SAN DIEGO and NEW YORK, May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Universal
Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, and Qualcomm
Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless
technologies and data solutions, today announced that UMG will expand its
lineup of direct-to-consumer mobile content and services for music fans by
leveraging Qualcomm's BrandXtend(TM) solution. UMG's mobile offering will
be available directly to consumers through its artist Web and WAP sites, CD
packaging and its GetMusic.com portal.
By leveraging BrandXtend, UMG is opening additional channels of content
discovery and delivery to music fans everywhere, offering an extensive
array of direct-to-consumer mobile products, including ringtones, video
ringtones, wallpapers, artist updates and more from thousands of the
world's most popular artists. BrandXtend will allow UMG to effectively
manage their direct-to-consumer content offering through its comprehensive
capabilities including content delivery mechanisms, campaign management and
robust merchandising tools which include recommendations, bundles, text
campaigns and more. UMG's use of BrandXtend for its direct-to-consumer
mobile offerings is intended to help UMG bring even more exciting, new
content to consumers through the comprehensive promotion and management
tools that the solution provides.
"UMG is committed to providing music fans with even more compelling
interactive opportunities to connect with their favorite artists by
personalizing their mobile devices," said Adam Flick, vice president of
marketing/digital for Universal Music Group Distribution. "Due to the
support we are getting from Qualcomm through BrandXtend, we'll be in an
even better position to extend these artist opportunities and products
across the widest array of available wireless devices. As the demand for
advanced mobile content grows, UMG will continue to lead the way in
adopting the latest technology to offer fans the most dynamic interactive
musical experiences possible."
"A direct-to-consumer mobile content offering benefits everyone from
the end-user to the brand and the operator, by driving revenue streams,"
said Brian Dunphy, senior director and head of brand and affinity relations
for Qualcomm Internet Services. "BrandXtend provides UMG with the tools,
services and flexibility necessary to take their mobile efforts to the next
level with more merchandising and direct marketing tools."
BrandXtend opens new channels for branded media, entertainment, music
and game companies to deliver their content to consumers. A key aspect of
BrandXtend is that it provides end users with a reliable and easy-to-use
platform for the discovery and delivery of compelling mobile content.
BrandXtend is aimed at driving the uptake of mobile content off deck and
Qualcomm has collaborated with major brands to bring exciting, new content
to operators and end-users, while also supporting the growth of Qualcomm's
operator-managed mobile data offerings.
Qualcomm Internet Services enables mobile retailing solutions and
Internet services that accelerate consumer adoption and usage of mobile
data worldwide for its operator, brand & affinity and content provider
customers. BREW(R) and BrandXtend are comprehensive solutions for customers
seeking to bring high-value wireless services to market and enhance the
mobile experience for consumers. Customers also can benefit from a
portfolio of adaptable, modular products that can be used to address
specific mobile retail challenges from general merchandizing to
personalized recommendations.
About Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company with wholly
owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries. Its businesses also
include Universal Music Publishing Group, the industry's leading global
music publishing operation.
Universal Music Group's record labels include Decca, Deutsche
Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, Fonovisa, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island
Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville,
Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal
Motown Records Group, Universal Music Latino, Universal Records South, and
Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or
distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The
Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the
industry, which includes the last 100 years of the world's most popular
artists and their recordings. UMG's catalog is marketed through two
distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal
Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). Universal Music Group also includes
eLabs, its new media and technologies division, Bravado, its merchandising
company, and Twenty-First Artists, its full service management division.
Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi, a global media and
communications company.
Qualcomm Incorporated (http://www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in
developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications
products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies.
Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Qualcomm is included in the S&P 500
Index and is a 2008 FORTUNE 500(R) company traded on The Nasdaq Stock
Market(R) under the ticker symbol QCOM.
Except for the historical information contained herein, this news
release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties, including the extent and speed to which BrandXtend is
deployed, change in economic conditions of the various markets Qualcomm
serves, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in Qualcomm's
SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended September
30, 2007, and most recent Form 10-Q.
Qualcomm and BREW are registered trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated.
BrandXtend is a trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners
Qualcomm Contacts:
Keri Danielski, Qualcomm Internet Services
Phone: 1-858-845-2453
Email: qis-pr@qualcomm.com
Emily Kilpatrick, Corporate Communications
Phone: 1-858-845-5959
Email: corpcomm@qualcomm.com
John Gilbert, Investor Relations
Phone: 1-858-658-4813
Email: ir@qualcomm.com
Universal Music Group Contact:
Peter Lofrumento, Universal Music Group
Phone: 1-212-331-2585
Email: peter.lofrumento@umusic.com
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Leaether Strip
Artist: Leaether Strip
Genre(s):
Industrial
Pop
Dance
Rock
Discography:
Walking On Volcanos
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Aftershock
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
After The Devastation CD 3
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
After The Devastation CD 2
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
After The Devastation CD 1
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Suicide Bombers
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Satanic Reasons: The Very Best of Leaether Strip (cd2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Satanic Reasons: The Very Best of Leaether Strip (cd1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Best of Lealther Strip
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Yes-I'm Limited Vol.II
Year:
Tracks: 11
Yes I'm Limited Vol.3
Year:
Tracks: 13
Underneath The Laughter
Year:
Tracks: 9
The Rebirth Of Agony
Year:
Tracks: 12
The Pleasure of Penetration
Year:
Tracks: 10
Solitary Confinement
Year:
Tracks: 12
Serenade for the Dead- CD2
Year:
Tracks: 4
Serenade for the Dead- CD1
Year:
Tracks: 10
Serenade for the Dead
Year:
Tracks: 10
Self-In-Flict-End
Year:
Tracks: 12
Science for the Satanic Citizen
Year:
Tracks: 8
Retrospective
Year:
Tracks: 14
Positive Depression
Year:
Tracks: 4
Penetrate The Satanic Citizen
Year:
Tracks: 15
Object IV
Year:
Tracks: 4
Legacy of Hate And Lust
Year:
Tracks: 11
Getting Away With Murder
Year:
Tracks: 10
Fit For Flogging
Year:
Tracks: 12
Double Or Nothing CD 2
Year:
Tracks: 13
Double Or Nothing CD 1
Year:
Tracks: 4
Rita Coolidge
Artist: Rita Coolidge
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Classics
Year: 1987
Tracks: 17
Book Of Songs
Year:
Tracks: 11
A versatile isaac Merrit Singer blessed with a clear, pure voice, Rita Coolidge was a able hairdresser in rock, start, R&B, area, and folk, and was a hugely coveted session vocalizer outside of her possess solo transcription career. Born nigh Nashville, TN, in the ithiel Town of Lafayette in 1945, Coolidge was percentage Cherokee and first american ginseng in the church where her father was a parson. She studied fine art at Florida State University, just also american ginseng and wrote songs on the side, and decided to generate music a shot before subsiding into instruction. She touched to Memphis after graduation and worked tattle commercial jingles, sometimes with her sister, Priscilla, and before long landed a job touring with Delaney & Bonnie as a relief vocaliser. She afterward resettled to Los Angeles, where she american ginseng on recording sessions by the likes of Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, Leon Russell, and Joe Cocker, among others. After reversive from the supporting tour for Cocker's Harebrained Dogs & Englishmen, Coolidge landed her own solo concentrate with A&M.
Coolidge's self-titled debut record album was released in 1971, but despite critical hail for it and the reexamination, Nice Feelin', she failed to break through and through commercially. Over the path of the next few years, she affected into country-rock and Southern California soft john Rock, working dominion non too different from Linda Ronstadt. She also married progressive rural area singer/songwriter Kris Kristofferson in 1973, the same year she recorded a duette record album with him highborn Total Moon. Replete Moon topped the country charts, and "From the Bottle to the Bottom" won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal by a Duo or Group. The following year, the couple released a followup, Breaking away, whose "Lover Please" won them some other Grammy in the same class. Coolidge in the end skint through in her have good with 1977's Anytime, Anywhere, a aggregation of well-chosen covers with a hard R&B bent. Paced by the hit singles "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (a Jackie Wilson cover that went to number deuce pop), "We're All Alone" (Top of the inning Ten), and "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (a Top 20 Temptations cover), Anytime, Anywhere climbed into the Top Ten and sold over a million copies. Coolidge and Kristofferson released one terminal duo record album, Natural Act, in 1979, just their union was on the rocks, and they separated by the end of the year.
Calvin Coolidge never recurrent the pop winner of Anytime, Anywhere, just she did keep on to land hits on the grownup present-day charts through the early '80s, including "You," "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love," and "All Time High" (the motif for the James Bond flick Octopussy). She parted ways with A&M after 1984's Inside the Fire, and fatigued some fourth dimension aside from the medicine business to devote herself to several societal causes. She returned to transcription with 1992's Love Lessons, on Critique, and went on to cut off several albums for other small labels during the latter half of the '90s. 1995's Cherokee, in particular, signaled a renewed interest in her Native American melodious heritage, and she teamed up with her sister, Priscilla, and her niece, Laura Satterfield, to form Walela, which explored those roots in greater detail over 2 albums in 1997 and 2000, severally. Several anthology collections were released in the early 2000s; And So Is Love, an album of traditional wind standards, pronounced Coolidge's first release for Concord in 2005.
Hendrix fake sex tape
The company that controls rights to rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix's music and likeness says a sex tape of the musician being sold on the internet is not authentic. "We strongly dispute the claimed authenticity of the tape," Experience Hendrix said.
Keanu Reeves dating Winona Ryder?
Keanu Reeves is rumoured to be dating Winona Ryder, according to a reports.
The pair are both currently filming 'The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee' and, according to Star magazine, have got close on the film's set.
A source told the magazine: "They spend a lot of time in each other's trailers and they are also always hugging on the set. The chemistry is really electric."
Reeves and Ryder previously starred together in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Dracula.
The pair are both currently filming 'The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee' and, according to Star magazine, have got close on the film's set.
A source told the magazine: "They spend a lot of time in each other's trailers and they are also always hugging on the set. The chemistry is really electric."
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Paramount Pictures - Indy Magnetizes 3111 Million
When the final tally of Memorial Day weekend ticket sales is calculated,
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is expected to wind up
with $311.1 million worldwide, with about $151.1 million of that amount coming
from the U.S. and Canada, according to Paramount Pictures, its distributor. The
movie reportedly got a boost from 30- and 40-year-old moviegoers, a demographic
group that is more selective about the films it takes in in than the primary
teens and 20-year-olds who make up the primary movie-going audience. "That
[older] audience was excited to see the movie and excited to bring their kids
with them," Paramount distribution chief Rob Moore told Reuters. The expected
$151.1-million Memorial Day gross in the U.S. was surpassed only by the $153
million that Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End took in over the
same holiday weekend last year.
The top ten films for the four-day (Friday through Monday) holiday weekend,
according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers (Thursday results
are not included):
1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull, Paramount, $126,040,000; 2. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
Caspian, Disney, $28,642,000; 3. Iron Man, Paramount, $25,650,000;
4. What Happens in Vegas, $Fox, $11,150,000; 5. Speed Racer,
Warner Bros., $5,205,000; 6. Baby Mama, Universal, $4,208,100; 7.
Made of Honor, Sony/Col/Rev, $4,200,000; 8. Forgetting Sarah
Marshall, Universal, $2,19,9120; 9. Harold & Kumar Escape From
Guantánamo Bay, Warner Bros., $1,200,000; 10. The Visitor,
Overture Films, $91,7000.
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Ekstasis
Artist: Ekstasis
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Wake Up and Dream
Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
The experimental enchantment music outfit Ekstasis was light-emitting diode by renowned resistance guitar player Nicky Skopelitis, and featured fellow downtown New York City instrumentalist Bill Laswell in add-on to Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit, Zakir Hussain, and Badal Roy. Their debut record album, Ignite Up & Dream, appeared in 1998.
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Bonnie Somerville books two film roles
To apper in comedies 'The Ugly Truth,' 'Nobody'
Bonnie Somerville, one of the stars of ABC's "Cashmere Mafia," has booked roles in two feature films.
First up, Somerville faces "The Ugly Truth," the Lakeshore-Columbia romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. Robert Luketic is directing. Somerville will play Butler's sister-in-law.
She then will segue to "Nobody," an indie black comedy directed by Rob Perez ("40 Days and 40 Nights") and exec produced by Josh Hartnett. The movie revolves around a group of self-centered art students; Somerville will play an articulate, pretentious member of the group.
She is repped by ICM and McKeon-Myones Entertainment.
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