1080172800Content Wireadminaccess digital,achieving,Companies,content management,Content Management,content management solution,content management system,digital music,digital rights management,Digital Rights Management,distribution networks,enterprise content management,Internet,internet,Ireland,management market,market research,Media,mobile content,money,music,partnership,public access,scienceEnd-to-end DRM solutionAmplefuture, a UK distributor and aggregator of mobile content, today announced that it had made an innovative digital rights management (“DRM”) service live for all of its clients. The service, called Trusted Digital Service Provider (“Trusted DSP”), uses a Beep Science DRM system to secure end-to-end digital content distribution across mobile networks with fair rewards for content owners, artists and service providers. The Trusted DSP service is now delivering digital rights management of branded mobile content sold to the public through all of Amplefuture’s clients. Amplefuture’s clients include the Internet Service Providers serving 65% of the UK’s on-line population and many High Street Retailers, as well as Music Artists, such as Westlife and Dido. Amplefuture is the Master License Holder for Trusted DSP in the UK and Ireland. As a result of this service, Amplefuture will gain access to a wider range of content such as mobile games, ringtones, realtones, mobile wallpapers and screensavers. The service will also attract many more recognised media brands to join. According to research, the Premium Mobile Content market in Western Europe is forecast to be worth US$ 10bn by 2007. Many content owners such as TV production companies, animators, music companies and even individual artists would like to be able to enter the market, but have found that the previous lack of a credible DRM system is a significant barrier. The ability to use an independent Digital Rights Management system to protect and audit the content sold by trusted Digital Service Providers will now give them the confidence they need to enter the market on a commercial scale.http://www.content-wire.com/end-end-drm-solution1057100400Content Wireadminachieving,Belgium,editors,email,France,Germany,human rights,Human Rights,Media,member countries,necessarily,publishers,Russia,time it takesRight to reply for Europe Online Criticised and unclearThe committee on human rights and the media of the Council of Europe (www.COE.int) in Strasbourg, France has taken its general 'right to reply', one step further. The right, if adopted, would have the same status as the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, that is executed by the Council. In extreme cases, this would give a lead to a case before the European Court for Human Rights. The right is new for many European countries and some editorial experts also feel out of their depths predicting the effects of this proposal. The right is meant to offer some basic redress to persons or organisations that have been criticised in the media, including 'new media', i.e. websites, e-zines and even blogs or chat rooms. The new ease of online publication is deemed to be one of the driving motives behind the council's proposal. In this second draft of the resolution published on June 30th, anyone or any organisation would have the right to correct by themselves any information published about them, if they can clearly state contradicting information. Plaintiffs could simply send en e-mail to the offending publication, and claim their right to redress. This right however would only apply to professional publications in the 43 member countries of the COE, but not to individuals' websites. However, the draft does not draw a clear line between the two. Generally, in Europe there is no official register of professional publications. Experts understand that the common guideline would be whether a publication is for profit. But even blogs run by professional journalists would not be exempt, according to comments by the spokesman for the council, Pall Thorhallsson, because as the draft states it would concern 'regularly updated and edited' publications. September 15th is the next deadline for comment on the proposal. Comments can be sent to the Council's media division. media@coe.int. Some time after that, the draft will be put on the agenda of the comittee of ministers of the COE, of which Great Britain, all other Western and Eastern European states and Russia are members. The comittee takes the final decision, but no date has yet been fixed for this and observers believe it may well take another year before this draft becomes law. Belgium and Germany already have had this right to response for some years, without much apparent trouble for editors or publishers. But in some American media, such as Cnet.comalready earlier versions of the draft, that were the same in essence, have been criticised - albeit without the righnt of reply. The draft suggests a rather constrained procedure: the complaint: must be short and factual, and should be sent reasonably soon after the original contested publication took place. When contested material is also saved in archives, links to these must also be published. If a complaint qualifies however, the correction should be published in the same way as the contested information. In some cases, regarding privacy of individuals, crimes or state secrets, publication can be refused. The draft proposes national governments to arrange for safekeeping of contested material when a complaint is launched. And apart from an eventual publication of a rectification, plaintiffs should keep their full rights to normal, already existing juridical procedures. The Council of Europe also manages the European Court for Human Rights. The COE is often mistaken for the European Union, the organisation for economic cooperation consisting of 15, mostly Western European states and known for the euro. (c) Arthur Graaff, agraaff@hotmail.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/right-reply-europe-online-criticised-and-unclear1039651200Content Wireadminachieving,content creation,content technology,deploy,incentive,Japan,Media,mobile content,mobile operators,mobile phones,mobile services,multimedia content,new generation,new product,new technology,next generation,partnership,presence,proprietary,proprietary technology,speech,speech technology,subsidiary,Technology,technology allows,users experienceNew Dimension To Gsm Services WorldwideVoiceAge Corporation released the latest version of SPOT xde Pro, a multimedia content creation tool. The key additional feature of the newest product is its 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) audio standard .AMR output file format. The feature enables all GSM subscribers worldwide to experience the uniqueness of high-quality multimedia content over mobile phones, such as the Nokia 7650, through newly deployed MMS services. SPOT xde Pro is compatible with worldwide GSM operators and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo FOMA i-motion 3G service. "The introduction of SPOT xde Pro will promote fast deployment of AMR multimedia content for 3G services said VoiceAge Corporation president, Laurent Amar." The latest version also allows encoding with the ACELP.net codec, making SPOT xde Pro 2.6 capable of encoding content not only for portable phones but for PC's as well, using either Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. What is AMR The AMR (Adaptive Multi-rate), mandatory 3G speech compression codec, is based on VoiceAge ACELP proprietary technology. It will also pave the way to the introduction of AMR wideband technology, the next step in speech quality for mobile phones. Compared to narrowband telephone speech, the low-frequency enhancement from 50 to 200 Hz contributes to increased naturalness, presence and comfort. The high-frequency extension from 3400 to 7000 Hz provides better fricative differentiation and therefore higher intelligibility. Users can download free of charge the xde Decoder to playback on their PC audio content www.voiceage.com.http://www.content-wire.com/new-dimension-gsm-services-worldwide1013558400Content Wireadminachieving,content delivery,content delivery service,content technology,delivery network,delivery service,delivery solution,Media,new technology,portals,rich media,rich media content,segment,streaming media,Technology,telecommunications,vice presidentLive and On-Demand Rich Media Streaming SolutionRealNetworks will license MediaSite Live, Sonic Foundry's live and on-demand Webcasting application. The technology provides a major capability for the new Conference Webcasting Service offered by Real Broadcast Network, the content delivery network division of RealNetworks. "Given the dramatic fall-off and expected continued reduction in company travel and corporate spending, RealNetworks and Sonic Foundry are bringing a combined solution to market that offers all the necessary ingredients users want in a state-of-the-art interactive Webcasting solution'' says Rimas Buinevicius, CEO of Sonic Foundry.http://www.content-wire.com/live-and-demand-rich-media-streaming-solution1007510400Content Wireadminachieving,Business,business content,business information,business process,business process management,business solutions,Companies,content analysis,content creation,content management,Content Management,content management services,content management software,content management solution,content management solutions,Content Technologies,content technology,extranet,help companies,Information Management,information technology,intelligent content management,interactive intelligent content,Internet,internet,leading publishers,leading technology,management solutions,management technology,publishers,segmentation,Technology,technology companies,technology provider,technology solutions,web content,web content management,WorldContent Management Player Among Top 100 Emerging Companies To Watch Online Publishing Solution Innovator Recognized 5 December 2001 Clickability, a ‘single-source’ provider of solutions for online publishers has been named as one of Computerworld's Top 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2002. This prestigious list, compiled annually by Computerworld, recognizes the visionary companies of today that are worth watching in the year ahead for their significant, innovative contributions to information technology and corporate computing. "We're thrilled that our commitment to providing online publishers with software and services that help them prosper in a challenging business climate impressed Computerworld enough to make this prestigious list" says John Girard, Clickability founder and CEO. "As the Internet continues to grow in importance, every business with a Web site effectively becomes a publisher. This honor underscores the relevance and appeal of our cost-effective, easily-implemented online publishing technologies." Founded in April 1999, Clickability's integrated solutions help publishers manage the entire online publishing process, from creation and analysis, to the distribution and adaptation of Web site content. Clickability's Intelligent Online Publishing Solutions (I-OPS) have been installed by over 70 leading publishers including; The Wall Street Journal, CNN Interactive, Benedek Broadcasting, Internet World, and Popular Mechanics. www.clickability.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/content-management-player-among-top-100-emerging-companies-watch