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o Report: Video Gamer Demographics Shift to Older Audience
o BT Signs Strategic Software Alliance With Microsoft
o Platinum-Selling Band Promotes New Album on Grokster P2P Service
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Spid3r Technologies, PocketJoy.com, Bam Entertainment - Cartoon Network,
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Zingy - VoiceWeb, SACD/DVD-Audio - copy-protection, Yesterday's election -
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o Report: Video Gamer Demographics Shift to Older Audience
New York -- The video game industry is experiencing a major shift in gamer
demographics, according to a report released on Wednesday by New
York-based analyst firm Jupiter Research. The average console user is
already an adult, the number of high-intensity users is set to grow 40
percent by 2007, and low-intensity puzzle and board games dominate the
favorite genre, Jupiter reports. Recent Jupiter consumer surveys found
that one in ten online adults owns a current generation console. "Much is
made of the maturing games audience, but the reality is that we are there
today -- the median age is 23 years old," said Jupiter's research
director, Michael Gartenberg. The survey also found that 61 percent of
those surveyed cited low-intensity puzzle and board games as their
favorite online game genre. The amount of time spent playing is also
predicted to increase. "We expect the number of gamers that play more than
15 hours per week -- those we dub high-intensity users -- to grow by 40
percent from 12 million to 17 million by 2007," added Gartenberg. Jupiter
also forecasts that revenues for the PC and console games market will top
$14 billion in 2007, up from $11 billion this year.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021106/62064_1.html
http://www.jupitermedia.com
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o BT Signs Strategic Software Alliance With Microsoft
London -- BT Group said on Wednesday that it has signed a strategic
alliance with Microsoft to develop more high-speed Internet services. The
alliance puts BT -- the U.K.'s dominant fixed-line operator -- on an equal
basis with Microsoft's other telecommunications partners around the world,
including South Korea's KT in Asia and Verizon in the United States.
http://www.bt.com
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o Platinum-Selling Band Promoting New Album on Grokster P2P Service
Burbank, Calif. -- Grokster, a peer-to-peer online music sharing network,
announced that one-time major label act Insane Clown Posse will promote its new
album, "The Wraith: Shangri-La," on its service. The band released four albums on
Island Records, part of Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group, between 1997-2000
before the label declined to renew the band's contract in 2001. The new album was
released on the band's own label, Psychopathic Records. The promotion, organized by
Los Angeles-based Net Music Promotions. will give users who register with Burbank,
Calif.-based Grokster the chance to win "Wraith" leather jackets, novelty stand-ups,
autographed posters, baseball caps, T-shirts and other items; additionally, a free
MP3 download of a single from the album will be available on Grokster's start
page. Grokster said it will be "prominently posting messages to users to
'Support the Artist. Buy the Record!'"
http://www.grokster.com/press.html
http://www.netmusicpromotions.com
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Briefly Noted:
(Los Angeles) G4, the video game-focused cable TV network owned by
Comcast, announced that Time Warner Cable will deploy the channel to all
of its digital cable subscribers by 2004, with roll-out beginning in
December. The channel is also available from cable TV operators AT&T
Broadband, Comcast and Insight.
http://www.g4media.com
(Redmond, Wash.) Microsoft Game Studios on Wednesday announced the slate
of PC games it will release for the holiday shopping season. The list
includes the sequel to the company's popular massively multiplayer online
game Asheron's Call, "Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings," as well as the Xbox
title "RalliSport Challenge" converted for PC. Also to be released are
"Age of Mythology," "Links 2003" and "Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021106/sfw037_1.html
http://www.microsoft.com/games
(Louisville, Ky.) Spid3r Technologies, a developer of 3D virtual
environment technology, announced on Wednesday new technology that lets
users roam and interact over the Internet in unique 3D environments that
can be launched from audio CDs. The software lets users create their own
avatars and participate in 3D online chats with artists and with one
another. Kentucky-based Spid3r's technology will first be used on an
upcoming album, "Entropy Boy," from Distillery Music Group artist Ethan.
http://www.distillerymusic.com
http://www.spid3rnet.com
(Las Vegas) Las Vegas-based VTX Inc. on Wednesday announced the launch of
PocketJoy.com, which it claims is the first site to send full color erotic
images to 3G, WAP-enabled cell phones and PDAs. The company pointed to
data from U.K.-based research firm Visiongain, which predicts that profit
from sales of pornographic material to wireless devices could grow to $4
billion by 2006. "The dirty little secret that no ones talks about is that
adult content has been at the center of nearly every information
technology leap for the past 100 years," said VTX vice president Brian
Michaels.
http://www.pocketjoy.com
(San Jose, Calif.) Game developer Bam Entertainment on Wednesday announced
the release of two more titles for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance handheld,
based on its licensing agreement with Cartoon Network. "The Powerpuff
Girls: Him and Seek" was developed by New York-based Vicarious Visions,
while U.K.-based Virtucraft Studios created "Dexter's Laboratory: Chess
Challenge".
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021106/sfw022_1.html
http://cartoonnetwork.com
http://www.bam4fun.com
http://www.vvisions.com
http://www.virtucraft.com
(San Diego) Sony Online Entertainment on Wednesday released "EverQuest
Gold Edition," featuring the original massively multiplayer online
roleplaying game as well as its four expansion packs. In addition, buyers
will receive three detailed cloth maps of Norrath -- the online world
where the game takes place -- a large collectable figurine, and an
exclusive EverQuest comic book for a retail price of $64.95.
http://everquest.station.sony.com
(Sunnyvale, Calif.) MontaVista Software announced on Wednesday that
Japanese set-top box manufacturer Advanced Communications will use its
MontaVista Linux to power its latest product. The ECCLE5000 set-top
features an MPEG decoder that enables televisions to replay MPEG-1/2/4
high quality video streams distributed via the Internet or cable.
http://www.adcom.co.jp
http://www.mvista.com/pro/index.html
(New York) Zingy, a provider of mobile entertainment content, announced on
Wednesday that it has partnered with VoiceWeb to create Phonemates, an
audio-based community that extends chat rooms and message boards to cell
phones. The service utilizes voice as a user interface for navigating,
listening, and posting comments, news and music. Phonemates is billed as a
per-minute service, with an introductory offer of $5 for 30 minutes.
http://www.voiceweb.gr/indexl.htm
http://www.zingy.com/phonemates.php
(San Francisco) The Associated Press on Wednesday reported on the
anti-piracy technologies being included in nascent audio formats such as
Super Audio CD (SACD) and DVD-Audio, on which major record labels are
increasingly releasing new albums. Both formats feature higher tonal
quality and a fuller audio range, as well as digital watermarks --
provided by firms including San Diego-based Verance -- that prevent
duplicated discs from playing in proprietary players. "With
high-resolution audio, the need for secure interfaces becomes even
greater, since the quality of audio on such formats as SACD is virtually
indistinguishable from the master," Sony spokesman David Migdal told AP.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/829352.asp?0dm=C15LT
(San Francisco) CNET News.com on Wednesday reported on how yesterday's
election and turnover of Senate power to the Republican party is likely to
affect technology issues. One result could be the thwarting of soon-to-be
ex-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest "Fritz" Hollings'
controversial bill that would mandate government-approved copyright
protection be placed in most consumer electronics devices. The article
also quotes an Information Technology Industry Council review that found
Senate Republicans voted in line with the technology industry's viewpoints
84 percent of the time, compared with 65 percent of the time for
Democrats.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-964725.html?tag=cd_mh
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