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"Why doesn't he just answer with a honest statement that the first shipment that sold out was only part of the order for 1,000 units?"
Why is he obligated to disclose this information to
anyone let alone someone that could be the competition.
Here's to the numbers you love to remind everyone
of will not mean a thing after today's webcast.
cheers.
and the beat goes on ...
as a consumer (not an expert on the subject) I believe
O-1000 is the first edition ... more to come. At no time
does any CE manufacture provide the consumer with a final
product (convergence) all in one shot - I have always had
to wait for the latest and greatest. I'm sure everyone else
will too.
As far as EDIG is concerned I am willing to
"let it be"
the Company is on target as far as I'm concerned - a risk it is - a reward it will be ...
simple ...
Sure - the doors are staying open. Very simple.
Churak, that's another lie of yours
temptation will never avoid you.
BTW who is the role model you copied that quote from.
Come on
Sent, TorF did say she was right.
UNFNBELIEVABLE
Soxfan you learned everything about EDIG in 3 days
why is your presence going on for weeks here.
You said this company is a bad investment,
Why are you wasting your (and everyone elses) time here.
Are you going to have a change of heart?
How do you know if what he tells you is fact or if it is fiction?
Because you are not loved? LOLOLOL
partnered with HP and e.Digital - (in its simpler form)
sunsetstrip, you realize you are dissapointing
Butanyhow.
It's about beating a dead horse.
And you really believe that company is owed
a substantial amount of money and they
are completely unaware of this and they
need your guidance? I don't think so.
call no man a fool.
a christian saying.
Sorry no pictures.
Have you been to the RB board Lately?
It's impossible to fit in between all
the basher talk there - I'm glad they
have to finally talk to themselves
and each other. Hardly anything worht
reading there. People see that beginning
to happen here and would rather just
leave. No one is "afraid" . Why bother
with that sort of garbage.
So you've stated your position that this
company isn't worth investing in --
So why aren't you looking into something
more worth your time and effort
instead of hanging around to make a point?
What is your point anyway?
Do you believe I should believe what you believe?
+ should be =
Sometimes I'm unable to control myself.
bad habit.
BTW Soxfan sounds somewhat like Zackery Taylor
I think he's Chicagoan + Soxfan.
(but here he almost sounds courteous LOL).
For everyone else it's just what I F'n believe.
Torf - for you my last post was just my humble opinion.
Sent this audience is holding all the
bigger blocks of stock - If indeed
Torf and friends worked for MM's it
would be in their best interest to scare
you out of holding your shares.
I believe about 20 Million shares have changed
hands in the past 8 weeks -
Why not EDIG by Invititation ON RB?
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buttanyway - Do you think you know why that
really happened?
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Fred you buy the books and enjoy.
most of the so called "questioning developments" as far
as EDIG is concerned are poor excuses to slam/bury this
company. If a company is developing as EDIG is - what are the questions. If they don't understand the risk, they can always
sell the stock and move on to a more glorious situation.
Oh, most bashers don't own the stock Oh ...
Interesting site - May be.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3786.cfm
Here are again the top charts from last week.
The software charts are almost identical, again, from last week. A couple of changes in position, and Nero Burning Rom replaced DivX Pro.
The same goes for the MP3 charts. I can't come up with anything to say about the songs, really.
Once again Dela was the busiest forum writer with Loaded climbing a couple of positions to second.
Here are the charts in full:
Hot programs
1. SmartRipper v2.41
2. XviD Codec (Koepi's 04102002 bin)
3. Streambox VCR v1.0 beta 3.1
4. TMPGEnc v2.510.49.157
5. FFDSHOW 01-03-2003 alpha
6. DVD2AVI v1.77.3
7. Nero burning ROM v5.5.10.7b
8. DVD Decrypter v3.1.4.0
9. Alcohol 120% v1.4.0.114
10. VirtualDub v1.4.13
Hot MP3s
1. TY JORDAN, FEATURING MICHAEL JACKSON : "I HAVE THIS DREAM(PART1)"
2. Riku Avanto ja Spermaiset Nakit : "Äkkiä viinaa"
3. Nude Guitars : "teentown"
4. 230Volts : "Humminbird"
5. Nude Guitars : "p90"
6. Loud Sound Disorder : "Eminem Diss"
7. 230Volts : "Chemical Chill"
8. Riku Avanto ja Spermaiset Nakit : "Älä kuuntele tätiä"
9. 230Volts : "Electric Chase"
10. 230Volts : "Meaningless Joy"
Top forum users
1. Dela
2. loaded
3. c7015
4. Wizkid
5. DextrsLab
6. aldaco12
7. jr_
8. jodie_16
9. HomerJ
10. Jake2003
Get in on the MP3 craze
2/11/2003 12:00 PM
By: Consumer Reports
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=60942&SecID=2
Mike Lingle is not not a professional musician, but has been playing the guitar for years.
He mixes songs on his computer, and listens to them on his MP3 player.
"So, once I have the song the way I want it I export the file to an MP3," he said.
He also uses his MP3 player the way most people do: to store music files "ripped" from CDs or downloaded from the Internet.
Consumer Reports looked at 22 portable MP3 players from names like Sonicblue, Samsung and Creative Labs.
Testers looked at sound quality, how easy they were to use, and battery life.
Prices ranged from just more than $100 all the way up to $400.
The most expensive are usually high-capacity players with 5 to 40 gigabytes of storage.
"They store up to about 600 hours of music and they have almost as good as CD-quality sound," said Aaron Fournier of Consumer Reports.
Some high-capacity players offer more than just music. One has a color screen that can show pictures. But players like this can be complicated to use. Far simpler, and less expensive, are standard-capacity players. They're also smaller and lighter.
"They offer about one to two hours of music. And many of them, they have expansion card slots so you can add extra music later on," Fournier said.
And even standard capacity players can have cool features. One offers voice-recording. Record what you want, and you can play it back over speakers
Testers top-rated two standard-capacity players. The first is the Creative Labs Nomad IIc. The other, from RCA, is the Lyra RD 1080. They each cost $130, and provide 10 hours of battery life.
So, whether you're a musician like Mike, or just like listening to music, an MP3 player can come in handy.
Consumer Reports has some buying advice. Be sure to check that the MP3player you're considering buying is compatible with your computer's operating system and that you have a USB or FireWire connection.
And to minimize the chances of your player becoming obsolete, ask if it has upgradeable firmware.
Technology on the Horizon: Entertainment gets mobile
2/11/2003 4:00 PM
By: Adam Balkin
http://www.news8austin.com/content/special_series/technology_horizon/?ArID=60823&SecID=277
Technology is at a time when everything from phones to cameras to even computers fit in the palm of a hand. Soon, entire living rooms will go onto that list.
For all those constantly asking, “What's the next big thing?” This may be the answer: Portable entertainment units. Several developers are starting to offer them and the Archos Video AV 140 will be among the first.
“You can record up to 80 hours of video, so you can put your favorite movies on there, footage from your camcorder, vacations, put your family pictures on -- in addition to all that you can listen to hundreds of CDs worth of information and you can use it to back up your computer and move files from one PC to the next,” Paul Roberts, of Archos, said.
It easily connects to a TV, so you don't have to strain your eyes on its tiny screen.
Not to be outdone, Microsoft is starting to license what it calls its "Media2Go" platform. Samsung, Sanyo, ViewSonic and Intel are among those developing products for it.
“This is targeted at a broad range of consumers, from business people who travel a lot to families who have kids, you know, hand it to the kids in the back of the minivan,” Bryan Peebler, of Intel Corp., said.
Panasonic's latest four-in-one device is also catching on to the concept. It's still a video camera, digital still camera, MP3 player and voice recorder, but now it can connect to a TV, record programs and those programs can be taken for viewing later, Paul Liao, of Panasonic, said.
Finally, the Swiss Army of portable entertainment is the Jeep boom box: A radio, and also a flashlight, TV, DVD player and even an audible bug repellent. It's designed for people who like to go camping, but obviously don't like to rough it that much. It also has a weather alert system and an anti-theft feature.
“It has a motion sensor alarm, so when you flip the alarm on, as long as the unit is stationary it's fine. But, if somebody tries to pick the unit up to walk away with it, they're stealing it, it will send a very high decibel siren off,” Jim DeRienzo, of Power Brands, said.
Samsung eases into MRAM memory race
By Mike Clendenin
EE Times
February 11, 2003 (10:39 p.m. EST)
http://www.eet.com/semi/news/OEG20030211S0051
SAN FRANCISCO -- Samsung Electronics eased into the race to perfect magnetoresistance RAM on Tuesday, unveiling research aimed at relaxing the tight tolerances needed for tunneling oxide thickness.
The Korean memory maker joins a host of other companies, including Cypress Semiconductor, IBM, Infineon Technologies AG, NEC and Motorola, Inc., who are looking into MRAM as a universal replacement for SRAM, DRAM and Flash devices. Motorola seems to be leading the race and is expected to sample a device this year and release a 4Mb device for embedded systems sometime in 2004.
Before MRAM becomes an overnight sensation, it must surmount a few significant obstacles, one of which is manufacturability in a high-volume fab. Even extremely slight variations in the oxide, on order of 0.1 Angstroms, can change the magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) resistance by several percentage points, making the device unpredictable.
However, consistently keeping within the required oxide thickness in a real-world fab environment is tough, especially across an 8-inch wafer. “The most serious problem is the resistance variations but this can be handled with a self-reference sensing scheme, said Gitae Jeong, Samsung's lead researcher on the approach.
Using a 16Kbit test chip as proof, Samsung believes its sensing scheme will make MRAM relatively immune to oxide variations in the manufacturing process because each cell will have its own reference point that is pinned to its individual oxide thickness. Neighbor cells could have different values and it would not significantly affect the operation of the MRAM array; indeed Samsung reported that tunneling resistance varied by 2.5 ohms to 11 ohms.
Samsung offered some details of its test chip, which was made using a .24 -micron process, yielding a 2.06um2 size. During the program cycle, Samsung converts MTJ resistance into voltage and stores it in a capacitor. After storing, the free layer of the MTJ cell is magnetized so it is parallel to the pinned layer. That state is also assigned a value by a similar conversion and storage scheme.
During readout, these two stored voltages are sensed and amplified by the sense amplifier. If the first stored voltage is lower than the second one, it is a 0; if the first voltage is larger than the second, it is a 1. A drawback, noted by Jeong, is that the read process is destructive so data must be reprogrammed to the main cell.
What would Apple have to charge for an IPOD
to break even on the first 1000 units Nerd?
Yahoo! to go after RealNetwork entertainment market
By Brand Republic, London, Revolution UK Online, February 11, 2003
Yahoo! is to launch a product that will rival RealNetwork's RealOne Superpass service, offering subscribers entertainment, music, news and sports footage.
The plan is part of the internet company's aim to turn its 213m users into paying subscribers, as it seeks to generate more of its revenue from non-advertising sources.
RealNetworks has been one of the internet success stories, with 900,000 people paying subscriptions for its service, which allows users to view video on the internet, as well as access to content from sources such as the NBA and Major League Baseball.
The new Yahoo! service could offer content from companies it already has marketing deals with, including Fox Network, CBS and Disney. It is expected to detail plans on the new offering when it meets with analysts this Wednesday.
The internet company currently offers Yahoo! Broadcast, a free service where users can view a wide variety of on-demand audio and video content, from space shuttle launches to movies, sporting and music events, as well as advertisements and TV shows that have not been on the air in years. It has also launched a subscription music service called Launchcast.
Yahoo! has already launched a number of premium services, from horoscopes to online car auctions.
Technology - Reuters
Music Industry Unveils Net Sales Tracking Tag
Mon Feb 10, 9:08 AM ET Add Technology - Reuters to My Yahoo!
LONDON (Reuters) - A music industry trade body launched Monday electronic identity tags to keep tabs on Internet music sales in a bid to compensate musicians and song writers as more of their works become available online.
The Global Release Indentifier, or GRid, is a code akin to the Universal Product Code (UPC) bar code found on a CD or cassette tape in stores.
The aim is to track each time a record label, online retailer or distributor such as Microsoft's MSN or Italian Internet service provider Tiscali sells a song in the form of a Web stream or download.
Such tracking initiatives are considered vital to an industry that is reeling from lost sales compounded by a slumping global economy and the growth in online music piracy.
With the GRid initiative, resellers would be charged an annual fee of 150 pounds ($245.10), for which they can issue an identity tag to millions of songs sold online.
Each track will be distributed with an individual GRid serial number. Like a bar code, it will be reported back to rights societies and collection agencies so that artists can be compensated for sales.
International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) have been developing the standard for the past two years.
"If this is done properly, the artists and authors of music will be paid adequately for the sale of their works online," said Paul Jessop, chief technology officer of the IFPI.
He added the GRid initiative is a voluntary system, and that the fee would, initially at least, be covered by the resellers.
NO SNOOPING
Jessop cautioned that GRid is not designed, nor is it intended for, keeping track of songs that wind up on online file-sharing networks, a major source of music piracy.
The music industry blames the popularity of such networks, including Kazaa and Grokster, where millions of consumers swap songs for free, for the decline in recorded music sales. Monday, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) reported a 3.7 percent decline in recorded music sales in the fourth quarter of 2002, traditionally the strongest selling period.
In an effort to provide consumers an alternative to illicit file-trading sites, the major record labels, including Sony Music, Warner Music, Universal Music, EMI and Bertelsmann, have begun selling more of their music online.
But music officials have complained that sales-tracking systems in place at the moment need to be standardized so that online sales, though small at the moment, can be better recorded.
"It's our ambition to evangelize this to the independent music labels and the new generation of online music distributors," Jessop said. "I would expect they'll be part of the second wave of adoptees."
"At first sight, this looks like a really good thing," said Gavin Robertson, general manager of MusicIndie.com, research and development and licensing arm of the Association of Independent Music, a trade body representing 700 independent music labels.
"The industry is really in need of interoperable identification tags and this technology appears to really fill a gap," he said, adding that the independent labels group would consider adopting the GRid technology.
Music industry unveils Net sales tracking tag ...
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famuluscom/reuters02-10-055656.asp?sym=MSFT
END OF RECORD STORES Feb 11 2003
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12627032&method=full&siteid=89488
UK music sales are in freefall, with a 3.7 per cent slump in CD album and single sales. Will the internet finally kill off music shops?
John Dingwall
THE music industry is facing its biggest slump in record sales for more than 10 years as fans turn their back on high street stores.
More and more music lovers are downloading their tunes from the internet.
Others have simply become fed-up with the excess of manufactured pop that dominates the charts.
Back in the 1980s, major labels launched a campaign against bootleg cassettes warning "Home Taping Is Killing Music".
It didn't. But the same labels fear the internet could finally lead to their downfall.
Millions around the world are now able to find music for free on the net and "burn" the downloaded tracks on to a CD.
Nobuyuk Idei, chairman of media giants Sony, claimed: "If we don't find a way of making the internet pay for us, the music industry will be dead within 10 years."
Experts believe the internet has contributed in part to UK sales falling to their lowest level since 1992.
Record shops are already feeling the pinch. Tower Records shut their huge Glasgow store last year, claiming there was too much competition in the city.
That competition doesn't always come from other record shops.
Last month, easyJet owner Stelios Haji-Ioannou was found guilty of internet piracy after allowing customers to copy music on to CDs at his chain of cafes.
He let customers download music and "burn" their own CDs at his easyInternetcafes across Europe.
And he accused the industry of "extortion" by overcharging for CDs, predicting the music retail business would collapse.
News of the slump in CD and record sales comes just weeks after Robbie Williams, the biggest-selling artist in the UK, called on fans to download music illegally.
He was attacked by Culture Minister Kim Howells, who controversially claimed that music piracy supports drug and prostitution rackets.
Other stars fear the worst for the industry.
In an exclusive interview with The Record, Destiny's Child beauty Kelly Rowland admitted: "I'll never sell records like Destiny's Child have done in the past. I know this.
"It's because kids are downloading music. They are going to make artists feel like they shouldn't make records any more.
"What's the point when they are just downloading it?"
For several years, the UK market bucked the global downturn in music sales. The high point came in 2001 as sales exceeded £1.2billion. A five- year slump in single sales was more than compensated by the growth in album sales. By last year, even album sales were feeling the pinch as the market fell 3.7 per cent.
Single sales fell nearly 12 per cent, despite the success of acts such as Will Young, who shifted 1.1million copies of his debut Evergreen in just a week.
A spokesman for industry regulators the BPI said: "Factors adversely affecting the market included intense competition from other areas of the entertainment sector, such as computer games and DVDs."
But many blame the rise of the manufactured pop act for the decline. Singles fly into the charts and then plummet straight out, with no long-term sales.
Bucking the trend are Coldplay who are enjoying massive sales worldwide.
The band's Scots bassist Guy Berryman said: "The televised stuff like Popstars and Pop Idol is utter rubbish and I feel sick when I see it.
"People are simply getting fed-up with the manufactured stuff."
By The Associated Press
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030210&Category=APF&ArtNo=302101049&am...
SAN FRANCISCO
Online music service pressplay announced Monday it had reached deals to distribute music from several leading independent record labels, including Sub Pop and DreamWorks.
The deal brings a host of well-known artists to pressplay, such as Nirvana and Frank Zappa, and expands the selections from the subscription music service to more than 250,000 songs.
Pressplay also reached a deal to distribute music for the independent labels Palm, Ubiquity, Rykodisc/Ryko Label Group, important additions to the service already heavy with a mainstay of popular music, said pressplay CEO Mike Bebel.
Pressplay, while keeping the number of subscribers close to its vest, said 60 percent of the people who have tried the free trial service have signed up for the paid version that costs $9.95 to $17.95 a month.
Pressplay, the joint venture of Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, was launched in 2001 as the major labels sought a legal alternative to satisfy consumer hunger for music online.
But its illegal predecessor, Napster, drew tens of millions of users with free song-sharing and pressplay's subscriber base, by expert accounts, remains dwarfed by users of other free file-sharing services that sprang up in Napster's wake.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Johnson & Johnson, the health-care giant the public knows for its baby, skin and wound-care products, is boosting its biotech might with the acquisition of Scios Inc. in a $2.4 billion cash-for-stock deal announced Monday.
Buying Scios, a 22-year-old biotech company with one product on the market, gives Johnson & Johnson a new, likely lucrative heart drug and a possible future blockbuster, while Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Scios should get sales and research support that will help it grow quickly, analysts say.
The deal, expected to close in this year's second quarter, would be the third acquisition of a biotechnology company in less than four years for the New Brunswick-based maker of No More Tears shampoo and Band-Aids.
It would give Johnson & Johnson biotech sales approaching those of industry leader Amgen Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif. - about $5 billion last year, said Glenn Reicin, hospital supply analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Under terms of the acquisition agreement, Scios shareholders will receive $45 for each outstanding share - a 30 percent premium over the trading level Thursday, before talks between the two companies were reported. Scios will retain its name, management team and other resources.
In trading Monday, Scios shares rose $1.72, or 4.1 percent, to close Monday at $43.92 on the Nasdaq stock market, adding to a 22 percent gain Friday when the talks were first reported. Johnson & Johnson shares rose 20 cents to $52.04 on the New York Stock Exchange.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore predicted Monday that the semiconductor industry will maintain its torrid development pace for at least another decade, regardless of normal fluctuations in the economy.
Intel's chairman emeritus is best known as the father of "Moore's Law," his 1965 theory that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every year or two. Originally seen as little more than an optimistic speculation in an obscure trade publication, Moore's prediction became the guiding principle of the semiconductor industry in the 1970s, and it explained the sector's gangbuster growth in the '80s and '90s.
Moore, who co-founded Santa Clara-based Intel Corp. in 1968 and served as chief executive from 1979 to 1987, said Monday that growth in the semiconductor industry would equal the growth in the world's gross domestic product by 2017 if the industry continued its scorching pace. He said he saw "no apparent roadblocks" for Moore's Law for at least another decade.
Motorola Shortens Design Time for Next-Generation Portable Audio Devices
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/02-09-2003/00...
New Reference Design Sets Industry Benchmark for Power Management
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Motorola, Inc.'s (NYSE: MOT) Semiconductor Products Sector is now offering a
programmable reference design engineered to provide greater flexibility and
faster time to market for portable audio applications. The reference design
should help manufacturers quickly deliver competitively priced,
high-performance audio devices to retail shelves by the end of this year.
The reference design is driven by Motorola's SCF5249 audio controller and
combines the music decoding capability of a digital signal processor (DSP)
with the file system management capabilities of a microcontroller into a
single chip. This configuration lowers system costs by reducing the number of
components from two chips to one. It also can decrease power consumption up
to 25 percent.
Audio devices developed using the new reference design can benefit from a
new level of power management. The SCF5249 raises the industry benchmark of
battery life from the current standard of approximately 30 hours to an
anticipated life of nearly 40 hours. This is accomplished through highly
optimized software code that drives the ability to dynamically change the core
operating frequency depending upon the level of performance needed.
The SCF5249 supports various decoder formats, including CD-ROM, flash and
hard drive. This flexibility helps manufacturers by providing one platform
from which they can build various personal music players, like portable MP3
and CD-ROM. The support of various decoder formats also minimizes engineering
work required, helping manufacturers get their audio products into consumers'
hands faster.
Systems built from the reference design should support multiple music
formats, such as MP3, WMA (Windows Music Access) and AAC (Advanced Audio
Coding). These systems can include next-generation capabilities as demands
dictate, such as enabling consumers to upgrade to new formats after purchase.
Motorola is partnering with Arrow Optek, an independent design house in
Nan Shan, China, to offer the ready-to-build reference design with the
SCF5249. Motorola also offers its own reference design for independent
development of audio systems with advanced MP3 player features.
"Consumer demand for high-capacity, low-cost audio electronics is rising
and manufacturers are searching for ways to increase functionality and reduce
system costs without sacrificing power," said John Hansen, Motorola's Digital
Audio, Radio and Telematics director of marketing. "Our reference designs can
help manufacturers get started today in developing the products consumers will
be enthused to see at their favorite stores during the 2003 holiday season."
The audio reference design is based on Motorola's ColdFire architecture
and includes schematics, an applications note and source code for customizable
modules.
SC5249 Features
The SCF5249 and associated software development platform integrates
advanced features designed to dramatically boost performance and simplify
system design. These features include:
-- File management and music decoders operate from a single ColdFire(R)
32-bit core to allow support for multiple decoder formats and multiple
file formats. Consumers can simply "drag and drop" to place music on a
disc with no waste of available disc space by finalizing an incomplete
disc.
-- An integrated synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM)
controller allows fast, easy access to external memories. This is
useful for advanced features like shock protection. The cost and time
supported to add shock protection is determined by the amount of SDRAM
added to the system.
-- A flash media interface for use in portable product applications where
audio is stored in flash media, such as multimedia cards and compact
flash cards.
Pricing and Availability
The SCF5249 is available from Motorola with suggested list unit pricing
starting at less than $10 (USD) for 10,000-piece quantities. The Arrow Optek
reference design is available immediately. For more information on its
SCF5249 reference design contact: Li Ping, CEO of Optek Electronics Corp. at
leeping@optek.com.cn or (86) 0755-2651-0786.
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Samsung rolls SIP processor
Posted : 07 Feb 2003
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has introduced what it claims to be industry's first system-in-package (SIP) stacking processor with integrated NAND Flash and SDRAM memories for next-generation mobile phones and other handheld applications.
Measuring 17-by-17-by-1.4mm, the SIP integrates the company's S3C2410 ARM-based application processor, 256MB of NAND Flash memory, and 256Mb of SDRAM memory.
The S3C2410 is claimed to be world's first SoC to have a NAND Flash boot loader. It features an ARM920T CPU core operating at 203MHz and includes USB host and device support, as well as SDIO support.
http://www.eetasia.com/article_content.php3?member=no&article_id=8800298323
February 4, 2003
MPEG-4 Systems License Released
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1579301
By Ryan Naraine
The final piece of the MPEG-4 patent licensing puzzle has been put in place by the MPEG LA consortium.
MPEG LA, a group of patent holders pushing for the adoption of the MPEG-4 digital media distribution standard, on Tuesday announced the availability of the MPEG-4 Systems Patent Portfolio License, officially paving the way for use of the standards-based format.
The availability of the systems license follows last November's release of the final Visual Patent Portfolio License, which officially set the pricing terms for use of the technology.
With the release of the systems license Tuesday, developers looking to use the MPEG-4 tools or the MP4 format for data packaging can now get "fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access under a single license," the group said.
Last July, controversy erupted over the royalty rates set by MPEG-LA. Those rates call for a fee of 25 cents per subscriber or 2 cents per hour, subject to a $1 million annual cap. The fees are applicable to Web site operators that benefit commercially from use of the technology, through either paid advertisements, pay-per-view services or subscriptions.
The MPEG-4 standard allows a single form of compression on all media players and it has become quite popular among the developer crowd because of the ability to add text, animations and graphics in an object-based setting.
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CEA on RIAA vs Verizon
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By Barry Willis
February 10, 2003 — The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has responded to an ongoing copyright infringement suit being pursued in a US District Court by the music industry against Verizon Communications, Inc.
The case pits the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against the telecommunications giant and pivots around a judicial order requiring Verizon to divulge the identity of one of its DSL subscribers, claimed by the plaintiffs to be an egregious offender of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The subscriber purportedly downloads and makes available hundreds of music recordings. Verizon is vigorously contesting the order.
"Verizon will use every legal means to protect its subscribers' privacy," Verizon lawyer John Thorne told reporters in Washington. "The recording industry brought this case as a 'test case' of its aggressive legal theories. We are seeking a stay so that the Court of Appeals can issue a final ruling on the critical legal issues before we are required to turn over our subscriber's identity." As of this report (February 9), the Court of Appeals had not responded to Verizon's request to stay the order. The DMCA was signed into law in 1998 at the behest of the entertainment and software industries, and has been attacked by civil libertarians and home recording activists as a blow to the heart of long-established "fair use" rights.
On February 4, the CEA took advantage of the lull in litigation to issue a statement on the case. "The RIAA's lawsuit against Verizon is yet another example of the need for legislation to address some of the 'holes' in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act," said CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro. "Surely when it passed the DMCA, Congress did not envision that the Act's subpoena provision would be used against home Internet users. Consumers should not live in fear that their ISP will be required to turn over their identity to any copyright holder simply because someone claims [they're] doing something illegal.
"Instead of criminalizing its customers, the RIAA and the recording industry should focus on developing easy, consumer-friendly business models that leverage the benefits of technology. At the same time, Congress and the courts must acknowledge and reinforce the crucial distinction between illegal infringement and authorized fair use," Shapiro continued. "This case underscores the critical need to develop a balanced, common sense approach to legitimate concerns about transmission of copyrighted content over the Internet that respects copyright while preserving established fair use rights. The CEA will continue to work closely with our colleagues in the content community and with the Congress to establish such a solution."
In mid-January, the CEA and RIAA announced a cease-fire agreement in the digital copyright war, in which the RIAA withdrew its support for governmentally mandated "hardware solutions" which would enable electronics products to spy on their owners and report possible copyright violations to some supervisory body. "We welcome the RIAA's apparent opposition to government mandates that would force consumer electronics manufacturers to insert controls into their products which would limit consumers' home recording and fair use rights," Shapiro said on January 14.
Shapiro expressed his organization's support for the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (HR 107) (DMCRA), introduced a few days earlier by congressmen Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA). If passed, the DMCRA would undo some of the excesses of the DMCA, supporters say. By late January, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) was the lone remaining supporter of legislation such as that proposed by Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-SC), which would install technological watchdogs in coming generations of electronic products. MPAA president Jack Valenti told reporters that he wasn't ready to "unilaterally disarm," despite losing the support of the RIAA.
The MPAA and the Hollings Bill are encountering new opposition from a recently organized and well-funded high-tech coalition called the Alliance for Digital Progress (ADP). At a press conference on January 23, ADP president Fred McClure described the MPAA as "the enemy" but quickly retracted that epithet. A veteran of the Reagan and elder Bush administrations, McClure stated that legislation like the Hollings Bill "will raise the price of everything from CD players and DVD players to personal computers. It will make the devices consumers own today obsolete."."