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Yes, emit, I posted it
after reading the last sentence. Sony, Phillips ITRU and interoperability with Panasonic. Pretty formidable lineup.
I remember when DAT players were being "gray marketed." They supposedly had the copy-protect chip, but they were sold with a wink.
Acquisition of Software Maker Is Closed
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 3 (Bloomberg News) — The Sony Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics and other investors said today that they had acquired about 93 percent of the InterTrust Technologies Corporation, a software maker, for $453 million.
The Fidelio Acquisition Company, a buyout firm owned by Stephens Acquisition in addition to Sony and Royal Philips, said it had received tenders for 92 million shares of InterTrust.
The companies offered $4.25 a share in November to gain software that protects digital material like music and films.
Each remaining share in InterTrust will be converted into the right to receive $4.25, and the company will become a wholly owned unit of Fidelio. The European Union approved the acquisition last month.
InterTrust, which is based in Santa Clara, Calif., holds 26 patents on hardware and software techniques. It makes programs that control how consumers buy, download and copy material. Users could, for example, be allowed to download a movie one or more times or be allowed to listen to music but not record it.
Record companies and filmmakers are trying to protect their copyrights as illegal downloading from the Internet cuts into sales.
Philips, Europe's largest consumer electronics maker, and Sony are also seeking to increase sales of the devices that are used to view and listen to the material.
OT: Stoops: An extraordinary game!
WSU had the distinction of getting pounded by two "true" top ten teams this year. Congrats also to the Sooners.
European SR copyrights set to expire
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/international/02CND_COPY.html
Everybody knows,
that Larry is a really sweet guy, but he's mistaken, and I see that you'll believe anything that makes you feel better. Happy New Year!
yaha virus "heats up"
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1001-978891.html
"....Cain't we all
jes git along?"
Thank you, Rich;
a giant is never too big to help out the little people.
How do you determine members' id #'s?
Considering who the creditors were
that received shares for past debt or interest payments, it is obvious to me that they "knew" about the Parade article. If the shares were sold/shorted into the three or four million traded in that two day "pop," insiders like Davric, the law firm and Digitalway did quite well by accepting them at $.19, IMO. I seriously doubt that they are holding long term. But ofcourse, WTFDIK; ya know?
OK, dog, I guess
that settles that! When you get another chance, would you confirm whether or not he's married to Norris' daughter?
Divergent interests.
What's favorable for the company
is not so favorable for the shareholders. Life's ironies.
Merry Christmas, Bob
LGJ: NITE calls the shots, Joe.
As long as they're on the bid, it's going up.
http://www.otcbb.com/asp/mp_quotes.asp?Sort=4&Quotes=edig&Board.x=20&Board.y=6
packers, Oz/
Gilgamash: Cliff, right?/
.....especially when "powered by edigital"
devices are not even listed as being compatible with Pressplay downloads.
http://pressplay.com/compatible_devices.html
Blackdog: I'm curious
how you know this to be the case?
"But our UNIQUE contribution is the ability to offer secure delivery and management of content to these devices, making content providers (Fox, for starters) less nervous about providing a constant stream of product."
That's funny!
Re: edig private
What's the fuss? This is what they want; who cares?
http://www.a1agifts.com/images/31759seefrogs.jpg
cheers to you, g......
long night, off to bed.
IMO, DoP, adaptation of Linux
will negate the need for seamless integrators. B - Bad; final answer.
Linux=VERY disruptive technology, Duke,
no further comment from me at this time.......draw your own conclusions, however, regarding the need for a seamless integrator of non-compatible systems.
Here comes Linux
Sony, Panasonic Tap Linux For Consumer Electronics
Wed Dec 18,11:36 PM ET Add Technology - TechWeb to My Yahoo!
Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News, InternetWeek
Flash from Tokyo: Your next digital video recorder, television, camcorder, or home theater system could be running Linux (news - web sites).
Sony and Matsushita (known in the U.S. as Panasonic) on Wednesday announced that they would jointly flesh out a modified Linux operating system to power home consumer electronics devices, and share the fruits of labor with other companies.
Linux is best known as an operating system for servers, but in recent months, it's been making inroads as an embedded OS for controlling home electronics gear.
The two Japanese companies -- fierce competitors in the consumer electronics market -- plan to wrap up operating system development by March 2003. The resulting source code will be available free of charge under terms of the General Public License (GPL) “in order to encourage its broader use throughout the industry,” according to a statement released Wednesday by the companies. GPL essentially lets businesses or individuals modify software as long as they make those modifications available to others.
Although neither Sony nor Matsushita would disclose specific products that may be embedded with Linux, it's a good bet that one of the first will be digital video recorders, devices that store television programs on a hard disk for later playback. The TiVo (news - web sites) digital video recorder runs Linux, and Sony already uses Linux-based software in its Cocoon digital video recorder, which launched last month in Japan.
The reason why Sony and Matsushita are turning to Linux, the companies stated, is to obtain faster boot times and better performance.
“This is absolutely great news for consumers,” said Murry Shohat, executive director the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC), a trade association devoted to promoting standards and deployment of Linux as an embedded OS. (Both Sony and Matsushita are members of ELC.) “Consumers can expect very robust, extremely reliable products when they're running embedded Linux.”
The Sony-Matsushita announcement also validates the significance of Linux as an up-and-coming embedded OS, said Shohat.
“Linux is the only successful OS to offer an alternative to the hegemony we see in the current marketplace,” he said, clearly alluding to Microsoft. Rather than roll their own OS as an alternative to Microsoft, companies can turn to the Linux kernel as a starting point.
“That bootstraps the development process,” he said, and results in faster product development, and should produce lower prices for the consumer.
Although ELC has yet to release its embedded Linux platform standard -- that's scheduled for Dec. 30, according to Shohat -- he firmly expects that the result of the Sony-Matsushita OS development deal will comply with that standard. Matsushita, he notes, has a place on the standards-setting committee.
Sony and Matsushita also say that they're considering forming a Linux forum for digital consumer electronics to share the results of their development and expand on them. Among the companies Sony and Matsushita cited are giants such as Hitachi, IBM, NEC, Philips, Samsung, and Sharp.
“Another major world power in the consumer electronics market will be making a similar announcement soon,” Shohat said. Although he wouldn't reveal the company -- citing non-disclosure restrictions until the end of the year -- he did say that it was one of the firms mentioned by Sony and Matsushita in their forum-building plans.
Could someone please post the link
for the updated Digitalway web site?
LGJ: Exactamente
PLUS, with jimc's 300k
buy orders sitting at the bid, the price is safe as milk, IMO.
Spectral Band Replication (SBR) Decoder
http://www.codingtechnologies.com/technology/assets/SBR_White_Paper_v1.pdf
D.inkie: In brief
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/memalias.cgi?member=murrayhill
When and if "secure music" becomes a reality and secure players become a true necessity, the world will be awash with them, and as for multi-codecs and DRMs, when the time comes for them to be available they will be standardized and requiring no added assistance from edigital. That's been my bet for a long time.
The public, right or wrong, sees themselves as Robin Hood and the labels as the Sheriff of N'ham. Secret service agents, tactical squad raids in NYC and swoops onto college campuses will not change that perception of the RIAA members.
D.inkie: Surely this will win the "hearts and minds" of the music buying public!
Actually, Bob,there are 12 Days of Christmas
beginning on the 25th.
http://www.cresourcei.org/12days.html
Ssentinel: I think that the shm and lack
of any pps appreciation prior to it did a lot to change "traditions." I have no idea what run may or may not occur for the next three weeks, but include me out of any speculation with my money.
Paris Police Raid Vivendi Office
and Home of Former Chief
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
PARIS, Dec. 12 — In a fresh blow to Vivendi Universal's bruised business image, the French police today raided the corporation's Paris headquarters as well as the home of its former chairman, Jean-Marie Messier, as part of a continuing investigation into possible falsification of the group's accounts for 2000 and 2001.
The unannounced search by the Paris prosecutor's office came some six months after a similar raid was ordered by the Commission des Operations de Bourse, France's stock market supervisory body.
Vivendi Universal's stock, which has been nudging upward in recent weeks, fell with news of the police move. After opening at 16.33 euros this morning (about $16.40), it stood at 16.08 euros, 0.62 percent down, shortly before the Paris exchange closed.
After Mr. Messier's home was searched, the former Vivendi chief executive, who was ousted from his post in July, canceled a planned meeting with the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris.
In recent weeks, Mr. Messier has been trying to rebuild his image both by publishing a memoir of his downfall, "My True Diary," and by forming an investment counseling firm.
Vivendi, which is now run by Jean-René Fourtou, is currently also under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States.
The latest French investigation into Mr. Messier's management began in October after a complaint by an association of minority shareholders.
They charged that Vivendi misrepresented its financial health both in its year-end accounts for 2000 and 2001 and in forecasts of its business prospects. This had the effect of artificially inflating the share price, they complained.
Mr. Messier has denied all the allegations that have been made against him.
He nonetheless left the corporation in dire straits, with a gigantic debt that has forced it into a major selloff of assets in recent months.
The New York Times reported today that Vivendi Universal had disclosed plans to sell off its prized modern art collection, which has long been a hallmark of the Seagram Building on Park Avenue.
Vivendi to sell off Seagram's art collection
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/arts/design/12SELL.html
OT T'loin: The times they are a changin'/
I'll look into that Dan.
Planning to go to the Rose Bowl, Disneyland and Poway "soon."
cksla: Wait a minute,
there counselor, IT IS STILL FALL! What does this have to do with UAL, anyway? Even if the ODDY doesn't make it by XMAS, the company has gotten plenty of free mileage out of the PR that you quote.