Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) has finally put the book out for the formal sale of TV Guide Network, according to Variety. The channel includes its flagship TV scrolling IPG, distributed in about 80 million homes in U.S., and the much-smaller TVG Horse Race Network, and the story says could fetch a relatively-small $400 million for the sale due to the financial market and economy turmoil. TVGN had total revenues of about $129 million last year. Among the companies considering the channel are Constellation Ventures, the NYC-based media focused VC firm, the story says. Not much interest from the usual suspects Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Disney (NYSE: DIS). UBS is running the process for Macrovision.

MVSN acquired Gemstar-TV Guide earlier this year for about $2.8 billion, and has been divesting off the non-core assets since then, including TV Guide magazine and the TV channels. Things certainly have taken a nosedive since then...as Multichannel points out, based on Macrovision's breakdown of the deal when the sale completed in April, TV Guide Network was valued at $408 million, TVG Network at $112 million, the magazine at $61 million and online networks at $32 million. Together, that would put the value of a deal at about $613 million.

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Enjoy these pics while you can of a non-pregnant Angelina Jolie at the premiere of The Changeling over the weekend. After recently birthing twins Knox and Vivienne, turns out she's already bored with them and ready for more. Somebody get this check a medal. OK! Magazine reports: And just in case you thought that Angelina and Brad, who has joked that he would like to have a full soccer team of kids, would stop at a half-dozen, she says that there's no stopping in the near future.
"We are going to have more kids," revealed the Oscar winner. "One way or another." When she's not busy thinking of ways to adopt you or get the maximum mileage out of her uterus, Angelina shares her secret to shedding the baby weight: “Run around with all the kids, and breastfeeding, which I think is part of your body's natural way of losing weight." So, I tried Angelina's advice to shed a few pounds, but since I don't have lactating breasts or children of my own , I had to go down to a local elementary school and chase some around. The end result? My face ended up on some website run by Megan (?) and the neighbor kids call me "El Chupacabra" while throwing rocks at my car. But, damn, does my ass look tight. Seriously, you can bounce a quarter off it, but not really because I've already lost $5 down the sewer grate.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) -- While most magazine publishers continue to depend heavily on print, today at the American Magazine Conference they heard from a panel of publishers that are going well beyond the page.

A l'occasion de la sortie de son test en exclusivité mondiale pour LittleBigPlanet, le nouveau numéro du mag anglais Official Playstation Magazine permettra à ses lecteurs de télécharger le Sackboy (la mascotte de LBP) du personnage Kratos de God of War. En effet, les lecteurs recevront un code unique qui leur permettront de télécharger via le Playstation Network le Sackboy de Kratos afin de l'intégrer directement dans LittleBigPlanet. Pour 5£99, le prochain numéro d'OPM contiendra en avant-pr...

No less than 51 different types of Formula 1 car from the 3-litre era have competed in Grand Prix Masters races in 2008. The amazing statistic, compiled following the final races in the GPM season at Spa-Francorchamps (27/28 September), is thought to make the 2008 GPM season the most varied in Formula 1 history.

During the GPM season, which included races at Silverstone, Donington Park, Magny-Cours, Anderstorp, the Nurburgring, Mugello and Spa, a remarkable total of 66 cars competed, covering 51 individual models. It is an unparalleled scale of diversity and competitor support.

Among the 66 cars were 19 makes of F1 car from the 1966-1978 era. As well as the familiar marques like Ferrari, McLaren, March, Tyrrell and Brabham, GPM has encouraged some of the rarest cars ever seen in F1 back onto the race track.

These include cars from Amon, Trojan, Theodore and Token, all painstakingly restored and brought back to racing. In some cases, the cars are now enjoying far more success than they did in period.

Grand Prix Masters has also actively encouraged engine diversity. In addition to the faithful Cosworth DFV, the mainstay of classic F1 racing, as many as six different non-Cosworth Grand Prix engines have run in one GPM event. In August, Magny Cours reverberated to 12-cylinder power from Matra, Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ferrari and V8s from Repco and Alfa Romeo.

Christopher Tate of the Masters Racing Series is thrilled at the level of support for GPM as well as the glorious diversity that the series offers at the very pinnacle of historic racing. ""For diversity of cars and drivers, for great cars and good fun, why would circuit owners, magazines, spectators, look anywhere other than GPM?” he said. "We plan to make 2009 even better and we look forward to welcoming all of our drivers back onto the GPM grid along with some new faces as well."

As Dig Out Your Soul hits the physical and digital racks of the nation's record shops what better time to check out #2 in the 20 Greatest Oasis Tracks as chosen by Peter Hook as told to Q Magazine (#267, October 2008):

"Roll With It is rocky, and it plays down the Beatles influence. A lot of Oasis's overtly Beatles-influenced songs piss me off because they're just a rip-off. Roll With It is a balls-in-your-hands, cock-in-the-air song. It's what I thought could have been their true sound if they'd ever got past their Beatles fixation. Oasis actually played an early gig with Revenge at a place called the Middleton Hippodrome in Manchester. It was their first gig they had with Noel on guitar under the name Oasis, because they were called Rain before that. What did I think of them? I thought they were a bunch of cunts. It wasn't an amazing triumph, but I quite like having it on my CV."

Meanwhile check out Hooky's latest playlist as told to the Guardian.

You probably assume that most major magazine covers are designed on top-of-the-line systems with the most advanced software available. Most of the time, you'd be right. But this week's New Yorker...

You probably assume that most major magazine covers are designed on top-of-the-line systems with the most advanced software available. Most of the time, you'd be right. But this week's New Yorker cover was created by Bob Staake on some pretty ancient technology: Mac OS 7 and Photoshop 3.0. Mac OS 7 was released in 1991 and Photoshop 3.0 was released in 1994. Good lord.

The cover is simple, yes, but I don't really see the benefit to using such outdated tech. I mean, wouldn't running the latest software be easier? But hey, power to him. It's pretty cool to see such old tech still in use by such big names. [Bob Staake via Boing Boing]

Aprs la diffusion de nos vidos/images sur le firmware 5.0 rev. beta, une question se posait alors : ce firmware occupera t-il la PSP 3000 d'office ? Le magazine Eurogamer vient de rpondre nos interrogations travers un test de la PSP 3000. Cliquez sur suite pour en savoir plus.

Capcom diffuse quelques nouvelles images de Monster Hunter 3 tri- sur Wii dans le dernier numéro du magazine japonais Shonen Jump.

A recent Laptop Magazine interview about MSI's Wind U1000 netbook quoted an MSI executive as saying that returns of Linux netbooks were more than four times higher those of Windows XP netbooks. However, the quote may say more about MSI's SUSE Linux implementation than the suitability

Supreme Court Stays Out of TiVo vs. Dish; high court won’t consider an appeal of the $74 million judgment against the satellite company over a patent dispute with the DVR maker. (The Associated Press)

Time Warner Reacts to LIN Dispute By Urging People Online; after the two companies didn’t reach an agreement, Time Warner displays a URL on channels formerly occupied by LIN that hosts a video on how to watch TV programs online. (The New York Times)

Blinkx Drops Bid to Buy Miva; video search company will not be acquiring the pay-per-click ad network. (paidContent)

Comcast to Hike Rates; third price increase since January 2007, cable co. blames the economy (convenient!). (RedOrbit)

Video Advertisers Looking to Display Ads; companies like Apple are inserting video into banners and moving beyond the in-stream slots. (AdWeek)

Conde Naste Using Mobile Vid-Casting for Bridal Fashion Shows; company using Flixwagon to live-stream footage that will be featured on Bride.com’s Wedded Bits blog. (MediaWeek)

Access Hollywood Partnering with iVillage; fluffy entertainment news magazine will have a module on the women’s site that will include video. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Iron Man’s Popularity Brings Down Servers; number of people trying to access the BD-Live content brought down Paramount’s tech. (CrunchGear)

source: Le Monde

La filiale de droit irlandais de HRE, Depfa, spécialisée dans le financement des collectivités locales ou de projets d'infrastructures au moyen de montages sophistiqués, serait pour partie responsable de cette débâcle.

Pour de nombreux experts, les banques régionales ne sont d'ailleurs sûrement pas au bout de leurs peines, après avoir multiplié ces dernières années les investissements hasardeux. Selon le magazine Der Spiegel paru lundi 6o ctobre, même les deux poids lourds du secteur bancaire allemand, la Deutsche Bank et Commerzbank, ne sont pas à l'abri de problèmes de liquidités dans les quinze prochains mois.

Eva Mendes photos pour le magazine ES ( Evening Standard )

Après les premiers détails dévoilés ce matin par le sieur RaHaN, Deus Ex 3 se montre plus concrètement avec ces images scannées tirées du magazine PC Zone. Scans faits avec les pieds par nos confrères de Tiscali Games, et sans doute avec un verre de vodka à la main. Désolé pour le cliché, mais bon, ça va quoi. Déjà que récemment... Bref. Vous remarquerez, malgré tout, l'effort graphique effectué,…

Comme prévu, Deus Ex 3 se livre ce mois-ci via le 200ème numéro du magazine anglais PC Zone avec des informations reprises par le site CVG, du même groupe de presse. On y apprend donc que ce troisième épisode prendra place en 2027, soit avant les événéments de Deus Ex premier du nom, et que Sheldon...

Takara Tomy diffuse quelques nouvelles images de Naruto Shippuden Gekito Ninja Taisen EX 3 sur Wii dans le magazine japonais Shonen Jump.

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I received an Indy 500 poster on my birthday in 1986 that featured a Yellow C4 Corvette pace car leading the pack. My dad hung the poster above my bed, and I can honestly say that I stared at it every night for years. The Corvette was my dream car for my entire childhood, but as an adult I turned my attention to European rides like the Porsche 911 and the Ferrari 360 Modena.

When the C6 Corvette hit the scene for the 2005 model year, the Bow Tie brand's halo vehicle again had me pining for some General Motors muscle. GM gave the base Vette the same 400 horsepower as the C5 Z06, and I figured it was all the power I could ever want. That is, until the 2006 Z06 came along. The Z06 was kicking ass on the track and in enthusiast magazines, and it was toppling competition that far exceeded the Corvette's $70,000 price of entry. We never had the Z06 in the Autoblog Garage, so we were more than happy to take it off Chevy's hands for a week. Hit the jump to see if the Z06 met our lofty expectations from childhood.

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PingMag, the Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" has an interview with a delightful musical duo, Lullatone. Lullatone are a musical duo based in Nagoya comprised of the husband and wife team of Shawn James Seymour and Yoshimi Tomida. They make sweet, sleepy, sine-wave-riddled songs with whispered lyrics, poppy melodies, and parse, carefully arranged beats. The Lullas utilise children’s instruments, splashing water, household sounds, and electronic sounds to craft their delightful songs for young and old. From the visual side, they make all of their clips by themselves — a delightful mix of film, stop-motion animation, and video that syncs nicely with their hypnotic, dreamy live shows. Lullatone: Catch the Bedtime Beat!...

Après avoir livré le contenu de son Ipod au magazine Rolling Stone et annoncer par sms à ses adhérents le choix de Joe Biden comme co-listier, Barack Obama lance une appli sur I-Phone. Celle-ci permet - entre autres - de repérer les amis ...
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Maker Faire won a "American Magazine Vanguard Award"! The first annual American Magazine Vanguard Awards (AMVAs) were announced last night during a ceremony for Ad Age’s annual “A-list.” The AMVAs recognize magazines “that are innovating smartly beyond print.”

Make is for nerds and dorks -- nerds and dorks who are proudly nerdy and dorky. The editorial mission is to "celebrate your right to tweak, hack and bend any technology to your own will." Published quarterly since 2005 by O'Reilly Media, it's tapped into the powerful DIY movement that has millions of consumers rewiring their own realities by making their own media (with tools ranging from iMovie to YouTube to GarageBand to Blogger to Facebook) -- only Make's not afraid of throwing a soldering iron or a little duct tape into the mix. It's about tangible creations -- and good old-fashioned American ingenuity.

Make earns an AMVA because of its remarkable Maker Faire, a cult event that has been growing almost mainstream. The first fair, held in 2006 in San Mateo, drew 22,000 attendees -- people interested in everything from growing their own food to building hybrid vehicles. In 2007, 45,000 showed up; this spring, 65,000. A second edition of the event started up in Austin, Texas, drawing 20,000 attendees; the second two-day Maker Faire Austin kicks off this month on the 18th. (Watch for Make to expand its fair to other cities in 2009.) Considering that some of the greatest leaps forward in American technological history have been scrappy homebrews (Apple Computer was a literal garage start-up), it's really kind of exciting to think that, given its explosive growth, the Maker Faire might well help along an invention or two that's truly important.

Maker Faire is labor of love for everyone involved from the staff at MAKE to all the Makers who make it one of the most inspiring weekends you can imagine. In just 2 weeks we have Maker Faire Austin (Oct. 18th and 19th) if you didn't get tickets yet, what are you waiting for??

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