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Digital MediaBuzz Watch: Digital Media Meets Art at LA’s Venice ContemporaryAuthored by dmw on March 30, 2007 - 11:42am.
 Tomorrow evening from 7-10pm, DMW and The Deity Group will bring a first to the art world at The Venice Contemporary in Los Angeles. Dubbed an Art Download Party, the event will bring together technology and the art world as never before. Attendees with a cell phone or PDA (so, in other words, everyone) will be able to download free, exclusive content like wallpaper and ring tones from the artists and the band, Population Game, at the gallery. Vector Mobile is running the download end, and the open bar (not a first in the art world, but always appreciated) will be provided by Red Bull, Effen Vodka, AGWA, and The Heroes. Everyone’s welcome, but an RSVP is required...and we nearly have a full house right now, so get on it fast! Hope to see you there!
A Street-Level Perspective on the Consequences of Everyday Digital Media EngagementAuthored by Nicholas Givotovsky on February 8, 2007 - 1:40pm.
 Underlying almost everything related to digital media and everything to do with the present and future of our digitally-enabled lives is one thing - us. Whether we are called "users," "consumers," "viewers," "engaged participants," "stake holders," or "members," it all comes back around to us, we who are increasingly both the subject and object of the overall digital media enterprise. Walking in New York City the other day after being stood up for a meeting I'd traveled a hundred miles to attend, I noticed an incredible number of people who really weren't all there.
Moshir Venture Partners to Provide Seed Capital to Digital Media FirmsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 14, 2006 - 2:26pm.
Scottsdale, Ariz. - Arizona entrepreneur Sean Moshir announced on Monday the formation of Moshir Venture Partners, a private equity investment firm that will provide seed-stage capital funding for technology start-ups in the wireless/mobile, online media and entertainment broadcasting fields.
Digital Media Publishing Firm ThePlatform Raises $8 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 13, 2006 - 3:17am.
Seattle - ThePlatform, a provider of digital audio and video publishing technologies, announced that it has raised $8 million in its second round of venture capital financing. Spark Capital led the investment round; Generation Partners also participated. Seattle-based thePlatform's technology is used by nearly 50 content providers, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Comcast, Scripps Networks and National Geographic, to publish audio and video content over broadband and mobile networks. The company additionally announced that ABC News, Starz's Vongo and Amp'd Mobile have recently begun using its technology. ThePlatform will use the new funds to expand development of its digital media content management, syndication, advertising and mobile technologies.
Digital Media Distribution Technology Firm Pathfire Raises $5 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 3, 2006 - 8:08am.
Palo Alto, Calif. - Pathfire, a provider of digital media distribution and management technologies for the entertainment industry, announced on Tuesday that it has received $5 million in financing from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. Atlanta-based Pathfire's technology is used by broadcasters, news organizations, television networks, Hollywood studios and other media companies, to receive news feeds, syndication and ad content directly onto media professionals' desktops. The company's Digital Media Gateway system is currently utilized by more than 1,300 broadcasters in North America.
Digital Media Distributor DG Systems to Acquire FastChannel for $25 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on December 16, 2005 - 8:28am.
Needham, Mass. - FastChannel Network, a provider of digital media distribution and intelligence services to the advertising and broadcast industries, has agreed to merge with DG Systems, a Dallas-based provider of digital media distribution services. Under the agreement, DG Systems will issue Massachusetts-based FastChannel's shareholders about 52 million DG shares, which are traded on the Nasdaq and have a current value of about $0.50 a share. DG Systems shareholders will own about 59% of the combined company, while FastChannel shareholders will own about 41%. The combined company expects to have revenue of about $83 million in 2005.
CBS Digital Media to Syndicate News, Video, Text on AOL NewsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on November 9, 2005 - 9:07am.
Dulles, Va. - AOL announced on Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement with CBS Digital Media, which will now offer broadband video and text news programming from CBSNews.com on the AOL News channel. AOL claims a monthly audience of 21 million users for its AOL News service.
Spark Capital Debuts $260 Million Venture Fund for Digital MediaAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 3, 2005 - 3:55am.
Boston - Spark Capital, a new venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments "in the conflux of the media, entertainment and technology industries," announced on Monday its debut with a first fund totaling $260 million. The firm was founded by former Battery Ventures general partner Todd Dagres, and several former partners of Charles River Ventures and Constellation Ventures. "Over the last decade, telecom operators, Regional Bell Operating Companies and cable operators have spent enormous amounts of capital building out their broadband infrastructures. The next decade will be spent monetizing this infrastructure," said Dagres. "Our focus is on exploiting this opportunity by investing in companies that we perceive to be on the cutting edge of media, entertainment and technology, and have the potential to create new markets and become category leaders."
HP Releases Digital Media Platform for Film, TV ProducersAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on April 19, 2004 - 4:38am.
Las Vegas -- HP announced on Monday that it has partnered with a number of entertainment industry firms to create the Digital Media Platform, a standards-based technology platform that aims to simplify and reduce the cost of content production, distribution and consumption in the entertainment industry. The platform links production and post-production applications and processes for rendering, editing, workflow, archiving and restoration together in a workflow-based system. HP said it is working with Warner Bros. to digitally restore the studio's library of classic films and television shows, and that DreamWorks will use its technology in the rendering process for its digitally animated sequel, "Shrek 2."
Disney, Microsoft Partner on Digital Media InitiativesAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on February 9, 2004 - 10:12am.
Redmond, Wash. -- Microsoft announced on Monday a multi-year agreement with The Walt Disney Company to collaborate on digital media initiatives that will center on securing the distribution of Disney content using Microsoft delivery technologies. The companies did not mention many specifics of the agreement, other than to note that Disney will license Microsoft Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. "With technologies now available to bring new experiences to consumers, including high-quality digital movies through a range of secure delivery methods, the time is right for a significant cooperative effort such as this one between Microsoft and Disney to help guide the industry," said Will Poole, senior vice president of Windows client business at Microsoft.
RealNetworks, IBM to Provide Digital Media Content Distribution ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 9, 2004 - 3:56am.
Las Vegas -- Media delivery technology provider RealNetworks and computing giant IBM announced that they have partnered to create a framework for digital media services, which will allow providers to digitize and distribute their audio and video content without having to build their own technology infrastructure. The companies said the combination of IBM's software that manages digital assets and provides e-commerce features with RealNetworks' recently released Real 10 digital media platform, will provide an alternative to Microsoft's Windows products for businesses delivering digital media services like Internet-delivered TV programming, mobile music services and in-car digital music. "Together we will enable our global customers to quickly offer secure and high-quality media services to their consumers whenever they want it and wherever they want it -- at their TV, their PC, in their car, or with their phone," said RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser.
DSL Equipment Maker 2Wire Buys Digital Media Software Firm Sugar MediaAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 22, 2003 - 3:37am.
San Jose, Calif. -- In a move to offer DSL service providers an integrated platform to deliver voice, data and entertainment services, 2Wire, a maker of DSL gateways, said that it will acquire San Francisco-based Sugar Media, a developer of digital media software platforms. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brian Sugar, the founder and CEO of Sugar Media, will become the vice president of media products for 2Wire. Brian Hinman, the CEO and founder of San Jose, Calif.-based 2Wire, said that the deal will help his company take advantage of "a significant market opportunity for broadband-enabled home entertainment platforms."
Report: Only 49% of Digital Media Streams Perform AdequatelyAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 17, 2003 - 3:57am.
Troy, Ohio -- After analyzing 3,721,724 digital media streams originating from a range of sources and locations worldwide during the second quarter of 2003, a recent study found that the performance of 51% of the streams would upset advertisers and frustrate viewers. The study used Ohio-based StreamGuard's PC monitoring software to examine 2,400 live and on-demand streams from 300 websites operated by broadcast, entertainment, religious, financial and educational groups, delivered both to dial-up and broadband connections in both Windows Media and RealNetworks formats. Only 49% of the streams monitored appeared quickly, within five seconds of being accessed. More than one in six of streams (16.7%) reported an immediate and fatal error to the viewer, while one in twenty view attempts found the stream to be apparently 'down' after 25 seconds. Another 4.3% of streams could be termed "very frustrating," as content took between 10 and 25 seconds to load and/or buffer before playing.
Digital Media Project Seeks Digital Rights Management StandardsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 1, 2003 - 6:03am.
Geneva -- A group of digital-media experts have launched an international forum -- deemed the Digital Media Project -- that aims to standardize digital media and copy protection technologies. The group says that it wants to put an end to the "technological civil war" that is currently hampering the spread of digital media content, and develop interoperable digital rights management technologies for digital media formats. The new Switzerland-based forum is the brainchild of Leonardo Chiariglione, who headed the group responsible for creating the widespread MPEG set of media standards. "We need to have the two communities working together," Chiariglione said. "Otherwise, most of what we have been doing (with MPEG and other digital media standards bodies) in the last few years becomes meaningless."
Scholars, Executives Discuss Future of Digital Media At Harvard ConferenceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 19, 2003 - 11:33am.
Cambridge, Mass. -- Nearly 100 digital media legal scholars, executives and other experts gathered Thursday at Harvard Law School to discuss possible future business models in the rapidly changing arena of Internet-distributed entertainment. The conference was organized by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and analyst firm Gartner G2. Topics discussed included digital rights management schemes, the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) recent filing of copyright infringement lawsuits against individual music file-swappers, and how a compulsory licensing program for the record industry -- which would essentially legalize file-sharing while taxing it somehow to pay creators -- could be implemented. "Today's digital rights management can easily become tomorrow's political rights management," said Electronic Freedom Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow. "The same system that we are increasingly putting in place allowing the record industry to survey your hard disk would allow the government to survey your hard disk with a different purpose."
Digital Media Storage Provider Exavio Raises $14.3 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on May 1, 2003 - 8:22am.
San Jose, Calif. -- After operating in stealth mode for the past year, Exavio, a maker of digital media storage and IP-based switches, said on Wednesday that it has raised $14.3 million in its first round of funding. ComVentures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Crystal Internet Venture Funds and Enspire Capital each participated in the round. The company also named Gary Law as vice president of marketing and Brian Bentley as vice president of sales. Exavio's technology is designed for large-scale digital media storage and the delivery of personalized on-demand video services by broadcast, cable and broadband service providers.
RIAA, Digital Media Association Submit Joint Web Music Royalty ProposalAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on April 3, 2003 - 3:20am.
Washington -- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a group representing major record labels, and the Digital Media Association, which represents a group of webcasters, on Thursday submitted a proposal on industry-wide royalties that Internet radio services would pay to recording companies for use of their music in 2003 and 2004. Digital Media Association executive director Jonathan Potter called the agreement "a temporary band-aid that avoids millions of dollars of legal fees associated with a broken arbitration process, and thereby enables resources to be focused on high-quality programming that is enjoyed by millions of listeners." Additionally, Potter sided with lawmakers' efforts to reform the widely-criticized CARP (Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel) process which set the rates that currently apply for Web music royalties.
Digital Media Creation Equipment Maker Media 100 Gets Nasdaq NoticeAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 7, 2003 - 1:37am.
Marlboro, Mass. -- Media 100, a manufacturer of media content design systems equipment, announced on Friday that the Nasdaq has given notice that the company's shares are not in compliance with its standards and are in danger of being delisted from the exchange. Massachusetts-based Media 100's shares have traded below the Nasdaq's $1 minimum for continued listing since December. The company has 90 days to regain compliance or else may apply to have its shares moved to trading on the Nasdaq's SmallCap Market. http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030307/70023_1.html
Lawmakers Re-Introduce Digital Media Consumers' Rights ActAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 8, 2003 - 7:21am.
Washington -- Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) John Doolittle (R-Ca.), Spencer Bachus (R-AL) and Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) on Tuesday re-introduced the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, which aims to amend the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) with the goal of "protecting the Fair Use rights of the users of copyrighted material and, thereby enabling the consumers of digital media to make use of it in ways that enhance their personal convenience." The legislation is identical to the bill that Boucher and Doolitte introduced last fall. The bill address the ability of consumers to make digital copies of CDs they already own, as well as the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA, and would also require record labels to post warnings on copy-protected CDs that they will not function in some CD players. "The re-introduced legislation will assure that consumers who purchase digital media can enjoy a broad range of uses of the media for their own convenience in a way which does not infringe the copyright in the work," said Boucher, in a statement.
Apple to Offer iLife Digital Media Software BundleAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 8, 2003 - 7:16am.
San Francisco -- Apple has introduced a new digital media software bundle, iLife, that features new versions of its iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD, as well as the recently released iTunes 3 application. The $49 software bundle will go on sale online starting Jan. 25. "iLife does for our digital lifestyle what Microsoft Office did for office productivity -- all the applications you need are in one box, and they all work together," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
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