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OSCARS at the Dolby Theatre in
Hollywood
• 86th
Academy
Awards,
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Golden Globe Awards
Winners
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The 71st Golden Globe Awards, Jan.
12
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The place that was: Vine Street Stage,
Hollywood
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Harbin, China- Troy Cory
Show
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Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,•
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the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos
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Global Internet panel
formed
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Viacom and Google settle YouTube copyright
lawsuit
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Google Vs.
France
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NBSWiTEL Bailout For Its EMW Wireless
Carriers
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TVI- The NBS Wireless
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TheWiTEL-ID-phoneNumber
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NBSWiTEL Bailout-EMW Wireless
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Branson In The News of
Late
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Virgin Group Boss on decriminalizing
drugs.
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Microsoft has new chief
executive
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Bill Gates on the move to erase global
poverty.
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Mark Zuckerberg gives billion to
foundation
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The Deal To Steal - "The Wireless
Telephone "the
Movie"
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Bob Thompson- audacious music
sound
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Harbin, China- Troy Cory
Show
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FCC Chairman to keynote 2014 NAB
SHOW
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LA Travel Show, Long Beach, CA, Feb. 8-9,
2014
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International CES, Las Vegas, Jan. 7 -
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The Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival - Jan
3-13,
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Pasadena Rose Parade Celebrates 125th
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106- Viacom and Google settle YouTube
copyright
lawsuit.
The case was filed back in 2007, which was
like the Dark Ages of Internet
video.
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The billion dollar long-running
legal clash between old and new media
giants, Viacom Inc. and Google Inc., has
ended in a settlement, without having
terms of the settlement
disclosed.
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Viacom initiated the suit filed in
federal court in New York in 2007. The New
York cable television giant complained
that Google's YouTube had knowingly posted
Viacom videos on its site without Viacom's
permission. Viacom asserted that postings
of clips from "South Park," and "The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart," constituted
copyright violations worth at least $1
billion.
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In court documents, Viacom argued
that YouTube essentially built its
business on infringing videos, and the
media company produced e-mails in which
some of the site's founders discuss the
prevalence of copyrighted videos uploaded
by users and their propensity to generate
more traffic.
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case tested the reach of the federal
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a 1998
law that made it illegal to produce
technology to circumvent anti-piracy
measures, but limited liability of online
service providers for copyright
infringement by users.
••••In
its suit, Viacom maintained that YouTube
had a responsibility to immediately remove
all pirated content from its site. YouTube
countered that it had only the duty to
take down specific videos identified by
copyright holders.
••••The
judge rejected what he called Viacom's
"ingenious" yet "extravagant" argument
that YouTube should monitor the content of
videos being uploaded at a rate of more
than 24 hours of viewing time per
minute.
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He also said YouTube did not
interact so closely with people uploading
content that it could be said to have
engaged in infringing activity.
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Stanton had in 2010 also ruled for
YouTube. The 2nd Circuit revived Viacom's
case in April 2012, saying a reasonable
jury could find that YouTube was aware of
specific infringements.
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In his April 2013 ruling, Stanton
had concluded that Google and YouTube were
protected from Viacom's copyright claims
by "safe harbor" provisions in the
law.
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Tuesday's settlement comes after
several legal setbacks in the case for
Viacom. Last year's decision by U.S.
District Judge Louis Stanton was his
second ruling against Viacom.
Viacom's damages claims were tossed out
for the postings of Comedy Central and
Nickelodeon clips on YouTube from 2005 to
2008.
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Viacom had been appealing that
ruling.
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In theJune 2010 ruling, Stanton
sided with YouTube by granting Google's
request for summary judgment in the case.
He found that YouTube operated within the
law.
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When "YouTube was given notices, it
removed the material," Stanton wrote in
his 30-page decision in 2010. "It is thus
protected from liability" under a
provision in the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act in which Google relied on to
make its case that policing the Internet
was as much the responsibily of the
copyright holders as it was the Internet
sites.
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Viacom did not receive monetary
compensation as part of the settlement a
But did receive some of its initial
demands. During the course of the lengthy
legal battle, Google instituted a better
system of filtering and removing
unauthorized videos found YouTube
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Viacom now is one of 5,000
copyright holders that use Google's
Content ID system to identify and help
manage their content that appears on
YouTube. These days when you upload videos
to YouTube, the clips are scanned against
a database of files that have been
submitted to Google by the various content
owners. Rights holder can block the video
or choose to share in the revenue
generated by ads that appear around their
content.
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Supporters of Viacom during the
battle have included the Associated Press,
Gannett Co, the Motion Picture Association
of America, the National Football League,
the Screen Actors Guild, Garth Brooks, the
Eagles and Sting.
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Google and YouTube won backing from
eBay Inc, Facebook Inc, Tumblr Inc, Yahoo
Inc, Consumers Union, Human Rights Watch
and others.
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HOLLYWOOD CELBRATES OSCAR
WINNERS-
86th Academy Awards, at the Dolby Theatre
in Hollywood, March 2,
2014
tviNews- By Josie
Cory
The Oscars clocked in at
31/2 hours. In less than an hour Oscar
host Ellen DeGeneres beat President
Obama's Twitter record for Twitter
retweets, in one of the most wide-open
Oscar race we can remember. Even on the
party circuit, industry insiders who
usually have a grasp of who'll walk away
with Oscars were evenly torn between
Alfonso Cuaron's 3D masterpiece
"Gravity" and Steve McQueen's" 12
Years A Slave." There were so many
terrific films that got Best Picture
nominations, and all of them had a chance
at an upset.
• Cate Blanchett wins best
actress
Cate Blanchett won the Oscar (her second)
for lead actress at Sunday's 86th Academy
Awards for her portrayal of Jasmine, the
fallen New York socialite in the Woody
Allen film "Blue Jasmine." Blanchett's
Oscar, was largely expected, as the
actress had swept all awards in that
category leading up to the Oscars.
• Matthew McConaughey wins best
actor
Matthew McConaughey has won the Oscar for
lead actor for his performance in the
drama "Dallas Buyers Club." It was the
first Oscar nomination and win for the
44-year-old actor, who lost more than 40
pounds to play a man who is HIV positive
in the film.
• "12 Years a Slave" wins for the
best picture Oscar.
Directed by Steve McQueen, the film is a
harrowing tale of a free man sold into
slavery in pre-Civil War America. In one
of the tightest races for the top award in
recent memory, the film beat out other top
contenders "Gravity" and "American
Hustle."
• Alfonso Cuaron wins best
director
Alfonso Cuaron has won the Oscar for
director for his space adventure
"Gravity," becoming the first Latin
American director to take the top
filmmaking prize. The Mexican director,
52, was the fourth Latin American to be
nominated in this Oscar category. His film
stars Sandra Bullock as an astronaut
marooned in space.
• Jaret
Leto wins best Supporting Actor "Dallas
Buyers Club"
• Lupita
Nyong'o wins best Supporting Actress
"12 Yeas a Slave"
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BEST COSTUME DESIGN: The Great Gatsby
• BEST MAKE-UP & HAIRSTYLING:
Dallas Buyers Club
• BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED): Mr
Hublot
• BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Frozen
• BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION):
Helium
• BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: The
Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
• BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: 20 Feet
from Stardom
• BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: The
Great Beauty (Italy)
• BEST SOUND MIXING: Gravit
• BEST SOUND EDITING: Gravity
• BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Gravity
• BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Gravity
• BEST FILM EDITING: Gravity
• BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: The Great
Gatsby
• BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Gravity
• BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Let It Go -
Frozen
• BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: John
Ridley - 12 Years a Slave
• BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Spike
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to address 2014
NAB
SHOW
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman
Tom Wheeler will provide the "FCC Keynote"
at the 2014 NAB Show in Las Vegas, the
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
announced today. The address, which will
be held Tuesday, April 8, 9:00-10:00 a.m.,
is expected to provide insight into the
Chairman's views on broadcasting and what
his expectations are on the regulatory
front in the coming years.
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"Broadcasting has a lot at stake
when it comes to actions taken by the
FCC," said NAB President and CEO Gordon
Smith. "We look forward to hearing from
Chairman Wheeler about his views on
spectrum auctions, ownership regulation
and any number of issues shaping our
industry."
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Tom Wheeler became the 31st
Chairman of the Federal Communications
Commission on November 4, 2013. He was
appointed by President Barack Obama and
unanimously confirmed by the United States
Senate.
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For over three decades, Wheeler has
been involved with new telecommunications
networks and services, experiencing the
revolution in telecommunications as a
policy expert, an advocate, and a
businessman. As an entrepreneur, he
started or helped start multiple companies
offering innovative cable, wireless and
video communications services. He is the
only person to be selected to both the
Cable Television Hall of Fame and The
Wireless Hall of Fame, a fact that caused
President Obama to nickname Wheeler "The
Bo Jackson of Telecom."
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Prior to joining the FCC, Wheeler
was Managing Director at Core Capital
Partners, a venture capital firm investing
in early stage Internet Protocol
(IP)-based companies. He served as
President and CEO of Shiloh Group, LLC, a
strategy development and private
investment company specializing in
telecommunications services and co-founded
SmartBrief, the internet's largest
electronic information service for
vertical markets. From 1976 to 1984,
Wheeler was associated with the National
Cable Television Association (NCTA), where
he was President and CEO from 1979 to
1984. Following NCTA, Wheeler was CEO of
several high tech companies, including the
first company to offer high speed delivery
of data to home computers and the first
digital video satellite service. From 1992
to 2004, Wheeler served as president and
CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications
& Internet Association (CTIA).
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Wheeler is a graduate of The Ohio
State University and the recipient of its
Alumni Medal.
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LA Travel Show,
Feb.
8-9, 2014, Long Beach,
CA
• Explore, Dream and
Discover.
(tviNews Coverage) Gary Sunkin; Troy
Cory.
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Now
in its 9th year - the Los
Angeles Travel & Adventure Show takes
place February 8th and 9th from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. at the Long Beach Convention
Center. One of Southern California's top
10 trade shows it will feature over 400
exhibitors from around the globe,
prominent travel experts, and consumer
seminars. The show is a great way to
experience the world in one day through
the eyes of well-traveled speakers and the
thousands of experts who represent
exciting destinations from around the
globe.
••••
A line-up of
exclusive featured speakers include
traveled legends Rick
Steves, Samantha Brown, Pauline
Frommer, Patricia Schultz, Peter
Greenberg and Travel
Channel's Don Wildman and
more.
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Rick Steves,
is host and writer of the popular public
television series Rick Steves' Europe;
Other inspiring and celebrated Travel
Channel personalities include Samantha
Brown, Coffee entrepreneur and adventurer
Todd Carmichael, host of "Dangerous
Grounds," and history explorer and museum
enthusiast Don Wildman, host of "Mysteries
at the Museum"; Award-winning travel
expert and radio host Pauline Frommer,
Editorial Director of Frommer's
Guidebooks; Emmy Award-Winning
investigative travel journalist Peter
Greenberg, Travel Editor for CBS News and
Host of the New Public Television Series:
The Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg
?and Patricia Schultz, author of the #1
New York Times Bestseller "1,000 Places to
See Before You Die."
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Additionally,
over 400 exhibitors representing some of
the world's most desired destinations will
be on hand to entice, educate and give
details about their destinations and tours
to attendees, including Thailand, Japan,
Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Fiji, Mexico
and Latin America, India, Africa,
Caribbean, Hawaii, and Alaska, as well as
the extensive California pavilion, all
offering exclusive specials and trip
giveaways.
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The show has
attracted scores of new exhibitors
including; Air New Zealand Vacations, Guam
Visitors Bureau, Myths & Mountains,
Tours of Tuscany, London Connection, and
Cuba Travel Services, to name a few.
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Among
supporting
sponsors are Indonesia Tourism, Turkish
Culture & Tourism Office, and Rick
Steves' Europe. Contributing sponsors
include Amtrak, Tourism Malaysia and
Thailand Tourism. The event's National TV
Media Sponsor is Travel Channel.
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Microsoft has new chief
executive
Microsoft named company insider Satya
Nadella as its new chief
executive.
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Nadella has
led the Microsoft division in charge of
the business of delivering software and
services over the Internet.
•••
The
46-year-old replaces Steve Ballmer and
becomes only the third leader in the
software company's 38-year
history.
•••
The company
also said that founder Bill Gates will
step down from his role as chairman role
to become a technology advisor. John
Thomson will be the company's new
chairman.
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Bill Gates on the move to erase global
pover
Philanthropists Bill and
Melinda Gates, founders and co-chairs of
the Gates Foundation, have been selected
to be the 2014 commencement speakers at
Stanford University on June 15.
•••They
are the latest in Stanford commencement's
long line of stars in fields such as
politics, business, entertainment and law.
In the past decade, speakers have included
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, media personality
Oprah Winfrey, U.S. Supreme Court Justices
Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy,
and former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg.
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Known since
the computer revolution, Bill Gates
is the former chief executive and current
chairman of Microsoft, which he co-founded
with Paul Allen.
••••
He stepped down as chief executive officer
of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained
as
chairman and created the position of chief
software architect for himself. In June
2006, Gates announced that he would be
transitioning from full-time work at
Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time
work at the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. He gradually transferred his
duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software
architect, and Craig Mundie, chief
research and strategy officer. Gates's
last full-time day at Microsoft was June
27, 2008.
••
As TVI in
it's last issue noted, "It's no sin to be
rich, if ..."
•••
Gates began to appreciate the
expectations others had of him when public
opinion mounted suggesting that he could
give more of his wealth to charity. Gates
studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and
John D. Rockefeller, and in 1994 sold some
of his Microsoft stock to create the
William H. Gates Foundation. In 2000,
Gates and his wife combined three family
foundations into one to create the
charitable Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, based in Seattle and which is
the largest private transparently operated
charitable foundation in the world. It is
committed to easing poverty, hunger and
disease that prevent millions of people
from realizing their full potential.
••••The
foundation allows benefactors access to
information regarding how its money is
being spent, unlike other major charitable
organizations such as the Wellcome Trust.
The generosity and extensive philanthropy
of David Rockefeller has been credited as
a major influence. Gates and his father
met with Rockefeller several times, and
modeled their giving in part on the
Rockefeller family's philanthropic focus,
namely those global problems that are
ignored by governments and other
organizations. Bill and Melinda Gates are
among the most generous philanthropists in
America, having given over
$28 billion to charity; the couple
plan to eventually donate 95% of their
wealth to charity.
••••Gates's
wife urged people to learn a lesson from
the philanthropic efforts of the Salwen
family, which had sold its home and given
away half of its value, as detailed in
Hanna and Kevin Salwen's book, "The Power
of Half." Gates and his wife invited Joan
Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the
family had done, and on December 9, 2010,
Gates, investor Warren Buffett, and Mark
Zuckerberg (Facebook's CEO) signed a
promise they called the "Gates-Buffet
Giving Pledge," in which they promised to
donate to charity at least half of their
wealth over the course of time.
••••Projects,
like bringing the Internet to public
libraries, sprang from the couples'
Microsoft experience. Specifically, Bill
Gates aspires to rid the world of polio,
funding immunizations that have brought
the disease to the point of eradication.
Melinda Gates champions the importance of
family planning, with the goal
of
delivering contraceptives to
120 million women in developing countries
within the next six years.
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Billionaire gives billion to
foundation
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Mark Zuckerberg this month is
donating nearly $1 billion worth of
Facebook stock to a Silicon Valley charity
as part of a pledge he's taken to devote
half of his wealth to philanthropy.
••••
In total, Zuckerberg is donating 18
million shares to the Silicon Valley
Community Foundation, which gives grants
to other nonprofit organizations in the
region that work in areas ranging from
education to the environment.
••••Based
on the current price of Facebook's stock,
the donation is worth about $985 million.
The foundation said it is by far the
largest donation in its history.
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This isn't the first time
Zuckerberg has donated to the Silicon
Valley Community Foundation. A year ago,
Zuckerberg gave the foundation the same
amount of shares, but at the time they
were only worth about $500 million. He has
made other notable donations to
organizations throughout the years.
••••The
move comes alongside a large sale of stock
by the company that will raise about $1.5
billion.
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Global internet panel
formed
Internet
governance to become one of the most
pressing global policies.
••••DAVOS,
Switzerland -- A global commission
has been created to investigate how to
ensure Internet freedom and security at a
time of growing concerns over privacy
breaches.
••••
The creation of the Global
Commission on Internet Govenmancy was
announced at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland.
••••
The commission was set up by
Canada's Centre for International
Governance Innovation and Britain's Royal
Institute of International Affairs.
•••
The two-year
inquiry, will be wide-ranging but focus
primarily on state censorship of the
internet as well as the issues of privacy
and surveillance raised by the Snowden
leaks about America's NSA and Britain's
GCHQ spy agencies.
••••
Sweden's foreign minister, Carl
Bildt, will head a group of some 25
experts from various backgrounds,
including academia, government and civil
society. They will work together over the
coming two years to create "a strategic
vision for the future of Internet
governance."
••••Bildt,
the former Swedish prime minister, said:
"The rapid evolution of the net has been
made possible by the open and flexible
model by which it has evolved and been
governed. But increasingly this is coming
under attack.
••••"And
this is happening as issues of net
freedom, net security and net surveillance
are increasingly debated. Net freedom is
as fundamental as freedom of information
and freedom of speech in our
societies."
••••The
Obama administration announced the initial
findings of a White House-organised review
of the NSA. There are also inquiries by
the US Congress and by the European
parliament, but this is the first major
independent one.
••••The
inquiry has been set up by Britain's
foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House
and by the Center for International
Governance and Innovation (CIGI), which is
partly funded by the Canadian
government.
••••In
a joint statement, Chatham House and the
CIGI said the current internet regime was
under threat. "This threat to a free, open
and universal internet comes from two
principal sources. First, a number of
authoritarian states are waging a campaign
to exert greater state control over
critical internet resources."
••••The
statement does not name the countries but
it is aimed mainly at China and Iran, both
of whom are censoring the
internet.
••••The
other big issue, according to Chatham
House and the CIGI, is the revelations
from Snowden.
••••"Second,
revelations about the nature and extent of
online surveillance have led to a loss of
trust." The
issue of internet governance is set to
become one of the most pressing global
policy issues of our time, said
Robin Niblett, director of Chatham
House, said: "The issue of internet
governance is set to become one of the
most pressing global policy issues of our
time."
••••••Among
those on the panel are: Joseph Nye, former
dean of the Kennedy school of governance
at Harvard; Sir David Omand, former head
of GCHQ; Michael Chertoff, former
secretary of the US homeland security
department and co-author of the Patriot
Act that expanded NSA surveillance powers;
the MEP Marietje Schaake, who has been a
leading advocate of internet freedom;
Latha Reddy, former deputy national
security adviser of India; and Patricia
Lewis, research director in the
international security department at
Chatham House, who said: "Internet
governance is too important to be left
just to governments."
••••Gordon
Smith, who is to be deputy chair of the
commission, said: "For many people,
Internet governance sounds technical and
esoteric but the reality is that the
issues are 'high politics' and of
consequence to all users of the internet,
present and future."
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Google Vs.
Francec
What did Google do?
Google Inc. was fined #203,500 by Frnce's
data protection watchdog for failing to
give people enough details about how ad
why it uses their personal data.
••••
Google also fails to say how long
it stores the data it processes adnd
combines "all the data it collects about
its users across all of its services
without any legal basis,<" France's
National Commission for Computing and Ciil
Lieberties said.
••••
The fine follows a similar penalty
from Spain's data watchdog last month for
"three serious violations" of the
country's privacy law. The fines are part
of several European investigations started
after the company made changes to
harmonize privacy policies for more than
60 products in 2012
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The 71st Golden Globe Awards- Live Coast
to Cost
--
took place Sunday, January 12, 2014,
and presented by the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association (HFPA) and Dick Clark
Productions. (Nominations were announced
Dec. 12, 2013). The "Golden Globe Awards"
are viewed worldwide and are one of the
few awards ceremonies to include both
motion picture and television
achievements.
•••This
year's Golden Globe Awards telecast on NBC
drew an average of 20.9 million viewers,
the biggest audience for the show in 10
years.
•••A
6% increase from the previous year when
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler first hosted.
Compared with two years ago, when English
comedian Ricky Gervais returend to the
show the numbers were up 24%. The high
numbers probaby were because the lightly
profane show was unpredictable, drew a
massivie number of top celebrities to its
Beverly Hilton auditorium and got a huge
assist from social media.
•••
However,
the telecast proved not a record-setter.
The most watched Golden Globes telecase
since NBC started airing the awards was in
2004, when "the Lord of the Rings: The
Return of the King" captured the most
awards and the show averaged 26.8 million
viewers.
•••
Acceccepting
the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Woody
Allen, Diane Keaton proved up a srurprise
by ending her speech with the tune "Make
new friends - but keep the Old."
•••
Hosts
Fey and Poehler had been invited to anchor
the Gala next year.
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Tournament of Roses Parade Celebrates
125th Anniversary, Jan 1.
2014
- By Gary Sunkin
PASADENA, Calif. - There might
not have been a better way to open 2014
than with Vin Scully, the legendary
Dodgers broadcaster as the Grand Marshal
of the Rose Parade in Pasadena, who
performed the ceremonial coin toss on the
field before the Rose Bowl between
Michigan State and Stanford.
••••It was not
Scully's first involvement with the Rose
Parade. A mere 48 years ago, he co-hosted
with Elizabeth Montgomery.
••••Most of the
week leading up to the Rose Bowl has
involved several pre-parade events and
luncheons, with several media members
happy to meet Scully.
•
Known as the most favorite parade to kick
off the New Year for thousands of
spectators who lined the 5 1/2 mile
parade route through Pasadena. Every year
I revel in the excitement, exuberance and
optimism in the air, and again this year's
themed "Dreams come True" Rose Parade,
didn't find me disappointed.
••• It
has come a long way since its early days.
The Rose Parade's elaborate floats now
feature high-tech computerized animation
and exotic natural materials from around
the world. Although a few floats are still
built exclusively by volunteers from their
sponsoring communities, most are built by
professional float building companies and
take nearly a year to construct. The
year-long effort pays off on New Year's
morning, when millions of viewers around
the world enjoy the Rose Parade.
••••The
first Rose Queen was crowned in 1905, and
every year since 1929, Rose Queens and
Rose Princesses have been a part of the
Tournament of Roses.
••••
Every
Parade needs a Grand Marshal, and the Rose
Parade has had some of the world's most
distinguished individuals serving in that
honored position. Past Grand Marshals have
included actors, astronauts, writers,
artists, athletes and political
figures.
••••
Early
Grand Marshals were local heroes, many of
them Tournament organizers. The first
Grand Marshal from outside Pasadena was
San Francisco Mayor James Rolph in 1930,
and as the Tournament grew, so did the
stature of its Grand Marshals. Mary
Pickford, Earl Warren, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Gregory Peck, Bob Hope, Erma
Bombeck, Henry "Hank" Aaron, the Apollo 12
astronauts, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra,
Kate Smith, Gerald Ford, Lee Iaccoca,
James Stewart, Pele and Angela Lansbury
are just a few of the distinguished
individuals who have held the honored
position. 1966 Grand Marshal Walt Disney
rode in the Parade with Mickey Mouse, and
Edgar Bergen brought Charlie McCarthy
along in 1940. Shirley Temple, who was a
10-year old movie star when she led the
50th Rose Parade returned as diplomat
Shirley Temple Black to serve as Grand
Marshal of the Tournament's Centennial
celebration in 1989.
••••
•
Celebrated Singers Clayton, Fischer, Hill
and Love sing National Anthem at historic
120th ROSE BOWL
•••••
Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer,
Judith Hill and Darlene Love kicked off
the pre-game festivities at the 100th Rose
Bowl Game presented by VIZIO with a
special performance of the Star-Spangled
Banner on January 1, 2014, at the Rose
Bowl Stadium in Pasadena.
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The 25th Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival
- Jan 3-13,
2014
• JULIA ROBERTS TO RECEIVE SPOTLIGHT
AWARD FOR "AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY"
Palm SpringPalm Springs, CA --
The 25th annual Palm Springs International
Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Academy
Award® winning actress Julia Roberts
with the Spotlight Award for August: Osage
County at its annual Awards Gala.
••••
British film
"Belle" will kick off the 25th anniversary
edition of the Palm Springs International
Film Festival expected to draw crowds in
excess of 135,000.
••••
The festival
features 187 films from 60 countries and
77 international cinema premieres. Twelve
films will compete for the festival's New
Voices/New Visions Award with nominees
hailing from Slovenia, Chile, Iceland,
South Korea and other countries..
••••"This
year's lineup is diverse in theme and
content, encompassing vintage work by
established directors alongside debuts by
a vast number of newly emerging talents,"
said festival director Darryl
Macdonald. "The overall quality of
the films vividly reflects the banner year
we've seen in cinema worldwide, with a
trend towards more personal,
character-driven stories that defy easy
genre labels, making for a much richer,
more satisfying cinematic
experience.".
••••The
festival wraps up with director Roger
Michell's "Le Week-End." The film,
starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan,
follows a married couple's trip to Paris
in an attempt to rekindle their love.
•••
The
PSIFF at its annual Awards Gala
will also honor such
stars as Sandra Bullock, Bruce Dern,
Matthew McConaughey
Tom Hanks, Julia
Roberts, director Steve McQueen and the
cast of "American Hustle." Three-time
Oscar winner Meryl Streep was named this
year's Icon Award recipient.
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Cory's Road to Harbin,
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• Troy Cory was among the
first international entertainers and the
first American entertainer to perform in
the People's Republic of China, beginning
in 1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is
much less restrictive now and China's open
door policy enables many entertainers to
introduce themselves t o the populace
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The Book --"A Deal to Steal-Wireless
TelePhone®™© - the
Movie" -- (Library of Congress:
Catalog# 2012906001)
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dealtosteal680.html / Book Review: The
Wireless Telephone®™© -
"the Movie."
"Sometimes
an idea whose time
has come -- is just a little too
soon!"
•••
This fast-moving, epic-scale 440
page tviPublishing.com book,  documents
over 110 years of the device itself, and
the effects & elements of The
Wireless
Telephone®™©. The
device, and the elements and effects
attached thereto, were first developed,
registered, demonstrated, and published
by: NATHAN B. STUBBLEFIELD, of MURRAY,
KENTUCKY
•••The
sole purpose of the public Wireless
Telephone®™©
demonstrations was to sell
territorial deeds throughout the U.S.A.
for the use of his WiTEL®™©
device for broadcasting purposes, that
including his 7 digital TeleKey Area Code
connecting
system.
•••
Since that time, 1892 to 2012, the
improvments of his designs and the
maintanance of his intelectual property
rights by his territorial deed Wireless
Telephone®™© holders, and
his heirs. A few of the name changes used,
and accepted by the NBSwitel.com
organization to identify and update the
Wireless Telephone®™© name
to fit modern-day unsage include: Radio,
Television, LookRadio, WiTEL, CellPhone,
iPhone, Firewire-187,
etc.
•••
Like authors of the Bell & Edison
inventions, the NBS WirelessTelephone.org
family will own the nbswitel.com
intellectual property rights --
"FOREVER MINUS A
DAY."
••• The five
chapters of WiTEL facts, and true-life
adventures of one of the most unsung
inventors in history, whose revolutionary
innovations have effected every human
being on the planet over the last three
generations! Based on the true story of
inventor and part-time melon farmer Nathan
B. Stubblefield's (and subsequently his
grandson Troy Cory's) battle with the
government and U.S. telephone
industry.
•••
"Firewire" tells the tale of two
very different men from two very different
eras who share not only the same blood,
but the same fight - whose battle to
receive recognition for the invention of
the wireless telephone would come at a
heavy price. But the determined small-town
inventor and the impassioned big-city
entertainer both refused to be silenced,
and they took on the rural backstabbers
and the corporate titans alike in a battle
that nobody thought either could win.
•••
The Stubblefields started out as a
typical 1880's Kentucky family, trying to
live their version of the American Dream,
but ended up as anything but! When Nathan
invents a unique device that he prophesied
would eventually be used by nearly
everyone in the world &endash; he was not
far from wrong. Decades later, when his
grandson learns that it was his relative
who indeed invented the wireless phone,
Cory thinks he's struck gold. But his
aspirations are dashed after the telephone
monopolies and political pirates who
initially seized Stubblefield's creation
as their own are just as determined to
shut out his descendant decades later, as
well.
•••Ignored,
threatened and then buried in years of
struggle, Cory is haunted by what was done
to his family. He becomes a man obsessed
with justice and the conviction that his
grandfather's life work -- or for that
matter, anyone's work -- be acknowledged
by those who stood to benefit. And while
paying the toll for refusing to compromise
his dignity, this everyday David will try
the unthinkable: to strategically bring
Goliath to his knees in a cooperation with
truth and justice for all. --Donna
Jeffries
 •
You don't get to bust through the airwaves
without catching a little static
•••
Across the landscape of the
American Industrial Revolution, within the
field of urban electrification and
communication, the legacy of prominent
inventors such as George Westinghouse,
Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell
stand proud. Their achievements
celebrated, their status recognized. But
they do not stand alone. Concealed by the
shadows of history, and even more by the
deviousness of corrupt men in power, is
the figure of Nathan B. Stubblefield, a
contemporary of those great men and one of
that era's most innovative and prolific
inventors..
•••
At the time of his death in 1928,
Stubblefield had been granted dozens of
patents, mostly relating to electrical and
wireless technologies. His inventions
completely revolutionized the world of
communications that we know today, yet not
many people even know his name. With over
5.6 billion wireless phones in use today -
there's no denying, wireless technology
has irreversibly changed the world..
•••
This story will open your eyes and
challenge what you think you know about
not only your cell phone, but the
challenges and the victories that brought
these innovations to us in the first
place. More importantly, it gives us
insight into the human tragedy and triumph
that was and still is a part of the
reality of our most innovative
technological pioneers today in America.
--Donna Jeffries
Article by: Josie Cory-Troy
Cory-Stubblefield, AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY
OF BROADCASTING
5 VOLUMES
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Bob Thompson made music with audacious
sound. The
composer and arranger passed away
May 21 in a
Los Angeles. (1924-2013)
••••
Thompson was one
of the foremost composers and arrangers
and is most famous for what came to be
known as the arranger for the Sonny
Bono-Troy Cory Speciatly Record Lable
Productions. His Space Age pop, or "Space
Age bachelor pad" music &endash; tunes
that allowed hi-fi buffs to turn the
lights down low, mix the perfect martini
and set the mood.
••••
But his music
was more than mood music. The writer and
arranger provided the hi-fi soundtrack for
a swinging-bachelor
lifestyle coming of age in the late1950s.
His one-of-a-kind discs feature a singular
sound that evokes cocktail glasses,
swingin' guys and gals, and all-night
mischief. His music was often a spin on
old jazz standards, equipping them with
hip choral sounds and ping-ponging stereo
sound effects. Thompson's 1960 album, "The
Sound of Speed," was a tribute to fast
living, with orchestral riffs inspired by
jet engines, race cars.
••••Bob's
career spanned 40 years and garnered a
Grammy Nomination, with 100s of TV
commercials plus stints as composer or
arranger for Bing Crosby, Rosemary
Clooney, Ruth Olay, and Judy Garland to
name a few. Along the way he created Just
for Kicks, On the Rocks, MMM Nice! and The
Sound of Speed.
•••••Troy
Cory
(TVI's
iPublisher) looking back at his time at
Specialty Records remembers Bob Thompson
as one of the best. Thompson was the
arranger and conductor on Troy Cory's
recordings, Down on the Beach and
Just One More Chance.
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Virgin Group Boss on decriminalizing
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Golden Globe Awards
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Jan
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Global Internet panel
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Viacom and Google settle YouTube
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Virgin Boss on decriminalizing
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Microsoft has new chief
executive
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Bill Gates to erase global
poverty.
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Mark Zuckerberg gives billion
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Wireles
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Pasadena Rose Parade - 125th
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