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Sendo And Packetvideo Cooperate to Provide Mobile Operators with A Unique Mobile Multimedia Package; Sendo`S New Z100 Multimedia Smartphone to Ship with Packetvideo`S Pvplayer
9/4/2001
Sendo and PacketVideo Corporation announced today that Sendo has selected PacketVideo`s leading mobile multimedia player software, as an application for its new Z100 GPRS Smartphone enabling mobile users to access advanced rich media applications such as video messaging, interactive games, and news or sports highlights.
The Z100 Multimedia Smartphone is Sendo`s first data phone; a new generation of color mobile phones that include advanced mobile Internet and personal information management (PIM) functionality. The Z100 is GPRS tri-band and based on Microsoft`s "Stinger" mobile phone platform. The GPRS tri-band phone operates on GSM 900, 1800 and 1900 networks across Europe, Asia and the Americas. The Smartphone features a 65,000-color TFT display, which complements PacketVideo`s multimedia capabilities. The Z100 will also be able to play MP3 and WMA audio files, as well as MPEG-4 video
"Our aim is to deliver on the needs of today`s mobile operators. Based on feedback from them on how we can help them to increase their revenues, we believe that services such as video will help drive consumer usage over the GSM and 2.5G networks," said Hugh Brogan, chief executive officer of Sendo.
"Together with PacketVideo, we can offer our mobile operator customers an integrated software services and phone package which offers rich mobile multimedia features over 2.5G networks."
PVPlatform `s error-resilient technology recognizes and conceals the transmission errors that are prevalent in wireless networks, enabling mobile wireless devices to receive enhanced streaming video and audio at transmission speeds as low as 9.6 kbps. In addition, PVPlatform maintains interoperability with all major digital wireless telephony standards as well as next-generation wireless networks currently being developed.
The PVPlatform enables a variety of services for users ranging from video-based news and weather clips, remote web cam monitoring of their children at school or home surveillance, to music clips and sports highlight replays.[[nice]]
"The Sendo Z100 is a mobile phone that points the way to the future," said Kathleen Peters, vice president of worldwide embedded solutions, sales and business development for PacketVideo.
Industry Synopsis: Updated
Industry Synopsis: All Investors – As per e.Digital Corp.
e.Digital, Intel, Lucent, TXN, IBM, Samsung and DataPlay. Years of Achievements With Flash Memory Management and Voice Recorder Innovations Have Led e.Digital To The Forefront Of The Emerging DataPlay Format & IBM Microdrive Platforms – And The ‘Soon To Be Announced’ Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM & VOICENAV Technology.
Intel’s ‘Flash Presentation’ This indicates where we’re headed with 3-4th Generation PDA’s. http://developer.intel.com/design/flash/intro/fdi30demo/fdiflash.htm
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=509750
Intel & ADI’s new DSP Core & Intel’s New DAP Audio Player ‘Pocket Concert’.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20010417net.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2658478,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551122
Taipei, May 2, 2001 (Bloomberg) Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, plans to order NT$2 billion ($61 million) worth of so-called MP3 audio players from Eastern Asia Technology Ltd., Eastech. Could e.Digital be involved – Or just a coincidence. Note e.Digital and Eastech platforms below.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=668929+
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
Aug. 16, 2001 - Digital video is "going to take off," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754775
Could e.Digital’s MicoOS be embedded in this product and other DSPs? e.Digital now has top Intel personnel onboard and is exhibiting advanced reference designs as seen the last two years - and most recently at 2001 CES for Samsung and Toshiba. In my opinion, new flash/HDD hybrids and dedicated DSPs are on the horizon. Expect to see more advanced DAPs & PDAs from many of the giant chip makers and Consumer Electronics OEMs as quality emerges with security for Internet music and other content. eDigital is extremely well positioned – Intel’s CEO recently commented that the ‘Pocket Concert’ is format agnostic. The player is also made by Samsung. IMO - this means when/if multi-codec and ‘digital rights management’ issues become needed by content providers, they have access to our MiroOS platform. Intel DAP picture: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/electronics/B000059ZYB/pictures/14/104-5074239-...
Fred Falk, June 2000 -''We are working with major manufacturers to have our technology embedded into their programmable DSPs and/or microcontrollers'' His DSP comments and a Flash Glue View. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
IMO - Embedded Projects Are Ongoing.
These NDA’s Verify The Sectors Enormity & Complexity.
October 30, 2000 - Fred Falk, ‘’We are also working with OEMs who may compete against each other with product offerings designed by e.Digital. Our non-disclosure agreements with our OEMs are in place to ensure that we are not disclosing any details of their product and our agreements to other OEMs and the public until they are ready to have this information made available. ‘’ Feb. 14, 2001 – e.Digital Form 10-QSB – Informed Investors that some revenue sources may stay unnamed until they decide to become known.
I Believe This is What Intel Is Going To Do For Secure Internet Content With It’s DRM/ISIS which includes ePAC.
http://www.convera.com
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551558
http://www.agoracom.com/agora/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=50275&refid=0&orig=50275
February 2, 2000; WW6 From Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell International Corporation to purchase a wafer fabrication facility (fab) located in Colorado Springs, Colo. The purchase will add significant manufacturing capacity for Intel to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. The new Holy Grail for the company is the business of selling flash-memory chips -- used in battery-operated devices that hold their memory even when the device's power is off. Intel is quickly rebuilding itself into the world's largest manufacturer of flash chips.
Three top Intel people from its Flash/Mobile Divisions are now with e.Digital.
e.Digital was selected by Intel to design and prototype a number of portable digital voice recorders utilizing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Intel plans to sub-license the reference design created by e.Digital to Intel's OEM customers, referring them back to e.Digital for licensing and any additional design and/or manufacturing work required. e.Digital has also filed a number of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; We have received notification of allowance from the United States Patent Office for use: MicroOS TM, FlashBack(R), Hold That Thought(R), Fumble Free(R), SoundClip(R), Smart Song Selection(tm), MicroCAM TM - Micro Compressed Audio Manager, AMIS TM - Audio Manager Interface, TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link, VIAGGI – ie, Travels, and VOICENAV as registered trade names.
Internet Audio Market. Excerpt Source: Texas Instruments.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=566858
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/innovate/iaudio/opportunity.htm
Today's Internet Audio application is based upon the downloading of digital audio content, either speech or music, via the Internet and then playing the encoded digital audio content on an Internet Audio playback device. Very soon, these playback units will be a sub-system in PDAs, digital still cameras, cellular phones, set-top boxes, and other devices. The total market potential is even larger when you consider other complimentary products such as headphone stereo, personal CD, personal MD, car audio, and future DSC, cellular phone, etc., TI has the commanding market share lead with key design-ins at most of the major consumer electronics and PC makers. The following customers have already been publicly announced: a. Thomson Consumer Electronics b. Sanyo c. e.Digital.
TI DSP’s & My Opinion on DSP’s and our MicroOS. TXN CES Comments.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=738850
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=554726
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=546798
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=592843
TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – ePAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital.
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
1999 -IBM VoiceTimes alliance announced - Including e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595357
March 23, 2001 - e.Digital Corporation announced today that the first production-level Internet music player design incorporating IBM's Microdrive™.is being featured in the IBM booth at the CeBIT trade show which runs through March 28. The design is currently being marketed by e.Digital and Maycom, Co., Ltd. worldwide. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr032301.html
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
July 20, 2001 – Wireless IBM Microdrive & IBM Voice Navigation.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=156344
Sep. 5, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION ANNOUNCES NEW DIGITAL PLAYER/RECORDER USING IBM'S MICRODRIVE(TM) MEDIA. Product Based on e.Digital's MicroOS(TM) 2.0
with VoiceNav(TM) Speech Interface. Production is already under way in Asia for OEM customers to meet demand for our MicroOS-based product in time for the holiday selling season.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=176407
So Many Digital Downloadable Music Players: With a Big Problem – Multiple Codecs & ‘Digital Rights Managements’ and Increasing Advanced Functions Within Smaller Devices. http://www.ecoustics.com/Home/Home_Audio/MP3_Players/MP3_Player_Reviews/
This Is What It’s All About – IMHO.
Look at All the New Music Services, Video/Media Players, Interactive & Content Enabled Set-Top-Boxes, Home Servers, Kiosks, Karaoke Devices, 3G MP3 Phones And Satellite Digital Radio Applications Coming To Market. Then Read The Article about Bertelsmann’s Tj.net/MP3 De Cellular and its intentions to create a Secure Subscription Model with Napster. IMO - The PJBs and DataPlay devices will create New Excitement due to design & features – See Treo’, ET700 and ‘Volan’ Concept designs below. This Synopsis Concludes with four knowledgeable shareholder’s analysis on the emerging technology and how it could very easily include e.Digital’s Patented Micro OS as a standard in this emerging sector.
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
Oct. 6, 2000 – e.Digital Corp. and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea today announced the launch of the MP2000 multi-codec, portable digital music player in time for the holiday shopping season. Initial shipments are now beginning and the product will be introduced into the European and Asian markets as well as in other countries and specialty markets through Maycom and other OEMs. The unit has superb audio quality and louder output levels than most other portable music players on the market, without sacrificing battery life. Its backlit LCD screen supports English and Japanese characters. The multi-codec unit supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and ePAC music compression formats, and is firmware upgradeable to support the QDX format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The SDMI-capable unit ships with WMA Digital Rights Management included. It can be firmware upgraded to support InterTrust's Digital Rights Management, which the world's largest recording company, Universal Music Group, has announced it will be using in its online music distribution.
Powered By e.Digital Technology – Maycom/edig ‘Merit’ Player Picture.
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.100600/bb5.jpg
August 2001 – Maycom’s new site. MP2000 And New ‘Advanced Voice Recorder’.
http://www.emaycom.com/eng/default.asp
Nov. 9 2000 – e.Digital & Samsung announce agreement to produce two separate DataPlay enabled devices to premier at CES Jan. 6, 2001. October 19, 2000 - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today announced that it is developing portable digital products incorporating DataPlay's quarter-sized 500 MB digital media and micro-optical engine. DataPlay has secured $50 million in strategic financing from Universal Music, Toshiba, Samsung, S3 and Creative. It's not certain that Universal's prerecorded music will be available in the format. But DataPlay announced last month that Universal's eLabs president Lawrence Kenswil has joined DataPlay's board of directors.
Our DataPlay device. [This financing has now reacher 110 million – in 2001]
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/index.jsp and http://www.edig.com.
DataPlay Product Rollout – CES 2001
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=590380
DataPlay/Volan Concept Designs. Very Innovative.
http://www.volan.com/proof/eDigital/visuals-06.cfm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15135565
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-02.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-05.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-06.html
Samsung’s Handheld Video Motion YEPP & DataPlay Orbit Music Player http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-112.gif
http://www.etown.com/categories/print_article.jhtml?article_type=news&articleID=3554
2001 - Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
July 30, 2001 – Samsung Electronics is partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to jointly develop and market new products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755021
July 9, 2001 – Samsung will diversify its portfolio of Yepp Internet audio portables in the summer and fall with its first MP3-CD portable, its first pendant-style flash-memory portable, and its first firmware-upgradable flash-memory portable, which will also be
among the company's first multicodec models.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=718688
July 17, 2001—Samsung and AOL Time Warner Announce Multi-Year Strategic Marketing and Technology Alliance. Samsung to Manufacture Next-Generation AOLTV Set-Top Boxes, In addition, the companies will explore the development of a range of future consumer electronics products as well as introduce new digital products to consumers to enhance Samsung Brand Through Promotion Across AOL Time Warner Online and Offline Brands.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145128
July 2001 - Samsung Electronics and CompUSA – Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
The Eastech, ZapMedia, HarmonKardon, Samsung, CompUSA Connection –
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=735946
Aug. 15, 2001 - Samsung unveils new chip for Web audio devices.The latest SOC, called CalmRISC-Portable Audio Device, is designed to process a variety of audio files including MP3, WMA (windows media audio) and AAC (advanced audio coding). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754137
Sep. 1, 2001 – Samsung to Produce Mobiles in China.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=767128
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=162681
Nokia Music PlayerPhone HDR-1 – Using MP3 & AAC.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=176111
Aug. 25, 2001 – Samsung will launch a home network server in cooperation with U.S-based software group Microsoft. The home server, which will be able to connect computers, consumers electronics and home appliances and other devices through a wide range of wired and wireless standards. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=169685
March 29, 2001 – Fred Falk, Following our business plan, we have dedicated strategic engineering resources to the development and implementation of new product platforms that include digital video for portable devices, automotive and home stereo designs, cellular phone accessories, and set-top boxes. We are working with multiple OEMs on specific applications of these MicroOS- and MicroCAM-powered platforms for inclusion in a variety of branded products.
SET TO DEBUT IN 2001 WITH 10GIG HDD –
Nov. 13, 2000 - Hy-Tek Previews e.Digital’s ‘Treo’ PJB at COMDEX – 2000 Songs on a Handheld Player. RemoteSolutions/Hango/e.Digital Works-In-Progress.
And an Excellent Candidate for a PC Bundle.
http://www.treoplayer.com Palmed Treo’ http://hardware.dmusic.com/details.php?id=169 http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/treo.html
e.Digital VP Comments about Treo’ and PC Manufacturers -
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=540326
COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=596645
August 22, 2001 - Intel, Compaq and TI- handheld collaborations.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=760478
July 12-13, MP3 Summit 2001 – "Best Overall Portable MP3 Player: Treo Digital Music Jukebox. MP3 Summit 2001 attendees found the Treo to be the smallest and lightest hard-drive based player, at only 8 ounces with batteries. The Treo is manufactured by Hy-Tek Mfg. and designed by e.Digital." http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145410
January 3-4, 2001 – e.Digital & Toshiba to develop and provide mult-codec portable Internet music player. Also e.Digital contracts with EASTECH a multi-million dollar firm with name-brand consumer electronics manufacturers including but not limited to Philips,Sony, Kenwood, Sanyo, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi and Pioneer. http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
June 5, 2001- Devices for DataPlay’s mini disks expected To reach market by fall. Toshiba and Samsung DataPlay production models are ready!!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=121533
DataPlay Sees Sept. Delivery Of 1st Products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=725928
DataPlay, which will introduce 500MB blank discs and prerecorded discs this year, will be "multi-codec compatible.
July 24, 2001 - Digital Clearing and Distribution Partnership Final Piece in DataPlay Strategy to Connect Retail Networks, Content Owners and Electronics Companies. Reciprocal, Inc., the provider of business infrastructure for the distribution of digital assets, and DataPlay, Inc., today announced an electronic media distribution agreement that will provide new levels of portability, security and ease-of-use for media companies, as well as consumers. The agreement leverages content across an extensive network of retailers and distributors, including Coconuts, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=733457
June 6, 2001—SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that their new FlashVision fabrication (fab) plant has gone into production of advanced flash memories, and shipments of the product have started. The NAND memory wafers being produced by FlashVision will primarily be used to manufacture flash memory storage cards for use in digital
cameras, digital Internet music players and future generations of cell phones.
Keep in mind e.Digital’s JUSTRI invitation SD association and the Flash Patents.
Jan. 5, 2001 - Sending Moving Pictures to Cell Phones - Toshiba's Single-Chip. http://www.mobileinfo.com/News_2001/Issue05/Toshiba_video.htm
Aug. 27, 2001 - SanDisk Reports Major Retail Expansion in Europe In Approximately 10,000 Retail Stores In 30 European Countries for mobile phones, Internet music players and small-size digital cameras. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170017
EASTECH’s version of the Treo’ the ET-700 & Our Toshiba’s DP Player.
http://www.acousticsys.com/products/IA/portable/ET700.html
http://www.eastech1.com/english/prod.htm
http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-117.gif
Remember The Intel/Eastech Connection –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=164838
2001 – Eastech Secures New Contracts Worth US$43 Million - it has secured two new major contracts, worth US$43 million, with consumer electronics companies SANYO and Singing Machine.
July 27, 2001 - Does MTV Karaoke spell EDIG?? Soon available at consumer electronics, toy and general merchandise stores throughout the US, including Best Buy, Toys R' Us and Meijer, and by catalog at JC Penney, Sears and Fingerhut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=151235
e.Digital & Qdesign – Madonna’s codec-of-choice. Qdesign is Promoting edig’s MicroCAM platforms IMO to Apple’s QuickTime. Also IMO we’ll work with PortalPlayer - per links below. http://www.qdesign.com/news/pressreleases_07_24_00.htm
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=581347 August 1, 2000 –
QDesign selects e.Digital portable internet music player design for showcase product Custom Music Player to Demonstrate the New QDX Codec for Digital Music to Executives in Music and Electronics Industries. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=685824
Texas Instruments and Qdesign Announce Enhanced Digital Audio Music Storage Design for Portable Players. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99050.htm
Now Read The Bertelsmann Article Link Below – Also Note Vivindi’s New ‘Universal Music Mobile’- Then Go to http://www.edig.com For the Facts On The Company Which Has The Key To It All - An Advanced MicroOS Solution For The Audio/Video Format/Codec & DRM Delima. Read The Last Letter To Shareholders And View Their Growing List of Impressive Partners. e.Digital Recently Added More DSP Engineers, Equity Investments And Key Personnel To Its BOD. The Company’s Micro OS Has Been Recognized As a Benchmark With These Same Companies: Intel, IBM, SanDisk, Lucent & Texas Instruments And Many Other Industry/Sector Leaders.
Aug. 30, 2000-- Bertelsmann (BMG), the world's largest international media enterprise, launched tj net to provide a new service for mobile phone users in Italy. Tj net expects to add additional centers in Germany, UK, France and Benelux in Europe, as well as in the U. S. and Japan. Tj net transforms mobile phones into cost-free receivers for a wide variety of music and top news stories. http://www.inin.com/News/PressReleases/pressreleases.asp?id=118
2000-2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio seek interoperability using Lucent’s EPAC and AAC for the Automotive and Stereo Industry. IMO – This will be Huge for e.Digital per handheld reception and recording of streamed/downloaded content. Also see iBiquity.com.
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=82063
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=534184
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=587686
1-2001 - Sirius VP Tracey Stanyer says. "We want to use position-based commerce, or P-commerce, to turn drive time into buy time."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=124007
My Reasoning For Digital Radios Importance –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170561
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170539
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168999
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=153309
Jan. 8, 2001 - XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
August 23, 2001 – BMW of North America, LLC and Sirius Satellite Radio the satellite radio broadcaster, announced today that BMW will offer Sirius satellite radio service to new car buyers beginning in the second quarter of 2002.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
Sep. 5, 2001 - Beginning in November, General Motors will become the first auto manufacturer in the world to offer XM Satellite Radio as a factory-installed option. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=177562
Sep. 6, 2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio signed distribution agreements with Porsche Cars North America to offer their satellite radio service as an option to customers in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=770850
June 25 – 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
A look at VR in ‘Telematics’ within the Auto Industry with Intel and IBM
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=542328
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/DC3F600187220BF9852569CE0057BC67
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010106/nv_motorol.html
July 12, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND BANG & OLUFSEN ENTER INTO LICENSING AGREEMENT – Visteon has paired its world-class audio and electronic capabilities with prestigious Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to develop a new level of automotive audio sophistication. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=142952
July 30, 2001 - Visteon & SpeechWorks. We are thrilled that Visteon, a leader in the telematics industry, has chosen to work with us to bring our combined technologies to telematics and other markets such as mobile devices and cable set-top boxes with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152129
PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. – IMO e.Digital and PacketVideo are well aware of each other and will eventually work together on advanced video platforms.
June 13, 2000 - PacketVideo today announced that it has agreements with over 35 global media and online companies to trial the delivery of video to wireless devices. Warner Bros, FOXSPORTS.com, E! Entertainment, ABCNEWS, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment etc,. , PacketVideo - Interview
http://boss.2.navisitestreaming.net/real/2/fconf/000825/28_robert_tercek.smi
http://www.packetvideo.com
July 28 -Time Werner & PDA’s. Signaling the entertainment industry's determination to move aggressively into the dawning wireless-entertainment field, Time Warner Inc. is developing original programming that will be beamed to handheld devices. The company will work with PacketVideoCorp., a San Diego software firm backed by, among others, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. The closely held concern already has conducted widespread trials of its wireless audio-video programming with other content giants, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Pictures, using mostly promotional material such as movie trailers. See PacketVideo’s News Releases for these: Intel and PacketVideo. Lucent Streams Entertainment To Cell Phones. Wireless device users are way beyond using their cell phones just for phone calls, they want entertainment, and they want speed. The communications equipment giant is teaming with wireless video start-up PacketVideo to develop this next-generation device. Motorola with PacketVideo, Bell & PacketVideo, Nortel Networks and Packetvideo, Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo, Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo. March 20, 2001 - PacketVideo Partners with Symbian to Provide Mobile Video Software for Smartphones - Symbian's licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=641600
Aug. 22, 2001 – Texas Instruments and PacketVideo Corporation today announced plans to create a variety of differentiated streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices that will enable capabilities like streaming video and audio, speech recognition, JPEG image processing and others. Aug. 28, 2001- DoCoMo, PacketVideo to Deliver 3G Video when
it launches a full commercial services on October 1.
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating CellPhones, PDAs, PJBs, Set-Top-Boxs and Automotive Telematics link-ups using Handheld Voice Remotes via OutPut/Input-Jacks, Push/Pull via TWIRL, 802.11 and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below - http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=123586
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. (ZapMedia), today announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gannett Co., Inc./ USA TODAY (NYSE: GCI), one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, to provide an all-in-one Internet driven, interactive entertainment environment, making it a reality for consumers today. With the click of a button people will serve up music, movies, television, the Internet, and email using ZapMedia's co-branded products and services
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=604252
ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=131034
(Reuters 10-10-2000) - The National Music Publishers' Association Inc. (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) said Tuesday they have agreed on procedures for licensing of musical compositions, or songs, that are distributed on the Internet. The RIAA represents big record companies, including Seagram Co. Ltd.'s Universal Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc (news - web sites).
October 23, 2000 – Delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc. In the latest sign that music subscription is emerging as a prominent avenue for delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc said it is developing an online music-subscription service, and Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group has launched a test of a subscription-music service.
10/25/00 - LYCOS aims to be web music one-stop ...
Lycos took another step last week by signing a partnership with BMG Entertainment, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Lycos will sell digital downloads of albums and singles by 100 of BMG's recording artists.
(Oct.31,2000) -Bertelsmann And Napster Form Alliance. Entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.D) and controversial song-swap company Napster (news - web sites) Inc. said on Tuesday they formed an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service.
Oct 31, 2000 -- Radio Free Virgin and Playboy.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced the launch of Radio Free Virgin, a downloadable0, CD-quality digital radio tuner available free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com.
http://billboard.com/daily/2000/1201_04.asp
Nov. 1, 2000 - Warner Music Group (WMG) and Microsoft Corp, In a multiyear agreement, WMG has selected Windows Media Format as a primary format for commercial music download initiatives in the United States and Canada, with security provided by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Nov. 2000 – PHILIPS SHOWCASES CLICKRADIO ON DIGITAL SET-TOP-BOX. Through an exclusive agreement with Lucent Technologies, ClickRadio uses the patented ePAC (Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coding) compression format to deliver secure digital music programming while protecting artists' copyrights. IMO - TiVo features are coming for Audio Content.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112461
06/05/01 – Philips has released a new family of highly integrated solid state audio devices for MP3 audio players, car radio systems, portable CD players, flash memory cards, Internet radio and simple jukebox applications. Able to support a range of stereo audio decompression algorithms, including MP3, AAC and Microsoft WMA, the SAA7750 chip's programmable DSP architecture enables it to become the basis of MP3, CD and SSA (flash memory) products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=728640
August 7, 2001 – ClickRadio = ePAC & Gateway/Kmart/Wal-Mart - The company has a distribution deal with Gateway and will soon have its software available at Kmart, Wal-mart, Staples and Electronics Boutique.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=157180
12/15/00 - ONLINE music seller Soundbuzz has snagged a deal with major record label BMG to sell the music of artists; allowing purchase music in digital-file format for immediate download to their hard disk. using Intertrust and Liquid Audio to provide encryption and digital-rights management.
January 10, 2001- NTT DoCoMo to Start Music Distribution to PHS Users
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583848
Jan 22, 2001 - IBM to Offer New Technology to Prevent Unauthorized Music Distribution on Web & IBM/e.Digital Player and Toshiba/IBM - EMMS .
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E07957156C96DBD7852569DC0051460E
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/micro/edigital.htm
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Toshiba and IBM’s EMMS. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642853
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 2001 - BMG Entertainment announced today a substantial expansion of its digital music offerings In addition, BMG announced that its labels are now making new releases simultaneously available as Digital Downloads.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=589017
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Feb. 22, 2001 - Vivendi/Universal, Sony team up for online Music site
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=622436
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
DALLAS, Feb 27 - Blockbuster Inc. & Universal Pictures films via its video on-demand service include RadioShack its stores for in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=67262&refid=0&orig=67262
Feb. 27, 2001 - Warner Music to Sell Downloadable Albums.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=625247
March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=637683
March 14, 2001 – Handleman Company one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. will offer a catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads – See Handleman Kiosks Coming Below. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
Mar 16, 2001 - Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific, PlanetMG uses Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology for secure music downloads and to prevent piracy.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=638941
March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
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. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
Sep. 6, 2001 - Sprint and Verizon claim they will, by year's end, turn on new cell phone networks that will let wireless users do things like download music onto cell phones, or other functions previously reserved just for personal computers.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=177413
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
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April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet. Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=655253
April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=71535
May 20, 2001 – Vivendi Universal Acquires MP3.com in Move to Strengthen Digital Distribution Capacity and Web Audience. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
May 23 2001 – Vitaminic Announces New Music Publishing Company, ZipMind, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of music on the Internet, announced today it will offer music publishing services to authors, publishers and third parties. Vitaminic offers the largest legal online catalogue of music in Europe. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112443
June 5, 2001- -RioPort, & BestBuy - the leading music application service provider (ASP), today announced that it will distribute commercial music downloads to BestBuy.com(TM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. the nation's number one specialty retailer of
consumer electronics. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
January 6, 2000 – E.DIGITAL AND RIOPORT, INC. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP SEAMLESS, SECURE INTERNET MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689937
June 6, 2001 – Napster secures its first music licenses from three of the five major labels, paving the way for the file-trading network to launch its new subscription service by the end of the summer. The service is expected to offer both radio-like streaming technology and downloading capabilities. MusicNet will be available through AOL, Real Networks and Napster.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44322,00.html
Jul 11, 2001 - Judge orders Napster not to resume service.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=722712
July 12, 2001 – Pressplay & Microsoft -- a joint venture between music giants Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp is near a deal to offer its online music subscription service on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=720867
July 13, 2001 - Elibron Adds Downloadable Music To Its Collection of Electronic Books Adamant Media, already partnered with two of the world's largest libraries to bring its customers over 30,000 electronic books, now officially announces the addition of secured downloadable music to its website.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729657
July 16, 2001 – TOWER RECORDS, The largest independent record store in the world, joins forces with OD2 and PlayLouder to begine commercial download sales. http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01070154.html
July 18, 2001- NAPSTER READY TO LAUNCH a second phase subscription service backed by major labels. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729103
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Aug. 28, 2001 - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010828/wr/media_bertelsmann_napster_dc_1.html
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
July 25, 2001 - U.S. Government Stepping Up Internet Antipiracy Efforts In the past week the U.S government has escalated efforts to squash Internet piracy by conducting sweeps in nine states and expanding the ranks of attorneys assigned to prosecute copyright violators.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/board.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736507
Aug. 9, 2001 – Liquid Audio, Inc. today announced it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=748032
Using MP3 and AAC also - like Nokia/Samsung.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=177558
Aug. 13, 2001 – Texas Instruments and RealNetworks today announced they have broadened their strategic alliance to offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable
digital signal processing (DSP)-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video client devices including IP set-top boxes, network video appliances, personal video recorders, streaming media servers and IP video. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=750783
Aug. 16, 2001 – Five Major Film Studios on Thursday announced a joint on-demand
movie service that will offer old and new releases for broadband Internet users in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755026
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
Aug. 20, 2001 - BMG musical downloads in Europe. OD2 will work with BMG to support the sale of selected catalogue, via secure digital download, in partnership with a number of leading European retailers via the internet.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=166104
Aug. 21, 2001 - DataPlay Delays Launch. After following a seemingly smooth product development road, DataPlay is being forced to push back the introduction of its 500MB removable storage media and hardware from this fall to early 2002.
Aug. 23, 2001 "Short-term, this is a disappointment, but we understand the reasons," said Putnam. "It offers us the opportunity to get in more devices. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168130
Positive Spin On The Delay - DABOSS Talks To Robert Putnam.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
AUGUST 24, 2001 – 5 labels using 'stealth CDs' to discourage copying songs.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168084
Aug. 27, 2001 - Vivendi Launches Mobile Music in France, a music service for listening to records on mobiles before they are on general released.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170347
Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736528
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
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Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258082
Jimee11’s Response: #258031
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258031
emit’s Response: #258056
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258056
e.Digital & Lanier Worldwide’s Medical Dictation Handheld – Cquence Mobile. According to market analysts, the medical dictation market is the largest vertical market in the speech technology industry. http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/sep00/doc_doc.shtml
http://www.edig.com/products/custom-cquence.html
http://www.lanier.com/ps/apps/cqmobile.html
Lanier & Allscripst Creating Compaq PDA For Medical Industry. + Cquence
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=708671
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Now Think About It……. It’s coming our way and involves much more than just music – Handheld mobile voice recognition, video on demand, VR Medical Records and (c)Publications & eBooks. e.Digital is the Codec/DRM and flash storage file management for Secure Internet Content and Advanced Handheld Design.
(February 15, 2001) E.DIGITAL HIRES FLEISHMAN-HILLARD INC. TO LEAD U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS. The Worlds' largest public relations firm, to lead domestic and international media relations and communications. Michael Busselen, senior vice president, "e.Digital has developed unique technology that has the potential to impact millions of consumers. The story is captivating, the business is timely, and we look forward to using our expertise and understanding of the media to share e.Digital's story with the business and technology communities."http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr021501.html
Think Global…DOS to MOS http://www.edig.com http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.071400/bb3.jpg
This is all ‘My Humble Opinion’
emit…
Industry Synopsis: Updated
Industry Synopsis: All Investors – As per e.Digital Corp.
e.Digital, Intel, Lucent, TXN, IBM, Samsung and DataPlay. Years of Achievements With Flash Memory Management and Voice Recorder Innovations Have Led e.Digital To The Forefront Of The Emerging DataPlay Format & IBM Microdrive Platforms – And The ‘Soon To Be Announced’ Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM & VOICENAV Technology.
Intel’s ‘Flash Presentation’ This indicates where we’re headed with 3-4th Generation PDA’s. http://developer.intel.com/design/flash/intro/fdi30demo/fdiflash.htm
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=509750
Intel & ADI’s new DSP Core & Intel’s New DAP Audio Player ‘Pocket Concert’.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20010417net.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2658478,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
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Taipei, May 2, 2001 (Bloomberg) Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, plans to order NT$2 billion ($61 million) worth of so-called MP3 audio players from Eastern Asia Technology Ltd., Eastech. Could e.Digital be involved – Or just a coincidence. Note e.Digital and Eastech platforms below.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=668929+
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
Aug. 16, 2001 - Digital video is "going to take off," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754775
Could e.Digital’s MicoOS be embedded in this product and other DSPs? e.Digital now has top Intel personnel onboard and is exhibiting advanced reference designs as seen the last two years - and most recently at 2001 CES for Samsung and Toshiba. In my opinion, new flash/HDD hybrids and dedicated DSPs are on the horizon. Expect to see more advanced DAPs & PDAs from many of the giant chip makers and Consumer Electronics OEMs as quality emerges with security for Internet music and other content. eDigital is extremely well positioned – Intel’s CEO recently commented that the ‘Pocket Concert’ is format agnostic. The player is also made by Samsung. IMO - this means when/if multi-codec and ‘digital rights management’ issues become needed by content providers, they have access to our MiroOS platform. Intel DAP picture: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/electronics/B000059ZYB/pictures/14/104-5074239-...
Fred Falk, June 2000 -''We are working with major manufacturers to have our technology embedded into their programmable DSPs and/or microcontrollers'' His DSP comments and a Flash Glue View. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
IMO - Embedded Projects Are Ongoing.
These NDA’s Verify The Sectors Enormity & Complexity.
October 30, 2000 - Fred Falk, ‘’We are also working with OEMs who may compete against each other with product offerings designed by e.Digital. Our non-disclosure agreements with our OEMs are in place to ensure that we are not disclosing any details of their product and our agreements to other OEMs and the public until they are ready to have this information made available. ‘’ Feb. 14, 2001 – e.Digital Form 10-QSB – Informed Investors that some revenue sources may stay unnamed until they decide to become known.
I Believe This is What Intel Is Going To Do For Secure Internet Content With It’s DRM/ISIS which includes ePAC.
http://www.convera.com
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February 2, 2000; WW6 From Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell International Corporation to purchase a wafer fabrication facility (fab) located in Colorado Springs, Colo. The purchase will add significant manufacturing capacity for Intel to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. The new Holy Grail for the company is the business of selling flash-memory chips -- used in battery-operated devices that hold their memory even when the device's power is off. Intel is quickly rebuilding itself into the world's largest manufacturer of flash chips.
Three top Intel people from its Flash/Mobile Divisions are now with e.Digital.
e.Digital was selected by Intel to design and prototype a number of portable digital voice recorders utilizing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Intel plans to sub-license the reference design created by e.Digital to Intel's OEM customers, referring them back to e.Digital for licensing and any additional design and/or manufacturing work required. e.Digital has also filed a number of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; We have received notification of allowance from the United States Patent Office for use: MicroOS TM, FlashBack(R), Hold That Thought(R), Fumble Free(R), SoundClip(R), Smart Song Selection(tm), MicroCAM TM - Micro Compressed Audio Manager, AMIS TM - Audio Manager Interface, TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link, VIAGGI – ie, Travels, and VOICENAV as registered trade names.
Internet Audio Market. Excerpt Source: Texas Instruments.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=566858
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/innovate/iaudio/opportunity.htm
Today's Internet Audio application is based upon the downloading of digital audio content, either speech or music, via the Internet and then playing the encoded digital audio content on an Internet Audio playback device. Very soon, these playback units will be a sub-system in PDAs, digital still cameras, cellular phones, set-top boxes, and other devices. The total market potential is even larger when you consider other complimentary products such as headphone stereo, personal CD, personal MD, car audio, and future DSC, cellular phone, etc., TI has the commanding market share lead with key design-ins at most of the major consumer electronics and PC makers. The following customers have already been publicly announced: a. Thomson Consumer Electronics b. Sanyo c. e.Digital.
TI DSP’s & My Opinion on DSP’s and our MicroOS. TXN CES Comments.
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TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – ePAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital.
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
1999 -IBM VoiceTimes alliance announced - Including e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595357
March 23, 2001 - e.Digital Corporation announced today that the first production-level Internet music player design incorporating IBM's Microdrive™.is being featured in the IBM booth at the CeBIT trade show which runs through March 28. The design is currently being marketed by e.Digital and Maycom, Co., Ltd. worldwide. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr032301.html
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
July 20, 2001 – Wireless IBM Microdrive & IBM Voice Navigation.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=156344
Sep. 5, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION ANNOUNCES NEW DIGITAL PLAYER/RECORDER USING IBM'S MICRODRIVE(TM) MEDIA. Product Based on e.Digital's MicroOS(TM) 2.0
with VoiceNav(TM) Speech Interface. Production is already under way in Asia for OEM customers to meet demand for our MicroOS-based product in time for the holiday selling season.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=176407
So Many Digital Downloadable Music Players: With a Big Problem – Multiple Codecs & ‘Digital Rights Managements’ and Increasing Advanced Functions Within Smaller Devices. http://www.ecoustics.com/Home/Home_Audio/MP3_Players/MP3_Player_Reviews/
This Is What It’s All About – IMHO.
Look at All the New Music Services, Video/Media Players, Interactive & Content Enabled Set-Top-Boxes, Home Servers, Kiosks, Karaoke Devices, 3G MP3 Phones And Satellite Digital Radio Applications Coming To Market. Then Read The Article about Bertelsmann’s Tj.net/MP3 De Cellular and its intentions to create a Secure Subscription Model with Napster. IMO - The PJBs and DataPlay devices will create New Excitement due to design & features – See Treo’, ET700 and ‘Volan’ Concept designs below. This Synopsis Concludes with four knowledgeable shareholder’s analysis on the emerging technology and how it could very easily include e.Digital’s Patented Micro OS as a standard in this emerging sector.
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
Oct. 6, 2000 – e.Digital Corp. and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea today announced the launch of the MP2000 multi-codec, portable digital music player in time for the holiday shopping season. Initial shipments are now beginning and the product will be introduced into the European and Asian markets as well as in other countries and specialty markets through Maycom and other OEMs. The unit has superb audio quality and louder output levels than most other portable music players on the market, without sacrificing battery life. Its backlit LCD screen supports English and Japanese characters. The multi-codec unit supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and ePAC music compression formats, and is firmware upgradeable to support the QDX format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The SDMI-capable unit ships with WMA Digital Rights Management included. It can be firmware upgraded to support InterTrust's Digital Rights Management, which the world's largest recording company, Universal Music Group, has announced it will be using in its online music distribution.
Powered By e.Digital Technology – Maycom/edig ‘Merit’ Player Picture.
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.100600/bb5.jpg
August 2001 – Maycom’s new site. MP2000 And New ‘Advanced Voice Recorder’.
http://www.emaycom.com/eng/default.asp
Nov. 9 2000 – e.Digital & Samsung announce agreement to produce two separate DataPlay enabled devices to premier at CES Jan. 6, 2001. October 19, 2000 - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today announced that it is developing portable digital products incorporating DataPlay's quarter-sized 500 MB digital media and micro-optical engine. DataPlay has secured $50 million in strategic financing from Universal Music, Toshiba, Samsung, S3 and Creative. It's not certain that Universal's prerecorded music will be available in the format. But DataPlay announced last month that Universal's eLabs president Lawrence Kenswil has joined DataPlay's board of directors.
Our DataPlay device. [This financing has now reacher 110 million – in 2001]
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/index.jsp and http://www.edig.com.
DataPlay Product Rollout – CES 2001
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=590380
DataPlay/Volan Concept Designs. Very Innovative.
http://www.volan.com/proof/eDigital/visuals-06.cfm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15135565
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-02.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-05.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-06.html
Samsung’s Handheld Video Motion YEPP & DataPlay Orbit Music Player http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-112.gif
http://www.etown.com/categories/print_article.jhtml?article_type=news&articleID=3554
2001 - Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
July 30, 2001 – Samsung Electronics is partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to jointly develop and market new products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755021
July 9, 2001 – Samsung will diversify its portfolio of Yepp Internet audio portables in the summer and fall with its first MP3-CD portable, its first pendant-style flash-memory portable, and its first firmware-upgradable flash-memory portable, which will also be
among the company's first multicodec models.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=718688
July 17, 2001—Samsung and AOL Time Warner Announce Multi-Year Strategic Marketing and Technology Alliance. Samsung to Manufacture Next-Generation AOLTV Set-Top Boxes, In addition, the companies will explore the development of a range of future consumer electronics products as well as introduce new digital products to consumers to enhance Samsung Brand Through Promotion Across AOL Time Warner Online and Offline Brands.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145128
July 2001 - Samsung Electronics and CompUSA – Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
The Eastech, ZapMedia, HarmonKardon, Samsung, CompUSA Connection –
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=735946
Aug. 15, 2001 - Samsung unveils new chip for Web audio devices.The latest SOC, called CalmRISC-Portable Audio Device, is designed to process a variety of audio files including MP3, WMA (windows media audio) and AAC (advanced audio coding). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754137
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=162681
Nokia Music PlayerPhone HDR-1 – Using MP3 & AAC.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=176111
Aug. 25, 2001 – Samsung will launch a home network server in cooperation with U.S-based software group Microsoft. The home server, which will be able to connect computers, consumers electronics and home appliances and other devices through a wide range of wired and wireless standards. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=169685
March 29, 2001 – Fred Falk, Following our business plan, we have dedicated strategic engineering resources to the development and implementation of new product platforms that include digital video for portable devices, automotive and home stereo designs, cellular phone accessories, and set-top boxes. We are working with multiple OEMs on specific applications of these MicroOS- and MicroCAM-powered platforms for inclusion in a variety of branded products.
SET TO DEBUT IN 2001 WITH 10GIG HDD –
Nov. 13, 2000 - Hy-Tek Previews e.Digital’s ‘Treo’ PJB at COMDEX – 2000 Songs on a Handheld Player. RemoteSolutions/Hango/e.Digital Works-In-Progress.
And an Excellent Candidate for a PC Bundle.
http://www.treoplayer.com Palmed Treo’ http://hardware.dmusic.com/details.php?id=169 http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/treo.html
e.Digital VP Comments about Treo’ and PC Manufacturers -
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=540326
COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=596645
August 22, 2001 - Intel, Compaq and TI- handheld collaborations.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=760478
July 12-13, MP3 Summit 2001 – "Best Overall Portable MP3 Player: Treo Digital Music Jukebox. MP3 Summit 2001 attendees found the Treo to be the smallest and lightest hard-drive based player, at only 8 ounces with batteries. The Treo is manufactured by Hy-Tek Mfg. and designed by e.Digital." http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145410
January 3-4, 2001 – e.Digital & Toshiba to develop and provide mult-codec portable Internet music player. Also e.Digital contracts with EASTECH a multi-million dollar firm with name-brand consumer electronics manufacturers including but not limited to Philips,Sony, Kenwood, Sanyo, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi and Pioneer. http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
June 5, 2001- Devices for DataPlay’s mini disks expected To reach market by fall. Toshiba and Samsung DataPlay production models are ready!!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=121533
DataPlay Sees Sept. Delivery Of 1st Products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=725928
DataPlay, which will introduce 500MB blank discs and prerecorded discs this year, will be "multi-codec compatible.
July 24, 2001 - Digital Clearing and Distribution Partnership Final Piece in DataPlay Strategy to Connect Retail Networks, Content Owners and Electronics Companies. Reciprocal, Inc., the provider of business infrastructure for the distribution of digital assets, and DataPlay, Inc., today announced an electronic media distribution agreement that will provide new levels of portability, security and ease-of-use for media companies, as well as consumers. The agreement leverages content across an extensive network of retailers and distributors, including Coconuts, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=733457
June 6, 2001—SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that their new FlashVision fabrication (fab) plant has gone into production of advanced flash memories, and shipments of the product have started. The NAND memory wafers being produced by FlashVision will primarily be used to manufacture flash memory storage cards for use in digital
cameras, digital Internet music players and future generations of cell phones.
Keep in mind e.Digital’s JUSTRI invitation SD association and the Flash Patents.
Jan. 5, 2001 - Sending Moving Pictures to Cell Phones - Toshiba's Single-Chip. http://www.mobileinfo.com/News_2001/Issue05/Toshiba_video.htm
Aug. 27, 2001 - SanDisk Reports Major Retail Expansion in Europe In Approximately 10,000 Retail Stores In 30 European Countries for mobile phones, Internet music players and small-size digital cameras. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170017
EASTECH’s version of the Treo’ the ET-700 & Our Toshiba’s DP Player.
http://www.acousticsys.com/products/IA/portable/ET700.html
http://www.eastech1.com/english/prod.htm
http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-117.gif
Remember The Intel/Eastech Connection –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=164838
2001 – Eastech Secures New Contracts Worth US$43 Million - it has secured two new major contracts, worth US$43 million, with consumer electronics companies SANYO and Singing Machine.
July 27, 2001 - Does MTV Karaoke spell EDIG?? Soon available at consumer electronics, toy and general merchandise stores throughout the US, including Best Buy, Toys R' Us and Meijer, and by catalog at JC Penney, Sears and Fingerhut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=151235
e.Digital & Qdesign – Madonna’s codec-of-choice. Qdesign is Promoting edig’s MicroCAM platforms IMO to Apple’s QuickTime. Also IMO we’ll work with PortalPlayer - per links below. http://www.qdesign.com/news/pressreleases_07_24_00.htm
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=581347 August 1, 2000 –
QDesign selects e.Digital portable internet music player design for showcase product Custom Music Player to Demonstrate the New QDX Codec for Digital Music to Executives in Music and Electronics Industries. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=685824
Texas Instruments and Qdesign Announce Enhanced Digital Audio Music Storage Design for Portable Players. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99050.htm
Now Read The Bertelsmann Article Link Below – Also Note Vivindi’s New ‘Universal Music Mobile’- Then Go to http://www.edig.com For the Facts On The Company Which Has The Key To It All - An Advanced MicroOS Solution For The Audio/Video Format/Codec & DRM Delima. Read The Last Letter To Shareholders And View Their Growing List of Impressive Partners. e.Digital Recently Added More DSP Engineers, Equity Investments And Key Personnel To Its BOD. The Company’s Micro OS Has Been Recognized As a Benchmark With These Same Companies: Intel, IBM, SanDisk, Lucent & Texas Instruments And Many Other Industry/Sector Leaders.
Aug. 30, 2000-- Bertelsmann (BMG), the world's largest international media enterprise, launched tj net to provide a new service for mobile phone users in Italy. Tj net expects to add additional centers in Germany, UK, France and Benelux in Europe, as well as in the U. S. and Japan. Tj net transforms mobile phones into cost-free receivers for a wide variety of music and top news stories. http://www.inin.com/News/PressReleases/pressreleases.asp?id=118
2000-2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio seek interoperability using Lucent’s EPAC and AAC for the Automotive and Stereo Industry. IMO – This will be Huge for e.Digital per handheld reception and recording of streamed/downloaded content. Also see iBiquity.com.
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=82063
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=534184
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=587686
1-2001 - Sirius VP Tracey Stanyer says. "We want to use position-based commerce, or P-commerce, to turn drive time into buy time."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=124007
My Reasoning For Digital Radios Importance –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170561
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170539
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168999
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Jan. 8, 2001 - XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
August 23, 2001 – BMW of North America, LLC and Sirius Satellite Radio the satellite radio broadcaster, announced today that BMW will offer Sirius satellite radio service to new car buyers beginning in the second quarter of 2002.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
June 25 – 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
A look at VR in ‘Telematics’ within the Auto Industry with Intel and IBM
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=542328
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/DC3F600187220BF9852569CE0057BC67
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010106/nv_motorol.html
July 12, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND BANG & OLUFSEN ENTER INTO LICENSING AGREEMENT – Visteon has paired its world-class audio and electronic capabilities with prestigious Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to develop a new level of automotive audio sophistication. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=142952
July 30, 2001 - Visteon & SpeechWorks. We are thrilled that Visteon, a leader in the telematics industry, has chosen to work with us to bring our combined technologies to telematics and other markets such as mobile devices and cable set-top boxes with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152129
PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. – IMO e.Digital and PacketVideo are well aware of each other and will eventually work together on advanced video platforms.
June 13, 2000 - PacketVideo today announced that it has agreements with over 35 global media and online companies to trial the delivery of video to wireless devices. Warner Bros, FOXSPORTS.com, E! Entertainment, ABCNEWS, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment etc,. , PacketVideo - Interview
http://boss.2.navisitestreaming.net/real/2/fconf/000825/28_robert_tercek.smi
http://www.packetvideo.com
July 28 -Time Werner & PDA’s. Signaling the entertainment industry's determination to move aggressively into the dawning wireless-entertainment field, Time Warner Inc. is developing original programming that will be beamed to handheld devices. The company will work with PacketVideoCorp., a San Diego software firm backed by, among others, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. The closely held concern already has conducted widespread trials of its wireless audio-video programming with other content giants, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Pictures, using mostly promotional material such as movie trailers. See PacketVideo’s News Releases for these: Intel and PacketVideo. Lucent Streams Entertainment To Cell Phones. Wireless device users are way beyond using their cell phones just for phone calls, they want entertainment, and they want speed. The communications equipment giant is teaming with wireless video start-up PacketVideo to develop this next-generation device. Motorola with PacketVideo, Bell & PacketVideo, Nortel Networks and Packetvideo, Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo, Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo. March 20, 2001 - PacketVideo Partners with Symbian to Provide Mobile Video Software for Smartphones - Symbian's licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=641600
Aug. 22, 2001 – Texas Instruments and PacketVideo Corporation today announced plans to create a variety of differentiated streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices that will enable capabilities like streaming video and audio, speech recognition, JPEG image processing and others. Aug. 28, 2001- DoCoMo, PacketVideo to Deliver 3G Video when
it launches a full commercial services on October 1.
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating CellPhones, PDAs, PJBs, Set-Top-Boxs and Automotive Telematics link-ups using Handheld Voice Remotes via OutPut/Input-Jacks, Push/Pull via TWIRL, 802.11 and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below - http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=123586
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. (ZapMedia), today announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gannett Co., Inc./ USA TODAY (NYSE: GCI), one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, to provide an all-in-one Internet driven, interactive entertainment environment, making it a reality for consumers today. With the click of a button people will serve up music, movies, television, the Internet, and email using ZapMedia's co-branded products and services
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=604252
ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=131034
(Reuters 10-10-2000) - The National Music Publishers' Association Inc. (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) said Tuesday they have agreed on procedures for licensing of musical compositions, or songs, that are distributed on the Internet. The RIAA represents big record companies, including Seagram Co. Ltd.'s Universal Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc (news - web sites).
October 23, 2000 – Delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc. In the latest sign that music subscription is emerging as a prominent avenue for delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc said it is developing an online music-subscription service, and Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group has launched a test of a subscription-music service.
10/25/00 - LYCOS aims to be web music one-stop ...
Lycos took another step last week by signing a partnership with BMG Entertainment, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Lycos will sell digital downloads of albums and singles by 100 of BMG's recording artists.
(Oct.31,2000) -Bertelsmann And Napster Form Alliance. Entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.D) and controversial song-swap company Napster (news - web sites) Inc. said on Tuesday they formed an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service.
Oct 31, 2000 -- Radio Free Virgin and Playboy.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced the launch of Radio Free Virgin, a downloadable0, CD-quality digital radio tuner available free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com.
http://billboard.com/daily/2000/1201_04.asp
Nov. 1, 2000 - Warner Music Group (WMG) and Microsoft Corp, In a multiyear agreement, WMG has selected Windows Media Format as a primary format for commercial music download initiatives in the United States and Canada, with security provided by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Nov. 2000 – PHILIPS SHOWCASES CLICKRADIO ON DIGITAL SET-TOP-BOX. Through an exclusive agreement with Lucent Technologies, ClickRadio uses the patented ePAC (Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coding) compression format to deliver secure digital music programming while protecting artists' copyrights. IMO - TiVo features are coming for Audio Content.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112461
06/05/01 – Philips has released a new family of highly integrated solid state audio devices for MP3 audio players, car radio systems, portable CD players, flash memory cards, Internet radio and simple jukebox applications. Able to support a range of stereo audio decompression algorithms, including MP3, AAC and Microsoft WMA, the SAA7750 chip's programmable DSP architecture enables it to become the basis of MP3, CD and SSA (flash memory) products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=728640
August 7, 2001 – ClickRadio = ePAC & Gateway/Kmart/Wal-Mart - The company has a distribution deal with Gateway and will soon have its software available at Kmart, Wal-mart, Staples and Electronics Boutique.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=157180
12/15/00 - ONLINE music seller Soundbuzz has snagged a deal with major record label BMG to sell the music of artists; allowing purchase music in digital-file format for immediate download to their hard disk. using Intertrust and Liquid Audio to provide encryption and digital-rights management.
January 10, 2001- NTT DoCoMo to Start Music Distribution to PHS Users
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583848
Jan 22, 2001 - IBM to Offer New Technology to Prevent Unauthorized Music Distribution on Web & IBM/e.Digital Player and Toshiba/IBM - EMMS .
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E07957156C96DBD7852569DC0051460E
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/micro/edigital.htm
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595047
Toshiba and IBM’s EMMS. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642853
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 2001 - BMG Entertainment announced today a substantial expansion of its digital music offerings In addition, BMG announced that its labels are now making new releases simultaneously available as Digital Downloads.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=589017
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=572601
Feb. 22, 2001 - Vivendi/Universal, Sony team up for online Music site
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=622436
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
DALLAS, Feb 27 - Blockbuster Inc. & Universal Pictures films via its video on-demand service include RadioShack its stores for in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=67262&refid=0&orig=67262
Feb. 27, 2001 - Warner Music to Sell Downloadable Albums.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=625247
March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=637683
March 14, 2001 – Handleman Company one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. will offer a catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads – See Handleman Kiosks Coming Below. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
Mar 16, 2001 - Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific, PlanetMG uses Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology for secure music downloads and to prevent piracy.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=638941
March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
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. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=649488
April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet. Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=655253
April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=71535
May 20, 2001 – Vivendi Universal Acquires MP3.com in Move to Strengthen Digital Distribution Capacity and Web Audience. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
May 23 2001 – Vitaminic Announces New Music Publishing Company, ZipMind, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of music on the Internet, announced today it will offer music publishing services to authors, publishers and third parties. Vitaminic offers the largest legal online catalogue of music in Europe. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112443
June 5, 2001- -RioPort, & BestBuy - the leading music application service provider (ASP), today announced that it will distribute commercial music downloads to BestBuy.com(TM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. the nation's number one specialty retailer of
consumer electronics. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
January 6, 2000 – E.DIGITAL AND RIOPORT, INC. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP SEAMLESS, SECURE INTERNET MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689937
June 6, 2001 – Napster secures its first music licenses from three of the five major labels, paving the way for the file-trading network to launch its new subscription service by the end of the summer. The service is expected to offer both radio-like streaming technology and downloading capabilities. MusicNet will be available through AOL, Real Networks and Napster.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44322,00.html
Jul 11, 2001 - Judge orders Napster not to resume service.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=722712
July 12, 2001 – Pressplay & Microsoft -- a joint venture between music giants Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp is near a deal to offer its online music subscription service on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=720867
July 13, 2001 - Elibron Adds Downloadable Music To Its Collection of Electronic Books Adamant Media, already partnered with two of the world's largest libraries to bring its customers over 30,000 electronic books, now officially announces the addition of secured downloadable music to its website.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729657
July 16, 2001 – TOWER RECORDS, The largest independent record store in the world, joins forces with OD2 and PlayLouder to begine commercial download sales. http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01070154.html
July 18, 2001- NAPSTER READY TO LAUNCH a second phase subscription service backed by major labels. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729103
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
Aug. 28, 2001 - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010828/wr/media_bertelsmann_napster_dc_1.html
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
July 25, 2001 - U.S. Government Stepping Up Internet Antipiracy Efforts In the past week the U.S government has escalated efforts to squash Internet piracy by conducting sweeps in nine states and expanding the ranks of attorneys assigned to prosecute copyright violators.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/board.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736507
Aug. 9, 2001 – Liquid Audio, Inc. today announced it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=748032
Aug. 13, 2001 – Texas Instruments and RealNetworks today announced they have broadened their strategic alliance to offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable
digital signal processing (DSP)-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video client devices including IP set-top boxes, network video appliances, personal video recorders, streaming media servers and IP video. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=750783
Aug. 16, 2001 – Five Major Film Studios on Thursday announced a joint on-demand
movie service that will offer old and new releases for broadband Internet users in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755026
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
Aug. 20, 2001 - BMG musical downloads in Europe. OD2 will work with BMG to support the sale of selected catalogue, via secure digital download, in partnership with a number of leading European retailers via the internet.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=166104
Aug. 21, 2001 - DataPlay Delays Launch. After following a seemingly smooth product development road, DataPlay is being forced to push back the introduction of its 500MB removable storage media and hardware from this fall to early 2002.
Aug. 23, 2001 "Short-term, this is a disappointment, but we understand the reasons," said Putnam. "It offers us the opportunity to get in more devices. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168130
Positive Spin On The Delay - DABOSS Talks To Robert Putnam.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
AUGUST 24, 2001 – 5 labels using 'stealth CDs' to discourage copying songs.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168084
Aug. 27, 2001 - Vivendi Launches Mobile Music in France, a music service for listening to records on mobiles before they are on general released.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170347
Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736528
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=588824
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=579020
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=548914
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583845
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=635180
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=105309
Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258082
Jimee11’s Response: #258031
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258031
emit’s Response: #258056
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258056
e.Digital & Lanier Worldwide’s Medical Dictation Handheld – Cquence Mobile. According to market analysts, the medical dictation market is the largest vertical market in the speech technology industry. http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/sep00/doc_doc.shtml
http://www.edig.com/products/custom-cquence.html
http://www.lanier.com/ps/apps/cqmobile.html
Lanier & Allscripst Creating Compaq PDA For Medical Industry. + Cquence
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=708671
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=136432
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=713877
Now Think About It……. It’s coming our way and involves much more than just music – Handheld mobile voice recognition, video on demand, VR Medical Records and (c)Publications & eBooks. e.Digital is the Codec/DRM and flash storage file management for Secure Internet Content and Advanced Handheld Design.
(February 15, 2001) E.DIGITAL HIRES FLEISHMAN-HILLARD INC. TO LEAD U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS. The Worlds' largest public relations firm, to lead domestic and international media relations and communications. Michael Busselen, senior vice president, "e.Digital has developed unique technology that has the potential to impact millions of consumers. The story is captivating, the business is timely, and we look forward to using our expertise and understanding of the media to share e.Digital's story with the business and technology communities."http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr021501.html
Think Global…DOS to MOS http://www.edig.com http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.071400/bb3.jpg
This is all ‘My Humble Opinion’
emit…
Nokia - SEE BOLD
Nokia Gets Musical
By Darshan Somashekar - 03/28/01
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Nokia Music Player HDR-1 - Nokia 6000 Connection Drive Irving, Texas 75039 - www.nokia.com
Photo Courtesy of Nokia
If you have a phone that can only be used to make calls, you're wasting space in your pocket. At least, that's what the latest slew of cellphone/PDA/MP3 players are saying. With the arrival of the Samsung Uproar and the Kyocera smartphone, cellphones are becoming more than just portable calling devices.
Nokia seems to have avoided this convergence confusion for a while. However, with the release of the Music Player HDR-1, Nokia has turned its phones into music players as well.
The Nokia Music Player is compatible with most of Nokia's phone lines, including the 3310, 3330, 8210 and 8850 series. It can be used as an FM tuner, a digital audio player, and a handsfree phone-dialing kit. The handsfree kit recognizes voice commands to dial numbers not on the calling list.
The player has 32 MB of RAM to store AAC and MP3 music files. It transfers music via USB. Running only on a single AAA battery, the HDR-1 can be used as a standalone player as well.
The player should be available during the third quarter of 2001.
Trend.
Samsung launched new PDA 2 in 1
Samsung has presented a new model of PDA, the I300, the smallest model of combined palmar on the market. The device, that will cost 500 dollars (548 Euros), will be commercialized by Sprint and is conceived for working on the net of cellular telephony CDMA, which was made popular by the companies Usa Sprint and Verizon.
Even if in Europe this device, that is defined 'hybrid', doesn't exist yet, the Finnish Nokia has recently launched 9210, that acts as telephone and organizer. Within the end of the year, other manufacturers will launch similar 'hybrid'products, with coloured monitor, on the European market.
The i300 is the first Palm to have an integrated telephone. In reality, it doesn't physically have a keyboard for telephone, that is, on the contrary, visualized on the coloured monitor. To dial a telephone number we press the virtual buttons on the display. The new model of Samsung has a grey silver coverage that is quite appealing. The device is much lighter in comparison with the products of the competing companies (Kyocera or Handspring), besides being very handy.
Danl - See post
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=161823
Have a nice weekend.
emit...
Industry Synopsis: Updated
Industry Synopsis: All Investors – As per e.Digital Corp.
e.Digital, Intel, Lucent, TXN, IBM, Samsung and DataPlay. Years of Achievements With Flash Memory Management and Voice Recorder Innovations Have Led e.Digital To The Forefront Of The Emerging DataPlay Format & IBM Microdrive Platforms – And The ‘Soon To Be Announced’ Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM & VOICENAV Technology.
Intel’s ‘Flash Presentation’ This indicates where we’re headed with 3-4th Generation PDA’s. http://developer.intel.com/design/flash/intro/fdi30demo/fdiflash.htm
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=509750
Intel & ADI’s new DSP Core & Intel’s New DAP Audio Player ‘Pocket Concert’.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20010417net.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2658478,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551122
Taipei, May 2, 2001 (Bloomberg) Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, plans to order NT$2 billion ($61 million) worth of so-called MP3 audio players from Eastern Asia Technology Ltd., Eastech. Could e.Digital be involved – Or just a coincidence. Note e.Digital and Eastech platforms below.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=668929+
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
Aug. 16, 2001 - Digital video is "going to take off," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754775
Could e.Digital’s MicoOS be embedded in this product and other DSPs? e.Digital now has top Intel personnel onboard and is exhibiting advanced reference designs as seen the last two years - and most recently at 2001 CES for Samsung and Toshiba. In my opinion, new flash/HDD hybrids and dedicated DSPs are on the horizon. Expect to see more advanced DAPs & PDAs from many of the giant chip makers and Consumer Electronics OEMs as quality emerges with security for Internet music and other content. eDigital is extremely well positioned – Intel’s CEO recently commented that the ‘Pocket Concert’ is format agnostic. The player is also made by Samsung. IMO - this means when/if multi-codec and ‘digital rights management’ issues become needed by content providers, they have access to our MiroOS platform. Intel DAP picture: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/electronics/B000059ZYB/pictures/14/104-5074239-...
Fred Falk, June 2000 -''We are working with major manufacturers to have our technology embedded into their programmable DSPs and/or microcontrollers'' His DSP comments and a Flash Glue View. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
IMO - Embedded Projects Are Ongoing.
These NDA’s Verify The Sectors Enormity & Complexity.
October 30, 2000 - Fred Falk, ‘’We are also working with OEMs who may compete against each other with product offerings designed by e.Digital. Our non-disclosure agreements with our OEMs are in place to ensure that we are not disclosing any details of their product and our agreements to other OEMs and the public until they are ready to have this information made available. ‘’ Feb. 14, 2001 – e.Digital Form 10-QSB – Informed Investors that some revenue sources may stay unnamed until they decide to become known.
I Believe This is What Intel Is Going To Do For Secure Internet Content With It’s DRM/ISIS which includes ePAC.
http://www.convera.com
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551558
http://www.agoracom.com/agora/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=50275&refid=0&orig=50275
February 2, 2000; WW6 From Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell International Corporation to purchase a wafer fabrication facility (fab) located in Colorado Springs, Colo. The purchase will add significant manufacturing capacity for Intel to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. The new Holy Grail for the company is the business of selling flash-memory chips -- used in battery-operated devices that hold their memory even when the device's power is off. Intel is quickly rebuilding itself into the world's largest manufacturer of flash chips.
Three top Intel people from its Flash/Mobile Divisions are now with e.Digital.
e.Digital was selected by Intel to design and prototype a number of portable digital voice recorders utilizing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Intel plans to sub-license the reference design created by e.Digital to Intel's OEM customers, referring them back to e.Digital for licensing and any additional design and/or manufacturing work required. e.Digital has also filed a number of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; We have received notification of allowance from the United States Patent Office for use: MicroOS TM, FlashBack(R), Hold That Thought(R), Fumble Free(R), SoundClip(R), Smart Song Selection(tm), MicroCAM TM - Micro Compressed Audio Manager, AMIS TM - Audio Manager Interface, TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link and VOICENAV as registered trade names.
Internet Audio Market. Excerpt Source: Texas Instruments.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=566858
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/innovate/iaudio/opportunity.htm
Today's Internet Audio application is based upon the downloading of digital audio content, either speech or music, via the Internet and then playing the encoded digital audio content on an Internet Audio playback device. Very soon, these playback units will be a sub-system in PDAs, digital still cameras, cellular phones, set-top boxes, and other devices. The total market potential is even larger when you consider other complimentary products such as headphone stereo, personal CD, personal MD, car audio, and future DSC, cellular phone, etc., TI has the commanding market share lead with key design-ins at most of the major consumer electronics and PC makers. The following customers have already been publicly announced: a. Thomson Consumer Electronics b. Sanyo c. e.Digital.
TI DSP’s & My Opinion on DSP’s and our MicroOS. TXN CES Comments.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=738850
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=554726
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=546798
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=592843
TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – ePAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital.
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
1999 -IBM VoiceTimes alliance announced - Including e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595357
March 23, 2001 - e.Digital Corporation announced today that the first production-level Internet music player design incorporating IBM's Microdrive™.is being featured in the IBM booth at the CeBIT trade show which runs through March 28. The design is currently being marketed by e.Digital and Maycom, Co., Ltd. worldwide. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr032301.html
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
July 20, 2001 – Wireless IBM Microdrive & IBM Voice Navigation.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=156344
So Many Digital Downloadable Music Players: With a Big Problem – Multiple Codecs & ‘Digital Rights Managements’ and Increasing Advanced Functions Within Smaller Devices. http://www.ecoustics.com/Home/Home_Audio/MP3_Players/MP3_Player_Reviews/
This Is What It’s All About – IMHO.
Look at All the New Music Services, Video/Media Players, Interactive & Content Enabled Set-Top-Boxes, Home Servers, Kiosks, Karaoke Devices, 3G MP3 Phones And Satellite Digital Radio Applications Coming To Market. Then Read The Article about Bertelsmann’s Tj.net/MP3 De Cellular and its intentions to create a Secure Subscription Model with Napster. IMO - The PJBs and DataPlay devices will create New Excitement due to design & features – See Treo’, ET700 and ‘Volan’ Concept designs below. This Synopsis Concludes with four knowledgeable shareholder’s analysis on the emerging technology and how it could very easily include e.Digital’s Patented Micro OS as a standard in this emerging sector.
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
Oct. 6, 2000 – e.Digital Corp. and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea today announced the launch of the MP2000 multi-codec, portable digital music player in time for the holiday shopping season. Initial shipments are now beginning and the product will be introduced into the European and Asian markets as well as in other countries and specialty markets through Maycom and other OEMs. The unit has superb audio quality and louder output levels than most other portable music players on the market, without sacrificing battery life. Its backlit LCD screen supports English and Japanese characters. The multi-codec unit supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and ePAC music compression formats, and is firmware upgradeable to support the QDX format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The SDMI-capable unit ships with WMA Digital Rights Management included. It can be firmware upgraded to support InterTrust's Digital Rights Management, which the world's largest recording company, Universal Music Group, has announced it will be using in its online music distribution.
Powered By e.Digital Technology – Maycom/edig ‘Merit’ Player Picture.
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.100600/bb5.jpg
August 2001 – Maycom’s new site. MP2000 And New ‘Advanced Voice Recorder’.
http://www.emaycom.com/eng/default.asp
Nov. 9 2000 – e.Digital & Samsung announce agreement to produce two separate DataPlay enabled devices to premier at CES Jan. 6, 2001. October 19, 2000 - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today announced that it is developing portable digital products incorporating DataPlay's quarter-sized 500 MB digital media and micro-optical engine. DataPlay has secured $50 million in strategic financing from Universal Music, Toshiba, Samsung, S3 and Creative. It's not certain that Universal's prerecorded music will be available in the format. But DataPlay announced last month that Universal's eLabs president Lawrence Kenswil has joined DataPlay's board of directors.
Our DataPlay device. [This financing has now reacher 110 million – in 2001]
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/index.jsp and http://www.edig.com.
DataPlay Product Rollout – CES 2001
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=590380
DataPlay/Volan Concept Designs. Very Innovative.
http://www.volan.com/proof/eDigital/visuals-06.cfm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15135565
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-02.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-05.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-06.html
Samsung’s Handheld Video Motion YEPP & DataPlay Orbit Music Player http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-112.gif
http://www.etown.com/categories/print_article.jhtml?article_type=news&articleID=3554
2001 - Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
July 30, 2001 – Samsung Electronics is partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to jointly develop and market new products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755021
July 9, 2001 – Samsung will diversify its portfolio of Yepp Internet audio portables in the summer and fall with its first MP3-CD portable, its first pendant-style flash-memory portable, and its first firmware-upgradable flash-memory portable, which will also be
among the company's first multicodec models.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=718688
July 17, 2001—Samsung and AOL Time Warner Announce Multi-Year Strategic Marketing and Technology Alliance. Samsung to Manufacture Next-Generation AOLTV Set-Top Boxes, In addition, the companies will explore the development of a range of future consumer electronics products as well as introduce new digital products to consumers to enhance Samsung Brand Through Promotion Across AOL Time Warner Online and Offline Brands.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145128
July 2001 - Samsung Electronics and CompUSA – Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
The Eastech, ZapMedia, HarmonKardon, Samsung, CompUSA Connection –
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=735946
Aug. 15, 2001 - Samsung unveils new chip for Web audio devices.The latest SOC, called CalmRISC-Portable Audio Device, is designed to process a variety of audio files including MP3, WMA (windows media audio) and AAC (advanced audio coding). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754137
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
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Aug. 25, 2001 – Samsung will launch a home network server in cooperation with U.S-based software group Microsoft. The home server, which will be able to connect computers, consumers electronics and home appliances and other devices through a wide range of wired and wireless standards. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=169685
March 29, 2001 – Fred Falk, Following our business plan, we have dedicated strategic engineering resources to the development and implementation of new product platforms that include digital video for portable devices, automotive and home stereo designs, cellular phone accessories, and set-top boxes. We are working with multiple OEMs on specific applications of these MicroOS- and MicroCAM-powered platforms for inclusion in a variety of branded products.
SET TO DEBUT IN 2001 WITH 10GIG HDD –
Nov. 13, 2000 - Hy-Tek Previews e.Digital’s ‘Treo’ PJB at COMDEX – 2000 Songs on a Handheld Player. RemoteSolutions/Hango/e.Digital Works-In-Progress.
And an Excellent Candidate for a PC Bundle.
http://www.treoplayer.com Palmed Treo’ http://hardware.dmusic.com/details.php?id=169 http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/treo.html
e.Digital VP Comments about Treo’ and PC Manufacturers -
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COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
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August 22, 2001 - Intel, Compaq and TI- handheld collaborations.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=760478
July 12-13, MP3 Summit 2001 – "Best Overall Portable MP3 Player: Treo Digital Music Jukebox. MP3 Summit 2001 attendees found the Treo to be the smallest and lightest hard-drive based player, at only 8 ounces with batteries. The Treo is manufactured by Hy-Tek Mfg. and designed by e.Digital." http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145410
January 3-4, 2001 – e.Digital & Toshiba to develop and provide mult-codec portable Internet music player. Also e.Digital contracts with EASTECH a multi-million dollar firm with name-brand consumer electronics manufacturers including but not limited to Philips,Sony, Kenwood, Sanyo, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi and Pioneer. http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
June 5, 2001- Devices for DataPlay’s mini disks expected To reach market by fall. Toshiba and Samsung DataPlay production models are ready!!
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DataPlay Sees Sept. Delivery Of 1st Products.
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DataPlay, which will introduce 500MB blank discs and prerecorded discs this year, will be "multi-codec compatible.
July 24, 2001 - Digital Clearing and Distribution Partnership Final Piece in DataPlay Strategy to Connect Retail Networks, Content Owners and Electronics Companies. Reciprocal, Inc., the provider of business infrastructure for the distribution of digital assets, and DataPlay, Inc., today announced an electronic media distribution agreement that will provide new levels of portability, security and ease-of-use for media companies, as well as consumers. The agreement leverages content across an extensive network of retailers and distributors, including Coconuts, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=733457
June 6, 2001—SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that their new FlashVision fabrication (fab) plant has gone into production of advanced flash memories, and shipments of the product have started. The NAND memory wafers being produced by FlashVision will primarily be used to manufacture flash memory storage cards for use in digital
cameras, digital Internet music players and future generations of cell phones.
Keep in mind e.Digital’s JUSTRI invitation SD association and the Flash Patents.
Jan. 5, 2001 - Sending Moving Pictures to Cell Phones - Toshiba's Single-Chip. http://www.mobileinfo.com/News_2001/Issue05/Toshiba_video.htm
Aug. 27, 2001 - SanDisk Reports Major Retail Expansion in Europe In Approximately 10,000 Retail Stores In 30 European Countries for mobile phones, Internet music players and small-size digital cameras. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170017
EASTECH’s version of the Treo’ the ET-700 & Our Toshiba’s DP Player.
http://www.acousticsys.com/products/IA/portable/ET700.html
http://www.eastech1.com/english/prod.htm
http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-117.gif
Remember The Intel/Eastech Connection –
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2001 – Eastech Secures New Contracts Worth US$43 Million - it has secured two new major contracts, worth US$43 million, with consumer electronics companies SANYO and Singing Machine.
July 27, 2001 - Does MTV Karaoke spell EDIG?? Soon available at consumer electronics, toy and general merchandise stores throughout the US, including Best Buy, Toys R' Us and Meijer, and by catalog at JC Penney, Sears and Fingerhut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=151235
e.Digital & Qdesign – Madonna’s codec-of-choice. Qdesign is Promoting edig’s MicroCAM platforms IMO to Apple’s QuickTime. Also IMO we’ll work with PortalPlayer - per links below. http://www.qdesign.com/news/pressreleases_07_24_00.htm
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=581347 August 1, 2000 –
QDesign selects e.Digital portable internet music player design for showcase product Custom Music Player to Demonstrate the New QDX Codec for Digital Music to Executives in Music and Electronics Industries. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=685824
Texas Instruments and Qdesign Announce Enhanced Digital Audio Music Storage Design for Portable Players. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99050.htm
Now Read The Bertelsmann Article Link Below – Also Note Vivindi’s New ‘Universal Music Mobile’- Then Go to http://www.edig.com For the Facts On The Company Which Has The Key To It All - An Advanced MicroOS Solution For The Audio/Video Format/Codec & DRM Delima. Read The Last Letter To Shareholders And View Their Growing List of Impressive Partners. e.Digital Recently Added More DSP Engineers, Equity Investments And Key Personnel To Its BOD. The Company’s Micro OS Has Been Recognized As a Benchmark With These Same Companies: Intel, IBM, SanDisk, Lucent & Texas Instruments And Many Other Industry/Sector Leaders.
Aug. 30, 2000-- Bertelsmann (BMG), the world's largest international media enterprise, launched tj net to provide a new service for mobile phone users in Italy. Tj net expects to add additional centers in Germany, UK, France and Benelux in Europe, as well as in the U. S. and Japan. Tj net transforms mobile phones into cost-free receivers for a wide variety of music and top news stories. http://www.inin.com/News/PressReleases/pressreleases.asp?id=118
2000-2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio seek interoperability using Lucent’s EPAC and AAC for the Automotive and Stereo Industry. IMO – This will be Huge for e.Digital per handheld reception and recording of streamed/downloaded content. Also see iBiquity.com.
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1-2001 - Sirius VP Tracey Stanyer says. "We want to use position-based commerce, or P-commerce, to turn drive time into buy time."
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My Reasoning For Digital Radios Importance –
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Jan. 8, 2001 - XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
August 23, 2001 – BMW of North America, LLC and Sirius Satellite Radio the satellite radio broadcaster, announced today that BMW will offer Sirius satellite radio service to new car buyers beginning in the second quarter of 2002.
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June 25 – 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
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A look at VR in ‘Telematics’ within the Auto Industry with Intel and IBM
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http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/DC3F600187220BF9852569CE0057BC67
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010106/nv_motorol.html
July 12, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND BANG & OLUFSEN ENTER INTO LICENSING AGREEMENT – Visteon has paired its world-class audio and electronic capabilities with prestigious Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to develop a new level of automotive audio sophistication. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=142952
July 30, 2001 - Visteon & SpeechWorks. We are thrilled that Visteon, a leader in the telematics industry, has chosen to work with us to bring our combined technologies to telematics and other markets such as mobile devices and cable set-top boxes with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets.
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PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. – IMO e.Digital and PacketVideo are well aware of each other and will eventually work together on advanced video platforms.
June 13, 2000 - PacketVideo today announced that it has agreements with over 35 global media and online companies to trial the delivery of video to wireless devices. Warner Bros, FOXSPORTS.com, E! Entertainment, ABCNEWS, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment etc,. , PacketVideo - Interview
http://boss.2.navisitestreaming.net/real/2/fconf/000825/28_robert_tercek.smi
http://www.packetvideo.com
July 28 -Time Werner & PDA’s. Signaling the entertainment industry's determination to move aggressively into the dawning wireless-entertainment field, Time Warner Inc. is developing original programming that will be beamed to handheld devices. The company will work with PacketVideoCorp., a San Diego software firm backed by, among others, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. The closely held concern already has conducted widespread trials of its wireless audio-video programming with other content giants, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Pictures, using mostly promotional material such as movie trailers. See PacketVideo’s News Releases for these: Intel and PacketVideo. Lucent Streams Entertainment To Cell Phones. Wireless device users are way beyond using their cell phones just for phone calls, they want entertainment, and they want speed. The communications equipment giant is teaming with wireless video start-up PacketVideo to develop this next-generation device. Motorola with PacketVideo, Bell & PacketVideo, Nortel Networks and Packetvideo, Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo, Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo. March 20, 2001 - PacketVideo Partners with Symbian to Provide Mobile Video Software for Smartphones - Symbian's licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=641600
Aug. 22, 2001 – Texas Instruments and PacketVideo Corporation today announced plans to create a variety of differentiated streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices that will enable capabilities like streaming video and audio, speech recognition, JPEG image processing and others. Aug. 28, 2001- DoCoMo, PacketVideo to Deliver 3G Video when
it launches a full commercial services on October 1.
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating CellPhones, PDAs, PJBs, Set-Top-Boxs and Automotive Telematics link-ups using Handheld Voice Remotes via OutPut/Input-Jacks, Push/Pull via TWIRL, 802.11 and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below - http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=123586
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. (ZapMedia), today announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gannett Co., Inc./ USA TODAY (NYSE: GCI), one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, to provide an all-in-one Internet driven, interactive entertainment environment, making it a reality for consumers today. With the click of a button people will serve up music, movies, television, the Internet, and email using ZapMedia's co-branded products and services
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ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
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(Reuters 10-10-2000) - The National Music Publishers' Association Inc. (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) said Tuesday they have agreed on procedures for licensing of musical compositions, or songs, that are distributed on the Internet. The RIAA represents big record companies, including Seagram Co. Ltd.'s Universal Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc (news - web sites).
October 23, 2000 – Delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc. In the latest sign that music subscription is emerging as a prominent avenue for delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc said it is developing an online music-subscription service, and Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group has launched a test of a subscription-music service.
10/25/00 - LYCOS aims to be web music one-stop ...
Lycos took another step last week by signing a partnership with BMG Entertainment, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Lycos will sell digital downloads of albums and singles by 100 of BMG's recording artists.
(Oct.31,2000) -Bertelsmann And Napster Form Alliance. Entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.D) and controversial song-swap company Napster (news - web sites) Inc. said on Tuesday they formed an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service.
Oct 31, 2000 -- Radio Free Virgin and Playboy.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced the launch of Radio Free Virgin, a downloadable0, CD-quality digital radio tuner available free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com.
http://billboard.com/daily/2000/1201_04.asp
Nov. 1, 2000 - Warner Music Group (WMG) and Microsoft Corp, In a multiyear agreement, WMG has selected Windows Media Format as a primary format for commercial music download initiatives in the United States and Canada, with security provided by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Nov. 2000 – PHILIPS SHOWCASES CLICKRADIO ON DIGITAL SET-TOP-BOX. Through an exclusive agreement with Lucent Technologies, ClickRadio uses the patented ePAC (Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coding) compression format to deliver secure digital music programming while protecting artists' copyrights. IMO - TiVo features are coming for Audio Content.
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06/05/01 – Philips has released a new family of highly integrated solid state audio devices for MP3 audio players, car radio systems, portable CD players, flash memory cards, Internet radio and simple jukebox applications. Able to support a range of stereo audio decompression algorithms, including MP3, AAC and Microsoft WMA, the SAA7750 chip's programmable DSP architecture enables it to become the basis of MP3, CD and SSA (flash memory) products.
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August 7, 2001 – ClickRadio = ePAC & Gateway/Kmart/Wal-Mart - The company has a distribution deal with Gateway and will soon have its software available at Kmart, Wal-mart, Staples and Electronics Boutique.
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12/15/00 - ONLINE music seller Soundbuzz has snagged a deal with major record label BMG to sell the music of artists; allowing purchase music in digital-file format for immediate download to their hard disk. using Intertrust and Liquid Audio to provide encryption and digital-rights management.
January 10, 2001- NTT DoCoMo to Start Music Distribution to PHS Users
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Jan 22, 2001 - IBM to Offer New Technology to Prevent Unauthorized Music Distribution on Web & IBM/e.Digital Player and Toshiba/IBM - EMMS .
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E07957156C96DBD7852569DC0051460E
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/micro/edigital.htm
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Toshiba and IBM’s EMMS. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642853
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 2001 - BMG Entertainment announced today a substantial expansion of its digital music offerings In addition, BMG announced that its labels are now making new releases simultaneously available as Digital Downloads.
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Feb. 22, 2001 - Vivendi/Universal, Sony team up for online Music site
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Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
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DALLAS, Feb 27 - Blockbuster Inc. & Universal Pictures films via its video on-demand service include RadioShack its stores for in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=67262&refid=0&orig=67262
Feb. 27, 2001 - Warner Music to Sell Downloadable Albums.
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March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
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March 14, 2001 – Handleman Company one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. will offer a catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads – See Handleman Kiosks Coming Below. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
Mar 16, 2001 - Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific, PlanetMG uses Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology for secure music downloads and to prevent piracy.
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March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
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. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
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April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet. Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=655253
April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
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May 20, 2001 – Vivendi Universal Acquires MP3.com in Move to Strengthen Digital Distribution Capacity and Web Audience. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
May 23 2001 – Vitaminic Announces New Music Publishing Company, ZipMind, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of music on the Internet, announced today it will offer music publishing services to authors, publishers and third parties. Vitaminic offers the largest legal online catalogue of music in Europe. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112443
June 5, 2001- -RioPort, & BestBuy - the leading music application service provider (ASP), today announced that it will distribute commercial music downloads to BestBuy.com(TM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. the nation's number one specialty retailer of
consumer electronics. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
January 6, 2000 – E.DIGITAL AND RIOPORT, INC. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP SEAMLESS, SECURE INTERNET MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
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June 6, 2001 – Napster secures its first music licenses from three of the five major labels, paving the way for the file-trading network to launch its new subscription service by the end of the summer. The service is expected to offer both radio-like streaming technology and downloading capabilities. MusicNet will be available through AOL, Real Networks and Napster.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44322,00.html
Jul 11, 2001 - Judge orders Napster not to resume service.
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July 12, 2001 – Pressplay & Microsoft -- a joint venture between music giants Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp is near a deal to offer its online music subscription service on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=720867
July 13, 2001 - Elibron Adds Downloadable Music To Its Collection of Electronic Books Adamant Media, already partnered with two of the world's largest libraries to bring its customers over 30,000 electronic books, now officially announces the addition of secured downloadable music to its website.
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July 16, 2001 – TOWER RECORDS, The largest independent record store in the world, joins forces with OD2 and PlayLouder to begine commercial download sales. http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01070154.html
July 18, 2001- NAPSTER READY TO LAUNCH a second phase subscription service backed by major labels. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729103
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Aug. 28, 2001 - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010828/wr/media_bertelsmann_napster_dc_1.html
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
July 25, 2001 - U.S. Government Stepping Up Internet Antipiracy Efforts In the past week the U.S government has escalated efforts to squash Internet piracy by conducting sweeps in nine states and expanding the ranks of attorneys assigned to prosecute copyright violators.
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Aug. 9, 2001 – Liquid Audio, Inc. today announced it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music.
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Aug. 13, 2001 – Texas Instruments and RealNetworks today announced they have broadened their strategic alliance to offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable
digital signal processing (DSP)-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video client devices including IP set-top boxes, network video appliances, personal video recorders, streaming media servers and IP video. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=750783
Aug. 16, 2001 – Five Major Film Studios on Thursday announced a joint on-demand
movie service that will offer old and new releases for broadband Internet users in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755026
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
Aug. 20, 2001 - BMG musical downloads in Europe. OD2 will work with BMG to support the sale of selected catalogue, via secure digital download, in partnership with a number of leading European retailers via the internet.
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Aug. 21, 2001 - DataPlay Delays Launch. After following a seemingly smooth product development road, DataPlay is being forced to push back the introduction of its 500MB removable storage media and hardware from this fall to early 2002.
Aug. 23, 2001 "Short-term, this is a disappointment, but we understand the reasons," said Putnam. "It offers us the opportunity to get in more devices. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168130
Positive Spin On The Delay - DABOSS Talks To Robert Putnam.
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AUGUST 24, 2001 – 5 labels using 'stealth CDs' to discourage copying songs.
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Aug. 27, 2001 - Vivendi Launches Mobile Music in France, a music service for listening to records on mobiles before they are on general released.
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Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
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The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
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KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
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Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
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Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
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Jimee11’s Response: #258031
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258031
emit’s Response: #258056
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258056
e.Digital & Lanier Worldwide’s Medical Dictation Handheld – Cquence Mobile. According to market analysts, the medical dictation market is the largest vertical market in the speech technology industry. http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/sep00/doc_doc.shtml
http://www.edig.com/products/custom-cquence.html
http://www.lanier.com/ps/apps/cqmobile.html
Lanier & Allscripst Creating Compaq PDA For Medical Industry. + Cquence
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=708671
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=136432
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=713877
Now Think About It……. It’s coming our way and involves much more than just music – Handheld mobile voice recognition, video on demand, VR Medical Records and (c)Publications & eBooks. e.Digital is the Codec/DRM and flash storage file management for Secure Internet Content and Advanced Handheld Design.
(February 15, 2001) E.DIGITAL HIRES FLEISHMAN-HILLARD INC. TO LEAD U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS. The Worlds' largest public relations firm, to lead domestic and international media relations and communications. Michael Busselen, senior vice president, "e.Digital has developed unique technology that has the potential to impact millions of consumers. The story is captivating, the business is timely, and we look forward to using our expertise and understanding of the media to share e.Digital's story with the business and technology communities."http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr021501.html
Think Global…DOS to MOS http://www.edig.com http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.071400/bb3.jpg
This is all ‘My Humble Opinion’
emit…
Industry Synopsis: Updated
Industry Synopsis: All Investors – As per e.Digital Corp.
e.Digital, Intel, Lucent, TXN, IBM, Samsung and DataPlay. Years of Achievements With Flash Memory Management and Voice Recorder Innovations Have Led e.Digital To The Forefront Of The Emerging DataPlay Format & IBM Microdrive Platforms – And The ‘Soon To Be Announced’ Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM & VOICENAV Technology.
Intel’s ‘Flash Presentation’ This indicates where we’re headed with 3-4th Generation PDA’s. http://developer.intel.com/design/flash/intro/fdi30demo/fdiflash.htm
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=509750
Intel & ADI’s new DSP Core & Intel’s New DAP Audio Player ‘Pocket Concert’.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20010417net.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2658478,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551122
Taipei, May 2, 2001 (Bloomberg) Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, plans to order NT$2 billion ($61 million) worth of so-called MP3 audio players from Eastern Asia Technology Ltd., Eastech. Could e.Digital be involved – Or just a coincidence. Note e.Digital and Eastech platforms below.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=668929+
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
Aug. 16, 2001 - Digital video is "going to take off," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754775
Could e.Digital’s MicoOS be embedded in this product and other DSPs? e.Digital now has top Intel personnel onboard and is exhibiting advanced reference designs as seen the last two years - and most recently at 2001 CES for Samsung and Toshiba. In my opinion, new flash/HDD hybrids and dedicated DSPs are on the horizon. Expect to see more advanced DAPs & PDAs from many of the giant chip makers and Consumer Electronics OEMs as quality emerges with security for Internet music and other content. eDigital is extremely well positioned – Intel’s CEO recently commented that the ‘Pocket Concert’ is format agnostic. The player is also made by Samsung. IMO - this means when/if multi-codec and ‘digital rights management’ issues become needed by content providers, they have access to our MiroOS platform. Intel DAP picture: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/electronics/B000059ZYB/pictures/14/104-5074239-...
Fred Falk, June 2000 -''We are working with major manufacturers to have our technology embedded into their programmable DSPs and/or microcontrollers'' His DSP comments and a Flash Glue View. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
IMO - Embedded Projects Are Ongoing.
These NDA’s Verify The Sectors Enormity & Complexity.
October 30, 2000 - Fred Falk, ‘’We are also working with OEMs who may compete against each other with product offerings designed by e.Digital. Our non-disclosure agreements with our OEMs are in place to ensure that we are not disclosing any details of their product and our agreements to other OEMs and the public until they are ready to have this information made available. ‘’ Feb. 14, 2001 – e.Digital Form 10-QSB – Informed Investors that some revenue sources may stay unnamed until they decide to become known.
I Believe This is What Intel Is Going To Do For Secure Internet Content With It’s DRM/ISIS which includes ePAC.
http://www.convera.com
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551558
http://www.agoracom.com/agora/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=50275&refid=0&orig=50275
February 2, 2000; WW6 From Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell International Corporation to purchase a wafer fabrication facility (fab) located in Colorado Springs, Colo. The purchase will add significant manufacturing capacity for Intel to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. The new Holy Grail for the company is the business of selling flash-memory chips -- used in battery-operated devices that hold their memory even when the device's power is off. Intel is quickly rebuilding itself into the world's largest manufacturer of flash chips.
Three top Intel people from its Flash/Mobile Divisions are now with e.Digital.
e.Digital was selected by Intel to design and prototype a number of portable digital voice recorders utilizing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Intel plans to sub-license the reference design created by e.Digital to Intel's OEM customers, referring them back to e.Digital for licensing and any additional design and/or manufacturing work required. e.Digital has also filed a number of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; We have received notification of allowance from the United States Patent Office for use: MicroOS TM, FlashBack(R), Hold That Thought(R), Fumble Free(R), SoundClip(R), Smart Song Selection(tm), MicroCAM TM - Micro Compressed Audio Manager, AMIS TM - Audio Manager Interface, TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link and VOICENAV as registered trade names.
Internet Audio Market. Excerpt Source: Texas Instruments.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=566858
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/innovate/iaudio/opportunity.htm
Today's Internet Audio application is based upon the downloading of digital audio content, either speech or music, via the Internet and then playing the encoded digital audio content on an Internet Audio playback device. Very soon, these playback units will be a sub-system in PDAs, digital still cameras, cellular phones, set-top boxes, and other devices. The total market potential is even larger when you consider other complimentary products such as headphone stereo, personal CD, personal MD, car audio, and future DSC, cellular phone, etc., TI has the commanding market share lead with key design-ins at most of the major consumer electronics and PC makers. The following customers have already been publicly announced: a. Thomson Consumer Electronics b. Sanyo c. e.Digital.
TI DSP’s & My Opinion on DSP’s and our MicroOS. TXN CES Comments.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=738850
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=554726
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=546798
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=592843
TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – ePAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital.
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
1999 -IBM VoiceTimes alliance announced - Including e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595357
March 23, 2001 - e.Digital Corporation announced today that the first production-level Internet music player design incorporating IBM's Microdrive™.is being featured in the IBM booth at the CeBIT trade show which runs through March 28. The design is currently being marketed by e.Digital and Maycom, Co., Ltd. worldwide. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr032301.html
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
July 20, 2001 – Wireless IBM Microdrive & IBM Voice Navigation.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=156344
So Many Digital Downloadable Music Players: With a Big Problem – Multiple Codecs & ‘Digital Rights Managements’ and Increasing Advanced Functions Within Smaller Devices. http://www.ecoustics.com/Home/Home_Audio/MP3_Players/MP3_Player_Reviews/
This Is What It’s All About – IMHO.
Look at All the New Music Services, Video/Media Players, Interactive & Content Enabled Set-Top-Boxes, Home Servers, Kiosks, Karaoke Devices, 3G MP3 Phones And Satellite Digital Radio Applications Coming To Market. Then Read The Article about Bertelsmann’s Tj.net/MP3 De Cellular and its intentions to create a Secure Subscription Model with Napster. IMO - The PJBs and DataPlay devices will create New Excitement due to design & features – See Treo’, ET700 and ‘Volan’ Concept designs below. This Synopsis Concludes with four knowledgeable shareholder’s analysis on the emerging technology and how it could very easily include e.Digital’s Patented Micro OS as a standard in this emerging sector.
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
Oct. 6, 2000 – e.Digital Corp. and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea today announced the launch of the MP2000 multi-codec, portable digital music player in time for the holiday shopping season. Initial shipments are now beginning and the product will be introduced into the European and Asian markets as well as in other countries and specialty markets through Maycom and other OEMs. The unit has superb audio quality and louder output levels than most other portable music players on the market, without sacrificing battery life. Its backlit LCD screen supports English and Japanese characters. The multi-codec unit supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and ePAC music compression formats, and is firmware upgradeable to support the QDX format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The SDMI-capable unit ships with WMA Digital Rights Management included. It can be firmware upgraded to support InterTrust's Digital Rights Management, which the world's largest recording company, Universal Music Group, has announced it will be using in its online music distribution.
Powered By e.Digital Technology – Maycom/edig ‘Merit’ Player Picture.
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.100600/bb5.jpg
August 2001 – Maycom’s new site. MP2000 And New ‘Advanced Voice Recorder’.
http://www.emaycom.com/eng/default.asp
Nov. 9 2000 – e.Digital & Samsung announce agreement to produce two separate DataPlay enabled devices to premier at CES Jan. 6, 2001. October 19, 2000 - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today announced that it is developing portable digital products incorporating DataPlay's quarter-sized 500 MB digital media and micro-optical engine. DataPlay has secured $50 million in strategic financing from Universal Music, Toshiba, Samsung, S3 and Creative. It's not certain that Universal's prerecorded music will be available in the format. But DataPlay announced last month that Universal's eLabs president Lawrence Kenswil has joined DataPlay's board of directors.
Our DataPlay device. [This financing has now reacher 110 million – in 2001]
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/index.jsp and http://www.edig.com.
DataPlay Product Rollout – CES 2001
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=590380
DataPlay/Volan Concept Designs. Very Innovative.
http://www.volan.com/proof/eDigital/visuals-06.cfm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15135565
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-02.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-05.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-06.html
Samsung’s Handheld Video Motion YEPP & DataPlay Orbit Music Player http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-112.gif
http://www.etown.com/categories/print_article.jhtml?article_type=news&articleID=3554
2001 - Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
July 30, 2001 – Samsung Electronics is partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to jointly develop and market new products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755021
July 9, 2001 – Samsung will diversify its portfolio of Yepp Internet audio portables in the summer and fall with its first MP3-CD portable, its first pendant-style flash-memory portable, and its first firmware-upgradable flash-memory portable, which will also be
among the company's first multicodec models.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=718688
July 17, 2001—Samsung and AOL Time Warner Announce Multi-Year Strategic Marketing and Technology Alliance. Samsung to Manufacture Next-Generation AOLTV Set-Top Boxes, In addition, the companies will explore the development of a range of future consumer electronics products as well as introduce new digital products to consumers to enhance Samsung Brand Through Promotion Across AOL Time Warner Online and Offline Brands.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145128
July 2001 - Samsung Electronics and CompUSA – Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
The Eastech, ZapMedia, HarmonKardon, Samsung, CompUSA Connection –
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=735946
Aug. 15, 2001 - Samsung unveils new chip for Web audio devices.The latest SOC, called CalmRISC-Portable Audio Device, is designed to process a variety of audio files including MP3, WMA (windows media audio) and AAC (advanced audio coding). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754137
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=162681
Aug. 25, 2001 – Samsung will launch a home network server in cooperation with U.S-based software group Microsoft. The home server, which will be able to connect computers, consumers electronics and home appliances and other devices through a wide range of wired and wireless standards. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=169685
March 29, 2001 – Fred Falk, Following our business plan, we have dedicated strategic engineering resources to the development and implementation of new product platforms that include digital video for portable devices, automotive and home stereo designs, cellular phone accessories, and set-top boxes. We are working with multiple OEMs on specific applications of these MicroOS- and MicroCAM-powered platforms for inclusion in a variety of branded products.
SET TO DEBUT IN 2001 WITH 10GIG HDD –
Nov. 13, 2000 - Hy-Tek Previews e.Digital’s ‘Treo’ PJB at COMDEX – 2000 Songs on a Handheld Player. RemoteSolutions/Hango/e.Digital Works-In-Progress.
And an Excellent Candidate for a PC Bundle.
http://www.treoplayer.com Palmed Treo’ http://hardware.dmusic.com/details.php?id=169 http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/treo.html
e.Digital VP Comments about Treo’ and PC Manufacturers -
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=540326
COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=596645
August 22, 2001 - Intel, Compaq and TI- handheld collaborations.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=760478
July 12-13, MP3 Summit 2001 – "Best Overall Portable MP3 Player: Treo Digital Music Jukebox. MP3 Summit 2001 attendees found the Treo to be the smallest and lightest hard-drive based player, at only 8 ounces with batteries. The Treo is manufactured by Hy-Tek Mfg. and designed by e.Digital." http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145410
January 3-4, 2001 – e.Digital & Toshiba to develop and provide mult-codec portable Internet music player. Also e.Digital contracts with EASTECH a multi-million dollar firm with name-brand consumer electronics manufacturers including but not limited to Philips,Sony, Kenwood, Sanyo, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi and Pioneer. http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
June 5, 2001- Devices for DataPlay’s mini disks expected To reach market by fall. Toshiba and Samsung DataPlay production models are ready!!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=121533
DataPlay Sees Sept. Delivery Of 1st Products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=725928
DataPlay, which will introduce 500MB blank discs and prerecorded discs this year, will be "multi-codec compatible.
July 24, 2001 - Digital Clearing and Distribution Partnership Final Piece in DataPlay Strategy to Connect Retail Networks, Content Owners and Electronics Companies. Reciprocal, Inc., the provider of business infrastructure for the distribution of digital assets, and DataPlay, Inc., today announced an electronic media distribution agreement that will provide new levels of portability, security and ease-of-use for media companies, as well as consumers. The agreement leverages content across an extensive network of retailers and distributors, including Coconuts, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=733457
June 6, 2001—SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that their new FlashVision fabrication (fab) plant has gone into production of advanced flash memories, and shipments of the product have started. The NAND memory wafers being produced by FlashVision will primarily be used to manufacture flash memory storage cards for use in digital
cameras, digital Internet music players and future generations of cell phones.
Keep in mind e.Digital’s JUSTRI invitation SD association and the Flash Patents.
Jan. 5, 2001 - Sending Moving Pictures to Cell Phones - Toshiba's Single-Chip. http://www.mobileinfo.com/News_2001/Issue05/Toshiba_video.htm
Aug. 27, 2001 - SanDisk Reports Major Retail Expansion in Europe In Approximately 10,000 Retail Stores In 30 European Countries for mobile phones, Internet music players and small-size digital cameras. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170017
EASTECH’s version of the Treo’ the ET-700 & Our Toshiba’s DP Player.
http://www.acousticsys.com/products/IA/portable/ET700.html
http://www.eastech1.com/english/prod.htm
http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-117.gif
Remember The Intel/Eastech Connection –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=164838
2001 – Eastech Secures New Contracts Worth US$43 Million - it has secured two new major contracts, worth US$43 million, with consumer electronics companies SANYO and Singing Machine.
July 27, 2001 - Does MTV Karaoke spell EDIG?? Soon available at consumer electronics, toy and general merchandise stores throughout the US, including Best Buy, Toys R' Us and Meijer, and by catalog at JC Penney, Sears and Fingerhut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=151235
e.Digital & Qdesign – Madonna’s codec-of-choice. Qdesign is Promoting edig’s MicroCAM platforms IMO to Apple’s QuickTime. Also IMO we’ll work with PortalPlayer - per links below. http://www.qdesign.com/news/pressreleases_07_24_00.htm
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=581347 August 1, 2000 –
QDesign selects e.Digital portable internet music player design for showcase product Custom Music Player to Demonstrate the New QDX Codec for Digital Music to Executives in Music and Electronics Industries. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=685824
Texas Instruments and Qdesign Announce Enhanced Digital Audio Music Storage Design for Portable Players. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99050.htm
Now Read The Bertelsmann Article Link Below – Also Note Vivindi’s New ‘Universal Music Mobile’- Then Go to http://www.edig.com For the Facts On The Company Which Has The Key To It All - An Advanced MicroOS Solution For The Audio/Video Format/Codec & DRM Delima. Read The Last Letter To Shareholders And View Their Growing List of Impressive Partners. e.Digital Recently Added More DSP Engineers, Equity Investments And Key Personnel To Its BOD. The Company’s Micro OS Has Been Recognized As a Benchmark With These Same Companies: Intel, IBM, SanDisk, Lucent & Texas Instruments And Many Other Industry/Sector Leaders.
Aug. 30, 2000-- Bertelsmann (BMG), the world's largest international media enterprise, launched tj net to provide a new service for mobile phone users in Italy. Tj net expects to add additional centers in Germany, UK, France and Benelux in Europe, as well as in the U. S. and Japan. Tj net transforms mobile phones into cost-free receivers for a wide variety of music and top news stories. http://www.inin.com/News/PressReleases/pressreleases.asp?id=118
2000-2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio seek interoperability using Lucent’s EPAC and AAC for the Automotive and Stereo Industry. IMO – This will be Huge for e.Digital per handheld reception and recording of streamed/downloaded content. Also see iBiquity.com.
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=82063
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=534184
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=587686
1-2001 - Sirius VP Tracey Stanyer says. "We want to use position-based commerce, or P-commerce, to turn drive time into buy time."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=124007
My Resoning For Digital Radios Importance –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170561
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170539
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168999
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=153309
Jan. 8, 2001 - XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
August 23, 2001 – BMW of North America, LLC and Sirius Satellite Radio the satellite radio broadcaster, announced today that BMW will offer Sirius satellite radio service to new car buyers beginning in the second quarter of 2002.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
June 25 – 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
A look at VR in ‘Telematics’ within the Auto Industry with Intel and IBM
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=542328
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/DC3F600187220BF9852569CE0057BC67
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010106/nv_motorol.html
July 12, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND BANG & OLUFSEN ENTER INTO LICENSING AGREEMENT – Visteon has paired its world-class audio and electronic capabilities with prestigious Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to develop a new level of automotive audio sophistication. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=142952
July 30, 2001 - Visteon & SpeechWorks. We are thrilled that Visteon, a leader in the telematics industry, has chosen to work with us to bring our combined technologies to telematics and other markets such as mobile devices and cable set-top boxes with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152129
PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. – IMO e.Digital and PacketVideo are well aware of each other and will eventually work together on advanced video platforms.
June 13, 2000 - PacketVideo today announced that it has agreements with over 35 global media and online companies to trial the delivery of video to wireless devices. Warner Bros, FOXSPORTS.com, E! Entertainment, ABCNEWS, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment etc,. , PacketVideo - Interview
http://boss.2.navisitestreaming.net/real/2/fconf/000825/28_robert_tercek.smi
http://www.packetvideo.com
July 28 -Time Werner & PDA’s. Signaling the entertainment industry's determination to move aggressively into the dawning wireless-entertainment field, Time Warner Inc. is developing original programming that will be beamed to handheld devices. The company will work with PacketVideoCorp., a San Diego software firm backed by, among others, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. The closely held concern already has conducted widespread trials of its wireless audio-video programming with other content giants, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Pictures, using mostly promotional material such as movie trailers. See PacketVideo’s News Releases for these: Intel and PacketVideo. Lucent Streams Entertainment To Cell Phones. Wireless device users are way beyond using their cell phones just for phone calls, they want entertainment, and they want speed. The communications equipment giant is teaming with wireless video start-up PacketVideo to develop this next-generation device. Motorola with PacketVideo, Bell & PacketVideo, Nortel Networks and Packetvideo, Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo, Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo. March 20, 2001 - PacketVideo Partners with Symbian to Provide Mobile Video Software for Smartphones - Symbian's licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=641600
Aug. 22, 2001 – Texas Instruments and PacketVideo Corporation today announced plans to create a variety of differentiated streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices that will enable capabilities like streaming video and audio, speech recognition, JPEG image processing and others. Aug. 28, 2001- DoCoMo, PacketVideo to Deliver 3G Video when
it launches a full commercial services on October 1.
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating CellPhones, PDAs, PJBs, Set-Top-Boxs and Automotive Telematics link-ups using Handheld Voice Remotes via OutPut/Input-Jacks, Push/Pull via TWIRL, 802.11 and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below - http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=123586
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. (ZapMedia), today announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gannett Co., Inc./ USA TODAY (NYSE: GCI), one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, to provide an all-in-one Internet driven, interactive entertainment environment, making it a reality for consumers today. With the click of a button people will serve up music, movies, television, the Internet, and email using ZapMedia's co-branded products and services
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=604252
ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=131034
(Reuters 10-10-2000) - The National Music Publishers' Association Inc. (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) said Tuesday they have agreed on procedures for licensing of musical compositions, or songs, that are distributed on the Internet. The RIAA represents big record companies, including Seagram Co. Ltd.'s Universal Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc (news - web sites).
October 23, 2000 – Delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc. In the latest sign that music subscription is emerging as a prominent avenue for delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc said it is developing an online music-subscription service, and Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group has launched a test of a subscription-music service.
10/25/00 - LYCOS aims to be web music one-stop ...
Lycos took another step last week by signing a partnership with BMG Entertainment, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Lycos will sell digital downloads of albums and singles by 100 of BMG's recording artists.
(Oct.31,2000) -Bertelsmann And Napster Form Alliance. Entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.D) and controversial song-swap company Napster (news - web sites) Inc. said on Tuesday they formed an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service.
Oct 31, 2000 -- Radio Free Virgin and Playboy.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced the launch of Radio Free Virgin, a downloadable0, CD-quality digital radio tuner available free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com.
http://billboard.com/daily/2000/1201_04.asp
Nov. 1, 2000 - Warner Music Group (WMG) and Microsoft Corp, In a multiyear agreement, WMG has selected Windows Media Format as a primary format for commercial music download initiatives in the United States and Canada, with security provided by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Nov. 2000 – PHILIPS SHOWCASES CLICKRADIO ON DIGITAL SET-TOP-BOX. Through an exclusive agreement with Lucent Technologies, ClickRadio uses the patented ePAC (Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coding) compression format to deliver secure digital music programming while protecting artists' copyrights. IMO - TiVo features are coming for Audio Content.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112461
06/05/01 – Philips has released a new family of highly integrated solid state audio devices for MP3 audio players, car radio systems, portable CD players, flash memory cards, Internet radio and simple jukebox applications. Able to support a range of stereo audio decompression algorithms, including MP3, AAC and Microsoft WMA, the SAA7750 chip's programmable DSP architecture enables it to become the basis of MP3, CD and SSA (flash memory) products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=728640
August 7, 2001 – ClickRadio = ePAC & Gateway/Kmart/Wal-Mart - The company has a distribution deal with Gateway and will soon have its software available at Kmart, Wal-mart, Staples and Electronics Boutique.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=157180
12/15/00 - ONLINE music seller Soundbuzz has snagged a deal with major record label BMG to sell the music of artists; allowing purchase music in digital-file format for immediate download to their hard disk. using Intertrust and Liquid Audio to provide encryption and digital-rights management.
January 10, 2001- NTT DoCoMo to Start Music Distribution to PHS Users
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583848
Jan 22, 2001 - IBM to Offer New Technology to Prevent Unauthorized Music Distribution on Web & IBM/e.Digital Player and Toshiba/IBM - EMMS .
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E07957156C96DBD7852569DC0051460E
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/micro/edigital.htm
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595047
Toshiba and IBM’s EMMS. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642853
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 2001 - BMG Entertainment announced today a substantial expansion of its digital music offerings In addition, BMG announced that its labels are now making new releases simultaneously available as Digital Downloads.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=589017
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=572601
Feb. 22, 2001 - Vivendi/Universal, Sony team up for online Music site
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=622436
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
DALLAS, Feb 27 - Blockbuster Inc. & Universal Pictures films via its video on-demand service include RadioShack its stores for in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=67262&refid=0&orig=67262
Feb. 27, 2001 - Warner Music to Sell Downloadable Albums.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=625247
March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=637683
March 14, 2001 – Handleman Company one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. will offer a catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads – See Handleman Kiosks Coming Below. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
Mar 16, 2001 - Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific, PlanetMG uses Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology for secure music downloads and to prevent piracy.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=638941
March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
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. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=649488
April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet. Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=655253
April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=71535
May 20, 2001 – Vivendi Universal Acquires MP3.com in Move to Strengthen Digital Distribution Capacity and Web Audience. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
May 23 2001 – Vitaminic Announces New Music Publishing Company, ZipMind, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of music on the Internet, announced today it will offer music publishing services to authors, publishers and third parties. Vitaminic offers the largest legal online catalogue of music in Europe. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112443
June 5, 2001- -RioPort, & BestBuy - the leading music application service provider (ASP), today announced that it will distribute commercial music downloads to BestBuy.com(TM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. the nation's number one specialty retailer of
consumer electronics. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
January 6, 2000 – E.DIGITAL AND RIOPORT, INC. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP SEAMLESS, SECURE INTERNET MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689937
June 6, 2001 – Napster secures its first music licenses from three of the five major labels, paving the way for the file-trading network to launch its new subscription service by the end of the summer. The service is expected to offer both radio-like streaming technology and downloading capabilities. MusicNet will be available through AOL, Real Networks and Napster.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44322,00.html
Jul 11, 2001 - Judge orders Napster not to resume service.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=722712
July 12, 2001 – Pressplay & Microsoft -- a joint venture between music giants Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp is near a deal to offer its online music subscription service on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=720867
July 13, 2001 - Elibron Adds Downloadable Music To Its Collection of Electronic Books Adamant Media, already partnered with two of the world's largest libraries to bring its customers over 30,000 electronic books, now officially announces the addition of secured downloadable music to its website.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729657
July 16, 2001 – TOWER RECORDS, The largest independent record store in the world, joins forces with OD2 and PlayLouder to begine commercial download sales. http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01070154.html
July 18, 2001- NAPSTER READY TO LAUNCH a second phase subscription service backed by major labels. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729103
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
Aug. 28, 2001 - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010828/wr/media_bertelsmann_napster_dc_1.html
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
July 25, 2001 - U.S. Government Stepping Up Internet Antipiracy Efforts In the past week the U.S government has escalated efforts to squash Internet piracy by conducting sweeps in nine states and expanding the ranks of attorneys assigned to prosecute copyright violators.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/board.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736507
Aug. 9, 2001 – Liquid Audio, Inc. today announced it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=748032
Aug. 13, 2001 – Texas Instruments and RealNetworks today announced they have broadened their strategic alliance to offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable
digital signal processing (DSP)-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video client devices including IP set-top boxes, network video appliances, personal video recorders, streaming media servers and IP video. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=750783
Aug. 16, 2001 – Five Major Film Studios on Thursday announced a joint on-demand
movie service that will offer old and new releases for broadband Internet users in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755026
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
Aug. 20, 2001 - BMG musical downloads in Europe. OD2 will work with BMG to support the sale of selected catalogue, via secure digital download, in partnership with a number of leading European retailers via the internet.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=166104
Aug. 21, 2001 - DataPlay Delays Launch. After following a seemingly smooth product development road, DataPlay is being forced to push back the introduction of its 500MB removable storage media and hardware from this fall to early 2002.
Aug. 23, 2001 "Short-term, this is a disappointment, but we understand the reasons," said Putnam. "It offers us the opportunity to get in more devices. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168130
Positive Spin On The Delay - DABOSS Talks To Robert Putnam.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
AUGUST 24, 2001 – 5 labels using 'stealth CDs' to discourage copying songs.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168084
Aug. 27, 2001 - Vivendi Launches Mobile Music in France, a music service for listening to records on mobiles before they are on general released.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170347
Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736528
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=588824
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=579020
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=548914
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583845
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=635180
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=105309
Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258082
Jimee11’s Response: #258031
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258031
emit’s Response: #258056
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258056
e.Digital & Lainer Worldwide’s Medical Dictation Handheld – Cquence Mobile. According to market analysts, the medical dictation market is the largest vertical market in the speech technology industry. http://www.edig.com/products/custom-cquence.html
http://www.lanier.com/ps/apps/cqmobile.html
http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/sep00/doc_doc.shtml
Now Think About It……. It’s coming our way and involves much more than just music – Handheld mobile voice recognition, video on demand, VR Medical Records and (c)Publications & eBooks. e.Digital is the Codec/DRM and flash storage file management for Secure Internet Content and Advanced Handheld Design.
(February 15, 2001) E.DIGITAL HIRES FLEISHMAN-HILLARD INC. TO LEAD U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS. The Worlds' largest public relations firm, to lead domestic and international media relations and communications. Michael Busselen, senior vice president, "e.Digital has developed unique technology that has the potential to impact millions of consumers. The story is captivating, the business is timely, and we look forward to using our expertise and understanding of the media to share e.Digital's story with the business and technology communities."http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr021501.html
Think Global…DOS to MOS http://www.edig.com http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.071400/bb3.jpg
This is all ‘My Humble Opinion’
emit…
SGE - and Olympus. if/so, eom
hmmm... AAC tPAC Next
The result of a close collaboration between RadioScape, Psion and Texas Instruments. the WaveFinder product redefines the way that consumers use radio. It’s built in ability to download web pages over the airwaves has made it an immediate sensation in the UK markets where it has been launched.
Realtime Wireless MP3 Realtime Wireless MP3, another RadioScape patented innovation for consumer digital radios, is being used in the WaveFinder. Today consumers can download and record music over the airwaves in MP3 format for playback at a later time. MP3 recording and playback was once only the domain of internet radio and on-line music distribution engines. RadioScape’s MP3 transcoder makes this exciting technology, already the darling of audiophiles and generations of consumers, available for all wireless users of digital radio.
http://www.radioscape.com/extranet/files/index.asp?section=dab&page=92
Like what you're hearing? WaveFinder's one-click recording lets you save direct to MP3 or MP2 in real time, with no internet connection required. No download waits, no connection fees, no dodgy files - just the latest, hottest tracks, as soon as they're on air.
http://www.wavefinder.com/info/index.asp?pg=info.asp?page=page2
emit...
jqlaw - How could the codexecution be incodded in the program material. Guess the 'standards' are the individual codecs, therfore the 'program material' stands for itself, but still needs an OS if grabbed via pc or www.... 'residing in the player; is cominserate with edig licensing them and putting them on each device.... downloaded is to upgrade for non-existant ones.
Hell I give up... your take
Thnx
emit...
ck - Formats and Codecs... way I see it - Do I want a Sanyo or a HarmonKardon.
Quality will prevail, Universal Music Mobile. hmmm
emit...
One more Time - Tin, this saying what I think it is.
TI and RadioScape Deliver 30 GBP Eureka DAB Design
New Digital Radio Solution Shatters Cost Barriers Enabling OEMs to Quickly Deliver Inexpensive, Differentiated Products
HOUSTON (July 11, 2001) - Driving the design costs of digital radios to mass-market levels, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and RadioScape Ltd. today delivered the industry's most cost effective reference design for Eureka-147 digital audio broadcast (DAB) receivers. Priced at about 30 Great Britain Pounds (GBP), the easy-to-build design enables manufacturers for the first time to offer next-generation radios at less than 100 GBP retail.
"This reference design will cost far less than existing solutions," said Mike Williams, senior analyst at Dataquest. "By offering the low-cost reference design, and by eliminating the need for hardware such as external memory and microcontrollers, TI and RadioScape will enable manufacturers (and thus end users) to make dramatic system cost savings. With this design, mass market radio is possible for the first time."
Based on the TMS320DRE200™ baseband announced in January, the reference design includes eight TI analog components and is enhanced by RadioScape's software-defined radio expertise. By offering a complete receiver system solution, TI and RadioScape have simplified the design, giving manufacturers flexibility and ease-of-build, and enabling the fast market delivery of differentiated, inexpensive products. The potential for these new feature-rich, hybrid radio products is unlimited, with mobile commerce, distance learning and MP3 recording expected to be among the first applications that consumers will be able to access.
The new design also consumes very low power, enabling manufacturers to offer receivers for the automotive, home-entertainment and portable radio markets. As the industry's first open programmable DSP-based software solution, the TI/RadioScape design makes it simple to differentiate products in these segments.
The reference and an evaluation board (EVM) are now available. For more information about getting started today, visit http://www.ti.com/sc/digitalradio.
http://www.tidsp.com/sc/docs/news/2001/01119.htm
I screwed the tags, but 'distance learning and mp3 recording'
hmmmmm
emit... i better quit, before i substantiate all my innuindoe. :)
emit...
Danl - Ask the Man..... eom
Houpps There It IS.... Note Bold.
TI and RadioScape Deliver 30 GBP Eureka DAB Design
New Digital Radio Solution Shatters Cost Barriers Enabling OEMs to Quickly Deliver Inexpensive, Differentiated Products
HOUSTON (July 11, 2001) - Driving the design costs of digital radios to mass-market levels, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and RadioScape Ltd. today delivered the industry's most cost effective reference design for Eureka-147 digital audio broadcast (DAB) receivers. Priced at about 30 Great Britain Pounds (GBP), the easy-to-build design enables manufacturers for the first time to offer next-generation radios at less than 100 GBP retail.
"This reference design will cost far less than existing solutions," said Mike Williams, senior analyst at Dataquest. "By offering the low-cost reference design, and by eliminating the need for hardware such as external memory and microcontrollers, TI and RadioScape will enable manufacturers (and thus end users) to make dramatic system cost savings. With this design, mass market radio is possible for the first time."
Based on the TMS320DRE200™ baseband announced in January, the reference design includes eight TI analog components and is enhanced by RadioScape's software-defined radio expertise. By offering a complete receiver system solution, TI and RadioScape have simplified the design, giving manufacturers flexibility and ease-of-build, and enabling the fast market delivery of differentiated, inexpensive products. The potential for these new feature-rich, hybrid radio products is unlimited, with mobile commerce, distance learning and MP3 recording expected to be among the first applications that consumers will be able to access.
The new design also consumes very low power, enabling manufacturers to offer receivers for the automotive, home-entertainment and portable radio markets. As the industry's first open programmable DSP-based software solution, the TI/RadioScape design makes it simple to differentiate products in these segments.
The reference and an evaluation board (EVM) are now available. For more information about getting started today, visit http://www.ti.com/sc/digitalradio.
http://www.tidsp.com/sc/docs/news/2001/01119.htm
Why Go To Digital Radio?
Radio's venerable tradition of providing entertainment and information to people across the world is given a new lease on life with the move digital. First, the sound quality of digital radios will be greatly improved - imagine CD quality sound via your current radio stations. Static and interference are significantly reduced in digital radios. Second, digital radio will provide a new array of never before available data-rich services broadcasted to the public. These services could include traffic, sports, weather, stock prices, etc. LCDs could display this data via text, images, and/or video. Third, these new digital radios will converge with different types of compelling end products including: MP3 player/radio; cell phone/radio; and PDA/radio.
http://www.tidsp.com/sc/docs/innovate/radio/whydr.htm
The RioOne now The Zip.... Does make one wonder how, or even if, we come into play here. Do we 'get turned on' or is it accomplished via the dsp. Been looking for the old whitepaper on TIDSP.com where it told that the multi-codec ability can be downloaded via internet, reside on the player, or...... can't find. But anyway anyone notice Sanyo doesn't have a mp3 type player on their site anylonger - ONLY Gandered at their US site.
TI Powers SONICblue's New Rio One Digital Audio Player
TI's Programmable Internet Audio DSPs Chosen by Nine out of Top 10 Consumer Electronics Manufacturers
DALLAS (August 22, 2001) -- Expanding its position as the chipmaker of choice for Internet audio devices, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced that SONICblue(tm) Incorporated (Nasdaq: SBLU) selected TI's industry-leading programmable digital signal processor (DSP) technology to power its new Rio(r) One digital audio player. Leveraging the performance headroom and programmability of TI's DSP, the Rio One can play multiple audio formats, is upgradeable to support future formats and costs less than $100. TI's low-power DSP also enables the Rio One to play up to 10 hours of music on one AA battery. (See http://www.ti.com/sc/internetaudio.)
"Designed with TI's DSP technology, the Rio One is lightweight, expandable and affordable, and is the ultimate purchase for teens, students and other first-time buyers seeking extreme portability and at least an hour's worth of high-quality music playback without the costs associated with premium features," said Janet Leising, vice president of marketing and business development, SONICblue.
Based on TI's low-power TMS320C54x™ DSP, SONICblue's Rio One offers 32MB of built-in memory, support for MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) formats and can be upgraded to adapt to future market demands. TI's programmable DSPs offer the versatility to support future product features and audio compression formats by means of simple software downloads, rather than costly hardware upgrades.
"The Rio brand is synonymous with digital music hardware, and we are thrilled to work with industry-leader, SONICblue," said Chris Schairbaum, worldwide marketing manager of Internet Audio at TI. "With the addition of SONICblue to our extensive list of customers, TI has deepened our expertise and commitment to the digital music market and look forward to continued success in this area."
TI is one of the leading suppliers of chips into the Internet audio market, shipping its 3 millionth Internet audio DSP, more than any other programmable semiconductor manufacturer, in June of 2001. TI's award-winning DSP technology is designed into more than 80 Internet Audio devices, including products from nine of the top 10 consumer electronics manufacturers.
Priced at $99.95 (MSRP), the Rio One is currently available for purchase via SONICblue's eStore and is expected to be available at retail stores including Circuit City, Best Buy, CompUSA and Fry's Electronics within the next two weeks. For more information, or to purchase the Rio One online, visit http://www.SONICblue.com.
http://www.tidsp.com/sc/docs/news/2001/01147.htm
MOO - Hopefully they were sold off. eom
emit...
ck - Precisely why I say they should of already had a VR player on the market - I knew this.
emit...
3G Will Invigorate Wireless Music - Webnoize
8/24/2001
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, Aug 23, 2001 (Newsbytes via COMTEX) -- Today's wireless music services are cumbersome and expensive, but according to a new study, the future sounds great and is coming soon.
The study by Webnoize, a company that monitors the digital entertainment industries, said third-generation (3G) wireless technology will be deployed in the United States by the end of this year. The launch of 3G, which features faster wireless data transfer speeds, will allow the delivery of multimedia services to mobile consumers, the firm said.
Matt Bailey, a Webnoize analyst, said people have been talking about 3G for so long, many do not realize it is nearly ready to take off.
"We are getting pretty close to these services being reality instead of vaporware," said Bailey. "The problem is, many media companies are not ready for the roll-out of these services."
Bailey said four companies will roll out high-speed 3G networks in select U.S. cities in the next six months. He said AT&T, Verizon and Cingular are targeting late 2001, while Sprint PCS is aiming for late this year or early 2002.
"Those four represent the vast majority of nationwide U.S. carriers," he said.
Presently, there are three working wireless music services in the world, with two in Japan and one in the U.S., Webnoize said.
The Japanese services allow users to sample from 30 seconds to 45 seconds of music tracks, with an option to purchase and download the full track. The purchase price per track ranges from $1.29 to $3.23, depending on the service, but Bailey said the cost is inflated by a 10 cent to 12 cent per-minute usage charge.
"The cost per song can be up to $79 for a single MP3 file," he said. "This price level will deter all but the most ardent music fans."
Bailey said the 2.5 G services that soon will be deployed in Asia and Europe will drop the cost per song to about $11. "In a couple of years, 3G will take it down to just 27 cents per song."
Sprint PCS currently offers U.S. subscribers access to an online music "locker" where, for $10 a month, tracks can be transferred from a PC to a specially designed phone. Bailey said the Uproar phone from Samsung combines an MP3 player with a cell phone.
"People can connect the phone to their PC and transfer music from the PC to the phone to listen to later," he said.
The study said the wireless data transfer speeds on the Sprint PCS service are capped at just 14.4 kbps (kilobits per second). At that speed, a four-megabyte MP3 file can take nearly 40 minutes to download, Webnoize said. According to Bailey, even the early 3G networks launched this year will deliver speeds well over 100 kbps.
"The next step with wireless will be far more sudden than what we saw with the Internet," he said. "The 14.4 rate is equivalent to how fast the Internet was five years ago. With 3G, data speeds will go to a maximum of two megabits per second, which is like going to something faster than a T1 line."
Consumers will be able to stream a high-quality music file with a connection speed of 100 kbps or above, he added. "Even with 2.5 G, there will be enough bandwidth available for consumers to download or stream music."
Bailey said MP3.com has moved quickly to push the wireless channel. He said MP3.com is working with Qualcomm on the latter's Binary Runtime for Wireless (BREW) initiative.
"Qualcomm is heavily involved in supplying equipment for 3G services," he said.
The new services will spawn specialized devices, Bailey said. These handsets will need multimedia capabilities to handle both sound and video. In addition, he said many personal digital assistants (PDAs) will become multimedia entertainment devices instead of purely organizational devices.
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They said they want to become #1 - Sure hope they're our Strategic Partner. 'Orbit' will be appropiate then....
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=162681
emit...
Industry Synopsis: Updated
Industry Synopsis: All Investors – e.Digital Corp.
e.Digital, Intel, Lucent, TXN & IBM. Years of Achievements With Flash Memory Management and Voice Recorder Innovations Have Led e.Digital To The Forefront Of The Emerging DataPlay Format & IBM Microdrive Platforms – And The ‘Soon To Be Announced’ Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM & VOICENAV Technology.
Intel’s ‘Flash Presentation’ This indicates where we’re headed with 3-4th Generation PDA’s. http://developer.intel.com/design/flash/intro/fdi30demo/fdiflash.htm
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=509750
Intel & ADI’s new DSP Core & Intel’s New DAP Audio Player ‘Pocket Concert’.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20010417net.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2658478,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551122
Taipei, May 2, 2001 (Bloomberg) Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, plans to order NT$2 billion ($61 million) worth of so-called MP3 audio players from Eastern Asia Technology Ltd., Eastech. Could e.Digital be involved – Or just a coincidence. Note e.Digital and Eastech platforms below.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=668929+
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
Aug. 16, 2001 - Digital video is "going to take off," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754775
Could e.Digital’s MicoOS be embedded in this product and other DSPs? e.Digital now has top Intel personnel onboard and is exhibiting advanced reference designs as seen the last two years - and most recently at 2001 CES for Samsung and Toshiba. In my opinion, new flash/HDD hybrids and dedicated DSPs are on the horizon. Expect to see more advanced DAPs & PDAs from many of the giant chip makers and Consumer Electronics OEMs as quality emerges with security for Internet music and other content. eDigital is extremely well positioned – Intel’s CEO recently commented that the ‘Pocket Concert’ is format agnostic. The player is also made by Samsung. IMO - this means when/if multi-codec and ‘digital rights management’ issues become needed by content providers, they have access to our MiroOS platform. Intel DAP picture: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/electronics/B000059ZYB/pictures/14/104-5074239-...
Fred Falk, June 2000 -''We are working with major manufacturers to have our technology embedded into their programmable DSPs and/or microcontrollers'' His DSP comments and a Flash Glue View. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
IMO - Embedded Projects Are Ongoing.
These NDA’s Verify The Sectors Enormity & Complexity.
October 30, 2000 - Fred Falk, ‘’We are also working with OEMs who may compete against each other with product offerings designed by e.Digital. Our non-disclosure agreements with our OEMs are in place to ensure that we are not disclosing any details of their product and our agreements to other OEMs and the public until they are ready to have this information made available. ‘’ Feb. 14, 2001 – e.Digital Form 10-QSB – Informed Investors that some revenue sources may stay unnamed until they decide to become known.
I Believe This is What Intel Is Going To Do For Secure Internet Content With It’s DRM/ISIS which includes ePAC.
http://www.convera.com
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551558
http://www.agoracom.com/agora/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=50275&refid=0&orig=50275
February 2, 2000; WW6 From Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell International Corporation to purchase a wafer fabrication facility (fab) located in Colorado Springs, Colo. The purchase will add significant manufacturing capacity for Intel to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. The new Holy Grail for the company is the business of selling flash-memory chips -- used in battery-operated devices that hold their memory even when the device's power is off. Intel is quickly rebuilding itself into the world's largest manufacturer of flash chips.
Three top Intel people from its Flash/Mobile Divisions are now with e.Digital.
e.Digital was selected by Intel to design and prototype a number of portable digital voice recorders utilizing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Intel plans to sub-license the reference design created by e.Digital to Intel's OEM customers, referring them back to e.Digital for licensing and any additional design and/or manufacturing work required. e.Digital has also filed a number of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; We have received notification of allowance from the United States Patent Office for use: MicroOS TM, FlashBack(R), Hold That Thought(R), Fumble Free(R), SoundClip(R), Smart Song Selection(tm), MicroCAM TM - Micro Compressed Audio Manager, AMIS TM - Audio Manager Interface, TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link and VOICENAV as registered trade names.
Internet Audio Market. Excerpt Source: Texas Instruments.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=566858
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/innovate/iaudio/opportunity.htm
Today's Internet Audio application is based upon the downloading of digital audio content, either speech or music, via the Internet and then playing the encoded digital audio content on an Internet Audio playback device. Very soon, these playback units will be a sub-system in PDAs, digital still cameras, cellular phones, set-top boxes, and other devices. The total market potential is even larger when you consider other complimentary products such as headphone stereo, personal CD, personal MD, car audio, and future DSC, cellular phone, etc., TI has the commanding market share lead with key design-ins at most of the major consumer electronics and PC makers. The following customers have already been publicly announced: a. Thomson Consumer Electronics b. Sanyo c. e.Digital.
TI DSP’s & My Opinion on DSP’s and our MicroOS. TXN CES Comments.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=738850
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=554726
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=546798
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=592843
TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – ePAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital.
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
1999 -IBM VoiceTimes alliance announced - Including e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595357
March 23, 2001 - e.Digital Corporation announced today that the first production-level Internet music player design incorporating IBM's Microdrive™.is being featured in the IBM booth at the CeBIT trade show which runs through March 28. The design is currently being marketed by e.Digital and Maycom, Co., Ltd. worldwide. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr032301.html
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
July 20, 2001 – Wireless IBM Microdrive & IBM Voice Navigation.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=156344
So Many Digital Downloadable Music Players: With a Big Problem – Multiple Codecs & ‘Digital Rights Managements’ and Increasing Advanced Functions Within Smaller Devices. http://www.ecoustics.com/Home/Home_Audio/MP3_Players/MP3_Player_Reviews/
This Is What It’s All About – IMHO.
Look at All the Music and Video/Media Players, Interactive & Content Enabled Set-Top-Boxes, Home Servers, Kiosks, Karaoke Devices, 3G MP3 Phones And Satellite Digital Radio Applications Coming To Market. Then Read The Article about Bertelsmann’s Tj.net/MP3 De Cellular and its intentions to create a Secure Subscription Model with Napster. IMO - The PJBs and DataPlay devices will create New Excitement due to design & features – See Treo’, ET700 and ‘Volan’ Concept designs below. This Synopsis Concludes with four knowledgeable shareholder’s analysis on the emerging technology and how it could very easily include e.Digital’s Patented Micro OS as a standard in this emerging sector.
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
Oct. 6, 2000 – e.Digital Corp. and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea today announced the launch of the MP2000 multi-codec, portable digital music player in time for the holiday shopping season. Initial shipments are now beginning and the product will be introduced into the European and Asian markets as well as in other countries and specialty markets through Maycom and other OEMs. The unit has superb audio quality and louder output levels than most other portable music players on the market, without sacrificing battery life. Its backlit LCD screen supports English and Japanese characters. The multi-codec unit supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and ePAC music compression formats, and is firmware upgradeable to support the QDX format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The SDMI-capable unit ships with WMA Digital Rights Management included. It can be firmware upgraded to support InterTrust's Digital Rights Management, which the world's largest recording company, Universal Music Group, has announced it will be using in its online music distribution.
Powered By e.Digital Technology – Maycom/edig ‘Merit’ Player Picture.
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.100600/bb5.jpg
August 2001 – Maycom’s new site. MP2000 And New ‘Advanced Voice Recorder’.
http://www.emaycom.com/eng/default.asp
Nov. 9 2000 – e.Digital & Samsung announce agreement to produce two separate DataPlay enabled devices to premier at CES Jan. 6, 2001. October 19, 2000 - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today announced that it is developing portable digital products incorporating DataPlay's quarter-sized 500 MB digital media and micro-optical engine. DataPlay has secured $50 million in strategic financing from Universal Music, Toshiba, Samsung, S3 and Creative. It's not certain that Universal's prerecorded music will be available in the format. But DataPlay announced last month that Universal's eLabs president Lawrence Kenswil has joined DataPlay's board of directors.
Our DataPlay device. [This financing has now reacher 110 million – in 2001]
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/index.jsp and http://www.edig.com.
DataPlay Product Rollout – CES 2001
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=590380
DataPlay/Volan Concept Designs. Very Innovative.
http://www.volan.com/proof/eDigital/visuals-06.cfm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15135565
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-02.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-05.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-06.html
Samsung’s Handheld Video Motion YEPP & DataPlay Orbit Music Player http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-112.gif
http://www.etown.com/categories/print_article.jhtml?article_type=news&articleID=3554
2001 - Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
July 30, 2001 – Samsung Electronics is partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to jointly develop and market new products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755021
July 9, 2001 – Samsung will diversify its portfolio of Yepp Internet audio portables in the summer and fall with its first MP3-CD portable, its first pendant-style flash-memory portable, and its first firmware-upgradable flash-memory portable, which will also be
among the company's first multicodec models.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=718688
July 17, 2001—Samsung and AOL Time Warner Announce Multi-Year Strategic Marketing and Technology Alliance. Samsung to Manufacture Next-Generation AOLTV Set-Top Boxes, In addition, the companies will explore the development of a range of future consumer electronics products as well as introduce new digital products to consumers to enhance Samsung Brand Through Promotion Across AOL Time Warner Online and Offline Brands.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145128
July 2001 - Samsung Electronics and CompUSA – Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
The Eastech, ZapMedia, HarmonKardon, Samsung, CompUSA Connection –
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=735946
Aug. 15, 2001 - Samsung unveils new chip for Web audio devices.The latest SOC, called CalmRISC-Portable Audio Device, is designed to process a variety of audio files including MP3, WMA (windows media audio) and AAC (advanced audio coding). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754137
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=162681
Aug. 25, 2001 – Samsung will launch a home network server in cooperation with U.S-based software group Microsoft. The home server, which will be able to connect computers, consumers electronics and home appliances and other devices through a wide range of wired and wireless standards. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=169685
March 29, 2001 – Fred Falk, Following our business plan, we have dedicated strategic engineering resources to the development and implementation of new product platforms that include digital video for portable devices, automotive and home stereo designs, cellular phone accessories, and set-top boxes. We are working with multiple OEMs on specific applications of these MicroOS- and MicroCAM-powered platforms for inclusion in a variety of branded products.
SET TO DEBUT IN 2001 WITH 10GIG HDD –
Nov. 13, 2000 - Hy-Tek Previews e.Digital’s ‘Treo’ PJB at COMDEX – 2000 Songs on a Handheld Player. RemoteSolutions/Hango/e.Digital Works-In-Progress.
And an Excellent Candidate for a PC Bundle.
http://www.treoplayer.com Palmed Treo’ http://hardware.dmusic.com/details.php?id=169 http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/treo.html
e.Digital VP Comments about Treo’ and PC Manufacturers -
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=540326
COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=596645
August 22, 2001 - Intel, Compaq and TI- handheld collaborations.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=760478
July 12-13, MP3 Summit 2001 – "Best Overall Portable MP3 Player: Treo Digital Music Jukebox. MP3 Summit 2001 attendees found the Treo to be the smallest and lightest hard-drive based player, at only 8 ounces with batteries. The Treo is manufactured by Hy-Tek Mfg. and designed by e.Digital." http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145410
January 3-4, 2001 – e.Digital & Toshiba to develop and provide mult-codec portable Internet music player. Also e.Digital contracts with EASTECH a multi-million dollar firm with name-brand consumer electronics manufacturers including but not limited to Philips,Sony, Kenwood, Sanyo, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi and Pioneer. http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
June 5, 2001- Devices for DataPlay’s mini disks expected To reach market by fall. Toshiba and Samsung DataPlay production models are ready!!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=121533
DataPlay Sees Sept. Delivery Of 1st Products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=725928
DataPlay, which will introduce 500MB blank discs and prerecorded discs this year, will be "multi-codec compatible.
July 24, 2001 - Digital Clearing and Distribution Partnership Final Piece in DataPlay Strategy to Connect Retail Networks, Content Owners and Electronics Companies. Reciprocal, Inc., the provider of business infrastructure for the distribution of digital assets, and DataPlay, Inc., today announced an electronic media distribution agreement that will provide new levels of portability, security and ease-of-use for media companies, as well as consumers. The agreement leverages content across an extensive network of retailers and distributors, including Coconuts, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=733457
June 6, 2001—SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that their new FlashVision fabrication (fab) plant has gone into production of advanced flash memories, and shipments of the product have started. The NAND memory wafers being produced by FlashVision will primarily be used to manufacture flash memory storage cards for use in digital
cameras, digital Internet music players and future generations of cell phones.
Keep in mind e.Digital’s JUSTRI invitation SD association and the Flash Patents.
Jan. 5, 2001 - Sending Moving Pictures to Cell Phones - Toshiba's Single-Chip. http://www.mobileinfo.com/News_2001/Issue05/Toshiba_video.htm
EASTECH’s version of the Treo’ the ET-700 & Our Toshiba’s DP Player.
http://www.acousticsys.com/products/IA/portable/ET700.html
http://www.eastech1.com/english/prod.htm
http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-117.gif
Remember The Intel/Eastech Connection –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=164838
2001 – Eastech Secures New Contracts Worth US$43 Million - it has secured two new major contracts, worth US$43 million, with consumer electronics companies SANYO and Singing Machine.
July 27, 2001 - Does MTV Karaoke spell EDIG?? Soon available at consumer electronics, toy and general merchandise stores throughout the US, including Best Buy, Toys R' Us and Meijer, and by catalog at JC Penney, Sears and Fingerhut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=151235
e.Digital & Qdesign – Madonna’s codec-of-choice. Qdesign is Promoting edig’s MicroCAM platforms IMO to Apple’s QuickTime. Also IMO we’ll work with PortalPlayer - per links below. http://www.qdesign.com/news/pressreleases_07_24_00.htm
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=581347 August 1, 2000 –
QDesign selects e.Digital portable internet music player design for showcase product Custom Music Player to Demonstrate the New QDX Codec for Digital Music to Executives in Music and Electronics Industries. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=685824
Texas Instruments and Qdesign Announce Enhanced Digital Audio Music Storage Design for Portable Players. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99050.htm
Now Read The Bertelsmann Article Link Below- Then Go to http://www.edig.com For the Facts On The Company Which Has The Key To It All - An Advanced MicroOS Solution For The Audio/Video Format/Codec & DRM Delima. Read The Last Letter To Shareholders And View Their Growing List of Impressive Partners. e.Digital Recently Added More DSP Engineers, Equity Investments And Key Personnel To Its BOD. The Company’s Micro OS Has Been Recognized As a Benchmark With These Same Companies: Intel, IBM, SanDisk, Lucent & Texas Instruments And Many Other Industry/Sector Leaders.
Aug. 30, 2000-- Bertelsmann (BMG), the world's largest international media enterprise, launched tj net to provide a new service for mobile phone users in Italy. Tj net expects to add additional centers in Germany, UK, France and Benelux in Europe, as well as in the U. S. and Japan. Tj net transforms mobile phones into cost-free receivers for a wide variety of music and top news stories. http://www.inin.com/News/PressReleases/pressreleases.asp?id=118
2000-2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio seek interoperability using Lucent’s EPAC and AAC for the Automotive and Stereo Industry. IMO – This will be Huge for e.Digital per handheld reception and recording of streamed/downloaded content. Also see iBiquity.com.
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=82063
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=534184
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=587686
1-2001 - Sirius VP Tracey Stanyer says. "We want to use position-based commerce, or P-commerce, to turn drive time into buy time."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=124007
Jan. 8, 2001 - XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
August 23, 2001 – BMW of North America, LLC and Sirius Satellite Radio the satellite radio broadcaster, announced today that BMW will offer Sirius satellite radio service to new car buyers beginning in the second quarter of 2002.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
June 25 – 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
A look at VR in ‘Telematics’ within the Auto Industry with Intel and IBM
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=542328
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/DC3F600187220BF9852569CE0057BC67
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010106/nv_motorol.html
July 12, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND BANG & OLUFSEN ENTER INTO LICENSING AGREEMENT – Visteon has paired its world-class audio and electronic capabilities with prestigious Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to develop a new level of automotive audio sophistication. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=142952
July 30, 2001 - Visteon & SpeechWorks. We are thrilled that Visteon, a leader in the telematics industry, has chosen to work with us to bring our combined technologies to telematics and other markets such as mobile devices and cable set-top boxes with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152129
PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. – IMO e.Digital and PacketVideo are well aware of each other and will eventually work together on advanced video platforms.
June 13, 2000 - PacketVideo today announced that it has agreements with over 35 global media and online companies to trial the delivery of video to wireless devices. Warner Bros, FOXSPORTS.com, E! Entertainment, ABCNEWS, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment etc,. , PacketVideo - Interview
http://boss.2.navisitestreaming.net/real/2/fconf/000825/28_robert_tercek.smi
http://www.packetvideo.com
July 28 -Time Werner & PDA’s. Signaling the entertainment industry's determination to move aggressively into the dawning wireless-entertainment field, Time Warner Inc. is developing original programming that will be beamed to handheld devices. The company will work with PacketVideoCorp., a San Diego software firm backed by, among others, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. The closely held concern already has conducted widespread trials of its wireless audio-video programming with other content giants, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Pictures, using mostly promotional material such as movie trailers. See PacketVideo’s News Releases for these: Intel and PacketVideo. Lucent Streams Entertainment To Cell Phones. Wireless device users are way beyond using their cell phones just for phone calls, they want entertainment, and they want speed. The communications equipment giant is teaming with wireless video start-up PacketVideo to develop this next-generation device. Motorola with PacketVideo, Bell & PacketVideo, Nortel Networks and Packetvideo, Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo, Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo. March 20, 2001 - PacketVideo Partners with Symbian to Provide Mobile Video Software for Smartphones - Symbian's licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=641600
Aug. 22, 2001 – Texas Instruments and PacketVideo Corporation today announced plans to create a variety of differentiated streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices that will enable capabilities like streaming video and audio, speech recognition, JPEG image processing and others.
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating Set-Top-Box and Automotive PBJ link-ups via Handheld Voice Remotes via OutPut/Input-Jacks, Push/Pull via TWIRL, 802.11 and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below - http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=123586
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. (ZapMedia), today announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gannett Co., Inc./ USA TODAY (NYSE: GCI), one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, to provide an all-in-one Internet driven, interactive entertainment environment, making it a reality for consumers today. With the click of a button people will serve up music, movies, television, the Internet, and email using ZapMedia's co-branded products and services
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=604252
ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=131034
(Reuters 10-10-2000) - The National Music Publishers' Association Inc. (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) said Tuesday they have agreed on procedures for licensing of musical compositions, or songs, that are distributed on the Internet. The RIAA represents big record companies, including Seagram Co. Ltd.'s Universal Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc (news - web sites).
October 23, 2000 – Delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc. In the latest sign that music subscription is emerging as a prominent avenue for delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc said it is developing an online music-subscription service, and Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group has launched a test of a subscription-music service.
10/25/00 - LYCOS aims to be web music one-stop ...
Lycos took another step last week by signing a partnership with BMG Entertainment, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Lycos will sell digital downloads of albums and singles by 100 of BMG's recording artists.
(Oct.31,2000) -Bertelsmann And Napster Form Alliance. Entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.D) and controversial song-swap company Napster (news - web sites) Inc. said on Tuesday they formed an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service.
Oct 31, 2000 -- Radio Free Virgin and Playboy.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced the launch of Radio Free Virgin, a downloadable0, CD-quality digital radio tuner available free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com.
http://billboard.com/daily/2000/1201_04.asp
Nov. 1, 2000 - Warner Music Group (WMG) and Microsoft Corp, In a multiyear agreement, WMG has selected Windows Media Format as a primary format for commercial music download initiatives in the United States and Canada, with security provided by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Nov. 2000 – PHILIPS SHOWCASES CLICKRADIO ON DIGITAL SET-TOP-BOX. Through an exclusive agreement with Lucent Technologies, ClickRadio uses the patented ePAC (Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coding) compression format to deliver secure digital music programming while protecting artists' copyrights. IMO - TiVo features are coming for Audio Content.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112461
06/05/01 – Philips has released a new family of highly integrated solid state audio devices for MP3 audio players, car radio systems, portable CD players, flash memory cards, Internet radio and simple jukebox applications. Able to support a range of stereo audio decompression algorithms, including MP3, AAC and Microsoft WMA, the SAA7750 chip's programmable DSP architecture enables it to become the basis of MP3, CD and SSA (flash memory) products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=728640
August 7, 2001 – ClickRadio = ePAC & Gateway/Kmart/Wal-Mart - The company has a distribution deal with Gateway and will soon have its software available at Kmart, Wal-mart, Staples and Electronics Boutique.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=157180
12/15/00 - ONLINE music seller Soundbuzz has snagged a deal with major record label BMG to sell the music of artists; allowing purchase music in digital-file format for immediate download to their hard disk. using Intertrust and Liquid Audio to provide encryption and digital-rights management.
January 10, 2001- NTT DoCoMo to Start Music Distribution to PHS Users
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583848
Jan 22, 2001 - IBM to Offer New Technology to Prevent Unauthorized Music Distribution on Web & IBM/e.Digital Player and Toshiba/IBM - EMMS .
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E07957156C96DBD7852569DC0051460E
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/micro/edigital.htm
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595047
Toshiba and IBM’s EMMS. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642853
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 2001 - BMG Entertainment announced today a substantial expansion of its digital music offerings In addition, BMG announced that its labels are now making new releases simultaneously available as Digital Downloads.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=589017
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=572601
Feb. 22, 2001 - Vivendi/Universal, Sony team up for online Music site
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=622436
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
DALLAS, Feb 27 - Blockbuster Inc. & Universal Pictures films via its video on-demand service include RadioShack its stores for in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=67262&refid=0&orig=67262
Feb. 27, 2001 - Warner Music to Sell Downloadable Albums.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=625247
March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=637683
March 14, 2001 – Handleman Company one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. will offer a catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads – See Handleman Kiosks Coming Below. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
Mar 16, 2001 - Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific, PlanetMG uses Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology for secure music downloads and to prevent piracy.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=638941
March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
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. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=649488
April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet. Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=655253
April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=71535
May 20, 2001 – Vivendi Universal Acquires MP3.com in Move to Strengthen Digital Distribution Capacity and Web Audience. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
May 23 2001 – Vitaminic Announces New Music Publishing Company, ZipMind, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of music on the Internet, announced today it will offer music publishing services to authors, publishers and third parties. Vitaminic offers the largest legal online catalogue of music in Europe. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112443
June 5, 2001- -RioPort, & BestBuy - the leading music application service provider (ASP), today announced that it will distribute commercial music downloads to BestBuy.com(TM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. the nation's number one specialty retailer of
consumer electronics. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
January 6, 2000 – E.DIGITAL AND RIOPORT, INC. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP SEAMLESS, SECURE INTERNET MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689937
June 6, 2001 – Napster secures its first music licenses from three of the five major labels, paving the way for the file-trading network to launch its new subscription service by the end of the summer. The service is expected to offer both radio-like streaming technology and downloading capabilities. MusicNet will be available through AOL, Real Networks and Napster.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44322,00.html
Jul 11, 2001 - Judge orders Napster not to resume service.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=722712
July 12, 2001 – Pressplay & Microsoft -- a joint venture between music giants Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp is near a deal to offer its online music subscription service on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=720867
July 13, 2001 - Elibron Adds Downloadable Music To Its Collection of Electronic Books Adamant Media, already partnered with two of the world's largest libraries to bring its customers over 30,000 electronic books, now officially announces the addition of secured downloadable music to its website.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729657
July 16, 2001 – TOWER RECORDS, The largest independent record store in the world, joins forces with OD2 and PlayLouder to begine commercial download sales. http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01070154.html
July 18, 2001- NAPSTER READY TO LAUNCH a second phase subscription service backed by major labels. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729103
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
July 25, 2001 - U.S. Government Stepping Up Internet Antipiracy Efforts In the past week the U.S government has escalated efforts to squash Internet piracy by conducting sweeps in nine states and expanding the ranks of attorneys assigned to prosecute copyright violators.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/board.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736507
Aug. 9, 2001 – Liquid Audio, Inc. today announced it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=748032
Aug. 13, 2001 – Texas Instruments and RealNetworks today announced they have broadened their strategic alliance to offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable
digital signal processing (DSP)-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video client devices including IP set-top boxes, network video appliances, personal video recorders, streaming media servers and IP video. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=750783
Aug. 16, 2001 – Five Major Film Studios on Thursday announced a joint on-demand
movie service that will offer old and new releases for broadband Internet users in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755026
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
Aug. 20, 2001 - BMG musical downloads in Europe. OD2 will work with BMG to support the sale of selected catalogue, via secure digital download, in partnership with a number of leading European retailers via the internet.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=166104
Aug. 21, 2001 - DataPlay Delays Launch. After following a seemingly smooth product development road, DataPlay is being forced to push back the introduction of its 500MB removable storage media and hardware from this fall to early 2002.
Aug. 23, 2001 "Short-term, this is a disappointment, but we understand the reasons," said Putnam. "It offers us the opportunity to get in more devices. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168130
Positive Spin On The Delay - DABOSS Talks To Robert Putnam.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
AUGUST 24, 2001 – 5 labels using 'stealth CDs' to discourage copying songs.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168084
Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736528
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=588824
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=579020
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=548914
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583845
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=635180
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=105309
Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258082
Jimee11’s Response: #258031
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258031
emit’s Response: #258056
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258056
e.Digital & Lainer Worldwide’s Medical Dictation Handheld – Cquence Mobile. According to market analysts, the medical dictation market is the largest vertical market in the speech technology industry. http://www.edig.com/products/custom-cquence.html
http://www.lanier.com/ps/apps/cqmobile.html
http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/sep00/doc_doc.shtml
Now Think About It……. It’s coming our way and involves much more than just music – Handheld mobile voice recognition, video on demand, VR Medical Records and (c)Publications & eBooks. e.Digital is the Codec/DRM and flash storage file management for Secure Internet Content and Advanced Handheld Design.
(February 15, 2001) E.DIGITAL HIRES FLEISHMAN-HILLARD INC. TO LEAD U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS. The Worlds' largest public relations firm, to lead domestic and international media relations and communications. Michael Busselen, senior vice president, "e.Digital has developed unique technology that has the potential to impact millions of consumers. The story is captivating, the business is timely, and we look forward to using our expertise and understanding of the media to share e.Digital's story with the business and technology communities."http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr021501.html
Think Global…DOS to MOS http://www.edig.com http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.071400/bb3.jpg
This is all ‘My Humble Opinion’
emit…
ck,mugirl,misha ` The CMA reader/writer IMO works to interpret, and probably manipulation of ie,.[writer], the songs sequences and related date like artist n such via flash and microdrive usage... I'd feel much better about this if it was one of the new Digital Radios.
Unfortunatly, we, don't know what our 'Smart Song Sellection' does and how it works with any 'audio managers' to make any sound judgments on this - thnx to mgmt.
emit...
Here are some of the shows and events where you can learn about IBM voice products in 2001.
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/events/
emit...
cough cough - hmmmm MISHA very nice.
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS/MSFT TEAM UP ON SERVER .BERLIN(REUTERS)
Saturday August 25 10:44 PM ET
Samsung Electronics, Microsoft Team Up
on Server
BERLIN (Reuters) - South Korea (news - web sites)'s Samsung
Electronics (05930.KS) will launch a home network server in
cooperation with U.S-based software group Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT -
news), sources close to the companies said on Saturday.
The home server, which will be able to connect computers, consumers
electronics and home appliances, will be presented at the annual
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, according to the sources.
It will work on Microsoft's new Windows XP (news - web sites) operating system which will be
launched in October.
The server, which will look like any HiFi-player, will be priced like an average personal computer, and
will be simple to use. Home network servers have been anticipated for some time, but electronic
manufacturers have struggled with the user-friendliness.
Eventually it will help consumers to operate their video recorder from work, or turn on the lights and
watch their home on an Internet camera while on vacation.
Samsung's server can connect to other devices through a wide range of wired and wireless standards,
such as Ethernet, Firewire, Bluetooth and Wireless LAN.
The sources spoke at the fringes of the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA), Europe's largest consumer
electronics show held every two years.
Hoe's this coming along...
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
emit...
A Few Announcements To Look For - IMO
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=131034
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
+ A strategic Partner Announcement, more DP OEMs, VoiceNav PJB and if you read my Synopsis it's easy to see that so much more could easily transpire.
emit...
Industry Synopsis: Updated
Industry Synopsis: All Investors – e.Digital Corp.
e.Digital, Intel, Lucent, TXN & IBM. Years of Achievements With Flash Memory Management and Voice Recorder Innovations Have Led e.Digital To The Forefront Of The Emerging DataPlay Format & IBM Microdrive Platforms – And The ‘Soon To Be Announced’ Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM & VOICENAV Technology.
Intel’s ‘Flash Presentation’ This indicates where we’re headed with 3-4th Generation PDA’s. http://developer.intel.com/design/flash/intro/fdi30demo/fdiflash.htm
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=509750
Intel & ADI’s new DSP Core & Intel’s New DAP Audio Player ‘Pocket Concert’.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20010417net.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2658478,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551122
Taipei, May 2, 2001 (Bloomberg) Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, plans to order NT$2 billion ($61 million) worth of so-called MP3 audio players from Eastern Asia Technology Ltd., Eastech. Could e.Digital be involved – Or just a coincidence. Note e.Digital and Eastech platforms below.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=668929+
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
Aug. 16, 2001 - Digital video is "going to take off," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754775
Could e.Digital’s MicoOS be embedded in this product and other DSPs? e.Digital now has top Intel personnel onboard and is exhibiting advanced reference designs as seen the last two years - and most recently at 2001 CES for Samsung and Toshiba. In my opinion, new flash/HDD hybrids and dedicated DSPs are on the horizon. Expect to see more advanced DAPs & PDAs from many of the giant chip makers and Consumer Electronics OEMs as quality emerges with security for Internet music and other content. eDigital is extremely well positioned – Intel’s CEO recently commented that the ‘Pocket Concert’ is format agnostic. The player is also made by Samsung. IMO - this means when/if multi-codec and ‘digital rights management’ issues become needed by content providers, they have access to our MiroOS platform. Intel DAP picture: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/electronics/B000059ZYB/pictures/14/104-5074239-...
Fred Falk, June 2000 -''We are working with major manufacturers to have our technology embedded into their programmable DSPs and/or microcontrollers'' His DSP comments and a Flash Glue View. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
IMO - Embedded Projects Are Ongoing.
These NDA’s Verify The Sectors Enormity & Complexity.
October 30, 2000 - Fred Falk, ‘’We are also working with OEMs who may compete against each other with product offerings designed by e.Digital. Our non-disclosure agreements with our OEMs are in place to ensure that we are not disclosing any details of their product and our agreements to other OEMs and the public until they are ready to have this information made available. ‘’ Feb. 14, 2001 – e.Digital Form 10-QSB – Informed Investors that some revenue sources may stay unnamed until they decide to become known.
I Believe This is What Intel Is Going To Do For Secure Internet Content With It’s DRM/ISIS which includes EPAC.
http://www.convera.com
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551558
http://www.agoracom.com/agora/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=50275&refid=0&orig=50275
February 2, 2000; WW6 From Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell International Corporation to purchase a wafer fabrication facility (fab) located in Colorado Springs, Colo. The purchase will add significant manufacturing capacity for Intel to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. The new Holy Grail for the company is the business of selling flash-memory chips -- used in battery-operated devices that hold their memory even when the device's power is off. Intel is quickly rebuilding itself into the world's largest manufacturer of flash chips.
Three top Intel people from its Flash/Mobile Divisions are now with e.Digital.
e.Digital was selected by Intel to design and prototype a number of portable digital voice recorders utilizing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Intel plans to sub-license the reference design created by e.Digital to Intel's OEM customers, referring them back to e.Digital for licensing and any additional design and/or manufacturing work required. e.Digital has also filed a number of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; We have received notification of allowance from the United States Patent Office for use: MicroOS TM, FlashBack(R), Hold That Thought(R), Fumble Free(R), SoundClip(R), Smart Song Selection(tm), MicroCAM TM - Micro Compressed Audio Manager, AMIS TM - Audio Manager Interface, TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link and VOICENAV as registered trade names.
Internet Audio Market. Excerpt Source: Texas Instruments.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=566858
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/innovate/iaudio/opportunity.htm
Today's Internet Audio application is based upon the downloading of digital audio content, either speech or music, via the Internet and then playing the encoded digital audio content on an Internet Audio playback device. Very soon, these playback units will be a sub-system in PDAs, digital still cameras, cellular phones, set-top boxes, and other devices. The total market potential is even larger when you consider other complimentary products such as headphone stereo, personal CD, personal MD, car audio, and future DSC, cellular phone, etc., TI has the commanding market share lead with key design-ins at most of the major consumer electronics and PC makers. The following customers have already been publicly announced: a. Thomson Consumer Electronics b. Sanyo c. e.Digital.
TI DSP’s & My Opinion on DSP’s and our MicroOS. TXN CES Comments.
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TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – EPAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital,
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
IBM - VoiceTimes alliance announced. "e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
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March 23, 2001 - e.Digital Corporation announced today that the first production-level Internet music player design incorporating IBM's Microdrive™.is being featured in the IBM booth at the CeBIT trade show which runs through March 28. The design is currently being marketed by e.Digital and Maycom, Co., Ltd. worldwide. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr032301.html
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
July 20, 2001 - Wireless IBM Microdrive & IBM voice navigation.
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So Many Digital Downloadable Music Players: With a Big Problem – Multiple Codecs & ‘Digital Rights Managements’ and Increasing Advanced Functions Within Smaller Devices. http://www.ecoustics.com/Home/Home_Audio/MP3_Players/MP3_Player_Reviews/
This Is What It’s All About – IMHO.
Look at All the Music and Video/Media Players, Interactive & Content Enabled Set-Top-Boxes, Kiosks, Karaoke Devices, 3G MP3 Phones And Satellite Digital Radio Applications Coming To Market. Then Read The Article about Bertelsmann’s Tj.net/MP3 De Cellular and its intentions to create a Secure Subscription Model with Napster. IMO - The PJBs and DataPlay devices will create New Excitement due to design & features – See Treo’, ET700 and ‘Volan’ Concept designs below. This Synopsis Concludes with four knowledgeable shareholder’s analysis on the emerging technology and how it could very easily include e.Digital’s Patented Micro OS as a standard in this emerging sector.
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Oct. 6, 2000--e.Digital Corp. (OTCBB:EDIG) and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea today announced the launch of the MP2000 multi-codec, portable digital music player in time for the holiday shopping season. Initial shipments are now beginning and the product will be introduced into the European and Asian markets as well as in other countries and specialty markets through Maycom and other OEMs. The unit has superb audio quality and louder output levels than most other portable music players on the market, without sacrificing battery life. Its backlit LCD screen supports English and Japanese characters. The multi-codec unit supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and ePAC music compression formats, and is firmware upgradeable to support the QDX format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The SDMI-capable unit ships with WMA Digital Rights Management included. It can be firmware upgraded to support InterTrust's Digital Rights Management, which the world's largest recording company, Universal Music Group, has announced it will be using in its online music distribution.
Powered By e.Digital Technology – Maycom/edig ‘Merit’ Player Picture.
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.100600/bb5.jpg
August 2001 – Maycom’s new site. Pictures of MP200 And New ‘Advanced Voice Recorder’.
http://www.emaycom.com/eng/default.asp
Nov. 9 2000 – e.Digital & Samsung announce agreement to produce two separate DataPlay enabled devices to premier at CES Jan. 6, 2001. October 19, 2000 - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today announced that it is developing portable digital products incorporating DataPlay's quarter-sized 500 MB digital media and micro-optical engine. DataPlay has secured $50 million in strategic financing from Universal Music, Toshiba, Samsung, S3 and Creative. It's not certain that Universal's prerecorded music will be available in the format. But DataPlay announced last month that Universal's eLabs president Lawrence Kenswil has joined DataPlay's board of directors.
Our DataPlay device. [This financing has now reacher 110 million – in 2001]
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/index.jsp and http://www.edig.com.
DataPlay Product Rollout – CES 2001
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DataPlay/Volan Concept Designs. Very Innovative.
http://www.volan.com/proof/eDigital/visuals-06.cfm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15135565
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-02.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-05.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-06.html
Samsung’s Handheld Video Motion YEPP & DataPlay Orbit Music Player http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-112.gif
http://www.etown.com/categories/print_article.jhtml?article_type=news&articleID=3554
Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
July 30, 2001 – Samsung Electronics is partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to jointly develop and market new products.
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7/9/01 – Samsung will diversify its portfolio of Yepp Internet audio portables in the summer and fall with its first MP3-CD portable, its first pendant-style flash-memory portable, and its first firmware-upgradable flash-memory portable, which will also be
among the company's first multicodec models.
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July 17, 2001—Samsung and AOL Time Warner Announce Multi-Year Strategic Marketing and Technology Alliance. Samsung to Manufacture Next-Generation AOLTV Set-Top Boxes, In addition, the companies will explore the development of a range of future consumer electronics products as well as introduce new digital products to consumers to enhance Samsung Brand Through Promotion Across AOL Time Warner Online and Offline Brands.
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Samsung Electronics and CompUSA – Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
The Eastech, ZapMedia, HarmonKardon, Samsung, CompUSA Connection –
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=735946
Aug. 15, 2001 - Samsung unveils new chip for Web audio devices.The latest SOC, called CalmRISC-Portable Audio Device, is designed to process a variety of audio files including MP3, WMA (windows media audio) and AAC (advanced audio coding). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754137
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
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Fred Falk-March 29th 2001... Following our business plan, we have dedicated strategic engineering resources to the development and implementation of new product platforms that include digital video for portable devices, automotive and home stereo designs, cellular phone accessories, and set-top boxes. We are working with multiple OEMs on specific applications of these MicroOS- and MicroCAM-powered platforms for inclusion in a variety of branded products.
SET TO DEBUT IN 2001 WITH 10GIG HDD -
Nov. 13, 2000 - Hy-Tek Previews e.Digital’s ‘Treo’ PJB at COMDEX – 2000 Songs on a Handheld Player. RemoteSolutions/Hango/EDIG Works in Progress. Revolutionary
And an Excellent Candidate for a PC Bundle.
http://www.treoplayer.com Palmed Treo’ http://hardware.dmusic.com/details.php?id=169 http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/treo.html
e.Digital VP Comments about Treo’ and PC Manufacturers -
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COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=596645
August 22, 2001 - Intel, Compaq and TI- handheld collaborations.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=760478
July 12,13-01 MP3 Summit 2001 – "Best Overall Portable MP3 Player: Treo Digital Music Jukebox. MP3 Summit 2001 attendees found the Treo to be the smallest and lightest hard-drive based player, at only 8 ounces with batteries. The Treo is manufactured by Hy-Tek Mfg. and designed by e.Digital." http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145410
January 3-4, 2001 - e.Digital & Toshiba to develop and provide mult-codec portable Internet music player. Also e.Digital contracts with EASTECH a multi-million dollar firm with name-brand consumer electronics manufacturers including but not limited to Philips,Sony, Kenwood, Sanyo, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi and Pioneer. http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
June 5, 2001- Devices for DataPlay’s mini disks expected To reach market by fall. Toshiba and Samsung DataPlay production models are ready!!
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DataPlay Sees Sept. Delivery Of 1st Products.
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DataPlay, which will introduce 500MB blank discs and prerecorded discs this year, will be "multi-codec compatible.
July 24, 2001 - Digital Clearing and Distribution Partnership Final Piece in DataPlay Strategy to Connect Retail Networks, Content Owners and Electronics Companies. Reciprocal, Inc., the provider of business infrastructure for the distribution of digital assets, and DataPlay, Inc., today announced an electronic media distribution agreement that will provide new levels of portability, security and ease-of-use for media companies, as well as consumers. The agreement leverages content across an extensive network of retailers and distributors, including Coconuts, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=733457
June 6, 2001—SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that their new FlashVision fabrication (fab) plant has gone into production of advanced flash memories, and shipments of the product have started. The NAND memory wafers being produced by FlashVision will primarily be used to manufacture flash memory storage cards for use in digital
cameras, digital Internet music players and future generations of cell phones.
Keep in mind e.Digital’s JUSTRI invitation SD association and the Flash Patents.
Jan. 5, 2001 - Sending Moving Pictures to Cell Phones - Toshiba's Single-Chip.http://www.mobileinfo.com/News_2001/Issue05/Toshiba_video.htm
EASTECH’s version of the Treo’ the ET-700 & Our Toshiba’s DP Player.
http://www.acousticsys.com/products/IA/portable/ET700.html
http://www.eastech1.com/english/prod.htm
http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-117.gif
Remember The Intel/Eastech Connection –
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Does MTV Karaoke spell EDIG?? Soon available at consumer electronics, toy and general merchandise stores throughout the US, including Best Buy, Toys R' Us and Meijer, and by catalog at JC Penney, Sears and Fingerhut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=151235
9/3/01 - Eastech Secures New Contracts Worth US$43 Million - it has secured two new major contracts, worth US$43 million, with consumer electronics companies SANYO and Singing Machine.
e.Digital & Qdesign – Madonna’s codec-of-choice. Qdesign is Promoting edig’s MicroCAM platforms IMO to Apple’s QuickTime. Also IMO we’ll work with PortalPlayer - per links below. http://www.qdesign.com/news/pressreleases_07_24_00.htm
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=581347 August 1, 2000 –
QDesign selects e.Digital portable internet music player design for showcase product Custom Music Player to Demonstrate the New QDX Codec for Digital Music to Executives in Music and Electronics Industries. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=685824
Texas Instruments and Qdesign Announce Enhanced Digital Audio Music Storage Design for Portable Players. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99050.htm
Now Read The Bertelsmann Article Link Below- Then Go to http://www.edig.com For the Facts On The Company Which Has The Key To It All - An Advanced MicroOS Solution For The Audio/Video Format/Codec & DRM Delima. Read The Last Letter To Shareholders And View Their Growing List of Impressive Partners. e.Digital Recently Added More DSP Engineers, Equity Investments And Key Personnel To Its BOD. The Company’s Micro OS Has Been Recognized As a Benchmark With These Same Companies: Intel, IBM, SanDisk, Lucent & Texas Instruments And Many Other Industry/Sector Leaders.
Aug. 30, 2000-- Bertelsmann (BMG), the world's largest international media enterprise, launched tj net to provide a new service for mobile phone users in Italy. Tj net expects to add additional centers in Germany, UK, France and Benelux in Europe, as well as in the U. S. and Japan. Tj net transforms mobile phones into cost-free receivers for a wide variety of music and top news stories. http://www.inin.com/News/PressReleases/pressreleases.asp?id=118
Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio seek interoperability using Lucent’s EPAC and AAC for the Automotive and Stereo Industry. IMO – This will be Huge for e.Digital per handheld reception and recording of streamed/downloaded content. Also see iBiquity.com.
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1-2001 - Sirius VP Tracey Stanyer says. "We want to use position-based commerce, or P-commerce, to turn drive time into buy time."
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XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
August 23, 2001 – BMW of North America, LLC and Sirius Satellite Radio the satellite radio broadcaster, announced today that BMW will offer Sirius satellite radio service to new car buyers beginning in the second quarter of 2002.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
June 25 – 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
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January 10, 2001- NTT DoCoMo to Start Music Distribution to PHS Users
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583848
A look at VR in ‘Telematics’ within the Auto Industry with Intel and IBM
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=542328
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/DC3F600187220BF9852569CE0057BC67
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010106/nv_motorol.html
July 12, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND BANG & OLUFSEN ENTER INTO LICENSING AGREEMENT - Visteon has paired its world-class audio and electronic capabilities with prestigious Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to develop a new level of automotive audio sophistication.http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=142952
July 30, 2001 - Visteon & SpeechWorks. We are thrilled that Visteon, a leader in the telematics industry, has chosen to work with us to bring our combined technologies to telematics and other markets such as mobile devices and cable set-top boxes with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152129
PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. –IMO- e.Digital and PacketVideo are well aware of each other and will eventually work together on advanced video platforms.
June 13, 2000 - PacketVideo today announced that it has agreements with over 35 global media and online companies to trial the delivery of video to wireless devices. Warner Bros, FOXSPORTS.com, E! Entertainment, ABCNEWS, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment etc,. , PacketVideo - Interview
http://boss.2.navisitestreaming.net/real/2/fconf/000825/28_robert_tercek.smi
http://www.packetvideo.com
July 28 -Time Werner & PDA’s. Signaling the entertainment industry's determination to move aggressively into the dawning wireless-entertainment field, Time Warner Inc. is developing original programming that will be beamed to handheld devices. The company will work with PacketVideoCorp., a San Diego software firm backed by, among others, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. The closely held concern already has conducted widespread trials of its wireless audio-video programming with other content giants, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Pictures, using mostly promotional material such as movie trailers. See PacketVideo’s News Releases for these: February 15, 2000 - Intel and PacketVideo, / Lucent Streams Entertainment To Cell Phones. Wireless device users are way beyond using their cell phones just for phone calls, they want entertainment, and they want speed. The communications equipment giant is teaming with wireless video start-up PacketVideo to develop this next-generation device. Motorola with PacketVideo, Bell & PacketVideo, Nortel Networks and Packetvideo, Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo, Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo. March 20, 2001 - PacketVideo Partners with Symbian to Provide Mobile Video Software for Smartphones - Symbian's licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=641600
Aug. 22, 2001 – Texas Instruments and PacketVideo Corporation today announced plans to create a variety of differentiated streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices that will enable capabilities like streaming video and audio, speech recognition, JPEG image processing and others.
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating Set-Top-Box and Automotive PBJ link-ups via Handheld Voice Remotes via OutPut/Input-Jacks, Push/Pull via TWIRL, 802.11 and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below - http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=123586
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. (ZapMedia), today announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gannett Co., Inc./ USA TODAY (NYSE: GCI), one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, to provide an all-in-one Internet driven, interactive entertainment environment, making it a reality for consumers today. With the click of a button people will serve up music, movies, television, the Internet, and email using ZapMedia's co-branded products and services
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=604252
ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
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(Reuters 10-10-2000) - The National Music Publishers' Association Inc. (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) said Tuesday they have agreed on procedures for licensing of musical compositions, or songs, that are distributed on the Internet. The RIAA represents big record companies, including Seagram Co. Ltd.'s Universal Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc (news - web sites).
October 23, 2000 – Delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc. In the latest sign that music subscription is emerging as a prominent avenue for delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc said it is developing an online music-subscription service, and Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group has launched a test of a subscription-music service.
10/25/00 - LYCOS aims to be web music one-stop ...
Lycos took another step last week by signing a partnership with BMG Entertainment, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Lycos will sell digital downloads of albums and singles by 100 of BMG's recording artists.
(Oct.31,2000) -Bertelsmann And Napster Form Alliance. Entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.D) and controversial song-swap company Napster (news - web sites) Inc. said on Tuesday they formed an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service.
Oct 31, 2000 -- Radio Free Virgin and Playboy.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced the launch of Radio Free Virgin, a downloadable0, CD-quality digital radio tuner available free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com.
http://billboard.com/daily/2000/1201_04.asp
Nov. 1, 2000 - Warner Music Group (WMG) and Microsoft Corp, In a multiyear agreement, WMG has selected Windows Media Format as a primary format for commercial music download initiatives in the United States and Canada, with security provided by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Nov. 2000 – PHILIPS SHOWCASES CLICKRADIO ON DIGITAL SET-TOP-BOX. Through an exclusive agreement with Lucent Technologies, ClickRadio uses the patented ePAC (Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coding) compression format to deliver secure digital music programming while protecting artists' copyrights. IMO - TiVo features are coming for Audio Content.
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06/05/01 – Philips has released a new family of highly integrated solid state audio devices for MP3 audio players, car radio systems, portable CD players, flash memory cards, Internet radio and simple jukebox applications. Able to support a range of stereo audio decompression algorithms, including MP3, AAC and Microsoft WMA, the SAA7750 chip's programmable DSP architecture enables it to become the basis of MP3, CD and SSA (flash memory) products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=728640
August 7, 2001 – ClickRadio = ePAC & Gateway/Kmart/Wal-Mart - The company has a distribution deal with Gateway and will soon have its software available at Kmart, Wal-mart, Staples and Electronics Boutique.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=157180
12/15/00 - ONLINE music seller Soundbuzz has snagged a deal with major record label BMG to sell the music of artists; allowing purchase music in digital-file format for immediate download to their hard disk. using Intertrust and Liquid Audio to provide encryption and digital-rights management.
Jan 22, 2001 - IBM to Offer New Technology to Prevent Unauthorized Music Distribution on Web & IBM/e.Digital Player and Toshiba/IBM - EMMS .
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E07957156C96DBD7852569DC0051460E
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/micro/edigital.htm
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Toshiba and IBM’s EMMS. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642853
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 2001 - BMG Entertainment announced today a substantial expansion of its digital music offerings In addition, BMG announced that its labels are now making new releases simultaneously available as Digital Downloads.
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Feb. 22, 2001 - Vivendi/Universal, Sony team up for online Music site
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=622436
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
DALLAS, Feb 27 - Blockbuster Inc. & Universal Pictures films via its video on-demand service include RadioShack its stores for in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=67262&refid=0&orig=67262
Feb. 27, 2001 - Warner Music to Sell Downloadable Albums Beginning Next Week.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=625247
March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=637683
March 14, 2001 – Handleman Company one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. will offer a catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads – See Handleman Kiosks Coming Below. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
Mar 16, 2001 - Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific, PlanetMG uses Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology for secure music downloads and to prevent piracy.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=638941
March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
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. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=649488
April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Present and
Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created
by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=655253
April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=71535
May 20, 2001 – Vivendi Universal Acquires MP3.com in Move to Strengthen Digital Distribution Capacity and Web Audience. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
May 23 2001 – Vitaminic Announces New Music Publishing Company, ZipMind, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of music on the Internet, announced today it will offer music publishing services to authors, publishers and third parties. Vitaminic offers the largest legal online catalogue of music in Europe. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112443
June 5, 2001- -RioPort, & BestBuy - the leading music application service provider (ASP), today announced that it will distribute commercial music downloads to BestBuy.com(TM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. the nation's number one specialty retailer of
consumer electronics. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
January 6, 2000 – E.DIGITAL AND RIOPORT, INC. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP SEAMLESS, SECURE INTERNET MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689937
June 6, 2001 – Napster secures its first music licenses from three of the five major labels, paving the way for the file-trading network to launch its new subscription service by the end of the summer. The service is expected to offer both radio-like streaming technology and downloading capabilities. MusicNet will be available through AOL, Real Networks and Napster.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44322,00.html
Jul 11, 2001 - Judge orders Napster not to resume service.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=722712
July 12, 2001 – Pressplay & Microsoft -- a joint venture between music giants Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp is near a deal to offer its online music subscription service on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=720867
July 13, 2001 - Elibron Adds Downloadable Music To Its Collection of Electronic Books Adamant Media, already partnered with two of the world's largest libraries to bring its customers over 30,000 electronic books, now officially announces the addition of secured downloadable music to its website.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729657
July 16, 2001 – TOWER RECORDS, The largest independent record store in the world, joins forces with OD2 and PlayLouder to begine commercial download sales. http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01070154.html
July 18, 2001- NAPSTER READY TO LAUNCH a second-phase test of a new membership-charging service - soon-to-launch subscription service backed by major labels.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729103
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
July 25, 2001 - U.S. Government Stepping Up Internet Antipiracy Efforts In the past week the U.S government has escalated efforts to squash Internet piracy by conducting sweeps in nine states and expanding the ranks of attorneys assigned to prosecute copyright violators.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/board.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736507
Aug. 9, 2001 – Liquid Audio, Inc. today announced it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide Palm(TM) handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=748032
Aug. 13, 2001 – Texas Instruments and RealNetworks today announced they have broadened their strategic alliance to offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable
digital signal processing (DSP)-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video client devices including IP set-top boxes, network video appliances, personal video recorders, streaming media servers,IP video phones and security/surveillance equipment.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=750783
Aug. 16, 2001 – Five major film studios on Thursday announced a joint on-demand
movie service that will offer old and new releases for broadband Internet users in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755026
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
Aug. 20, 2001 - BMG musical downloads in Europe. OD2 will work with BMG to support the sale of selected catalogue, via secure digital download, in partnership with a number of leading European retailers via the internet.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=166104
Aug. 21, 2001 - DataPlay Delays Launch. After following a seemingly smooth product development road, DataPlay is being forced to push back the introduction of its 500MB removable storage media and hardware from this fall to early 2002.
Aug. 23, 2001 "Short-term, this is a disappointment, but we understand the reasons," said Putnam. "It offers us the opportunity to get in more devices. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168130
Positive Spin On The Delay - DABOSS Talks To Robert Putnam.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
AUGUST 24, 2001 – 5 record labels using 'stealth CDs' to discourage copying songs.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168084
Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736528
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=588824
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=579020
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=548914
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583845
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=635180
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=105309
Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258082
Jimee11’s Response: #258031
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258031
emit’s Response: #258056
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258056
e.Digital & Lainer Worldwide’s Medical Dictation Handheld – Cquence Mobile. According to market analysts, the medical dictation market is the largest vertical market in the speech technology industry. http://www.edig.com/products/custom-cquence.html
http://www.lanier.com/ps/apps/cqmobile.html
http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/sep00/doc_doc.shtml
Now Think About It……. It’s coming our way and involves much more than just music – Handheld mobile voice recognition, video on demand, VR Medical Records and (c)Publications & eBooks. e.Digital is the Codec/DRM and flash storage file management for Secure Internet Content and Advanced Handheld Design.
(February 15, 2001) E.DIGITAL HIRES FLEISHMAN-HILLARD INC. TO LEAD U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS. The Worlds' largest public relations firm, to lead domestic and international media relations and communications. Michael Busselen, senior vice president, "e.Digital has developed unique technology that has the potential to impact millions of consumers. The story is captivating, the business is timely, and we look forward to using our expertise and understanding of the media to share e.Digital's story with the business and technology communities."http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr021501.html
Think Global…DOS to MOS http://www.edig.com http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.071400/bb3.jpg
This is all ‘My Humble Opinion’
emit…
Soso - IMO, Prologic II channels the source and creates surround sound effects.
The ''MiniDisks'' sated here are most likely the smaller CD type compact-disk; I took it to mean mimi as in DP, Zip and MicroDrive even TravelStar n Toshibas new mini HDD which IMO will eventually be incorporated, in various ways, into these new Digital Radios - and thats a prelude to handheld, STB and home unit interaction.
The 'source' could be a quicker connect - :)
emit...
Note Bold n Last post.. eom
IFA)Dolby Predicts Surround Sound Acceleration For In-Car Entertainment
Berlin, 24 August 2001-Dolby Laboratories launched its new In-Car
Entertainment programme today at the world's largest consumer
electronics show, the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA), held 25
August-2 September, in Berlin.
A demonstration vehicle, fitted out with the latest Dolby technologies,
including Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Headphone, and Dolby Digital,
to provide the ultimate in-car entertainment system, was unveiled by
David Fraser, Dolby's European Marketing Manager for Consumer
Electronics.
“Dolby's In-Car Entertainment programme quite simply puts
surround sound in motion,” explained Mr. Fraser. "We've put surround in the cinema, we
put it in the home - we even put it into planes! And now it can be enjoyed on the road. With a
variety of options and solutions, Dolby's In-Car Entertainment is destined to become the hottest
concept we've introduced to the car industry."
The car will remain in Hall 11.1, on stand 30a, throughout the show for members of the public to
view, and listen to demonstrations of Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Headphone, and Dolby Digital.
About Dolby's Technologies for In-Car Entertainment Most cars today already incorporate
multiple loudspeakers, so the car is an ideal environment for surround sound. The natural sound of
Dolby Pro Logic II and its ease of implementation make it the perfect solution for surround sound
on the move. Pro Logic II takes any stereo source (for example, radio programmes, cassettes, CDs,
or MiniDiscs), and plays back five channels of surround sound.
[[ MiniDisk implies Digital AAC - sourround sound= effects. How about an XM/Sirius Source... Dolby's default on all new Digital Radios coming - we knew it was AAC and/or tPAC.]]
The latest in-car audio-video systems already feature DVD players and games consoles with
)Dolby Digital surround sound. Dolby Headphone enables conventional stereo headphones to
realistically portray the sound of a Dolby Digital five-speaker playback system. For rear-seat
entertainment, Dolby Headphone therefore allows passengers to privately enjoy their entertainment
in full surround sound, without disturbing the driver.
Numerous implementations for all these new technologies are already available from all the major
audio IC manufacturers and have been tested for automotive application
BMW pirks up Sirrius... Momentum for artist/portal secure quality datacasting - once politicaly correct. 180days
to advanced toshiba, samsung e.Digital devices.
micro/movies n DP video. This is Big
Universal Composition Player....
or Universal's
emit...
Subj: Re: Events & TradeShows
Date: 8/22/01 1:32:06 PM Central Daylight Time
From: Alert ID
To: robert@edig.com
Mr. Putnman:
When will e.Digital post to its website the coming Events and TradeShows you have attended and plan to attend. Myself and several other large investors have wondered this since the 2000 Shareholders meeting when it was stated Volan would be helping with this effort.
Respectfully,
Tim
Subj: RE: Events & TradeShows
Date: 8/23/01 3:51:18 PM Central Daylight Time
From: robert@atcsd.com (Robert Putnam)
To: AlertID@aol.com
File: EventsTr (1720 bytes) DL Time (31200 bps): < 1 minute
Thank you for writing, Tim. We usually issue press releases when we are
directly involved in these events and I expect that we will continue to do
so.
If you would like to discuss this further, please e-mail me your phone
number or call me at your convenience on my direct line at 858.679.3168.
Best regards,
Robert Putnam
Senior Vice President
e.Digital Corporation
13114 Evening Creek Dr. S.
San Diego, CA 92128
http://www.edig.com
Subj: Re: Events & TradeShows
Date: 8/23/01 4:26:54 PM Central Daylight Time
From: Alert ID
To: robert@atcsd.com
What happened to the MP3 summit - You said we'd have a presence, yet no PR, and no mention on site. Why do you even have the Events link on the site then - jeeez
''Thank you for writing, Tim. We usually issue press releases when we are
directly involved in these events and I expect that we will continue to do
so. ''
You did not answer my question - ambiguity runs amuck.
Can't wait to sell my shares - soon
Tim
SAPI 5.1 Brings Speech Technology within Easy Reach of Millions of Developers for First Time
REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 21, 2001 -- Millions of PC users may not know it, but they can ignore the keyboard and mouse when they want to create and format e-mails and Microsoft Word documents, open and close files in Excel, or create PowerPoint presentations. And they can also ignore their display screens and have the numbers and text read back to them as they enter data into an Excel spreadsheet.
That’s because the software they’re using – Microsoft Office XP – understands voice commands and can convey information by speaking. Office XP’s ability to understand and use spoken language is based on a Microsoft technology called the Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) that’s also being used by a growing array of independent software developers to speech-enable their own applications. Microsoft this week released SAPI version 5.1, which vastly simplifies application developers’ work to enable their applications to speak and to understand the speech directed to them.
SAPI 5.1 also makes it easier for "engine vendors" -- the people who create the underlying software code that translates between spoken words and text -- to offer software engines that can work with many speech-enabled applications, without having to re-write the engine code to support each one. Similarly, application vendors gain the flexibility to link their software to any compatible engine.
Bringing Speech-Enabled Applications into the Mainstream
Microsoft has been researching and promoting speech-enabled software since the mid-1990s, and its SAPI is the most popular PC-based speech-to-text and speech recognition interface in the industry. Microsoft expects this newest SAPI version to help bring speech-enabled applications into the mainstream by making it easier for millions of developers to voice-enable their software for the first time. That greater ease comes from SAPI 5.1’s automation support, which lets developers take advantage of SAPI functionality from automation languages such as Visual Basic.
"Until SAPI 5.1, developers who wanted to voice-enable their software needed to use languages such as C or C++, which limited this speech technology to a relatively small group of developers with specific skills," says Glenn Thompson, group program manager of Microsoft’s Speech group. "SAPI 5.1 puts this capability within reach of the millions of Visual Basic developers, without requiring them to learn new languages. We think this is another important step forward in making speech recognition and text-to-speech a standard part of the desktop applications that these developers have created."
SAPI 5.1 includes improved speech recognition and text-to-speech engines that developers can include with their applications at no additional charge, and eliminates the need for developers to also use the Windows Platform SDK (Software Development Kit) when they’re compiling speech-enabled applications. Engine vendors and developers say that these additions make it faster, easier and less expensive for developers to speech-enable their applications with better results than they could have achieved before.
SpeechWorks International, the leading provider of over-the-telephone automated speech-recognition and text-to-speech solutions, recently created a SAPI 5.1-compliant interface that brings its Speechify engine to "new portions of the developer market," according to Dave Burns, development manager at SpeechWorks. "This increases the size of our customer base and allows those customers to offer their users a higher level of quality in their applications."
InSync Software has been working with a pre-release version of SAPI 5.1 for the past two months. "Other speech technologies were focused on in-house application rather than developer tools," says Parmod Gandhi, president of InSync Software. His company produces SpeechX controls that incorporate speech capability into drop-down boxes and other interface elements on an application. "In order to be useable, an application must be voice-enabled from the source and not after the fact. SAPI 5.1 is the first complete SDK to help developers, large and small, to incorporate speech in their applications. SAPI 5.1 is easier to work with, especially with its new automation interface. SAPI 5.1 should open the door to a huge market for speech-enabled applications."
"We’re happy to support Microsoft’s ever-expanding speech recognition efforts by adapting our applications and developer tools to this latest SAPI release," said Chris Spencer, CEO of Wizzard Software, which creates speech-enabled applications. "We feel SAPI 5.1 is a major push in the right direction for the entire speech recognition industry," Spencer says.
Application developers supporting SAPI 5.1 include Alexis Communications, Chant, Datria, EverSpeech, InSync, Ivoice, O&A, Realize Software, Speech Studio, Tangis, VoiceGenie, Wizzard, and Words+. Engine vendors supporting the technology include Agenda, ART, Babel Technologies, Fonix, Fujitsu, Lernout & Hauspie, Mindmaker, NEC, Rhetorical Systems, and Speechworks.
The Audiences for Speech-Enabled Applications
Speech-enabled applications are a particular benefit to consumers with disabilities, particularly those who cannot easily read a display screen. Microsoft plans to expand the speech support it offers its own users when it adds SAPI 5.1 to Windows XP, the next major version of the Windows operating system, scheduled for release on October 25.
But consumers with disabilities are only one of the audiences for speech-enabled applications, according to Microsoft’s Thompson.
"Users in two of the world’s largest computer markets -- China and Japan -- have a pressing need for speech-enabled applications, a need that’s not immediately apparent to U.S. and European users," says Thompson. "While Western languages have a 26-letter alphabet that’s relatively easy to implement on a keyboard, China and Japan have character-based languages with thousands of characters, and the keyboard isn’t a great way to work with them. For many users in these countries, speech-enabled applications can greatly increase the speed and productivity of entering text. That’s why SAPI 5.1 includes speech recognition and text-to-speech engines in Chinese and Japanese, as well as in English."
NEC, for example, uses SAPI for its SmartVoice 4 XP Japanese speech recognition and text-to-speech engines. According to Mitsuru Nishiura, voice interface project manager for NEC’s Personal Solutions division, SAPI will "increase voice-enabled applications and make digital equipment easier to use."
Another audience for speech-enabled software is specialty or niche users who need to keep their hands free while interacting with software. Specialty applications are particularly suited for speech recognition, since the relatively smaller vocabularies used in niche markets make it easier for software to achieve high accuracy in interpreting speech. Doctors or other health-care professionals who enter diagnoses or data while examining patients comprise one such audience. Anyone who drives a car is, too. Most automobiles today use embedded computers to control entertainment, climate and navigation systems.
Next Stop: The Speech-Enabled Web
While SAPI 5.1 will bring speech capabilities within reach of many more developers, applications and users, Microsoft isn’t stopping there. Thompson says his unit is already looking at ways to speech-enable the Web.
"Web users, particularly mobile users, have a compelling need for speech capability," says Thompson. "They typically use small devices -- Web-enabled phones, handheld PCs and other small, interactive devices -- that have small screens and keyboards, if they have screens and keyboards at all. Being able to speak commands to such devices and have information displayed on the screen or spoken back to the user will be very cool. That’s where the action will be."
And that’s where Microsoft’s speech group will be, too.
Related Links
Feature Stories:
Speech Recognition in Microsoft Office XP Increases Productivity, Efficiency for Chinese and Japanese Users - Aug. 16, 2001
Office XP Speaks Out: Voice Recognition Assists Users - Apr. 18, 2001
Microsoft Office XP Developer Offers Essential Tools for Building and Deploying Office-Based Business Solutions - Apr. 10, 2001
Q&A: Office Visionary Steven Sinofsky Discusses Office XP Development Process and Customer Benefits - Mar. 5, 2001
Microsoft Resources:
SAPI 5.1 and Microsoft’s Speech Technologies Web Site
Companies supporting SAPI and Microsoft Speech Technologies:
Fonix
Lernout & Hauspie
Mindmaker
Speechworks
Babel Technologies
Rhetorical Systems
NEC
Fujitsu
Realize Software
Speech Studio
InSync
VoiceGenie
Agenda
O & A
Tangis
Ivoice
Datria
Alexis Communications
Wizzard
Speech Solutions
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Industry Synopsis: Updated
Industry Synopsis: All Investors – e.Digital Corp.
e.Digital, Intel, Lucent, TXN & IBM. Years of Achievements With Flash Memory Management and Voice Recorder Innovations Have Led e.Digital To The Forefront Of The Emerging DataPlay Format & IBM Microdrive Platforms – And The ‘Soon To Be Announced’ Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM & VOICENAV Technology.
Intel’s ‘Flash Presentation’ This indicates where we’re headed with 3-4th Generation PDA’s. http://developer.intel.com/design/flash/intro/fdi30demo/fdiflash.htm
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=509750
Intel & ADI’s new DSP Core & Intel’s New DAP Audio Player ‘Pocket Concert’.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20010417net.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2658478,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551122
Taipei, May 2, 2001 (Bloomberg) Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, plans to order NT$2 billion ($61 million) worth of so-called MP3 audio players from Eastern Asia Technology Ltd., Eastech. Could e.Digital be involved – Or just a coincidence. Note e.Digital and Eastech platforms below.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=668929+
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
Aug. 16, 2001 - Digital video is "going to take off," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754775
Could e.Digital’s MicoOS be embedded in this product and other DSPs? e.Digital now has top Intel personnel onboard and is exhibiting advanced reference designs as seen the last two years - and most recently at 2001 CES for Samsung and Toshiba. In my opinion, new flash/HDD hybrids and dedicated DSPs are on the horizon. Expect to see more advanced DAPs & PDAs from many of the giant chip makers and Consumer Electronics OEMs as quality emerges with security for Internet music and other content. eDigital is extremely well positioned – Intel’s CEO recently commented that the ‘Pocket Concert’ is format agnostic. The player is also made by Samsung. IMO - this means when/if multi-codec and ‘digital rights management’ issues become needed by content providers, they have access to our MiroOS platform. Intel DAP picture: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/electronics/B000059ZYB/pictures/14/104-5074239-...
Fred Falk, June 2000 -''We are working with major manufacturers to have our technology embedded into their programmable DSPs and/or microcontrollers'' His DSP comments and a Flash Glue View. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
IMO - Embedded Projects Are Ongoing.
These NDA’s Verify The Sectors Enormity & Complexity.
October 30, 2000 - Fred Falk, ‘’We are also working with OEMs who may compete against each other with product offerings designed by e.Digital. Our non-disclosure agreements with our OEMs are in place to ensure that we are not disclosing any details of their product and our agreements to other OEMs and the public until they are ready to have this information made available. ‘’ Feb. 14, 2001 – e.Digital Form 10-QSB – Informed Investors that some revenue sources may stay unnamed until they decide to become known.
I Believe This is What Intel Is Going To Do For Secure Internet Content With It’s DRM/ISIS which includes EPAC.
http://www.convera.com
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551558
http://www.agoracom.com/agora/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=50275&refid=0&orig=50275
February 2, 2000; WW6 From Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell International Corporation to purchase a wafer fabrication facility (fab) located in Colorado Springs, Colo. The purchase will add significant manufacturing capacity for Intel to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. The new Holy Grail for the company is the business of selling flash-memory chips -- used in battery-operated devices that hold their memory even when the device's power is off. Intel is quickly rebuilding itself into the world's largest manufacturer of flash chips.
Three top Intel people from its Flash/Mobile Divisions are now with e.Digital.
e.Digital was selected by Intel to design and prototype a number of portable digital voice recorders utilizing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Intel plans to sub-license the reference design created by e.Digital to Intel's OEM customers, referring them back to e.Digital for licensing and any additional design and/or manufacturing work required. e.Digital has also filed a number of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; We have received notification of allowance from the United States Patent Office for use: MicroOS TM, FlashBack(R), Hold That Thought(R), Fumble Free(R), SoundClip(R), Smart Song Selection(tm), MicroCAM TM - Micro Compressed Audio Manager, AMIS TM - Audio Manager Interface, TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link and VOICENAV as registered trade names.
Internet Audio Market. Excerpt Source: Texas Instruments.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=566858
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/innovate/iaudio/opportunity.htm
Today's Internet Audio application is based upon the downloading of digital audio content, either speech or music, via the Internet and then playing the encoded digital audio content on an Internet Audio playback device. Very soon, these playback units will be a sub-system in PDAs, digital still cameras, cellular phones, set-top boxes, and other devices. The total market potential is even larger when you consider other complimentary products such as headphone stereo, personal CD, personal MD, car audio, and future DSC, cellular phone, etc., TI has the commanding market share lead with key design-ins at most of the major consumer electronics and PC makers. The following customers have already been publicly announced: a. Thomson Consumer Electronics b. Sanyo c. e.Digital.
TI DSP’s & My Opinion on DSP’s and our MicroOS. TXN CES Comments.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=738850
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=554726
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=546798
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=592843
TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – EPAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital,
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
IBM - VoiceTimes alliance announced. "e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595357
March 23, 2001 - e.Digital Corporation announced today that the first production-level Internet music player design incorporating IBM's Microdrive™.is being featured in the IBM booth at the CeBIT trade show which runs through March 28. The design is currently being marketed by e.Digital and Maycom, Co., Ltd. worldwide. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr032301.html
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
July 20, 2001 - Wireless IBM Microdrive & IBM voice navigation.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=156344
So Many Digital Downloadable Music Players: With a Big Problem – Multiple Codecs & ‘Digital Rights Managements’ and Increasing Advanced Functions Within Smaller Devices. http://www.ecoustics.com/Home/Home_Audio/MP3_Players/MP3_Player_Reviews/
This Is What It’s All About – IMHO.
Look at All the Music and Video/Media Players, Interactive & Content Enabled Set-Top-Boxes, Kiosks, Karaoke Devices, 3G MP3 Phones And Satellite Digital Radio Applications Coming To Market. Then Read The Article about Bertelsmann’s Tj.net/MP3 De Cellular and its intentions to create a Secure Subscription Model with Napster. IMO - The PJBs and DataPlay devices will create New Excitement due to design & features – See Treo’, ET700 and ‘Volan’ Concept designs below. This Synopsis Concludes with four knowledgeable shareholder’s analysis on the emerging technology and how it could very easily include e.Digital’s Patented Micro OS as a standard in this emerging sector.
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
Oct. 6, 2000--e.Digital Corp. (OTCBB:EDIG) and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea today announced the launch of the MP2000 multi-codec, portable digital music player in time for the holiday shopping season. Initial shipments are now beginning and the product will be introduced into the European and Asian markets as well as in other countries and specialty markets through Maycom and other OEMs. The unit has superb audio quality and louder output levels than most other portable music players on the market, without sacrificing battery life. Its backlit LCD screen supports English and Japanese characters. The multi-codec unit supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and ePAC music compression formats, and is firmware upgradeable to support the QDX format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The SDMI-capable unit ships with WMA Digital Rights Management included. It can be firmware upgraded to support InterTrust's Digital Rights Management, which the world's largest recording company, Universal Music Group, has announced it will be using in its online music distribution.
Powered By e.Digital Technology – Maycom/edig ‘Merit’ Player Picture.
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.100600/bb5.jpg
Nov. 9 2000 – e.Digital & Samsung announce agreement to produce two separate DataPlay enabled devices to premier at CES Jan. 6, 2001. October 19, 2000 - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today announced that it is developing portable digital products incorporating DataPlay's quarter-sized 500 MB digital media and micro-optical engine. DataPlay has secured $50 million in strategic financing from Universal Music, Toshiba, Samsung, S3 and Creative. It's not certain that Universal's prerecorded music will be available in the format. But DataPlay announced last month that Universal's eLabs president Lawrence Kenswil has joined DataPlay's board of directors.
Our DataPlay device. [This financing has now reacher 110 million – in 2001]
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/index.jsp and http://www.edig.com.
DataPlay Product Rollout – CES 2001
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=590380
DataPlay/Volan Concept Designs. Very Innovative.
http://www.volan.com/proof/eDigital/visuals-06.cfm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15135565
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-02.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-05.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-06.html
Samsung’s Handheld Video Motion YEPP & DataPlay Orbit Music Player http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-112.gif
http://www.etown.com/categories/print_article.jhtml?article_type=news&articleID=3554
Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
July 30, 2001 – Samsung Electronics is partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to jointly develop and market new products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755021
7/9/01 – Samsung will diversify its portfolio of Yepp Internet audio portables in the summer and fall with its first MP3-CD portable, its first pendant-style flash-memory portable, and its first firmware-upgradable flash-memory portable, which will also be
among the company's first multicodec models.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=718688
July 17, 2001—Samsung and AOL Time Warner Announce Multi-Year Strategic Marketing and Technology Alliance. Samsung to Manufacture Next-Generation AOLTV Set-Top Boxes, In addition, the companies will explore the development of a range of future consumer electronics products as well as introduce new digital products to consumers to enhance Samsung Brand Through Promotion Across AOL Time Warner Online and Offline Brands.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145128
Samsung Electronics and CompUSA – Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
The Eastech, ZapMedia, HarmonKardon, Samsung, CompUSA Connection –
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=735946
Aug. 15, 2001 - Samsung unveils new chip for Web audio devices.The latest SOC, called CalmRISC-Portable Audio Device, is designed to process a variety of audio files including MP3, WMA (windows media audio) and AAC (advanced audio coding). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754137
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=162681
Fred Falk-March 29th 2001... Following our business plan, we have dedicated strategic engineering resources to the development and implementation of new product platforms that include digital video for portable devices, automotive and home stereo designs, cellular phone accessories, and set-top boxes. We are working with multiple OEMs on specific applications of these MicroOS- and MicroCAM-powered platforms for inclusion in a variety of branded products.
SET TO DEBUT IN 2001 WITH 10GIG HDD -
Nov. 13, 2000 - Hy-Tek Previews e.Digital’s ‘Treo’ PJB at COMDEX – 2000 Songs on a Handheld Player. RemoteSolutions/Hango/EDIG Works in Progress. Revolutionary
And an Excellent Candidate for a PC Bundle.
http://www.treoplayer.com Palmed Treo’ http://hardware.dmusic.com/details.php?id=169 http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/treo.html
e.Digital VP Comments about Treo’ and PC Manufacturers -
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=540326
COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=596645
July 12,13-01 MP3 Summit 2001 – "Best Overall Portable MP3 Player: Treo Digital Music Jukebox. MP3 Summit 2001 attendees found the Treo to be the smallest and lightest hard-drive based player, at only 8 ounces with batteries. The Treo is manufactured by Hy-Tek Mfg. and designed by e.Digital." http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145410
January 3-4, 2001 - e.Digital & Toshiba to develop and provide mult-codec portable Internet music player. Also e.Digital contracts with EASTECH a multi-million dollar firm with name-brand consumer electronics manufacturers including but not limited to Philips,Sony, Kenwood, Sanyo, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi and Pioneer. http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
June 5, 2001- Devices for DataPlay’s mini disks expected To reach market by fall. Toshiba and Samsung DataPlay production models are ready!!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=121533
DataPlay Sees Sept. Delivery Of 1st Products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=725928
DataPlay, which will introduce 500MB blank discs and prerecorded discs this year, will be "multi-codec compatible.
July 24, 2001 - Digital Clearing and Distribution Partnership Final Piece in DataPlay Strategy to Connect Retail Networks, Content Owners and Electronics Companies. Reciprocal, Inc., the provider of business infrastructure for the distribution of digital assets, and DataPlay, Inc., today announced an electronic media distribution agreement that will provide new levels of portability, security and ease-of-use for media companies, as well as consumers. The agreement leverages content across an extensive network of retailers and distributors, including Coconuts, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=733457
June 6, 2001—SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that their new FlashVision fabrication (fab) plant has gone into production of advanced flash memories, and shipments of the product have started. The NAND memory wafers being produced by FlashVision will primarily be used to manufacture flash memory storage cards for use in digital
cameras, digital Internet music players and future generations of cell phones.
Keep in mind e.Digital’s JUSTRI invitation SD association and the Flash Patents.
Jan. 5, 2001 - Sending Moving Pictures to Cell Phones - Toshiba's Single-Chip.http://www.mobileinfo.com/News_2001/Issue05/Toshiba_video.htm
EASTECH’s version of the Treo’ the ET-700 & Our Toshiba’s DP Player.
http://www.acousticsys.com/products/IA/portable/ET700.html
http://www.eastech1.com/english/prod.htm
http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-117.gif
Remember The Intel/Eastech Connection –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=164838
Does MTV Karaoke spell EDIG?? Soon available at consumer electronics, toy and general merchandise stores throughout the US, including Best Buy, Toys R' Us and Meijer, and by catalog at JC Penney, Sears and Fingerhut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=151235
9/3/01 - Eastech Secures New Contracts Worth US$43 Million - it has secured two new major contracts, worth US$43 million, with consumer electronics companies SANYO and Singing Machine.
e.Digital & Qdesign – Madonna’s codec-of-choice. Qdesign is Promoting edig’s MicroCAM platforms IMO to Apple’s QuickTime. Also IMO we’ll work with PortalPlayer - per links below. http://www.qdesign.com/news/pressreleases_07_24_00.htm
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=581347 August 1, 2000 –
QDesign selects e.Digital portable internet music player design for showcase product Custom Music Player to Demonstrate the New QDX Codec for Digital Music to Executives in Music and Electronics Industries. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=685824
Texas Instruments and Qdesign Announce Enhanced Digital Audio Music Storage Design for Portable Players. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99050.htm
Now Read The Bertelsmann Article Link Below- Then Go to http://www.edig.com For the Facts On The Company Which Has The Key To It All - An Advanced MicroOS Solution For The Audio/Video Format/Codec & DRM Delima. Read The Last Letter To Shareholders And View Their Growing List of Impressive Partners. e.Digital Recently Added More DSP Engineers, Equity Investments And Key Personnel To Its BOD. The Company’s Micro OS Has Been Recognized As a Benchmark With These Same Companies: Intel, IBM, SanDisk, Lucent & Texas Instruments And Many Other Industry/Sector Leaders.
Aug. 30, 2000-- Bertelsmann (BMG), the world's largest international media enterprise, launched tj net to provide a new service for mobile phone users in Italy. Tj net expects to add additional centers in Germany, UK, France and Benelux in Europe, as well as in the U. S. and Japan. Tj net transforms mobile phones into cost-free receivers for a wide variety of music and top news stories. http://www.inin.com/News/PressReleases/pressreleases.asp?id=118
Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio seek interoperability using Lucent’s EPAC and AAC for the Automotive and Stereo Industry. IMO – This will be Huge for e.Digital per handheld reception and recording of streamed/downloaded content.
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=82063
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=534184
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=587686
1-2001 - Sirius VP Tracey Stanyer says. "We want to use position-based commerce, or P-commerce, to turn drive time into buy time."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=124007
XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
June 25 – 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
January 10, 2001- NTT DoCoMo to Start Music Distribution to PHS Users
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583848
A look at VR in ‘Telematics’ within the Auto Industry with Intel and IBM
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=542328
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/DC3F600187220BF9852569CE0057BC67
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010106/nv_motorol.html
July 12, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND BANG & OLUFSEN ENTER INTO LICENSING AGREEMENT - Visteon has paired its world-class audio and electronic capabilities with prestigious Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to develop a new level of automotive audio sophistication.http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=142952
July 30, 2001 - Visteon & SpeechWorks. We are thrilled that Visteon, a leader in the telematics industry, has chosen to work with us to bring our combined technologies to telematics and other markets such as mobile devices and cable set-top boxes with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152129
PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. –IMO- e.Digital and PacketVideo are well aware of each other and will eventually work together on advanced video platforms.
June 13, 2000 - PacketVideo today announced that it has agreements with over 35 global media and online companies to trial the delivery of video to wireless devices. Warner Bros, FOXSPORTS.com, E! Entertainment, ABCNEWS, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment etc,. , PacketVideo - Interview
http://boss.2.navisitestreaming.net/real/2/fconf/000825/28_robert_tercek.smi
http://www.packetvideo.com
July 28 -Time Werner & PDA’s. Signaling the entertainment industry's determination to move aggressively into the dawning wireless-entertainment field, Time Warner Inc. is developing original programming that will be beamed to handheld devices. The company will work with PacketVideoCorp., a San Diego software firm backed by, among others, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. The closely held concern already has conducted widespread trials of its wireless audio-video programming with other content giants, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Pictures, using mostly promotional material such as movie trailers. See PacketVideo’s News Releases for these: February 15, 2000 - Intel and PacketVideo, / Lucent Streams Entertainment To Cell Phones. Wireless device users are way beyond using their cell phones just for phone calls, they want entertainment, and they want speed. The communications equipment giant is teaming with wireless video start-up PacketVideo to develop this next-generation device. Motorola with PacketVideo, Bell & PacketVideo, Nortel Networks and Packetvideo, Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo, Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo. March 20, 2001 - PacketVideo Partners with Symbian to Provide Mobile Video Software for Smartphones - Symbian's licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=641600
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating Set-Top-Box and Automotive PBJ link-ups via Handheld Voice Remotes via OutPut/Input-Jacks, Push/Pull via TWIRL, 802.11 and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below - http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=123586
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. (ZapMedia), today announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gannett Co., Inc./ USA TODAY (NYSE: GCI), one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, to provide an all-in-one Internet driven, interactive entertainment environment, making it a reality for consumers today. With the click of a button people will serve up music, movies, television, the Internet, and email using ZapMedia's co-branded products and services
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=604252
ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=131034
(Reuters 10-10-2000) - The National Music Publishers' Association Inc. (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) said Tuesday they have agreed on procedures for licensing of musical compositions, or songs, that are distributed on the Internet. The RIAA represents big record companies, including Seagram Co. Ltd.'s Universal Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc (news - web sites).
October 23, 2000 – Delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc. In the latest sign that music subscription is emerging as a prominent avenue for delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc said it is developing an online music-subscription service, and Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group has launched a test of a subscription-music service.
10/25/00 - LYCOS aims to be web music one-stop ...
Lycos took another step last week by signing a partnership with BMG Entertainment, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Lycos will sell digital downloads of albums and singles by 100 of BMG's recording artists.
(Oct.31,2000) -Bertelsmann And Napster Form Alliance. Entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.D) and controversial song-swap company Napster (news - web sites) Inc. said on Tuesday they formed an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service.
Oct 31, 2000 -- Radio Free Virgin and Playboy.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced the launch of Radio Free Virgin, a downloadable0, CD-quality digital radio tuner available free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com.
http://billboard.com/daily/2000/1201_04.asp
Nov. 1, 2000 - Warner Music Group (WMG) and Microsoft Corp, In a multiyear agreement, WMG has selected Windows Media Format as a primary format for commercial music download initiatives in the United States and Canada, with security provided by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Nov. 2000 – PHILIPS SHOWCASES CLICKRADIO ON DIGITAL SET-TOP-BOX. Through an exclusive agreement with Lucent Technologies, ClickRadio uses the patented ePAC (Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coding) compression format to deliver secure digital music programming while protecting artists' copyrights. IMO - TiVo features are coming for Audio Content.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112461
06/05/01 – Philips has released a new family of highly integrated solid state audio devices for MP3 audio players, car radio systems, portable CD players, flash memory cards, Internet radio and simple jukebox applications. Able to support a range of stereo audio decompression algorithms, including MP3, AAC and Microsoft WMA, the SAA7750 chip's programmable DSP architecture enables it to become the basis of MP3, CD and SSA (flash memory) products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=728640
August 7, 2001 – ClickRadio = ePAC & Gateway/Kmart/Wal-Mart - The company has a distribution deal with Gateway and will soon have its software available at Kmart, Wal-mart, Staples and Electronics Boutique.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=157180
12/15/00 - ONLINE music seller Soundbuzz has snagged a deal with major record label BMG to sell the music of artists; allowing purchase music in digital-file format for immediate download to their hard disk. using Intertrust and Liquid Audio to provide encryption and digital-rights management.
Jan 22, 2001 - IBM to Offer New Technology to Prevent Unauthorized Music Distribution on Web & IBM/e.Digital Player and Toshiba/IBM - EMMS .
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E07957156C96DBD7852569DC0051460E
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/micro/edigital.htm
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595047
Toshiba and IBM’s EMMS. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642853
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 2001 - BMG Entertainment announced today a substantial expansion of its digital music offerings In addition, BMG announced that its labels are now making new releases simultaneously available as Digital Downloads.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=589017
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=572601
Feb. 22, 2001 - Vivendi/Universal, Sony team up for online Music site
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=622436
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
DALLAS, Feb 27 - Blockbuster Inc. & Universal Pictures films via its video on-demand service include RadioShack its stores for in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=67262&refid=0&orig=67262
Feb. 27, 2001 - Warner Music to Sell Downloadable Albums Beginning Next Week.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=625247
March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=637683
March 14, 2001 – Handleman Company one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. will offer a catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads – See Handleman Kiosks Coming Below. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
Mar 16, 2001 - Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific, PlanetMG uses Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology for secure music downloads and to prevent piracy.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=638941
March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
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. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=649488
April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Present and
Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created
by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=655253
April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=71535
May 20, 2001 – Vivendi Universal Acquires MP3.com in Move to Strengthen Digital Distribution Capacity and Web Audience. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
May 23 2001 – Vitaminic Announces New Music Publishing Company, ZipMind, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of music on the Internet, announced today it will offer music publishing services to authors, publishers and third parties. Vitaminic offers the largest legal online catalogue of music in Europe. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112443
June 5, 2001- -RioPort, & BestBuy - the leading music application service provider (ASP), today announced that it will distribute commercial music downloads to BestBuy.com(TM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. the nation's number one specialty retailer of
consumer electronics. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
January 6, 2000 – E.DIGITAL AND RIOPORT, INC. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP SEAMLESS, SECURE INTERNET MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689937
June 6, 2001 – Napster secures its first music licenses from three of the five major labels, paving the way for the file-trading network to launch its new subscription service by the end of the summer. The service is expected to offer both radio-like streaming technology and downloading capabilities. MusicNet will be available through AOL, Real Networks and Napster.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44322,00.html
Jul 11, 2001 - Judge orders Napster not to resume service.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=722712
July 12, 2001 – Pressplay & Microsoft -- a joint venture between music giants Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp is near a deal to offer its online music subscription service on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=720867
July 13, 2001 - Elibron Adds Downloadable Music To Its Collection of Electronic Books Adamant Media, already partnered with two of the world's largest libraries to bring its customers over 30,000 electronic books, now officially announces the addition of secured downloadable music to its website.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729657
July 16, 2001 – TOWER RECORDS, The largest independent record store in the world, joins forces with OD2 and PlayLouder to begine commercial download sales. http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01070154.html
July 18, 2001- NAPSTER READY TO LAUNCH a second-phase test of a new membership-charging service - soon-to-launch subscription service backed by major labels.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729103
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
July 25, 2001 - U.S. Government Stepping Up Internet Antipiracy Efforts In the past week the U.S government has escalated efforts to squash Internet piracy by conducting sweeps in nine states and expanding the ranks of attorneys assigned to prosecute copyright violators.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/board.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736507
Aug. 9, 2001 – Liquid Audio, Inc. today announced it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide Palm(TM) handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=748032
Aug. 13, 2001 – Texas Instruments and RealNetworks today announced they have broadened their strategic alliance to offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable
digital signal processing (DSP)-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video client devices including IP set-top boxes, network video appliances, personal video recorders, streaming media servers,IP video phones and security/surveillance equipment.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=750783
Aug. 16, 2001 – Five major film studios on Thursday announced a joint on-demand
movie service that will offer old and new releases for broadband Internet users in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755026
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
Aug. 20, 2001 - BMG musical downloads in Europe. OD2 will work with BMG to support the sale of selected catalogue, via secure digital download, in partnership with a number of leading European retailers via the internet.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=166104
Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736528
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=588824
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=579020
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=548914
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583845
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=635180
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=105309
Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258082
Jimee11’s Response: #258031
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258031
emit’s Response: #258056
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258056
e.Digital & Lainer Worldwide’s Medical Dictation Handheld – Cquence Mobile. According to market analysts, the medical dictation market is the largest vertical market in the speech technology industry. http://www.edig.com/products/custom-cquence.html
http://www.lanier.com/ps/apps/cqmobile.html
http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/sep00/doc_doc.shtml
Now Think About It……. It’s coming our way and involves much more than just music – Handheld mobile voice recognition, video on demand, VR Medical Records and (c)Publications & eBooks. e.Digital is the Codec/DRM and flash storage file management for Secure Internet Content and Advanced Handheld Design.
(February 15, 2001) E.DIGITAL HIRES FLEISHMAN-HILLARD INC. TO LEAD U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS. The Worlds' largest public relations firm, to lead domestic and international media relations and communications. Michael Busselen, senior vice president, "e.Digital has developed unique technology that has the potential to impact millions of consumers. The story is captivating, the business is timely, and we look forward to using our expertise and understanding of the media to share e.Digital's story with the business and technology communities."http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr021501.html
Think Global…DOS to MOS http://www.edig.com http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.071400/bb3.jpg
This is all ‘My Humble Opinion’
emit…
Frank sure understands he's a pink-sheet stock because imo he did make deceptive/misleading statements regarding the release of initial sponsors on the subscribe-athon.
hmmm
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Darn Tags - OMT
6-19-01 TriGem, Intel Korea forms tie-up
TriGem Computer, Inc. said yesterday it has formed a tie-up with Intel Korea to expand into the cable modem business. Under the deal, both companies will work to make Intel£§s built-in cable modems suitable for Korean broadband networks for future installation in domestically-sold TriGem PCs. The new modems will be the first Asian designs to be installed in computers, a TriGem spokesman said. An executive at TriGem said, "The partnership will boost our built-in cable modem business."
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
TriGems Family -
Korea Thrunet Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: KOREA) ("Thrunet"), Is Korea's largest cable modem broadband Internet-access services provider and a major provider of enterprise network services.
Korea Thrunet Co., Ltd is one of the leading providers of broadband Internet access services and a major provider of facilities-based data communications services in Korea. In addition, Korea Thrunet launched its new mega portal site, Korea.com, on September 26, 2000.Korea Thrunet Co., Ltd is the first to offer broadband Internet service in Korea with over 520,000 subscribers as of August 31, 2000. Korea Thrunet's HFC network currently extends over 6.5 million homes passed covering more than 45% of total Korean households. Korea Thrunet's broadband Internet access service features "always-on" Internet access at speeds up to 100 times faster than traditional dial up Internet access. Korea.com meets communication, community, content and commerce needs of Internet users. Korea.com offers compelling e-mailing system with focusing on community and interactive multimedia content. Korea Thrunet offers a wide range of services including on-demand pay-per-view movies, on-demand music videos, live news broadcasting, on-line games, Internet telephony, unified messaging services, multimedia bulletin board and chatting services. As one of the leaders in data communications services, Korea Thrunet serves more than 210 major customers, including major Korean mobile telecommunication service providers, as well as financial institutions.
TriGem's Product Capabilities -
Demand for informatization machinery and equipment such as personal computers and notebook computers is increasing sharply in line with explosively increased distribution of Internet services the world over. At the same time, the demand for TriGem computers is soaring rapidly on a global basis, boosted by its accumulated know-how in production and aggressive marketing efforts.
TriGem plans to cope with the increasing demand by actively expanding the production capacity of its domestic manufacturing base as well as expanding its plants in Europe and China. Currently, our Ansan operation boasts production capabilities of 6.6 million units annually (9.6 million when the second plant is completed within 2000), one of the largest in the world.
In addition, the two production facilities in China are capable of together producing 3 million PCs per annum for supply to other countries as well as within China, which is expected to become the world's 4th largest PC market this year.
Last year, TGN (TriGem Netherlands) also began to make and distribute informatization machinery and equipment in the European region with a production capacity of 1.2 million units per year.
All in all, TriGem is now poised to grow into a world premier manufacturer and supplier of high-quality PCs, taking pride in its total PC production capacity of 13.8 million units annually.
What sort of efforts is being made to boost TriGem¡¯s profitability - From FAQs
[]TriGem is now going through a series of transitions to improve its profitability. First, TriGem is making the shift to global BTO-based EMS with multiple manufacturing facilities from that of Global Batch-based EMS. Secondly, TriGem is also seeking product diversification by shifting and expanding from desktop PC to servers, mobile and Internet appliances. Thirdly, TriGem is keen to expand its market segments. The target segments is being shifted away from primarily the consumer segments and expand into direct and commercial / government segments. Fourthly, TriGem is seeking multiple strategic alliances as it has successfully done with eMachines and SOTEC
www.TriGem.com
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