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o Video Game Trade Group Increasing Anti-Piracy Efforts in Brazil
o Napster Co-founder Launches New Technology Venture
o Cable TV Firm Charter Launches FullAudio Music Subscription Service
o Embedded Linux Developer MontaVista Gets Investment from Yamaha
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o Video Game Trade Group Increasing Anti-Piracy Efforts in Brazil
Sao Paolo, Brazil -- The Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA),
a trade group representing video game publishers, announced on Tuesday
that it has expanded its alliance with Associacao Brasileira das Empresas
de Software (ABES) to combat video game piracy in Brazil. "Brazil
represents an important market for the members of IDSA due to the immense
popularity of interactive entertainment among Brazilians, said IDSA
president Douglas Lowenstein. "Unfortunately, Brazil also ranks among the
most significant problem countries in the world when it comes to game
piracy, with the piracy rate exceeding 70 percent." The IDSA has hired the
Sao Paolo law firm of Manoel Antonio Dos Santos to help increase
anti-piracy activities, and will work with ABES to act against Brazilian
"promocenters," where pirated games are widely available.
http://www.idsa.com/11_12_2002.html
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o Napster Co-founder Launches New Technology Venture
Mountain View, Calif. -- Napster co-founder Sean Parker on Tuesday
announced the launch of a new company, Plaxo. The Mountain View,
Calif.-based company provides free software that piggybacks on Microsoft's
Outlook email program and automatically sends emails to contacts in a
user's address book, asking for contact information updates. The company
hopes the software will become ubiquitous as users begin receiving
multiple requests for contact information updates, and decide to download
the Plaxo software for themselves.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-plaxo12nov12,0,4413855.story?
coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965351.html
http://www.plaxo.com
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o Cable TV Firm Charter Launches FullAudio Music Subscription Service
Chicago -- FullAudio, a provider of branded digital music subscription
services, announced on Tuesday that cable TV operator Charter
Communications has launched a version of FullAudio's service for its 6.7
million subscribers. Chicago-based FullAudio's service offers access to
100,000 tracks from BMG, EMI Recorded Music, Warner Music Group and
Universal Music Group, as well as independent labels Koch and Sanctuary,
for download for a monthly fee starting at $9.95. "By partnering with
FullAudio, Charter continues to deliver additional benefits to our
high-speed Internet service customers who take full advantage of the power
of our broadband network," said Shahid Butt, Charter vice president of
marketing for new products and channels. Tracks downloaded from the
service remain accessible as long as a user is subscribed to the service;
FullAudio said it plans to offer CD burning functionality early next year.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021112/cgtu015_1.html
http://charterzone.charter.com
http://www.fullaudio.com
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o Embedded Linux Developer MontaVista Gets Investment from Yamaha
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- MontaVista Software, a developer of embedded Linux
operating system software, announced on Tuesday an undisclosed equity
investment from Yamaha, a manufacturer of digital musical instruments,
professional audio and recording devices, and home entertainment systems.
"With the spread of broadband technology, embedded Linux is proving an
ideal match for digital audio products," said Yamaha managing director and
CTO Masatada Wachi. Sunnyvale-based MontaVista's software is also used to
power a number of set-top boxes, including a Sony personal video recorder
product. Sony is also an investor in the company, along with fellow
consumer electronics firm Panasonic.
http://www.mvista.com/news/2002/yamaha.html
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Meet Etronica at "iTV Visions" in NYC on Nov. 14th.see you there!
Meet us at iTV Visions to learn about the vision of the future for
"Interest Based Navigation" of digital content. Jim Cantalini, CEO of Gist
Communications, will be on the panel. Gist is the leading independent
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Briefly Noted:
(Libertyville, Ill.) Wireless technology developer Motorola on Tuesday
said it has incorporated Texas-based Handango's wireless entertainment
content on its HelloMoto.com wireless portal. Handango will provide 1,500
Java-based wireless games, ringtones, graphics and themes to the portal,
where Motorola handset owners may purchase and download them to their
phones. North American and European users will find games like "Tetris" as
well as classic Atari titles such as "Pong" and "Asteroids" on the portal.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021112/datu020_1.html
http://www.handango.com
http://www.hellomoto.com
(Dulles, Va.) America Online announced on Tuesday that James de Castro,
president of AOL Interactive Services, will leave the company to seek new
opportunities. During his seven months at AOL, de Castro oversaw the
development and release of AOL 8.0, the company's latest version of its
Internet access software. Following his departure, effective at the end of
this month, Mr. de Castro's organization will report to AOL vice chairman
Ted Leonsis.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021112/122388_1.html
(New York) Javakitty Media, a provider of interactive marketing software,
said on Tuesday that major record label BMG Entertainment's Arista Records
will include its Bandlink CD enhancement software on upcoming releases
from female artists TLC, Toni Braxton and Blu Cantrell. New York-based
Javakitty Media's Bandlink software provides fans with access to online
extras like remixes, video and chats with artists while providing record
labels with real-time CD usage statistics. The company has a seven-artist
license agreement with Arista.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/223160121&ticker=
http://www.javakitty.com
http://www.bandlink.com
(Beverly, Mass.) Game developer Infogrames said on Tuesday it will release
"Dragon Ball Z: Budokai" for Sony PlayStation 2 on Dec. 4. The game is
based on the wildly popular children's animated TV series, which has
generated over $3 billion in related merchandising sales worldwide.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021112/netu021_1.html
http://www.infogrames.com
http://www.dragonballz.com
(Sunnyvale, Calif.) Video game maker Capcom Entertainment on Tuesday
released "Resident Evil 0" for Nintendo GameCube, a prequel to the
successful game franchise that sparked a feature film. "There are millions
and millions of Resident Evil fans around the world who can now experience
the events leading up to the terrifying outbreak from the original
Resident Evil," said Capcom marketing director Todd Thorson.
http://www.capcom.com/news/news.xpml?prid=450020
(Calabasas Hills, Calif.) Game developer THQ on Tuesday released "The
Fairly OddParents!: Enter The Cleft" for Nintendo Game Boy Advance. The
game is the first to be based on the Nickelodeon children's animated
series, "The Fairly OddParents." Calabasas Hills, Calif.-based THQ holds
the exclusive videogame publisher license for Nickelodeon's animated
television and movie properties, and says that to date, THQ/Nickelodeon
videogame sales exceed $250 million worldwide at retail.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021112/120314_1.html
http://www.thq.com
http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/fairly_odd/index.jhtml
(Hillsboro, Ore.) CenterSpan Communications, a provider of peer-to-peer
content delivery network services, announced on Tuesday that Compass
Global Music, an Internet portal for the music and entertainment industry,
will use the company's C-StarOne system to deliver its streamed and
downloaded music and entertainment. Compass Global Music has developed a
branded media player with proprietary file-sharing protocols and digital
rights management technologies.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021112/sftu043_1.html
http://www.centerspan.com
http://www.compassglobalmusic.com
(Cambridge, Mass.) Predictive Networks, a developer of interactive program
guides for digital television, announced on Tuesday that it has named
Peter Mondics as president and CEO of the company. Previously, Mondics was
co-founder and general manager of TVGateway, a cable industry consortium
that created new program guide and middleware products. He also was
formerly senior vice president of sales at interactive TV firm WorldGate.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/223162364&ticker=
http://www.predictivenetworks.com
(San Francisco) Wired News on Tuesday reported on the California Virtual
High School Test Prep Center, a recently launched free online test
preparation service for students taking the SAT or ACT college entrance
exams. The service was created to offer California students an alternative
to costly courses offered by companies like Kaplan and Princeton Review,
but is available from any location. "We had been providing free test prep
materials in class settings and realized that the best way to offer this
opportunity to more people is to do it online," Francisco Hernandez,
executive director of the University of California College Preparatory
initiative and vice chancellor for student affairs at UC Santa Cruz, told
Wired News.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,56117,00.html
http://www.cavhs.org
(London) NewScientist.com on Tuesday reported on research from two
Stanford University students that could provide a way to combat the
"hacking" measures that entertainment firms have asked legislators to make
legal for them to combat piracy on file-sharing networks. Neil Daswani and
Hector Garcia-Molina of the Database Research Department at Stanford have
developed a new method for communication between "nodes" and "supernodes"
on the Gnutella network they say would lessen the effect of technological
attacks from entertainment companies, which would become protected under
proposed legislation called The P2P Piracy Prevention Act, introduced by
Sen. Howard Berman (D-Ca.).
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993037
http://www.house.gov/berman/pr072502.htm
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