•
Troy Cory Show
- This annual Troy Cory
TV Show Segment
of: China, the
Open Door Policy. PLAYERS: Joey Lauren Adams; Ginger
Adams; Lila Greninger; Christy Mattola; Gayl Murphy;
Kalia Salangron; Lynn Stepney; Paul Wu; Barry Seibert;
Shelley Zhang; Vocals: Priscilla Cory, Jossi
Sigl.
•
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The
80th Anniversary Hollywood Christmas
Parade
TVI will be attending the annual event to update
its coverage for its own annual
"Christmas
Around The World" -- Just In The Nick of Time"
Santa Tales iMovie
Series.
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INFO. • WHO
Benefits the Most From This Years Marine Toys
for Tots? Television/Film Star and
Grammy Award Nominated Recording Artist, MARIE
OSMOND ("Paper Roses," "Donnie & Marie
Show," "Dancing With The Stars," Children's
Miracle Network) will reign as the Grand
Marshal of the historic 80th Anniversary
Hollywood Christmas Parade Benefiting Marine
Toys for Tots, to be presented by The City of
Los Angeles and Associated Television
International, and produced by
Hollywood's Santa Parade LLC live in
Hollywood.
••••
Erik Estrada ("World's Funniest
Moments," "CHiPS") and Laura McKenzie
("World's Funniest Moments," "Laura
McKenzie's Traveler") will serve as
Broadcast Hosts of the parade and Dean Cain
("Lois & Clark: The New Adventures
of Superman," "Ripley's Believe It or Not!")
will serve as Host of the music portion of the
nationally televised special, airing on the
Hallmark Channel on Monday, December 12, 2011
from 6:00 &endash; 8:00 p.m.
/// • The 80th
Anniversary Hollywood Christmas
Parade-- will be held live in Hollywood, CA on
Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. The live
parade will be taped for broadcast nationally to
air on the Hallmark Channel on December 12,
2011. The parade is then scheduled to air
on additional days and times throughout the
holiday season on the Hallmark Channel, Hallmark
Movie Channel and in syndication across the
country. -- For exact air dates and times,
please check local television listings and visit
the Parade's official website,
www.hollywoodchristmasparade2011.com. • The parade will
travel on a U-shaped route throughout
Hollywood, CA starting at Orange
Street and Hollywood Boulevard, traveling East
onto Hollywood Boulevard turning South onto Vine
Street, and then traveling West onto Sunset
Boulevard back to Orange Street. Parade
attendees are highly encouraged to arrive
early.
••••
Free Curbside Seating will be available
along the entire parade route, starting East of
the Grandstand Seating area on Hollywood
Boulevard. One of the easiest ways to get
to the parade is to take Metro. There are
two stations located on the parade route, one at
Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, and
another at Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street.
For further information or to plan the
best route, use the Metro Trip Planner at
www.metro.net.
••••There
are numerous Parking Lots in close proximity to
the parade route, including Grant Parking lots
located throughout Hollywood, as well as at the
Hollywood & Highland Shopping Complex
accessible from Highland Avenue, near Hollywood
Boulevard. Most lots are paid parking.
Please contact individual parking lots for
pricing.
••••
Marie
Osmond said: "I
know the song is 'Hooray for Hollywood,' but,
personally, I'm cheering about being invited to
be the Grand Marshal of this year's Hollywood
Christmas Parade. I always get in the
holiday spirit as soon as the Halloween
décor is put away, so I will be in full
Christmas celebration-mode by November 27th.
See you on the Boulevard."
•••• Bill
Lomas, producer of the live parade
and president of
Hollywood's Santa Parade LLC, said: "This
year will mark a historic moment for The
Hollywood Christmas Parade. We plan to
pull out all the stops this year and celebrate
big time. We anticipate attendance at this
year's parade to set the all time record.
It will be one of the most momentous
occasions in the parade's 80 year history."
••••
David
McKenzie, Emmy Award-winning producer and
director, president
of Associated Television International and
executive producer of the televised national
broadcast of The 80th Anniversary Hollywood
Christmas Parade said, "We're delighted to have
the multi-talented award winning singer and
performer, Marie Osmond, serve as our Grand
Marshal. We're also proud to welcome back
the Marine Toys for Tots as part of this year's
celebration. The exceptional work they do
in bringing the joy of Christmas to less
fortunate children is a cause that has been
embraced by communities throughout the
nation."
••••
Bill
Abbott,
President
& CEO, Crown Media Family Networks (Hallmark
Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel)
said: "Hallmark
Channel's COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS is all about
celebrating timeless traditions. One of
the greatest holiday traditions is giving to
others. That's why Hallmark Channel is
proud to be the official cable television
partner for Marine Toys for Tots, an
organization dedicated to bringing children
Christmas joy for more than 60 years. We
are grateful to have our networks, Toys for Tots
and the Parade come together to help kids, and
we are proud to have 'The 80th Anniversary
Hollywood Christmas Parade Benefiting Marine
Toys for Tots' on our air."
•••• Lieutenant
General Pete Osman, USMC (Ret), President and
CEO of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation said:
"Toys for Tots
truly appreciates being selected as the charity
partner of The 80th Anniversary Hollywood
Christmas Parade. We believe our presence in the
parade will offer a reminder to families across
the nation to think of those less fortunate this
holiday season. By donating a new
unwrapped toy or by making a cash contribution
to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, we will
be able to bring smiles to children on Christmas
morning who otherwise might be forgotten." •
Grandstand Parade Tickets Are On Sale
Now!!!
•••• Parade
attendees can view the event in style and
comfort. Reserved Grandstand Seating for
The 80th Anniversary Hollywood Christmas Parade
Benefiting Marine Toys for Tots are now
available for purchase within Associated
Television International's "live set" area
located on Hollywood Boulevard between Orange
Street and Highland Avenue.
••••This
year there are two great packages being offered.
The first is "Santa's Package" which
includes a ticket to Madame Tussauds Hollywood
and the Grandstand Seat for $45 (a value of
$60). Or, the second option is to purchase
a Grandstand Seat alone for $35 per ticket.
•••• All
seats are reserved at the time the order is
placed. There are no refunds or exchanges.
Group Discounts are available for groups
of 25 or more. All major credit cards are
accepted, including Visa, MasterCard, Discover
and American Express. To order tickets,
please call toll free at 1-866-PARADE1
(866-727-2331). •
Grandstand tickets can be purchased via the
telephone until Saturday afternoon, November 26,
2011. On the
day of the parade Grandstand tickets will be
available at a ticket booth on Hollywood
Boulevard located in the Grandstand area near
the intersection of Highland Avenue and
Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.
•••• For
updates and further information about The 80th
Anniversary Hollywood Christmas Parade, please
visit the parade's official website,
www.hollywoodchristmasparade2011.com or call
1-866-PARADE1 (1-866-727-2331). CLICK
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- "Christmas Around The World- The
Movie"
• "JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME."
The princess of
a small kingdom with less than a half-million
countrymen . . . read in the Holy Book on how
important it was to have a VISION for her fifty
square mile domain. So with FAITH and
decisiveness . . . the little princes took
"ACTION." SHE hired local monasteries to
help her come up with a few pieces of artistic
religious artifacts and storylines that would
excite the local gentry, surrounded by a forest
full of pine trees. •
She delivered the Masterpieces to them. -- . . . But
rather than becoming excited they acted like
godless heathans, thinking "so what?" She felt
frustrated, angrry and disappointed all of which
she did her best to conceal. • It Was Her D-Diaries That Reveled The
Method She Used . . . to light the fire of
excitement to the
World? •101-
It was just last week, (Nov 3rd, 2011)
-- that Josie
Cory & Margit Seelos discussed
the contributions of their respective husbands
musical talents to the world. It was in the late
1970s that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and create
the musical scores for the German/USA production
film "Merry Christmas;" and YouTube.com
sequels: "Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as "Little
Miss Santa," and featuring the late German
singer, Manuela. The Movie itself was
Produced by VRA TelePlay Picture's, Josie
Cory; Bohemia Film's Williams
Janovsky; and ARD's Gábor
Wagner. • The Feature Movie was filmed in -- and around the city of Munich, Nymphenburg
and Castle Neuschwanstein, Germany and in
Oberndorf, Austria, the small village and church
where the Christmas carol "Silent Night"
was performed for the first time on December 25,
1818. • The
moral to the Story? . . . No matter how
old you are . . . if you have VISION and a DREAM
. . . do what the little princess did. Use the
same FAITH and decisiveness and take
"ACTION."
•
Bing
Crosby did . . . Jimmy Stewart did . .
.
and so did Troy Cory and Ambros Seelos. None of
the performers specifically or exactly knew
what, where and how the words to those song they
sang would be accepted by the listener. It takes
"ACTION," "VISION, and the "FAITH" of a .
. . "I Wish You A Merry Christmas," or the sound
of "Jingle Bells," -- . . . to connect the
monetary RESULTS, and value, to each other.
• Most of
us don't even know
-- the
true meaning of CHRISTMAS! You have no idea how
demoralizing that is to the new kids being
introduced each year to the Yule Time event,"
says the little princess, now known as: "Little
Miss Santa." . .
. Around
Castle Neuschwanstein, and the small village and
church of Oberndorf where the Christmas carol
"Silent Night" was performed for the
first time on December 25,
1818, the
forest are full of Christmas Trees. • 101
St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
•
The vocals, sound tracks and string section on
the Munich Sound recordings were provided by
Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos, and "The Munich
Philharmonics." The piano and musical
arrangements were conducted by Ambros
Seelos and 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." •
The Vision, and Culture Values of --
Bavaria and Austria hospitalities . . . were
used to set the pace of this Yule Time joint
venture.
•••Troy
Cory collaborated with VRA TelePlay
Pictures, Cinema Prize Records and Agil
Musik to get the final Results of this
annual religious
Mission.
Troy Cory co-wrote the original song material
featured in this Movie with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/ team, in producing
the LPE-1685 Cinema Prize album,
entitled, "Today's Puzzle," and
CD2525 recording: "An OL' Christmas Card, now
available at Amazon.com.
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HRTS Newsmaker Luncheon Series - "A Conversation
with... Leslie Moonves, Pres. & CEO of CBS
Corporation. •••
Les Moonves, CBS chief executive and ever the
optimist and TV's biggest cheerleader addressed
the broadcast model, technology and CBS Films at
the Hollywood Radio & Television Society
(HRTS) Newsmaker Luncheon Series (usually group
panels discussing the state of the entertainment
business) as he was interviewed by Variety Media
Columnist, Brian Lowry.
•••
During the one-on-one, the two men discussed
everything from Netflix, the 2012 election, Blue
Bloods and the value of its demographics and a
quip about the "Two and a Half Men"
behind-the-scenes drama.
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101-The
Hollywood Radio & Television
Societysince 1947 is the entertainment
industyr's premier information and network
forum.
••••
One of the primary activity, the HRTS
Newsmaker Luncheon Series, presents six plus
events per year featuring panels that include
the presidents of the major broadcast networks,
leading cable networks, creators/executive
producers of current hit shows, our annual State
of the Industry panel and more. HRTS also
presents special Newsmaker Events that have
featured individual guests such as Michael
Eisner, Ted Turner, Colin Powell, Hillary
Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Al Gore, Leslie Moonves,
Peter Chernin, Ted Koppel, Brian Williams, and
others addressing broad industry topics as well
as larger societal issues.
••••
HRTS Newsmaker Luncheon attendance ranges
from an average of over 500 to upwards of 1,000
key execs from across the full range of our
industry. The average HRTS attendee is VP level
and above and is responsible for the creation
and development of entertainment properties for
distribution across broadcast, cable, satellite,
and the ever-evolving world of digital and new
media spaces. CLICK
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101
Charlie Rose to Join the Early Show in
2012 - but will not to give up his eponymous PBS
interview
show. ••••
CBS News chairman, Jeff Fager announced
another revamping of the network's morning
strategy.
••••
Effective Jan. 9, the PBS interviewer
Charlie Rose will join anchor Erica Hill for the
7 a.m. "The Early Show," the network's
long-suffering morning news broadcast.
••••
Rose has had a long-running relationship
with CBS News. In 1999, he joined 60
Minutes II as a correspondent and still
does occasional pieces for 60 Minutes.
••••
It was clear that Charlie Rose would
not "under any circumstances give up his
eponymous PBS program, and will continue to host
his PBS and Bloomberg interview program .
••••
Talk show host Gayle King will lead the 8
a.m. hour on the broadcast, which will be given
a new name and be marketed as a more serious
alternative to the popular morning shows on NBC
and ABC. She will depart her talk show on Oprah
Winfrey's the cable channel OWN, but would join
on OWN from time to time as her schedule
allowed."
•••
What's different this time, Mr. Fager
asserted at a news conference, are the people
involved, like Mr. Rose, who said he would rely
on decades of A-list contacts to book guests,
and Ms. King, who said she would ensure that the
program be smart and entertaining.
••••
Mr. Licht will be the executive producer
of the program, said David Rhodes, the president
of CBS News. Mr. Licht joined CBS in June as the
news division's vice president for programming,
and he will retain that role.
••••
The program would not imitate its rivals.
There will be no cooking segments and no couch
on the set.
••••
Within the television business, there is
widespread skepticism about whether a hard news
bent will help bring in viewers in the
morning.
••••
Mr. Fager, who is also the executive
producer of "60 Minutes," said that while the
morning program would emphasize hard news just
as that Sunday newsmagazine does, "it's not
going to be all serious." He said it would cover
pop culture as well as political and economic
news, describing it as a blend of what's
important "and at times what's just plain
interesting."
••••
"It's been tough in the morning at
CBS,"Mr. Fager acknowledged. "A lot of times we
replaced people without really re-thinking from
the ground up" about the structure of the
broadcast. The past, he said, doesn't matter.
"We have an opportunity to start fresh."
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TVInews100-108
- 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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111- • TroyCSnews111-108w.jpg •••
But no president could completely alter the DNA
of the goodtime Charlies 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,
foreign trade, and health industries, where
there are still holdouts itching to reverse
course.
•••
Pres. Obama will leave behind a blueprint, but
in some ways the next President will have a more
difficult job. He or she will need determination
to make the changes stick, a deep knowledge of
th U.S.A. culture, the ability to win the buy-in
the middle class consumer and the courage to
touch less on the problems created by Unions and
their issues. •
101- tcsCloseUp-logo108w.jpg • These must be the next chief's top
priorities:
• Make Service Your First Priority, Not
Success and Success Will Follow
• Your tviNews HotTopic list might look
like this:
• 1. Family
• 2. Meaningful work
• 3. Health and well-being
• 4. Financial freedom
• 5. Travel and adventure
• Your
list might look like this:
• Does your list indicate you're not
spending your time doing what you say is most
important to you?
• Are you spending time accomplishing other
people's priorities, but not your own?
• Memorize your list of priorities, and use
it as a guideline for every demand that is made
on your time.
• Don't let anything come between you and
what truly matters most to you!
• Focus on Innovation
• Maximize Vendor Partnerships
• Collaborate with Other Business
Leaders
• Harness the value of TVInews Services
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Ambros
Seelos Orchestra Tours the
Globe •••
Ambros Seelos, and Troy Cory shown in photo,
collaborated 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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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?•
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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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."
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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. ••• 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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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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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
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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Arts Entertainment - VRA To Release New
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Universal City, CA -- March 2010 /
Video Record Albums of America,
(VRA TelePlay) announces the release of
more than 100 new CD and DVD volumes of
vContent, and software for WebPlay
sales, that include the license for
RadioPlay.
•••
Each CD and DVD features musical
stylings, and seamlessly software to
play the Troy Cory Show, including
Troy's vMusic Stage Concerts performed
in the U.S., China, England, Germany -
EU -- since 1968. His TV-shows went
into syndication in 1972.
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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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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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Troy•
101s-
Ambros Seelos Orchestra Tours the
Globe •••
Ambros Seelos, and Troy Cory shown in
photo, colaborated on a host of
original songs recorded in
Munich.
The
Ambros Seelos Orchestra featured
Sylvester Levay,
Grammy winner for "Fly Robin, Fly," who
later had great success with his
musical "Elisabeth," and was the
co-writer with Troy, and Ambros on
Troy's BBC recordings, "Hurricane,"
"Hey, Sweet Honey, Honey," and
"Relax."
•••
During the last
two decades of Troy Cory's China
concert tours, Ambros Seelos delivered
the big-band background sound for many
of Troy's TV-stage performances,
"Jeepers Creepers" being a favorite
amongst the Chinese
audiences.
•••
Back in 1972 Ambros was chosen as the
official band for the Olympic Games in
Munich. Having toured the whole world,
he also performed together with giants
of Jazz like Louis Armstrong, Count
Basie and Ella Fitzgerald,
Grammy-winning Hollywood film composer
and musical writer Sylvester Levay
("Hot Shots," "Airwolf," "Elisabeth,")
who also worked as a producer for the
living music legends Elton John and
Donna Summer. • CLICK
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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
event.
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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."
"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," they
said.
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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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A SAP subsidiary pleaded guilty to
12 criminal counts and will pay $20m
million over unauthorized downloads
from software rival Oracle Corp.
•••
As part of the agreement, SAP will not
be charged with any criminal
wrongdoing. SAP attorney Tharan "Greg"
Lanier said.
•••
The Red Flags Rules criminal case,
brought on by the new 2010 Federal
ID-theft prevention laws, is part of a
long-running legal controversy
involving SAP and Oracle. Last year, a
civil jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion
over accusations SAP subsidiary
TomorrowNow, now defunct, wrongfully
downloaded millions of Oracle
files.
•••
A judge has since reduced that award to
$272-Million. Oracle is seeking
permission to appeal that ruling.
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•••
Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris and six other
state attorneys general join the
Justice Department's antitrust suit,
say the deal would result in less
competition in the wireless market.
•••
Reporting from Sacramento and Los
Angeles -- AT&T Inc.'s $39-billion
fight to take over cellular provider
T-Mobile USA Inc. has taken another
hit.
•••
Just two weeks after the U.S. Justice
Department sued to block the deal in
federal court, California Atty. Gen.
Kamala D. Harris and six other state
attorneys general have joined the
antitrust suit, saying the combination
would create a cellular behemoth that
would result in less competition in the
wireless market and higher prices for
consumers. Also, they said, it could
kill jobs.
•••
If they would have paid their $5Bill to
PSI, we could be very sympathetic to
their cause. Harris said Friday that
her review of the case "has led me to
conclude that it would hinder
competition and reduce consumer
choice." The attorney general said she
hoped to "resolve this matter in a way
that will create jobs in our state,
encourage a vibrant technology sector
and protect competition in the
marketplace."
•••
Harris was joined by top state
prosecutors in New York, Washington,
Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. Collectively they
represent more than one-third of the
U.S. population.
•••
Consumer advocates applauded the move.
It "reinforces the seriousness of the
consequences that a combined
AT&T-T-Mobile would have on
consumers," said Paul P. Desai, policy
counsel for Consumers Union.
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•••
Senate passage Thursday of the America
Invents Act, which sends it to
President Barack Obama for his
signature, is the first significant
change in patent law since 1952. It
took years to accomplish, with the
final vote coming a little more than an
hour before Obama appeared before a
joint session of Congress to pitch his
plan for promoting jobs growth.
•••
"Today you passed reform that will
speed up the outdated patent process so
that entrepreneurs can turn a new idea
into a new business as quickly as
possible," Obama said in his speech.
"That's the kind of action we
need."
•••
The bill ensures that the patent office
has the money to expedite the
application process. It now takes an
average of three years to get a patent
approved. The agency has a backlog of
1.2 million pending patents. More than
700,000 have yet to be reviewed.
•••
Since 1992, the agency has lost nearly
$1 billion because what it receives
from Congress is less than what it
collects in fees.
•••
The bill gives assurance the agency
will have access to more money but
maintains congressional controls.
Senators defeated an amendment by Sen.
Tom Coburn, R-Okla., that would have
given the agency more leeway to set
fees and keep all the fees it
collects.
•••
The legislation also takes steps to
reduce harassing litigation, and
improve patent quality by enabling
third parties to submit information
that may be relevant to the granting of
a patent.
•••
It encourages U.S. manufacturing by
allowing producers to continue to use a
manufacturing process in this country
even if another inventor later patents
the idea.
•••
While small-scale inventors are divided
on the legislation, it has the backing
of associations representing
corporations such as Caterpillar Inc.
and General Electric, as well as
high-tech companies including Apple and
Google, along with the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce and the Association of
American Universities.
•••
IBM Senior Vice President Robert C.
Weber, in a statement, praised "our
elected officials for producing a
bipartisan, common-sense bill that will
significantly improve the U.S. patent
system."
•••
IBM has been the top U.S. patent
recipient for the past 18 years.
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• The same old song? The same old
article?
•••
Recording artists' copyright royalties
of the 60s, 70s, and 80s are so complex
that the courts may have to settle
fights case by case in Artist vs.
Publishers vs. defunt Record companies,
and their takeovers.
•••
The federal copyright law that went
into effect in 1978 gave song writers,
recording artist, and musician union
members a chance to reclaim their
rights to a work 35 years after they
sold them. Whether musicians and
songwriters can exercise that option,
however, is in dispute. Many bands and
solo acts have signed contracts since
then that declare them ineligible to
reclaim their recordings.
•••
Most songwriters signed long-term
contracts with music publishers before
1978 that their publishers say are
controlled by the previous federal law,
which prevents copyrights from being
reclaimed for 56 years. The Copyright
Office has tried to resolve the latter
dispute, but it acknowledged that the
final say may have to come from
Congress. The situation with recording
artists is more complex, so much so
that the courts will probably have to
settle fights over copyrights case by
case. •
The new U.S.A. Copyright law gives
-- the author of an original
work -- a category that includes
musicians, photographers, playwrights
and novelists -- a lot of control over
how their creations can be exploited.
But because their expertise usually is
in creating works, not wringing money
out of them, they typically assign
their rights to publishers in exchange
for a cut of the sales. •
Since the rise and fall of Record
Companies --
and their recording artist gives in to
popularity, there's a range of events
-- between who pays what . .
. to whom, and when
•••
There's is always a question and
answer to monetary equity, and who was
really the star of a hit record. The
major labels have pointed out that
successful artists have other ways to
extract better terms from labels
besides reclaiming copyrights
•••
Instead, artists who have a hit
record invariably seek to renegotiate
with the labels and obtain a better
deal. So they wait far less than 35
years for a second bite at the apple.
That's if they're successful, however,
and the vast majority of recording
artists aren't.
•••
And if the former, song writer, singer
or back-up back wins back its rights,
how should it sort out the interests of
its various members? Should the lead
guitarist have more say than the
bassist? What happens if one member of
a duo wants to strike a deal with a new
record company while the other wants to
stay with their original label?
•••
Many artists may decide not to try to
reclaim the rights because they have no
interest in finding a new label or
doing their own marketing and sales for
their old works. But others are likely
to be emboldened by the profusion of
opportunities online, especially for
artists who have already built up fan
bases with the labels' help. Given the
complexities of the issue, a clearer
picture of who can and cannot reclaim
rights probably won't emerge until the
courts resolve some of the looming
disputes. •
As for the songwriter - publisher,
thier plight
-- is quite much better. The
Copyright Office issued a rule in June
stating that the rights to songs
written after 1978 are subject to
reversion in 35 years, regardless of
any contract the songwriter might have
been under at the time. That means, for
example, country-rock legend Charlie
Daniels should be able to reclaim the
rights to his 1979 hit "The Devil Went
Down to Georgia" in 2014, when he's 78,
instead of waiting until he's in his
90s. But Congress should put the
Copyright Office's ruling into statute
to clear up any doubts about the
office's authority. That won't clear up
all the controversy surrounding
reversion, but it's probably the most
lawmakers can do.
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$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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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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Fargo vs Pension Fund $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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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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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 thousands of foreclosure
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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
its appeal. • CLICK
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-- 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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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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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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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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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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- 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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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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102.09iiiFCCRulesInternetNeutrality
(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
arteries open after they are surgically
cleared of
blockage. @
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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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•
•
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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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
. •••
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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•••
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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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 /
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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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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'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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-October 5, 2011
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Steve
Jobs' Death -- The Effects On People
Around The
World. • October 6, 2011 -
WHEN APPLE, INC. ANNOUNCED THAT Mr.
Jobs had passed away, Newspapers around
the globe paid homage to the U.S.
legendary computer genius. To many of
us who followed the "Mac path" -- it
seems like loosing a friend. He touched
so many lives with his innovation and
vision that we can't help but ask
ourselves, "Will the tech world ever be
the same without Jobs? •••
Much is going to be written
about this extraordinary man, so here
are just a few highlights in his own
words. •
APPLE'S EARLY
YEARS (the
mid-1970s)
•••
"Because Woz
[Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak] and I started the company
based on doing the whole banana, we
weren't so good at partnering with
people...I think if Apple could have
had a little more of that in its DNA,
it would have served it extremely
well...I don't think Apple learned that
until...a few decades later."-- From
an appearance at the D5 conference in
2005.
•
TASTE AND TECHNOLOGY (ca. 1996) "Ultimately it comes
down to taste. It comes down to trying
to expose yourself to the best things
that humans have done and then try to
bring those things in to what you're
doing. I mean Picasso had a saying, he
said good artists copy, great artists
steal. And we have always been
shameless about stealing great ideas,
and I think part of what made the
Macintosh great was that the people
working on it were musicians and poets
and artists and zoologists and
historians who also happened to be the
best computer scientists in the
world...
"The only problem with Microsoft is
they just have no taste...I don't mean
that in a small way, I mean that in a
big way, in the sense that they don't
think of original ideas, and they don't
bring much culture into their
product...So I guess I am saddened, not
by Microsoft's success--I have no
problem with their success; they've
earned their success for the most part.
I have a problem with the fact that
they just make really third-rate
products."
-- From "Triumph of the
Nerds." •
INTRODUCING THE IMAC (1998) "iMac comes from the
marriage of the excitement of the
Internet with the simplicity of
Macintosh."
-- From the 1998 unveilin •
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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."
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•
Army Archerd interviewed everyone from
Hollywood stars to heads of state in
his illustrious 52 years as a Daily
Variety
columnist.
•
•
In 1947, Archerd was hired by the
Herald-Express as assistant (i.e., "leg
man") to drama-movie editor-columnist
Harrison
Carroll.
•
•
In addition to covering the studios,
Archerd began reporting on the local
nightclub scene, which included Sunset
Strip sites like the Mocambo and Ciro's
and music spots down La Cienega, La
Brea and Ventura
Boulevard. •
•
After leaving Harrison Carroll, the
Daily Variety editor Joe Schoenfeld
hired Archerd in 1953 to replace
columnist Sheilah Graham
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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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• 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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EVENTs
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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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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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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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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 best way -- to Validate
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•
The highly watched Options-Backdating
Fraud Case -- brought on an Eight
months of house arrest for the former
KB Home CEO chief, Bruce Karatz.
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