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Dotcoms offering film and music on personal computers - so-called streaming media - have gone bust, and TV broadcasters pushing video-on-demand (VOD) won't recoup returns on their investments any time soon. But a multimedia service launched in Europe last month is hoping to show that the convergence of TV and the Web can counter this unhappy trend. Lots of different media players - software summoned by conventional Web browsers - enable you to play sound or video clips embedded in Web pages on the PC. But RealNetworks' RealOne SuperPass for Europe goes beyond other services. It is a one-stop...
...Mahathir-initiated venture that aims to manufacture electrical goods such as air conditioners and stereos in Malaysia for sale domestically and overseas. It has struggled since its inception four years ago. Mokhtar may also be taking over another pair of gasping Mahathir favorites: the Entertainment-Village, through which local multimedia and film industries would "leapfrog into the digital age"; and Bio-valley, a still vague attempt to spark off a Malaysian biotechnology industry. Both E-village and Bio-valley are part of the Prime Minister's Multimedia Super Corridor, a hugely ambitious?and expensive?attempt to create an Asian Silicon...
...comic strip in Japan (over $2 billion in Yu-Gi-Oh!-related products have sold there). In the U.S., it rolled out last fall as a Saturday-morning 'toon on Kids' WB!, where it soon ranked No. 1 in its time slot. In March the multimedia merchandising was launched: out came video games for Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Game Boy and action figures from Mattel. Also, beginning in that same month, came the trading cards--dribbled out just slowly enough to create scarcity. Interest, however, is anything but scarce: the Yu-Gi-Oh! website logs 1.2 million hits...
SONY ERICSSON T68i Comes with GPRS data capability, color screen, Bluetooth wireless and multimedia messaging motorola i95cl A full-color phone that can run Nextel's Java-based business tools and games...
...decorated like a bordello, with tiger-skin rugs, red brocade walls and comely young "models" with bare midriffs, Fleiss advertised her forthcoming coffee table book. (We're still trying to imagine the person for whose coffee table this is intended.) The book is described by Pages magazine as "a multimedia collage, a cultural document, a pop-art concoction, a witty roman a clef, incorporating court documents, pages from Fleiss' personal and business diaries, old post-it notes scribble with phone numbers about which one can only guess, candid photographs, wiretap transcripts Fleiss bought from federal investigators, and the unique, world...