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Wired NewsNYC's Other Music Record Store to Sell High-Quality MP3s OnlineAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 22, 2007 - 1:55pm.
San Francisco - Other Music, a popular independent record store in New York City's East Village, has announced plans to launch its own digital music store that will sell high-quality (320 Kpbs) songs in the unprotected MP3 format, Wired News reported. "We are trying to stay current, and to continue our 'mission' of spreading great music," Other Music co-owner Josh Madell told Wired News. "I personally prefer vinyl to CDs and CDs to MP3s, but in the end I'm just glad people are listening to music, and the convenience factor of MP3s is undeniable." Wired News: "Iconistan" Region Under Blog Posts Increasingly CrowdedAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on December 12, 2006 - 2:36pm.
San Francisco - Wired News on Tuesday reported on the increasingly lucrative real estate at the bottom of blog posts, where icons for various social news and community sites are located.
Lycos Sells Wired News to Conde Nast for $25 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 12, 2006 - 12:53pm.
Waltham, Mass. - Online entertainment portal Lycos announced on Wednesday that it has sold its Wired News technology news site to Conde Nast Publications -- which also owns WIRED magazine -- for $25 million. The deal brings the sister publications back under the same ownership after eight years of separation.
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Wired News: Vivid Entertainment to Launch "Burn to DVD" Porn DownloadsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 31, 2006 - 7:52am.
San Francisco - Wired News on Friday reported on a forthcoming offering from adult entertainment firm Vivid Entertainment that will let users purchase and download an adult film from its website, and then burn the film to a DVD that plays on standalone DVD players. "We expect the service to be extremely popular," Vivid CEO Steven Hirsch told Wired News. "Just hit the button, download and burn." Launching April 3, Vivid's Burn to DVD service will utilize a delivery system powered by All Adult Entertainment, which uses digital rights management that enforces a one burn limit on downloads. Hirsh added that Vivid shoots 80% of its productions in high-definition, and in the future the service will be upgraded to HD.
Wired News: Entice TV Offers Subscription HD IPTV Porn ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 3, 2006 - 6:48am.
San Francisco - Wired News on Friday reported on Entice TV, one of the first providers of a subscription-based, high-definition IPTV adult video service. The service offers full-length videos in widescreen HD with 5.1 surround sound; a standard 1.5 mpbs DSL connection can download a full-length HD feature in 15 minutes, while a faster connection enables real-time HD streaming. Entice TV charges $5 per month or $30 per year for the service, while adult video studios charge an additional fee per rental. "We think we will help drive the adoption of IPTV and high-definition video," Entice president Susan Keil told Wired News. "This gives people a reason to take advantage of their fast connections and to push for developing even faster speeds. After all, with e-mail it doesn't matter if you have 1.5 (mbps) or 20 (mbps), but with video it does."
CNET, Wired News Cover Steve Jobs, Disney's New Largest ShareholderAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 25, 2006 - 8:57am.
San Francisco - CNET News.com and Wired News on Wednesday reported on the ascent of Apple/Pixar CEO Steve Jobs to become Disney's largest shareholder, a result of that company's $7.4 billion acquisition of Pixar on Tuesday. Wired News took Jobs to task for his relative lack of philanthropy when compared with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.
Wired News, CNET Report from 2006 Sundance Film FestivalAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 18, 2006 - 3:35am.
Park City, Utah - Wired News and CNET News.com on Wednesday reported from the Sundance Film Festival, which opens Thursday in Park City, Utah and runs through the end of January. More than half of the films at this year's festival will be screened digitally, while 30% were made using a digital format. The sixth year of the online portion of the festival will offer streaming versions of 50 of the 73 entries from the Shorts Program, and many shorts will have their online and theatrical premieres simultaneously. Wired News also profiled Roger Ingraham, the 19-year-old director of "Moonshine," a vampire film shot in digital for just $9,200.
Wired News: Centers for Disease Control Creating Video Game SimulationsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on December 12, 2005 - 3:00am.
San Francisco - Wired News on Monday reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding the development of video games that will be used to train first responders on how to deal with pandemics, biological and chemical terror attacks, and nuclear accidents. The games -- the first of which simulate an anthrax outbreak and a massive flu pandemic -- are being developed by a research team at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Wired News: San Franciscans Object to Sony PSP Guerilla MarketingAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on December 5, 2005 - 9:13am.
San Francisco - Wired News on Monday reported on backlash that Sony has experienced in San Francisco, from an urban graffiti marketing campaign for its Sony PSP handheld game. Several of the company's spray-painted ads have been covered over by critics, with added commentary like "Advertising directed at your counter-culture," "Fony" or "Get out of my city." Sony spokeswoman Molly Smith responded to the backlash, telling Wired News that art is subjective, and adding, "With PSP being a portable product, our target is what we consider to be urban nomads, people who are on the go constantly."
Wired News: "Coming Soon: Online Sex Games"Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 28, 2005 - 3:20am.
San Francisco - Wired News on Friday reported on video games that include sexual content, focusing on several upcoming titles that aim to offer features for consenting adults to interact both online and off-line. Upcoming games like "Façade," "Spend The Night" and "Naughty America" will offer the opportunity to go on virtual dates, have cybersex, and potentially take the action into the real world. Commenting on the likely backlash against such game content in the U.S., Brenda Brathwaite, currently the chief author of the International Game Developers Association's sex blog, told Wired News, "I'd love to see a cultural shift -- and I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime -- where people are far more horrified by the rack of guns at Wal-Mart than they are by a nipple on TV."
Wired News: Pump Audio Getting Indie Artists Play on TV ShowsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 21, 2005 - 7:40am.
San Francisco - Wired News reported on Friday on Pump Audio, a New York-based company that pre-licenses songs from independent artists, and provides them to TV production companies for use in commercials and TV shows. The company provides a hard drive filled with some 11,000 songs, categorized by genre, instrument and lyrical theme. Since January, Pump has placed more than 14,000 songs, on productions ranging from episodes of MTV's "The Osbournes" and HBO's "Real Sex," to a commercial for Portuguese bank CGD. These customers pay Pump Audio a flat fee per episode, which the company then spits evenly with the artist whose music was selected.
Wired News: '4G' Leapfrogs Next-Gen WirelessAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 18, 2005 - 10:31am.
San Francisco - Wired News on Tuesday published the first part of a four-part series on 4G (fourth-generation) wireless technology, which is already in the works as 3G services are just getting off the ground in the U.S. "It's the availability of massive processing power," John Muleta, co-chairman of Washington, D.C.-based law firm Venable LLP's Communications Practice and a former chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Bureau, told Wired News. "That's what's opening the new frontier. You will now have the wireless internet, not just the internet on wireless."
Wired News: Mark Cuban Plans DVD LabelAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 11, 2005 - 6:06am.
San Francisco - Wired News recently reported that dot-com billionaire Mark Cuban, who now owns film production companies, the HDNet satellite TV service, and theater chain Landmark Theaters, is planning to launch a DVD label that would help fulfill his vision of releasing movies simultaneously in theaters, on television, online and on DVD. The DVD label would launch in January, alongside the release of Steven Soderbergh's "Bubble" by Cuban's 2929 Entertainment; Cuban will offer movie theaters 1% of revenues from sales of DVD titles being offered simultaneously in theaters. Robert Iger, now CEO of Disney, was recently quoted as saying, "I don't think it's out of the question that DVDs could be released in the same window as the theatrical release. All the old rules should be called into question because the rules of consumption have changed so dramatically."
Wired News: Web Comedians Land Gigs on "Saturday Night Live"Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 30, 2005 - 2:50am.
San Francisco - Wired News on Friday reported on how three Los Angles-based comedians used Web distribution of short-form content with Creative Commons licenses to land performing and writing gigs on the upcoming 31st season of "Saturday Night Live." Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer -- all members of the Lonely Island comedy collective -- produced cheap Web comedy series like "The 'Bu" and "Awesometown," and songs including "Ka-Blammo," some of which were featured on IFilm.com.
Wired News: Meetro Launches Local Social Networking ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 29, 2005 - 3:42am.
San Francisco - Wired News on Thursday reported on Meetro, an application from Chicago-based start-up Meetroduction that creates local online social networks using geo-proximity technology and instant messaging. The service lets users post their names and photos and favorite media, and then view the profiles of other members within a certain geographic radius. The company said its current members are mainly 18-30 year-olds in the Chicago and New York metropolitan areas.
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