Newstream.com Digest: Record Companies Fight Illegal Music Downloads, Breakthrough Colorectal Cancer Screening Technology, and Other Free Multimedia Content For Journalists

Business Wire, Sept 9, 2003

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2003

Physicians and Patients Now Using PreGen-Plus(tm) to Screen for Colorectal Cancer

EXACT Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAS) and Laboratory Corporation of America(R) Holdings (LabCorp(R)) (NYSE:LH) today announced that PreGen-Plus(tm), the DNA-based stool test for the early detection of colorectal cancer, is now widely available for use by physicians and patients to screen their patients for colorectal cancer. PreGen-Plus is an effective, easy-to-use and completely non-invasive breakthrough screening option for the more than 80 million Americans who should be screened for colorectal cancer. Get video here.

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Record Companies File First Lawsuits Against Computer Users Illegally Sharing Copyrighted Music

Computer users who illegally download and distribute copyrighted music through Internet file-sharing services could be facing serious and costly consequences. Record companies on Monday filed the first of what could ultimately be thousands of lawsuits against computer users who have been illegally distributing copyrighted music through peer-to-peer services such as KaZaA and Grokster. However, the industry is granting amnesty to file sharers who promise to mend their ways. Get video here.

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The 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show: Concept Cars Plus World Premieres from Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo and Aston Martin

The 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show is set to be a show of concept cars and world premieres -- with many new designs and models ready to be revealed. Ford of Europe's sporty concept car 'the Visos' will have its public debut, as well as Jaguar's vision of the future the R-D6. The covers will also be lifted for the first time on Land Rover's new 2004 Freelander, Volvo's S40, Aston Martin's DB9 and Jaguar's new X-TYPE estate.

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New Study Shows Popular Over-the-Counter Anti-Inflammatory Pain Relievers Inhibit Cardioprotective Benefits of Aspirin

Heart specialists say acetaminophen, the medicine in TYLENOL(R), may be the best choice over-the-counter pain reliever for the millions of Americans taking aspirin to protect against cardiovascular disease.

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Vialta Introduces Beamer TV Videophone, Displays Videophone Calls On Your Television

Vialta Inc. (OTCBB:VLTA), a developer of unique and innovative home entertainment and communications products, today launched Beamer TV(tm) Videophone, giving consumers another convenient, affordable way to see family and friends by phone. Beamer TV works with any home phone and television (with RCA jacks), over any home (analog) phone line, to add live, color motion video to phone calls. This enables each party to see the person they are talking to, directly on their television screen.

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New Documentary Film Celebrates the Music of George Harrison through Performances by Legendary Musicians

Rock music's most celebrated musicians gathered at Royal Albert Hall in London on Nov. 29, 2001, to pay tribute to one of their own, the legendary George Harrison, on the one year anniversary of his death. On that magical night, Harrison's closest friends gathered to perform a collection of his music for a live audience.

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Hewitt Study Shows Record Lows for Salary Increases in 2003 With Only Slight Improvement Slated for 2004

Salary increases hit record lows in 2003, as variable pay spending dropped off for the first time since gaining popularity in the 1990s, according to the Hewitt Associates 27th Annual "U.S. Salary Increase Survey." Hewitt (NYSE: HEW), a global human resources outsourcing and consulting firm, surveyed 1,276 companies nationwide, and found that average salary increases for 2003 were 3.4 percent for salaried exempt employees, 3.3 percent for salaried nonexempt employees, 3.3 percent for nonunion hourly workers and 3.5 percent for executives.

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BraddaHead to Show Case its New JPEG2000 Digital CCTV System -- Second Sight -- at ASIS 2003 (booth #4421) and The National Summit on Security (booth #2350) in New Orleans and Washington D.C.