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2011- Emmys TV-Show Winners - Was it A TV-ShowBiz
Event, or was it a MovieActor Event - minus the box
office?
••••
The September 18th - 2011 event had everyone
wondering . . . were they auditioning future
Academy award winners at Sunday's 63rd Annual
Primetime Emmy Awards presentation? Or was the show
a preview of next year's Academy of Television Arts
& Sciences Oscar Event.
••
TV show greats all the way from "The Dave Letterman
Show," and "Jay Leno" to "60 Minutes," and "20/20"
didn't exactly make the winners list, did
they?
•••
In fact, primetime TV-shows and their television
stars were not even mentioned. • The
Reasons?
•••
Perhaps it has to do with the sheer physicality of
the busines . . . no Movie actors, no Box office,
no ticket sales . . . then no TV show
awards! • Television programing -- seems to be all about movie look-alikes, and a
"Blacklist." Movie Actors & Actresses vs
TV Performers? . . . "Why pay . . . when you
can see it "free" . . . as a "mini-series" or a
"Movie of the Week!" CLICK
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Actress, Drama Series: Julianna Margulies, "The
Good Wife," CBS. •-
Actor, Drama Series: Kyle Chandler, "Friday
Night Lights," DirecTV/NBC. •-
Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Peter Dinklage,
"Game of Thrones," HBO. •-
Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Margo
Martindale, "Justified," FX. •-
Writing, Drama Series: Jason Katims, "Friday
Night Lights," NBC. •-
Directing, Drama Series: Martin Scorsese,
"Boardwalk Empire," HBO. •-
Comedy Series: "Modern Family," ABC. •-
Actor, Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, "The Big
Bang Theory," CBS. •-
Actress, Comedy Series: Melissa McCarthy, "Mike
& Molly," CBS. •-
Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Julie Bowen,
"Modern Family," ABC. •-
Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Ty Burrell,
"Modern Family," ABC. •-
Writing, Comedy Series: Steven Levitan and
Jeffrey Richman, "Modern Family," ABC. •-
Directing, Comedy Series: Michael Spiller,
"Modern Family," ABC. •-
Miniseries or Movie: "Downton Abbey"
("Masterpiece"), PBS. •-
Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Kate Winslet,
"Mildred Pierce," HBO. •-
Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Barry Pepper, "The
Kennedys," ReelzChannel. •-
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Maggie
Smith, "Downton Abbey" ("Masterpiece"), PBS. •-
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Guy Pearce,
"Mildred Pierce," HBO. •-
vDirecting, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special:
Brian Percival, "Downton Abbey"
("Masterpiece"), PBS. •-
Writing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special:
Julian Fellowes, "Downton Abbey"
("Masterpiece"), PBS. •-
Reality-Competition Program: "The Amazing
Race," CBS. •-
vVariety, Music or Comedy Series: "The Daily
Show With Jon Stewart," Comedy Central. •-
vDirecting, Variety, Music or Comedy Series:
Don Roy King, "Saturday Night Live," NBC. •-
vvWriting, Variety, Music or Comedy Series:
"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," Comedy
Central.
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101-114 Actor Cliff Robinson Dies - 88. Blacklisted
By Industry For
Whistleblowing.. •••
• It was in 1977, that TV star Cliff
Robertson's Show Biz Career took an unexpected
twist. It was right after he received an IRS
form for "miscellaneous income" that indicated that
Columbia Pictures had paid him $10,000 the previous
year.
•••
Robertson, however, hadn't done any work for
Columbia that year and had not received $10,000
from the studio.
•••
After asking his accountant to look into it,
Robertson learned that a check for $10,000 had been
made out to him and had been cashed at a bank in
Beverly Hills. The endorsed check, bearing
Robertson's forged signature, had been processed
and paid out in American Express travelers' checks
to the president of Columbia Studios, David
Begelman.
•••
After consulting his attorney, Robertson notified
the local police. But after months of inactivity,
he took the advice of Arizona congressman Morris K.
Udall, whom he had supported in the 1976 Democratic
presidential primaries, and contacted the FBI.
••• "I
was simply looking out for No. 1," Robertson told
People magazine in 1983.
••• "I
wasn't trying to be Don Quixote. If I hadn't done
what the law required, which was to give evidence
to the authorities, I would have been a party to a
crime."
••• The
ensuing Begelman embezzlement scandal, which came
to symbolize Hollywood corruption, was chronicled
in David McClintick's 1982 bestseller "Indecent
Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall
Street."
••• In
March 1978, Begelman was charged with grand theft
and three counts of forgery: for forging the names
of Robertson, director Martin Ritt and restaurateur
Pierre Groleau on checks written in the amounts of
$10,000, $5,000 and $25,000 respectively.
•••
Three months later, Begelman was fined $5,000 and
placed on three years' probation. The judge, who
directed Begelman to continue the psychiatric
treatment he had recently begun, also accepted
Begelman's offer to make a documentary on the
dangers of "angel dust" (PCP) as a public
service.
•••
Begelman, whose grand-theft conviction was reduced
from a felony to a misdemeanor in 1979, was hired
later that year to head MGM's motion picture
division, and he later became a producer. He
committed suicide in 1995.
••• For
his part in exposing the embezzlement, Robertson
said, he was blackballed in Hollywood for 3 1/2
years.
••• "I
broke the unwritten commandment: Thou shalt never
confront a major mogul on corruption," he told The
Times in 1998. "Suddenly, the phone stopped
ringing."
•••
Robertson said his Hollywood exile ended in 1981
when director Douglas Trumbull cast him in a role
in "Brainstorm," a thriller released in 1983
starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.
•••
Robertson later appeared with Jacqueline Bisset and
Rob Lowe in the comedy-drama "Class," played Hugh
Hefner in Bob Fosse's "Star 80" and joined the cast
of TV's "Falcon Crest."
••• He
also launched a long run as the commercial
spokesman for AT&T.
••• The
son of the heir to a ranching fortune, he was born
Clifford Parker Robertson III on Sept. 9, 1923, in
Los Angeles.
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101-IcahnQuitsMGMdeal.
Carl Icahn ends fight to seize control of MGM.
Under the agreement,
the corporate raider will sell 44.2 million shares
and both sides will drop pending litigation against
each other. •••Carl Icahn has given up on his long and
costly attempt to capture a Hollywood
lion. •••Ending a three-year battle that included
a trio of lawsuits and tender offers, and nearly
$25 million in legal costs for the shareholders of
the Santa Monica studio, the corporate raider has
reached a settlement with Lions Gate Entertainment
Corp. to sell almost all of his 33% stake in the
company. •••Analysts said the agreement was positive
for Lions Gate because it would allow management to
focus resources and investors' attention on the
company's core
business. •••"It wouldn't have been my first choice
to see them lay out capital for this, but it's
probably the best conclusion we could have hoped
for, given the situation," said Marla Backer, an
analyst at Hudson Square
Research. •••Doug Creutz, a vice president at Cowen
Group, said the deal probably would drag down Lions
Gate's stock in the short
term. •••"Why would an investor buy at $7.50 if
he can get it from Icahn at $7?" he asked. "Once
that is done, the stock can go back to trading on
its
fundamentals." ••• With Icahn out of the way, the studio
will focus on drawing investors' attention to its
upcoming film slate, led by the first adaptation of
the bestselling novels in the "Hunger Games" series
that will be released in March. The studio is
hoping to spawn a new franchise with four movies
based on the books as it seeks to turn around its
underperforming run of movies that most recently
included the money-losing flop "Conan the
Barbarian.
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An estimated
quarter-million people were anticipated to attend
the dedication, which was originally scheduled for
Sunday, according to ABC News. With the capital in
the path of Hurricane Irene, organizers decided to
call of the even
•
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Apple Stores - Made In
China•
22 more
new Apple Stores were opened in China. Chinese
authorities say they are "Real" -- and are selling
Apple products to Apple customers, so Apple should
be happy." -- Locals from the city of Kunming --
agree with the
authorities."
•-
China's Administration for Industry and Commerce
has suspended previously exposed stores from doing
business, but the new 22 are instead being ordered
to stop using Apple's logo and trademarks,
according to a report from Reuters.
•-
State media
reports said Apple China has filed a complaint
with the government and accused such fake stores of
unfair competition and trademark violation,
according to Reuters.
•-
Reuters
reported that: "The market watchdog agency said it
would set up a complaint hotline and boost
monitoring, the official Xinhua news agency
reported," Reuters said. "It did not say if the
shops were selling knock-off Apple products or
genuine but smuggled
models.
•-
"Countless
unauthorized resellers of Apple and other brands'
electronic products throughout China sell the real
thing but buy their goods overseas and smuggle them
into the country to escape taxes," the
said.
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106-AppleInfringedPersonalAudio / Apple infringed
patents, jury Awards
$84M
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Apple Inc.
was told to pay closely held Personal Audio $8
million after a federal jury in Texas found that
the maker of iPods infringed patents for
downloadable playlists.
•••
Personal
Audio, a patent licensing company, sued Apple in
2009 for $84 million in damages, claiming
infringement of two
patent.
•••
The jury
Friday found that the patents were infringed and
upheld their validity, Personal Audio's lawyer
said.
•••
The
inventions cover an audio player that can download
navigable playlists and skip forward or backward
through the
list.
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106-Apple
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injunction!
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July 9, 2011. The Problem? Amazon launched Appstore
for Android on March 22, one day after Apple filed
its suit against the online retail giant alleging
trademark infringement over the name of the
storefront, which sells apps for Google's Android
operating system found on smartphones and
tablets.
•••
But . . .
Apple denied injunction to stop Amazon's use of
'appstore' name; trial date
set
•••
Apple has
been denied a preliminary injunction that would
have halted Amazon.com's use of the term "appstore"
in a ruling by an Oakland federal
judge.
•••
U.S.
District Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled Wednesday
that she didn't agree with Amazon's argument that
the names "app store" and "appstore" are generic
and can be used by anybody, but she said Apple had
failed to show "a likelihood of confusion" for
customers who use the Apple App Store and the
Amazon Appstore for Android, according to a Reuters
report.
•••
Hamilton has
set a trial date in the dispute between the two
companies for October 2012, reported Reuters.
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June 31st Week: Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to
pay $125 million to investors in its
mortgage-backed securities who alleged that before
the Great Recession hit, they were misled about how
much equity the borrowers had in their
homes.
•••
'WellsFargo']The
proposed settlement, filed Wednesday in federal
court in San Jose, ended consolidated lawsuits
filed by the pension funds of Alameda County,
Detroit, New Orleans, Guam, the Louisiana sheriffs
and other plaintiffs.
•••
At issue
were mortgage-backed securities -- financial
instruments derived from a pool of mortgages --
whose value depended on borrowers' payments on
loans made at the peak of the housing bubble in
2006 and 2007.
•••
Certain
other claims over mortgage securities filed by
Charles Schwab Corp. and the Federal Home Loan
Banks of Chicago and Indianapolis are excluded from
the class, Wells Fargo has said in regulatory
filings.
•••
The
litigation named as defendants Wells Fargo and
about 20 trusts holding mortgages backing $8
billion in securities, along with various Wall
Street banks and credit-rating agencies involved in
issuing the mortgage
bonds.
•••
The proposed
settlement, which still requires judicial approval,
did not include any admission of wrongdoing by
Wells Fargo. A spokesman for the San Francisco bank
said the intent was to avoid the expense and risk
of further litigation.
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California Sales Taxes & AMAZON.
+/ Will the new
California tax collection requirement Effect Your
Monthly Phone Bill? YES, it might HAPPEN. Part of
California budget-related legislation -- is
expected to raise an estimated $317 million a year
in new state and local government revenue.
•••
Other states currently are
considering similar sales tax collection bills.
•••
California's new law was
drafted to circumvent a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court
ruling that sellers can't be forced to collect
sales taxes unless they have a physical presence in
the state.
•••
The new statute would
establish that presence in two ways: when sellers
pay commissions to other Internet sites in
California, known as affiliates, that refer buyers;
and when sellers have a related company operating
in the state.
•••
One affiliate, Ken Rockwell
of San Diego, the owner of a 12-year-old
photography website, said he planned to move out of
state.
•••
"Will it be Las Vegas or
Scottsdale or Ensenada?" he said. "It's a question
of where, not if."
•••
California tells online
retailers to start collecting sales taxes from
customers
•••
Beginning Friday, July 1st,
2011, Amazon.com and other large out-of-state
retailers, like AT&T, Verizon, and Spring
utilizing California Area Code -- will be required
to collect sales taxes on purchases that their
California customers make online. •
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106-TVCopyrightLawTargeted"Bad"
-- An arcane but critical copyright law is under
attack by a key government agency. •-
The U.S. Copyright Office, which advises Congress
on copyright issues, is proposing that lawmakers
phase out the cable and satellite statutory
licenses in the Copyright Act, calling it "an
artifact of an earlier era." •-
The so-called compulsory license, established in
1976, allows cable and satellite operators to
distribute broadcast television signals in return
for paying a one-size-fits-all copyright fee to the
Copyright Royalty Tribunal (CRT). The CRT then
distributes the fees to copyright holders such as
Hollywood studios and sports leagues and local
television stations. Each year, the CRT collects
tens of millions of dollars in fees that it
distributes to rights holders. •-
For example, if a Los Angeles TV station is carried
by a multichannel video programming distributor
(MVPD) outside the Southern California area, that
MVPD pays a fee to the CRT. If the distant signal
portion of the act was gone, the MVPD would go to
the individual suppliers of the programing to
negotiate an agreement, a much more costly and
tedious process. •-
One company watching this closely will be Tribune,
the parent of the Los Angeles Times and owner of
WGN, a local TV station that is carried nationally
by MVPDs and hence would be most affected by any
change to the distant signal part of the
act. •-
The Copyright Office suggested that after the
Distant Signal rules were gutted, Congress could
then consider how to gradually eliminate the local
rules.
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Digital Video Expo -Pasadena. / The Sept 20 to
22 premier
destination (Pasadena) for content creation
professionals to explore the latest technologies.
••••
Learn from world-class
professionals and connect with peers who share the
same passion. This year's show will feature a
buzzing exhibit hall, Apple and Adobe training
sessions by Weynand Training, and hands-on
production and camera training by our new training
partner AbelCine! Plus more networking events and
free content than ever before.•
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68th
Venice International Film Festival Winners -
Report •-
The 68th Venice International
Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia,
will run at Venice Lido August 31st through
September 10th, 2011.
•-
The aim of the Festival is to
raise awareness and promote all the various aspects
of international cinema in all its forms: as art,
entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of
freedom and tolerance. The Festival includes
retrospectives and homages to major figures as a
contribution towards raising awareness of the
history of cinema.
•-
Marco Müller is the
Director the 68th edition. He has been heading the
Venice Biennale's Cinema section since
2004.
•-
68th Venice International
Film Festival- Statement by the 68th Festival's
Director, Marco Müller
• -
Statistics of the 68th Venice Film
Festival
• - Countries
represented at the 68th Venice Film
Festival
• - Marco Bellocchio Golden Lion for Lifetime
Achievement 2011
• - A Practical Guide to Press Services
• - •Calendar of Events and Meetings The
Venice Film Festival (Italian Mostra Internazionale
d'Arte Cinematografica) is the oldest film festival
in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in
1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte
Cinematografica", the festival has since taken
place every year in late August or early September
on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy.
Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del
Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi. It is one of the
world's most prestigious film festivals and is part
of the Venice Biennale, a major biennial exhibition
and festival for contemporary art.
• - The festival's principal awards are the
Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion), which is awarded to the
best film screened at the festival, and the Coppa
Volpi (Volpi Cup), which is awarded to the best
actor and actress. In 2002, the San Marco Award was
introduced for the best film of the Controcorrente
("Against the stream") section.[1]
• - The
68th festival is scheduled to take place from 31
August to 10 Sept
The official
selection of the festival includes the sections,
Venezia 68 (In Competition), Out of Competition,
Orizzonti and Controcampo Italiano, alongide a
retrospective section and two autonomous sections
(International Critics' Week and Venice Days). The
daily schedule of
screenings
will be announced after August 15th.
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•••
This year's FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN FILMFEST Germany will be taking place
June 24-2July 2nd., Munich will be the site of
Germany's sunniest film festival. Some of this
year's highlights include:
•••
Guests of
honor John Malkovich, Tom DiCillo, the Dardenne
Brothers, Roy Andersson and Otar Iosseliani are
expected to hit town this opening weekend. The
festival opens with an invitation-only gala on
Friday evening, the first audience events and
screenings begin on Saturday. You can already buy
your tickets online, by phone and at the festival
box office in the Gasteig center, including for
John Malkovich's CineMerit Award ceremony.
•••
Focus of
the 29th Munich Filmfest will be a generation of
very creative young filmmakers from Sweden with a
20 film screening.
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106 The NBS WirelessTelephone.Org
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Ruling.
••••••
The Politics of Washington D.C. has rarely
seen a SmartDaafBoys.com photo or NBS
documentary it
didn't like. Ever since Nathan B.
Stubblefield bombarded music and voices
into the air around and over the Potomac
River in 1902, the users of today's
smartphone have been most willing to put
up with his WiMax187 cellphone towers, and
paying the $90.00 per month phone bill.
Even with the massive on-line traffic jam
vista that go along with a Google
smartphone, searching PhoneNumber.com for
NBS100.com's latest SinTrends.com News,
doesn't seem to bother the User . . .
yet."
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101-TomHanks-GoetzmanTalkShow/ •"The Three Minute
Talk Show"
Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone,
along with Lexus' LStudio, the content
arm of automaker Lexus, have
their web-only series production "The
Three Minute Talk Show," premiering on
LStudio's Broadband Channel.
•••
Premiere episodes
feature veteran actors Tom Hanks, and
Bryan Cranston.
•••
Upcoming
star-studded guests include Jon Cryer,
Johnny Knoxville, Stephen Moyer, Joe
Jonas, Mike O'Mallewy, Ginnifer Goodwin,
and many more. • "The Three Minute Talk Show,"
whose segments actually run about six
minutes, was created specifically for the
web, and features everything that
audiences have come to expect from a talk
show all condensed into approximately
three minutes. • About Playtone •••
Playtone is Tom
Hanks and Gary Goetzman's film and
television production company. Film
releases include MAMMA MIA!, WHERE THE
WILD THINGS ARE, CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, THE
POLAR EXPRESS, and MY BIG FAT GREEK
WEDDING.
•••
Television credits
include the Emmy winning miniseries "The
Pacific", "John Adams" and "Band of
Brothers"; and Emmy nominated HBO series
"Big Love" and "The 25th Anniversary Rock
& Roll Hall of Fame Concert." Hanks
and Goetzman recently completed production
on the romantic comedy LARRY CROWNE, which
Hanks directed and stars in with Julia
Roberts. •
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101CTIA-reported
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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. •
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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
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England, Germany - EU -- since 1968. His
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•• •
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
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101
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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
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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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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. •
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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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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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The German T-Mobile - AT&T Deal . The
AT&T Inc. announced Sunday it would
buy T-Mobile USA in a cash and stock deal
worth $39 billion.
The
German T-Mobile - AT&T Deal would
combine two of the largest U.S. wireless
providers and build a telecommunications
behemoth that would tower over Verizon
Wireless, the other leading cellular
network.
•••
The merger
would combine AT&T's 95.5 million
wireless subscribers with another 33.7
million from T-Mobile, a division of the
German communications conglomerate
Deutsche Telekom. With close to 130
million subscribers on a wireless system
that would combine the vast national
networks of both companies, the resulting
union would far outstrip Verizon and its
94.1 million customers.
•••
AT&T
suggested that increased competition
resulting from the deal could benefit
consumers but did not explicitly say the
plan would mean lower prices for its
customers.
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••
"This
transaction represents a major commitment
to strengthen and expand critical
infrastructure for our nation's future,"
AT&T Chief Executive Randall
Stephenson said in a statement.•
•••
AT&T
highlighted the efficiency savings it
would garner from a merger, given that
both companies use similar cellular
technology -- as opposed to a different
model used by Verizon -- and both are
planning to take similar steps toward the
next generation of faster 4G networks.
•••
Part of
AT&T's gambit has to do with the steep
rise in the use of data services by
consumers with sophisticated smart
phones. With many more users
adopting video-ready, Internet-connected
phones such as Apple's iPhone and the many
Google-powered Android devices, demand for
wireless bandwidth among consumers is
quickly increasing, and the industry has
been struggling to stay ahead of that
demand.
•••
AT&T
said data traffic on its wireless network
had grown 8,000% over the last four
years.
•••
"Because
AT&T has led the U.S. in smart phones,
tablets and e-readers -- and as a result,
mobile broadband -- it requires additional
spectrum before new spectrum will become
available."
•••
Critics
quickly warned about the perils of
conglomeration, saying federal regulators
should scrutinize the deal carefully lest
it actually lead to less market
flexibility.•••
"Don't
believe the hype: There is nothing about
having less competition that will benefit
wireless consumers," said S. Derek Turner,
research director at media industry
watchdog Free Press, in a statement.
•••
"A market
this concentrated -- where the top four
companies already control 90% of the
business, and two of them want to merge --
means nothing but higher prices and fewer
choices, as the newly engorged AT&T
and Verizon exert even more control over
the wireless Internet." /
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106 Patent Infringement -
DishVsTiVo Dish lawsuit against TiVo is
reopened•••
•••Dish
Network Corp., the satellite-television
provider formerly known as EchoStar
Communications Corp., won a ruling in
Texas that reopens a 2005
patent-infringement lawsuit filed against
TiVo
Inc.•••
•••The
suit as been on hold for four years while
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
re-examined, at TiVo's request, whether
three EchoStar inventions related to
digital video recorders should have
received patents. •
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106 Trademark Violation -
FerrariVsFord Ford sues Ferrari over
tradmark•••
•••Ford
Motor co. has sued Ferrarii in Detrot
federal court, saying the sports car maker
has violated its trademark over the pickup
trucdk name
F-150.•••
•••The
suit is based on Ferrari's naming of its
new formula 1 racing car the "F150," and
its creating of the website
www.ferrarif150.com•••
•••Ferrari's
site says "F150" marks the 150th
anniversary of the unification of
Italy. •
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106 VoIP sues Google over 'stealing' of
trade
secrets •••
VoIP Inc., sued Google Inc., alleging
misappropriation of trade secrets
involving patented "click to call"
technology.
•••
•••
In late 2006 Google introduced "click to
call" which enables a person to place a
telephone call over the Internet by
clicking on a link, according to the
complaint filed I in the New York Supreme
Court.
•••
In September 2005, Los Angeles-based VoIP
unit VoiceOne Communications agreed to
provide "click to call" technology to
Google, VoIP said.
•••
In January 2007, Google said it was
terminating the agreement, citing a
purported unauthorized disclosure that
identified Google as a VoiceOne Customer,
according to the lawsuit.
•
A similar suit brought in July 2009 in Los
Angeles Superior Court was dismissed
without prejudice within five months.
•••
•••
This isn't the first
communications-related suit brought
against the search engine company, says
the NBS Wireless Telephone Org. In June
2010, Frontier Communications, a provider
of phone, Internet and satellite TV
services, sued over Google Voice, a
service that allows users to use one
number to connect to their multiple
phones. Frontier accused Google of patent
infringement on its inventions. That case
is still pendingi n the District Court of
Delaware. •
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106 - Bank of America Corp Collections,
and
the "ONE SATISFACTION
RULE."
•••
BofA appointed on
Friday Feb 4th, a new foreclosure, loan
modifications, and collection division.
The new unit will oversee "Problem Loans"
in a bid to sort out its ongoing
foreclosure, and Title issues, becoming
the first large U.S. bank to do so,
especially after the Country-Wide
buyout.
•••
The new unit
creates a seventh major division at the
bank reporting directly to Chief Executive
Brian Moynihan, an indication that the
largest U.S. mortgage servicer is
attempting to be more aggressive in
resolving its problem loan portfolio.
•••
Analysts said the
move is a signal that major U.S. mortgage
lenders have not yet turned the corner on
dealing with the problem home loans on
their books.
••••
Last fall, when the
FTC's Red Flag, anti-theft prevention act
came into play, the bank temporarily
suspended foreclosures after critics
alleged the industry cut corners on
foreclosure paperwork and used so-called
robo-signers, employees who signed
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Copyright Infringement Ruling/ P- 1 /
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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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•
106Google
Sues U.S. to break Microsofts
Monopoly. ••-
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
••-
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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Viacom
Copyrights?
•••
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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- 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. •• •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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106CTIA-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. •
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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. • CLICK
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(210) /
IT WAS ON September 21, 2009 THAT
MONDAY FREEBIES - Google, Yahoo WiTEL
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..'
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AT&T 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.•
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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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Charles (Chuck) W. Fries - About
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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Turner - Chairman of the United Nations
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.
•
•
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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107 - The Berlin Wall - Road To
Europe,
and
"Starmaker"
and
SantaTales." •
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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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The String section on the Munich Sound
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
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Reorganizes its Top
Ranks •••
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1011 -- Larry Page,
who returned as Google's chief executive
officer (CEO) this 17 week of 2011, has
completed a major reorganization of the
management team as part of his attempt to
streamline decision-making at the Internet
giant, U.S. media reported on Friday.
•••
Page, the 38-year-old co-founder of Google
with Sergy Brin, has been trying to run
the company in the spirit Google had as a
start-up between 1998 and 2001, when he
was its founding CEO before handing the
role to Eric Schmidt, who now assumes the
role of executive chairman.
•••
• Page promoted six executives in
charge of some of Google's most important
divisions, who will report to the new CEO
directly, The Wall Street Journal said in
a report.
•••
Four executives were promoted to senior
vice presidents, including YouTube head
Salar Kamangar, mobile-device software
Android chief Andy Rubin, Chrome Web
browser and operating system head Sundar
Pichai and Vic Gundotra, who is in charge
of Google's social-networking
initiatives.
•••
Susan Wojcicki and Alan Eustace, two
current senior vice presidents, will
become heads of ads and Web search, a
person familiar with the matter was quoted
as saying.
•••
Google has said that the change of CEO was
aimed at streamlining decision-making and
creating clearer lines of responsibility
and accountability at the top of the
company.
•••
With the latest management shuffle after
Page took charge of Google's day-to-day
operations, the promoted executives will
be able to act more autonomously and won't
have to turn to the company's powerful
operating committee on every decision,
according to a report by the Los Angeles
Times.
•••
The reorganization puts Page firmly in
charge of Google and its performance in
much the same way Steve Jobs runs Apple,
the newspaper noted.
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108-China
Now Owns $1.15 trillion in U.S. Treasury
Bonds.
June 20, 2011. China announced it
purchase
of more than $7.6 billion in U.S. Treasury
debt. China, the biggest buyer of U.S.
Treasury Bonds, increased its holdings in
April, the first increase after five
straight declines.
•••
The Treasury Department said China
increased its holding by $7.6 billion to
$1.15 trillion.
•••
Total foreign holdings of Treasury
securities rose 0.2 % to $4.49
trillion.
•••
Japan, the second-largest buyer of U.S.
debt, trimmed its holdings slightly by $1
billion, to $906.9 billion. There had been
concerns that the March 11 earthquake and
tsunami would lead Japan to sharply cut
its purchases to use the money for
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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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108-Patent
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
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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. • CLICK
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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. •
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ws 7 launched -
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.
•••
•••
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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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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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-USwinsMediaWar
| 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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This year's
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN FILMFEST Germany
will be taking place June 20-28, Munich
will be the site of Germany's sunniest
film festival. Some of this year's
highlights include:
•••
Guests of honor
John Malkovich, Tom DiCillo, the Dardenne
Brothers, Roy Andersson and Otar
Iosseliani are expected to hit town this
opening weekend. The festival opens with
an invitation-only gala on Friday evening,
the first audience events and screenings
begin on Saturday. You can already buy
your tickets online, by phone and at the
festival box office in the Gasteig center,
including for John Malkovich's CineMerit
Award ceremony!
••
Please
Note: The July 2nd screening of ARIRANG is
moved from 8 pm in the Filmmuseum to 7:30
pm in the CinemaxX 2. The screening of
CEDAR RAPIDS is moved to the Filmmuseum at
8 pm.
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The official daily newspaper of the NAB
Show keeps you up to date with the
innovations and events happening
throughout the show. For additional
coverage from NAB Show Daily News, visit
www.nabshowdaily.com.
•••
»
FCC Chair Sells Auction Plan
•••
Around
400 people quickly packed a Las Vegas
Hilton ballroom at 7:30 in the morning to
hear what the point-man on spectrum
reassignment had to say. »
Broadcasting: 'The Best Game in
Town'••• The broadcast
industry is addressing its supporters and
critics with a renewed focus, one that
includes a newly united front, a more
cohesive leadership team and a fiercely
determined motivation to champion the
interests of over-the-air radio and
television broadcasting. /
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/ The Event: June 2-3rd,
2011. Opening Ceremony of the Little
Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea adventures. Join
the music filled Grand Opening Ceremony as
the Disneyland Resort welcomes Ariel's to
Disney California Adventure.
At 6:30pm the Premiere of "Mickey's
Soundsational Parade" takes place. Join us
in a medial-only viewing. Journalist, Gary
Sunkin of Television International News
Pub; will be attending.
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,
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The official daily newspaper of the NAB
Show keeps you up to date with the
innovations and events happening
throughout the show. For additional
coverage from NAB Show Daily News, visit
www.nabshowdaily.com.
•••
»
FCC Chair Sells Auction Plan
•••
Around
400 people quickly packed a Las Vegas
Hilton ballroom at 7:30 in the morning to
hear what the point-man on spectrum
reassignment had to say. »
Broadcasting: 'The Best Game in
Town'••• The broadcast
industry is addressing its supporters and
critics with a renewed focus, one that
includes a newly united front, a more
cohesive leadership team and a fiercely
determined motivation to champion the
interests of over-the-air radio and
television broadcasting. /
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WINNERS •
The Golden Globe Award is presented by
-- the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)
in recognition of excellence in film and
television, domestic as well as foreign
production. These prestigious Globes
awards are one of the three most popular,
widely acclaimed and most watched award
shows on
television.
•••
This
year's annual January event, the 68th
Annual Golden Globe Awards was hosted by
Ricky Gervais, the British comedian and
creator of The Office and the ceremony was
telecast live from the Beverly Hilton
Hotel in Los
Angeles. •
About the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association
--
•••
The
Hollywood Foreign Press Association is
known worldwide for its glittering Golden
Globe Awards ceremony held every January
and its multi-million dollar donations to
charity. •
GOLDEN
GLOBE AWARD 2011 WINNERS
• Cecil
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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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JANUARY 6-9, 2011 -
LAS VEGAS http://www.thomaspr.com/partylist/ces2011.html • TUES, JAN 4: Special Press 4:00 PM -- 7:00 PM: CES Unveiled
-- Venetian, Venetian Ballroom (Invite
only)
•- 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,
Ghost Bar (Invite only)
•- 7:30 PM -- 11:00 PM:
GigaByte -- Venetian (Invite only)
•- 7:30 PM -- 11:00 PM: Ace
Computers Mixer - Mandalay Bay (Invite
Only)
•- 8:00 PM -- 12:00 AM: Nissan
-- Palms, Little Buddha (Invite
only)
•- SAT, JAN
8:•- 5:00 PM -- 12:00 AM:
Xtremesystems Party - Pole Position
Raceway, 4175 S. Arville Rd (Invite
only)
•- 6:30 PM: World Electronics
Forum (WEF) Welcome Dinner -
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only)http://www.thomaspr.com/partylist/ces2011.html THOMAS PR
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Hall www.macsales.com
•- IDEVICES - BOOTH #4435 -- North
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•- ARTRAGE AT SHOWSTOPPERS
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•- FITNESS TECHNOLOGIES -- BOOTH
#3130 -- North Hall
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KIDZ GEAR -- MGM Suite
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2010•••
• filmtonart.
Film Music Day
• 26 June
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• Bozen Film
Festival Sören Bauer • 8.30
pm
• 28. June /
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• 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
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115.09-AmericanFilmMarket-AFI-fest • When:
2010: November 4 - 11 / 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.
•••
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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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.
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Priscilla Cory, Jossi Sigl;
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pectrums
they purchased from the to the FCC from
$1-Billion dollars, in part because -- it
is a strategy guided by necessity.
•••
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
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The highly watched Options-Backdating
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