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Electronic Arts Acquires Mobile Game Publisher Jamdat for $680
Million
o NBA
Partners with Silicon Graphics to Create Online Video Archive
o Report: November Video Game
Sales Possibly Down 15% from 2004
o Loudeye to Shutter Overpeer
P2P Anti-Piracy Unit
o MP3 Player Maker Creative
Hints At Patent Claim Against Apple iPod
o Report: Semiconductor Sales
Reach Historic $235 Billion in 2005
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Briefly Noted
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Napster Launches Digital Music
Subscription Service in Germany
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Motorola, Burton Snowboards Introduce Bluetooth Ski Jackets
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Proteus Launches SMS Interactive TV Feature for Fuel TV
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Washingtonpost.com Launches
Archive of Congressional Voting Records
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PublicDomainTorrents Offers Over 500 Free iPod-Formatted Films
o N.Y. Times Op-Ed: CD
Copy-Protection is Bad for Consumers, Musicians, Labels
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o Electronic Arts Acquires Mobile
Game Publisher Jamdat for $680 Million
Redwood City, Calif. - Looking to expand its offerings for
mobile phones, Electronic Arts, the developer and publisher of video
games, said late Thursday that it plans to acquire Los Angeles-based
Jamdat Mobile, a publisher of wireless entertainment content, for
approximately $680 million in cash. The two companies together plan
to publish over 50 games for mobile phones in the first year
following completion of the deal, including such titles as "Tetris,"
"Bejeweled," "Need For Speed" and "Madden NFL 06." Jamdat has 350
employees at offices in Honolulu, Montreal, Tokyo, London, Bucharest
and Hyderabad. Mitch Lasky, Jamdata's CEO, will lead EA's mobile
games business worldwide.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051208/20051208005771.html?.v=1
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=13515
http://www.jamdat.com
http://www.ea.com
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o NBA
Partners with Silicon Graphics to Create Online Video Archive
Mountain View, Calif. - The National Basketball
Association (NBA) has partnered with Silicon Graphics, a provider of
high-performance computing and storage products, to digitize all of
the league's historical archive of video and post it on NBA.com,
CNET News.com reported on Friday. The project that will digitize 60
years of video footage may take up to six years, but the NBA may
begin posting some video as early as next year. "This is a migration
that all sports leagues are going to have to make," Stephen Hellmuth,
senior vice president of operations and technology for NBA
Entertainment, told News.com. "We're thinking of making the video
available to (fans) so they could edit their own highlight videos
and hopefully make them available (in turn) to NBA.com." Hellmuth
added that the archive will eventually include a searchable database
of plays that would "note the players involved, their exact location
on the court, at what point in the game the play happened, the
outcome of the play and a rating for it."
http://tinyurl.com/cjpf6
(CNET)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SGID.OB
http://www.nba.com
http://www.sgi.com
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o Report:
November Video Game Sales Possibly Down 15% from 2004
London - Market research firm NPD Group recently posted
its data on November U.S. game sales, indicating a 4% decline from
last November -- but quickly withdrew those figures -- prompting
analysts to expect the restated data to indicate a drop of closer to
15%, GamesIndustry.biz reported. NPD did measure a 21% decline in
sales of games for video game consoles in November, but the 4%
overall drop wasn't nearly as precipitous as analysts expected, with
some blaming the fact that the company doesn't measure, but rather
estimates sales from leading game retailers including Wal-Mart and
Costco. Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter told
GamesIndustry.biz he expects the revised NPD figures to show a game
sales decline closer to 15% for November.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=13516
http://www.npdfunworld.com/funServlet?nextpage=index.html
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o Loudeye to
Shutter Overpeer P2P Anti-Piracy Unit
Seattle - Loudeye, a provider of branded digital song
stores and other digital media services, announced on Friday that it
has shuttered its Overpeer unit, which developed media content
protection technology. Overpeer provided services to record labels
and movie studios that included seeding illicit file-sharing
networks with "spoof" files, which contained only noise, or
copyright warnings, instead of the expected song or video file.
Overpeer "will continue to pursue options to maximize the value of
its assets," Loudeye said. As a result, Loudeye will realize savings
of $1.6 million, or 10%, in the current quarter as compared with the
previous quarter, but added that the shutdown of Overpeer will incur
$200,000 in severance pay and other associated costs. "We continue
to focus our business on growth opportunities with digital
distribution. Our actions to exit content protection services will
substantially improve our go-forward cost structure," said Loudeye
president and CEO Mike Brochu.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051209/sff010.html?.v=32
http://www.overpeer.com
http://www.loudeye.com
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o MP3 Player
Maker Creative Hints At Patent Claim Against Apple iPod
London - Consumer electronics firm Creative Technology,
maker of the Zen line of portable MP3 and video players, has told
the BBC it intends to "pursue aggressively" a patent it holds on
player software that would likely include Apple's iPod. The company
-- which this week introduced its 30GB Zen Vision:M video and MP3
player -- won a patent in August that covers a hierarchical,
multi-screen menu system for organizing files on a portable player.
"We will pursue all manufacturers that use the same navigation
system," Creative CEO Sim Wong told the BBC. "Hopefully this will be
friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property." In a
thinly-veiled reference to the marketing success for the iPod, Wong
added, "We are focused on the technology…this is the key difference
between a technology company and a branding company."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4510044.stm
http://www.creative.com
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o Report:
Semiconductor Sales Reach Historic $235 Billion in 2005
Stamford, Conn. - Worldwide semiconductor revenue will
total $235 billion in 2005 -- a 6.9% increase from 2004 -- breaking
the previous record-setting year in 2000, when sales reached $223
billion, according to preliminary survey results from the market
research firm Gartner. Intel remained the No. 1 vendor in 2005, with
a 14.3% growth in sales, which was twice the market average.
Broadly, demand for "flash" memory was a key driver in the overall
market, according to Gartner. "The continuing strong demand for
flash card and USB flash drives in 2005, along with the successful
launch of the iPod shuffle by Apple at the start of 2005 and the
release later in the year of the iPod nano, will drive this device
market to the highest revenue performance in 2005," said Andrew
Norwood, research vice president at Gartner.
http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_141290_11.html
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Briefly Noted
o Napster
Launches Digital Music Subscription Service in Germany
Los Angeles - Napster announced that is has launched its
digital music subscription service in Germany, the first such
service to launch in the country. Napster Germany will offer a
library of 1.5 million songs, including 20,000 German albums and
135,000 local artists, for euro 9.95 per month ($11.75). Also
available are individual songs for 99 euro cents ($1.17) and
unlimited downloads to portable players for euro 14.95 per month
($17.67). Napster said it partnered with German electronics retailer
MarkoMart, TV broadcaster SAT1 and MP3 player maker Trekstor to
promote the service.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051208/lath063.html?.v=38
http://www.napster.de
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o Motorola,
Burton Snowboards Introduce Bluetooth Ski Jackets
Libertyville, Ill. - Motorola and partner Burton Snowboards on
Friday announced the commercial availability of their
Bluetooth-enabled Audex line of winter sports jackets. The wearable
technology features a control panel on the sleeve, which controls
incoming and outgoing calls and music selections on a cell phone and
iPod or other portable player stashed inside the jacket. Speakers
and a microphone are also embedded within the hood of the Audex
jackets, which start at $599. The companies also plan to introduce
an Audex Helmet and Audex Padded Hat equipped with Bluetooth stereo
headphones in the spring of 2006.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051209/nyf046.html?.v=35
http://www.hellomoto.com/burton
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o Proteus
Launches SMS Interactive TV Feature for Fuel TV
Washington - Mobile entertainment publisher Proteus said that it
has teamed with Fox Cable Networks' FUEL TV, an action sports
network, to launch a new live "text-to-screen" application. The
technology will allow viewers of the channel's "The Daily Habit"
show to send text messages directly to the show and watch their "shoutouts,"
questions and requests telecast in a live ticker scrolling along the
screen. Proteus also has created a web storefront where fans can
download original artwork from FUEL TV to personalize their mobile
phones.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20051208/bs_prweb/prweb319466_1
http://www.fuel.tv
http://www.proteus.com
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Washingtonpost.com Launches Archive of Congressional Voting Records
Arlington, Va. - Washingtonpost.com, the web site of The
Washington Post, said that it has launched a new online tool that
allows users to search the full voting records of Congress from 1991
through this year. The daily updated tool also offers the ability to
download RSS feeds for each member of Congress to track individual
votes as they are recorded.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress
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PublicDomainTorrents Offers Over 500 Free iPod-Formatted Films
San Francisco - Wired News' "Cult of Mac" blog this week drew
attention to a site called PublicDomainTorrents.com, which hosts
over 500 free and legal movies for download -- most of which have
also been formatted for the video iPod. The films are mainly
B-movies, with titles like "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric
Women," but also include George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead,"
F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu," and the 1932 screen adaptation of
Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," starring Gary Cooper.
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=1302073
http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/nshowcat.html?category=ALL
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o N.Y. Times Op-Ed:
CD Copy-Protection is Bad for Consumers, Musicians, Labels
New York - The New York Times this week published an op-ed piece
written by Damian Kulash, Jr., the lead singer for the U.K. band OK
Go, on the Sony BMG copy-protected CD debacle and how such
anti-piracy technology is actually hurting up-and-coming bands like
his. "Sony BMG and the other major labels need to face reality:
copy-protection software is bad for everyone, consumers, musicians
and labels alike," writes Kulash. "It's much better to have copies
of albums on lots of iPods, even if only half of them have been paid
for, than to have a few CD's sitting on a shelf and not being
played."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/opinion/06kulash.html
http://www.okgo.net
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Project Manager
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Marketing Manager - Pleasanton, CA
We are a private, venture-funded, technology company focused
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marketing plan developed by the VP of Marketing and supports
our revenue goals for specified target accounts and markets.
Send resumes to
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Systems Engineer
(Digital Media)- NationalGeographic.com
Description: National Geographic Society seeks Systems
Engineer (for Digital Media) to install, configure, test,
diagnose & repair Windows, Mac, & Linux servers/workstations
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move equipment. Comprehensive salary w/ full benefits. EOE.
For info & to apply see
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Engineer - NationalGeographic.com
National Geographic Society seeks a Database Engineer to
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Comprehensive salary w/ full benefits. EOE. For more info &
to apply go to
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Join the leader in e-commerce solutions for digital content
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Experience in MySQL required. E-commerce application
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Submit resume and cover letter to
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A Maryland based start up is currently seeking a Sr. GUI
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Program Manager
- Chantilly, VA
SpectraRep is seeking a Program Manager who will manage
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strong leadership and
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tbuono@bia.com For more info:
http://www.spectrarep.com/jobs.htm
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