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If you thought Apple‘s current share price of $197.00+ is something to behold, hang on, ’cause other analysts such as Ben Reitzes of UBS is prognosticating another banner year for the company in the year head. He’s raising his stock price target from $220 to $235... he also feels there will be a Mac ultra portable computer released and believes MacWorld may be a great venue for this new appliance to be greeted by throngs… plus, don’t think we’ve seen the last of the price reductions for Apple’s iPhone… he believes there may well be another lower priced model available during either Q1 or Q2 of next year… and Apple is believed already to be working on the movie rental biz, with a PPV (pay per view) system to be intro’d into Apple’s iTunes online store with a pricing in the range of from $3 to $4 per rental. Additionally, Ben believes Mac sales will grown another 40 percent and iPod sales an additional 17 percent with a 32.5 percent revenue increase to $9.42 billion. Not too shabby…
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You’ll read about another settlement later in the digiGO! news… this particular settlement concerns the EchoStar Technologies Corp. lawsuit versus CalAmp Corp., wherein the former accused the later of product failure. Apparently there was premature deterioration of laminate materials on the CalAmp PCBs (printed circuit boards)… this failure affected approximately one-half of the products sent to EchoStar. Early this year, EchoStar began returning product to CalAmp and they, in return, put all orders on hold. The settlement finds CalAmp giving the satTV firm one million of its shares plus a three-year warrant to purchase an additional 350k shares at $3.72 per share, as well as a promissory note for $5 million. EchoStar has agreed to pay $1.3m in outstanding ARs due CalAmp, and CalAmp has cancelled the remaining $1m of receivables and they will also rework the equipment over the next 15 months. These settlement details were disclosed in a CalAmp filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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The publisher of DRUM! and TRAPS Magazines has just launched DRUM! Digital. This is a free, online multimedia version of their popular magazine dedicated to drummers using a flip-page format. Ten embedded videos are included in each issue and the ads are all linked. This allows the user to visit the advertiser’s website, head directly into an instructional video or interview, and they can also zoom into any story of interest. DRUM! Digital is produced with technology that was developed by iDigital Editions, allow the online version to appear identically as the print version, all accessible using current Internet browsers without the need to download any software.
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3rd Largest C&S Market Will Increase 2x From The Economic Times of India comes information that Ernest & Young—Assocham is going to soon release a report on the digitization of the Indian media and entertainment industry. Twice the rate of the country’s GDP is the estimation, over the next few years. This will be driven by regional player emergence, new technology and the actual digitization of the product itself. India happens to be the third largest cable and satellite market in the world. In example, during 2006, digital music sales overtook traditional music format sales for the first time, due mostly to mobile phone platforms and their uses of ring tones and music clips. Plus, additional revenue streams such as video on demand (VoD) continue to emerge. merging. Revenues from home entertainment, DVD and VCD viewing, digital pay television platforms and broadcasting rights are likely contribute up to 45 percent of overall total revenues of films. In the television space, 29 percent of an estimated 100 million pay television households are expected to migrate to digital platforms by 2010. One additional project in the study finds the split between ad spends on TV and print as well as other conventional and digital media will become even more fragmented, with broadcasters increasing niche content.
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A publishing platform named Knol is being tested by Google, according to that company’s Vice President of Engineering. Yep, it’s somewhat similar to both Mahalo and Wikipedia and authors can create their own topics. Then, linkage to web-based articles and content is accessible via it’s own set of tools… and the author will obtain the credit for writing the material. Don’t expect other authors to be able to edit those pages, though, as they can on Wikipedia. Certainly, any chances could be submitted to the content originator, but it’ll be up to the original composer to use such suggestions. Plus, authors could make some money on their pages, as Knol will support author monetization of their creations. No suggested, exact or otherwise hinted-at release date has been made public.
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Key Driver For InterNAP Via BuyDRM
InterNAP Network Services Corporation has integrated BuyDRM’s KeyOS Pay Media Platform into Internap’s content delivery network (CDN) services. Enhancing the features of Internap’s rich media delivery solutions, BuyDRM’s technology will provide customers of Microsoft Windows Media with greater web content marketing and monetization tools while powering live and on-demand rich media streaming and downloads. Internap’s CDN features MediaConsole®, a workflow management toolset that supports streaming formats such as Flash and Windows Media. It also includes a media manager, pre-built video skins and a real-time reporting dashboard. Through the BuyDRM integration, MediaConsole will feature support for pay-per-view, subscription-based, token, ad-supported, marketing and silent monitoring business models. It will also be compatible with most payment gateways and shopping carts. In addition, the MediaConsole will offer a simple, push-button user-interface for content management and transactional analysis and includes sophisticated data encryption applications.
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MTV + AOL Video Ventures + Has A Digital Fusion
An agreement has been reached between MTV Networks and AOL Video. Viewers of the latter will be able to grab short-form video from MTV properties such as Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, SpikeTV and VH1, among other sources. So far, the industry does believe that larger viewer numbers are driven by an open distribution policy. MTV and AOL will soon find out for themselves if such is truly the case. There are additional video distribution deals for MTV that include Bebo (socnet, or, social networking site) and Joost (WebTV). According to most industry folk, a short form video has an average length of 90 seconds or less
MTV Networks (MTVN) has also created Digital Fusion. This is a specialized unit that will be responsible for advertising and marketing solutions that bring together original and customized creative content across the company’s digital portfolio. The unit will aim directly at MTV targeted websites, mobile properties and digital creative teams. Expect new digital ads that leverage creative uses of existing inventory to original interactive experiences, such as video content, online games, microsites and widgets. The aim is to ensure a better connect between advertisers and consumers. Jason Witt will lead the new division.
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A partnership between blip.tv and Revision3 has resulted in some positive results. This arrangement was initiated about a month ago between the video-sharing website and the online network and both entities xpromo’d each other’s programming. During the ensuing 30 or so days, Revision3 has stated that views of their “Web Drifter” have doubled and blip.tv told all their “Geek Entertainment TV” viewership rose some 93 percent. Due to this success, both have agreed to agree to an extension of the agreement, agreeably continuing the arrangement into mid-January
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The lawsuit filed by Universal Music Group (UMG, a unit of Vivendi) against XM Satellite Radio as part of major record companies’ filing against the satradio company in May of 2006 has been resolved… at least, the UMG portion thereof… the lawsuit deal with XM’s Pioneer Inno. That’s a portable satellite receiver possessing some advanced recording functionality. The terms of this settlement have not been revealed by either firm. Naturally, solving issues in an amicable manner is far more efficacious than other means, but now XM can see what can be done with the other filing companies in regards to the legal issues raised—New York, New York
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Just appointed as the Director of Business Development at Wohler Technologies‘ video products division PANORAMAdtv is Darren Fordham. He joins the company with more than 25 years of industry experience with such companies as Grass Valley, Sony, Cross Creek Video, the alphabet networks and FOX. He will be the technology liaison between the firm and its broadcast industry customers and he’ll also assist with the company’s expansion into new markets. PANORAMAdtv provides in-rack audio and video monitoring solutions for the broadcast, motion picture and pro A/V markets—San Francisco, California
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