CNN Flies with Miramax for 'Aviator' Push
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LOS ANGELES  - Miramax and CNN are  teaming up to promote "The Aviator," the Howard Hughes biopic  that opens Dec. 17, with on-air spots, a consumer sweepstakes  and a custom microsite that will be promoted on CNN.com.
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(InfoWorld) - As Microsoftâs five-year-long development effort slouches toward completion, details began to emerge last week that showed the company is (finally) gearing up to release Windows Vista after the new year, as promised. Pricing information popped up on a Canadian Web site, and Amazon.com told visitors that the new OS would be going out on Jan. 30, only to replace that date with a squishier âEarly 2007.â Finally, by the time you read this, Microsoft has promised to release the penultimate test version of its Vista operating system, dubbed âRelease Candidate 1â to an army of testers around the world. Are anticipatory chills running down your spine? They shouldnât be. Because a Release Candidate must be stable enough to allow corporate buyers to evaluate the product for deployment, Microsoft will have done quite a bit of work to RC1 over Vistaâs previous beta incarnations; so get set for a number of improvements. On the other hand, because of this concentration on stability, donât look for any noteworthy new features. Hereâs what Vista RC1 will likely have to offer: Installation: A late beta release dubbed âPre RC1â received kudos from more than one online reviewer for the improvements in this area, and rumors out of Microsoft say RC1 is the first version of Vista (or any Windows version) that has seamlessly installed on a variety of new notebooks and desktops â no muss, no fuss, and with full detection of PC Card and USB peripherals. Graphical interface: Aero has reportedly given Microsoft quite a few Advil moments, and even Beta 2 users were reporting intermittent difficulties. Look for this to be smoothed out in anything that receives RC status. That doesnât mean, however, that you should try to run it on your anemic graphics subsystem from 2003. Microsoft recommends at least 32-bit-per-pixel graphics capability. To you and me that means that for really smooth Aero-nautics, you should have a DirectX 9-capable 3-D accelerator card with 128MB of dedicated video RAM. If your test box lacks this video muscle, RC1 will support a non-Aero interface for weaker or older PCs. Audio: Microsoft has been having trouble with audio in even its most recent Vista Beta release. Toolsmixer controls are intermittently absent, and audio playback is often interrupted or missing. This should be solved in an RC1 release. If youâre a systems or network administrator, RC1 wonât be much different from Beta 2. The new release will ship with Internet Explorer RC1 installed, but even that has few differences from IE7 Beta 2. There will be a new, easier-to-use integrated backup tool, but itâs of little interest to corporate users whoâll most likely be using a centralized third-party app or Windows Shadow Copy. The pricing and availability info â coupled with the OSâs slow march toward âgold,â aka a finished version of Windows Vista ready for manufacturing â shows that Microsoft is serious about meeting its ship date. However, the key criterion for Vista RC1 will be stability. If it installs smoothly, runs smoothly, and gives us the full Vista experience that Microsoftâs been promising, consider it a success. If not, itâs back to the drawing board.
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Miramax Films is gunning for Oscar gold next year. But the honor and prestige coming from award-winning movies may not be enough to save the jobs of company founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein.
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CNN will give away access to an online video service that now costs $25 a year, becoming the latest news organization to revamp its revenue model on the Web.
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CNN plans to go beyond reporting the news by directing its viewers to charity and relief efforts involved in some of their stories.
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If the news conference that CNN and YouTube held to discuss their presidential debate was any sort of omen, there might be a few kinks to work out.
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Coverage of deadly tsunamis that pummeled South Asia fueled a sharp crest in CNN's audience this week, capping a year in which its ratings and those of rival cable networks fell from war-driven heights in 2003.
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By Stephanie Hoo, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 8--Picture this: A palm-sized video camera that you don't have to be a genius to operate. Or, a gizmo that slings your TV signal to any computer, anywhere.
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Sitting at the airport, you pull out a laptop or personal digital assistant and watch TV, delivered through Wi-Fi. Perhaps you'll grab an MP3 player instead, but rather than listen to downloaded tunes, you check out Internet radio. Or maybe you'll just make a call but thanks to the headset into which you are speaking, the person at the other end can make out your voice and not the blur of jet engines taking off at the same time.
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Walt Disney Co.'s Miramax unit and  computer animation group Wild Brain Inc. have struck a deal to  produce a film vision of the newspaper comic strip "Opus," the  companies said on Thursday.
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CNNâs decision to end its 27-year relationship with Reuters last week hindered its ability to cover the latest Osama bin Laden video message as breaking news.
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Co-founders of Miramax reportedly have been told their contracts won&#39;t be extended beyond Sept. &#39;05. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Walt Disney Co.
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Online movie download site CinemaNow Inc. has struck a deal with software maker Macrovision Corp. aimed at making it easier for manufacturers of media players and other devices to make their products compatible with CinemaNow's on-demand movie service.
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Avaya announced on Monday that the integration between its IP softphone and Polycom&#39;s ViaVideo II camera, first announced last December, is now at a releasable stage.
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VatSim flight simulation network gives aviation enthusiasts a realistic look at air traffic control.
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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio&#39;s The Aviator shared the limelight with indy road-trip movie Sideways in this year&#39;s Golden Globes nominations.
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In a move that appears aimed at energizing CNN&#39;s prime-time lineup, the cable news outlet announced yesterday that Jonathan Klein, a former executive vice