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106-First Come - First Serve Patent Law
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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!"
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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
102-
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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vs Amazon Apple denied
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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$125M
Settlement.
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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
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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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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.
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68th Venice International
Film Festival- Statement by the 68th Festival's
Director, Marco Müller
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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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MÜNCHEN
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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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101 NBS Challenges USPTO
Ruling-01
106 The NBS WirelessTelephone.Org
Challenges USPTO
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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101- Event: CTIA Wireless 2010 - MARCH
22-25 - Las Vegas Convention Center
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.
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WebPlay
vContent å
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.
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101
-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.
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look like this:
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2. Meaningful work
3. Health and well-being
4. Financial freedom
5. Travel and adventure
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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. CLICK
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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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106
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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The German T-Mobile - AT&T Deal .
"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 thousands of foreclosure
notices without reviewing the
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Viacom vs YouTube - Viacom Appeals
Copyright Infringement Ruling/ P- 1 /
106pa- Viacom vs YouTube -
Viacom 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
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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.
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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.
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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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Gov Q
- Did Google's YouTube Really Infringe
on 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.
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#106GoogleanditsChinaproblem
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
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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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106FCCRoadMapToWiTEL-VoIPMix
/
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.
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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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106-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
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107
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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107 People: Ted
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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107-
OSCAR®
ACADEMY
/ ABOUT THE ACADEMY
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ToGo Direct to
oscar.go.com/
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."
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 Puzzle."
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108GoogleSelectsLarryPage-CEO
102 Larry Page, the CEO of
Google 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 reconstruction.
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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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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.
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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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STORY
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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108JockeyClubCityCenterL5BillionOpens
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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
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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. CLICK
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OCT 23, 2009 /
110-MicrosoftTimelineWindo
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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Legends
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-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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June 24 - July 2nd - 2011 - 28th
FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN
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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- 2011 Las Vegas -- April
11-14th. ,
2011,
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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NAB
- 2011 Las Vegas -- April
11-14th. ,
2011,
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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GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD 2011
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
B. DeMile Award:
Robert
De Niro CLICK
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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.
///THE OFFICIAL
KARENNET CES PARTY LIST V.
4.1
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 - Venetian, 3rd Floor meetings
rooms (Invite
only)http://www.thomaspr.com/partylist/ces2011.html THOMAS PR
CLIENTS AT CES - OWC - BOOTH #3935 -- North
Hall www.macsales.com
- IDEVICES - BOOTH #4435 -- North
Hall www.igrillinc.com
- ARTRAGE AT SHOWSTOPPERS
www.artrage.com
- FITNESS TECHNOLOGIES -- BOOTH
#3130 -- North Hall
www.FitnessTechUSA.com
KIDZ GEAR -- MGM
Suite www.gearforkidz.com
- THOMAS PR IS THE CES
AUTHORITY
- #1 AGENCY FOR CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS, INTERNET &
SOFTWARE PRODUCTS --
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Event: FILMFEST MUNCHEN - 2010 June
25th 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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115.09-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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115PasadenaRoseParade 2011
GrandMarshal-PaulaDeen *
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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