Motorola iRadio is an award-winning subscription music service that is revolutionizing radio. Powered from the one device you’re never without, your mobile handset, Motorola iRadio offers more choice, higher audio quality than satellite radio and features that allow listeners to identify and purchase the music they like. iRadio utilizes a unique delivery platform bringing content portability together with acquisition and discovery of music. This creates a powerful new medium for artists and labels to directly connect with fans and for wireless service providers to deepen relationships with subscribers.

PassAlong Networks is a developer of digital media innovations with a product line that includes four key services: StoreBlocks™ offers a range of store-building tools and services so anyone can have their own digital music store with a library of more than 2 million licensed songs; freedomMP3™ provides interoperability for digital media files across-multiple platforms and devices while promoting a balance of artist rights and consumer empowerment; OnTour™ connects fans to timely concert notifications by city or region; and Speakerheart™ enables artists to seamlessly upload, promote and sell their digital music. Founded in 2002, PassAlong Networks is privately held and based in Franklin, Tenn. For more information, visit www.passalongnetworks.com.

The critical component in digital content sales, Javien’s hosted ASP technology gives you the tools you need to sell your content online through a robust, specialized order management and fulfillment technology that integrates with your digital storefront and interacts with payment providers. Additionally, the company’s micropayment aggregation engine batches payments to reduce the processing fees you pay on products you sell for under $5.

With 700 attorneys, Alston & Bird is a major U.S. law firm with an extensive national and international practice. With offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, New York, the Research Triangle and Washington, D.C., Alston & Bird provides a complete breadth of litigation, tax, regulatory and legislative, intellectual property and technology, healthcare, and corporate and transactional legal services.

Speakerheart™ enables artists to upload their albums and tracks, convert their songs to ringtones, set their prices and sell it all side-by-side in custom storefronts.  Next, artists can take the Speaker (preview function) and Heart (bookmark function) with them across the Web via promotional tools called Shelves to allow consumers to browse wherever Flash® is accepted (think MySpace™, Blogger™, artist pages and more).  Meanwhile, music fans can do some nifty hearting themselves with the media they enjoy and smartly take it with them in Shelves of their own to visually recommend to their friends, multiplying artist exposure.

DWT’s practice is as diverse as it is sophisticated, offering a range and scope of experience few other law firms can match. With more than 400 attorneys involved in virtually every specialty area of the law, we represent a single, powerful industry-focused resource for dealing with the host of interrelated legal issues businesses face today.

Puretracks, a leading North American digital music service provider operates over 20 web-based branded digital music stores and offers turnkey services including promotions, music web services, affiliate programs and prepaid card solutions to Internet service providers, retailers, broadcasters, music labels and consumer brands.

Software developer Digonex Technologies, Inc focuses primarily on development of automated and optimized pricing platforms for e-commerce, allowing client companies to increase customer retention, and maximize revenue. The Digonex® core technology, Digital Online Exchange™ (DOE), uses patented technology that continuously collects purchase pattern data to optimally price goods and services for clients. Using the DOE patented technology; pricing becomes a manageable and market based process for mitigating the risk of human error that many pricing services face. For more information, visit Digonex Technologies’ website at www.digonex.com.

Digital content sales are exploding in the e-commerce world and we recognize the specialized needs related to industry.  From deployment of content services to secure payment processing we have customized a complete and viable end-to-end digital content solution.  So whether your business involves micropayments to purchases of any amount, coupons to special discounts, credit card to debit cards, the Optimal digital content solution grants you the flexibility and ease you need to meet your market demands.

Soundflavor, Inc. is a digital music company that provides industry-leading music search and recommendation products to both music professionals and consumers. The company’s recommendations are based on more than six years of research, and span hundreds of genres, eras, and countries. The Soundflavor Music Recommendation Engine is available for licensing to enable consumer and commercial music companies to provide customers with the ability to discover, sample, and purchase music more efficiently.

Soundflavor is based in San Francisco. For more information, visit www.soundflavor.com.

Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, which is why 27 out of 30 of the largest media and entertainment companies have formed trusted relationships with Akamai. Akamai Media Delivery gives companies the ability to quickly monetize and deliver digital media assets while providing a consistently great experience for audiences worldwide. Akamai’s global network and expertise in delivering the largest events on the Internet ensures successful execution of digital media strategies for leading music stores, content owners, online advertising providers and portals. Akamai is “The Trusted Choice for Online Business.”

Nite Breeeze Entertainment Group, Inc. is a recording and music entertainment company that provides positive music entertainment to a diverse but united consumer group. Nite Breeeze is committed to a good atmosphere across the board and firmly believes that quality palatable pre-recorded music can be realized without compromising commercial appeal. In times of worldwide turmoil, people desire positive and refreshing music void of negativism and this is exactly what helps guide Nite Breeeze Entertainment Groups and its record labels.

Mozes connects people with each other and the things they love. The Company serves the burning desire of the mobile generation to build and participate in communities via the mobile phone and the web.

Bands and artists including Hello Goodbye, Plain White Ts and Ernie Halter use Mozes to build mobile fan lists and connect with fans at live events. Advertisers use Mozes to reach young people in non-intrusive and measurable ways. Mozes is a private company based in Palo Alto, California. Learn more at www.mozes.com or text “hgb” to 66937 to try it out.

Parks Associates is a market research and consulting firm focused on all product and service segments that are “digital” or provide connectivity within the home. The company’s expertise includes home networks, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, broadband and Internet services, and home systems.

Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, multiclient studies, consumer research, workshops, executive conferences, and custom-tailored client solutions.

Parks Associates hosts several fall events and co-hosts CONNECTIONS™ and CONNECTIONS™ Europe (in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association) each year. www.parksassociates.com

WhiteBlox gives clients the flexibility, control and ability to leverage video assets and content into dynamic, engaging and profitable channels.

KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading National Public Radio affiliate, featuring an eclectic mix of music, news, information and cultural programming. KCRW.com extends the station's profile globally.

KCRW is a recognized tastemaker for new music from around the world, with trendsetting hosts such as Music Director Nic Harcourt, who features live in-studio sessions and interviews with established and emerging artists on Morning Becomes Eclectic and the nationally syndicated Sounds Eclectic; music supervisor and electronic music champion Jason Bentley with Metropolis; indie and alternative rock on The Open Road with music supervisor Gary Calamar.

MidemNet Forum charts the opportunities offered to music by digital and mobile services. You’ll hear the very latest thinking from an international panel of top-level decision makers.

Held at the world’s largest music market, MIDEM, there is no better opportunity to network with the international music community at large (9,798 participants, 4,634 companies, 2,313 exhibiting companies...)

The world’s forum for digital & mobile music offers you extensive networking opportunities and one-to-one mentoring sessions with key speakers.

Figures speak by themselves:

• 21 high level conferences and keynotes,
• 68 international experts,
• 1,206 participants,

Now celebrating more than 65 years in business, BMI is an American performing right organization that represents more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and publishers in all genres of music. With a repertoire of more than 6.5 million musical works from around the world, the non-profit-making corporation collects license fees from businesses that use music, which it then distributes as royalties to the musical creators and copyright owners it represents.

The DCIA is a voluntary organization representing all sectors of the distributed computing industry. This includes content providers, software developers and distributors, and service-and-support companies. The DCIA is engaged in developing standards-and-practices to advance this innovative consumer-based distribution channel.

The National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) promotes education, career advancement and good will among record executives. With an emphasis on becoming better informed and more effective, NARIP offers professional development opportunities, educational programs and seminars, the opportunity to meet and interact with peers, a job bank, a member resume database for employers, a mentor network, a newsletter and other services. With our relaunched Web site (Oct 2006), users will be able to access even more through NARIP’s Store.

Purchase downloads of past NARIP programs, our famous NARIP-recommended books, and, as always, see the latest information on upcoming events, job opportunities and more.

Beginning with the trailblazing “Official Live Bootlegs” series with Pearl Jam, Basecamp has developed a unique business approach that allows artists to create their own branded online download systems to sell music through their existing website. Focusing initially on the live music market and with over 10 million downloads in the last 12 months, the Basecamp business model is serving an area that the large corporate online music services are unable to attend to.

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