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The Hard Sell
By Jeffrey B. Cohen
www.courant.com
August 20, 2006

"As a facility it's gorgeous," Zahava Stroud, president of iHollywood Forum in Los Angeles, says of Hartford's new Connecticut Convention Center. But, she adds, "I would never do an event in Hartford."
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Rather Big News from HDNet
By Ronald Grover
www.businessweek.com
July 12, 2006

Mark Cuban is bringing in Dan Rather to host an hour of hard-hitting, high-def news. The suits won't be watching. What about viewers? Just ask the National Basketball Assn. No one sticks to his guns more than Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, whose strong views about basketball officials have cost him more than $1 million in fines.
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Boom in Mobile Devices Brings Opportunities, Uncertainty
By Mark R. Madler
www.sfvbj.com
June 19, 2006

As people use mobile devices as more than a means for voice communication, content companies need to devise
strategies to reach new users. Industry executives however are aware they are in a market where a user wants instant access to information and entertainment even if it is not clear yet what kind of content will be successful.
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Major League Baseball Takes Swing at Sling Media
By Greg Sandoval
www.cnetnews.com
June 6, 2006

Major League Baseball wants Sling Media to stop slinging around the league's content. Sling enables TV viewers to access their set-top or TiVo boxes from anywhere in the world via any device that connects to the Web. MLB says that's fine, but if viewers want to watch on multiple devices, they have to pay multiple times.
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Broadcasters Need More Wireless Acumen

By Sue Marek
www.wirelessweek.com
I took a quick trip to the National Association of Broadcasters Show last week in Las Vegas to check out the latest buzz on mobile video. In particular, I spent the day at iHollywood Forum's "MoTV: Mobile Video & TV Forum." The scene was reminiscent of some of the early conferences I attended on the mobile game industry where traditional gamers milled around hoping to learn about the mobile industry and figure out a way to convert millions of mobile phone users into mobile game players.
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Mobile Content Issues Resonate

By Laurie Sullivan
www.informationweek.com
April 27, 2006
Video and television on mobile devices are pushing into the consumer market, but putting a television in every pocket won't happen overnight. A panel of industry experts examined the complexities at the iHollywood Forum during the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2006 conference earlier this week in Las Vegas.
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WhiteBlox CEO to Speak at IPTV World Showcase; Company Will Discuss Relevance of IPTV Content at iHollywood Forum Event
www.businesswire.com
April 25, 2006
"WhiteBlox's IPTV solutions give companies the ability to broadcast and monetize any content. We're already seeing that this format is the best of all worlds," said Demetriades. "It can be used to generate original networks and it can enable already existing networks to enhance their distribution channels and create new revenue generating power." WhiteBlox delivers dynamic, powerful building blocks to help companies launch their own private label broadband networks. WhiteBlox's innovative broadband solutions enable viewers to access both live broadcasts and on-demand video programming through one interactive media player.
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NAB 2006: Finding the Right Business Models

By Tim Siglin
www.streamingmedia.com
April 25, 2006
While the "big three"—subscription/pay-per-view, advertising, and promotional–still dominate, industry leaders at NAB suggest it's time to consider additional approaches. “What’s worked for the last fifty years will also work for the Web,” says Troy Snyder, CEO of Nine Systems. “It’s worth exploring other business models – and our system is flexible enough to handle multiple business models—but the big three are still viable.”
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NAB Show Features Revolution in Television Distribution
www.informitv.com
April 24, 2006
The annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas, the world’s largest electronic media show, is witness to a revolution in television and radio as broadcasters embrace broadband, from internet protocol television to podcasting.
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Mobile Entertainment Summit
www.nmscommunications.com

April 4, 2006

Explosive growth markets for mobile media and content are driving exciting innovations. Join NMS and more than 1,000 attendees at the eighth Mobile Entertainment Summit (MES) at The Beach in Las Vegas to hear about the latest developments in mobile games, music, video, TV, multimedia, ringtones, messaging, marketing, youth, international opportunities and much more.

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Taking Down the iPod

www.mp3.com

February 24, 2006

Digital music executives from around the world gathered in here yesterday to powwow about their business. But there was one notable absence, particularly notable because it was the company that was on everyone's minds and has been the talk of the industry for three years.

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Digital Music News

By Paul Resnikoff

www.digitalmusicnews.com

February 24, 2006

What are the biggest challenges facing the online music market today? According to David Goldberg of Yahoo Music, convincing consumers to pay for something they can get for free is half the battle. "Most people believe they can get enough value from what they get for free," Goldberg said during a Music 2.0 keynote in Los Angeles, alluding to a number of easy methods for acquiring gratis content online. That puts stores like Yahoo Music Unlimited in a tough position, especially when it comes to younger buyers. To solve the issue, Goldberg pointed to a number of strategies and innovations.

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Yahoo! Exec: Labels Should Sell Music without DRM

www.news.com

February 23, 2006

Yahoo Music chief Dave Goldberg raised eyebrows Thursday at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles with a proposal rarely heard from executives at large digital music services: Record labels should try selling music online without copy protection.

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Q&A: Verizon's Music Guy

www.mp3.com

February 22, 2006

Are you ready to start downloading music to your phone? Verizon Wireless and its competitors certainly hope so. Verizon launched its V Cast Music store last month, just a few months after Sprint Nextel became the first wireless carrier to do so. Wireless carriers are banking on the fact that consumers won't want to carry around two devices--a mobile phone and an MP3 player--when a phone can do both.

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Industry Leaders Form Alliance to Foster Growth of Mobile Digital TV and Accerlerate DVB-H Deployment in North America

www.ti.com

Today, a group of the industry’s leading wireless and entertainment companies announced the formation of a new organization created to promote the growth and evolution of Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld (DVB-H), an open procedure standard for broadcast digital TV reception on mobile devices. The organization, called the Mobile DTV Alliance, includes representatives from Intel Corporation, Modeo [NYSE: CCI], Motorola [NYSE: MOT], Nokia [NYSE: NOK] and Texas Instruments (TI) [NYSE: TXN].

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Martha Stewart, Telenovelas and Mobile TV

By Sue Marek

www.wirelessweek.com

January 27, 2006

This week I attended my first National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) conference in Las Vegas. My colleagues that write about the cable industry for Multichannel News (a sister publication to Wireless Week) had prepared me for the inevitable celebrity sightings that are a staple of NATPE. So it wasn't a total surprise when I spotted the back of Martha Stewart's head on the show floor or rode the escalator with a scantily clad woman that I later learned was a high-profile telenovela star.

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Txtstation Goes iHollywood

txtstation.com

January 20, 2006

Txtstation Global Mobile Marketing announces the formation of its Hollywood Business Unit that will be dedicated to the marketing and production of creative content that incorporates the Txtstation interactive marketing solution. The new business unit will deliver substantial benefits for content creators, producers, writerˇ¦s networks and talent in entertainment style programming.

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NATPE and iHollywood Forum Announce Final Lineup of Sessions, Speakers and Sponsors for NATPE Mobile++

www.mobilemedia.com

January 19, 2006

NATPE Mobile ++ will explore consumers' rapid adoption of mobile and digital entertainment – focusing on strategies for creating, licensing and monetizing television content for mobile distribution, including games, graphics, multimedia, marketing and promotions, video, messaging, and other cutting-edge wireless and digital content. Other sessions will address the future of High-Definition Television (HDTV) programming; and how emerging interactive services will transform television over the next few years.

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Mobile Media Kick Starts the Award  Season with the MoTV Awards

www.mobilemedia.com

December 20, 2005

The Mobile Media Company – The Personal Broadcaster, today confirmed its sponsorship of the MoTV Awards to be announced at NATPEMobile ++ on January 23rd. NATPEMobile++, produced by iHollywood Forum, will address the impact and business opportunities for wireless, mobile and digital distribution platforms for television producers, developers, technology companies, broadcasters and advertisers.

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Mobile Marketing: Experimental Still, but Evolving Quickly

By Julie Ask

JupiterResearch

December 14, 2005

I spent yesterday in the Los Angeles area at iHollywood's Mobile Impact Forum. They put together a great event with quite a few of the industry leaders. I've been speaking to a lot of these companies over the past year, and it is amazing to watch how quickly things are evolving and how quickly their businesses are growing.

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What's Holding Back the Digital Living Room?

By David Pogue

New York Times

December 7, 2005

This week, I moderated a panel at a conference dedicated to the digital living room--that is, the interconnection of computers, stereo systems, the Internet, home networks and TV sets. Truth is, it's a good idea for a conference. After all, anyone in the electronics industry will tell you, hands on hearts, that the digital living room is the Next Big Wave. Heck, the imminent arrival of the Connected Home was the theme of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2003. And again in 2004. And again this year. It will surely be the theme of the 2006 CES in January, too.

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Tao Partners With SoniqCastand PassAlong Networks to Present the World's First Wireless-Enabled Portable Media Player

PRNewswire

December 6, 2005

Tao, along with its technology partners SoniqCast and PassAlong Networks, today unveiled the first truly Wireless Media Player to more than 50 industry analysts, media and technology futurists at the 2005 Digital Living Room. The Tao Wireless Media Player is the first portable device to free users from the myriad of cables and connective hardware associated with MP3 players. Available the first quarter of 2006, the Tao Wireless Media Player provides simple, un-tethered transferring and downloading of content over wireless hotspots from the internet, from the PC to device and between units.

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Real's Rob Glaser calls Apple's Steve Jobs 'pigheaded'

MacDailyNews

December 6, 2005

To the porcine Rob Glaser, the irony of calling Steve Jobs "pigheaded" seems lost. At least Glaser's always good for a laugh; at, not with. Glaser talks "interoperability," but his service offers nothing to Mac users outside of streaming a handful of "free" songs buffering endlessly and trapped within a web browser. Apple's iTunes is free for both Mac and Windows. Apple iPods work with both Mac and Windows. No other legal online music service is more "interoperable" than Apple's; certainly not RealNetworks' limited online outfit with its "Harmony" hack that has failed at least once in the past, not that anybody noticed until over a month and a half later.

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Man calls Apple pig headed

By Nick Farrell

the INQUIRER

December 6, 2005

AFTER burying the hatchet with Microsoft, RealNetwork's boss Rob Glaser seems to be turning his bile onto the entertainment gear maker Apple. At the Digital Living Conference, Glaser said that Apple's refusal to make the iPod compatible with music services other than Apple's iTunes was "pig headedness." Glaser also said that Apple's unwillingness to cooperate with other online music vendors promotes piracy.
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Will Apple Get Real?

By Rob Hof

BusinessWeek

December 5, 2005

Sure doesn't sound like it, judging from what Rob Glaser, CEO of Real Networks, said today at the Digital Living Room conference in Silicon Valley. Glaser was asked if he talked with Jobs about Real's newest service, which lets its Rhapsody digital music subscribers listen to streamed tunes on the Web on any kind of computer, even Macs (but not on the iPod).

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Rhapsody.com Extends Real's Web Reach

By David Needle

internetnews.com

December 5, 2005

Moving closer to its goal of being the premier "jukebox in the sky," RealNetworks rolled out a public test launch of a Web-based version of its digital music service. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser described Rhapsody.com, which went live on Monday, in a keynote address here at the Digital Living Room conference. There's an interesting twist to the announcement. Despite being rebuffed earlier this year by Apple (Quote, Chart) in getting cooperation to make its digital music service available to iPod users, Glaser said the new service will be available to Mac users running the Safari browser that is shipped standard with all Macs.
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Insiders: Digital living room still just a dream

By Greg Sandoval

CNET News.com

December 5, 2005

Too few consumers are buying into the notion that a "digital home" can improve their lives and the electronics industry has only itself to blame, say executives from electronics firms who spoke at the Digital Living Room conference here on Monday. Americans have been slow to adopt technologies designed to create a home network that would allow them to download movies off the Internet, access the Web from their video game console or program their digital video recorders remotely from their cell phones.
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Digital Living Room Isn't Cozy

Red Herring

December 5, 2005

The much-hyped digital living room that promises to connect all entertainment systems wirelessly isn’t ready for mass adoption, tech experts said at an industry conference Monday. One big problem thwarting the spread of home media centers and other devices is that tech companies can’t agree on standards, said the panelists, addressing audience members who had paid thousands of dollars to attend an iHollywood conference entitled “Digital Living Room 2005” in Foster City, California, about 20 miles south of San Francisco.
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Glaser Turns Wrath on Apple, Jobs

By Greg Sandoval

CNET news.com

December 5, 2005

Rob Glaser has made his peace with Microsoft's Bill Gates. Now, the RealNetworks chief executive is turning up the rhetoric against another technology icon: Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs. At the Digital Living Conference here on Monday, Glaser told a packed hotel ballroom that Jobs & Co.'s refusal to make the iPod compatible with music services other than Apple's iTunes was "pigheadedness."

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Entertainment Summit Draws Crowds

By Sue Marek

Wireless Week

September 27, 2005

Cab drivers in this city yesterday racked up the fares shuttling mobile entertainment executives back and forth from the Moscone Center, site of Billboard's MECCA 2005 event held in conjunction with the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show, and the Masonic Center, which played host to the Mobile Entertainment Summit, sponsored by iHollywood Forum.

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Who Will Control Mobile Entertainment?

By Susan Kuchinskas

internetnews.com

September 26, 2005

Mobile entertainment is the next hot thing -- and it's been the next hot thing for a good five years now. But phones and mobile devices may finally be growing up enough to support the kind of rich content industry that's developing on the Web. The launch of the Motorola iPod phone earlier this month and the expected release of a Treo smartphone running Microsoft's Windows embedded illustrate that mobile devices may be ready for prime time.
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The PodFather: Part One
By Laura A. Locke

TIME Magazine
September 19, 2005
With downloadable broadcasts, Adam Curry helps usher radio into the digital age.

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Music Mavens Change Tune

By Rick Merritt

EE Times

August 15, 2005

Struggling with a decline in its core business, the music industry is sending out mixed messages about future plans for digital content.

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The Same Old Song

By Rob Hof

BusinessWeek

August 10, 2005

After hearing StreamCast Networks, makers of the file-sharing software Morpheus, and a couple of record labels go at it for the Nth time at the Music 2.0 conference yesterday, I despair of there ever having a meeting of the minds. That's bad news for the vast majority of us who love music but haven't seen a compelling reason to fully join the digital revolution.

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Music industry gets hip to new income sources

Downloading songs, ring tones boost revenues

By Benny Evangelista

The San Francisco Chronicle, Staff Writer

August 10, 2005

The recording industry, which long relied on selling CDs to make money, is undergoing a "fundamental change'' thanks to the proliferation of ring tones, downloadable songs and other digital entertainment products, a top industry executive said Tuesday.

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Mobile Entertainment Summit Report

By Thomas Palamides

Canadian Consulate General, Trade Commissioner

August 1, 2005

Summary: The music industry is in transition. In order to capitalize on the full potential of the mass-media product of mobile it must undergo a re-invention. Music Studios are experimenting. Expect to see novel ideas, and new distribution strategies, in the coming years.

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Music, TV Dominate Entertainment Summit

By Sue Marek

Wireless Week

July 28, 2005

More than 400 content creators, developers, investors and entertainment executives converged here this week at the iHollywood Forum's Mobile Entertainment Summit to hear the latest on the rapidly evolving mobile entertainment segment.

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Mobile Entertainment Summit Summary

By Matthew Bellows

Mobenta

March 20, 2003

A Sunday in New Orleans, especially the Sunday two weeks after Mardi Gras and one day after the St. Joseph's Day parades, is not the most likely time to find 400 mobile entertainment executives crammed into a conference room. But the folks at Mobile Tech Forum (www.mobiletechforum.com) built a strong conference program and attracted a number of very interesting exhibitors, so the execs, looking bleary-eyed, stumbled in.

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Press Releases

PassAlong Networks Starts a "p2pREVOLUTION" at Music 2.0
August 9, 2005

PassAlong Networks, a developer of innovative technologies for digital music, introduced components of its new platform, named p2pREVOLUTION, at the Music 2.0 conference here today. In his feature presentation titled "The Next Generation of P2P," CEO Dave Jaworski unveiled the company's vision for changing the current P2P landscape to create a new digital music experience.
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Exploding $5 Billion Dollar Mobile Marketing Segment Headlines Mobile Entertainment Summit; Versaly Entertainment VP Explains Why Big Firms are Marketing by Cell Phone

TMCnet.com

July 22, 2005

Drawing upon his mobile marketing experience with leading entertainment and beverage companies, Versaly Entertainment VP of Business Development Ric Eittreim will speak at this week's Mobile Entertainment Summit in Universal City on Wednesday, July 27th.

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iHollywood Forum's Mobile Entertainment Summit employs Pangolin's "Interactive Messaging Unlimited" for Q&A and updates

Pangolin

July 21, 2005

When movers and shakers in media and entertainment meet at the Hilton here next week for the annual Mobile Entertainment Summit, their conference will be aided by one of the very technologies that is transforming the mobile entertainment market.

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iHollywood Forum Announces 8th Mobile Entertainment Summit

Yahoo! Finance

July 15, 2005

iHollywood Forum, Inc. announced the lineup today for its 8th Mobile Entertainment Summit(TM), focusing on the wireless technologies and content transforming the U.S., European and Asian mobile entertainment marketplaces. Mobile Entertainment Summit takes place on Monday, September 26, at the Nob Hill Masonic Center, 1111 California Street in San Francisco, 9am - 8pm.

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iHollywood Forum Announces Mobile Entertainment Summit and Marketplace Los Angeles

Games Press

GamesIndustry.biz

July 11, 2005

iHollywood Forum, Inc. today announced the lineup for its seventh Mobile Entertainment Summit, focusing on the wireless technologies and content transforming the U.S., European and Asian mobile entertainment marketplace. Mobile Entertainment Summit takes place July 27-28, at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

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The Mobile Media Company Launches The iHollywood Network

Mobile Media

March 7, 2005

The Mobile Media Company, a leading independent provider of global wireless games, interactive entertainment services, and marketing applications , will be providing delegates of The Mobile Entertainment Summit? with an engaging and interactive networking service that allows attendees to make connections via e-mail and SMS prior to, during, and after the trade show.

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