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onBoard pay™-APS-Portable, Wireless Cash & Credit Card Device.
Hot Topic: From the Folks Who Brought You digEplayer™ Comes onBoard pay™
IFExpress Exclusive! If you thought APS was a “one trick pony”, then you haven’t seen onBoard pay™, the portable, wireless cash and credit card accounting device. If a portable VOD system wasn’t enough, the bright designers and engineers at the Tacoma, WA aviation company have now changed the paradigm for in-flight accounting. Think of onBoard pay™ as a digital wireless pager that can be used to collect transaction information of any kind during a flight. It stores the data till the flight reaches the ground and sends it via a ground-based link to just about any location on a cell-based connection. The pager-sized unit has many uses and we see applications for use by almost any airline person. The intended application, credit card transactions, is probably the most visible but we see this tool as a new customer satisfaction machine that can help reunite passengers and bags, keep track of ground and airborne assets, reduce fraud and identify P.O.P sales and so much more. Cheap, small, clever, that’s what our industry needs and this product is a winner. Guess what? You can see onBoard pay™ at Booth 1700 at the WAEA Conference, and while you are there, check out the fantastic digEplayer™ portable Video On Demand player. You can’t miss it, just look for the longest line at the show. Watch out for AIRFAX.com reporting team during the conference next week and look for your picture on our website. See you there!
Hot Topic: From the Folks Who Brought You digEplayer™ Comes onBoard pay™
IFExpress Exclusive! If you thought APS was a “one trick pony”, then you haven’t seen onBoard pay™, the portable, wireless cash and credit card accounting device. If a portable VOD system wasn’t enough, the bright designers and engineers at the Tacoma, WA aviation company have now changed the paradigm for in-flight accounting. Think of onBoard pay™ as a digital wireless pager that can be used to collect transaction information of any kind during a flight. It stores the data till the flight reaches the ground and sends it via a ground-based link to just about any location on a cell-based connection. The pager-sized unit has many uses and we see applications for use by almost any airline person. The intended application, credit card transactions, is probably the most visible but we see this tool as a new customer satisfaction machine that can help reunite passengers and bags, keep track of ground and airborne assets, reduce fraud and identify P.O.P sales and so much more. Cheap, small, clever, that’s what our industry needs and this product is a winner. Guess what? You can see onBoard pay™ at Booth 1700 at the WAEA Conference, and while you are there, check out the fantastic digEplayer™ portable Video On Demand player. You can’t miss it, just look for the longest line at the show. Watch out for AIRFAX.com reporting team during the conference next week and look for your picture on our website. See you there!
Hot Topic: From the Folks Who Brought You digEplayer™ Comes onBoard pay™
IFExpress Exclusive! If you thought APS was a “one trick pony”, then you haven’t seen onBoard pay™, the portable, wireless cash and credit card accounting device. If a portable VOD system wasn’t enough, the bright designers and engineers at the Tacoma, WA aviation company have now changed the paradigm for in-flight accounting. Think of onBoard pay™ as a digital wireless pager that can be used to collect transaction information of any kind during a flight. It stores the data till the flight reaches the ground and sends it via a ground-based link to just about any location on a cell-based connection. The pager-sized unit has many uses and we see applications for use by almost any airline person. The intended application, credit card transactions, is probably the most visible but we see this tool as a new customer satisfaction machine that can help reunite passengers and bags, keep track of ground and airborne assets, reduce fraud and identify P.O.P sales and so much more. Cheap, small, clever, that’s what our industry needs and this product is a winner. Guess what? You can see onBoard pay™ at Booth 1700 at the WAEA Conference, and while you are there, check out the fantastic digEplayer™ portable Video On Demand player. You can’t miss it, just look for the longest line at the show. Watch out for AIRFAX.com reporting team during the conference next week and look for your picture on our website. See you there!
http://www.ifeinsider.com/airfax/ifexpress/ifexpress09022003.htm
Oz-I agree. Not in our lifetime will the individuals give up their personal storage. Storage is becoming more and more popular, not less, hence the increase each year in storage capacities.
Jo-Sept 5th-7th I believe is the "Street Scenes" event.
Tenderloin-Yes, I know it is something we have already seen and talked about, but, there are still investors here who have not seen it, and have not discussed it. And, yes it was earlier than June. Just a little reminder I thought.
Philo-Yes it's a real problem. Problem is that even though you get the worm out of your computer with Norton, as soon as someone who has you in their address book, and they have the virus, sends out an email, you can get it again from the emails they send out. Is that what you call a run on sentence? Too busy to fix it. Hopefully the virus will die down soon.
Sent-Here's one you can check out.
http://www.otcbb.com/asp/mp_quotes.asp?Sort=4&Quotes=edig&Board.x=20&Board.y=6
Lickily-I'm not so sure that matters so much anymore. What really matters is that we developed these headsets for Hewlett-Packard and Walt Disney. This to me is total validation of the e.Digital technology. If this thing continues in all of the areas they are working, and expands to others such as the HP/Samsung connection, Eclipse and Toyota(which they mentioned again today), we could just find ourselves right in the sweet spot in the next year or two. Royalties is where you really make the money and our patent portfolio sounds like it is going to expand as well. I like what is happening. Good Luck.
Milplease-I think the real confusion is because it seems to me that either Fred or Robert, or both, said that airlines were calling them directly, and that lead some to think that it was just e.Digital on everything after the 1st airline. I just think that APS will continually get a piece of this just for bringing them into this business. Happens all the time.
Mary-This is from the Q & A session of the Feb webcast. Take it for what it's worth. I believe that APS is a partner with e.Digital in this IFE business, wherever it leads. According to what I read and understand, APS came to e.Digital, after the request from the airline, and said "can you do this?". APS opened up the possible entry into this industry for e.Digital. Just in my opinion.
Q: What type of company is APS
A: (RP) APS is our OEM customer for the IFE project.
They are a small privately held company. They are a
certified airlines products and service provider,
and they have been contracted by a major airline to
provide the airline with this IFE system that we
have spoken about today and previously. They also
opened up contacts with the motion picture industry
and the music industry and these are the individuals
and entities who are planning to provide content for
the IFE system.
With APS, we are negotiating with content providers
and other airlines to expand the reach of this
system.
(OT-Maybe, Maybe Not) HP kicks off HP World.
August 11, 2003 09:02 AM US Eastern Timezone
HP Unveils Consumer Strategy to Deliver Rewarding Experiences through Simplified Technology
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2003--
"Enjoy more" strategy backed by company's largest consumer offering ever - more than 100 products spanning digital photography to digital home entertainment solutions
HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced a strategy to radically simplify technology to help people "enjoy more" - a move that extends HP's leadership in imaging, printing and home computing into the fast-growing digital photography and entertainment markets.
As part of the strategy and in direct response to complex proprietary systems that have led the consumer electronics landscape for years, HP unveiled more than 100 consumer products designed to easily bring digital photos, music and video to life in new and enriching ways.
"Today marks a new beginning for consumers who have been turned off by complicated technology," said Carly Fiorina, HP chairman and chief executive officer. "HP is using its unparalleled consumer knowledge and technical inventiveness to cut through the complexity and make technology a positive ingredient in people's lives - a way to connect, discover, entertain and get more things done.
"Our vision is simple: place you, the consumer, at the center of the digital experience by making technology that is simple, fun to use, and works better together."
HP kicked off the initiative, which extends beyond products and technology to include services and retail concepts that will transform consumers' shopping, buying, and service and support experience, by announcing:
-- Its most extensive digital photography line-up ever - including the industry's first consumer eight-ink photo printer with studio grade photo paper that surpasses traditional photography on image quality and fade resistance, and a new low cost, glossy everyday photo paper;
-- Groundbreaking digital home entertainment devices that consumers can use to manage, store and enjoy music, video, photos and other digital content throughout the home and beyond;
-- HP Total Care, a comprehensive consumer support and services program, that includes 24x7 toll-free phone support in multiple languages and same-day local PC repair(1); and
-- Retail experience centers - developed with Microsoft Corp. and key U.S. retailers including Circuit City, J&R ComputerWorld, Micro Center and CompUSA - that offer real-world scenarios and demonstrations to help customers select the best equipment to meet their digital entertainment, digital photography and home office productivity needs.
Set up in dedicated physical spaces, the centers will be staffed with specially trained sales representatives to guide, educate, excite and sell to customers. Stores also will host customer workshops, teaching consumers how to improve their digital lifestyles.
Already the world's leader in consumer IT, HP is expanding its leadership within the fastest-growing consumer digital imaging and entertainment markets.
"If technology companies want to get more consumers to adopt their solutions, they have to not only deliver innovative, easy-to-use, interoperable products, but also focus on how those products contribute to the overall consumer experience," said Danielle Levitas, director of consumer devices and technologies, IDC. "Consumers use technology because they enjoy digital photography, digital music and/or digital video. The challenge is to seamlessly integrate technology into their passion - and HP is providing compelling solutions to consumers."
Simplifying Home Photography
With surveys showing that more than 80 percent of digital camera users print their digital photos at home (InfoTrends' 2003 Digital Camera Survey), HP is responding with a revamped digital photography line that makes the production of affordable, high-quality digital photos easy and convenient. Highlights include:
-- The HP Photosmart 7960 photo printer combined with the new HP 59 gray photo inkjet print cartridge - the world's first eight-ink consumer photo printer that delivers professional-quality photo printing for stunning color and black and white prints.
-- The HP PSC 2510 Photosmart all-in-one - the industry's first all-in-one printer with built-in wireless functionality to provide the convenience of a mini-photo lab at home. Consumers can print, scan, fax and copy in one easy-to-use device.
-- HP Image Zone imaging and printing software - which will come with all HP Pavilion PCs and HP Photosmart imaging and printing devices - to provide seamless integration for taking, viewing, editing, printing and storing digital photos. The simple-to-use software also includes the industry's first auto digital negatives feature for lasting protection.
-- The HP Scanjet 4670 see-through vertical scanner - featuring a breakthrough ultra-thin design that allows users to see what they are scanning through clear glass to capture hard-to-scan items such as newspapers, maps or books.
-- The HP Deskjet 9650 photo printer - delivering vivid photos up to 13 x 19 inches in size.
-- HP Everyday Photo Paper - priced as low as 10 cents a sheet for 4 x 6-inch size and 15 cents for 8 x 10-inch size.
-- The HP Photosmart 945 digital camera - featuring HP's exclusive Adaptive Lighting Technology that permits the camera to reproduce on paper what you see with your eyes, balancing the contrast between darkness and light. The camera captures detailed photos and achieves outstanding enlargements with 5.3- megapixel total resolution and 56x total zoom.
-- The HP Photosmart Mobile Camera for the HP iPAQ Pocket PC - offering industry leading image quality with HP Photosmart image processing technology for a Pocket PC camera accessory. The device enables users to snap, share and print images directly from iPAQ Pocket PCs.
HP Extends Into Digital Home Entertainment
HP is positioned to lead in the digital entertainment arena, focusing on the segment of the market where the computing and home entertainment worlds converge into a new space. HP is bringing the processing power of PCs to a variety of home entertainment devices creating simple-to-use, rewarding entertainment experiences that enable people to enjoy their digital content in new ways.
Leveraging its strengths in home computing, imaging and storage, HP announced groundbreaking products for digital entertainment enthusiasts, including:
-- The HP DVD Movie Writer dc3000 - the first of its kind in the industry - which can turn VHS tapes into long-lasting DVDs and preserve precious video memories for future generations.
-- The HP Pavilion Notebook zd7000 series, converging digital entertainment, photography and Internet computing in a widescreen notebook design with desktop comfort.
-- The HP Notebook Expansion base, providing a cord-free desktop work area with a wireless desktop-size keyboard and optical mouse. With a smaller footprint and increased performance, this expansion base ensures a better desktop experience.
Satisfying Customers Through Award-winning Service and Support
HP has steadily increased customer satisfaction rates over the past year and has now implemented a new and innovative support and services program called HP Total Care. The program offers customers greater options for convenient support, including industry-leading one hour e-mail response; 24x7 toll-free speech-enabled telephone support in English, Spanish(2) and French(3); built-in product support options for computing products; easy-to-access online diagnostic tools and downloadable drivers; and enhanced repair options with faster turnaround times for computing products.
With HP Total Care, specialized agents are easier than ever to reach via phone, web or e-mail and, with 12-14 weeks of technical and soft-skills training, they are well-versed to understand as much as possible about the customer and their products, meaning faster response times and increased first time resolution rates.
Pricing and Availability
Additional information, pricing and availability details are available in an online press kit at http://www.hp.com/go/consumerstrategy or at http://www.hpshopping.com.
About HP
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company's solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium business. For the last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $70.4 billion. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.
(1) Available in the United States only through Best Buy; certain restrictions may apply.
(2) Toll-free support is available in North America, Canada and certain countries in Latin America only.
(3) French language support available in Canada only.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development and performance of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2003, and subsequently filed reports. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP's results could differ materially from HP's expectations in these statements. HP assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Contacts
HP
Cherie Britt, +1-408-873-5872
cherie.britt@hp.com
or
Porter Novelli for HP
Angie Schneider, +1-206-770-7004
angie.schneider@porternovelli.com
68-Not sure-Here's an HP link to this week at HP World:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/030801b.html
HP to Showcase Adaptive Enterprise Solutions, Customers and Partners at HP World 2003
PALO ALTO, CALIF., AUG. 1, 2003
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Three months after the introduction of the company's Adaptive Enterprise strategy, HP (NYSE:HPQ) will demonstrate the momentum of its vision with hundreds of partners and thousands of customers in attendance at HP World 2003, the largest and most comprehensive gathering of IT professionals using HP solutions, services and technologies.
The conference takes place Aug. 11-15 at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta. Keynote presenters at the event include: Carly Fiorina, HP chairman and chief executive officer; Peter Blackmore, executive vice president, HP Enterprise Systems Group; Ann Livermore, executive vice president, HP Services; and Dean Kamen, president of DEKA Research and Development Corporation and chairman of Segway LLC.
Produced by the Interex and Encompass User Groups in conjunction with HP, the HP World 2003 conference program features more than 350 technical sessions, during which product developers, engineers, IT practitioners and technical consultants will present topics across 28 tracks. Hands-on workshops will help participants solve real-world challenges in specific topic areas.
Additionally, more than 160 technology and solutions providers will showcase their products, applications and ideas. Within the HP Showcase, a wide range of products, services and solutions will be demonstrated by 12 key go-to-market partners: Accenture, BEA, BearingPoint, Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel.
Shane Robison, HP chief technology officer, and Dick Lampman, senior vice president and director, HP Labs, will deliver Senior Technologist Sessions on Aug. 11. The sessions will provide an understanding of the philosophy and issues driving HP's technology directions. In addition, plenary sessions by HP executives on Aug. 11 and 12 will take a focused look at the strategy for each of the major technologies HP delivers.
The conference is built around 10 program areas: IT Directors and MIS Managers, Storage Management, HP-UX, Linux, ProLiant, Microsoft Windows, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, MPE and System Administration. Highlighting HP's "demand more" market positioning and Adaptive Enterprise strategy, the conference will focus on critical IT topics such as:
The Art of Consolidation;
Deploying Enterprise-class Applications Using the Linux Ecosystem;
Realizing Storage Virtualization with Today's and Tomorrow's Technologies;
Delivering New Business Applications Through Existing IT Infrastructures;
The Hidden Returns from Planning for Disaster Recovery; and
Cost Implications of Deploying IT Security.
"IT managers today are under increased pressure to do more with less amidst constant change," said Blackmore. "In one information-packed week, HP World's extensive program provides the single best resource for learning how HP and its partners are delivering more of what customers demand – accountability, agility and return on IT."
Interex is the world's largest independent organization of IT leaders incorporating HP and HP-compatible technology in their computing strategy. For 29 years Interex has produced the world's leading HP-centric conferences, publications, online services and other educational tools supporting its member's platform involvement with MPE, HP-UX, NT, Windows & .NET, Linux and HP OpenView. For more information on Interex – where shared knowledge equals shared power – visit http://www.interex.org.
Encompass is an association of information technology professionals interested in enterprise computer products, services and technologies of HP and related vendors. The organization promotes the unimpeded exchange of information by providing members with professional development programs, technical training, information exchanges, advocacy programs and networking opportunities. Encompass is headquartered in Chicago. To learn more about Encompass, visit http://www.encompassUS.org.
About HP
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company's solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium business. For the last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $70.4 billion. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com.
Newe.Long-Looks like Murgirl found a Xilinx paper with a Sanyo/Edig mention back in May of 2001 in connection with Texas Instruments.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=117897
Posted by: murgirl
In reply to: None Date:5/31/2001 11:40:30 AM
Post #of 42582
Secure Xilinx paper with mention of edig:
... Audio's Secure Portable Player Platform (SP3). TI has announced design wins based
on this design with e.Digital, and Sanyo. The advantage of this approach is ...
http://www.xilinx.com/products/xaw/mp3/wp103.pdf -
http://www.e-insite.net/index.asp?layout=static&page=ggl_search_industry&qu=e%2Edigital&....
Newe.Long-It was there at least in the beginning of March and probably earlier than that. I do not know the significance though.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=807689
Posted by: rstring
In reply to: None Date:3/3/2003 1:14:16 PM
Post #of 42580
Interesting-E.Digital on Xilinx site.
Although, they say at the bottom that these listed as an assortment of info.
http://www.xilinx.com/esp/technologies/cpld/pda/prc.htm
CoolRunner Reference Designs
Listed below are the latest Xilinx CPLD design examples and evaluation boards:
Avnet Evaluation Kit (CoolRunner XPLA3)
Avnet Evaluation Kit (CoolRunner-II)
E.Digital
Insight Electronics-CPLD
Insight Electronics-Springboard
Insight Electronics-CPLD (CoolRunner-II)
Intel® StrongARM Processor
Quarndon Development Board
Hardware Development
To find the latest information regarding PDA hardware kits and development boards, see the links below:
CompactFlash Development Tools
Compaq Pocket Computing
Handspring Development Kit
Hewlett-Packard Development Corner
Sony Handheld Developer
Springboard Development Guide
Manufactures
Available are various links to companies that are the well-known makers of handheld devices:
Casio
Compaq
HandEra
Handspring
Hewlett-Packard
Palm
Sony
Newsgroups
Provided are PDA related newsgroups that encourages participation by giving you the ability to add your own comments to messages already posted:
alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
comp.sys.handhelds
comp.sys.palmtops
comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
comp.sys.pen
Organization and Standards
Listed are sites that promote the interface between plug-in modules and the PDA:
CompactFlash Association
Handhelds.org
Memory Stick
MultiMediaCard Association
SD Card Association
Springboard Module Development
Publications
Offering you the latest news and information on handheld equipment. Many feature discussion forums, editorials and product reviews:
Brighthand
MagPortal
Mobile Computing Online
Mobile Insights
PalmAgora (French)
PalmPower
Palm Tipsheet
Palmtop PRO (German)
Palm User (UK)
PMN (UK)
Pocket PC Magazine
Portable Design
TidBITS for the Palm Pilot
Tucows
VisorCentral
Wireless Developer Network
Software Development
These software developer sites offer various methods to write and test software for PDA applications:
GNU Software
Handspring Development Kit
Linux
Metrowerks Development Tools
Microsoft PocketPC
OrbWorks Concentrated Software
Palm Development Tools
PersonalJava™ Application Environment
Symbian Developer Network
User Groups
User groups are a great way to swap stories, ask questions, give advice or just have fun with other users of handheld equipment:
Club Pocket PC
InterPUG
Note*
The above links were selected to provide an assortment of information on PDAs, and the websites themselves are the products of, and are owned by, the companies identified on such sites. This resource center is provided solely as a convenience for our customers, and does not imply an endorsement by Xilinx; Xilinx makes no warranties, and accepts no liability, with respect to such websites or their use, and any use thereof is solely at the risk of the user.
Springboard Development
Contact CPLD Team
PDA Glossary
New Alert-Date Corrected
SHAREHOLDER ALERT
E.DIGITAL TO BE NAMED ONE OF SAN DIEGO'S
FASTEST GROWING TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES IN
DELOITTE & TOUCHE TECHNOLOGY FAST 50 PROGRAM
(SAN DIEGO, CA - August 8, 2003) - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) announced today that it will be named to Deloitte & Touche's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for San Diego, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the area by Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services firms. With final rankings scheduled to be announced September 17th, Technology Fast 50 rankings are based on the percentage of growth in fiscal year revenues over five years, from 1998-2002.
To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 1998 and $1,000,000 in 2002, must be public or private companies headquartered in North America, and be a "technology company" defined as owning proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues (using other companies' technology in a unique way does not qualify); and/or devoting a significant portion of revenues to research and development of technology. This year's San Diego Technology Fast 50 program is co-presented by Deloitte & Touche, Comerica, Cooley Godward, Fleishman-Hillard, Focus Creative, KPBS, Marsh, R.J. Watkins, T Sector and in association with AeA and BIOCOM.
Winners of the 20 regional Technology Fast 50 programs in the United States and Canada are automatically entered in the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500 program, which ranks North America's top 500 fastest growing technology companies. For more information on the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 or Fast 500 programs, visit www.fast500.com
About e.Digital
e.Digital Corporation specializes in technology innovation and applications integration through engineering partnerships with leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) designing, licensing, branding, and manufacturing digital audio, video and wireless products and technology platforms. The Company also sells its Odyssey 1000(tm) digital jukebox through selected e-tail and retail outlets. Applications for e.Digital's technology include delivery and management of open and secure digital media with a focus on music, voice, wireless and video players/recorders, automotive infotainment and telematics systems, portable digital music players and voice recorders; desktop, laptop, and handheld computers; PC peripherals; cellular phone peripherals; e-books; video games; digital cameras; and digital video recorders. Engineering services range from the licensing of e.Digital's patented MicroOS(tm) file management system to custom software and hardware development, industrial design, and manufacturing services. For more information on the company, please visit www.edigital.com. To shop at the e.Digital online store, please visit www.edigital-store.com.
About Deloitte & Touche
Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, probides assurance and advisory, tax, and management consulting services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping its clients and its people excel. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources programs, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" by Fortune magazine for six consecutive years. Deloitte & Touche refers to Deloitte & Touche LLP and related entities. Deloitte & Touche is the US national practice of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national practices is a separate and independent legal entity. For more information, please visit Deloitte & Touche's web site at www.deloitte.com/us.
# # #
CONTACT: Robert Putnam - (858) 679-3168 robert@edig.com
Deloitte & Touche PR posted by Culater on the 5th.
Good job Culater.
Posted by: culater33
In reply to: None Date:8/6/2003 9:24:44 PM
Post #of 42545
Deloitte & Touche Announces Alphabetical List of 2003 San Diego Technology Fast 50 Winners
BW5332 AUG 05,2003 8:01 PACIFIC 11:01 EASTERN
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Sept. 17)
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
WHAT: Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation's leading
professional services firms, is pleased to announce an
alphabetical listing of its 2003 San Diego Technology Fast 50
winners. The Fast 50 ranks the 50 fastest-growing technology
companies in San Diego County over five years (1998-2002). A
special category called "Rising Stars" recognizes the
fastest-growing technology companies based on revenue growth
over three years (2000-2002).
This year's San Diego Technology Fast 50 program is
co-presented by Deloitte & Touche, Comerica, Cooley Godward,
Fleishman-Hillard, Focus Creative, KPBS, Marsh, R.J. Watkins,
The T Sector, and in association with AeA and BIOCOM.
HOW: Technology Fast 50 winners are selected based on the
percentage of growth in revenues from 1998 to 2002. To be
considered, entrants must be based in San Diego County, and
must be a technology company defined as owning proprietary
technology that contributes to a significant portion of the
company's operating revenues (using other companies'
technology in a unique way does not qualify); and/or devoting
a significant proportion of revenues to research and
development of technology.
WHEN: Announcement of the San Diego Technology Fast 50 and Rising
Star winners ranked by growth percentage is scheduled for
Wednesday, September 17, at the Hyatt Aventine, La Jolla.
WHERE: Visit www.fast50.com for more information on the Technology
Fast 50 program.
WHO: 4-D Neuroimaging (San Diego)
American Technology Corporation (San Diego)
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (San Diego)
Applied Molecular Evolution, Inc. (San Diego)
Biosite Incorporated (San Diego)
Captiva Software Corporation (San Diego)
Cardiff Software, Inc. (Vista)
CardioDynamics International Corporation (San Diego)
ComGlobal Systems, Inc. (San Diego)
Continuous Computing Corporation (San Diego)
Digirad Corporation (San Diego)
Discovery Partners International (San Diego)
Diversa Corporation (San Diego)
DJ Orthopedics, Inc. (Vista)
e.Digital Corporation (San Diego)
Epimmune Inc. (San Diego)
IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation (San Diego)
ImageWare Systems, Inc. (San Diego)
Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. (San Diego)
Innovative Medical Services (El Cajon)
Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad)
ISIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Carlsbad)
JNI Corporation (San Diego)
Koam Engineering Systems, Inc. (San Diego)
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (San Diego)
Lightspan, Inc. (San Diego)
MAXIM Pharmaceuticals (San Diego)
Miracor Diagnostics, Inc. (San Diego)
Mitek Systems, Inc. (Poway)
MUSICMATCH, Inc. (San Diego)
Nanogen, Inc. (San Diego)
Novatel Wireless, Inc. (San Diego)
Overland Storage, Inc. (San Diego)
Predicate Logic, Inc. (San Diego)
ProfitLine, Inc. (San Diego)
Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (San Diego)
Protein Polymer Technologies, Inc. (San Diego)
ResMed Corporation (Poway)
SEQUENOM, Inc. (San Diego)
SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. (Oceanside)
SmartDraw.com (San Diego)
SourcingLink.net (San Diego)
SureBeam Corporation (San Diego)
Terra-Kleen Response Group, Inc. (San Diego)
The Titan Corporation (San Diego)
ViaSat, Inc. (Carlsbad)
Websense, Inc. (San Diego)
WIDCOMM, Inc. (San Diego)
Wireless Facilities, Inc. (San Diego)
Women First HealthCare, Inc. (San Diego)
About Deloitte & Touche
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Nope 68, I noticed. Waiting for volume to kick in.
Ucan-Nice list there we are on. Thanks.
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A powerful list of attendees at the WAEA Conference.
WAEA 24th Annual Conference & Exhibition
9-12 September 2003
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
Airline Attendees
(as of 23 July)
Air France
AIRCALIN
Alitalia
All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.
America West Airlines
American Airlines
American Trans Air
Asiana Airlines
Austrian Airlines
BELAIR Airlines
British Airways
Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
Continental Airlines
Copa Airlines
Delta Air Lines
El Al Israel Airlines
Emirates
EVA Airways Corporation
Finnair
Hawaiian Airlines
Japan Air Lines
JetBlue Airways, Ltd.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Korean Air
Lan Chile Airlines
Lufthansa German Airlines
LTU International Airways
Malev Hungarian Airlines
Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Philippine Airlines
Qantas Airways Ltd.
Royal Jordanian Airlines
Singapore Airlines Ltd.
Tap Air Portugal
Transaero Russian Airlines
United Airlines
US Airways
I would think that this may be an important conference.
Hot Topic: The 2003 World Airline Entertainment Conference In Seattle Draws Near!
You have been warned: This year the IFE industry is at a crossroad where technology changes, airline offering changes, and passenger demands are driving the in-flight entertainment world in new and totally different directions. Consider these incredible changes that you will learn about at the conference: portable VOD systems that weigh in at 1.7 lbs per seat unit, Ku Band communication systems that offer passenger email and web surfing at 35,000 feet, the latest almost real map display products, a new generation of airplane networks (yes, we expect more fiber optics), the lowdown on the next generation of programming content and the digital impact on hardware and content providers, the latest in domestic US in-flight connectivity using NATS, a new generation of noise-canceling headphones and tons of wireless! Get online and sign up because September 9 12 is not that far away. Below is a link to the latest from the WAEA with all the information and a conference agenda... and yes, if you are an airline, a vendor or simply interested in IFE, this is your show!
WAEA 24th Annual Conference & Exhibition
Editor's Note: The AIRFAX and IFExpress team will be on hand to gather and explain those Rumors, Rumors. Also, we are looking for an exhibiting vendor who will be demonstrating 802.11 with a connection to the Internet. We wont say here what we have planned but if you help us, we will give your company website billing something like this: Powered by [Your Company]. Interested? Contact terryw@airfax.com for more details- first come, first served.
IFExpress is sponsored in part by:
Latest IFE News Releases
Rockwell Collins names Tommy Dodson to head in-flight entertainment group
8/5/2003 10:40:59 PM
TEAC AirTracks Delivers Moving Map Entertainment to Passengers In-Flight
8/5/2003 10:40:18 PM
New DVD Video Reproducer Supports All Digital Formats: Early Window MPEG-1 & MPEG-2, DVD Region 8, and DVD with 0598 Encryption
8/5/2003 10:38:55 PM
US Airways Announces More Liberal Headset Policy
8/5/2003 10:09:25 PM
Ibises International Continues to Strengthen Its Management Infrastructure
8/5/2003 10:01:40 PM
Sinkman-Thanks for a good post and your thoughts.(eom)
Med.rare-That's good and funny also. Their sizzling summer special is $1 off. That's a good gimmick.
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Amen Philo, Amen.
Stone-mason-Thanks for the feedback.
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Ran Furman ... " ... It`s important to emphasize that we have increased our revenue base substantially, while at the same time we have reduced our monthly cash operating expenses to approximately $225,000 from approximately $500,000 at the end of fiscal 2002. Further, we expect to drive our monthly expenses to under $200,000 before the end of the calendar year."
It looks like we just did.
rw-Yes it is ours-the HD100. We receive royalties on each one Digitalway sells. They (Digitalway) have aftermarket kits for this unit with a lot of types of autos, not just Toyota.
This is nice to look at even though it is Digitalway after market kit.
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OK-There we go. Tenderloin-Great job.
I saw this earlier on another board posted by LL but had not seen the specific March bit until tonight. LL said that the actual credit for this following post goes to Sentinel, and Sentinel had a post earlier today on IHub that showed the strong connection between HP and Disney.
Walt Disney World Resort in Florida Offers Guests Newly Designed Multicultural Amenities
TORONTO, July 15 /CNW/ - Combining cutting-edge wireless technology with the guest service standards that have become a Disney hallmark, Walt Disney World Resort in Florida is pleased to offer guests translation devices in five languages for over 30 popular Walt Disney World theme park attractions at no
additional cost.(*)
Available to all guests, Ears to the World, Disney's Show Translator uses a personal translation unit that automatically receives creative narration via headphones in five languages -- French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish -- providing a more satisfying personal experience for guests with limited English fluency. Wireless signals at more than 30 key attractions in all four theme parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney-MGM Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom) trigger synchronized digital audio in each unit.
''This state-of-the-art program is the latest initiative in an ongoing effort to meet language needs of Walt Disney World Resort guests,'' said Bruno Jauernig, Director of Sales & Marketing, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts (Canada).
''French Canadian guests in particular can take full advantage of the new device, helping to make the most of their Disney vacation.''
HP/Disney-
Look at 3rd paragraph.
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8TH ANNUAL WORLDWIDE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
MARCH 3, 2003
'LEADING IN WEB SERVICES MANAGEMENT'
Thank you and good morning everyone. It's a pleasure to be here today for BEA's 8th annual eWorld Conference.
Orlando is a wonderful place to host a conference for some of the industry's leading developers and IT managers. We are in a city that places enormous value on the role of technology in transforming people's lives and experiences.
Let me give you two examples. Just up the road a bit at Walt Disney World, HP is working with Disney on a device that will provide real-time, location-based translation services in the park. It's a headset-like device that will make it possible for guests who don't speak English to navigate the park, the rides, and the shops with a constant stream of location-based information provided in their own language.
Another example: later this year, HP and Disney will unveil a new attraction called Mission: Space. One of the important points that President Bush made in response to the devastating shuttle tragedy last month is that our nation would continue its exploration of space. This attraction is designed to bring the thrill of space flight to life for those of us who will never get that experience. HP engineers—together with Disney imagineers—worked hard to make that experience as memorable as possible.
Now, why do I mention these two examples? Because I'm proud of the work HP has done here in Orlando? Sure. But in a larger sense, I mention these two examples because even in this city, where memory and tradition intermingle to tap into some of the oldest and deepest experiences we all share from our childhoods—with a brand known the world over—lives and experiences are being transformed by technology.
Every single day, the executives at Disney ask themselves these simple questions: how do we extend the trusted brand experience that has made us great, while also imagining the future? How do we take our best ideas and our enduring assets and use technology to market them, maneuver them and marry them and introduce new levels of magic to the Disney experience?
And every single day, every developer, IT manager and CIO in this room asks a similar question: how do I link today's business ideas to the systems and data that we've invested in for years? How do I build a bridge between application development and integration? And how do I do it fast, and efficiently, and inexpensively? BEA likes to say that getting strategic information currently trapped in legacy applications into tomorrow's applications is today's business challenge. And that's really the challenge we're here to talk about.
More and more, businesses that operate in this new world can be separated into two kinds of businesses: those who see information technology as necessary overhead, and those who see information technology as a competitive asset.
At HP, we like to think of it as the fault line between winning and losing in the marketplace. Those companies who see IT as a competitive weapon generally have an empowered CIO and an empowered IT organization—a CIO who is as likely to be working as much on business strategy as on technology strategy . . . who sees technology as a business accelerator essential to business success.
I think it was Marilyn Monroe who convinced the world that diamonds are a girl's best friend. But we come to this conference today convinced that the diamond partners sponsoring this conference—HP and Intel, together with BEA—are potentially a CIO's best friend. I want to talk for a few minutes about what we are doing together to give more 'power' to empowered businesses and CIO's.
I was interested in the fact that the theme of this year's conference is 'convergence,' because I represent a company that has thought a great deal about convergence these past three years. It has caused us to do some pretty bold things, including the largest merger in the history of the IT industry.
From where we sit, convergence is just another word for the fundamental reality that all CIO's face in today's IT world: namely, the realization that the value proposition for IT must change.
To us, that agenda—the customer agenda—is the only agenda that matters. At HP, we view convergence through a lens that magnifies two distinct areas: technology convergence and industry convergence.
There used to be a time in IT when stability was the name of the game. There used to be time when you never touched a running system unless it was broken.
Those days are gone. No matter what industry you are in, the name of the game today is speed and agility. Every enterprise must react quickly to change. You have to be able to adapt your infrastructure more rapidly and deploy systems in real time to meet business demands.
At HP, our CIO, Bob Napier, has a favorite phrase. He says that 'every business decision triggers an IT event.' Our IT team handles more than 500,000 business-driven IT events every week.
How do you deal with that much change? And I'm not talking about the kind of change that result from extraordinary business events like mergers or acquisitions. I'm talking about every day business decisions: changes in pricing, changes in the supply chain, changes in capital markets, a new employee.
These IT events don't happen in a vacuum. They don't happen in discrete silos. Each business decision triggers a series of changes across the entire IT infrastructure&—HR systems, finance systems, supply chain systems, the employee portal, as well as across the network, the servers, storage, and software running in the data center; the PCs and printers and mobile devices on people's desktop, in their briefcase, or at their home; and the data, applications and business processes this infrastructure ultimately supports.
For IT managers, it means that the IT infrastructure needs to be able to manage change. Change—as it ripples across all of these systems—must be predictable and controllable. Infrastructure must be designed to give IT departments the ability to control the impact of change. Infrastructure must be able to flex with the business, whenever the business demands it. It must become a platform for the efficient operation of the business—a platform for the efficient delivery of data and business applications and processes.
Which leads me to another favorite saying of Bob Napier: 'If you get the infrastructure right, everything is possible.' That's a very important idea. If you get the infrastructure right, everything is possible. He ought to know—he had to manage one of the biggest infrastructure integration projects known to man.
The problem is, many current IT environments were built up as islands of automation. Applications were built up on vertically integrated technology stacks—independent, monolithic silos. These environments were built to be stable, not to react quickly—which is why one survey found that the business environment is changing seven times as fast as the underlying IT infrastructure.
So, as IT and development managers, your department spends nearly half of its time finding stop-gap fixes to old solutions that can't keep up with yesterday's demands, let alone today's.
Or worse, you've invested hundreds of millions in a system that doesn't necessarily talk to the old system, and yet business cycles and budgets no longer support custom-built hardware and software to meet those needs. So all the while, you are being pressed to do more with less.
And on top of it all, the rapid transformation to a digital world will mean there is more data created over the next three years than in the entire history of mankind. And that's when the fun really begins.
And yet, after a long hard day at work, you come home and turn on the TV, only to see commercials in big blue color boxes aimed directly at the line of business guys around you, which say: 'Your IT organization promised you the world. They promised you pixie dust and time machines and magic binoculars. And they failed. Now it's time to hire us.'
Now you'll have to forgive us if we take a little bit of offense at that approach. IBM may be a company of consultants, but first and foremost, HP, BEA and Intel have always been companies of inventors and engineers. IT managers are our people. We don't think IT managers should be blamed or rejected; we think you should be empowered.
As a company, we could offer our customers magic binoculars that allow you to peer into the future and undo the IT decisions you make today. But we prefer to help our customers get it right the first time.
We know that no matter what industry you are in, you are no longer interested in buying the fastest, hottest box. You're no longer simply interested in the latest killer app.
Just as we are at HP, you're focused on fundamental questions: how do I get a better return on my IT dollars? How do I get real value? How do I lower the cost of acquiring and operating IT so that I can apply those savings toward projects that drive real competitive advantage?
There has been a great deal written in recent months that the changes we're seeing in IT spending are cyclical, driven by an economic slowdown—and that's certainly part of it. But I think we would make a big mistake if we believe that cyclical change is all that's at work here. The truth is, this change is not just cyclical; it's permanent. The value customers place on lowering IT acquisition and operating costs, on scope and scale, on adaptability and sustainability—is here to stay.
For all those who work to manage this new landscape, the business model shifts required to deal with this technology convergence is driving an equally significant industry convergence.
The reality is that in today's market, there are fewer and fewer companies with the ability to offer end-to-end solutions who also have the resources to continue to invent and invest in the technologies of the future. In September of 2001, when HP first announced our merger with Compaq, we saw these changes, and we aimed our merger at the intersection of these changing customer realities. For that reason, HP is now one of those companies.
So where are we focused today—particularly as it relates to enterprise customers?
First, we intend to be the company that provides the best return on information technology; the company that works to redefine the economics of IT infrastructure. And by that I mean lower acquisition costs, lower operating costs, better manageability, better utilization of IT assets better interoperability, reduced complexity, reliability and security.
We deliver on that commitment through our people, processes, technology products, and importantly, our partners. Like BEA, we come to the table with a portfolio that differentiates us from our competitors and uniquely positions us to meet those goals. When you think about the markets we serve, HP today is the number one consumer technology company in the world, the number one small- and medium-business technology company in the world, and the trusted alternative in the enterprise IT market.
Second, we're focused on building world-class cost structures that make us more efficient while making it easier for HP to deliver innovation and value to our customers. We believe our cost structures in every aspect of our business must absolutely be world-class so that we can offer the most competitive price to our customers. And we're making great progress in delivering on this strategy.
Third, we have a discipline that focuses our innovations, our people, our assets and our R&D on the places where we believe we can make a unique contribution and lead. In the last six months of 2002, we introduced more than one hundred new products and added 1,400 patents, bringing our worldwide total to 17,000—representing $4 billion in annual R&D investment.
Where we decide not to invest, we will partner. This enables us to deliver solutions that provide the best of HP and the best of our world-class partners, like BEA. In other words, our partnerships are central to our strategy. Our partners are essential to HP's success. We believe they make the best use of our assets, extend our global reach and that they are one of the prime differentiators between HP and IBM.
HP is a collaborator, a partner by strategy, by personality, and by choice. It's the reason we are now the number one partner for Microsoft, Brocade, Intel, Accenture, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel, Deloitte, CGEY and Bearing Point.
We believe our partnership strategy gives customers the flexibility, freedom, and choice they require—which brings me to our partnership with BEA.
The relationship between HP and BEA is a natural alliance that grows stronger every year. What began as a simple partnership in 1997 has grown into what we believe is an industry-leading collaboration.
Nine months ago, changing market dynamics brought us closer together. We decided to focus HP's software investment on what we do best—management of the entire computing environment—and on expanding the capabilities of our OpenView family of products.
We believe that dynamic, automated management of all the components of infrastructure—including hardware, software, application services and eventually even end-to-end business processes—is where you achieve the real breakthroughs in driving better resource utilization and lower operating costs. It's the next big step in how you create a platform for the efficient delivery of data and business applications and processes. And it's where we have a distinct competitive advantage.
By choosing to focus our software investments on what we call 'adaptive management solutions,' we also made a very conscious decision to partner with industry leaders for middleware and business application software.
We understand that customers have heterogeneous environments and that you need partners who can deliver the choice and flexibility you need to get the most out of those environments. Most enterprises today have both J2EE and .NET based solutions, either by design or default—and both will remain critical to next generation web services.
We are delighted to be BEA's preferred partner in the J2EE space, just as we are Microsoft's primary partner in the .NET space. In fact, we're proud to be the only hardware vendor that can offer this choice and the knowledge and support for both J2EE and .NET, and provide ways for these two worlds to operate together.
Through the strategic partnership we announced last year, HP and BEA are expanding our efforts to jointly market, sell and deliver integrated solutions, including hardware, software and services across all HP operating systems. Our partnership with BEA is absolutely integral to how HP differentiates itself in the marketplace, how we solve our customers' problems, and how we compete and win.
We have strengthened the partnership in several ways: with global alignment across products and services; a commitment to co-sell products and services rather than re-sell them; industry-leading support for Itanium leveraging our relationship with Intel, and a deeply integrated consulting and services team.
It is a relationship that works well because we are aligned around our strengths. We go to market with a common vision on customer choice and interoperability, common business objectives and common allies. Of course, we also have common adversaries—and I'll talk more about that in a minute.
Before I do, I want to discuss a new area of collaboration—one where HP intends to play a critical role in helping our customers and BEA customers improve their return on IT. This area is web services management.
For HP, this means two things&—the management 'of' web services, whether its .NET or J2EE, and management 'through' web services.
Let me explain.
You've all read a lot of the current hype about web services—it's been touted as the next big thing. And it certainly is an important shift in how companies build, deploy, integrate and manage their software assets across a heterogeneous infrastructure. However, just as the New Economy didn't toss out the fundamentals of business, the Internet and web services don't toss out your existing infrastructure or the fundamentals of how you run IT.
When you peel back the hype, the promise of web services is about easy connections among different IT systems; connections among collaborating companies; the move from traditional vertical corporations—which often own every link in their supply chains—to horizontally networked companies that rely on upstream and downstream connections across the business and with other businesses; a layer of software that sits on top of an application and connects it to any other web service-friendly applications quickly, cheaply and flexibly—automating the flow of information between a company and its business partners.
Just like the mainframe and client-server worlds before it, the Internet and web services world needs appropriate tools to build, deploy, integrate and manage.
Most of the focus in the past two years has been about the 'build' and 'deploy' elements. The next wave of this discussion is integration, and we've been working closely with BEA and other companies during the past year through the Web Services Interoperability Consortium. Collectively, we want to make sure that the web services world doesn't fall victim to the proprietary fiefdoms that make life difficult for all of our customers.
From all our conversations with customers, analysts and partners, management is the next major barrier to mainstream web services adoption. As our customers have learned over the past 20 years through trial and error, management cannot be an afterthought—it must be part of the design, part of the deployment and part of the IT infrastructure.
We see web services offering a host of new tools that can help customers turn complexity into simplicity, and accelerate their return on IT. The tools, however, are only as good as the management. And that's where HP can make a valuable contribution to our customers, partners and the industry. We intend to take advantage of that opportunity, and we'll do it through HP OpenView and HP Services.
OpenView is the most advanced management solution for the discovery and automation of hardware, software and IT application services. Forrester ranks us in their 'Visionary' category as a dynamo for next-generation management of infrastructure, and we're the only large vendor in that category.
For web services, we are already delivering valuable innovations within OpenView that help companies manage their web services deployments—regardless of vendor. The HP OpenView suite can now help customers manage and optimize all of their infrastructure components, including application servers and their Web services environment.
HP OpenView Transaction Analyzer is the industry's first major solution that automatically isolates performance bottlenecks. OpenView Transaction Analyzer uses transaction management APIs—co-developed with BEA—to monitor WebLogic Server.
In addition, HP OpenView Smart Plug-Ins provide in-depth management interfaces for BEA, Microsoft and Sun servers. And HP OpenView Internet Services has become the industry's most robust tool for service-driven management.
Now for the news: To further demonstrate our commitment to web services management, we are announcing today four new investments that we're making to overcome the management barrier to full-scale web services adoption.
First, we have created a dedicated Web Services Management Organization within our software business—the same group that brings 20 years of network and systems management experience to the table with OpenView, OpenCall and Utility Data Center. Some of our best engineers are working day-in and day-out to develop new technologies that enable better management of web services with HP OpenView. They're also integrating existing web services standards like XML, WSML and UDDI into OpenView systems management tools.
Second, together with BEA, HP has created a dedicated web services management and deployment practice for J2EE solutions within HP Services. We already have more than 500 consultants trained to help customers deploy J2EE solutions faster, cheaper and more effectively. By the end of 2003, that force will total more than 1,000—all focused on developing repeatable J2EE solutions. This consulting team builds on the .NET services practice that we announced last fall.
Third, we are formally unveiling a suite of software components called the HP OpenView Web Services Management Engine. This engine allows customers to intercept web service requests and actively manage the actual web service as opposed to managing the platform where a web service resides.
Together with the Transaction Analyzer, Smart Plug-Ins and Internet Services already built into the OpenView suite, we can now deliver response time monitoring and diagnostics to simplify the management of any service-driven environment.
Finally, in keeping with our commitment to standards, we plan to make a major contribution to the industry that packages our expertise into something everyone can use for free—with no strings attached. We'll even let our competitors use it.
HP is working with partners such as BEA, Iona, TIBCO and webMethods on the formulation of web services management standards that will help the industry. HP will contribute a web services management framework to the OASIS Distributed Management working group within the next few months.
The extensible framework provides a way to model, design relationships, and interact with a web services environment. It will enable customers to architect management-ready systems for immediate integration with leading management tools—all based on web services standards.
What these initiatives demonstrate is that HP is committed to working with BEA, other partners, and many of you to make web services management a reality. It's not something we're doing because it's the next big thing, or a new brand of pixie dust or business binoculars. It's something we're doing because it will help our customers achieve more cost-effective IT, more responsive IT, more integrated IT—a better return on their IT investments.
It is this focus on the customer—on driving the solutions that meet your needs—that makes HP/BEA such a compelling alternative to IBM. At the heart of our partnership—and our competitive differentiation—is our joint, genuine commitment to open standards, interoperability and lower total cost of ownership.
I want to talk briefly about each of these three areas and how HP and BEA are aligned to meet your needs.
To begin with, HP and BEA are both leaders in open standards in hardware, operating systems and software infrastructure solutions.
Where the BEA products easily plug into different operating systems, databases and management vendors, IBM pushes its own proprietary products, and in many cases, locks customers into its world. Whatever IBM's marketing rhetoric suggests, IBM is providing vertically integrated, monolithic solution stacks just like it did in the 1980s—the old, one-stop shop pitch. Talk about time machines.
At HP, we believe the use of standards-based components and computing architectures are essential to driving down IT acquisition costs. It's why we are committed to supporting Itanium at the processor level and Linux, Windows and UNIX at the OS level. By embracing standards-based components, we give our customers flexibility and choice at lower costs. Importantly, this strategy acknowledges that heterogeneity or diversity in the data center is not only embracing reality, it's a good thing—just as diversity is good in every other aspect of business. Unlike IBM, when we say heterogeneity, we actually mean it.
When it comes to interoperability, HP and BEA provide a complete heterogeneous J2EE platform for distributed applications and the integration of legacy and .NET environments. And we do it across multiple platforms and operating systems, including HP-UX, OpenVMS, NonStop Kernel, and Tru64 UNIX. We do it on Itanium 2-based systems, and we do it on Windows 2000, Windows NT and Linux. BEA's WebLogic Server is available on all of HP's key platforms and operating systems.
Just this month, we announced that BEA and HP are working together to make it easy for mobile operators to deploy new mobile services using HP's Mobile Service Delivery Platform—BEA's WebLogic Server is a core component of this new platform developed by HP.
We're also working together to aggressively target the Linux market, building marketing and sales programs that leverage existing BEA and HP channels. So, when it comes to the relationship between HP and BEA, interoperability and choice aren't just buzz words—they are competitive advantages at the core of our alliance that we deliver to our customers every day.
That brings me to total cost of ownership, which is where we have a significant advantage over IBM.
IBM goes in with WebSphere. Interestingly, WebSphere is a brand that consists of approximately 344 different, non-integrated products. These products are incompatible and use radically different architectures. It means that all of these programs need to be hard-coded in order to work together in your environment, in part because their different products have different standards. WebSphere versions 3, 4 and 5 have three different code bases, each requiring a different skill set. As a result, WebSphere configuration costs are significantly higher than those for BEA/HP products.
By IBM's own admission, a customer should expect to spend $12 on IBM services for every $1 spent on software. Contrast that to HP and BEA, where the services cost can be as little as $6 or $7 for every $1 spent on hardware. So, the total cost of ownership is cut in half.
Customers are recognizing the difference. In several recent joint wins, customers have chosen to deploy critical applications with BEA WebLogic Server and HP, rather than WebSphere and IBM hardware, because we could deliver a lower total cost of ownership, more efficient and effective service, and faster time to solution. It's part of the reason why BEA license revenue on HP platforms went from 8 percent nine months ago to 23 percent last quarter.
Don't take my word for it, ask the Bank of New York. The bank teamed with BEA, Intel and HP to investigate open standards-based technologies that would improve traditional levels of performance and reliability, while enhancing the Bank's ability to deploy new services and, in the long term, reduce costs.
The BEA/Intel/HP solution demonstrated 70 percent higher transaction throughput while offering a cost savings of 46 percent over the bank's current RISC architecture. In addition, the bank can expect additional savings from lower platform costs, increased flexibility and agility, lower deployment costs, reduced downtime and lower support costs.
That is the same winning advantage we offer to all of you. We really believe that the alliance between BEA and HP helps you turn IT into a competitive weapon that can help you win in the marketplace. For those companies that understand the link between business and IT, who seek to capture the best of the old and the best of the new, we are a powerful alternative to IBM.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to show you what we can do, particularly in these tumultuous times. Despite all the challenges and uncertainties of our world today, I believe there has never been a better, more hopeful time to be part of an industry that is all about progress.
Thank you.
May/June 2003
Posted by Bmpskr2 and Emit.
http://www.speechtechmag.com/issues/8_3/cover/2004-1.html
Most Innovative Solutions Awards
By John Kelly
We have chosen the top 30 submissions for STM’s Most Innovative Solutions Awards. You will read more about each solution in the July/August edition of STM. Ten customers will present their solutions at SpeechTEK Fall ‘03. Congratulations to all of the winners!
*Note that the first company in each listing is the customer and the second is the vendor.
1. ABN AMRO, NetByTel and SpeechWorks - ABN AMRO implemented a packaged loan capture application.
2. Apple Ophthalmic, ZyDoc – SpeechDoc integrates transcription services, patient history records and electronic data capture using speech, mouse or keyboard.
3. AT&T Natural Voices, AT&T Labs – A natural-language, spoken-dialog application was deployed for customers to obtain information and services.
4. Bank of NY, Phonetic Systems – The offering supports dynamic directory updates, call completion and location management for all calls.
5. BBC Television Centre, Telephonetics –Enables BBC employees to make calls by saying the name of the person they want to reach.
6. Bell Canada, IBM and Nuance – Bell Canada has implemented a voice recognition persona by the name of Emily to the 310-BELL(2335) Voice Portal.
7. Blackfoot Telecommunications Group, Telelogue – The Voice Directory Application (VDA) provides 411 services to Blackfoot’s customers, allowing callers to be automatically connected to the requested telephone number.
8. Cellcom, NSC – The speech-driven corporate address book holds employee names and telephone numbers.
9. Chrysler Group, Clarity and Peiker – Uconnect, Chrysler Group's in-vehicle, hands-free, voice-activated communications system, is offered as a Mopar dealer-installed option in most of the 2003 model year vehicles.
10. CIBC, SpeechWorks – CIBC introduced Audio Access Automated Banking Machines (ABMs) as part of plan to expand barrier-free access and upgrade ABM service across Canada.
11. Daimler Chrysler, Temic – The speech-controlled navigation solution enables the entire destination to be entered by using speech.
12. Davey Tree, Vocalocity – This system allows field service crews to call into an automated system to record their daily activities.
13. DePaul University –Translates spoken English into correct ASL syntax, semantics and vocabulary for the hearing impaired.
14. Domino's Pizza, Jacent Technologies – The solution, OrderStream, is a packaged, voice-ordering system for automating takeout and delivery operations.
15. DYMO, Tell-Eureka - Callers follow step-by-step troubleshooting instructions from the automated LevelOne system, freeing live agents for more complex problems.
16. e.Digital Corp, IBM and Lucent/BellLabs – The MXP-100 is a handheld MP3 music player/voice-recorder which utilizes VoicNav.
17. Ford, SpeechWorks – The Ford Model U features conversational speech technologies in a small footprint, specifically designed for automobiles and mobile devices.
18. Lloyds TSB, SRC – The hosted speech service handles three types of employee share schemes, enabling callers to register, choose investment options and select how dividends are paid.
19. Mashreqbank, Mindscape – The service offers Toll-Free Voice Recognition Banking in both English and Arabic.
20. Microsoft, Fonix – Fonix VoiceDial allows the user to push one button on a Pocket PC Phone Edition device and use speech to dial any phone number or contact.
21. Property24, Intelleca Voice & Mobile Limited – Named Property24 Voice, this service brings the advantages of an Internet home search to customers using a landline or cell phone in South Africa.
22. Ramapo Radiology Associates, ScanSoft – The speech software allows radiologists to automatically transcribe their diagnosis of X-Rays.
23. Rogers AT&T, Nuance – Rogers AT&T's speech-enabled customer-care application handles 90% of all calls, saving the company $3-5M in 2002.
24. Samsung Telecom USA, Voice Signal – The A500 offers speaker-independent digit dialing allows any phone number to be dialed by speaking the number.
25. Sears, Nuance and Walsh Media – This system allows the customer to schedule an appointment and identify the basic problem for more efficient repairs.
26. Singpost, SpeechWorks – SingPost deployed a speech-enabled, automated system that offers the public access to over 122,000 postal codes.
27. Thrifty, SpeechWorks – Thrifty installed a speech-activated reservation line for rate-check with the ability to transfer reservation callers to live agents with intelligent screen pop.
28. Ticketmaster, Edify – The voice self-service applications will be used by Ticketmaster call center agents to automate the company’s front-end call director process.
29. Time Customer Service (TCS), NetByTel – TCS has deployed an automated module that allows callers to speak their new name and/or address information.
30. UT Southwestern Telecom, SpeechWorks – UT Southwestern uses a customized SpeechSite system which assists university operators in handling routine requests.
I would also like to welcome to our Editorial Advisory Board Dr. William Byrne and Dr. Caroline Henton. Dr. Byrne is the manager of design and development, Voice Center, SAP Labs and an assistant consulting professor at Stanford University. Dr. Henton is the CTO of Talknowledgy.
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