Dish Wants Partner For Mobile Video Service
Dish Network is looking to find partners to potentially launch a mobile-video service with the 700-Megahertz wireless spectrum it purchased earlier this year for $712 million, officials said Tuesday.
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Diller, Malone Settle Differences
Liberty Media and IAC InteractiveCorp have buried the hatchet, with Liberty agreeing to drop its appeal of a Delaware Chancery Court decision and agreeing to support the split of IAC into five separate companies.
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Dish Network: No Room For Voom
In the midst of ongoing litigation, Dish Network has dropped 10 of the 15 Rainbow Media Voom HD networks and plans to dump the rest "as soon as we can," officials said Tuesday.
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DAZ 3D Announces Mimic Pro Facial Animation Software for Carrara
Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT
Click for a wink. Click again for a smile. Facial animation has never been simpler as DAZ 3D, a leading developer of professional quality 3D models and software, today announced the immediate availability of Mimic Pro for Carrara, a plug-in enabling seamless lip-synching, sound analysis and speech animation simulations directly within Carrara 6.2....
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3D Supervisor Paul Ghezzo Joins Zoic Studios
Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT
Zoic Studios is excited to welcome 3D Supervisor Paul Ghezzo to the company. Ghezzo is part of Zoic's award-winning Episodic Division and is currently supervising production on a variety of pilots, new shows and name brand programs for the Fall television season....
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Automatic Duck Bridges Gap Between Toon Boom StoryBoard Pro and Final Cut Pro
Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT
Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced its partnership with Automatic Duck to bring the editing process to the next level. Toon Boom Storyboard Pro exports animatics in the AAF file format and Pro Import FCP takes them straight into Final Cut Pro, with automated relink of video files and unlimited audio tracks....
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BitTorrent Community Mourns as Tracker Founder Passes Away
Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:20 GMT
Last month, TorrentFreak had the pleasure of interviewing Merrin, the founder of the 150,000 member MVGroup tracker. It is with great sadness that we bring the news that after a long struggle against increasing health problems, Merrin has passed away, aged just 32.
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HP seals the deal, buys EDS for $14B
Tue, 13 May 2008 14:47:47 GMT
HP said Tuesday morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer EDS for just about $14 billion, or $25 per share. The deal has been approved by both companies' boards of directors, and is expected to close in the second half of this year.
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Powerset Unveils Test Version of Google-killer
Tue, 13 May 2008 12:38:14 GMT
The public will get its first chance Monday to test a search engine from start-up Powerset that eschews conventional keyword technology and instead is designed to understand the meaning of Web pages.
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