TV network Starz Encore will launch an online movie service along with RealNetworks next week, paidContent.org has learned. The service will a hybrid download-streaming service, in the same spirit as…

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(by Dana Blankenhorn): (A report from MobileMusiCon, the mobile music conferece held at CTIA on Wednesday) David Munn’s audience (see below) applauded his speech, but it was clear during the…

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(by Dana Blankenhorn): (A report from MobileMusiCon, the mobile music conferece held at CTIA on Wednesday) It was a big week for Ted Cohen, senior VP for digital delivery and…

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(by Ed Keating, Partner, Easton Consultants): William Krepick, President & CEO of Macrovision, was the featured speaker at the SIIA’s Executive Roundtable Series on Friday March 12th.  He spoke on…

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Vodafone UK is stifling the mobile Internet, by restricting the content providers, according to David Kaye, CEO of Mobilista..."This policy is both unworkable and deeply troubling. It is unworkable because…

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Had an interesting conversation yesterday with Mark Levy, VP of Content at InfoSpace Mobile...(An aside: my first company visit since I moved to LA last week...and my first experience with…

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CNN International, the international channel of CNN, will be streamed live on mobile phones in Austria, starting March. The company has closed a deal with telecom operator mobilkom austria to…

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I’ve always had an affinity for companies hatched directly out of Universities: Out of University of Malta comes a new startup called Textview...the company facilitates live reception of TV backchannels…

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Watch out for the next portal wars: not, this is not Yahoo vs MSN vs AOL vs Google..this is the mobile portals war. It is still very early days in…

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In my occasional series “Where are they now”, here’s another one: Andrew J. “Flip” Filipowski, the entrepreneur-turned-venture-capitalist-turned-entrepreneur-again, who drove a huge machine like Divine into the ground earlier last year,…

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Nielsen Norman Group, the company of which usability expert Jakob Nielsen is a part of, has released a very interesting study on spam and how e-mail readers have adapted their…

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Increasingly, it seems camera phones are being used for more than just taking pictures (for example, read our story yesterday, ”Combining Camera Phones and Gaming”: Bango, a UK-based mobile content/billings…

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An interesting startup called Prepaid Ventures aims to sell white-label content cards...my conversations with one of the founders and some thoughts on the market…

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: Billboard has launched a new subscription site called Billboard.biz (which, by the way, is perhaps the fist real good use of the .biz name I’ve seen in the media…

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: OD2, the European digital music distributor founded by Peter Gabriel, has launched a music jukebox service...the new service is called SonicSelector, and the software, based on Windows Media 9…

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Ralph Simon, Americas Chair of Mobile Entertainment Forum, was in full gale today at the conference. Here’re some interesting excerpts: The mobile user wants: -- music and lots of it…

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(by guest writer Romona Paden, at Sundance) : Four years ago Robert Redford�s annual Sundance Film Festival, based in Park City, Utah started an offshoot organization to bring a wider…

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(by guest writer Romona Paden, at Sundance) : Movie stars and film industry executives aren�t the only ones making an appearance at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City,…

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[from guest blogger Staci D. Kramer, once a frequent contributor to the weekly E&P and to mediainfo.com, predecessor of editorandpublisher.com] That’s the way venerable Editor & Publisher magazine is touting…

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In a frenzy of CES related announcements, RealNetworks has made one thing clear: its either music, or the writing is on the wall… Well, here’re the main announcements: -- A…

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Update (Revised: More deals added into the total) About $290 million was invested in digital media startups in 2003, according to some topline data collated through this site...this amount was…

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Classical.com, an online music service focused on classical genre, will close down its consumer service from Jan 5, 2004, according to a note on its site. The London-based company will…

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(From guest blogger Staci D. Kramer): The law of unintended consequences hit MSNBC.com with a vengeance when Saddam Hussein was captured just as the Microsoft/NBC joint venture launched a total…

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Last week, I met people from IndiaTimes, one of the biggest portals in India...the portal is owned by the Times of India Group, the “Time Warner of India”, and whether…

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This may not necessarily be news, since it is already public that Google has been talking to book publishers on developing a search database similar to what Amazon.com has done…

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