Tuesday, September 14, 2004MovieLink Targets The MilitaryMovielink said earlier this week that it will offer a 25 percent discount to U.S. military and support personnel. The company's video-on-demand service offers movies for Internet download, and said that it will automatically give the discount to anyone with a valid military email address. Movielink provides current videos and movies for download over broadband connections.
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DivX Networks In Personal Video Recording DeviceSan Diego-based DivX Networks said today that its technology has shipped in the first DivX Certified personal video recorder to market. Plextor will ship DivX technology in its Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U personal video recorder with built-in TV tuner. The new Plextor product allows consumers to capture and encode broadcast, cable, or satellite TV onto a computer hard drive. DivX provides technology for compressing and decompressing video streams.
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Acacia Files Additional Cable LawsuitsNewport Beach-based Acacia Research announced yesterday that it has filed additional patent infringement suits against cable companies in Arizona, Minnesota, and Ohio. Acacia has been aggressively pursuing patent infringement suits against companies who use streaming media in their operations, after it acquired the rights to a streaming media patent. The company said that it has signed 175 licensing agreements with companies in online entertaiinment, cable TV, hotel on demand, e-learning, and mo (More info...)
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Playing Video Games at SchoolThe University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television and Electronic Arts today unveiled the grand opening of the school's new EA Interactive Entertainment Program and EA Game Innovation Lab. The new lab, based at the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, provides a research space and think tank based around game design, play, usability, and prototyping. The school said that the lab's intent is to push games beyond the currently defined genres, markets, and play patterns, creati (More info...)
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Avery Dennison Opens RFID DivisionPasadena-based Avery Dennison announced that it has opened a new business unit focused on low-cost radio frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags. The new division will market RFID tags to its current customers who use the company's pressure-sensitive labels, including industrial and automative businesses. The company said that it is in a pilot program with the U.S. Transportation Safety Administration to provide RFID-enabled devices to monitor container shipments on ocean vessels, to enh (More info...)
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Yahoo Acquires Musicmatch For $160MYahoo! and San Diego-based Musicmatch said today that they have reached a definitive agreement for Yahoo! to acquire Musicmatch. According to the companies, Yahoo will buy Musicmatch for $160M in cash. Musicmatch provides digital music management software and technology, including Musicmatch Jukebox, which allows consumers to play and download music; the Musicmatch Radio network, which offers streaming access to online music; and the Musicmatch Music Store, a song download service. Musicmatch w (More info...)
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