MPAA CEO Chris Dodd: Bl...

President and CEO of the Motion Pictures Association of America Chris Dodd has issued a strongly-worded statement regarding tomorrow’s planned outages and protests relating to the SOPA and PIPA legislation . If you didn’t already think the MPAA was a ship of fools, this will convince you once and for all. It’s fairly brief, go ahead and read it. I’ve taken the liberty of pirating a copy for you (incidentally, Scribd would almost certainly be under fire for the duplication of private or copyrighted documents, or would at least have to prepare a legal defense against such allegations.): View this document on Scribd So, protests are “pranks,” websites like Wikipedia are only doing it “to further their corporate interests,” turning their users into “corporate pawns,” and are not “coming to the table.” Among other things. We’ve seen some tone-deaf “official statements” in this industry, but this one has to be among the greatest. Needless to say, his shaming is unlikely to sway the hundreds, if not thousands, of sites, services, and blogs that will be shuttering for a day in protest of what many credible authorities (to say nothing of millions of citizens) say is a gross affront to the freedoms that have made the web what it is.

Gearing Up For Asia Exp...

Bubble Motion, which offers a popular a Twitter-like voice blogging service in India, Japan, and Indonesia, is announcing a number of high-profile executive hires to support its future growth in Asia. Bubble Motion’s Bubbly platform is a voice-blogging phone service that allows people to share status updates in their own voice with fans and followers. It essentially takes Twitter’s model and applies this to voice blogging and mobile phones. These ‘bubblers’ record their voice update into their phone, and their followers everywhere are notified by SMS and prompted to click and listen. Joining the team are Jean Huang Lundgren as COO, Brett Bouchard as CMO, Prakash Durgani as VP Engineering, and Paul Palmer as VP Worldwide Sales. Prior to joining Bubble Motion, Lundgren managed consumer product strategy in Asia for Vanguard Strategies and led Motorola’s content and value added service strategy across the Asia Pacific region. Bubble Motion’s new CMO, Brett Bouchard, was previously Managing Director Europe for Ancestry.com and led marketing at SkyGrid. The company says that these new team members will be expanding Bubble Motion’s platform and country presence with a number of product and region launches in the next few months in Asia. The company also plans to bring Bubbly to iOS and Android, adding text, photo, and video to the service. Bubble Motion recently raised $10 million in new funding from SingTel Innov8, Infocomm Investments, Sequoia Capital, Palomar Ventures, and NGC.

Prisma 1666: Interactiv...

Remember the famous light refraction experiment in 1666 by Sir Isaac Newton? Ok, I don’t either… but it’s widely considered as a landmark discovery in the study of optics and color theory, which I’m sure we are all pretty thankful for! The Prisma 1666 experiment is an interactive light installation made of 15 triangular crystal Related Digital Buzz Posts: Dentsu: Stop Motion 3D Light Painting iPads iBook: Bobo Explores Interactive Light App Heineken: Interactive Mirror Installation

RIM Announces The BBX P...

Mike Lazaridis, CEO of Research in Motion, “The whole company is aligning behind this single vision. It combines the best of QNX and Blackberry.” Meet BBX. BBX is the future of RIM. Dan Dodge, president of QNX, joined Mike Lazaridis and proudly co-announced BBX. This platform incorporates enterprise, NOC and cloud services into one system that can run on smartphones, tablets and embedded systems. As Lazaridis stated, BBX is about bringing together “people, devices, content, and services.” RIM and QNX built BBX to be secure. The platform is IEEE POSIX certified and conforms to EAL4+ and IEC 61508 Safety (SIL3) standards. The POSIX cert should allow for easy porting of Linux/Unix apps while providing a good deal of security. HTML 5 is a big part of BBX. RIM sees the protocol as a bridge to older BB OS systems. Since BB 5 and BB 6 runs HTML 5, developers can code in HTML 5 for future and older devices. Details are still a bit light despite the company spending a good deal of time during the DEVCOM keynote. More info will come from the Tech Keynote address at a later time. Crunchbase RESEARCH IN MOTION Company: Research In Motion Website: rim.com Launch Date: October 18, 1984 IPO: NASDAQ:RIMM Research In Motion (RIM) is a Canadian designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless devices and solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. The company is best known as the developer of the BlackBerry smart phone. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM was founded in 1984. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company has offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Learn more

Stop Motion: The King o...

I thought I might post up a little eye candy to help get you into the week, and for anyone who use to love their toys, I’m sure you’ll appreciate this stop motion video that takes us on a journey of transformation from toy to toy as you might have collected them back in the Related Digital Buzz Posts: Kia Picanto: World’s Smallest Stop Motion Film? Deadline: Stop Motion with Post-it notes! Nokia N8: The World’s Largest Stop Motion Film