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December - 2010 About the Pasadena
Tournament of Roses.
•••
The Pasadena Tournament of Roses is a
volunteer organization that annually hosts
the Rose Parade presented by Honda, Rose
Bowl Game presented by VIZIO and various
associated events. •••
The 122nd Rose Parade presented by Honda,
themed Building Dreams, Friendships &
Memories, will take place Saturday, Jan.
1, 2011, at 8 a.m. (PST) featuring
majestic floral floats, high-stepping
equestrian units and spirited marching
bands.
•••
Following the parade, the 97th Rose Bowl
Game presented by VIZIO will kick off at
2:10 p.m. (PST) and feature an exciting
match-up between two of the top collegiate
football teams in the nation. For
additional information on the Tournament
of Roses please visit the official website
at www.tournamentofroses.com.
•••
The 2011 Rose Parade presented by Honda
will pay tribute to the millions of people
worldwide whose dreams create the
foundation for America’s
New Year Celebration® and the
lifetime friendships and memories that are
created by volunteers, participants and
fans.
•••
As Grand Marshal, Paula Deen will ride in
the 122nd Rose Parade presented by Honda
in front of a worldwide television
audience, and toss the coin before the
97th Rose Bowl Games presented by VIZIO on
January 1, 2011. •
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Universal City, CA -- March 2010 /
Video Record Albums of America, (VRA
TelePlay) announces the release of more
than 100 new CD and DVD volumes of
vContent, and software for WebPlay sales,
that include the license for
RadioPlay.
•••
Each CD and DVD features musical stylings,
and seamlessly software to play the Troy
Cory Show, including Troy's vMusic Stage
Concerts performed in the U.S., China,
England, Germany - EU -- since 1968. His
TV-shows went into syndication in 1972.
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101CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
•• •
Americans used more
than 1.1 trillion minutes in the last half
of 2009, an increase of 38 billion from
the same period in 2008.
•• •
U.S. mobile phone
users are talking, texting and surfing the
Web more than ever, according to new data
from a wireless industry trade
group.
•• •
CTIA's latest
semiannual industry survey by CTIA -- the
Wireless Assn. showed that in the last
half of 2009, consumers used more than 1.1
trillion minutes, up 38 billion from the
same period in 2008.
•• •
Consumers sent
almost 5 billion text messages per day in
the last half of 2009.
•• •
The group did not
offer a comparable figure for text
messaging from 2008, but it did say that
the number of multimedia messages -- those
that contain a picture or video -- more
than doubled year over
year.
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-TCS CloseUp-TakeTwo.htm. A year ago, I
wrote a D-Diary memo identifying long-term
barriers to permanent transformation of
the Service Mark
Collections.
•••
Since that time I've written a lot of
memos and direct story about the
transparent fraudulent activities created
by those certain rule makers over the
years in preparation for the collection of
moneies now all due and payable by Telco
organizations. To prevent Lawsuits, and
any misunderstanding between existing
Telcos, the Library of Congress, the
USPTO, FTC, and FCC, the new series of
TVInew aticles, "CloseUps," and Take2, was
prepared at the request of the WTQCA
association. That's something that never
would have happened before the Monetary
Crash of 2008.
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Back then, in the pre-Obama era, I and my
many D-Diary memos would have been
summarily shredded. But under Pres. Obama,
not only is outside criticism invited, he
assigned himself as the chief salesman to
work through the issues. While the road to
permanent transformation stretches a long
way in front of us, there is a key reason
that we are on it at all.
•••
Pres. Obama has been an extraordinary
leader who has recast the White House's
approach to governing. In my opinion, and
with a talented team, a determined federal
judge and an unusually capable congress,
Pres. Obama will accomplished a remarkable
turnaround of a government that had defied
all previous interventions to rein in its
both Pro and Con Hot Topic behavior.
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Financial Reforms
•••
But no president could completely alter
the DNA of the goodtime Charlie's of Wall
Street. Permanent reform will take much
longer, and it will happen only if the
president can continue to drive the
mandate down to the financial, foriegn
trade, and health industries, where there
are still holdouts itching to reverse
course.
•••
Pres. Obama will leave behind a blueprint,
but in some ways the next president will
have a more difficult job. He or she will
need determination to make the changes
stick, a deep knowledge of th U.S.A.
culture, the ability to win the buy-in the
middle class consumer and the courage to
touch less on the problems created by
Unions and there issues. •
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101s-
Ambros Seelos Orchestra Tours the
Globe •••
Ambros Seelos, and Troy Cory shown in
photo, colaborated on a host of original
songs recorded in
Munich.
The
Ambros Seelos Orchestra featured
Sylvester Levay,
Grammy winner for "Fly Robin, Fly," who
later had great success with his musical
"Elisabeth," and was the co-writer with
Troy, and Ambros on Troy's BBC recordings,
"Hurricane," "Hey, Sweet Honey, Honey,"
and "Relax."
•••
During the last two
decades of Troy Cory's China concert
tours, Ambros Seelos delivered the
big-band background sound for many of
Troy's TV-stage performances, "Jeepers
Creepers" being a favorite amongst the
Chinese
audiences.
•••
Back in 1972 Ambros was chosen as the
official band for the Olympic Games in
Munich. Having toured the whole world, he
also performed together with giants of
Jazz like Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and
Ella Fitzgerald, Grammy-winning Hollywood
film composer and musical writer Sylvester
Levay ("Hot Shots," "Airwolf,"
"Elisabeth,") who also worked as a
producer for the living music legends
Elton John and Donna Summer. •
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• 102-
Google TV project at I/O 2010. The Open
Platform will Bring the Internet to the
big TV
Screen.
•••
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 20, 2010)
&emdash; Today at the Google I/O developer
conference in San Francisco, leading
industry players announced the development
of Google TV&emdash;an open platform that
adds the power of the web to the
television viewing experience, ushering in
a new category of devices for the living
room. Intel, Sony, and Logitech, together
with Best Buy, DISH Network and Adobe,
joined Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on stage to
announce their support for Google TV.
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VEGAS HILTON CELEBRATES IT'S 40TH
ANNIVERSARY / By Pete
Allman •••
The Las Vegas
Hilton, which opened as the International
on July 2, 1969 is celebrating its
40th anniversary with a special day
for employees, special casino promotions,
commemorative gaming chips and a 24/7
happy
hour.
•••
It's been about 10 years since I
met William Barron Hilton,
co-chairman of the Hilton
Hotels chain, paternal grandfather
of Paris. For me, The Las
Vegas Hilton has been one of my preferred
places for celebrity interviews, which
include my interviews with Dennis Miller,
Nancy Wilson, Wayne Newton, Bob Parker and
late James Brown "The Godfather of Soul",
to name a few.
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You A Computer Stonehead? . . . If you
Dream in Color . . . You probably
Are. •••Your
inner self is the part of you that makes
you aware of your need for rest,
relaxation, peace, tranquility, a slower
pace, and the requirement that you are in
need of a new
perspective.
•••With
this in mind, you'll soon discover that
you, like most "computerized people", are
more interested in predicting their
future, than changing it; and you are very
much receptive to the touches of your
inner self, and in all probability, you
dream in color, which in turn, makes it
easy for you to morph those dreams into
the real thing. Thus, this is the time
when the search for new Horizons sets in.
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Appeals Copyright Ruling • P- 1
/ •••
- Owner of Paramount and MTV asserts that
the video site's founders operated outside
legal bounds to build traffic quickly so
they could sell the site for a huge sum.
YouTube owner Google vows to fight the
appeal.
•••
- Media giant Viacom Inc. has challenged a
June ruling that video website YouTube did
not violate federal copyright laws when it
allowed users to upload thousands of
pirated clips to the wildly popular
site.
•••
- In a 72-page appeal filed Friday, Viacom
asserted that YouTube's founders
aggressively operated outside legal bounds
in an effort to build traffic quickly so
they could sell the site for a huge sum.
Google Inc. bought YouTube in October 2006
for $1.65 billion.
•••
- Google has said it has spent $100
million to defend against the suit. Viacom
recently hired former U.S. Solicitor Gen.
Ted Olson to help guide its appeal. • CLICK
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Now, not every one of those
subscriptions -- in the world or in
the U.S. -- reflects a single, unique
individual. Some folks have two or more
devices capable of being simultaneously
active (such as a cellphone and a
wireless-enabled laptop).
•••
The Pew Internet & American Life
Project has measured how people use and
think about their wireless devices in a
number of reports, looking at both adults
and teens. • CLICK
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In the U.S. and around the world, these
devices have empowered people to connect
socially and economically with each other
on many levels and having made possible
political changes in places like the
Philippines where they helped "people
power" change the government. They have
also made possible heroic actions and
contributions, speeding assistance in
response to emergencies both large and
small, from roadside rescues to hurricane
and earthquake responses.
•••
These devices form parts of systems, to
which they are connected by radio-waves,
(EMW). • In ending Bob Roche says: "I
hope this helps." An explanation of these
systems can be found on CTIA's website in
a brief piece on "how wireless works."
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U.S. Federal
District Judge Otis D. Wright II -- also sentenced Karatz to five
years' probation., and fined the former
executive $1 million and ordered him to
perform 2,000 hours of community
service. After the former KB
Home CEO chief, Bruce Karatz -- was sentenced in Los Angeles,
Karatz kissed his wife, Lilly Tartikoff,
and embraced relieved supporters who
included his KB founder and billionaire
Eli Broad, former Los Angeles Mayor
Richard J. Riordan and Father Greg Boyle,
director of gang intervention program
Homeboy. • The Options-Backdating Fraud
Case --
ruined Karatz. His 20-year
run as chief executive of home-building
giant KB Home was derailed by allegations
that he manipulated the value of stock
options, was sentenced on November10,
2010, to five years' probation, including
the eight months of house arrest.
•••
•- Wright rejected prosecutors'
request for a lengthy prison sentence,
noting that there was no evidence that the
crimes damaged KB Home or its
shareholders.
•••
•- Karatz, 65, was convicted in April
on charges that he lied about the
Westwood-based company's practice of
backdating options.
•••
•- Prosecutors said the
misinformation was given to KB accountants
and also appeared in a 2006 quarterly
report filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
•••
•- In a brief statement to the judge
before the sentence was imposed, Karatz
said the criminal prosecution "has been
the most difficult time of my life." He
did not apologize.
•••
•- Karatz is one of the most
prominent corporate executives to be
prosecuted in the government's
long-running crackdown on options
backdating and one of the few to be
convicted. • Only a handful have received
prison sentences. •••
•- A federal probation officer had
recommended the sentence that Wright
imposed, saying he was swayed by Karatz's
long history of philanthropy, previously
clean record and the lack of a financial
loss.
•••
•- "It was distressing to read the
tone of the government's remarks," Wright
said. "I think it was mean-spirited and it
was beneath this office.
•••
•- "I and every other federal judge
took an oath that we will administer
justice and do equal right to the poor and
the rich.
•••
•- Under the sentence, Karatz will
spend eight months confined to his Bel-Air
mansion while monitored by a global
positioning satellite device.
•••
•- He declined to comment about the
sentence. Defense attorney John Keker said
no decision had been made on possibly
appealing the conviction. Karatz served as KB Home's chief from
1986 to 2006, guiding the company to significant
growth and profitability and becoming one
of the highest-paid executives in the
U.S., earning an estimated $40 million a
year.
•••
•- During that time, the company's
revenue grew to $11 billion from $491
million and its workforce swelled to 7,000
from 500.
•••
•- He resigned in 2006 under
increasing pressure from investigations
into the company's handling of stock
options, a common form of
compensation. • The Backdating Options Deal
- gave employees the option to buy a set
amount of stock at a set price -- usually
the closing price on the date they're
granted.
•••
•- If the stock price rises,
employees can exercise their option to buy
at the lower price and then sell at the
current price for a profit.
•••
•- Companies are allowed to make the
options more valuable by backdating them
to dates when the stock price was lower,
as long as they acknowledge it in public
disclosures.
•••
•- KB did not make those disclosures
and ultimately restated earnings to
reflect its past backdating. • After his resignation, Karatz
paid more than -- $7 million in fines and restitution to
KB to resolve a lawsuit filed by the SEC.
In his statement to the judge, Karatz said
he planned to continue working with
Homeboy Industries, helping the
financially troubled organization raise
funds.
•••
•- Boyle praised the judge and said
he looked forward to a long relationship
with Karatz.
•••
•- "Every single day, he's there, at
Homeboy Industries helping out," Boyle
said.
•••
•- "He's a great man, and this was a
just result." •
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• 106Google
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Google Inc. - is suing U.S. to break the
Software monopoly, rival Microsoft Corp,
and Adobe has on the U.S. Government.
Google, the U.S. Department of the
Interior for allegedly excluding Google's
bid to provide its e-mail system.
••-
Google sues U.S. over bidding for e-mail
contract
•- The David Sarno
report for the LA Times reads that:
Google's lawsuit alleges the Interior
Department stacked the deck in favor of
Microsoft's e-mail system.
••-
Google Inc., pushing to expand its e-mail
and cloud computing business, took the
federal government to court to change a
bidding process that it said stacks the
deck in favor of rival Microsoft Corp.
••-
Google, which has been battling Microsoft
across the country to gain a foothold in
the $20-billion office software market,
sued the U.S. Department of the Interior
for allegedly excluding Google's bid to
provide its e-mail system for the agency's
88,000 employees.
••-
According to the lawsuit, the U.S.
Department of the Interior
specified that it would consider only
systems that used Microsoft's business
e-mail software, a limitation Google
called "unduly restrictive of
competition.
••-
"Based on the risk assessments and market
research," the Department of the
Interior
wrote in its
specifications, Microsoft's software was
the "only commercial product that
satisfies every requirement identified by
the department.
••-
The suit, filed in the U.S. Court of
Federal Claims, (Nov-2010) 00 alleged that
Interior violated a federal law that
mandates government agencies to use open
and competitive procedures in soliciting
contracts. Google seeks to halt the
department's process until it complies
with that law.
••-
But Google has run into difficulties in
its attempts to loosen the tight grip that
Redmond, Wash., software giant Microsoft
has on the e-mail market, which includes
decades of relationships with some of the
world's largest businesses and government
agencies. • CLICK
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Microsoft Sues Motoroloa Patent THEFT on
the handset maker's line of Android
phones. •••
Microsoft said Motorola had infringed nine
Microsoft patents in the Android-based
smart phones, which run on Google Inc.
software. Microsoft makes its own Windows
phone software.
•••
The patents relate to synchronizing
e-mail, calendars and contacts, scheduling
meetings and notifying applications of
changes in signal strength and battery
power, Microsoft said.
•••
The Redmond, Wash., company said it filed
actions in the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Washington and at the
International Trade
Commission.
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"The patents at LEGAL ISSUE relate to a
range of functionality embodied in
Motorola's Android smartphone devices that
are essential to the smartphone user
experience, including synchronizing
e-mail, calendars and contacts, scheduling
meetings, and notifying applications of
changes in signal strength and battery
power," said Horacio Gutierrez,
Microsoft's (News - Alert) corporate
vice president and deputy general
counsel.
•••
"We have a responsibility to our
customers, partners, and shareholders to
safeguard the billions of dollars we
invest each year in bringing innovative
software products and services to market,"
he added, "Motorola needs to stop its
infringement of our patented inventions in
its Android smartphones."
•••
Gutierrez explained that smartphones have
become an integral part of people's daily
lives and are used for a variety of tasks
beyond making phone calls; from watching
video and listening to music to staying in
touch with relatives or friends.
••••
Motorola said it hadn't received a copy of
the new Microsoft legal complaint, but
added, "The company will vigorously defend
itself in this matter."
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/ • 106pa - ASCAP Wins Federal
Service Mark $Fees Ruling . . .
but . . .
the court disputes the method ASCAP
calculates royalty fees due.
•• •The
case involves a dispute over how much
Yahoo Inc. and RealNetworks Inc.
should have to pay the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers in
royalties for the ability to stream music
on their websites.
•••
ASCAP collects performance royalties on
behalf of songwriters from radio stations
and other businesses that play music and
then distributes the payments to the
artists.
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•••
The LA-Times reported that "the -- Federal
court ruling made in, (September 28,
2010) -- has the potential to affect
many websites that stream music, a federal
appeals court on Tuesday threw out a lower
court's method for determining music
royalties, saying
the calculations were flawed."
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• 106pa
Microsoft Sues Motoroloa Patent THEFT on
the handset maker's line of Android
phones. •••
Microsoft said Motorola had infringed nine
Microsoft patents in the Android-based
smart phones, which run on Google Inc.
software. Microsoft makes its own Windows
phone software.
•••
The patents relate to synchronizing
e-mail, calendars and contacts, scheduling
meetings and notifying applications of
changes in signal strength and battery
power, Microsoft said.
•••
The Redmond, Wash., company said it filed
actions in the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Washington and at the
International Trade
Commission.
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NO,
Says. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in
New York ON Jun 24, 2010.
As
U.S.
District Judge Louis L. Stanton in New
York explained,
Congress recognized that the Internet
couldn't function if broadband providers,
search engines and hosting services were
held liable for every unauthorized copy
made on their networks. The Digital
Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 protected
those companies from liability as long as
they acted quickly to remove any
infringing material identified by
copyright holders. • CLICK
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106Google, and its China problem will it
eventually wear
off? • •
Google reported --
that it would delay rolling out in China
mobile applications that run on Android
phones after its Chinese partners came
under government pressure to pull out of
deals with
Google.
•• •
Access to Google's
Hong Kong search site has been spotty.
Google responded to mounting concerns of
business users of Gmail and other Google
services with a blog post that offered
some technical solutions that would allow
business users in mainland China to access
a corporate network offshore, similar to
what other businesses do. •
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106CarbonMonoxideLaw
/ New law to require home carbon monoxide
detectors
•••
May 7, 2010 /
California homeowners will be required to
install carbon monoxide detectors starting
in July 2011 under a bill signed Friday by
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that is aimed
at preventing deaths and injuries caused
by poisoning from the odorless, colorless
gas.
•••
The bill requires
that alarm devices, which can cost less
than $30, to be installed in existing
single-family homes that have a
fossil-fuel burning appliance, fireplace
or attached garage, starting in mid-2011.
All other residential units will have to
have the detectors in place by Jan. 1,
2013.
•••
In addition to the
firefighters association, the legislation
also was supported by the California Alarm
Assn. and Home Depot. •
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• 106
- Can an Arab get a bill passed in
Israel? •• •
During the last
Knesset, Ahmad TiBi passed four
[Israel Kaws]. "Before that, I
passed another four or five," he said in a
recent May 2010 LAtimes interview. ("But
it's very difficult for an Arab MK to pass
even one motion. Mine were all universal
laws that were good for both Jews and
Arabs, about medical issues, environment,
anti-corruption. But if I brought a law on
the issue of land allocation or cessation
of discrimination, it would immediately be
brought
down.
•• •
I tried it three
months ago with a motion that said simply
the allocation of land by the state should
be equal for all citizens. I didn't
mention "Jewish" or "Arab" citizens.
Automatically the vast majority of the
Knesset voted against me. Any motion with
the principle or word "equality" will
fail. There is not one basic law in the
Knesset talking about the value of equal
rights. Every Knesset I try to pass it.
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/•
May 6, 2010 / The Federal Communications
Commission plans to unveil its road map
for regulating braoadband providers in
response to a feederal court ruling last
month that cast doubt on the agency's
authority over high-speed Internet
access. •••
TheFCC
is expected to impose additional rules on
broadband providers to ensure that the
government has the authority for a plan to
bring high-speed connections to all
Americans and prohibit Internet providers
from discriminating against some kinds of
online traffic. •••
The
agecy now treats broadband as a lightly
regulated information service. But since
the ruling, the FCC has been debating
whether to impose "common carrier"
obligations that make telecom services
share their networks. The agency says it
will seek a third
way. •
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/ September 21, 2009 / FCC Ensuring
Net neutrality. Julius Genachowski, the
new FCC chairman is right to want new
rules that would keep service providers
from limiting selected data traveling
through their networks.
•• •The
FCC took a tentative stab at the issue in
2004, when then-Chairman Michael Powell
announced four crucial (4
Freebies) "Internet Freedoms":
the ability of Internet users to access
any legal content, software or services
online, and to connect to the Net through
any compatible device. Genachowski laid
out two more: Broadband providers
should not
discriminate against particular websites
or applications, nor conceal how they
manage data. He also said that the
commission should translate these
principles into formal rules rather than
leaving them in legal limbo. •• •Lobbyists
for phone and cable TV companies argue
that there's little evidence of ISPs
playing unfairly or violating Powell's
four freedoms. Yet when the FCC moved to
stop Comcast from surreptitiously
interfering with a legal file-sharing
application last year, Comcast sued,
claiming the commission had no power to
enforce the principles. •
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that WiTel Mobile phone usage keeps
growing
•• •
Americans used more
than 1.1 trillion minutes in the last half
of 2009, an increase of 38 billion from
the same period in 2008.
• •
U.S. mobile phone
users are talking, texting and surfing the
Web more than ever, according to new data
from a wireless industry trade
group.
•• •
CTIA's latest
semiannual industry survey by CTIA -- the
Wireless Assn. showed that in the last
half of 2009, consumers used more than 1.1
trillion minutes, up 38 billion from the
same period in 2008.
•• •
Consumers sent
almost 5 billion text messages per day in
the last half of 2009. •
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eventually wear
off? • •
Google reported --
that it would delay rolling out in China
mobile applications that run on Android
phones after its Chinese partners came
under government pressure to pull out of
deals with
Google.
•• •
Access to Google's
Hong Kong search site has been spotty.
Google responded to mounting concerns of
business users of Gmail and other Google
services with a blog post that offered
some technical solutions that would allow
business users in mainland China to access
a corporate network offshore, similar to
what other businesses
do.
•• •
The company
acknowledged that China could block access
to those services at any time. It has set
up a dashboard on its website displaying
which services are accessible and which
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vs AT&T, etc. -- began to think about
"recurring fee" structure." •
Internet 'net neutrality' is endorsed by
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposes
formalizing rules and adding mandates that
he says would keep online traffic moving
freely. The proposals would also cover
wireless Internet service.
•• ••AT&T,
the nation's largest land-line and
wireless carrier, complained that changing
government rules a year after wireless
companies spent billions of dollars in an
FCC auction to lease what they thought
were unencumbered public airwaves "creates
the impression of a 'bait and switch.'
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and Cable Telcos Rejects project
•• •But
the telecommunications and the cable
companies that control both land-line and
wireless access to the Internet argue that
some customers who download large amounts
of data, such as a continuous flow of
movies, can jam their networks.
Regulations that prevent the companies
from restricting such bandwidth hogs, they
contend, would hamper their networks, harm
innovation and delay upgrades.
•• •The
debate centers on so-called network
neutrality principles that the FCC has
been using for four years to prevent
telecom companies, such as AT&T Inc.
and Time Warner Cable Inc., from
restricting access to websites and other
online services.
•• •Genachowski's
proposal would turn those principles into
permanent rules and expand them to prevent
discrimination against the type of data
flowing through the networks, such as free
Internet phone services or file-sharing
technology for movies. •••The
FCC's four guiding Internet principles
since 2005 assure that Internet users can
access any legal content, application or
service and allow them to attach any
device to the Internet as long as it
doesn't harm the
network.•
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January-2011 Cover
Feature.
•••
Godfather
of The Television Movie - Charles
(Chuck) W. Fries, Senior Executive and
vContent
Producer.
Chuck is a longtime film and television
producer and serves as CEO and Executive
Producer of Chuck
Fries Productions. His autobiography,
Chuck Fries -- Godfather of the
Television Movie -- A History of
Television, traces Fries' rise in the
entertainment industry and details his
role in its evolution. •••
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Fries
graduated from Ohio State University and
moved to Hollywood in 1952 to launch his
career in entertainment. His first
opportunity came when he joined Ziv
Television, where he reported to
California Studios (now Raleigh Studios).
Ziv produced pioneer syndicated shows such
as "The Cisco Kid," "Highway Patrol,"
and "Sea Hunt," among others. •••
In 1960, he was appointed vice president
in charge of production for Screen Gems,
the Columbia Pictures' television arm and
was involved in the production of series
such as "Father Knows Best," "Naked
City," "Route 66," "Bewitched" and and
many other standout comedies of the 60s.
Fries later became vice president of
feature film production for Columbia
Pictures and worked on films such as
"Castle Keep," "The Horseman" and "Five
Easy Pieces." In all, Fries has
participated in the production of more
than 5,000 series episodes, 275 hours of
television movies or mini-series, and more
than 50 theatrical films.
••••••
Fries received an Honorary Doctor of Fine
Arts Degree from the Ohio State
University. He was named one of fifty
outstanding Cincinnatians on the 200th
anniversary of the City along with
luminaries such as Ted Turner, Dr. Albert
Sabin and Neil Armstrong. And he was also
one of the top 50 students of Elder High
School, where he gave the commencement
address on the 50th anniversary of the
school. Additionally, Fries was awarded
the Frederic W. Ziv Award, established by
the pioneering syndicator, for his
outstanding accomplishments in television
by the University of Cincinnati Electronic
Media Division of the University's
Conservatory. •
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Foundation.
•••
Throughout his
career, Ted Turner has received
recognition for his entrepreneurial
acumen, sharp business skills, leadership
qualities, and his unprecedented
philanthropy. Whether in billboard
advertisement, cable television, sailing,
environmental initiatives or philanthropy,
Turner's vision, determination, generosity
and forthrightness have consistently given
the world reason to take
notice.
•••
Turner is Chairman
of the United Nations Foundation,
Co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat
Initiative and Chairman of the Turner
Foundation. He is the founder of numerous
cable networks including CNN, TNT and
Cartoon Network, and a partner in the
Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain.
Turner is also Chairman of Turner
Enterprises, Inc., which manages his
business interests, land holdings and
investments, including the oversight of
two million acres in 12 states and in
Argentina, and more than 50,000 bison
head.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences is the world's preeminent
movie-related organization, with a
membership of more than 6,000 of the most
accomplished men and women working in
cinema. In addition to the annual Academy
Awards &endash; in which the members vote
to select the nominees and winners
&endash; the Academy presents a diverse
year-round slate of public programs,
exhibitions and events; provides financial
support to a wide range of other
movie-related organizations and endeavors;
acts as a neutral advocate in the
advancement of motion picture technology;
and, through its Margaret Herrick Library
and Academy Film Archive, collects,
preserves, restores and provides access to
movies and items related to their history.
Through these and other activities the
Academy serves students, historians, the
entertainment industry and people
everywhere who love movies.
•
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Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland
Center®, and televised live by the ABC
Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT/
8 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also
will be televised live in more than 200
countries worldwide. • CLICK
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Europe,
and
"Starmaker"
and
SantaTales." •
•
In 1968, before Troy Cory teamed up with
famous German Orchestra leader, Ambros
Seelos in 1970, Troy had already
co-starred with Wendell Corey, Rolf Eden,
and Barbara Valentine in the Berlin AFI,
John Harris, movie production,
"Starmaker."
•
•
It was in 1970, that Troy, Ambros Seelos,
music arranger, composer and songwriter,
Sylvester Levay, (Lysy, Levy - "Fly,
Robin, Fly," ), and lyricist and
translator, Jossi Sigl produced the
origianal recording sessions and the
Cory/Seelos concert performances in
Germany, Innsbruck, Austria, and Basel,
Switzerland.
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recordings was provided by "The Munich
Philharmonics"; piano and arrangements by
Sylvester Levay. Several years later it
was Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical
"Elisabeth."
•
•
Troy Cory collaborated
with Cinema Prize Records and Agil Musik
and co-wrote the song material with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in
producing the album, entitled, "Today's
Puzzle." The
end of the 1970s found Troy Cory playing
Santa Claus in the German/American
production film "Merry Christmas: Just in
the Nick of Time," starring Priscilla
Cory, as "Little Miss Santa," and
featuring the late German singer, Manuela.
Produced by VRA TelePlay Pictures, Bohemia
Film and Gábor Wagner, of ARD, the
story was filmed in and around the city of
Munich, Nymphenburg and Castle
Neuschwanstein, Germany and in Oberndorf,
Austria, the small village and church
where the Christmas carol "Silent Night"
was performed for the first time on
December 25, 1818.
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Features Santa in Hollywook -- the off to
Germany with: "Froehliche Weihnacht." This
film features: Troy Cory, as Santa
Claus, Priscilla Cory, as Little Miss
Santa, German actress/singer, Manuela, and
Tina Kincaid. Various "Winter Wonderland"
clips were filmed and video'd in: Germany,
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Priscilla Cory; Manuela; Pamela Henck;
Nina Janovsky; Gerhard Haeusler, Jr.;
Roger Haeusler; Wiggi Leinzinger; Robert
Leinzinger; Doris Huber; Jossi Sigl;
Patrick Janovsky; Adina Sapunaru; Martin
Kaim; Josef Guggenmos; Josef Schlichterle;
Alfons Hipp (Hornblower); Franz Seitz;
Peter Simcovic; Marion Sonntag; Sylvia
Vinzent; M. Damen; M. Pitmar; M. Keller;
• Directed By: William Janovsky;
Gabor Wagner. • Unit Director: Josie
Cory; Scott Stubblefield; Cinematographer:
Louis Horvath. • Producers: Troy Cory
Show; Bohemia Film, Munich, Gabor Wagner;
Hollywood Int'l Pictures, (HIP): John
Harris, Josie Cory. Vine Street Video
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Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint
Claims •••
February
2, 2010 / • LITIGATION $1.73-billion
settlement in stent
suits.
Johnson
& Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp.
would pay $1.73 billion to settle two
suits related to patents for medical
stents. •••
Natick,
Mass.-based Boston Scientific faces
additional court challenges to its Promus
stent products, including a lawsuit by
Cordis
Corp •••
Stents
are mesh-wire tubes used to hold arteries
open after they are surgically cleared of
blockage. •
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108brin&PageToSellGooglestock
. •••
Google
Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin plan to sell 5 million shares apiece
of their company stock, worth $5.5 billion
combined at current prices. •••
According to regulatory documents, Page
and Brin will still own 47.7 million
shares or 48% of the voting power,
combined after their personal stock sales.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt
controls nearly 10% voting power. The trio
will still continue to control the
company. • CLICK
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•108Editor&PublisherRevived.
/ EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, The one
hundred year old publishing company is
back in business again. •••
EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, founded
in 1901 and merged in 1907 with The
Journalist, a weekly founded in 1884 is
back in business again, "seamlessly" . . .
says Josie Cory, publisher of tviNews.
Long the bible of the U.S. newspaper
industry, the publication has been
revived" under a new publisher just two
weeks after Nielsen Co. shut the venerable
trade magazine down.
•••
Duncan McIntosh Co., an Irvine, CA-based
company that ironically publishes FishRap
News, and titles such as Boating World,
has acquired it for undisclosed terms.
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•••
U.S.
and Swiss reach deal over secret UBS bank
accounts. The agreement will end a legal
case in which the U.S. sought names of
Americans suspected of evading
taxes.
•••
U.S.
and Swiss negotiators have initialed a
settlement that averts a legal showdown
over the U.S. government's landmark
challenge to Swiss bank secrecy, a
government lawyer said
Wednesday.
•••
The
U.S. government had sought a federal court
ruling compelling Switzerland's largest
bank, UBS, to turn over the names of
Americans suspected of dodging taxes
through the use of 52,000 secret
accounts.•
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The
Forbidden Ciy Project. •• •
"The only names
retained by the Chinese 'Forebidden City'
project are the the words "City" and
Mandarin Oriental," says Troy Cory, of the
Jockey Club Alliance Group,
•••
Thanks
to MGM, Dubai World, the massive
CityCenter walk, formerly knows as the the
1993 China Expo Las Vegas Jockey Club
Forbidden City Boardwalk Project, opend
its door on
December 17,
1009.
•••
TVI's Pete Allman, and the associated
press reported Las Vegas "visitors by the
thousands" streamed into the newest
casino-resort on the Las Vegas Strip on
Thursday.
•••
Fireworks and fanfare greeted the official
opening of the Aria Resort & Casino,
the 4,000-room, 61-story centerpiece of
the $8.5-billion CityCenter complex.
Crowds began swarming through the doors
around midnight.
•
MGM Mirage Chief Executive Jim Murren said
that while many experts thought CityCenter
would never open, its employees drove the
company to make sure it carried through on
its grand design.
•••
"It was because of [the employees]
that we got here, and the promise of
12,000 people that wanted to work hard to
provide for their families," Murren said.
"It was that promise -- that we didn't
want to let them down -- that got us
here."
••••
Aria's rooms, along with those at
CityCenter's Mandarin Oriental and Vdara
hotels, increase room capacity on the Las
Vegas strip 8.5%, UBS Investment Research
analyst Robin Farley
••••
Competitors worry that CityCenter will
force them to lower rates to keep rooms
filled. But Murren and other MGM Mirage
officials predict CityCenter will help Las
Vegas as a whole, spurring visitation and
providing a catalyst for long-term
prosperity.
•••
"This is really 21st century Las Vegas,"
said architect Cesar Pelli, whose team
designed Aria. "This is really setting up
very high standards that will be very hard
to match -- but I hope they will try."
•• •
December
11, 2009 / The LA TIMES REPORT ON THE --
massive CityCenter complex on the Las
Vegas Strip, set to open officially next
week, is a blast from the very recent
past.
•• •
Costing
over $8.5 billion, designers including
Daniel Libeskind, Norman Foster, David
Rockwell, Cesar Pelli and Rafael Vinoly
and a staggering 18 million square feet of
space inside six towers and a Strip-front
shopping mall, the development is a
fitting coda to the decade of celebrity
architecture and overextended real-estate
mania from which we've just emerged.
•
CityCenter's
true theme is leverage. Ranking as the
largest private development in American
history, big enough to fill the tallest
building in Los Angeles, the U.S. Bank
Tower, roughly a dozen times over, the
complex is a palace -- a series of
connected palaces, actually -- for the age
of towering debt and easy credit. They
should have put Alan Greenspan's face on
the poker chips.
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109s - TVImagazine
Photo Ops - 18w and
interviews.
The panel will explore the potential of
the combination of the TV, the set-top,
the broadband connection and digital video
recorder and how every player in the
entertainment and technology food chain
&endash; from content owner to middleware
and headend operator, to the subscriber
service provider and finally to the CE
manufacturer, all play an equally key
role. •
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MAY 22, 2010 / Google
Inc.'s $750 million acquisition of mobile
ad service AdMob cleared its final hurdle
Friday with a boost from AdMob's jilted
suitor, Apple
Inc.
•• •
The Federal Trade
Commission said it unanimously decided to
approve Google's AdMob deal mainly because
of Apple's recent push into the $600
million mobile advertising market in the
U.S. The ruling closes a six-month
antitrust
investigation.
•• •
The emergence of
another deep-pocketed competitor eased the
FTC's concerns that Google would be able
to use AdMob as a springboard for
extending its dominance into the nascent
field of wireless devices •
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STANDBY •••
Microsoft has taken two parallel routes in
its operating systems. One route has been
for the home user and the other has been
for the professional IT user.
•••
The dual routes have generally led to home
versions having greater multimedia support
and less functionality in networking and
security, and professional versions having
inferior multimedia support and better
networking and security.[citation
needed]
•••
The first version of Microsoft Windows,
version 1.0, released in November 1985,
lacked a degree of functionality and
achieved little popularity, and was to
compete with Apple's own operating
system.[citation needed] Windows
1.0 is not a complete operating system;
rather, it extends MS-DOS.
•••
Microsoft Windows version 2.0 was released
in November, 1987 and was slightly more
popular than its predecessor. Windows 2.03
(release date January 1988) had changed
the OS from tiled windows to overlapping
windows. The result of this change led to
Apple Computer filing a suit against
Microsoft alleging infringement on Apple's
copyrights •
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VEGAS HILTON CELEBRATES IT'S 40TH
ANNIVERSARY / By Pete
Allman •••
The Las Vegas
Hilton, which opened as the International
on July 2, 1969 is celebrating its
40th anniversary with a special day
for employees, special casino promotions,
commemorative gaming chips and a 24/7
happy
hour.
•••
It's been about 10 years since I
met William Barron Hilton,
co-chairman of the Hilton
Hotels chain, paternal grandfather
of Paris. For me, The Las
Vegas Hilton has been one of my preferred
places for celebrity interviews, which
include my interviews with Dennis Miller,
Nancy Wilson, Wayne Newton, Bob Parker and
late James Brown "The Godfather of Soul",
to name a few.
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111s-TCScloseUp-TakeTwo.htm.
A year ago, I wrote a D-Diary memo
identifying long-term barriers to
permanent transformation of the Service
Mark
Collections.
•••
Since that time I've written a lot of
memos and direct story about the
transparent fraudulent activities created
by those certain rule makers over the
years in preparation for the collection of
moneies now all due and payable by Telco
organizations. To prevent Lawsuits, and
any misunderstanding between existing
Telcos, the Library of Congress, the
USPTO, FTC, and FCC, the new series of
TVInew aticles, "CloseUps," and Take2, was
prepared at the request of the WTQCA
association. That's something that never
would have happened before the
Monetary
Crash of 2008..
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of Poker - More Then Vegas / By
Pete
Allman
•••
The game of poker is truly a game of skill
and in todays society, thanks to
television coverage and all those
celebrities indulging in the game, it is a
household word.
•••
Legend has it, that poker dates back
to 900 BC in China when Mu-Tsung was said
to have played a form of '' domino
cards''. It has also been said
that poker evovled in the 1400's as
a European game. However, Poker
in America started in Mississippi on
riverboats and was a compliment
to three card Monti , which was dealt
with a 20 card deck that only
contained aces, kings, queens, jacks
and10's.
•••
The big step in the evolution of poker was
in Neveda where it was declared
illegal in 1910.
In California the Attorney
General declared it a game of skill,
thus anti-gambling laws couldn't stop the
masses from playing poker. Then,
in 1931 poker was declared
a legal game in Nevada.
•••
What's not to like with a chef from Italy,
a diversed staff, and an all new
State-of-the-Art Grand Poker
Ballroom. It's an impressive and
exciting place to visit. A place
where younever know who's playing poker or
for that matter Pai Chi.. •
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| China's limits on entertainment imports
violate free trade practices, WTO
rules
••The
ruling is seen as a win for U.S.
industries working to distribute films,
music and books in China. Still, trade
experts say not to expect big
changes.
••Workers
make repairs to the display at a Beijing
movie theater near a model of a character
from the "Transformers" films. Wednesday's
World Trade Organization ruling could help
open the Chinese market to more U.S.
movies. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)
••The
decision was seen as one of the toughest
against China by the WTO since it joined
the trade body in 2001 and agreed to give
equal treatment for domestic and foreign
companies. And it comes as the U.S.
continues to face a massive trade deficit
with China -- $103 billion through June of
this year -- an issue that the Obama
administration has yet to tackle head on
but which looms large in the coming
months. ••August
13, 2009 / Washington. The LAtimes
reported that . . . in deciding that China
broke international trade rules by
restricting imports of movies, music and
books, the World Trade Organization handed
the U.S. a victory in a contentious issue
that has long rankled purveyors of
copyrighted media products.
••But
it doesn't mean Hollywood or Silicon
Valley will be cashing in any time soon.
••The
ruling, issued Wednesday by a WTO panel in
Geneva, called on China to stop requiring
foreign media suppliers to go through the
costly process of distributing goods
through Chinese state-owned entities. It
also urged China to allow foreign
companies to sell music over the Internet,
a potentially huge opportunity for
companies such as Apple Inc., with its
iTunes. China has the largest number of
Internet users, but piracy online and in
the streets is rampant.
••Although
China has complied with past WTO rulings
against it, analysts say Beijing could
appeal the latest decision, which could
drag out the case for many more months.
The complaint was first brought by the
U.S. in spring
2007. •
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•
•
Army Archerd interviewed everyone from
Hollywood stars to heads of state in his
illustrious 52 years as a Daily Variety
columnist.
•
•
In 1947, Archerd was hired by the
Herald-Express as assistant (i.e., "leg
man") to drama-movie editor-columnist
Harrison
Carroll.
•
•
In addition to covering the studios,
Archerd began reporting on the local
nightclub scene, which included Sunset
Strip sites like the Mocambo and Ciro's
and music spots down La Cienega, La Brea
and Ventura
Boulevard. •
•
After leaving Harrison Carroll, the Daily
Variety editor Joe Schoenfeld hired
Archerd in 1953 to replace columnist
Sheilah Graham
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- The Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade,
Sunday
Nov.28th.
This years Hollywood Christmas Parade will
be held live in Hollywood, California, --
on Sunday, November 28, 2010 from 6:00
&endash; 8:00 p.m. Larry King will
serve as Grand Marshal. Mario Lopez will
serve as Parade
Marshal.
•
•
Erik
Estrada and Laura McKenzie will serve as
Broadcast Hosts. Kyle Massey and
Christopher Massey will serve as Roving
Reporters along the Parade Route.
This year's parade features 115
Celebrities and VIPs;
•1
4 Award winning bands, including three
from -- outside
the state of California; eight Equestrian
Units; six Specialty Characters; four
balloons and four floats. Press
Check-In will begin at 3:00 p.m. on
Sunday, November 28th on Sycamore Street
at Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood,
CA. •
•
The
Red Carpet Event will take place on
Sycamore Street near Hollywood Boulevard
from 4:00 &endash; 5:30 p.m. The event
will be attented by Larry King, and the
officials of the Holiday event, headed by
Steve Moyer. Gary Sunkin, publisher, Josie
Cory, and entertainer, Troy Cory, will
covered for TVInews. Troy says, "Each year
brings back the memories of my role
playing the starring role as Saint
Nicholas, for German TV."
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official homepage of Christmas Around The
World featuring the 1977 Hollywood
Christmas Parade spectacular is
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2010, IN
HOLLYWOOD, CA AT 6:00 P.M. -- the
2010 HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS
PARADE •
TELEVISON ICON LARRY KING TO REIGN AS
GRAND MARSHAL OF THE 2010 HOLLYWOOD
CHRISTMAS PARADE BENEFITING MARINE TOYS
FOR TOTS
•••ERIK
ESTRADA AND LAURA McKENZIE TO SERVE AS
BROADCAST HOSTS FOR NATIONAL TELECAST ON
THE HALLMARK CHANNEL • KYLE MASSEY
AND CHRISTOPHER MASSEY TO SERVE AS PARADE
ROVING REPORTERS •
The Hollywood Christmas Parade, an
American tradition -- for over 80 years, is produced
live in Hollywood, CA by Hollywood's Santa
Para de LLC, made up of William Lomas,
President and Debbie Scheibel,
Vice-President, Administration. The
City of Los Angeles and Associated
Television International are Presenting
Sponsors. The Hallmark Channel is a
Media Partner. This year's televised
special of the parade is executive
produced by David McKenzie of Associated
Television International. •
Additional
Celebrities: Kevin Eubanks
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July
3rd •
Special Events: Munich, Germany • 24 June
2010•••
• filmtonart.
Film Music Day
• 26 June
/•••
• Bozen Film
Festival Sören Bauer • 8.30
pm
• 28. June /
••
• teamWorx
Reception • 9.30-11.30 pm
• 29. June /
•••
• ZDF
Reception • 11.30 am /
• 30. June
/•••
• ARD Brunch
• 11.30 am - 2.00 pm
• 01. July to 03 • Closing
Event
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115•NAB-TradeShowAbout
the 2010 NAB Show / The NAB Show will take
place Jan 24th to 26, 2010 10-15 , 2010 in
Las Vegas (exhibits open 12
April).
It is the world's largest electronic media
show covering filmed entertainment and the
development, management and delivery of
content across all mediums. Complete
details are available at
www.nabshow.com. •••
• About NAB •••
The National Association of Broadcasters
is the premier advocacy association for
America's broadcasters. NAB advances radio
and television interests in legislative,
regulatory and public affairs. Through
advocacy, education and innovation, NAB
enables broadcasters to best serve their
communities, strengthen their businesses
and seize new opportunities in the digital
age.
•••
NAB Show organizers today unveiled
MyNABShow Mobile.
•••
WASHINGTON, DC -- NAB Show organizers
unveiled today a new mobile app that will
provide attendees with NAB Show
information, delivered directly to their
handheld device.
•••
More information, including an online
video demonstration of the app is
available at NABShow.com/mobile. The app
can be downloaded from the NAB Show's
mobile Web site, m.NABShow.com. •CLICK
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www.nab.org. •
NEW NAB SHOW APP GIVES ATTENDEES ON-THE-GO
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• 115-Consumer
Electronic Show / January -6th to 9th
2011, Las Vegas, Nevada
The
Association's Mission: To serve as the
definitive source for information about
the consumer electronics industry. EVENT
COVERED BY TVI MAGAZINE JOURNALIST / Gary
Sunkin / Josie Cory / Pete Allman.
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-- Venetian, Venetian Ballroom (Invite
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•- WED, JAN 5:6:00 PM -- 11:00
PM: AT&T Wireless Developer's
Conference Reception -- Palms, Rain (9-11
PM Bare Naked Ladies
-http://www.2011devsummit.com
Tickets: $50-$70)
•- 7:00 PM --; 9:00 PM: LG
Mobile Party -- Venetian, Tao (Invite
only)
•- 7:00 PM -- 10:00 PM: Pepcom
-- Caesar's (Invite only)
•- 7:00 PM -- 1:00 AM: Lenova
-- Venetian, Aquaknox (Invite only)
•- 7:30 PM: Audi -- Palms,
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Computers Mixer - Mandalay Bay (Invite
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•- 8:00 PM -- 12:00 AM: Nissan
-- Palms, Little Buddha (Invite only)
•- THURS, JAN 6:
5:00 PM: IFA Media Reception - Wynn,
Lafite Ballroom #3 (Invite only)
•- 5:30 PM -- 8:30 PM:
TigerDirect "Build Your Own PC Race" --
Wynn (Invite only
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•- 5:30 PM -- 8:30 PM: MSI
Overclocking -- Pole Position Raceway,
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•- 6:00 PM -- 8:00 PM: NPD
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•- 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM:
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ArtRage at Showstoppers!)
•- 6:00 PM -- 10:00 PM:
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•- 7:00 PM -- 9:00 PM: Wired
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•- 7:00 PM -- 9:00 PM: Women in
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•- 7:00 PM -- 9:00 PM: Digital Media
Insider-- Palazzo, Dos Caminos
(Invite only)
•- 7:00 PM -- 11:00 PM: HTC -
Caesar's, Pure (Invite only)
•- 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM: Mashable
Awards -- NY, NY, Zumanity
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•- FRI, JAN 7:
•- 4:00 PM -- 7:00 PM: Official
2011 CES Tweet Up - LV Hilton, Space Quest
Lounge
5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Top
Brands from China Awards Reception --
Venetian (Invite only)
•- 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM: It Won't Stay
in Vegas Blogger Party -- Atomic Museum,
755 E. Flamingo (Invite only)
•- 6:00 PM -- 8:00 PM:
FashionWare Show/KAPi Awards -
Fashion Show Mall (Invite Only)
•- 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM:
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-- Paris, Paris Ballroom with Earth,
Wind & Fire (Invite Only)
•- Marketnews Canada Night --
Caesar's (Canadian Only Info:
http://www.marketnews.ca/CanadaNight2011.html)
•- SAT, JAN 8:•- 5:00
PM -- 12:00 AM: Xtremesystems Party
- Pole Position Raceway, 4175 S. Arville
Rd (Invite only)
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•- FITNESS TECHNOLOGIES -- BOOTH
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115.09-AmericanFilmMarket-AFI-fest • When:
2010: November 4 - 11 /
• Where: Santa Monica, California
• AFI FEST - will celebrate its 23rd
year • When: 2010: COMING October
30th and November 5th /
• When: 2010: November
• Where: Santa Monica, California The business of independent motion
picture production and distribution - a
truly collaborative process - reaches its
peak every year at the American Film
Market. Over 8,000 industry leaders
converge in Santa Monica for eight days of
deal-making, screenings, seminars, red
carpet premieres, networking and parties.
Participants come from over 70 countries
and include acquisition and development
executives, agents, attorneys, directors,
distributors, festival directors,
financiers, film commissioners, producers,
writers, the world's press all those who
provide services to the motion picture
industry.
•••
Founded in 1981, the American Film Market
(AFM) has grown steadily to become the
premiere global marketplace where
Hollywood's decision-makers and
trendsetters all gather under one roof.
Unlike a film festival, the AFM is a
marketplace where production and
distribution deals are closed. In just
eight days, more than $800 million in
deals will be sealed &emdash; on both
completed films and those that haven't
started shooting yet &emdash; making AFM
the must-attend industry event.
•••
The AFM transforms Santa Monica. The Loews
Santa Monica Beach Hotel and the Le
Merigot Beach Hotel are converted into a
busy marketplace. All 23 screens on the
Santa Monica Promenade and the surrounding
community become AFM screening rooms for
the entire eight-day event and eight
digital and video screening rooms are
added just for the AFM. Participants may
view more than 900 screenings of
approximately 500 films - 31 new films
every two hours - the majority of them
world or U.S. premieres.
•••
Titles range from big budget blockbusters
that will be released by the major studios
in the U.S., to lower budget art and genre
films recognized at international film
festivals, all destined for theaters and
television around the world.
•••
With 8,000 attendees, 900 screenings, and
seminars programmed by leading industry
organizations, the American Film Market
continues to be the pivotal destination
for independent filmmakers and business
people from all over the world. •
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Where: Hollywood, - Mann's Chinese
Theaters / In the spirit of "giving back"
to our community and to promote
philanthropy through film, AFI FEST will
offer complimentary individual tickets to
all screenings, including a limited number
of seats to the galas.
•••
The festival headquarters will be at the
historic Mann's Chinese Theaters between
October 30th and November 5th, and then
move to the seaside for screening in Santa
Monica presented in association with the
American Film Market (AFM). The Hollywood
Roosevelt returns as the festival's host
hotel.
•••
Each fall, AFI FEST presents a survey of
the year's most significant films.
Featuring international work from emerging
filmmakers, global showcases of films from
the great masters and red-carpet gala
premieres, AFI FEST brings world cinema to
the heart of Hollywood. •
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Annual MiP-tv April 8th •
MipComCannes108w.jpg>• ***02.
October 4 - Inaugural MIPCOM 2010
World Premiere TV Screenings open with
Lionsgate's "Mad Men" and "Running
Wilde"
•••
•
Paris, 31 August 2010 &endash; Reed MIDEM
today announces the first MIPCOM World
Premiere TV Screenings on October 4 in
Cannes, France. The event opens with cast
members attending a special screening of
Lionsgate's multiple Emmy® Award
winning "Mad Men" and the international
debut of "Running
Wilde."
•••
"We
are delighted to introduce the MIPCOM
World Premiere TV Screenings as a premium
showcase for leading television and film
companies to screen outstanding programmes
to the most influential buyers, industry
players, and international media from over
100 countries," says Laurine Garaude,
Director of Reed MIDEM's Television
Division.
•••
The
inaugural event, to be held in the Palais
des Festivals' prestigious Grand
Auditorium, is open to all MIPCOM
delegates. •
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Michael
D. Eisner will be the Keynote Speaker at
the Variety Summit - which is being held
on the opening day of Digital Hollywood,
Monday, October 18th at the Loews in Santa
Monica.
•••
Michael
D. Eisner, Founder, The Tornante Company:
Former Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of The Walt Disney Company,
Michael Eisner has, for four decades, been
a leader in the American entertainment
industry. He began his career at ABC,
where he helped take the network from
number three to number one in primetime,
daytime and children's television with
such landmark shows as Happy Days, Barney
Miller, Rich Man, Poor Man, and
Roots. •
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• Modern Electric Car Era Begins
November at the LA Auto Show. •
Mass-Production
Electric Vehicles Become Available to
Consumers ***LOS
ANGELES - November, 2010 - A new era of
modern, electric drive transportation
begins at the Los Angeles Auto Show this
November. Worldwide, nearly all major
automakers have announced plans for an
electric car in the next few years and Los
Angeles will receive the first arrivals in
the next several
months. ***Auto
manufacturers are looking to Los Angeles
to lead the charge in early electric
vehicle adoption, much as Los Angeles
continues to lead in hybrid vehicles
sales. Since Los Angeles is recognized as
a trendsetter for the automotive industry,
it makes sense that at least a half-dozen
electric vehicles will make news during
the LA Auto Show Press Days, Nov. 17 and
18. ***The
first electric cars to kick-off this new
era are the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan
Leaf, expected to arrive in November and
December of this year,
respectively. ***Several
other electric vehicles will debut at the
LA Auto Show including the North American,
production version of Mitsubishi's i-MiEV
and Toyota's RAV4 EV concept. Expected to
be one of the next electric vehicles to
hit dealerships, the i-MiEV model debuting
at the LA Show will be wider and will also
include an upgraded list of standard and
optional interior features to make it more
attractive to the U.S.
buyer. ***Toyota's
RAV4 EV will use Tesla's lithium-ion
battery packs, which will be modified to
become more aerodynamic. Toyota has been
testing prototypes of the car, which is
scheduled to hit the market in 2012. •
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••
With
the economy
collapsing, the
ranks of the unemployed growing, and the
bailout hearings underway to determine the
fate of U.S. automakers, GM, Ford and
Chrysler, the last thing we seem to need
in a America is a autoshow displaying
exotic cars and the newest designs from
Germany, Japan, and Italy that came about
after World War II. •
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W. Fries - Interview with Connie
Martinson
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NBS WITEL®™©'s financial
resources are certainly akin to those of
many mobile phone start-ups, and/or
land-line Telcos now converting to utilize
the effects and elements of the Wireless
Telephone®™©.
•••
A federal jury in
Oakland delivers the judgment against
German business software maker SAP in a
case that began in
2007.
•
Q&A - Rober Roche. CITA leading to the
best way -- to Validate
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