Cdigix Announces First Three California Campuses To Roll Out Its Legal Digital Media Services Under System-Wide Initiative; UC Irvine, UC Riverside and UC San Diego Sign with Cdigix, Finalize Deployment.ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Following this summer's announcement that Cdigix was selected by the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). and the California State University systems as a provider of digital media services to individual campuses, Cdigix today announced the first three major California campuses to sign with the Company. Beginning this month, students at the University of California Irvine, the University of California Riverside and University of California San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. will have access to Cdigix's legal digital media and social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network services. The system-wide contract that Cdigix secured with the University of California and California State University Enrollment  has facilitated the process
of interacting with individual schools and administrators within the
system. As a result of these three new campus partnerships, 66,000
additional students will be able to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day"subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; Cdigix's services. "UC San Diego, UC Riverside and UC Irvine are among the pioneers in the movement to make compelling, legitimate digital media available at higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. establishments," said Brett Goldberg, Cdigix's president and founder. "Cdigix is honored to have been selected by these major universities and to be addressing students' increasingly insatiable appetite for high-quality, virus-free digital music and entertainment." "Students in our focus groups have indicated a strong interest in legal file-sharing services. We look forward to launching Cdigix's comprehensive services, giving our students a valuable alternative to illegal file-sharing networks," said Tony Wood, Director, Academic Computing Services at the University of California San Diego. "UC Riverside wishes to support appropriate recreational uses of the campus network. Partnerships with firms like Cdigix allow UCR (Under Color Removal) A method for reducing the amount of printing ink used. It substitutes black for gray color (equal amounts of cyan, magenta and yellow). Thus black ink is used instead of the three CMY inks. See GCR and dot gain. to better promote legal recreational uses of the network and meet growing student interest in these types of services," commented Charles Rowley, Associate Vice Chancellor, Computing and Communications. "We believe this is a highly-affordable package that will allow UC Irvine students to meet all their music download needs - and do it legally," said Bill Zeller, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Housing, at the University of California Irvine. Cdigix offers its partnered schools four distinct services and is customizable based on each individual school's needs. All three universities being announced today will launch Cdigix's digital music service, called Ctrax, featuring an extraordinary catalog of two million legally downloadable songs, through a partnership with MusicNet, the world's leading business-to-business digital music service provider. Students who sign up for a monthly subscription to Ctrax can easily download and play the music files as often as they want via a 'tethered download.' Students may also permanently download individual tracks or whole albums for an additional charge. In addition to Ctrax, UC Riverside and UC San Diego are also offering their students subscription plans for Cflix, Cdigix's broadcast quality video on-demand service which offers entertainment programming from premier media companies including Walt Disney Pictures, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. .COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. and Cartoon Network. Cdigix's social networking service, Cvillage, is available to all partnered schools. In addition to the three UC campuses being announced today, Cdigix has also been approved by the University of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. as one of the companies eligible to provide various digital media services to its affiliated universities. Arkansas Tech University  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . in Russellville, AR, has also tapped Cdigix as its exclusive provider of legal digital music. The Cdigix content is distributed over a local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ), yielding a fast and secure way for students to access legal, downloadable content that doesn't slow the down the university's Internet connection. Pricing Information At the three University of California campuses being announced today, students may purchase a monthly Ctrax music subscription for $3.49 a month, and may buy an individual music track for $.89. A monthly subscription to Cflix is $4.99 and the cost of an individual pay-per-view movie ranges from $1.99 to $3.99. Cvillage is free to enrolled students. About Cdigix Cdigix is the leading provider of secure, legal digital entertainment and educational media exclusively serving the college marketplace. The company offers four distinct services to college students: Ctrax for legal music, Cflix for legal video on demand programming, Clabs for educational media and Cvillage for community interaction. The high-quality content offered by Cdigix is available through partnerships with premier entertainment and media companies, and is distributed via the universities' internal IP infrastructures. Cdigix currently has relationships with dozens of college campuses in the U.S., reaching nearly half a million students. The company is headquartered in Englewood, CO. More information can be found at www.cdigix.com. |
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