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6-19-01 TriGem, Intel Korea forms tie-up
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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[]/b, 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
emit...
IMHO, e.Digital and NoiceNav will give new meaning to 'Universal Player' and AudioMining.
The technology, called AudioMining, draws on the team's experience with speech recognition to allow users to search streams of audio content, including phone conferences, lectures, and meetings.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=LHSPQ&read=469
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 (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.
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.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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
August 10, 2001 / News Archives
Tonbu, IBM Global Services Target Electronics Manufacturers In Greater China
By asia.internet.com staff
Taiwan's Tonbu, Inc., a provider of Web-based software and consulting services that enable companies to speed products to market, has partnered with IBM Global Services to co-market and resell technologies to the electronics manufacturing services industry in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China.
Tonbu's S2S Platform enables enterprises to monitor, manage and execute on multi-tier programs, projects and workflow across locations and partners; while its Global Engineering, Manufacturing and Software (GEMS) Practice allows companies to outsource their development projects to Tonbu's global alliances and experts.
"Having IBM as a strategic business partner is an important validation of our S2S Platform and GEMS Practice solutions," said Steve Chen, Tonbu's chairman and chief executive officer.
"The agreement marks a significant step forward for Tonbu, as it will help to build on our success with companies such as Acer and UMC, and extend our already global presence in this robust market."
IBM Global Services will promote Tonbu's core competencies such as its global domain expertise in the EMS industry; outsourced, collaborative GEMS consulting services; real-time collaborative software; document management; content management; process and workflow automation; and project management.
In turn, Tonbu will deploy and market IBM outsourcing services that include the provision of best-practice data center facilities; Web/e-Business hosting; managed-operation data center services; IBM software and hardware; services and product offerings through the IBM Business Partner Programs; and various solution and integration services.
Tonbu itself will become a member of the IBM Service Provider for E-Business Initiative, and join the IBM Partner World Family. IBM will also become a Tonbu Preferred Technology Provider. An IBM/Tonbu Coordination Team will be established to facilitate and coordinate activities, according to a joint statement released by both companies.
Said Terry Yeh, executive of Strategy Outsourcing and e-business Hosting of IBM Global Services/GCG. "Tonbu will enable their customers and partners to leverage the IBM Partner World Family and, in turn, we at IBM will be able to provide our global partners with the most sophisticated collaboration tools on the market today."
Legend's soaring sales may boost parts orders
COMPUTERS: With the company's sales soaring, its manufacturing partners in Taiwan are likely to benefit from an increase in orders for parts and components
By Dan Nystedt
STAFF REPORTER
Soaring profits at China's largest computer retailer and brisk sales of Pentium4 chips to the world's most populous nation bode well for computer manufacturers in Taiwan, analysts said yesterday.
Legend Holdings Ltd (Áp·Q¶°¹Î), the largest computer maker in China, announced profits that beat analysts' expectations by a large margin on Wednesday. The firm earned NT$1.1 billion (US$33 million) in the quarter ended June 30, an 82 percent increase over the same time last year. Legend credited strong domestic computer demand for the company's performance.
"They make most of their own computers ... the notebook is one important outsourcing product," said Alex Huang, electronics analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Taipei.
Legend's manufacturing partners in Taiwan include First International Computer Inc (¤j²³¹q¸£), Compal Electronics Inc (¤¯Ä_) and Mitac International Corp (¯«¹F¹q¸£). The Chinese firm imports notebooks from First International and Compal. Other computer components and fully assembled desktop units are gathered from First International, Mitac and other component-makers in Taiwan.
News of a rapidly expanding market for personal computers in China also came from Intel CEO Craig Barrett during a recent high-tech conference in Taipei.
China currently leads the world in purchases of Intel's fastest Pentium4 chips, he said. He credited aggressive pricing on the part of companies like Legend Holdings for the rise in sales.
Legend's sales figures backed up the Intel chief's comments. The company said it sold 651,000 desktop PCs, many of them with Intel Corp's most advanced Pentium4 processors inside. The firm claimed that China's computer market grew by 28 percent during the quarter. Legend currently holds 33 percent of China's computer market, and is one of the nation's top retailers.
Huang said Taiwan's two top PC sellers in China are Acer Inc (§»¹q) and Asustek Computer Inc (µØºÓ¹q¸£). He said that Acer holds the largest share, and that Asustek concentrates on sales of its notebook computers only.
Both firms entered China's computer market over five years ago in a bid to catch the rising tide. Heavy investments in advertisements and assuring product quality and service have won Acer a place among the top 10 computer sellers overall in China.
The worldwide downturn in spending on high tech gear has sent a number of Taiwanese firms dashing to China in hopes of gaining a piece of the growing market there.
Some estimates place Taiwanese investment in China at around US$70 billion, mostly over the past decade, though government figures say the amount is half that much.
The pace of investment has picked up steam during the past year due to hard economic times in Taiwan and hopes that cheap labor and available land in China will increase corporate earnings, analysts said.
08/16 03:47
Nokia to Buy DRAMs Exclusively From Korea's Samsung (Update4)
By Youngsam Cho
Seoul, Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co., a move that could reduce the reliance of Korea's largest company on a shrinking global computer market.
The biggest maker of mobile phones agreed to purchase all of its 64-megabit dynamic random access memory chips from the world's No. 1 DRAM maker, Samsung Electronics said. Nokia will use the chips in mobile phones with Internet access, address books and other functions previously reserved for computers.
While most mobile phones now don't use such a powerful chip, ``by 2004, 300 million phones will be using DRAMs,'' said Kevin Jeong, a company spokesman. ``Nokia's agreement to purchase its chips from Korea will probably help others to follow suit.''
Samsung is now the only chipmaker that is manufacturing DRAM chips for mobile phones, hoping to get a head start as networks allow faster communication links and computer chips use less battery power. Nokia started including Samsung's DRAMs in phones with many computer functions in June and trials are underway in Japan for wireless Internet links as fast as a fixed line.
``This is good news for Samsung but it's too early in the technology's stage of development for it to affect its shares,'' said Seo Jung Ho, who holds the stock as part of 1.2 trillion won ($938 million) in assets he helps manage at Daehan Investment Trust Management Co. in Seoul. ``Investors are focusing more on when demand for PC chips will recover.''
Nokia spokesman Tapio Hedman declined to comment on the mobile-phone maker's relationship with Samsung, adding though that DRAMs will likely be used in Nokia's most advanced products.
Helsinki-based Nokia, which has a 35 percent market share in mobile phones, is maker of the Nokia 9210 Communicator, a device combining the functions of a mobile phone with a pocket computer. The Communicator, which works on the Symbian operating system, is designed to accompany Microsoft Corp.'s Office software.
Growing Market?
Samsung Electronics declined to give specific estimates for Nokia's requirements or when the contract expires. The Korea Economic Daily earlier reported the agreement.
Samsung is also in talks to provide the chips, which sell at about $8 a chip -- or 10 times the price for those used in computers -- to other mobile phone makers, including Motorola Inc. and Germany's Siemens AG, said Kim Kwang Tae, Samsung's director of corporate communications.
Nokia may want DRAM chips to replace the static random- access memory chips -- which are faster and consume less energy but are more expensive than DRAMs -- predominantly used today to store phone numbers and other types of data. It began selling units using DRAM chips, specially modified to consume less power, in its new ``smart-phone'' models since June, Jeong said.
``The market will eventually get bigger but it's going to take several years for it to become dominant,'' said Hwang Min Seong, an analyst at ABN Amro in Seoul. ``Mobile phones won't replace computers as the main source of chip demand for the time being.''
Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's third-largest computer- memory-chipmaker, said it will unveil its own type of mobile phone chip under the name of ``pseudo-SRAM,'' in the next two months, said company spokesman Kim Seung Soo.
Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan's third-largest mobile phone maker, and NEC Corp., maker of the country's most popular mobile phone, are developing chips combining features of DRAM and SRAM. Compared with SRAM chips, the devices will have greater memory capacity and will cost less to make. The chips will also consume less power than standard DRAMs.
Computers Still Dominate
Samsung Electronics' second-quarter net income fell 45 percent from a year ago as demand and prices of its main product, DRAMs for computers, fell. Spot prices of 64 MB DRAM chips have dropped 70 percent this year.
For the first time, sales of Samsung's mobile phones and phone systems during the second quarter overtook semiconductors as the company's best-selling product category, as global demand for computers slumped and computer prices plunged.
Global PC sales fell in the second quarter from a year earlier, the first decline since 1986, market researcher Dataquest Inc. said.
Mobile phone sales worldwide may fall 8.6 percent this year for the first time in the more than two decades to 370 million units as economies slow and consumers wait for newer Internet- linked models, according to Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
Samsung Electronics shares, up 23 percent this year, fell 2500 won, or 1.3 percent, to 195,000.
jq - It'll be hackable but degradded/distroyed or incomplete once grabbed - imho. + transcoaded into what... less-mp3 standard. It'll be coming from either AAC,WMA,QDX,ePAC, or all, then recopied ?. Guess you could put it back into AAC, but lota trouble n lossy-compression results / n bet some pc's music managers/handheld OSs will be set-up to error tampered files.
Like Fred Stated, in so many words at 99-SHM ''The OS is protected from tampering by default upon opening microcontroler'' DP being optical could fall in same catagory.
Good question - Just my humble opinion. we'll know soon
emit...
murgirl - That first link is my web-site. I work in the medical/disability industry; I put the link on my site because I have a vested interest in seeing e.Digital succeed - I recieve nothing for promoting sequence.
emit...
simbirsk - Great read. This is a grey area -
From the article.
These digital radios promise a lot more than their analog counterparts. First, the sound quality will be substantially boosted. Imagine CD-quality audio for FM
users and no static and interference. Second, a new array of data-rich services, such as stock prices, local traffic, weather, and sports will be readily available.
Lastly, they can include features like MP3 players, cell phones, and PDAs.
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Pretty clear to me, once they incorporate recordability/downloading - Cost flies out the window.
XM's cost is $9.95/mo... Good documentry on XM via TecTV/Audiophile last Sunday, very nice set-up.
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
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.
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.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.
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
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
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
Taipei, May 2 (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.
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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 United States' 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…
August 7, 2001 / Briefs Archives
IBM Japan To Resell BroadVision Applications
By asia.internet.com staff
In an extension of its ongoing relationship with IBM, NASDAQ-listed BroadVision, a provider of enterprise self-service applications, has partnered with IBM Japan to enable Big Blue to resell its full suite of applications in the country.
"This announcement is evidence of the continuing strength of our alliance with IBM," said Brett Ho, vice-president and general manager for BroadVision's Asia Pacific and Japan operations. "BroadVision's presence in Japan will now benefit from IBM's impressive reach and long experience in the Japanese market."
IBM Japan will provide BroadVision-based e-business solutions including hardware, software and integration services. It will also offer post-sales maintenance and support to customers using both IBM and BroadVision products and services.
The resale agreement is the latest enhancement to the relationship between both companies. They had recently announced that BroadVision's J2EE-enabled application platform, BroadVision One-To- One Enterprise 6.0, will be fully interoperable with the IBM WebSphere application server.
In addition, BroadVision's applications will be available for IBM's AIX operating system with support for the DB2 Universal Database in the coming months.
Note Bold -
August 10, 2001 / News Archives
Tonbu, IBM Global Services Target Electronics Manufacturers In Greater China
By asia.internet.com staff
Taiwan's Tonbu, Inc., a provider of Web-based software and consulting services that enable companies to speed products to market, has partnered with IBM Global Services to co-market and resell technologies to the electronics manufacturing services industry in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China.
Tonbu's S2S Platform enables enterprises to monitor, manage and execute on multi-tier programs, projects and workflow across locations and partners; while its Global Engineering, Manufacturing and Software (GEMS) Practice allows companies to outsource their development projects to Tonbu's global alliances and experts.
"Having IBM as a strategic business partner is an important validation of our S2S Platform and GEMS Practice solutions," said Steve Chen, Tonbu's chairman and chief executive officer.
"The agreement marks a significant step forward for Tonbu, as it will help to build on our success with companies such as Acer and UMC, and extend our already global presence in this robust market."
IBM Global Services will promote Tonbu's core competencies such as its global domain expertise in the EMS industry; outsourced, collaborative GEMS consulting services; real-time collaborative software; document management; content management; process and workflow automation; and project management.
In turn, Tonbu will deploy and market IBM outsourcing services that include the provision of best-practice data center facilities; Web/e-Business hosting; managed-operation data center services; IBM software and hardware; services and product offerings through the IBM Business Partner Programs; and various solution and integration services.
Tonbu itself will become a member of the IBM Service Provider for E-Business Initiative, and join the IBM Partner World Family. IBM will also become a Tonbu Preferred Technology Provider. An IBM/Tonbu Coordination Team will be established to facilitate and coordinate activities, according to a joint statement released by both companies.
Said Terry Yeh, executive of Strategy Outsourcing and e-business Hosting of IBM Global Services/GCG. "Tonbu will enable their customers and partners to leverage the IBM Partner World Family and, in turn, we at IBM will be able to provide our global partners with the most sophisticated collaboration tools on the market today."
August 10, 2001 / Briefs Archives
On2's VP4 Codec To Hit Japan Market
By Ryan Naraine
Streaming media play On2 Technologies (AMEX:ONT) is taking its highly touted VP4 video compression technology to Japan in a licensing deal with Tokyo-based Media Commerce Solutions Ltd.
On2 said the approximate value of the Media Commerce deal is $620,000, with the potential for licensing royalties at a later stage. The deal calls for the VP4 technology to be integrated into Media Commerce's set-top box program.
The VP4 codec is hailed as the only compression technology to break the 1-megabit barrier for delivering 60 field-per-second digital video. It delivers at 700-kilobits, allowing movie quality video streams at lower data rates, yet with comparable quality to the MPEG-2 protocol.
Separately, On2 announced plans to release an open source version of the earlier VP3.2 video compression algorithm. The company said the licenses and source code would be available at several websites within this quarter. It did not say which sites the code would be released on.
On2 chief technology officer Dan Miller said the contribution of the VP3.2 code to the open source community marks the first time a competitive video codec has been made available in this fashion.
"We feel that it is essential to the success of the digital revolution that these enabling technologies not remain locked into closed, proprietary systems," Miller said.
"By open-sourcing (the technology) now, we hope to break the logjam of incompatible formats and heavily encumbered so-called standards, promoting a true common format that is open, documented, and freely available to all."
http://asia.internet.com/briefs/article/0,3916,4141_862921,00.html
WSJ news on Bloomberg regarding AOL-TW, Disney collaborating to offer new services - seems it involved another big name, but can't find on Blom's site.
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 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
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
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
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
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.
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.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.
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
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
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
Taipei, May 2 (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.
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
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
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 PV 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
Time Werner & PDA’s. July 28 - 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.
February 15, 2000 - Intel and PacketVideo Complete StrongARM Optimized Wireless Multimedia Decoder. http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=91284
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 Demonstrate Video and Audio for Mobile Devices
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MOT&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=...
Bell & PacketVideo - http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/010111/bell_mobil.html
March 7, 2001 -Nortel Networks and Packetvideo form streaming media partnership. Under the agreement the companies will integrate PacketVideo's streaming media solutions, which support such services as wireless video messaging, wireless video games and remote video monitoring,
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=631647
March 21, 2001 - Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo today announced a licensing agreement to integrate PacketVideo’s industry-leading wireless multimedia delivery technology into Sharp’s wireless devices. PVPlayer enables consumers to view high quality wireless sports highlights, traffic reports, and live video viewing on mobile devices, with full-motion video and audio.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=122313
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
June 18, 2001 – Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo unveiled on Monday a deal with Siemens AG , Europe's largest technology company, to license its software to run on Siemens' wireless network equipment. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=129106
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating Set-Top-Box and Automotive PBJ link-ups via Handheld Voice Remotes using TWIRL 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
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
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
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
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
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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 & 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 United States' 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…
JC/ron - Please post any news on announced sponsors.... not gona ramble thought the RB-BS.
emit...
Sorry - mistake, obviously wrong board - please remove last post .
emit..
Great! SDMI on Fed/level. Could spark just what we need.
180 days concludes at Christmas. hmmmm
Big DP push a coming. n usxm-dr
Or maybe mico-movies with release of these "unconscionable" recording contracts, to Portals & Kiosks.
emit..
ck - VoiceTimes at Work. eom
Iomega Increases Job Cuts to 1,250; Will Take Charges (Update2)
By Peter J. Brennan
Roy, Utah, Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Iomega Corp., the maker of Zip and Jaz data-storage devices for computers, increased its planned job cuts to 1,250, or 38 percent of its workforce, as the company seeks to lower costs.
Today's reduction boosts the number of jobs that will be eliminated from the 800 to 1,100 announced July 19, spokesman Chris Romoser said. Iomega will take third-quarter charges of $55 million to $65 million for the cuts, which will leave the company with 2,050 workers.
Iomega's sales have slumped as demand has fallen for personal computers and as removable data-storage devices, such as rewritable compact discs and memory-chip cards, competed for consumer dollars. Sales at the Roy, Utah-based company have fallen every year since 1997.
``The market is very, very depressed,'' President and Chief Executive Werner Heid said on a conference call.
Iomega reported a loss for the second quarter ended June 30 of $35.9 million, or 13 cents a share, compared with a profit of $40.4 million, or 15 cents, a year earlier. Sales declined 39 percent to $184 million. Iomega said when it reported the results that business was being hurt by lower revenue from the Zip and Jaz products.
Former President and Chief Executive Bruce Albertson resigned on May 21. At the time, the company blamed his departure on disagreements with the board. Heid, a former executive vice president at InFocus Corp., was named as his replacement on June 18.
Iomega's products save Internet downloads, audio files and personal photographs while protecting content from viruses and hackers.
Shares of the Roy, Utah-based company rose 7 cents, or 4.4 percent, to $1.65 in regular trading before the report. The shares have fallen 51 percent this year.
08/10 06:21
Lernout to Offer Dictaphone Creditors Shares in a New Company
By Cecile DauratBrussels, Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV, the Belgian maker of speech-recognition software under bankruptcy protection, will turn its U.S. Dictaphone unit into a new company and give shares to its creditors. The unit's creditors, which include Lernout & Hauspie itself, banks and bondholders, agreed ``in principle'' to create the company, Chief Executive Philippe Bodson said in a press conference. He declined to give further details. ``It opens the way to a final solution for Dictaphone,'' which is also under bankruptcy protection, Bodson said. ``Dictaphone will continue to operate as it has.'' Lernout & Hauspie ran into payment problems in November after borrowing $430 million last year to buy Dictaphone, a U.S. maker of recorders used by doctors, and Dragon, a software maker. Bodson, appointed in January, is now trying to sell units or create new companies for its different technologies to salvage the business. The software maker has enough money to survive until the end of October, Bodson said. Lernout & Hauspie expects the court will ``quickly'' approve the sale of its translation unit Mendez for $44.5 million to Bowne & Co. The company is also trying to sell three other units, including a transcription arm, he said. Lernout & Hauspie has said it is also considering turning its speech-recognition unit into a new company and allowing creditors to exchange their debt for shares. The unit, which includes Dragon, is spending more money than it earns because it's developing new systems, Bodson said. It needs to raise money and Lernout & Hauspie will continue to talk to potential investors who have expressed an interest, he said. ``I can not guarantee we'll get any'' firm bid, Bodson said. ``The climate is not favorable for venture capital and the Lernout & Hauspie name has scared a lot of people.''
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I better buy more.
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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 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
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
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, 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
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
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.
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.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.
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
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
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
Taipei, May 2 (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.
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
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
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 PV 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
Time Werner & PDA’s. July 28 - 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.
February 15, 2000 - Intel and PacketVideo Complete StrongARM Optimized Wireless Multimedia Decoder. http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=91284
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 Demonstrate Video and Audio for Mobile Devices
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MOT&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=...
Bell & PacketVideo - http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/010111/bell_mobil.html
March 7, 2001 -Nortel Networks and Packetvideo form streaming media partnership. Under the agreement the companies will integrate PacketVideo's streaming media solutions, which support such services as wireless video messaging, wireless video games and remote video monitoring,
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=631647
March 21, 2001 - Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo today announced a licensing agreement to integrate PacketVideo’s industry-leading wireless multimedia delivery technology into Sharp’s wireless devices. PVPlayer enables consumers to view high quality wireless sports highlights, traffic reports, and live video viewing on mobile devices, with full-motion video and audio.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=122313
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
June 18, 2001 – Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo unveiled on Monday a deal with Siemens AG , Europe's largest technology company, to license its software to run on Siemens' wireless network equipment. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=129106
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating Set-Top-Box and Automotive PBJ link-ups via Handheld Voice Remotes using TWIRL 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
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
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
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
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 United States' 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... IMHO e.Digital will work with Click - Somehow
In Conjunction, Conjunction; What's your Function.
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 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
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
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, 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
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
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.
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.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.
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
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 FIRST HALF 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
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
Taipei, May 2 (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.
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
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
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
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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."
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 PV 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
Time Werner & PDA’s. July 28 - 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.
February 15, 2000 - Intel and PacketVideo Complete StrongARM Optimized Wireless Multimedia Decoder. http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=91284
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 Demonstrate Video and Audio for Mobile Devices
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MOT&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=...
Bell & PacketVideo - http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/010111/bell_mobil.html
March 7, 2001 -Nortel Networks and Packetvideo form streaming media partnership. Under the agreement the companies will integrate PacketVideo's streaming media solutions, which support such services as wireless video messaging, wireless video games and remote video monitoring,
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=631647
March 21, 2001 - Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo today announced a licensing agreement to integrate PacketVideo’s industry-leading wireless multimedia delivery technology into Sharp’s wireless devices. PVPlayer enables consumers to view high quality wireless sports highlights, traffic reports, and live video viewing on mobile devices, with full-motion video and audio.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=122313
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
June 18, 2001 – Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo unveiled on Monday a deal with Siemens AG , Europe's largest technology company, to license its software to run on Siemens' wireless network equipment. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=129106
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating Set-Top-Box and Automotive PBJ link-ups via Handheld Voice Remotes using TWIRL and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below -
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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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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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 & 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 United States' 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…
August 3, 2001 / News Archives
Taiwan Professionals To Benefit From Mobile Internet "Hot Spots"
By asia.internet.com staff
Following the May 2001 launch of the Cisco Internet Mobile Office (CIMO) initiative in Taiwan, Cisco Systems, Infoserve and Acer Technology will now make the Internet Mobile Office service available at more than 10 "hot spots" in Taiwan.
"The Cisco Internet Mobile Office initiative is an example of how technology is revolutionizing businesses. The program offers business professionals secure and reliable access to their corporate network while they are on the move, thus increasing the productivity of enterprises," said Larry Sun, Country Manager of Cisco Systems Taiwan.
"Cisco Taiwan is pleased to be working with industry leaders such as Infoserve and Acer Sertek to launch and expand this initiative in Taiwan."
To date, the CIMO service has been launched in Hong Kong and Singapore, with a host of locations serving as "hot spots" where mobile business professionals can take advantage of secure, high-speed network access to the Internet and their corporate resources.
Scheduled for general availability in mid-August, the newly launched service in Taipei integrates features of CIMO, Infoserve Internet Mobile Office (isIMO) and Acer's Travelmate 610 notebook.
Said James Chiang, president of Acer Sertek, "With the introduction of our newest Acer TravelMate 611 TXCi, we are very pleased and excited to be working with Infoserve and Cisco to offer secure broadband network access to mobile business professionals. This is the first notebook in Taiwan with built-in wireless capability and offers users security, reliability and convenience."
The service will initially be available at more than 10 publicly accessible locations in Taiwan. These include coffee shops such as Boncafe, Caravali Collection, The Coffee Bean, Doutor Coffee, I`R Caffe Trattoria; and hotels including Four Points Sheraton at Chung Ho, Taipei.
According to Infoserve's general manager Michael Chang, Infoserve is "actively negotiating" with hotels, airports, coffee shops and airlines to take part in the Internet Mobile Office initiative. "We are confident that there will be more hot spots soon," he added.
August 6, 2001 / News Archives
Sony Launches So-net HK Broadband Service In Hong Kong
By asia.internet.com staff
Sony Corporation of Hong Kong has launched So-net HK, its premium broadband ISP, marking the Sony Group's first effort to actively expand its broadband Internet service unit outside of Japan.
"So-net is a very significant element of the Sony Dream Community, which draws on Sony hardware, broadband services, and content assets - such as music, movies, games - and connects them seamlessly," said Senji Yamamoto, president of Sony Communication Network Corporation.
"Thus, it enables customers to be connected interactively in the largest community in the world. So-net continues in Sony's tradition of quality and we expect it will be a key player to shape the broadband market in Hong Kong."
Sony Communication Network Corporation had introduced the So-net ISP service in Japan in 1996, and had recently awarded So-net HK a sub-license to operate a broadband service under the So-net brand.
All content in the So-net HK domain is specifically designed for Hong Kong subscribers. Its six core channels include Game Life, Japan Station, Cafi Sensation, Movie Theatre, 3D Chat Room and Fortune Parlor. Future additions to this list will include special TV programs, interactive infotainment, and 'live' and pre-recorded events.
Subscribers need only pay a monthly service fee to access a host of services including flexible personal information management tools, such as upgradeable e-mail, and file storage space within the So-net HK domain. They will have a choice of network speeds at 1.5Mbps and 3Mbps, with reliability, quality performance and coverage throughout Hong Kong, a company statement read.
So-net HK partners Business eSolutions (of PCCW), iLink Holdings and NASDAQ-listed Portal Software are tasked with ensuring high-speed, quality service for the SAR's sophisticated customers.
"We aim to become a preferred choice in this market. We have therefore concentrated on forming links with principal players in the industry to maintain our high standards of customer-focused service," said Nobumasa Yui, division manager of So-net HK.
August 2, 2001 / News Archives
YesAsia.com Deals With EMI, Acquires AngelPop
By Michael Singer
Executives with online Asian entertainment product retailer, YesAsia, say two major announcements have them quite pleased this week.
The San Francisco-based company, which sells music, video, karaoke, games, comic books, magazines, electronics, toys and gifts, Thursday signed a commercial and marketing agreement with the Asian region of EMI Music.
The deal with EMI gives YesAsia the rights to market EMI Asia's music products to consumers and retail stores in North America.
"North America has enormous Asian market potential that is largely untapped, primarily due to the limited network of traditional retail music channels," says EMI Asia Director of Business Development William Hsieh. "We are confident of their ability to assist EMI Asia in reaching consumers here - both online and offline."
The two companies say they will also work to promote EMI Asia artists through a series of marketing campaigns.
"We are profoundly encouraged and pleased by EMI Asia's recognition of the market potential for Asian artists in North America and YesAsia's proven marketing and operational capabilities," says YesAsia COO, David Liu. "We view this relationship as an important milestone in the worldwide popularization of Asian music."
YesAsia has similar partnerships with Sony, Universal Music and Rock Records.
As if that wasn't enough, YesAsia's also announced it is acquiring AngelPop, a competitor that specializes in online shopping for Korean products.
The two companies say they will combine forces and translation technology to target Korean online shoppers and improve customer service.
"The opportunity to further raise the bar for technology and customer service was a big factor in our decision to join the YesAsia team," says AngelPop COO Paul Yoo. "What I envisioned for AngelPop in these areas is already a reality at YesAsia."
The deal also means several cross-merchandising opportunities for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean products now sold at the two sites.
Since the two companies are privately owned, financial details were not made public.
802.11 Conference and Exhibition will be the first commercial event of its kind for the IEEE802.11 standards industry.
This is not yet another conference for middle level marketing managers. 802.11 Conference and Exhibition is an intensive 2 days cutting to the core of the industry - critically examining the technologies and building the future for 802.11 standards.
http://www.eyeforwireless.com/
ck... You probably use this.. fyi
http://www.telematicsupdate.com/
emit...
This strategy has allowed Codeonline to rocket out of nowhere to take the leading position in its niche – counting to date a whopping 90 million users thanks to deals it’s made with a list of mobile operators that reads like a Who’s Who of the industry including Telia Mobile, Telefonica, Telstra, T-Motion, Sonera Zed – and most recently Vodafone. It has also won broadcast companies including Intervisio and TV4/Finland.
www.mformobile.com look under 'Meet the press: Codeonline
T-Motion adopts i-mode revenue model for mobile Net
8/2/2001
Deutsche Telekom AG on Thursday said it would start charging users to view some Internet sites on their mobile phones in an attempt to emulate the successful business model of Japan's NTT DoCoMo.
The German operator's mobile Internet portal T-Motion Plc will launch a package of premium services in August priced 19.55 marks ($8.80) a month, although they will be free until November.
It will share up to half the revenues with its content providers, following the business model of DoCoMo. While the mobile Internet has largely disappointed European users, DoCoMo has persuaded people to pay for its online i-mode service by encouraging content companies to offer high-quality sites.
"This is a first attempt to drive the industry forward in adopting a healthy business model," said T-Motion Chief Executive Nikesh Arora.
The package to be offered in Germany will offer up to 25 services including sports, financial and music news and a food guide. Services for the UK and Austria will follow later in the year.
Users will register for the services on their phones using a new online billing system, which T-Motion said it will offer to Internet retailers.
Mobile operators hope "m-commerce" billing systems will turn phones into electronic wallets, allowing people to charge everything from online shopping to vending machine purchases to their phone bills.
T-Motion is the default Internet portal for mobile phone customers of T-D1 in Germany, One 2 One in the UK and max mobil in Austria.
By Reuters Staff
Cisco Unveils Mobile Content Delivery Device
8/2/2001 Author: By Clint Boulton
While some financial analysts are predicting stilted consumer spending, the big technology guns are focusing on improving the performance of products consumers might buy when the supposedly stale economy refreshes. But that hasn't stopped companies from eyeing the B2B sector with some interest. In fact, businesses are buying mobile communications devices for their employees.
Firms like Cisco Systems Inc. realize this. The networking titan Wednesday released an appliance that can help businesses offer multiple types of Web content over personal digital assistants (PDAs) and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) phones, and in the process, leveled its competitive barrel at long-time rival Nortel Networks.
Released under its AVVID umbrella, (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data), the Cisco CTE 1400 Series Content Transformation Engine is a rack-unit appliance designed to convert HTML and XML data formats appropriate for client devices with special display requirements.
And just what will such a device help create? Cisco's expects CTE will mobilize intranet and extranet applications such as sales automation and e-commerce for corporate employees. CTE works by accepting requests from handsets or PDAs and requests the content from back-end servers. The Cisco CTE functions as a reverse-proxy, acting as a Web server to the client device and as a client device to the Web server. The device transforms the content properly for each device, sending information formatted to fit the screen and memory requirements of the specific requesting device.
The Cisco CTE works seamlessly with routers, switches, server load balancers, content engines, Web servers, firewalls, virtual private network (VPN) solutions and IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN products to provide a seamless, high performance solution.
One analyst who has been briefed on CTE testified: "The Cisco CTE revolutionizes the way that customers deal with Web content," said Joel Conover, senior analyst at Current Analysis Inc. "Customers can leverage the Cisco CTE to seamlessly transform their Web content for client devices. With the introduction of this solution, Cisco is throwing down the gauntlet and challenging competitor's claims in the multi- and mobile-device content delivery space."
Moreover, Conover told InternetNews.com that he sees Cisco's play as one aggressive answer to Nortel's Personal Internet Initiative, announced last January. He called it a different approach to serving and identifying content to the nearest possible server for smooth delivery.
"This ought to be a wake-up call," Conover said. "Their Nortel's solution depends on the end user to define different policies for different content. CTE defines the policies for them for the exisiting content with what is called style sheets. It's a more streamlined approach. I can see there being less administrative overhead with CTE."
But CTE isn't just for big business. Indeed, though it will be widely available this month for a hefty price tag of $69,995, CTE has already been tested by one technologically-savvy campus -- Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif., which has been a wireless campus for more than two years.
The prestigious school recently upgraded its wireless network to include the Aironet 350 Series wireless LAN (WLAN) products and started providing academic content to all Net-ready devices, including PDAs, Pocket PCs, WAP and IP phones, for faculty and students. The school has been using the CTE to ensure that its students have ubiquitous access to law school information online from their personal devices.
To be sure, this is more of a B2O play, as in business-to-organization, but it is not difficult to imagine the possibility of Cisco selling a number of the pricey devices to giants such as Honeywell, or GE, where scads of employees crave access to audio and visual content from personal devices.
Supportive of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) sessions and most virtual private networks, CTE can be quickly installed into any network infrastructure without requiring any changes to hardware or back-end software. Each Cisco CTE supports up to 10,000 simultaneous users and 1,400 active sessions per unit. Clint Boulton
internet.com corp.
Sending Out An SMS
8/3/2001 Author: Kristi Essick - Paris Bureau Chief
PARIS - One afternoon spent watching teenagers beam short text messages to one another's cell phones in a Helsinki park is enough to convince even the most cynical observer that wireless technology has transformed the way we communicate.
Now Europe's mobile operators are hoping to turn a fad into a cash cow with a new SMS, or person-to-person messaging, format: so-called pull marketing, where customers request specific information through their phones and are willing to pay for it.
So far, aside from sending and receiving individual messages, SMS has "pushed" information such as sports scores, stock quotes and weather. Customers sign up for the alerts they are interested in at a mobile portal; the alerts either come free with an obligatory ad or are paid for by credit card. Operators make money each time the portal company sends an SMS message.
The problem with push technology, mobile operators and content providers say, is that it's all one-way traffic. "Pushing is no big deal; pulling is the future," says Stanislas Chesnais, chairman and CEO of Netsize, a French startup that offers SMS technology to link content providers and mobile operators.
Here's how pull works: Imagine you'd like to see the movie
Shrek.
With a pull service, the theater operates two mobile phone numbers that mobile users can call to send text messages - one for show times and one for film reviews. You send the message "Shrek" to the first number and receive the show times for the day via SMS. This costs 30 euro cents (about 25 cents U.S.). Then, wanting to learn more about the film, you send another message saying "Shrek" to the second number and receive a short review of the film. This service costs about 43 cents. The charges show up on your mobile phone bill; the operator and the movie theater get a cut.
SMS can be used to deliver any kind of content or service adapted to the text format, including price-comparison services, real-time traffic information and financial news. But users could also send SMS messages to certain numbers to purchase digital music downloads, ring tones and personalized phone logos.
Premium SMS services, including push and pull models, are already in use in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, and will soon launch in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. "Every operator is doing it. They need the money," says Netsize's Chesnais. Pull services represent about 5 percent of Netsize's business today, but could make up 80 percent of overall revenues by the end of the year, he says.
"Operators are trying to move away from plain-vanilla SMS," says Amrish Kacker, an analyst at Analysys Consulting. "First you could get news alerts; now operators are offering personalized services at different cost levels." People may be willing to pay a premium for pull services, the theory goes, because they need the information immediately and only once (directory assistance, for instance).
Pull marketing is already catching on. Proximus, the No. 1 Belgian mobile operator, has 800,000 users after a year in service for its SMS information services, including both push and pull systems. But services adapted to the pull format, such as the purchase of new ring tones, are by far the most popular, says Proximus spokesman Jean-Luc Van Kerckhoven. Proximus charges 25 Belgian francs (about 54 cents) for each SMS sent to purchase a new ring tone, while it charges just six Belgian francs (13 cents) for each regular SMS message.
But SMS, and pull marketing in particular, are hardly the answers to Europe's severe wireless headache. Just a couple of years ago, a similar form of pull marketing for the Web was poised to turn the world of advertising on its head. That revolution never materialized.
Then there are the long-term prospects of SMS to consider. SMS traffic contributes 10 percent to 12 percent of European mobile revenues, with the highest usage in Scandinavia and the lowest in France.
The use of SMS information services will increase until 2003, when revenues from the services will top $88 million. But by 2004, revenues will begin to drop off, according to IDC, levelling out at just over $65 million in 2005. That's when graphic-rich third-generation phone services are expected to usurp their text-based predecessors.
In the meantime, person-to-person messaging will account for the lion's share of SMS revenue - some $6.5 billion in 2003 - says IDC. Maybe the world is full of silly love notes. And what's wrong with that, mobile operators want to know? (magazine)
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 Platforms – And The New Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM 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
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 and TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link 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
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, 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
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
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.
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.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.
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
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 FIRST HALF 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
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
Taipei, May 2 (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.
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.
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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
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.
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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."
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
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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.
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PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. IMO e.Digital and PV 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
Time Werner & PDA’s. July 28 - 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.
February 15, 2000 - Intel and PacketVideo Complete StrongARM Optimized Wireless Multimedia Decoder. http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=91284
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 Demonstrate Video and Audio for Mobile Devices
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=MOT&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=...
Bell & PacketVideo - http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/010111/bell_mobil.html
March 7, 2001 -Nortel Networks and Packetvideo form streaming media partnership. Under the agreement the companies will integrate PacketVideo's streaming media solutions, which support such services as wireless video messaging, wireless video games and remote video monitoring,
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=631647
March 21, 2001 - Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo today announced a licensing agreement to integrate PacketVideo’s industry-leading wireless multimedia delivery technology into Sharp’s wireless devices. PVPlayer enables consumers to view high quality wireless sports highlights, traffic reports, and live video viewing on mobile devices, with full-motion video and audio.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=122313
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
June 18, 2001 – Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo unveiled on Monday a deal with Siemens AG , Europe's largest technology company, to license its software to run on Siemens' wireless network equipment. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=129106
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating Set-Top-Box and Automotive PBJ link-ups via Handheld Voice Remotes using TWIRL and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below -
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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.
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
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
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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
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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
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
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
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
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
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Jimee11’s Response: #258031
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emit’s Response: #258056
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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 United States' 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’
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And how it relates to e.Digital
FYI - Emerging markets
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There appears to be a wide user base that is ready to hear e-mail read over the phone. Both AOL and Yahoo consider e-mail reading to be a key component of their voice portal services, AOL by Phone and Yahoo by Phone. These applications have been successful enough to warrant continuation: For example, AOL by Phone attracted about 300,000 users in its first three months, and currently handles about 1 million calls per week (numbers supplied by SpeechWorks, which supplies the Speechify TTS system to both users.
Pamela Ravesi, senior director of product management at Lernout & Hauspie NV, said that there is no one universal standard for the deployment of RealSpeak, L&H's flagship TTS product, which has been used in applications as diverse as Webley, BeVocal, TellMe and Ananova.
http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/current/reader_application.shtm
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BeVocal n TellMe are the VR for Directory Assistance - 90% recognition rate.
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PipeBeach, partners Deliver VoiceXML Portal
PipeBeach AB and its partners, Philips Speech Processing and Infovox, announced that they have completed the installation of what they call the first fully VoiceXML-based voice portal for a mobile operator, the Swedish GSM operator Europolitan Vodafone AB.
The Europolitan Vodafone voice portal is based on PipeBeach's carrier-grade VoiceXML platform speech-Web and speechWeb Portal application. SpeechWeb supports the emerging VoiceXML Web standard using an open speech component architecture. The speechWeb system deployed by Europolitan Vodafone uses Philips Speech Processing's SpeechPearl 2000 speech recognition engine and Infovox text-to-speech synthesis.
PipeBeach said the speechWeb Portal application is a VoiceXML application that lets the mobile operator rapidly introduce various applications. The Europolitan Vodafone voice portal includes services such as weather, financial news, sports, news and entertainment. Because of its open architecture, new services can be rapidly added to the voice portal. The speechWeb Portal application also lets user personalize the speech interface through the Europolitan Vodafone Web site. The speechWeb Portal includes advanced functionality for dynamic adjusting of the speech user interface based on the experience level of the user
Much of the progress in practical systems has been built upon the development in 1985-86 of a continuous-speech recognition model that is independent of the speaker. The breakthrough Sphinx I system was developed by Kai Fu Lee, a Carnegie Mellon graduate student now with Microsoft. His work provided the core recognition technology, which has served as the foundation for creating more and more precise acoustic models.
http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/current/sphinx.shtml
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