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DIGITAL MEDIA WIRE -- December 12, 2002
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o Secret Service, RIAA Bust New York City CD Piracy Operation
o TiVo to Offer Ability to Play MP3s, View Digital Pictures on TVs
o Interactive Advertising Bureau Endorses Larger Online Ad Size
o Yahoo Trims Broadcasting Services Staff
o USA Interactive Raises $750 Million Through Private Placement of Notes
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o Briefly Noted: Portal Player, Coding Technologies - Matsushita - NEC,
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Australian court - online defamation ruling
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o Secret Service, RIAA Bust New York City CD Piracy Operation
New York -- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced
that the U.S. Secret Service, working with its investigators, have busted
a CD piracy ring in New York City that had the capability of churning out
6 million pirated discs per year. During the raid, three people were
arrested and authorities seized 35,000 pirated CDs, 10,000 DVDs, 421 CD
burners, a color copier and other tools for creating pirate CDs. The RIAA
said the raid represents the largest-ever seizure of music piracy
equipment in the U.S., and estimated the operation had the potential to
cost the recording industry $90 million annually. "This is a major blow to
the music pirates who were robbing record companies, artists, legitimate
retailers and countless others in the industry of millions of hard-earned
dollars," said Frank Creighton, executive vice president and director of
the RIAA's Anti-Piracy Unit.
http://www.riaa.org/PR_Story.cfm?id=592
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=1891929
http://www.riaa.org/PR_story.cfm?id=594
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o TiVo to Offer Ability to Play MP3s, View Digital Pictures on TVs
New York -- Personal video recorder manufacturer TiVo announced that its
device, which allow viewers to pause and record live television, will also
soon have the capability of playing MP3 files and projecting digital
pictures stored on PCs on the television to which the TiVo unit is
attached. The new service -- which will be launched at the Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January -- will likely be offered for an
additional monthly fee, although the company did not comment on pricing.
"There's a whole set of packages that we are doing and the main theme is
around broadband and home networking. It is our next big thing," TiVo CEO
Michael Ramsay told Reuters.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021212/tech_tivo_2.html
http://www.tivo.com
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o Interactive Advertising Bureau Endorses Larger Online Ad Size
New York -- The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced that its ad
sizes committee, which includes AOL, CNET Networks, MSN and Yahoo, have
approved the recommendation of a new larger-sized advertising format.
Combined with three previously-endorsed sizes, the set will make up what
the IAB calls its "Universal Ad Package." The IAB said the grouping was
created in response to advertiser demand for simpler, more cost effective
units and a stronger creative palette. The publishers on the special ad
committee all said they will begin offering the new 728x90 format to
advertisers buying ads on their sites.
http://www.iab.net/news/pr_2002_12_11.asp
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o Yahoo Trims Broadcasting Services Staff
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Yahoo has laid off several workers in its
broadcasting services division, the Associated Press reported. The
unspecified number of cuts occurred at the Internet company's offices in
Dallas, Atlanta and London. Yahoo, which has about 3,500 employees, has
been impacted by the downturn in online advertising over the past several
months, and has cut jobs at some of its less-profitable divisions. The
company cut 660 jobs a year ago.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/021210/yahoo_layoffs_2.html
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o USA Interactive Raises $750 Million Through Private Placement of Notes
New York -- USA Interactive, operator of online services including
Ticketmaster, Citysearch, Expedia and Styleclick, among others, announced
on Thursday that it has sold $750 million of senior notes in a private
placement. The company said it will use the net proceeds for general
corporate purposes, which may include acquisitions, working capital,
capital expenditures and debt repurchases.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021212/122184_1.html
http://www.usanetworks.com
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Briefly Noted:
(Santa Clara, Calif.) Portal Player, a chipmaker for audio consumer
electronics that produces the chip used in Apple's popular iPod digital
music player, said that its CEO and co-founder John Mallard, and chief
operating officer Robert Turnbull have stepped down from their positions.
"The board has requested, and [Mallard] has agreed, to stay on in a
consultative role," Portal Player vice president of marketing Michael Maia
told CNET News.com. "The company's chairman, former National Semi
executive Richard Sanquini, has been named acting CEO."
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-976740.html?tag=cd_mh
http://www.portalplayer.com
(Mountain View, Calif.) Coding Technologies, a developer of audio
compression technology, announced on Thursday that it partnered with
electronics firms Matsushita and NES to develop a low-power decoder for
the upcoming MPEG-4 AAC-plus-SBR (aacPlus) standard, which offers
CD-quality audio at low bitrates. Coding Technologies said the decoder
requires 40 percent less processing power, enabling the aacPlus standard
to be implemented on a wider range of processors for mobile and portable
devices that play digital audio.
http://www.codingtechnologies.com/news/assets/20021212_necmei_eng.htm
(Dallas) HDNet, the all-HDTV broadcasting network founded by Dallas
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, announced on Thursday an agreement with
Paramount Domestic Television, giving HDNet the high-definition television
broadcast rights to certain series originally produced in HDTV.
Dallas-based HDNet said it will begin broadcasting Paramount series
including "Hogan's Heroes," "That's Life," "Big Apple," "Some of My Best
Friends," "Love and Money, " "Wolf Lake" and "First Monday" on HDNet in
early 2003.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/223460244&ticker=
http://www.hd.net
(London) NDS, a division of News Corp. that provides interactive TV
services, announced on Thursday the launch of a 24-hour interactive TV
service on MTV UK. The features include a feed of celebrity news and
gossip based on the current video being played, trivia games and a
personality quiz. Previously, London-based NDS created interactive
applications for the 2001 and 2002 MTV Europe Music Awards and the MTV
Hits interactive service.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021212/122111_1.html
http://www.nds.com
http://www.mtv.co.uk
(Palo Alto, Calif.) PC and peripheral manufacturer HP announced on
Thursday a five-year agreement with satellite TV operator DirecTV. Under
the terms, HP will provide and manage an advanced computing infrastructure
to support DirecTV's billing services for its 11 million customers.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021212/120056_1.html
http://www.directv.com
(Tel Aviv) Interactive game developer Zone4Play announced on Thursday that
several of its SMS and WAP platform casino games will be distributed to
wireless network operator mmO2's 17.25 million subscribers. Israel-based
Zone4Play will also offer mmO2 Java-based 2.5G and 3G applications.
http://www.mmo2.com
http://www.zone4play.com
(San Clemente, Calif.) Interactive 3D technology developer Superscape said
on Thursday that the first game published under its agreement with THQ
Wireless will be a 3D version of the classic Intellivision title
"Astrosmash." San Clemente, Calif.-based Superscape said the game,
compatible with ARM 9 and Java-enabled cell phones, will become available
in early 2003.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021212/lnth003_1.html
http://www.superscape.com
http://www.thqwireless.com
(New York) MLB Radio said on Thursday that it will for the third
consecutive year provide on-location streaming audio coverage of
professional baseball's annual Winter Meetings in Nashville, Tenn. MLB.com
will offer talk shows and live interviews, and cover press conferences
during the meetings, where baseball teams' general managers meet to trade
players.
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/winter_meetings/y2002/meetings.jsp
(San Francisco) CNET News.com on Thursday provided news analysis of the
Australian high court's recent decision to allow a U.S. publisher be tried
for alleged defamation of an Australian resident in the jurisdiction of
Australia. The article points out that the ruling is detrimental to Dow
Jones, because it has actual assets in the country of Australia, but poses
less of a threat to individuals and smaller operations with few assets and
no significant business presence in countries with weak free-speech
protections.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-976988.html?tag=cd_mh
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