BRIEFCASE.Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services 21st Century will lower auto rates The state's fifth-largest auto insurer will lower its rates to comply with new regulations requiring rates to be based on driving record instead of ZIP code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. , Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi John Raymond Garamendi (born January 24, 1945) is a U.S. politician and a member of the Democratic Party. He became the 46th Lieutenant Governor of California on January 8 2007. said Thursday. At a news conference in Los Angeles, Garamendi announced that 21st Century Insurance Co. has applied for a rate reduction, which he said would lead to a savings of more than $60 million for the company's 740,000 policyholders statewide. Bruce Marlow, president and chief executive officer of Woodland Hills- based 21st Century, said the rate reduction will result in an average decrease of about 5 percent for policyholders. The reduction will take effect in late November. P.I. that helped HP set for search SAN FRANCISCO -- Investigators plan to search the Boston-area offices of a private investigation firm involved in the Hewlett-Packard Co. spying scandal, California Attorney General The California Attorney General is the State Attorney General of the government of the state of California in the USA. The officer's duty is to ensure that "the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced" (California Constitution, Article V, Section 13. Bill Lockyer said Thursday. Lockyer told The Associated Press he is working with Massachusetts Attorney General The Massachusetts Attorney General is an executive officer of the Massachusetts Government. The current Attorney General is Martha Coakley. The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer and lawyer for Massachusetts. Tom Reilly in the investigation of Security Outsourcing Solutions, a small firm believed to have aided HP in its possibly illegal probe to root out media leaks in its ranks. A spokeswoman for Reilly confirmed that he was assisting California in the Hewlett-Packard investigation. She declined to comment further. G'star-TV Guide in Yahoo! pact Gemstar-TV Guide International Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. is a media company that licenses interactive program guide technology to multichannel operators, such as cable and satellite television providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers, video recorder scheduling code under brands such as VCR Inc. announced Thursday a license agreement with Yahoo! Inc. The agreement provides Yahoo! with a license, under Gemstar-TV Guide's patent portfolio, for interactive program guides delivered by Yahoo!, via the Internet or on PCs, including through the Yahoo! Go TV service. ``Through this relationship, our TV Guide brand will now reach even more consumers via the estimated 500 million users of Yahoo! branded services,'' said Rich Battista, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Gemstar-TV Guide. Other components of the agreement include various branding and promotional opportunities for TV Guide across the Yahoo! network. The agreement between Gemstar-TV Guide and Yahoo! also includes a patent cross-license between both parties. CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. and Comcast drop VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand charge The migration of popular network TV shows to the watch-it-anytime-you-want universe of video on demand moved to a new level Thursday, as CBS Corp. and Comcast Corp. announced they would drop a 99-cent fee for viewing such CBS fare as ``Survivor'' and ``CSI CSI Crime Scene Investigator CSI CompuServe, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) CSI Crime Scene Investigation (CBS TV show) CSI Christian Schools International .'' The change signals a greater acceptance of video-on-demand, or VOD, programs by network TV executives who remained leery of the technology as recently as a year ago, when they first allowed a few of their shows to appear for a fee. Dropping the fee also reflects research by the two companies that reached the not-very-surprising conclusion that viewers watch dramatically more VOD when they don't have to pay for it. |
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