"Stereoscopic 3D is the most exciting evolution in cinema presentation since color and widescreen," stated James Cameron, Director. "The question for film-makers is not 'why 3D?,' since the reasons are obvious, at least to audiences, and the negatives have all been removed. The question should be 'how do I make 3D a part of my art?'"

"The success of current 3D productions continues to validate that a new era in entertainment is here," stated Vince Pace, CEO, PACE. "One that redefines the ultimate experience and advances the future of entertainment across a wide spectrum of categories - everything from films to music to sports to advertising will be a part of this revolution."

In addition, Journey to the Center of the Earth Director Eric Brevig and Producer, Charlotte Huggins will be featured presenters during the Day One lunch and will be interviewed onstage by David Cohen, Associate Editor at Variety.

Cameron, Brevig and Huggins will join previously announced keynote speakers Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief Executive Officer and President of DreamWorks Animation Inc. and David Hill, A.M., Chairman and CEO, Fox Sports Television Group.

The 3D Entertainment Summit management also announced that DOLBY, NEC, PACE and SONY have signed on as Corporate Sponsors. These new sponsors join 3Ality, Avid and REAL D to round out a world-class event that will include educational demonstrations and networking.

"Tomorrow's new entertainment business models must include 3D," stated Bob Dowling, the event's Co-Producer. "As the premier business event for 3D Entertainment we are excited to have these incredible visionaries joining our program. Never before have so many industry experts been together at one event to discuss the coming 3D revolution in entertainment."

The Summit will assemble an estimated 300 - 400 executives from a cross-section of the entertainment industry including film, television, video gaming, content creation, production, technology and distribution.

From movies and theaters to broadcasting in the home, the 3D Entertainment Summit will be the first industry event to educate entertainment executives about content creation, production, and distribution of this exciting and revolutionary technology. Live demonstrations of never before seen content screened on both cinema and 3D television systems will be presented to showcase new production realities as well as new business opportunities.

Attendees will learn how 3D relates to business practices and will hear from a dynamic group of leading experts in 3D who will provide actionable, non-hyped, real and responsible information that will have a positive impact on the entertainment community.

The unique two-day conference format will contain a mix of general sessions and panel sessions presented by a host of industry experts and executives. The highly interactive environment will allow entertainment professionals to gain practical insight into this technology, market size, adoption rates, creative and production strategies, talent & licensing issues, gaining a better sense of how 3D relates to their future.

Additional speakers include: Michael Lewis, Chairman/CEO and Co-Founder, Real D, Joshua Greer, President and Co-Founder, Real D, Sandy Climan, CEO, 3Ality Digital, LLC, Steve Schklair, CEO, 3Ality Digital Systems, John Fithian, President and CEO, NATO, Buzz Hays, Senior Producer, Sony Pictures Imageworks,Chuck Viane, President of Distribution, Disney Pictures, Jim Tharp, President of Distribution, Paramount, Motion Picture Group, Vincent Maza, Solutions Marketing Manager, Avid Technology Inc., David Cohen, Associate Editor, Features,Variety, Charlotte Jones, Senior Analyst, Film and Cinema, Screen Digest, Jeffrey B. Logsdon, Managing Director, Media & Entertainment, BMO Capital Markets, Marty Shindler, CEO, The Shindler Perspective, Inc., Peter Cane, Publisher, Box Office Magazine, Andrew Oliver, Co-Founder & C.T.O., Blitz Games Studios Ltd., Neil Schneider, President, Meant to Be Seen Andrew Fear, Product Manager, SLI and Stereoscopic 3D Solutions, NVIDIA Corporation, Alex Ben Block, Show Business Historian, and Editor-at-Large, The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Marlowe, Digital Media Consultant, Peter Debruge, Associate Editor, Features, Variety, John Nicolard, Head of Digital Production, FotoKem Digital Film Services, Jeff McNall, Cinema Product Manager, Dolby Laboratories, Inc., Andrew Stucker, Director of Sony Electronics Digital Cinema Systems

Media partners promoting the event include, Variety and The Los Angeles Times and LA 411. Supporting media sponsors include Screen Digest, Boxoffice Magazine, DC Cinema Today, Below the Line, Broadcast Equipment Guide, Digital Cinema Buyers Guide and Post Production Buyers Guide, Digital Cinema Report and PR Newswire. Additionally, iHollywoodForum, The Hollywood Post Alliance, and Meant to Be Seen (mtbs3D.com), the foremost authority group on consumer S-3D gaming and entertainment have joined as industry partners to the event.

For more information on the 3D Entertainment Summit, please visit the event website at http://www.3d-summit.com or call 203-878-2577 x106.

About Bob Dowling and The Bob Dowling Group

For the last 17 years through 2007, Bob Dowling was editor-in-chief and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter and president of the VNU Business Media Film and Performing Arts Group.

During Dowling's tenure, The Reporter launched numerous new products, including the HollywoodReporter.com Web site, e-mail edition, weekly edition, THR East, Literary Hollywood, Festival de Cannes dailies and the Oscar Screening Guide, as well as many annual events such as the Women in Entertainment Power 100 stand-alone issue and its related breakfast event, the Next Generation ranking of prominent young executives, the Film and TV Music Conference and the reorganized Key Art Awards.

Dowling recently started his own information and consulting firm, the Bob Dowling Group, to serve clients looking to navigate the converging worlds of entertainment and technology, with the 3D Entertainment Summit as a lead project.

About Unicomm, LLC

Unicomm, LLC is an independent business-to-business communications company specializing in conceiving and managing trade shows and conferences in nascent markets.

Unicomm's management team has been responsible for some of the industry's most successful trade shows and conferences. Unicomm currently produces the largest series of travel events in the United Sates; the Adventures in Travel Expo. In addition Unicomm has developed leading events in the Bio-Technology, Research & Development and Mechanical Engineering, Human Resources, Transportation and other markets.

The company's "value-added" resources are the intellectual capital of its people and proprietary business practices. These attributes coupled with an intense customer centric philosophy combine to deliver world class events.

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Beginning its 19th year and Shipley's 23rd event, the DEMO conferences are launch pads for the industry's biggest and brightest technologies. This year's product debuts include everything from a collaborative pen technology, a gadget that turns private cars into a public transport network, to a service that captures the marketing spin in your online news.

Over the next two days, the DEMOfall 08 stage will showcase 72 never-seen before, new technologies that will change the technology landscape. Today's introductions included technologies designed for:

    --  Reducing our impact on the planet
    --  Communicating across networks, platforms and devices
    --  Bringing social networks and sharing to a new generation of users
    --  Securing email and documents whether at work or at home

"As we select companies for DEMO, we look for products that will have profound impact across the board. We highlight technologies that will impact the way we work and play in our everyday lives; that have the ability to impact our present and future in extreme ways," Shipley said. "Attendees will experience products this week that will be household names in the coming years. They will have a chance to visualize where the industry is going and meet the people that are going to make it happen."

    Highlights from today's technology introductions include:

    Moving the Chains
    --  Adapx Inc.'s Capturx Forms for Excel - a pen technology combining
        workflow understanding with ink capture technology.
    --  Alerts.com - a cross-channel reminder and alerting service for emails
        SMS and voice
    --  Telnic, Ltd. .tel - new domain for the storing, securing and
        publishing of contact information


    Television meets the Web: Web meets the Television
    --  Awind Inc. mobiShow - a wireless solution for the migration of PC and
        Smart-Phone application to TV.
    --  beeTV - content discovery guide that pushes content suggestions to the
        viewers in a channel-like format from TV, Mobile and PC.
    --  InvisionTV LLC Invision.TV - delivers program guides for Internet
        video.


    Words, Pictures and Music
    --  Trinity Convergence, Inc. Gloop(TM) Digital Photo Sharing Technology -
        Peer-to-peer photo sharing through a digital picture frame.
    --  Kadoo, Inc. - social sharing platform for links, photos, and videos
        with integrated storage, calendar, group functionality and printing
        capabilities.
    --  Phototrade, LLC - visual marketplace for photographers, advertisers
        and Web publishers.


    Your Mobile, Your Life
    --  SpinSpotter - browser-based service for surfacing instances of bias
        and inaccuracy in news stories.
    --  Asyncast Corp Rocketron - a mobile service that allows users to hear
        and comment on news.
    --  Clintworld Clintview - financial simulation software to support,
        optimize and accelerate tariff-related processes and requirements.
    --  WebDiet, Inc. - location-based service that recommends what to eat,
        when and where and when you are on the road.
    --  Xumii, Inc. - a social address book for mobile phones with text, chat,
        groups and walls.


    Open Studios: Designing, Building, Working Together
    --  Sim Ops Studios, Inc. Wild Pockets - web-based, collaborative platform
        for the easy authoring of 3D games.
    --  Cinergix, Pty, Ltd. Create an online collaborative design tool that
        enables diagramming and design for business process modeling, computer
        network design and electronic circuit design.
    --  OpenACircle.com - web conferencing solution that provides free
        permanent online meeting and collaboration spaces.
    --  Designin, Inc. MyDesignIn - a home-design portal with comparison
        shopping and 3D interfaces.


    Protecting What's Yours
    --  Coretrace Corp. Bouncer - antivirus software that creates a
        whitelist of applications for computers.
    --  Paragent, LLC Paragent MSP  - a service for managed service providers
        who need remote IT management capabilities at a price that makes
        sense.
    --  Fortressware, Inc. Personal Fortress - delivers data protection by
        controlling the forwarding, copying and printing of files from anytime
        and from anywhere.

Walt and Kara Head to Head:

Walt and Kara took the stage to talk about their views on new products, such as Google's Chrome, and the industry's provocative companies, including Microsoft, Google and Facebook.

DEMO Jam Session: Later this evening, DEMO will take it to the bridge with the jam session to end all jam sessions as journalists, demonstrators and attendees join the band in a post-day 1 celebration.

DEMOfall 08 Sponsors and Partners

AngelSoft, ARX, Band of Angels, Boogar Lists, Comerica Bank, Conference Guru, Connect Public Relations, Cooley Godward, Cornerstone Angels, CVCA, Data Essence, digsu, Emerging Tech Accelerator, Ethos Networks, Eye to Eye Communications, Financing Partners, Funding Universe, funp, Golden Capital Network, Goldmail, Granite, Guidewire Group, homeit.com, IDG Venture logo, Illinois Venture Capital Association, Investors Circle, Israeli Venture Association (IVA), Jmap, Kansas Women's Business Center, Keiretsu Forum, Mashable, Merrill Corp, Micorsoft, MicroArts, Missouri Venture Forum, mmode, mPortico, myOwnRealEstate.com, NEC, Network World, New England Venture Network, Newfoundland & Labrador Angel Network, NSF, NuConomy - pending, NVCA, OCTANe, OpSource, Orange County Venture Group, Porter Novelli, Ppolis, PR Newswire, Private Capital Network, Pulse2.com, Qualcomm, Read Write Web, RMVCA, San Diego Venture Group, Sentrigo, SF New Tech, Silicon Valley Bank, Start, Tech Coast Angels, Tech Confidential, The Deal, Tufin Networks, Ubergizmo, UBS, VCJ, VCN Network, Venture Deal, VentureBeat, wacanai.com, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, WIP

Note to editors: This is one in a series of news alerts informing media of the ongoing successes of DEMO companies. News alerts will be issued every four to six weeks.

About the DEMO

DEMO, a unit of IDG, is the launchpad for emerging technologies both as conferences in the U.S., Europe, and China and as a news and information Web site http://www.demo.com/. Emerging technologies and new products introduced at DEMO conferences are hand-selected from the spectrum of the global technology marketplace. DEMO conferences have earned a reputation for consistently identifying technologies that will disrupt current markets and change how people use digital technologies. New technologies are introduced at DEMO conferences by start-ups and established companies such as Google, VMWare, salesforce.com, Palm, Yahoo!, Leapfrog, Apple, IronPort, HP and thousands of others. More than 2,065 breakthrough products -- from consumer favorites like Skype, Slingbox, and TiVo to top development platforms such as Sun's Java, Qualcomm's Brew, and IBM's Pervasive -- have debuted at DEMO during the past 18 years. DEMO conferences and news coverage are where digital entrepreneurs and investors change the game and stay ahead of the curve.

About Network World

Network World, Inc., the Leader in Network Knowledge, empowers network IT executives through education, information and community. Network World, an IDG company, is the leading provider of news, analysis, reviews, events and education on information technology. Network World publishes the leading newsweekly, Network World, hosts the most active online communities (http://www.networkworld.com/, http://www.javaworld.com/, http://www.linuxworld.com/, and http://www.demo.com/), and produces educational seminars and events worldwide. Network World's portfolio of strategic marketing programs provides marketing and agency professionals with the tools to generate high-quality leads, optimize marketing campaigns, and create new revenue opportunities. Additionally, Network World is the event organizer of DEMO and DEMOfall, the leading events for new technology innovation.

About International Data Group (IDG)

International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 Web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.

IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.

Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at http://www.idg.com/.

All product and company names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Set for a March 2011 release, the film was written by "Gladiator" and "Sweeney Todd" scribe John Logan.

The animation for "Rango" will be provided by the San Francisco-based Industrial Light and Magic, Paramount said, adding that Verbinski is already experienced in computer-generated animation and will be employing techniques he developed with ILM in the creation of the Davy Jones character in the "Pirates" movies, which won the 2006 Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

"The combination of Gore's exciting vision and the talents of John Logan and Johnny Depp make 'Rango' a great tentpole for Paramount's 2011 slate," Rob Moore, Vice Chairman of Paramount Pictures, said in a statement.

"'Rango' is an oddly charismatic character that is perfectly suited for Johnny Depp's extraordinary abilities," added Verbinski. "The techniques we are employing will allow us to capture and translate every aspect of Johnny's performance, using it to drive the computer-generated character in a way that has yet to be seen in an animated feature. This is not a disembodied voice: Johnny Depp is Rango."

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The PAC program is a logical change to military compensation policy that aids wounded warriors, Mr. Fowlkes said, so "they don't experience an immediate drop in pay" as a result of their injuries.

PAC was authorized at the Pentagon via a memorandum directive issued on May 15 by David S.C. Chu, the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness.

PAC pay starts when injured servicemembers are first hospitalized and continues for a year, with possible six-month extensions due to extraordinary circumstances, according to a Defense Finance and Accounting Service news release issued in June. The pay normally would cease after an injured servicemember recovers and returns to active duty or is discharged from military service.

Mr. Fowlkes said PAC "basically is a transition pay" that replaces a previous program called combat-related injury rehabilitation pay, or CIP, that was in effect since 2006. CIP enabled wounded servicemembers to continue to receive about $430 monthly, totaled from overseas per diem, hazardous and hardship duty pays -- but no other special assignment pays -- during their hospitalization and recovery.

In addition, servicemembers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries after departing overseas areas are entitled to PAC pay provisions, Mr. Fowlkes said. Under the CIP program, he said, eligible servicemembers had to be diagnosed for PTSD or TBI at overseas locales.

The PAC program "will be particularly beneficial to members hospitalized for traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder after leaving Iraq or Afghanistan," according to the DFAS news release.

"Moreover, the PAC program will apply to members who are hospitalized due to a wound, injury or illness incurred anywhere in the world from hostile action or event, and not just a combat operation or in a combat zone," the DFAS release stated.