Take-Two Interactive’s Mafia for PS2 moved up one notch to become the top-rented videogame in the U.S., Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended March 21 showed Thurs. The title earned an additional $310,474 in its 8th week, for a total of $2.34 million. The Xbox version of the game moved up an unusual 46 spots to #10 in its 3rd week, earning $134,625 for a total of $182,669. But Electronic Arts again dominated publishers, this time with 4 SKUs in the top 10: Bond 007: Everything or Nothing for PS2 at #2 (up one, 5th week, $303,738 in the week and $1.50 million to date), Need for Speed Underground for PS2 at #4 again, 18th week ($230,741 and $6.31 million), NFL Street for PS2 at #5 again, 10th week ($214,467 and $2.04 million) and the Xbox version of the Bond game at #7 again in its 5th week ($147,424 and $751,027). The only other Xbox game in the top 10 was Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden at #3 (down 2, 3rd week, $295,602 and $835,102). Everything else in the chart was for PS2: Activision’s True Crime: Streets of L.A. at #6 again, 20th week ($183,230 and $5.54 million), Activision’s Tony Hawk’s Underground at #8 again, 21st week ($147,115 and $5.50 million) and THQ’s WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain at #9 (up 2, 21st week, $135,457 and $3.80 million).
The ITA states that it has collapsed SIBRA, CPFL and Urucum into one entity for purposes of this AD duty administrative review.
1 The ITA states that it has preliminary determined to treat LMC and LIMAC as a single entity for purposes of this AD duty administrative review.
Although they stopped short of making any major announcements regarding the successor to Xbox, Microsoft executives used the opening keynote at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Jose Wed. to unveil the new XNA software development platform. The company claimed XNA will hasten the advent of high-definition gaming and cross-platform online play between console and PC gamers.
L-3 Communications said it won an $18 million contract to upgrade the mission communications systems on executive aircraft flown by the U.S. Air Force for the U.S. govt. It said the 10-month contract included 4 one-year options and covered preliminary engineering investigations of the on- board mission systems, program management, engineering support, and software, firmware and hardware changes.
(a) preliminary AD rate of zero
Warren Lieberfarb, former Warner Home Video pres., used the IRMA recording media summit in La Quinta, Cal., to challenge the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD camps to release complete ROM specifications within 30 days. That would allow replicators to begin comparative analyses of claims and counterclaims about manufacturing costs, where HD-DVD believes it has a decided advantage, Lieberfarb said at the Sat. event.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
AD duty new shipper review. A bond or other security may continue to be posted in lieu of an AD cash deposit, until the final results are in effect.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.