advertising network.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/nym034.html?.v=63
http://www.tremornetwork.com
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Satellite TV Firm EchoStar Names
New President, CFO
Englewood, Colo. - EchoStar Communications, operator of
the DISH Network satellite TV service, announced on Monday that it
has named Carl Vogel as president, and Bernard L. Han as chief
financial officer. Vogel was EchoStar's president from 1994 to 1997,
and has also served as president and CEO of Charter Communications.
Han was most recently vice president and chief financial officer of
Northwest Airlines. "We are very fortunate Carl has assumed this
critical leadership role at EchoStar," said CEO Charles Ergen. "His
extensive knowledge of the industry in general, and EchoStar in
particular, will strengthen our company and allow us to continue
delivering high quality programming to our more than 12 million
subscribers."
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060918/20060918005439.html?.v=1
http://www.echostar.com
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Techbooks to Acquire Whitmont
Legal Technologies
Falls Church, Va. - Techbooks, a provider of digitization
and distribution services for publishers, said on Monday that it has
signed a deal to acquire Whitmont Legal Technologies, a Los
Angeles-based provider of litigation support and e-discovery
services to the legal community. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Falls Church, Va.-based Techbooks said that the deal will strengthen
its content transformation offerings while expanding its presence
into the outsourced legal services market. It also will give the
company 12 new U.S. offices, as well as several major new corporate
and law firm customers. Techbooks said that it will continue to
serve Whitmont's customers, while also extending its technology to
new markets such as academic, media content and corporate
publishing.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/dcm040.html?.v=54
http://www.techbooks.com
http://www.whitmont.com
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DMW Announcements
DMW Events Listing
Digital
Music Forum West - October 4-5, 2006
www.digitalmusicforum.com/west/
October 4-5, 2006 - Bel Age, West Hollywood, CA
For the past six years, the most influential decision-makers in
the music industry have gathered at Digital Media Wire's annual
Digital Music Forum in New York to network, do deals and share ideas about the future of the music business. Participants have described the event as a "melting pot of the best of the best in digital music," where ideas are shared and opinions don't go unchallenged. It is with this illustrious background that we are pleased to announce the launch of Digital Music Forum West at the Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood, October 4-5, 2006.KEYNOTES
& FEATURED INTERVIEWS:
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner,
TAG Strategic
Nic Harcourt, Music Director & Host of Morning Becomes
Eclectic, KCRW
Thomas Hesse, President Global Digital Business, Sony BMG
Music Entertainment
Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse LLC,
Co-Founder, Pho Group
Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher,
Digital Media Wire
John T. Frankenheimer, Chair, Music Group, Partner and
Co-Chair Loeb & Loeb LLP
Ralph Simon, Chairman, Emeritus & Founder, Mobile
Entertainment Forum Americas
SPEAKERS & MODERATORS:
Tim Bucher, CEO & Chief Product Officer, ZING
Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Alston & Bird
Ted Casey, SVP, B. Dev & Partner Relations, MusicNet
Gary Cohen, General Manager, AOL Music Now
David Del Beccaro, President, CEO & Founder, Music Choice
Ed Delfs, VP, National Ad Sales, RealNetworks
John Desmond, VP, MediaSentry Services, SafeNet
Jan Eglen, CEO, Digonex Technologies, Inc.
Ben Eisner, Speakerheart
Scott Fedewa, SVP & Exec Producer, Live Nation
Erik Flannigan, VP, Programming, AOL
Dominique-Sébastien Forest, VP, Business Dev, Puretracks
LLC
Albhy Galuten, VP of Digital Media Tech Strategy, Sony Corp
of America
Brian Garrity, Senior Correspondent, Billboard
Dave Goldberg, VP & GM, Yahoo! Music
Laura Goldberg, COO, Napster
Raghav Gupta, Director, Bus Dev & Strategy, Brightcove
Daneil Harris, CEO, MediaPass Network
David Hyman, CEO & Founder, MOG
Dave Jarworski, Founder & CEO, PassAlong Networks
Marty Lafferty, CEO, DCIA
Mark Lam, Chairman, Exec Committee & CEO, Live365
Paul Leakas, General Manager, Nielsen Mobile
Gerd Leonhard, CEO, Sonific LLC
David Marcus, VP of Strategic Marketing & Business Dev,
Ticketmaster
Amanda Marks, EVP, eLabs, Universal Music
Scott McKenzie, Grp Ed Director, Billboard
Gerrit Meier, Sr VP & GM, Clear Channel Online Music & Radio
Ron Milkes, VP, Business & Legal Affairs, General Counsel,
Network LIVE
Chris Montgomery, EVP Marketing & Product Management,
MusicCrypt
Brent Muhle, General Manager, Nettwerk Music Group
Stephen Murray, President, Entertainment, BurnLounge
Jozef Nuyens, Founder/SVP, Int’l Dev., PassAlong Networks
David Pakman, CEO, eMusic
Ken Parks, SVP, Strategy & Bus Dev, EMI Music
Mark Pascarella, President, Gotuit Media Corp.
Joey Patuleia, VP, Artist Relations, INTENT MediaWorks
Shervin Pishevar, President & COO, Freewebs, Inc.
John Puterbaugh, CEO, Nellymoser
Kelli Richards, President & CEO, The All Access Group
Greg Scholl, CEO, The Orchard
Tess Taylor, President, NARIP
Maria C. Thomas, VP & GM, NPR Digital Media
Dave Ulmer, Marketing, Digital Media Services, Motorola
Chip Venters, CEO, Digital Containers
Lance Ware, CEO, SyncCast
Michael Weiss, CEO, StreamCast Networks
David Wright, Speakerheart
Event Co-Chairs
Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher,
Digital Media Wire
Ralph Simon, Chairman, Emeritus & Founder,
Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner,
TAG Strategic
more to come...
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Registration:
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Pre-Registration: $499 until September 15, 2006
Registration: $599 until September 30, 2006
Door Registration: $699 (space permitting)
Online Registration:
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Phone Registrations: (310) 855-0033
WHEN:
October 4-5, 2006
WHERE: Bel Age Hotel
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West Hollywood, CA
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Applicants should be computer and Internet-savvy. Knowledge of
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Briefly Noted
o MTV Networks
Unit Launches ParentsConnect.com
New York - Viacom's
Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group on Monday announced the
public beta launch of ParentsConnect.com, an online community for
parents. The site will feature content from Nickelodeon's recent
GoCityKids website acquisition, and allow users to search for
parental advice and activities sorted by children's age, location
and personal interests. Parents can create a customized home page
and blog that updates with local activities, relevant news and
discussion board postings. The company plans to launch
ParentsConnect TV, a broadband video companion site features
user-created content, in the fourth quarter.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/clm513.html?.v=48
http://www.parentsconnect.com
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Ocean Tomo to Auction Off Movie
Piracy Prevention-related Patents
Chicago - Ocean Tomo
Auctions announced on Monday that a
portfolio of patents related to
technology that prevents movie
piracy has been put up for auction
by Robelight, LLC. The lot includes
patents that "disclose systems and
methods for detecting recording
equipment, generating an alert if a
recording device is detected and
disrupting the recording through
transmission signals, thereby
rendering the recording useless,"
and pending patent applications that
"disclose technology that reads,
stores and distributes the signature
of the recording device utilized for
pirating, therefore allowing insight
into the changes and developments of
pirating devices." The auction will
be held in New York City on Oct. 26.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/cgm025.html?.v=63
http://www.oceantomoauctions.com
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Amp'd Mobile Claims 50,000
Subscribers
Los Angeles - Amp'd
Mobile, a virtual mobile network
operator targeting the youth and
young professionals markets,
announced on Monday that it added
nearly 15,000 subscribers last
month, and now claims nearly 50,000
subscribers. The company expects to
add 20,000 to 25,000 new subscribers
in September, and projects that it
will count 150,000 by the end of the
year. Los Angeles-based Amp'd also
expects to deliver a total of more
than 1 million video streams and
downloads to its subscribers during
2006.
http://tinyurl.com/n736w
http://www.ampd.com
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CNET Networks Launches Food
Enthusiast Site Chow.com
San Francisco -
Technology media company
CNET Networks said on Monday that it
has launched a new interactive food
site, Chow.com. The site provides a
set of online tools, recipes and
shopping designed to let users
create at-home team cooking events.
The site's centerpiece is an
interactive timeline where users
enter the start-time and receive a
customized plan that moves six
people in three teams through the
process of creating five recipes.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060918/20060918005259.html?.v=1
http://www.chow.com
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MyStack Taps VitalStream to Power
High School Athlete Video-Sharing
Site
Irvine, Calif. -
VitalStream, a provider of audio and
video streaming services, announced
on Monday that it will provide its
Flash video streaming service to
MyStack, a video-sharing site and
online social network for high
school athletes. A companion to
Stack magazine, the site will allow
high school athletes to build video
profiles to showcase their skills to
recruiters worldwide.
http://tinyurl.com/qt4ln
http://www.vitalstream.com
http://www.mystack.stackmag.com
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Groove Mobile to Power Mobile Song
Download Service for TMN Portugal
Bedford, Mass. - Groove
Mobile, a provider of mobile music
services, said on Monday that it has
signed an agreement to power a
full-track mobile song download
service for Portuguese wireless
carrier TMN Portugal.
Massachusetts-based Groove Mobile's
service will offer TMN's 5 million
customers licensed tracks from
Warner Music, Sony BMG, EMI, V2, DRA,
The Orchard and Beggars Group.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/lam060.html?.v=62
http://www.telecom.pt
http://www.groovemobile.com
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MicroOptical Debuts $399 Video
Screen Glasses iPod Accessory
Westwood, Mass. -
MicroOptical Corporation, a maker of
video eyewear accessories for
portable electronics, on Monday
introduced its myvu for Apple's iPod.
The lightweight eyewear feature
built-in video screens and
headphones, and a battery pack that
provides six hours of viewing time.
The $399 myvu is scheduled to ship
in late fall.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/nym128.html?.v=51
http://www.myvu.com
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Worldspace Satellite Radio to
Broadcast Live from Virgin Festival
Silver Spring, Md. -
Worldspace Satellite Radio, an
international provider of satellite
radio programming, said on Monday
that it will broadcast live next
weekend from the Virgin Festival in
Baltimore, Md. The event will
feature performances from The Who,
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flaming Lips
and Scissor Sisters.
http://tinyurl.com/j3rz4
http://www.worldspace.com/virginfestival
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Blinkx Adds Freecaster Extreme
Sports Videos to Web Video Index
San Francisco - Blinkx, a
searchable index of Web video,
announced on Monday that it has
added extreme sports and music clips
from Freecaster to its index. The
content includes highlights from
extreme sports events, major athlete
and musician profiles, and trailers
for extreme sports DVDs.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/sfm030.html?.v=63
http://www.freecaster.com
http://www.blinkx.tv
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THQ Ships "Bratz Forever Diamondz"
to Retailers
Agoura Hills, Calif. - Video
game publisher THQ on Monday shipped
its "Bratz Forever Diamondz" title
for PlayStation 2, GameCube and
Nintendo DS. The game is based on
MGA Entertainment's Bratz line of
fashion dolls, and a new DVD movie
slated for release on Sept. 26. The
title is the second game THQ has
developed as part of an exclusive
agreement with MGA.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060918/lam057.html?.v=66
http://www.thq.com
http://www.bratz.com
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Jakks Pacific to Make Plug-and-Play
"Deal or No Deal" Video Game
Malibu, Calif. - Toymaker
Jakks Pacific announced on Monday
that it has signed an agreement with
TV production company Endemol USA
for the rights to create a
plug-and-play video game system
based on the NBC game show "Deal or
No Deal." The $19 device is slated
for release in the spring of 2007.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060918/20060918005466.html?.v=1
http://www.nbc.com/deal_or_no_deal
http://www.tvgames.com
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Program Director, Digital Media & Entertainment
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IDC is
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Project Manager
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Critical Mass is
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TX
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Flock – Mountain View, CA
As the Sr.
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Manager –
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Flock, you will
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research data.
For more
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Public Relations
Manager -
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Come
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Zune,
Microsoft’s
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people to
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Senior Public
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Manager.
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manage the PR
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lifestyle &
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programs as well
as the consumer
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The Market
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program
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