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o MusicNet Now Offering All 5 Majors With New Sony, Universal Licenses
o Report: Video Game Advertising Up 273.9% In 2002
o Google, Overture to Provide Pay-for-Performace Listings to Yahoo Japan
o Content Delivery Network Speedera Networks Raises $6.5 Million
o $3.3 Million Used to Create International Children's Digital Library
o Broadcast Video Server Firm Omneon Video Networks Raises $12.5 Million
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o MusicNet Now Offering All 5 Majors With New Sony, Universal Licenses
New York -- MusicNet, a digital music subscription service joint venture
between AOL, RealNetworks and record labels BMG, EMI, Warner Bros. and
Zomba, on Monday announced a number of new and expanded licensing
agreements that will result in an offering featuring tracks from all five
major record labels. The company finally licensed tracks from Sony Music
and Universal Music Group, whose own Pressplay joint venture last week
announced deals to offer tracks from all five major labels as well. In
addition, New York-based MusicNet announced expanded deals with Warner
Music Group, BMG and EMI that will now allow subscribers to burn select
tracks to CD, transfer them to portable devices, and purchase permanent
downloads from each label.
http://www.musicnet.com/press_release.html
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o Report: Video Game Advertising Up 273.9% In 2002
Niagara Falls, N.Y. -- Video game-related advertising this year to date
has jumped 273.9 percent over the same period a year ago, according to a
recent report from New York-based Beyen International Market Research. The
study notes that, through September of 2002, ads for Sony PlayStation 2
accounted for 42.9 percent of all retail ads. Microsoft Xbox ads were
second, representing 23.5 percent, while ads for Nintendo GameCube made up
19.8 percent and those for Sony's PS one accounted for 11.3 percent.
http://www.beyen.com/americas/pressroom/releases/PR-20021115.PDF
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o Google, Overture to Provide Pay-for-Performace Listings to Yahoo Japan
Mountain View, Calif. -- Search engine technology providers Google and
Overture both announced on Monday that they have struck deals to provide
their paid-placement ads to Yahoo Japan, the Web portal's Japanese
subsidiary, which reaches an estimated 78 percent of the country's
population. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google said it will provide its
Adwords Select service, in addition to the Web search results it also
provides to Yahoo Japan. Pasadena-based Overture will provide its
pay-for-performance listings to the portal beginning in December. Both
companies had vied for the contract, and each were awarded part of the
whole with the two non-exclusive deals announced today.
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/yahoo_jp_2002.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021118/180303_1.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-966176.html?tag=fd_top
http://www.overture.com
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o Content Delivery Network Speedera Networks Raises $6.5 Million
Cambridge, Mass. -- Speedera Networks, a provider of streaming media and
content delivery network services, announced on Monday that it has raised
$6.5 million in its third round of venture capital financing, led by
Trinity Ventures. The company also separately announced it has paid off
its $3 million in debt and is now debt-free. Customers including
Amazon.com, DoubleClick, Macromedia and Microsoft use Massachusetts-based
Speedera's services to speed their streaming media and other content more
quickly across the Internet to users. Speedera will use the new funds to
expand its sales force and international presence, and to fund future
acquisitions.
http://www.speedera.com/newsroom/pressreleases/funding.html
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o $3.3 Million Used to Create International Children's Digital Library
Washington -- A consortium of government, non-profit and corporate
interests have invested $3.3 million to create a digital library of 10,000
children's books drawn from 100 cultures, as part of a long-term research
project to develop new technology to serve young readers. The
International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is being created through a
collaborative effort between The Internet Archive, the largest library on
the Internet, and The University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction
Lab, a developer of children's interface design. Books are being donated
to the project by The Library of Congress and publishers Children's Book
Press, HarperCollins, Random House and Scholastic. Funding for the project
is being provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute
of Museum and Library Services, the Kahle/Austin Foundation and the Markle
Foundation. "This is the beginning of a long-term project to provide
children around the world with access to literature from different
cultures in a way that is intuitive and accessible," said ICDL director
Jane White.
http://www.icdlbooks.org
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o Broadcast Video Server Firm Omneon Video Networks Raises $12.5 Million
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Omneon Video Networks, a provider of servers used to
deliver digital television, announced on Monday that it has raised $12.5
million in its latest round of financing. Accel Partners and Norwest
Venture Partners led the investment round; new investor Advanced
Technology Ventures and incumbent investors Meritech, Intel Communications
Fund and Lucent Venture Partners also participated. Sunnyvale,
Calif.-based Omneon's servers are used by broadcasters including the BBC,
BSkyB and PBS to deliver digital television as well as services such as
video-on-demand and HDTV. The company will use the funds "to continue
further product development while meeting the increasing demand for
product and company growth," said Omneon president and CEO Lawrence
Kaplan.
http://www.omneon.com/news/pressreleases/11_18_02_atv.html
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Briefly Noted:
(Dulles, Va.) America Online on Monday launched Broadband Radio@AOL, a
streaming radio service targeted at its broadband subscribers. The service
is the first to feature AOL's new "Ultravox" streaming technology, which
AOL says provides quicker player load times and dramatically reduced
buffering. The service will offer CD-quality 128kbps streams on 125
commercial-free stations.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021118/182260_1.html
(Irvine, Calif.) GameSpy, a provider of online game technology and
content, announced on Monday that it has signed a multi-year technology
licensing and services agreement with game developer Electronic Arts.
Irvine, Calif.-based GameSpy said EA will incorporate GameSpy's middleware
into select PC games that feature online game play. GameSpy will also
provide assistance in managing the back-end services for EA's online
games.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021118/lam003_1.html
http://www.ea.com
http://www.gamespy.net
(Mesquite, Texas) Video game developer Id Software announced on Monday
that it is working on the next installment in its popular "Wolfenstein"
series. " Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory" is currently being developed by
London-based Splash Damage and Massachusetts-based Mad Doc Software, with
assistance from Los Angeles-based Gray Matter Software. Mesquite,
Texas-based Id Software will act as executive producer for the game, which
will be released in the first half of 2003.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021118/lam053_1.html
http://www.idsoftware.com
http://www.maddocsoftware.com
http://www.gmistudios.com
(Las Vegas) PC maker Gateway on Monday launched its Gateway Media Center
PC, the second product to be based on Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center
Edition operating system. The device, which starts at $3999, features a
42-inch plasma TV, and integrates the functionality of a PC with a
complete range of TV, stereo and digital media applications.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021118/nym072_1.html
http://www.gateway.com
(Hollywood, Calif.) Galaxy Press, a publisher set up to distribute the
works of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, announced on Monday
it will publish e-book versions of 21 of Hubbard's fiction works,
including "Battlefield Earth." Versions of the titles in Microsoft Reader,
Rocket eBook, Adobe, MobiPocket and Palm Digital formats will become
available in February 2003.
http://www.galaxypress.com
(Fair Lawn, N.J.) Maxell, a manufacturer of recordable media products, on
Monday announced its new Mini DVD-R discs, which feature 1.4 GB of storage
capacity and are compatible with Mini DVD camcorder products. The discs,
which will become available in February, are write-compatible with
DVD-R/RW drives, and read-compatible with all recordable DVD drive
formats, as well as DVD-ROM, DVD Video and DVD Audio.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/223220068&ticker=
http://www.maxell-data.com
(Mountain View, Calif.) Interactive TV software and services provider
OpenTV on Monday announced an alliance with M@gicBox, a developer of
credit card-assigned advanced set-top box technology. Under the agreement,
M@gicBox will finance the cost of set-top box deployments across the
Asia-Pacific region in return for the rights to deliver interactive TV
applications licensed by OpenTV on the network. The first deployment of
M@gicBox set-tops -- which will be assigned a MasterCard credit card
through which all transactions relating to the consumer and their pay TV
account must pass -- will be on satellite TV operator PMSI's network in
the Philippines.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021118/180128_1.html
http://www.opentv.com
http://www.magicitv.com
(New York) In Demand, a provider of video-on-demand and pay-per-view
programming services, on Monday launched its first Spanish-language
video-on-demand programming in the U.S. New York-based In Demand said that
initial deployments on Time Warner Cable systems in Los Angeles and San
Antonio will feature Spanish-language content that includes a dubbed
version of "Scorpion King" and the Latin films "Tinta Roja" and "Cha Cha
Cha."
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/223222023&ticker=
http://www.indemand.com
(Seattle) Media delivery technology provider RealNetworks announced on
Monday a distribution agreement with game developer Sega, to offer classic
Sega Genesis titles on its RealOne Arcade online games service. Free demo
versions of games including "Sonic the Hedgehog" and "Ecco the Dolphin"
will be made available to all, with the full downloaded version of each
game being offered for $14.99.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021118/180213_1.html
http://www.realonearcade.com/sega
(San Diego) Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), the online games division of
the Japanese firm, announced on Monday that it has promoted John Smedley
from senior vice president and chief operating officer to the position of
company president. San Diego-based SOE also promoted John Needham to chief
financial officer and Adam Joffe to chief technology officer. SOE's
flagship title, the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game
"EverQuest," now claims 430,000 subscribers.
http://www.sonyonline.com/corp/press_releases/111502_smed_president.html
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