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March 19, 2001 - Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless
carrier, and Lucent Technologies today announced a three-year, $5
billion contract which positions Lucent to become the largest supplier
of Verizon (3G) mobile network infrastructure. Verizon will purchase
multiple products and systems from Lucent's designed to expand wireless
coverage, increase capacity, and support high-speed data and mobile
Internet applications.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
June 25, 2001- Agere Systems the world leader in communications
semiconductors, a branch of Lucent, today announced that seven consumer
electronics manufacturers Alpine, Clarion, Delphi Delco, JENSEN,
Kenwood, Panasonic and Visteon -- are developing radios that include
Agere's chip set capable of receiving broadcasts from Sirius Satellite
Radio. The Agere chip set will be able to capture digital signals from
satellites and terrestrial repeaters broadcasting Sirius' service
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=133558
(SAN DIEGO, CA - November 5, 2001) - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG),a
global provider of comprehensive digital product development and
designs, and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced their
collaboration on a speech interface for portable electronic devices.
"The consumer launch of the MXP 100, the first portable product to
feature an interface based on our speech recognition engine, could
create a new market and other opportunities for Lucent’s speech
recognition technology," commented Monte Stimmel, licensing manager in
the Technology Licensing Solutions group at Lucent. "Drawing on
e.Digital’s expertise in low power, small footprint applications, we are
able to support more than 100,000 words and names in their music player,
plus flexibility for English words or sounds not in the dictionary. We
expect this to be the first of many voice recognition applications for
portable devices, and we are enthusiastic about the potential to work
with e.Digital on additional product opportunities."
emit...
Click had Gateway - Who was the 3rd rnd funding affiliate. The technology is there, bet we havn't heard the last from click type systems - LQID, several more, virgin. It'll go right to STB with big boys first MTV - Moxi, then kiosks.
Yes cachin is to be big - poor ff
j11 - sounds like musicmatch/audiomanagers will codexecute format choice -bloatware OSs have no problem... this on a handheld is another story. Going between them and transcoding from CDplayers n portals needs mgmt.
emit...
Tin - maybe as in DP/MD Videos
emit...
ck, tin - e.Digital may be tweaking FPGAs ... ya know why
From the ck article -
So why isn’t everyone using FPGAs for DSP?
Lack of experience using these devices for intense computational applications.
Algorithms developed for microprocessors can be difficult to translate into hardware.
Immaturity of design tools for FPGA based DSP design
Success of an FPGA DSP design is heavily dependent on the experience of the designer, not only in implementing designs in FPGAs, but also in tailoring algorithms for hardware efficiency.
Accelerating DSPs in conjunction with MOS file mgmt - Whats to become... maybe something very innovative and revolutionary.
emit...
CK - Just thought to myself the other night -
That 'ACTEL IS DOMINANT FPGA SUPPLIER TO THE MP3 DIGITAL AUDIO MARKET' PR needs to be posted, posted and reposted....
Hey everyone, my new PC is sitting in the floor ready for assembly...
Be chatting again soon - I miss you all.
emit...
ck - 4 possibilities IMO
True, Not True, Nether/nor, or Combination thereof.
emit...
cksla ~ Very good recollection -
See people . Give it another year or two
emit...
wolfpackvoltar, hope that you and wm wallace had fun... THNx for the great effort.
Think they got FF saying 'cult' on on there own ''read back'' device. lol o boy - when our breakout comes the whole world will see advanced innovation. V. 3 via DP/Internet el do away with mail unless you take your house offline, i'm mean your serverSTB. funny the same contriversy STBs n Portables, think its as much mechanical as secure driving us into wait-mode.
You know our bashers are in the Labels. stiff compitition - right fred....
emit...
Root, I'm happy at a buck. Lil co's got legs,,, and prime asain roots. Always has. Just watch dedicated devices w/in telematics, home and medical hopefully.
DataPlay n microdrive products are new . let em empress - we do
Means / need el dictate favor
Bat-man
Im' as frustrated as you all, people but - MTV DP products….
EDIG rocks!
U think people b using DP camcord n mailing movies - first cheap enought medium. :)
Emit…
Write back.... will be a must have
get it patented e.Digital
but isn't that what tivo n replay utilize
emit....
Judo I agree
Now if they'd suprise us with an upgraded medical system - I probably sell the boat... n buy more
Hell, just may anyway.
emit...
50+ BAAM!~
A man with vision
emit...
Question IS
Are they here yet>
That DataPlayr' look pretty nice.. almost kioskable
emit...
Specialty products, to usher in a cure for their content distribution sales and the governmental queory.
The online service, which allowed customers to scan the inventory of
their local Blockbuster and reserve a tape or DVD for pickup, went dark
Nov. 20 in the four test cities in which it was operating:
SomeBody el get it right - eventualy
emit...
ck.. Good post, but blockbuster isnt reddot,transworld,musictellor,convera - equipted yet, then no need to go pick it up.
I got an answer for that - from/ARTICAL
The research we did showed that people liked the service, but to roll it
out, we really would have had to market it very heavily, and we decided
those resources would be better spent elsewhere. It was really an idea
ahead of its time."
MS doing this with Darma - FYI stores getting Kiosks.
Patience my long friends. Sonicblue, Lucent, txn they all know its coming... thats why the bashers are so good
emit...
gernb1 - 3 excellent post.
Do 'YOU' still have Vision
Who was it put them 'tags' in thos algarithms - telling ya... Give it two more years and we'll be seeing or hearing it coming before it arrives; to know if we're interested enough to say 'info please or buy it'
That fugitsue sounds like it'll need an all grown up MicroOS V 5.0
emit...
We just havn't arriver there yet Everyone -
But fer sure edig's lapped the track waiting for others, mainly labels n infrostructure ie. broadband n wireless... to catch up.
Have we forgotten CPQ knows we did Cquence . What's going on with IBM vr on compaq and Platinum.
The 'edig update' forgot two fine Voice Recorders, but no transcription apps like olympic... why not, guess edig got sideswipped by data-play.... come on guys - if music rolls over ya due to fierce compitition; why not do medical... even
You want to know why this company went to 24
We all thought e.Digital's Flash patents covered most, if not all these new tiny flash device - the intel connection did it.... atleast for me. now it music n telematics
The MOS is growin with the industry towards a senerio per last post. A few wealthy investors should hire a patent attourney to find out - remember Falk in early interviews saying we' prefere an eventual working relationship as opposed the litigation on the flash patents. Could you imaging fred having to sit on that with us investors over the last 3 years - 3 years.... not long to pursue a dream of that magnitude.
emit...
March 19, 2001 - Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless
carrier, and Lucent Technologies today announced a three-year, $5
billion contract which positions Lucent to become the largest supplier
of Verizon (3G) mobile network infrastructure. Verizon will purchase
multiple products and systems from Lucent's designed to expand wireless
coverage, increase capacity, and support high-speed data and mobile
Internet applications.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
June 25, 2001- Agere Systems the world leader in communications
semiconductors, a branch of Lucent, today announced that seven consumer
electronics manufacturers Alpine, Clarion, Delphi Delco, JENSEN,
Kenwood, Panasonic and Visteon -- are developing radios that include
Agere's chip set capable of receiving broadcasts from Sirius Satellite
Radio. The Agere chip set will be able to capture digital signals from
satellites and terrestrial repeaters broadcasting Sirius' service
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=133558
(SAN DIEGO, CA - November 5, 2001) - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG),a
global provider of comprehensive digital product development and
designs, and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced their
collaboration on a speech interface for portable electronic devices.
"The consumer launch of the MXP 100, the first portable product to
feature an interface based on our speech recognition engine, could
create a new market and other opportunities for Lucents speech
recognition technology," commented Monte Stimmel, licensing manager in
the Technology Licensing Solutions group at Lucent. "Drawing on
e.Digitals expertise in low power, small footprint applications, we are
able to support more than 100,000 words and names in their music player,
plus flexibility for English words or sounds not in the dictionary. We
expect this to be the first of many voice recognition applications for
portable devices, and we are enthusiastic about the potential to work
with e.Digital on additional product opportunities."
emit...
Alot o war/terror - so much vr inclusion.... has to be revolutionary to counter investor sentiment at this time.. . MXP, XP3, Treo, DataPlay are stepping closer to secure drmability with time based subscription services via IEEE/Bluetooth, Satellite DR...
It nice knowing e.Digital is the only Trading company of DP,Evolution - MTV equates to a Universal Player... IMVHO
Didn't they refere us to DataPlay... I know? there's a difference, but shet it's MTV..... CMT next.
We just havn't seen the ultimate Composition Player Yet... the on I want to plug into Transworld n MusicTellor.
Also... the MTV senerio of bundling sounds plausable. Bundling with PCs is out; Maybe an accessory, but archos, rio n intel done doing that. maybe,,, just maybe them programmable dsps sos's can accept a MOS upgrade, wouldn't that be nice. -
emit...
I hope its so
Sure don't see no Rio/SonicBlue banners on the Evolution site.
Go e.Digital
emit...
Guess I'd need a DiskGo type periphreal to do that.
emit..
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND DATAPLAY INC. ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT AND STRATEGIC
ALLIANCE
(SAN DIEGO, CA - September 19, 2001) - e.Digital Corporation (OTC:
EDIG), a global provider of comprehensive digital product development
and designs, and DataPlay, Inc., developer of the universal media format
for all things digital, today announced a broad strategic alliance and
agreement to develop and deliver portable products uniting DataPlay’s
digital media, micro- optical engine and ContentKeyTM technology with
e.Digital’s patented technology and design integration services.
The agreement specifies that e.Digital will provide engineering and
technology development, enabling worldwide application of DataPlay’s
digital media in a variety of portable products. DataPlay will also
refer OEM customers to e.Digital for product design, technology
integration and application development around DataPlay’s removable
digital media and micro- optical engine. In addition to NRE
(non-recurring engineering) fees for design and development efforts,
e.Digital will collect royalties from OEM customers on certain DataPlay-
enabled products.
"We have been working with DataPlay and OEM customers to develop a line
of products around DataPlay’s digital media, and we remain fully
committed to our development partnership," said Fred Falk, CEO of
e.Digital. "The combination of DataPlay’s digital media and e.Digital’s
patented technology and proprietary designs opened the door to create
portable products that are compact, stylish, and powerful."
"e.Digital has been instrumental in integrating our digital media into a
number of new consumer electronics products and contributing to our
efforts to gain market share in portable electronics," said Steve Volk,
chairman and CEO of DataPlay, Inc. "In combination with the strong
backing we have from major music labels and consumer electronics device
manufacturers, e.Digital is playing a significant role in helping us
penetrate new music markets."
DataPlay's strategy to penetrate the market quickly and effectively is
built upon numerous strategic partnerships for developing devices and
providing content for use with the DataPlay digital media. Universal
Music Group, EMI Recorded Music, BMG Entertainment and Rosetta Books are
currently planning to release pre-recorded music and e-book content on
DataPlay digital media for use in multiple consumer electronic devices.
Leading consumer electronic developers, such as Toshiba Corporation,
Samsung Electronics, Olympus, Creative Labs and SonicBlue, are
developing portable music players/recorders, digital cameras, PC
peripherals, PDAs, portable games and other devices that will support
the DataPlay format.
In January of this year, DataPlay won the Best of Show Award for Mobile
Devices and Best Overall Lifestyle Product at the Consumer Electronics
Show in Las Vegas, an event that has built a reputation for being the
preeminent venue for the industry's most promising companies and
products. DataPlay was recognized for its value, usability,
inventiveness and design. DataPlay also received the CES Innovations
2001 award in the Blank Media category at the show in recognition of its
innovative consumer electronics product.
About DataPlay
DataPlay, Inc. was incorporated in November 1998 to develop a
Web-enabled digital content recording and distribution media for
portable Internet appliances and hand-held consumer electronic and
entertainment devices. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, the Company
employs more than 230 people in the United States, Singapore and Japan.
Visit DataPlay on the Internet at www.dataplay.com.
Hai - How come I can't get my new PC with CF/MD/DP/SD slots.... lol
Oh boy.
emit...
ck - Could we be intigrated within, or so to function with, as in gagets. both maybe
Here comes CF/DP/MD slots for the auto's.... Hey, I want one to make my chair dance. :)
Xscale to push beyond Infinities VR, to Orbit . lol
Remember,,, we thought we's ibm VR w/MXP - so many
Also Intel demo'd a auto PC with fonix vr.
Notice all the talking toys - ScanSoft el have the office VRd next, they got l/h.
If IBM/edig VT don't do something else innovative in medical VR by next year the tellematics may not be enought to keep me around.
Come On Guy's
emit...
So,,, it appears QDX n AAC will emerge via DP... the write once 'fit to media' will compensate and/or adjust around other codecs.
somthing like that...
Don't forget ACC n tPACs use with digital radio.
Maybe DP will help the masses to understand that WMA isn't the only other advanced choice out there - and with edig inside it won't matter.
emit...
Well it's 2002 - We've come to market with a branded md vr player….. so many flash devices out there doin music.. Nomad beat treo but not many others so gusty. Mos 3.0 will be other DP/HDD VRd devices with 801 flashed to the max.
Acthel n LU.. vi - ti,ibm,edig can help ms n etc,. do next gen push/pull datacasting - hanheld secure systems… your own, or an ultimate aol. Cell telco type supplied - cell phone esque.
Anyone see the CNN commercial run the MS commercial tonight. It showed at handheld video device - Blowed any lu , ti , siemans , n samsungs new one that I've seen…. Had oval shape with horizontal sliders across bottom…. U see it u'l know,…. Packet video implistic.
DP? - More lil disk to loose, but cool. I want a HDD / vid handheld but power constraints limit.
External disk access via dp…. Hmmm wonder whos got a flash os to keep them controllers cool.
You know, we still don't know if dp will standardize the codec's…. if not no problem - could they use our os to do the execution on the device or mass coding on libraries of music, Hey they refered us….
Hell -p,, A Revelation…..
Same with TI DSP . very peculiar
I think that with emphasis on surveillance/security on CDs and all content - as evident by the MS secure PC article…. Hopefully edig will help verizon n samsung to usher in this next teck boom. I bought some lu yesterday still long on e.Digital.
Happy New year all…. Our guys are taking lives in bagran - America ! rules
This is all just my humble opinion.
Emit…
I agree doni -
"The partnership relationships were built purely on the technology that
companies could bring to the project - that was the all-important thing
- we were not looking for partners that had money," stresses Davies.
"With our background in the industry, we knew who were the best
companies to deliver what we were looking for.
Hope its big...
emit...
March 19, 2001 - Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless
carrier, and Lucent Technologies today announced a three-year, $5
billion contract which positions Lucent to become the largest supplier
of Verizon (3G) mobile network infrastructure. Verizon will purchase
multiple products and systems from Lucent's designed to expand wireless
coverage, increase capacity, and support high-speed data and mobile
Internet applications.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
June 25, 2001- Agere Systems the world leader in communications
semiconductors, a branch of Lucent, today announced that seven consumer
electronics manufacturers Alpine, Clarion, Delphi Delco, JENSEN,
Kenwood, Panasonic and Visteon -- are developing radios that include
Agere's chip set capable of receiving broadcasts from Sirius Satellite
Radio. The Agere chip set will be able to capture digital signals from
satellites and terrestrial repeaters broadcasting Sirius' service
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=133558
(SAN DIEGO, CA - November 5, 2001) - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG),a
global provider of comprehensive digital product development and
designs, and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced their
collaboration on a speech interface for portable electronic devices.
"The consumer launch of the MXP 100, the first portable product to
feature an interface based on our speech recognition engine, could
create a new market and other opportunities for Lucent’s speech
recognition technology," commented Monte Stimmel, licensing manager in
the Technology Licensing Solutions group at Lucent. "Drawing on
e.Digital’s expertise in low power, small footprint applications, we are
able to support more than 100,000 words and names in their music player,
plus flexibility for English words or sounds not in the dictionary. We
expect this to be the first of many voice recognition applications for
portable devices, and we are enthusiastic about the potential to work
with e.Digital on additional product opportunities."
emit...
rs - Hope you're right about Infotainment
because you'd think we'd be smack-in-middle of the new Panisonic multicodec player - smallest coolest
but no....
an on and on, o well
emit...
Glue Logic - bell-labs, 1998. Guess what's new n highly secretive because Lu's being pretty quiet about this new handheld speach chip/engine
We have described a multichip module used for voice recognition and
telephone answering in a cellular telephone. This module takes advantage
of the miniaturization and weight reduction offered by
silicon-on-silicon MCM technology. Two important advantages of this
approach over alternative ASIC-based approaches are the short design and
fabrication time and the ability of the MCM to incorporate mixed
technologies. Our emerging view is that CMOS is evolving into a variety
of highly specialized technologies. Silicon-on-silicon MCMs enable
designers to combine the efficiencies of this specialization with the
miniaturization of silicon technology.
http://www.bell-labs.com/org/1131C0/voicerec/voirec2.htm
emit...
No Classic XP3 advertising for ''No PC Required'' now this...
Jeeezzz
emit...
November 16, 2001 / News Archives
Partnerships Underscore 3G Cooperation Trend
By Clint Boulton
Tokyo's NTT DoCoMo Inc. (NYSE:NTT) and IBM Lotus Software (NYSE:IBM) Thursday said they would work together to see if it is possible to forge and sell mobile multimedia business solutions together. And they actually signed a memorandum of understanding, making their brainstorming process official.
NTT DoCoMo and IBM Lotus Software said they want to hash out whether or not they can develop solutions to run business applications on NTT DoCoMo's mobile networks, including the Freedom Of Mobile multimedia Access (FOMA) 3G mobile network DoCoMo is best known for. Also on tap are possible ways to bundle mobile technology in business applications.
With the arrangement, NTT DoCoMo hopes to push the development of FOMA for the corporate market, which is where many analysts see the success of next-generation wireless communications coming to fruition. Any solution born of the DoCoMo/Lotus agreement will be co-branded.
NTT DoCoMo's deal with IBM seems to be the Japanese firm's only such partnership with a major tech player not working frantically on 3G this week. Just yesterday, NTT agreed to work with Finnish rival Nokia (NYSE:NOK) to improve open mobile service middleware, which both firms feel is a fundamental enabler to the global deployment of mobile services. Specifically, NTT DoCoMo and Nokia pledged to promote mobile architecture for WCDMA-based 3G services, in areas such as browsing and messaging. WCDMA is QUALCOMM's CDMA-fostered standard taken to the next, wideband level, with the capacity to speed voice, video, data and image transmission to 2Mbps.
But the floodgates for such deals were flung open this past Monday at Comdex 2001 in Las Vegas, when just about any telco that counts put its two cents in the jar to pledge its allegiance to work on bettering 3G standards. The firms, which included other major players such as AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless, said they wanted to create "interoperable mobile Internet access and visual contents downloading services worldwide, utilizing the GSM/GPRS evolution and coming 3G mobile telecommunications networks adopting WCDMA technology."
Some analysts may take this as a sign of the telcos' desire to get the slow 3G ball rolling faster. Interestingly, NTT DoCoMo, with FOMA, did that October 1, becoming the first official commercial provider of 3G services. But the drivers behind this theory indicated as much with their issued statements. Said Dr. Keiji Tachikawa, chief executive officer of NTT DoCoMo about his firm's deal with Nokia:
"In order to accelerate the introduction of mobile internet access, mobile visual communications and other services for 3G networks, NTT DoCoMo is eager to cooperate with other key players in the mobile communications industry to elaborate specific technical specifications based on a standardized mobile architecture. This collaboration with Nokia is one of those activities to achieve that goal. We sincerely hope that our cooperation with Nokia will eventually gain strong worldwide supports that help us contribute to boost global demands for mobile multimedia."
To be sure, market research firms, such as Yankee Group, have parsed pending 3G services and the trials and tribulations they face to no end. The Boston-based firm estimated that global capital expenditure (capex) for wireless mobile network infrastructure will increase from $99.4 billion in 2001 to a maximum of $120.2 billion in 2004, with the lion's share of expenditure going for GSM, GPRS, and WCDMA development.
While this shows surefire market opportunities for infrastructure providers over the next few years, the Yankee Group also fretted about pricing models for the GPRS standard, popular in Europe.
"In most cases operators are still assessing market requirements through service trials, so strategies are still being refined, but the favored model at present is to charge by the amount of data consumed," said Farid Yunus, senior analyst for the Yankee Group's Wireless/Mobile Europe research and consulting practice. "This has been determined for the most part by legacy billing platforms and capabilities," he acknowledged, "but given the diversity and range of future data applications, this approach will prove inadequate both in the long term and in stimulating demand right now. While we understand the need for operators to recoup 2.5/3G network and service development costs as soon as possible, without lower and more flexible pricing we seriously doubt that consumers will be enthused and that a mass market will be created."
NTT also these week secured attention for a newly-announced 3G video content service, called "I-motion." The offering features video-on-demand, (VoD) such as movie trailers, news highlights and music files, to 3G phone service users.
And there are a lot of those; NTT's cellular phone subscribers numbered 38 million as of this past August.
November 16, 2001 / News Archives
IEEE Sets Next-generation 802.11 Standard
By Bob Liu
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Task Group assigned to explore the next-generation wireless Ethernet standard has finally ended months of bickering and late Thursday agreed on terms for a new wireless standard called 802.11g.
The consensus represents an eleventh-hour save for the Intersil-backed proposal. For months, Task Group "G" has been trying to come to terms on a modulation scheme that would allow 802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) hardware to transmit data at speeds approaching a "wired" Ethernet. But after failing to do so earlier this week, the IEEE even considered scrapping the proposed standard (not to mention months of hard work) altogether.
"This is a huge win for the wireless industry for several reasons," said Gregory Williams, president and CEO of Intersil Corp. "We feel that the mandatory elements of the proposed standard meet all the needs of the market," Williams commented. "Intersil will leverage our proven experience in radio reference designs, software and complete chip sets to deliver an exciting next generation of products fully backward compatible to existing 11 Mbps radios worldwide."
Irvine, Calif.-based Intersil, already a leading provider of chip sets for the nascent 802.11b market, will develop and market a new chip set that meets the proposed 802.11g standard by the second quarter of 2002.
The current 802.11b standard was approved by the IEEE in 1999. Based on that specification, chip sets would use a modulation scheme known as Complementary Code Keying (CCK) to transmit data signals at 11 megabits-per-second (Mbps) through an unlicensed portion of the spectrum found at about 2.4GHz. Considered revolutionary at the time (and by some measures...even still today), 802.11b gave way to a new generation of products that allowed an Ethernet connection to finally break free of wires but its speed was still only one-tenth that of its wired brethren.
In order to enhance the standard, the IEEE's overall Working Group that oversaw the development of 802.11 assigned individual tasks to several specialty groups -- each with the goal of further advancing the technology. The mission of 802.11g was to boost the data transmission to the so-called "turbo" rates of 54 Mbps while still maintaining interoperability to earlier specs. This way, consumers (and enterprise users, vendors, investors and just about everyone else) who bet on earlier versions of the technology would know how the market would eventually evolve.
But when the original 802.11b specification was approved, the IEEE concurrently approved the specs for 802.11a. These chip sets are designed to use the OFDM schema to transmit data at 54 Mbps through a separate portion of spectrum (located somewhere in the 5GHz range). 802.11a is currently only licensed for usage in North America as opposed to 802.11b, which is accepted throughout Europe and Asia as well. But the main hurdle facing the end-user is that the two specs -- 802.11b and 802.11a -- were never meant to interoperate.
Still, several vendors from start-ups like Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Atheros Communications to household names like Intel and 3Com are already announcing their support of 802.11a and expect to ship products about the same time as Intersil.
Unlike 802.11a, the newly ratified standard is backwards-compatible with the existing 802.11b standard. And that is a huge boon to the industry considering the millions of dollars that's already been invested networks such as those set up by MobileStar Networks in Starbucks locations around the country.
However, do not confuse interoperability with compatibility. A laptop user on a .11b loop can still share files and print through a .11a-looped desktop so long as the network hardware (namely the routers, switches, hubs) allow for it. Just consider .11a and .11b two distinct forms of networking, much like HomePNA or the rejuvenated powerline networking. If you have a HomePNA (phone lines) network, you can still communicate through a wireless network so long as you are equipped with the proper hardware. It's compatible...just different.
In fact, many enterprise access points (APs) are being designed and manufactured with multiple internal slots for network administrators to simply plug in .11a cards (or even, say, a Bluetooth module) much like they were plugging in a PCI-Ethernet card into a desktop. SMC Networks, for example, offers one such cardbus adapter.
Still, if 802.11a does become the dominant format used in enterprise WLANs, then individuals that currently own Wi-Fi equipment (PCMCIA cards, APs, etc.) are left at the mercy of the vendor, who at their whim can include compatibility as a feature or not. If 802.11g becomes the standard, compatibility is ensured.
Despite the recent introduction of higher-speed 802.11a products, the outlook for 802.11b continues to be strong and we forecast that the market will grow 35 percent in 2002, according to Dell'Oro Group.
The 802.11g standard now must go before the IEEE's entire 802.11 Working Group, which is expected to pass the compromise specification some time next year.
HP Launches Digital Music Initiative
By asia.internet.com staff
November 8, 2001 / News Archives
HP has moved into the digital music arena with today's launch of its pilot HP music site in Singapore, an initiative that promises to add a new facet to the company's existing digital entertainment and imaging solution offerings in the region.
According to company officials, the HP music site is "a fully legal and commercial site supported and endorsed" by 40 major record companies, including industry giants Warner, EMI, and BMG.
"With increasing home PC ownership and Internet penetration, we are likely to see more consumers in Asia Pacific demanding digital solutions for their entertainment, imaging and information needs," said V. Narayanan, strategic solutions manager for HP's Consumer Business Organization in Asia Pacific.
The music site, HP's first in the region, is powered by Singapore-based Soundbuzz, a digital music service provider with a network of sites in India, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Southeast Asian countries, promoting and distributing digital music products through online, wireless and OEM partners.
Soundbuzz's technology platform on the HP music site will offer users a central destination to sample and purchase a range of international and local music, as well as obtain music news, read about featured artists, download lyrics and view photos.
Said Sudhanshu Sarronwala, Soundbuzz's chief executive officer, "Soundbuzz is spearheading the creation and aggregation of the necessary rights for the development and application of digital music products through consumer electronic items like PCs, printers, pocket PCs and CD-writers. As such, it is fitting that our first deal across these platforms is with the largest consumer IT player in the Asia Pacific market, Hewlett-Packard."
HP officials added that the site will make available music from 10 countries, enabling music enthusiasts to conveniently listen to them with the use of HP's exclusive Digital Music software - consumers can include this as an icon on their desktop and access the site to play music on their desktops, burn CDs or obtain more information about HP products.
Indeed, the site will present opportunities for the IT vendor to effectively link its stable of products and services to its new venture. Users at the HP music site will be able to:
* Print lyrics and photos of artistes using HP Deskjet printers, as well as HP ink and paper supplies
* Create customized CD album covers by scanning images with HP Scanjet scanners and merging them with artiste photos using the bundled software
* Listen to downloaded music using HP Pavilion PCs or Jornada Pocket PCs (MP3)
* Burn new CD-Rs with HP CD-writers
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Microsoft Touts Native XP Support for Wi-Fi
10/23/2001
Microsoft Corp. Monday boasted that its new Windows XP operating system leads the industry as the first OS to provide native support for Wi-Fi networks and the IEEE 802.1x wireless security standard. But the Redmond, Wash.-based software titan was not alone in singing its praises; the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA), a non-profit which certifies interoperability of Wi-Fi LAN products, also lauded Microsoft's efforts.
"WECA commends Microsoft for including native support for Wi-Fi wireless LANs in Windows XP," said David Cohen, chairman of WECA. "Windows XP support of IEEE 802.1x also complements what many regard as the future direction of Wi-Fi wireless LAN security. This combination makes wireless networks more secure and easier to use -- so everyone benefits. People just want to show up and be connected. With native Wi-Fi support in Windows XP they can stay connected at their office, home, the airport or their hotel with little or no reconfiguration. This will undoubtedly contribute to broader consumer acceptance and further market growth of Wi-Fi wireless LANs."
A report commissioned by Microsoft and released by WECA on Oct. 19 showed that many organizations have either deployed or are considering deploying wireless networks. The report found 40 percent of the 180 respondents had already deployed wireless networks and another 31 percent plan to deploy them within 18 months. The report suggested that wireless networking technology will have a penetration of 88 percent within 18 months. But respondents also said security concerns are the key barrier to deploying wireless networks.
Microsoft helped to test the IEEE's 802.1x security standard with help from Wayport Inc., a supplier of Wi-Fi and wired high-speed Internet access in airports and hotels. Based on the test's results, Microsoft included support for 802.1x, as well as support for VPNs and RADIUS, in the new operating system.
With Microsoft's wireless enhancements to Windows XP, at least one Wi-Fi equipment maker is already beginning to jump on the XP bandwagon. Agere Systems Monday said its ORiNOCO Access Point 2000 (AP-2000) utilizes Windows XP and 802.1x to provide high-security wireless networking through user-based authentication and automatic key-distribution to the wireless system. The AP-2000's authentication is certificate-based via RADIUS server and provides mutual authentication. Its re-keying mechanism can refresh the key at set intervals. Meanwhile, the AP-2000's implementation of the 802.1x protocol distributes the wired equivalency protocol (WEP) keys in both directions -- one up and one down key.
"Windows XP is a significant step forward for mobile wireless computing," said Cees Links, vice president of Wireless Computing and Networking at Agere Systems. "By incorporating Zero Config and 802.1x into our ORiNOCO AP-2000 wireless networking systems, we are providing IT managers and end users with the ease of use and the enhanced security that they demand."
Windows XP is set to launch Thursday in New York City, and will hold events in 60 cities across the United States. Agere will supply the wireless equipment for all 60 launch events.
Hutchison in Huge 3G Device Buy
11/2/2001
In a key move to ensure its launch of third-generation (3G) services in Europe next year, Hutchison Whampoa yesterday announced the purchase of one million 3G wireless devices from Japan's NEC.
In a separate gesture to show its confidence in 3G, Hutchison Whampoa group managing director Canning Fok Kin-ning told investors the company would look for other 3G licences, possibly in France and other European countries.
Hutchison yesterday announced a second order of 3G videophones from NEC, following an initial order three months ago. The purchase, which came a month after the soft launch of 3G services by Japan's NTT DoCoMo, is considered to be the largest NEC order outside Japan.
Under the arrangement, NEC will deliver 3G phones featuring dual mode, Java functions and multimedia services, in the fourth quarter of next year to Hutchison 3G operations worldwide. Hutchison has indicated previously it will launch the first 3G service in Britain by the middle of next year.
"Hutchison is all set to launch 3G services in our markets, offering customers a wide selection of devices," Mr Fok said.
"Video applications are a key 3G feature and I am sure that our customers will be keen to get one of these devices when we launch our services."
NEC, along with Motorola, was the handset supplier chosen by Hutchison. It will soon announce a third supplier, according to Merrill Lynch.
In an interview with Mr Fok, Merrill Lynch quoted him as saying the company would be interested in acquiring 3G licences, particularly those where it could leverage off the infrastructure of existing 3G licences, such as in Norway and Ireland.
The Wireless Web is Approaching Adolescence
10/31/2001
Ken Bates, CEO of Plazmic takes a look at the technology and development requirements for the wireless Web to transform from a static environment to a dynamic experience
Wireless content is heading towards adolescence. Namely, those awkward times when uncertainty, change and expectations rule the day. As technology continues to advance and customer acceptance increases, so come the demands for better looking, engaging content and exciting wireless experiences. Much like the social demands made on teenagers who are trying to stand out and seek acceptance from the “in crowd”, wireless content must now move beyond static, text-based offerings to “eye-catching”, engaging, exciting and relevant customer experiences.
Content developers, carriers, mobile operators and content owners recognize that the evolution of the wireless Internet presents a host of new opportunities and challenges. Many of which come from the excitement and anxiety of developing business models that harness the promise of wireless while delivering value to the customer.
The wireless Web is at a similar stage to the pre graphically based Internet browsers we know, and online experiences we expect. Today, content on wireless devices is static, text-based information that is simply uninteresting. However, advancements in wireless devices, network capabilities and software products are helping transform the face of wireless to one loaded with richly animated content. Much like how the Internet evolved from the introduction of text browsers like Mosaic to those of Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, so too will the wireless Internet experience.
This point becomes an important juncture for the future of the wireless Web. A crossroads, if you will, where wireless communications and content development technologies meet head on with the customer’s expectations and desire for more compelling and interactive experiences.
The Challenges
From a technology perspective, this reality presents a call-to-action. There exists the need to create new technology models that are open-standards based, flexible and scalable for the delivery of content to wireless devices over today’s [2G] and tomorrow’s [3G] networks. It is in this defined reality that the true technological challenges of the maturing wireless Web come to light.
Let’s take a look.
First, wireless content must be able to be easily created for today’s wireless devices. Easy to use wireless content creation tools that speed development, time to market and leverage existing programming skills will strike a chord with content developers. Getting them to spend less time programming and more time creating exciting content will help accelerate the development community’s interest in taking advantage of the opportunities the wireless Web has to offer.
Next, wireless content must be able to deliver on the promise of real time, personalized customer experiences because nobody cares about yesterday’s news or trying to identify with brand gimmicks. Interactive, fresh and relevant content that is easy to browse and navigate is key to building a strong wireless following. Content owners and carriers need the ability to create and deliver time sensitive, dynamic content on-the-fly to a large wireless audience. Equally important is making this process cost-effective, saving them time and thereby shortening development cycles.
And finally, parallel to creating and deploying content is the need for an industry standard media player to render rich wireless content on mobile devices. A downloadable or embedded interactive media player opens the door for millions of mobile devices to display rich graphics, respond to user inputs and deliver animation capabilities that can be likened to those on multimedia PCs. Peak customer interest in the wireless experience and watch wireless service and application subscription rates skyrocket.
The Needed Solution
These realities have created an urgent need to swiftly, comprehensively and economically address the following technological requirements:
Currently there exists the need for an onboard media player that can be downloaded or embedded onto the new generation of Java™-powered mobile handsets. A small footprint media player is ideally suited for today’s memory constrained handsets, ensuring wireless subscribers are not only captivated, informed and entertained by what they see but are likely to access the content, services and applications over and over again.
Delivering dynamic and engaging information on-the-fly for display on a wireless media player is critical. Furthermore, if such a solution can’t scale to grow and support increased customer demand for services and applications then you might as well throw in the towel now. An architecture design based on open-standards like Scalable Vector Graphics [SVG], XML and Java™ ensures that such a solution is flexible, modular and robust for large-scale deployment of rich wireless content.
And finally, the content creation tools need to be able to bring to life the images and ideas from the depths of the developer’s imagination. Providing developers with easy-to-use, open standards based graphical authoring tools means content can get to market quickly and efficiently, eliminating complicated programming altogether.
Conclusion
Returning now to “the approach of the adolescent years” analogy, it’s apparent that wireless content needs to “stand out in the crowd to get noticed”. Accelerating the adoption of wireless services and applications can only be made possible if the content is compelling, timely and can be accessed easily.
According to Dan Gardiner, Ovum analyst and lead author of the report Third Generation Mobile: Market Strategies, “Whoever delivers a compelling package of personalized content, in other words succeeds with the ‘wireless portal’, will own the customer.”
One such company that has risen to this call is Walt Disney Internet Group Japan. The company recently reinforced its position as a leader in the wireless content revolution with the launch of the enhanced Magical Fortune service on NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode network. The ability of this new service to offer users an enhanced interactive, graphically rich and animated wireless experience is a clear indication of the maturing and evolution of this medium.
So here we are.
The wireless Internet is maturing in front of our very eyes and growing into something exciting from its uneventful early beginnings – kind of like a caterpillar before it transforms into a butterfly. The wireless Web will enjoy many growth cycles, some good and some difficult. The responsibility of those companies that parent its evolution is to harness the power of emerging technologies, advancing the wireless experience for customers on the wireless Web and beyond.
Maybe the devices need to be there, shelved, to let the record people see there's a mobilemode ready for a radical change to 'time based sucure subscription's' loaded on the fly via wi-fi, 802.
Well... no wi-fi, yet - next year
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Doing This. dam nda's
Three sound quality recording modes (standard, medium and long) and ARS (Automatic Recording System) sensitivity
Digital volume control
A series of repeat options (repeat one message, all message in a file or specific section (A to B)
2 different microphone sensitivity levels
Battery level indicator
Input/output terminal for recording with external equipment
Built in microphone and speaker
Ok... Olympus flashed already with IBM vr for medical - no mention, but doable with the above mos attribs - Surely
Lanier should be mentioned/listed/implimented on your VoiceMagic web presence don't ya think.
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