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EGT Completes $8.5 Million in Series C Funding 
ATLANTA—-Feb. 27, 2006–EGT, Inc., delivering the world’s best digital video experience, has completed an $8.5 million Series C funding from industry veteran firms Noro-Moseley Partners, H.I.G.

UPI NewsTrack Business 
NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (UPI) — A modest fourth quarter gross domestic product report Tuesday weighed on U.S. stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 104.14 or 0.94 percent to 11,099.41 on a volume of 957.1 million shares.

On2 Technologies Appoints Christian & Timbers to Conduct Search for Permanent CEO 
On2 Technologies, Inc. , announced today the appointment of Christian & Timbers to conduct its search for a permanent CEO. Christian & Timbers, which ranks among the top ten executive search firms in the Unites States, has an extensive track record of successful senior management placements in the technology sector. James Meyer, interim CEO of On2 Technologies, will lead the search process on

Library seeks book drive donations 
LEWISBURG The Public Library for Union County in Lewisburg requests donations of unwanted good-condition hard-back and paperback books, computer software, records, videocassette tapes, audiocassette tapes, compact discs, and digital video discs (DVDs) for the annual fund-raising book sale.

Mayor proposes museum 
COLCHESTER - If residents support the idea, Colchester could have its own city museum in time for celebration of the city’s sesquicentennial in 2007. Mayor Joe Wetzel suggested the idea at Monday’s city council committee of the whole meeting.

Pong Clock Maker C&Ded By Atari 
Way to almost ruin everyone’s day, Atari. Apparently the maker of the , Buro Vormkrijgers, recieved a nastygram for creating an infringing product. He wrote: Basically ATARI demanded we shut down…

Industry report 
The government is investigating complaints that fuel tanks on some models of Chrysler Pacifica SUVs were punctured by road debris, officials said Monday.

Information Resources, Inc. and Navic Networks Form Joint Relationship to Support Next Generation of Technology for  
BOSTON & CHICAGO—-Feb. 27, 2006–In the wake of a changing media landscape and the advances in on-demand and digital video technologies, Navic Networks, the leading interactive television technology and service provider to the cable and direct broadcast satellite television industry, and Information Resources, Inc. , the world’s leading provider of enterprise market information solutions and

Apple: What’s Up Steve’s Sleeve? 
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) CEO Steve Jobs turned 51 on Feb. 24. While the mercurial man behind the Macintosh may have received gifts last week, he’s apparently poised to give the Apple faithful a few this Tuesday. Will the “fun new products” that Apple has promised to unveil at a Feb. 28 media event be more of the same, or will it be the next step in Apple’s transformation from niche computer

Trident’s SVP(TM) EX Video Processor Powers Samsung’s New DLP TVs 
Trident Microsystems, Inc. a worldwide leader in the development of advanced digital TV technology for the consumer digital video marketplace, today announced that Samsung Electronics, a global leader in semiconductors, consumer electronics, and digital convergence technology, is using Trident’s SVP(TM) EX ten-bit video processor featuring the Digital Cinema Reality Engine (DCRe(TM)) to power its

TiVo may test giving away boxes 
TiVo, the television recording technology company that is facing increasing competition, Monday said it is considering giving away TiVo set-top boxes as part of plans to win subscribers. Chief Executive Tom Rogers said the company was close to offering a range of pricing options, including one plan that would include a free set-top box.

AXCESS Teams With Texas A&M to Provide RFID Sensor Monitoring System for Educators and Businesses 
AXCESS International Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: AXSI) , a leading provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, today announced a partnership with Texas A&M University in support of its research and development of wireless sensor monitoring combined with RFID networks. AXCESS has provided its ActiveTag(TM) on-demand, semi-active RFID technology to the Sensor’s and RFID Technologies

Green Hills Software Announces New Development Tools and Operating System for Texas Instruments DaVinci(TM) Technology 
Green Hills Software, Inc., the technology leader in real-time operating systems and device software optimization , today unveiled its MULTI Integrated Development Environment and INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System for DaVinci technology from Texas Instruments Inc. .

Television As We Know It: The Beginning Of The End 
“I am in digital-electronics-gadget nirvana. And, I am not afraid to boast. My home sports a fully wireless broadband (WIMAX) Internet environment, where content moves freely among the home server, several multiple high definition (HD) screens, the office PC and the mobile devices that I continually upgrade. Photo credit: Mgemin I regularly acquire favorite TV shows (new and old) either from

If you use, you lose
Washington Times - Manuel Villanueva realizes he has been getting a pretty good deal since he signed up for Netflix Inc.’s online DVD rental service 2 1/2 years ago, but he still feels shortchanged. The $17.99 monthly fee he pays to rent up to three digital video discs

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Holiday Greetings from Around the World
KFVS12 - Click the links at the bottom of this page to see our hometown service persons and to read what they have to say to their families here at home. KFVS12 and UPN The Beat are once again airing holiday military greetings in special public service

New Apple iMac Rocks
MacNewsWorld - Making a great machine even better is a suite of upgraded applications called iLife ‘06 that take advantage of these new Intel chips and deliver such vast improvements in digital imaging and multimedia programs that no programs on any other platform

The Death of TV Guide
TVPredictions.com - Editor’s Note: Five years ago, TVPredictions.com’s president, Phillip Swann, wrote “TV dot Com: The Future of Interactive Television.” The book detailed the coming advances in TV technology, such as Digital Video Recorders and Video on Demand, and

Jobs at ABC7
KABC - Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking new show? We’re looking for an executive producer to oversee a national interactive television show. Candidate will have extensive experience supervising the daily production

Bright House Braces For Hurricane Verizon
Multichannel Online - Bright House Networks 1 million-subscriber Tampa, Fla., system is about to become ground zero for one of the epic battles of the decade: the three- and four-product showdown between the cable and telephone industries. Verizon Communications Inc

Pick-and-pay TV is now a reality
Arizona Daily Star - PARIS The broadband revolution, which has shaken traditional media industries from newspapers to music and confronted consumers with an explosion of choice, is making its long-awaited TV debut. As U.S. cable companies, politicians and regulators

It’s the TV, Stupid: Getting Web-Based Video to the TV is Where the
Market Wire - LARCHMONT, NY — (MARKET WIRE) — 02/15/2006 — As media and technology companies race to bring more video to the Internet, they are failing to get that content to the one device consumers are overwhelmingly most interested in watching it on: the TV

Democracy player brings power to the people
Ars Technica - The Participatory Culture Foundation has just released a Windows version of their new Democracy player , a program designed to function something like a TiVo for web content (a Mac version is also available; Linux is coming soon). The Foundation’s

AP Blogs From the Olympics
Houma Courier - AP staffers from around the world are in and around Turin, Italy, to cover the Winter Olympics. They’ll be filing reports on the sights, sounds and the atmosphere of the games, which began with the first day of competition Saturday and continue

Itiva Appoints Internet Media Veteran as President
Market Wire - LAS VEGAS, NV — (MARKET WIRE) — 02/13/2006 — Itiva Digital Media, developers of high definition video streaming technologies, has appointed Michel Billard to the post of President. Billard, whose director-level experience includes nearly 15 years

Adobe Production Studio Workflow
After Effects - Adobe Production Studio Workflow Taking the new package out for test spin By Stephen Schleicher A 40 pound package arrived at the front steps of the Digital Media Net Central Division offices the other day. Inside was the latest release of the Adobe

Democracy debuts ‘TiVo for Web video’
Mac Central - The Participatory Culture Foundation on Wednesday announced the launch of Democracy , an open source Internet TV system that the group describes as TiVo for Web video. The free player is available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows operating

One Does Windows, One Does Floors
Forbes - New, Yes. Improved? Maybe. Two new sequels to popular products deliver new functionality and new annoyances. Irobot’s Roomba vacuuming robot now has a brother called Scooba, which washes hard floors as it sweeps them. Palm’s excellent Treo phone line

Student Fights Videotaped, Put On Internet
NBC 10 - LUMBERTON, N.J. — Modern technology has gotten four South Jersey students in big trouble. Four children, ages 11 to 13, have been charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly videotaping a fight and then posting it on a popular Internet site. The

Internet Advertising SEO Soars to 12 Billion for 2005
Israel News Agency - Jerusalem—December 4 ..Ten years ago, when a select few of us marketing pros were just starting to create Websites, we had to give them away. We were not even sure that the e-mail addresses that we were using would not be obsolete by 1996. The

Free Websites Showcase Your Videos Online
DailyIndia.com, NY - Feb 15, 2006… The driving force behind this video explosion is a combination of cheap bandwidth, easy-to-use authoring tools, and Flash video (a video format that works on …

Adobe Announces All-New Adobe Production Studio Includes powerful …
DVD Creation (press release), CA - Jan 27, 2006… Adobe Production Studio also integrates Flash Video (FLV) export capabilities to provide video professionals with a new, fluid method of delivering content to …

Heavenspot Creates 3D Game for New Line Cinema’s Running Scared
Dexigner - Feb 25, 2006… game package includes cutting edge 3D animation, a fresh interface design, 5 unique levels that represent the storyline; high quality flash video cut scenes as …

Modeo Licenses Digital Fountain for U.S. DVB-H Network
Converge Network Digest - Modeo, which is building a dedicated multi-channel DVB-H network in the top 30 U.S. markets, has licensed Digital Fountain’s “DF Raptor” forward error correction (FEC) technology. Modeo plans to incorporate the technology in its DVB-H broadcast

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Did DIRECTV Try to Buy TiVo?
TVPredictions.com - Washington, D.C.. (April 4) — A little over a year ago, the DIRECTV-TiVo relationship seemed to be a perfect marriage. The satellite TV provider was using the Digital Video Recording service to attract new subscribers, particularly among early

‘Manderlay’ a slave to anti-Americanism
Washington Times - Danish director Lars Von Trier’s new digital video experiment “Manderlay” opens with a group of slaves being freed. Too bad the cruel, artless mess of a movie that ensues puts the audience in bondage instead. Heavily influenced by mid-20th-century

Eyeballs converge as computers embrace TV
Georgia Straight - For the first time in almost seven years, I have cable TV, some 40-plus channels delivered via a beige wire that comes out of the wall. You know, if they ever find enough good programming to fill all that space, I really think this technology could

In N.J., the eyes have it
USA Today - 1. “Iris scanning” actually involves no scanning at all — a digital video camera captures and image of the eye and registers patterns found in each person’s iris. Experts say irises are even more unique than snowflakes — the probability of two

Apple Hosts Media Event on February 28th for “Fun N
Mac Observer - Apple Computer sent out invitations Tuesday to the media for a media event on February 28th, 2006 in order to introduce what it is calling “fun new products.” There is no indication as to whether or not the products to be announced are in the iPod or

The Death of TV Guide
TVPredictions.com - Editor’s Note: Five years ago, TVPredictions.com’s president, Phillip Swann, wrote “TV dot Com: The Future of Interactive Television.” The book detailed the coming advances in TV technology, such as Digital Video Recorders and Video on Demand, and

Initial results show Preval on track to be Haiti’s next president
KBCI 2 Boise - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Partial returns show former President Rene Preval headed for victory in Haiti’s presidential election. Preval is a one-time ally of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Election officials have validated more than 282

SnapJot (beta)
ABC News - When you sit around the living room with loved ones sharing photos of birthdays, weddings, reunions, and vacations, part of the fun is the storytelling. As each photo makes its way around the room, you also share the memories it brings to mind you

DVPA Launches Adobe Production Studio Resource Center
Photoshop Channel - The Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA) the largest organization in the world devoted exclusively to meeting the needs of professionals who rely on digital video technology, today announced that it has launched the most comprehensive

Adobe Announces All-New Adobe Production Studio
DVD Creation - Adobe Announces All-New Adobe Production Studio Includes powerful new versions of After Effects, Premiere Pro, Audition, Encore DVD (January 17, 2006) Adobe Systems Incorporated today unveiled Adobe Production Studio, an extension of the Adobe

All Los Angeles County Jails on Lockdown
WINK TV - LOS ANGELES All seven Los Angeles County jails remained on lockdown Thursday as another brawl broke out between Hispanic and black inmates, continuing a week of rioting that has injured scores of inmates and killed one. A fight involving about 200

Muslim Leaders Urge Calm Over Cartoons
Chippewa Herald - BEIRUT, Lebanon - Many Arab governments, Muslim religious leaders and newspapers have been calling for calm in the protests over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, fearing the violence of the past weeks has only reinforced Islam’s negative image in the

Bush: Terror plot foiled Documents: Libby shared secrets Tiny
KBCI 2 Boise - WASHINGTON President Bush is claiming a win in the war against terror. Bush said in a speech today that a 2002 terrorist plot to hijack a jetliner and crash it into a Los Angeles skyscraper was prevented through the “combined efforts of several

Fargo conjoined twins home from hospital
West Central Tribune - Conjoined twins Abby and Belle Carlsen are home from a stay at a Minneapolis hospital. The girls were discharged from the hospital Wednesday afternoon. Their parents, Jesse and Amy Carlsen, drove back to Fargo that day. “They’re home and happy and

Binghamton Senators Weekly
OurSports Central - LAST WEEK: The Senators picked up four points in four games and currently occupy sixth place in the East Division. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND @ PHILADELPHIA (2-3 OTL): Binghamton twice held a one-goal advantage against Philadelphia, but the Phantoms

Ken’s Commentary: Try Explaining This To 222 DUI Victims
KOMO-TV - That’s the legislative ‘logic’ for giving drunk drivers a second chance to make some wife a widow. The same logic means that drunk drivers will also get a third chance for some kids to spend Father’s Day at the cemetery. And they will even get a

Man Dies After Being Run Over By Car Thief
KOMO-TV - RENTON - A man is dead and Renton police are searching for his killer after a car theft turned deadly. Police say it was about 5:30 Friday morning when a 47-year-old man came out of the Copper Ridge apartments in the 4700 block of Davis Avenue South

IPTV for ed set to debut March 3
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Five On The Way
KOMO-TV - SEATTLE - A Poulsbo couple is hoping for an ‘extreme miracle’ — five of them, actually. Mike and Courtnee Stevenson are expecting quintuplets. Their delivery would make history in Western Washington as the first quints born here. It’s an incredible

U.S. Steps Up Efforts To Calm Iraqi Chaos
KOMO-TV - BAGHDAD - Bombs and gunfire killed about 60 people as another daytime curfew Saturday failed to halt violence that has claimed nearly 200 lives since the destruction of a Shiite shrine set off a wave of retribution against Sunnis and pushed Iraq

Alaska Air To Check Fleet For Pressurization Problems
KOMO-TV - SEATTLE - Alaska Airlines plans to inspect all 110 of its airplanes’ pressurization systems, following a spate of problems with various aircraft over the past couple months. The airline has had 11 flights with possible pressurization problems since

Trident’s SVP(TM) EX Video Processor Powers Samsung’s New DLP TVs
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Feb 27, 2006… (Nasdaq: TRID) a worldwide leader in the development of advanced digital TV technology for the consumer digital video marketplace, today announced that Samsung …

DirecTV selects Harmonic’s MPEG-4 AVC digital video solutions
Indiantelevision.com, India - Feb 6, 2006… deployed MPEG-4 AVC-enabled encoder in the industry, the advanced technology of the MV 100 makes it possible to generate superior full resolution digital video …

Verilog HDL Design Engineer
ElectronicsWeekly.com, UK - 21 hours ago… and other peripheral devices. Proven ability in development of Verilog HDL for real-time digital video processing. Track record in …

Adobe Production Studio Workflow
After Effects - Adobe Production Studio Workflow Taking the new package out for test spin By Stephen Schleicher A 40 pound package arrived at the front steps of the Digital Media Net Central Division offices the other day. Inside was the latest release of the Adobe