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WTN exclusive interview with Patrick Kennedy, exec. VP, Sony Pictures Digital

Sony's Patrick Kennedy has focused his professional career on business strategy and corporate development issues in the telecom and entertainment fields. Currently, he oversees the day-to-day strategic operations of the Sony Digital Networks Division , an alignment of the studio's online promo...

Robert Cantu Appointed Vice President of Pierpoint International

...le competitive advantage. Pierpoint has strong relationships with global corporations such as Symantec (Software), Foundry Networks (Internetworking), sony Ericsson, Sun Microsystems, Varian Medical Systems, Celanese (Chemical), Wellpoint Inc. (Health), CMC (Metals), and ATK (Aerospace and Defense). ...

McKool Smith Adds Noted Litigator in New York

...icant courtroom victories for clients such as American Airlines, BearingPoint, Ericsson, Electronic Data Systems, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic Inc., and sony Ericsson. For more information, please contact Bruce Vincent at 800-559-4534 or bruce@androvett.com. ...

MAP Pharmaceuticals Appoints Marco Rosa Vice President of Human Resources

...re joining COR, Mr. Rosa held senior human resources and key administrative management positions with ReplayTV, Inc., Genelabs Technologies, Inc., and sony Electronics Inc. Prior to 1990, Mr. Rosa held similar management positions with the General Electric Company where he started his career in human reso...

Gene Network Sciences Names New CSO and Announces New Scientific Advisory Board

...co-founder of Santa Fe Institute, Darwin Molecular, BiosGroup, GenPathway, and is a MacArthur Fellow. * Hiroaki Kitano, Director of sony Computer Science (Tokyo). Dr. Kitano is the President of the Institute for Systems Biology and is the visionary behind Aibo, the roboti...

Ten Extraordinary Innovations Line Up For US $100,000 Saatchi & Saatchi Award For World Changing Ideas

...communications holding company, Saatchi & Saatchi handles over 40 multinational companies including Procter & Gamble, Toyota, General Mills, Novartis, sony Ericsson, Emirates Airline, Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile and VISA Europe. With 153 offices and almost 7000 employees, Saatchi & Saatchi is known for it...

ASU researchers improve memory devices using nanotech

...ce resistance-change memory has been licensed to three companies, including Micron Technology and Qimonda, and has attracted the attention of Samsung, sony and IBM. However, it used some materials, specifically silver and germanium sulfide, previously unused by industry and therefore required new processe...

Sonic Foundry: What's Next?

... MADISON,WI - With sony set to take over Sonic Foundrys desktop audio, video and sound software business, where does Sonic Foundry go from here? Two words: Mediasite Live. ...

Sony Bets Heavy on Wisconsin Digital Entertainment Presence

...sic creation computer programs to a subsidiary of sony Pictures Digital for $19 million in cash and assum...employees who work in the software products group. sony and Sonic Foundry have a relationship dating back ...volves the licensing of Sonic Foundrys products to sony for resale and for inclusion with...

Sony Completes Acquisition of Sonic Foundry

...nys desktop products group for $19 million cash to sony Pictures Digital. (SPD) The transaction is now complete and sony Pictures Digitals Executive Vice President Patrick...ry of great technology and products. The fact that sony has recognized that is great. Kennedy, who is ...

Digital Lifestyle: I'm linked in, now what?

...the turn from mini- to PC computing. New companies - ones we've not yet heard about - will be the established leaders in five years' time. Brands like sony and Apple will seal their fate, either as visionaries of the digital age or almost-were players who missed the opportunity. For all the new devices...

Lord of the Rings visual effects creator talks about entrepreneurial experiences

...ion had to be typed in manually Rygiel stuck with it and began producing several small parts of commercials and films, including a computer-generated sony Walkman commercial which he won a CLIO award. However, the work remained without a primary market, as both interest and resources were scarce to produ...

Sonic Foundry tops $1 million in revenue

...he company had 450 employees and had $50 million in accumulated losses. In July 2003, the company sold its line of audio and video-editing products to sony Pictures for $19 million. Sonic has been exploring new directions and is putting a major effort into its main product, Mediasite Live . It has tri...

HP charges toward the living room

...onsumer digital media offerings. After spending a morning with HPs consumer group recently, I came away believing that HP has what it takes to give sony a run for its money in the living room. With this organizational move, HP may well be the brand to beat. Chris Shipley is the executive producer o...

MyWeather names new president, marketing officer

... served as EVP of International Data Group and chief marketing officer of Internet search engine LookSmart. He also was CEO of Redband Broadcasting, a sony subsidiary. MyWeather LLC provides weather data and services for Internet sites and other electronic networks. Their clientele include hundreds of ...

Tech vendors could be liable for customer behavior - and not just file sharing

... relied on a previous U.S. Supreme Court decision, sony v. Universal City Studios (commonly referred to as the Betamax case). The sony decision provided protection to technology compani...wledge). The Grokster case did not overturn the sony decision, but it did limit the protection provided...

End of summer unearths new tech discoveries

...s to find the chat program. ( Click here for a closer look at the interface) Zi has made great inroads with handset manufacturers (Nokia, Samsung, sony Ericsson, LG, among others) and has a strong presence in Asian markets with its type-ahead text input applications eZiTap and eZiText. That technology...

WARF settles patent dispute with IBM

... suit against the German firm Infineon on a chip used in wireless mobile phones and data modems, Samsung over chips in cell phones and DVD players and sony for the main chip in the PlayStation 2. Each of those companies has agreed to settle with WARF out of court. The foundation continues to negotiate...

Computer recycling: An environmental mandate the private sector can support

...ous materials at a landfill in any given month. Households and organizations generating less than this amount can put that same Dell computer or sony TV on the curb, watch it be crushed in a city packer truck, and hauled away to the local dump. From 2003 to 2005, that amounted to one million compute...

American Idol spurs music software

... preparing to exploit a consumer market catering to aspiring pop stars. sony Media Software , a producer of products for digital video, music, DVD, and ...heir artistic talents," said Dave Chaimson, vice president of marketing for sony Media Software, in a release. The first product, Jam Trax , with over ...

Reader predictions would make 2007 quite a year

... AMD has dented Intel , Apple owns the consumer electronics franchise sony wishes it had, HP is bigger than IBM and beating Dell in worldwide PC ma...ver their previous mojo. Intel, for example, may have turned the corner but sony piles up misstep upon misstep (see prediction three regarding battery issue...