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PipeBeach Chooses Fonix FAAST Text-To-Speech Solutions for the speechWeb
Voice Portal Fonix FAAST Framework Provides 250 Channels
per Server Running on a Single
Intelâ Pentiumâ III 700 mHz Processor
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (December 18, 2000)
http://www.pipebeach.com/html/news/news_2000-12-18.htm
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PipeBeach delivers the world's first VoiceXML voice portal to Europolitan Vodafone Stockholm and Karlskrona, Sweden, Aachen, Germany, April 11, 2001.
PipeBeach AB, the leader in VoiceXML platforms for mobile network operators, and its partners Philips Speech Processing and Infovox, today announced that they have completed the installation of the first fully VoiceXML based voice portal for a mobile operator, the Swedish GSM operator Europolitan Vodafone AB,
http://www.pipebeach.com/html/news/news_2001-04-11.html
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Speech Analysis
By Anna Karampahtsis Are Voice Portals Really a Joke?
No, It is the Early Stages of the Industry In the early stages of the industry, "voice portal" was the term used to describe certain services offered to consumers when calling a toll-free number. However, with the passage of time, the focus on the consumer side has turned into a focus on the enterprise space. There are voice portals where the consumer application plays the role of a showcase. Their goal is to show the industry that the technology is here, the applications are desirable and they are ready to build awareness and educate the market. The idea is to build brand recognition, promote and sell their infrastructure. Others initially thought the revenue model from the consumer side would be strong enough to support their business entities. Yet, after realizing that the margins were limited in this space, especially since the industry was in its early stages, these portals began reforming their business strategies focusing on the enterprise segment. Voice portals have found significant roles in working with businesses to build their corporate portals. Voice Portals' value proposition to the Telecom Carriers
Although voice portals are planning to target a plethora of industries and offer a number of services and applications, their main focus will be telecom carriers. The telecom industry faces the problem of declining revenue and increasing churn. Voice portal services and applications will enhance the carriers' existing offerings and address some of their fundamental needs. At the moment, the major benefits for the carriers are:
New customer insight - additional applications address consumer needs and make cell phone use more desirable for non-users.
Expansion of revenue sources. - Revenues from additional minutes from existing customers, contributing to an increased market potential (users multiplied by usage). -Revenues from subscriptions, sponsorships, ads, commerce and transactions - telecom carriers are planning to share revenues with the entities that will be involved in such activities.
Increase competitive differen- tiation/advantages - with enhanced, personalized services customized to the profile, needs and location of the caller, carriers can increase customer satisfaction and loyalty and reduce churn.
Reduced costs through automation of enhanced directory assistance churn. Value Proposition to the Enterprises
The benefits in the enterprise space are coming from different directions and depend on factors such as the size of the company, its primary technology, whether it is capital or labor intensive and the company's field of operations. Generally speaking, the voice interface will have a major impact on industries where it can decrease overall costs and increase efficiency and effectiveness, resulting in customer satisfaction and loyalty. The voice interface can replace the traditional interactive voice response systems and contribute to the call center's automation. Call centers can handle more calls and require fewer customer representatives, who will be used only when necessary. The rate of dropped calls is significantly reduced, since callers are satisfied with their requests in a faster and more convenient way. Companies are becoming more "virtual" every day. Multiple office locations, telecommuting, offshore manufacturing, international engineering teams and remote salespeople are common examples of how business entities operate today. Applications such as voice-enabled unified messaging, call completion, personal assistants and voice interfaces provide ways to keep businesses and employees connected and make information available any time from anywhere. The voice interface can transform corporate data into audio, giving a broader range of applications and supplementary services in the business world. The plethora of new applications includes voice-enabled address books, e-mail, send and receive fax capabilities, sales force automation and travel related services. It also allows for integration with corporate data such as inventory, production schedules or payment information to sales people, conferencing calls and/or delivery of third-party content. Voice portals have begun a migration from serving as simple dial-up instant information sources to developing and sometimes hosting valuable information sources for companies in the enterprise. It is this latter role that could very well be the profitable business model driving the voice portal expansion.
AACHEN, Germany, STOCKHOLM, Sweden, 5 July 2001
Philips Speech Processing, an acknowledged expert in network-based speech applications for telephony, Internet and mobile Internet, today announces the formal agreement to extend its technical and commercial partnership with Sweden's PipeBeach AB, a leader in VoiceXML platforms for mobile network operators.
PipeBeach has integrated Philips' SpeechPearlÒ 2000 speech recognition engine and understanding software package into its carrier-grade VoiceXML platform speechWeb. Philips Speech Processing's SpeechPearl 2000 is specially designed to integrate into third-party voice processing platforms such as PipeBeach's speechWeb™. Philips Speech Processing's product offer includes a complete set of modular components to add natural language processing and offers the largest vocabulary capability in the industry with more than one million words. In June this year the two companies formed an international strategic reseller alliance to deliver advanced speech recognition solutions.
Since VoiceXML is becoming the new standard for voice-based web services, the reseller contract with PipeBeach enables Philips Speech Processing to capture a share of the VoiceXML market and to meet the demand for fully VoiceXML-based services. For PipeBeach the alliance will extend the reach of its technology through Philips as an additional and very important sales channel.
Working together, Philips Speech Processing and PipeBeach become the leading force for VoiceXML-based services. They address the needs of service providers and the telecommunications industry to provide their customers with innovative and exciting services in an increasingly competitive market. Both parties also actively drive the standardization process of VoiceXML within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). PipeBeach will benefit from Philips' industry-leading speech recognition technology, which incorporates the latest advances in conversational language interaction that enable callers to speak in their own words, rather than follow menus of prompts.
"Extending our alliance increases the scope of how Philips' speech recognition technology can be implemented in the applications and solutions that PipeBeach creates for customers. It also extends Philips' reach in the market while at the same time it opens up new opportunities. We look forward to continuing our combined success in the VoiceXML market." said Rob Thornton, senior vice president for Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, Philips Speech Processing / Telephony Solutions.
Adding to this, Christer Granberg, Chief Executive Officer of PipeBeach, said: "We are delighted to continue our strategic alliance with Philips, so that we can not only benefit from their continuing technology advances, but also use Philips' world wide support and sales channels and thus make speechWeb easy accessibly all around the world. "
One of the first projects resulting from the partnership between Philips Speech Processing and PipeBeach AB was the installation of the first fully VoiceXML-based voice portal for the Swedish GSM operator Europolitan Vodafone AB.
The new strategic agreement reinforces the existing and ongoing cooperation between the two companies in deploying a number of highly successful implementations.
About Philips
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of EUR 37.9 billion in 2000. It is a global leader in colour television sets, lighting, electric shavers, colour picture tubes for televisions and monitors, and one-chip TV products. Its 219,400 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances, components, semiconductors, and medical systems. Philips is quoted on the NYSE (symbol: PHG), London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and other stock exchanges. News from Philips is located at www.news.philips.com
About Philips Speech Processing
Philips Speech Processing, a business unit of Royal Philips Electronics, is a pioneer and global leader in speech recognition, natural dialogue and language understanding technologies, with more than 40 years experience in the development and marketing of speech products. Philips offers a broad portfolio of speech technology solutions to the telecommunications industry. As a developer and provider of speech technologies in multiple languages, Philips has the largest installed base of speech recognition and natural language understanding systems in Europe, and is a large and growing provider of speech technology in the Americas and other regions of the world. Installations include directory assistance and call center services automation, voice portals, telephony and Internet applications. Visit www.speech.philips.com/telephony for additional information.
About PipeBeach
PipeBeach AB, with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, and offices in São Paulo, Brazil, develops innovative services for mobile Internet access using speech technology. PipeBeach has pioneered an open approach to speech application design using standard Internet technologies. The company is a leading contributor to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortia standardisation on speech based web services. In addition, Scott McGlashan, CTC, is the chairman of the W3C subgroup for VoiceXML.
About speechWeb™
speechWeb™ is a carrier class VoiceXML platform that allows applications and services written in VoiceXML, located on standard web servers, to be accessed over the phone. speechWeb converts VoiceXML documents into interactive dialogs using advanced Internet and multi-lingual speech technologies. Today speechWeb supports more than 10 languages for both automatic speech recognition a
JAPAN'S MTI TO BECOME PACKETVIDEO'S FIRST WIRELESS RICH MEDIA PUBLISHER
San Diego, CA - July 17, 2001
PacketVideo Corporation, the recognized leader in software for the delivery of rich media over today’s wireless networks, and Mobilephone Telecommunications International (MTI), Ltd., Japan’s leading mobile content provider, today announced that MTI has become PacketVideo’s first preferred wireless rich media publisher.
As a preferred publisher, MTI has licensed PacketVideo’s leading multimedia delivery platform – PVPlatform™ – to create rich media services for mobile users, including live streaming lifestyle services such as restaurant and travel guides. MTI also plans to create a variety of rich media applications covering several genres, including communications, entertainment, information and m-commerce.
“MTI looks forward to working with PacketVideo to provide mobile users with advanced services that are tailored for the wireless medium,” said Toshihiro Maeta, president of MTI. “We are impressed with PacketVideo’s advanced technology that is optimized for the wireless environment and their understanding of creating a new business and culture that leverages rich media in innovative ways that address the needs of mobile users.”
PacketVideo plans to support MTI’s efforts through its Global Developer Network, a comprehensive program designed to empower application developers around the globe to build standards-based rich media applications for any mobile environment. The PacketVideo Global Developer Network will equip members with the technical and marketing resources necessary to successfully define, build, test and commercialize wireless rich media applications on PacketVideo’s leading platform for wireless multimedia delivery.
“PacketVideo is tremendously excited about the opportunity to work with MTI to enable them to create compelling rich media applications and services,” said Tadahisa Saito, general manager of PacketVideo Japan. “We firmly believe that the availability of rich media applications created for the unique needs of the mobile user is essential in driving the wireless multimedia industry forward. MTI’s expertise and relationships in the Japanese wireless industry, leadership in providing mobile content and services, and proactive stance in adopting cutting-edge technologies make it an ideal partner for PacketVideo. We will continue to support MTI in the expansion and solidification of its business, both in Japan and abroad.”
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About MTI
In the rapidly-evolving mobile communications industry, MTI, Ltd. leads the industry in sales of cellular phones and PHS by out bound marketing; providing content services to wireless operators; and in providing mobile Internet services optimized for each customer’s needs.
MTI sells its phones at convenience stores using MMK, and develops original handy phones through partnerships with renowned artists and characters. MTI provides more than 300 mobile content titles including “Real-time Stock Price”, “Traffic Information” and “Restaurant Guide” using graphics and Java that cover a broad range of categories such as business, lifestyle, entertainment, communications and e-Commerce. MTI also develops mobile solutions based on its expertise in sales, content planning and technological edge.
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Maybe news coming on the TriGem/Inel players -
EEEE is moving up.
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Versatile-Link enables the head unit to
deliver high quality sound from both audio and video sources such as portable audio devices, MP3 players, VHS players, TV
tuners and video games.
Alpines new CDA-7878 - PJB/DAP/PDA Conjunction link.
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Nokia and Orange UK sign contracts worth EUR 800 million for GSM expansion and 3G UMTS radio network, reaffirming long cooperation
(August 01, 2001)
Nokia has signed contracts with Orange UK for the supply of 3G UMTS and GSM network expansion and 3G infrastructure. The agreements represent an extension of the companies' long-term cooperation in GSM networks, and reiterates their cooperation in 3G networks announced in April. The estimated investments under these contracts are worth over EUR 800 million over three years.
Initial delivery of the Nokia's 3G trial equipment for Orange UK and the Orange Group has been completed and will be followed by network rollout. Nokia will also provide telecom-related services, including project management, training, installation, commissioning, and technical support for both GSM and 3G networks
http://press.nokia.com/PR/200108/828782_5.html
BELGIUM, BURLINGTON, Mass. -- July 19, 2001 -- Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (OTC: LHSPQ) ('L&H' or 'the Company'), a world leader in speech and language technology, products and services, today announced that its Speech and Language Technologies Division (SLT) has signed a license agreement with Orange, the UK's fastest growing mobile phone operator.
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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 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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…
AMISTM - Audio Manager Interface Software - PC driver for interfacing portable devices to various PC-based song managers.
hmmmm......
BMG AND PARTNERS DELIVER INTERTRUST PORTABLE DEVICE SUPPORT FOR ON-LINE MUSIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
MusicMatch, Digital World Services and InterTrust launch support for InterTrust Rights/PD(tm) based devices
New York, NY January 2, 2001 - BMG and their technology partners today announced portable device support for InterTrust DRM-based portable devices. Starting today all tracks purchased through BMG retailers may now be transferred to music portable devices that support InterTrust's DRM technology known as Rights/PD. BMG launched its digital downloading program in October, making its artists' music available through a growing network of traditional and online retail affiliates using Digital World Services' Retailer Integration System and MusicMatch Jukebox to listen to and transfer music to Intertrust-DRM based portable devices. The system, which delivers CD quality music using AAC, is based on DRM technology and services supplied by Digital World Services and InterTrust.
"BMG applauds Digital World Services, MusicMatch and InterTrust for their efforts to make our artists' music more accessible to more consumers," said Christa Haussler, Vice President, New Technology, BMG Entertainment. "We believe that the flexibility to transfer high quality and secure content to portable devices is a key element to providing consumers with the best possible experience in digital music."
InterTrust Rights/PD is the leading DRM system for music portable devices. Rights/PD has the capability of providing full SDMI compliance for electronically distributed music. Rights/PD-based device manufacturers include market leaders such as Samsung, Diamond and Creative Labs. Compaq released world's first Rights/PD enabled device, iPAQ PA1, last October. At least three other Rights/PD devices are projected to be in the market by early 1st Quarter 2001.
"The BMG system clearly shows the fluidity with which content can move from hosting service to PC to PD using our DRM platform," said Talal Shamoon, InterTrust SVP Media. "The availability of protected content for portable devices is a key milestone for DRM-based electronic music distribution systems."
The capability to transfer music to portable devices is an evolutionary feature provided by Digital World Services working with InterTrust. Digital World Services provides packaging, hosting and clearinghouse services to BMG.
"Portable device support will be another demonstration of the flexibility of our service platform," said Johann Butting, CEO of Digital World Services. "Managing Rights/PD functionality through our clearinghouse will clearly demonstrate that our service platform is cutting edge."
redwing ~ Thank You... eom
boston - You are correct - I missed that.
Actually only helps em to lean towards lower cost.
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While in college during the 80s at UK there was this extrodinarly good rock-n-roll station, WKQQ. I proceeded to buy what eventually amounted to three tape-casses worth of High-Bias 120-190 minute cassette tapes.
Over the next several years I pushed the record-button on my Sears LXI Sterio System and compiled what I now call my ''TS Productions'' IMO... the best of the best.
Now... What to stop some of these big name XMUS-DR Indash builders like Alpine n Clarion from incorporating an HDD or a simple output jack to attach a PJB to grab any song you like via AAC/sPAC. Hell... with digital, you'll be able to see the name of the song and artist on the lcd before its played.
DABOSS/TIN Someone needs to inquire to Visteon if MACH MP3 has this capability or if they plan on it.
IMHO - They will & are. If they arn't - Someone Somewhere Is Or Will.
emit...
Jeez - Another 180 days, When will it end.
Web Music Fight Plays Out in D.C.
By Andrew Osterman
2:00 a.m. July 31, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government is about to dramatically alter the
business of
streaming audio on the Internet by deciding how much the recording
industry should be
paid each time someone listens to a song.
On Monday, the Copyright Office convened a long-awaited series of
hearings to set a
standard fee that webcasters must pay to the copyright owners of
songs. A panel will hear
testimony for the next 180 days, and the recommendations most likely
will be incorporated
into the eventual decision of the Copyright Office.
This Byzantine, bureaucratic process will end in an agreement that
will determine, among
other things, whether advertising-supported online music sites can be
profitable or not.
Robert Garrett, a lawyer representing the Recording Industry
Association of America,
proposed two different licensing schemes on Monday.
The first would be a flat 15 percent of all revenue generated by the
playing of copyrighted
material, and the second would be a per-song, per-listener fee of
$0.004. That's some 30
times as much as webcasters are hoping to pay.
"We don't have control over how our products are used, but we do have
the right to
compensation," Garrett said.
Part of Monday's hearing was closed to the public because the topic
was the financial
agreements the RIAA has already made with a small number of
webcasters.
In February, the Copyright Office asked the groups to voluntarily
determine a reasonable
rate for the webcasting of copyrighted material. Both sides proposed
their respective rates
-- but couldn't reach a compromise.
Currently, webcasters do not have to pay an industry-wide standard
rate, although 26
have inked individual agreements with the RIAA.
A Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, the group that began meeting
Monday, establishes a
compulsory license fee by guessing at the rates and terms that might
have been
negotiated by a willing buyer and willing seller in a free market.
These fees and terms
represent what all copyright users must pay for every song,
regardless of who owns the
rights.
The most common example of this is radio stations, which don't have
to negotiate with
every record company for every song they play. They simply check with
the Copyright
Office for the license fee, cut the check, and mail it to the
appropriate person.
The government's involvement in
the current controversy began
in 1995, when Congress enacted
the Digital Performance Right in
Sound Recordings Act "to ensure
that recording artists and record
companies will be protected and
to create fair and efficient
licensing mechanisms." It
required a license fee for
subscription webcasts.
According to the Copyright
Office, Congress "did not
understand how
non-subscription services were
utilizing the Internet to bring
music to the public or how to
license such enterprises."
The DPRA left a large loophole through which radio stations that
simultaneously webcast
their broadcasts were wiggling.
Three years later, Congress used the now-infamous Digital Millennium
Copyright Act to
amend the copyright law to include all digital transmissions. This
closed the loophole and
brought the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) into the fray.
Whichever plan is approved by U.S. regulators will be retroactive to
October 1998, when
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act took effect.
In March 2000, the NAB tried to have most simultaneous transmissions
of radio broadcasts
via the Internet by FCC-licensed broadcasters exempted from the
licensing requirement by
saying that there was no difference how such transmissions were made.
This attempt failed and set the stage for the conflict between the
webcasters -- now
including webcasting services and streamed broadcasters -- and the
copyright owners.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45703-2,00.html
MTV Gets Down With Downloads
by Brad King
12:20 p.m. April 4, 2001 PDT
Music television is about to expand to the Internet, as all five major labels announce a new retail service that will allow consumers to purchase digital downloads through MTV's online network.
The downloads will initially be sold through the MTV Radio and VH1 At Work streaming stations, which use Rioport's Pulse One Media Services delivery system. When listeners hear a song they want to purchase, they can click on a buy button and immediately purchase a secure download.
http://www.mtv.com/sendme.tin?page=http://www.rioport.com/MTV
SAF
The SAF (Secure Audio Format) is a format provided by InterTrust. SAF files contain high-quality AAC encoded content.
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SAF content has the following usage rules:Local playback - Unlimited Permission to burn audio track to CD - None Permission to transfer audio track to InterTrust-certified portable device - Unlimited Total # of installs from My Account - 1Note: Albums provided by BMG in the SAF will give you the option to download them as an entire album or as individual tracks.
WMA The Windows Media Audio (.wma) format is Microsoft Corporation's secure audio format. If you select WMA tracks on our site, you are charged while online, after you confirm and process your order. A license for each WMA track is delivered to your computer at the time of download and tracks are downloaded to your computer using our Download Manager.
WMA content provided by EMI has the following usage rules:Local playback - Unlimited
Permission to burn audio track to CD - 2 times
Permission to transfer audio track to WMA-enabled portable device - Unlimited
Total # of installs from My Account - 3Note: Albums provided by EMI in the WMA format cannot be downloaded as individual tracks, only as entire albums.
WMA content provided by Warner has the following usage rules:Local playback - Unlimited
Permission to burn audio track to CD - None
Permission to transfer audio track to WMA-enabled portable device - 3 transfers to SDMI compatible devices
Total # of installs from My Account - 1Note: Albums provided by Warner in the WMA format will give you the option to download them as an entire album or as individual tracks.
Additionally, different formats will require different software to play the music you are downloading.
[Who will make the process effortless] Note Lycos was a first to jump on downloads with bmg using intertrust, but look - Guess we'll have intertrus n rioport n wma runing on IBM servers....
July 26, 2001 / News Archives Terra Lycos, IBM Ink Tech, Ad Deals
By Colin C. Haley
MACROPROCESSING
Under a new two-year deal, Terra Lycos will buy millions of dollars worth of servers, software and services from IBM (NYSE:IBM). The Spanish Internet media giant, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Mass., and the Armonk, N.Y., computer maker will also jointly develop new technologies and applications. "The pairing of the two global leaders provides a platform for technology exchanges and collaboration on strategic projects," Joaquim Agut, Terra Lycos' executive chairman, said in a statement. The infrastructure component covers a range of Big Blue products including: servers that run on UNIX, Windows NT, or Linux operating systems; and software from Lotus (an IBM division) and recently acquired Informix. Further strengthening technology ties between the companies, Terra Lycos CTO Tim Wright will join IBM's advanced e-business council, a group working to identify emerging trends. In a separate announcement, IBM said it will advertise on Terra Lycos' network of sites. Terra Lycos, formed in October by the merger of Terra Networks, of Madrid, Spain, and Lycos, of Waltham, Mass., operates in 42 countries and reaching 99 million unique monthly visitors. IBM space buys should help Terra Lycos boost its ad business. As dot-coms folded and larger IT companies looked to cut costs, online media firms have suffered. The decline was partially responsible for Terra Lycos cutting 15 percent of its staff in May. Nearly 70 percent of Terra Lycos' business comes from its media properties. Specific financial terms of either the equipment or advertising deal were not disclosed, however the companies said the hardware portion was a "multi-million" price tag over the life of the contract. Shares of TRLY were up 0.11 to 6.24 in morning trading, while IBM stock shed 0.89, or 1 percent, to 104.
"Once implemented, consumers will be able to use their mobile devices to choose their preferred payment mode for almost any desired service.
July 30, 2001 / News Archives
Telecom Operators Team Up To Develop Mobile Payment Platform
By asia.internet.com staff
Singapore is one step closer to making mobile commerce a viable reality for the more than four million people on the island Republic. At the Infocomm Development Authority's (IDA's) behest, MobileOne (M1), SingTel and StarHub - the three mobile operators in the city state - will work together with industry partners to develop a nationwide mobile payment platform that will firmly place Singapore on the global m-commerce map.
"This partnership reflects the openness and maturity of the three local mobile operators and redefines the competitive landscape for m-commerce. 'Co-opetition' is key to creating more value for the consumers and new opportunities for the industry players," said Chan Kin Hung, vice-president of StarHub Mobile.
Singapore's IDA had announced slightly more than two months ago that it was taking proposals to develop mobile payment systems, a vital component of a mobile commerce infrastructure, that will be easily implemented by mobile operators, vendors and merchants alike.
"Once implemented, consumers will be able to use their mobile devices to choose their preferred payment mode for almost any desired service. Vendors and merchants will also enjoy a more conducive environment from which new and innovative services can easily be built and integrated. We believe this initiative may be one of the first in the world," Chan added.
The initiative will see the three jointly evaluate, test and ensure the operational, commercial and technological viability of proposed mobile payment solutions. Evaluation criteria include the provision of an open standard, security, scalability, end-to-end solution and payment in multiple ways.
The shared mobile payment platform will make it unnecessary for merchants to invest in separate integration systems with each mobile operator, and will eventually grow the customer base for both operators and merchants to tap into in the near future. IDC Asia Pacific foresees the value of m-commerce transactions to be worth at least US$200 million in Singapore alone.
Said Neil Montefiore, chief executive officer of M1, "We regard the creation of a common mobile payment platform as fundamental to harnessing the full potential of m-commerce for all parties involved in the process. It will also contribute to a positive customer experience and that, ultimately, will determine the degree of success that m-commerce will enjoy in Singapore."
Added Lucas Chow, chief executive officer of SingTel Mobile, "This initiative will re-characterize the mobile competitive field and benefit mobile users in Singapore. Our effort will focus on working with partners who are committed to simple, secure and inexpensive solutions that exceed customer expectations."
Mobile payment solution providers are free to form consortiums to offer an end-to-end solution covering payment mechanisms, financial arrangements and merchants in their proposals. Proposals are due in August 2001, and subsequent trials are expected to begin in October of the same year.
If it can do web access and video games, what else could it do.
T-Mobil Approves Samsung GPRS Cell Phone, Using Agere Systems Technology, for Use in Its Network
FOR RELEASE MONDAY JUNE 11, 2001
Samsung GPRS Cell Phones Expected to be on the Market in Second Quarter
ALLENTOWN, Pa.- Germany-based T-Mobil, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and one of the world's largest Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) wireless service providers, and Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A) have jointly announced that the Samsung General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Class 8 cell phone, which uses Agere's semiconductor chips and software, has been approved and is operational within the T-Mobile network. This achievement means Samsung GPRS wireless handsets equipped with Agere's integrated circuit and system-level software solution can enable data rates within the T-Mobil network at up to 50 Kilobits per second (Kbit/s)-approximately five times faster than today's typical wireless handsets (9 Kbit/s). Ultimately, the GPRS service is expected to allow data connection at speeds up to 115 Kbit/s.
GPRS, a 2.5-generation wireless technology and a bridge to third-generation wireless technology, runs on packet-based technology that operates, with a simple software upgrade, on existing GSM networks. Emerging GPRS applications include Web browsing, e-banking, and video games.
The combination of T-Mobil's approval and Samsung's early market delivery of Class 8 GPRS cell phones means that consumers can soon access selected Internet services by purchasing a Samsung GPRS handset and a T-Mobil service agreement. Samsung expects the first of the company's GPRS handsets using Agere's chips and software to be on the market in this year's second quarter.
Weighing only 85 grams, the new Samsung Wireless Application Protocol and GPRS phone has been designed to be compact and light while also featuring a large high-resolution (128 x 128 pixel) graphic liquid crystal display screen with up to 10 lines of text and four tones of gray to provide photo-realism. The phone has a dedicated Internet key for direct access to the World Wide Web and a four-way directional navigation key to allow easy screen scrolling and movement of the cursor. In addition to offering Internet access, the Samsung SGH-Q100 phone offers Predictive Text Input (T9) as well as Personal Information Management, which includes a calendar, scheduler, and to-do lists.
"The combined Agere Systems and Samsung solution has overcome the hurdle of getting the handsets to interoperate with the wireless base stations," said Klaus Daffner, director of department terminals product marketing with T-Mobil. "It's one thing for a company to say they have chips and software for enabling GPRS services. It's quite another--and more impressive achievement--when a major service provider such as T-Mobil finds out that it works under real world network conditions."
"Getting to market fast with a GPRS Class 8 wireless handset solution has been made possible because of the productive working relationship between Agere Systems and Samsung," said Samsung Vice President Byun-duck Cho. "Consumers can truly start to experience the multitude of benefits attainable with wireless high-speed Internet functionality on their handsets."
"We have known all along as we have developed our GPRS technologies that proving they would work in cooperation with telecom service providers under network conditions would be the ultimate test," said Richard Lee, general manager of wireless mobile appliances with Agere Systems. "T-Mobil's approval of the Agere Systems and Samsung solution, after rigorously testing it, not only demonstrates that our Class 8 GPRS solution works. It also verifies its operation in testing by a major GSM operator earlier than others pursuing this market."
Manufacturers of GPRS, Internet-enabled wireless handsets can deliver their products to market faster using the Agere Systems high performance GPRS chips and software solution than by developing such products on their own.
The chips and software solution is based on Agere's extensive experience in wireless systems engineering. The solution's GPRS protocol stack and related software have been developed by Germany-based Optimay GmbH, an Agere subsidiary. Based on Agere's Sceptre( 3 system-on-a-chip technology that uses Agere's DSP16000 architecture, the solution integrates digital signal processor, microcontroller, and a host of analog and mixed signal functions into the baseband chip set. The solution uses Agere's highly-integrated power management chip to reduce overall component count. The solution also offers a module Full Type Approval to ensure conformance to various systems standards and specifications.
Agere Systems Inc., formerly the Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies, is the world leader in semiconductors for communications applications. Lucent has announced it intends to spin off Agere Systems as an independent company. Agere Systems offers integrated optoelectronics and integrated circuits solutions to help customers reduce the time and expense of developing new communications equipment. It also provides wireless computer networking solutions through its ORiNOCO product line. More information about Agere Systems is available from its Web site at www.agere.com.
T-Mobil (DeTeMobil Deutsche Telekom MobilNet GmbH) began operating as an independent company in 1993. A 100 percent subsidiary of T-Mobile International AG, T-Mobil has a workforce of 9,000 in one of the most dynamic growth markets in Germany. T-Mobil recorded revenues of around DM 9.8 billion in 1999, and its T-D1 network has more than 20.6 million users (as of mid-March 2001).
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., plays an important role in telecommuncations providing a wide variety of products and services and developing and manufacturing infrastructure systems for wireless and fixed networks as well as CDMA, GSM and PCS HHP. The company also provides optical fibers and access networks that would be the core of the information superhighway. CDMA systems and terminals, which Samsung developed and started servicing commercially since 1995, won high recognition worldwide for China, USA, Hong Kong, Russia, Asia, Australia and Latin America. Samsung's vision for this century is to continue to expand its leadership in the global communications market through its success in CDMA/GSM mobile systems and terminals, as well as 3G (third-generation) total solutions.
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
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."
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XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
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,
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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.
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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
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ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
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(Reuters 10-10-2000) - The National Music Publishers' Association Inc. (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) said Tuesday they have agreed on procedures for licensing of musical compositions, or songs, that are distributed on the Internet. The RIAA represents big record companies, including Seagram Co. Ltd.'s Universal Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc (news - web sites).
October 23, 2000 – Delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc. In the latest sign that music subscription is emerging as a prominent avenue for delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc said it is developing an online music-subscription service, and Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group has launched a test of a subscription-music service.
10/25/00 - LYCOS aims to be web music one-stop ...
Lycos took another step last week by signing a partnership with BMG Entertainment, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Lycos will sell digital downloads of albums and singles by 100 of BMG's recording artists.
(Oct.31,2000) -Bertelsmann And Napster Form Alliance. Entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.D) and controversial song-swap company Napster (news - web sites) Inc. said on Tuesday they formed an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service.
Oct 31, 2000 -- Radio Free Virgin and Playboy.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced the launch of Radio Free Virgin, a downloadable0, CD-quality digital radio tuner available free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com.
http://billboard.com/daily/2000/1201_04.asp
Nov. 1, 2000 - Warner Music Group (WMG) and Microsoft Corp, In a multiyear agreement, WMG has selected Windows Media Format as a primary format for commercial music download initiatives in the United States and Canada, with security provided by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Nov. 2000 – PHILIPS SHOWCASES CLICKRADIO ON DIGITAL SET-TOP-BOX. Through an exclusive agreement with Lucent Technologies, ClickRadio uses the patented ePAC (Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coding) compression format to deliver secure digital music programming while protecting artists' copyrights. IMO - TiVo features are coming for Audio Content.
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06/05/01 – Philips has released a new family of highly integrated solid state audio devices for MP3 audio players, car radio systems, portable CD players, flash memory cards, Internet radio and simple jukebox applications. Able to support a range of stereo audio decompression algorithms, including MP3, AAC and Microsoft WMA, the SAA7750 chip's programmable DSP architecture enables it to become the basis of MP3, CD and SSA (flash memory) products.
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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
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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.
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March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
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.
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March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
March 19, 2001 - Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, and Lucent Technologies today announced a three-year, $5 billion contract which positions Lucent to become the largest supplier of Verizon (3G) mobile network infrastructure. Verizon will purchase multiple products and systems from Lucent's designed to expand wireless coverage, increase capacity, and support high-speed data and mobile Internet applications. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
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April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Present and
Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created
by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
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April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
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May 20, 2001 – Vivendi Universal Acquires MP3.com in Move to Strengthen Digital Distribution Capacity and Web Audience. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
May 23 2001 – Vitaminic Announces New Music Publishing Company, ZipMind, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of music on the Internet, announced today it will offer music publishing services to authors, publishers and third parties. Vitaminic offers the largest legal online catalogue of music in Europe. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112443
June 5, 2001- -RioPort, & BestBuy - the leading music application service provider (ASP), today announced that it will distribute commercial music downloads to BestBuy.com(TM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. the nation's number one specialty retailer of
consumer electronics. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
January 6, 2000 – E.DIGITAL AND RIOPORT, INC. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP SEAMLESS, SECURE INTERNET MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
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June 6, 2001 – Napster secures its first music licenses from three of the five major labels, paving the way for the file-trading network to launch its new subscription service by the end of the summer. The service is expected to offer both radio-like streaming technology and downloading capabilities. MusicNet will be available through AOL, Real Networks and Napster.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44322,00.html
Jul 11, 2001 - Judge orders Napster not to resume service.
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July 12, 2001 – Pressplay & Microsoft -- a joint venture between music giants Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp is near a deal to offer its online music subscription service on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=720867
July 13, 2001 - Elibron Adds Downloadable Music To Its Collection of Electronic Books Adamant Media, already partnered with two of the world's largest libraries to bring its customers over 30,000 electronic books, now officially announces the addition of secured downloadable music to its website.
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.
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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.
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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’
emit…
IEPER, Belgium & BURLINGTON, Mass., Jul 30, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Combined with previous agreements, new republisher, distribution and VAR contracts with leading companies ensure virtual worldwide availability of L&H's packaged software products and corporate software solutions
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. (OTC: LHSPQ) ('L&H' or 'the Company'), a world leader in speech and language technology, products and services, today announced that its Speech and Language Technologies Division (SLT) has signed several new agreements with distributors and resellers serving Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Latin America and the U.K. Combined with previously announced distribution and reseller agreements for the U.S., Canada, Continental Europe and Asia, these new agreements ensure virtual worldwide availability of L&H's packaged software products and software solutions for the corporate, VAR and vertical markets.
Retail Market
L&H has entered a republisher agreement for Australia with Sydney-based Marketing Results PTY Limited, a wholesale distributor specializing in innovative 'first-to-market' software, hardware and networking products for the retail and reseller marketplaces. With respect to New Zealand, L&H has signed a similar agreement with Auckland-based Roadshow Entertainment Ltd., one of this country's pre-eminent distributors of interactive software. Under the terms of these agreements, both republishers will market, manufacture, package, distribute and support English-language versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R) and other L&H products, such as L&H(TM) PowerTranslator(R) Pro, L&H(TM) SimplyTranslating(TM), Easy Language(TM) 61 and L&H(TM) Talking Max(TM).
For the Latin America region, L&H has signed a republisher agreement with Mexico-based Telematica y Sistemas Avanzados S.A. de C.V. (Telsa), a business development company serving IT and software companies as well as e-commerce publishers. Under the terms of this agreement, Telsa has the right to manufacture, package, market, distribute and support Spanish-language versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R), L&H Voice Xpress(TM), L&H(TM) PowerTranslator(R) Pro, L&H(TM) SimplyTranslating(TM), L&H(TM) Talking Max(TM), L&H VoiceCommands(TM) and L&H WebTranslator(TM) for retail markets in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.
The combination of these new distributor and reseller agreements with existing ones makes L&H's market-leading retail software available in virtually every major market worldwide, including Europe, the Middle East and Africa (available through MediaGold), the United States and Canada (available through The Learning Company), South East Asia and India (available through HCL Infosystems Ltd.), Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Mexico, Central America and the northern region of South America.
VAR, Corporate and Vertical Markets
As part of its ongoing efforts to market and sell the Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R) vertical family of products to the corporate, VAR and vertical markets throughout the world, L&H has signed distribution agreements with Chessington-based Northamber PLC, the largest independent trade-only distributor of computer hardware and peripherals in the U.K., and with Voice Perfect Systems PTY Ltd., headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
Northamber PLC will produce, distribute and market the English-language versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R) Professional in the U.K. market. Voice Perfect Systems PTY Ltd. has similar rights for the corporate, VAR and vertical markets of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands region. These new distribution contracts strengthen L&H's existing base of approximately 20 Value Added Resellers in the Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Norway and Switzerland.
Peter Hauser, vice president and general manager L&H International and Automotive said: "We are pleased to have secured such strong distribution for L&H's products in important retail, corporate, VAR and vertical markets like Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Latin America and the U.K. With these recent agreements, we have ensured our products' availability in virtually every market around the world." Mr. Hauser added: "These agreements underscore our strategy to develop powerful distribution partnerships with specialized partners in key markets abroad, whereby we combine our partners' extensive local market knowledge and experience with L&H's strong and innovative speech and language technologies and solutions."
DEARBORN, Mich., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Visteon Corporation (NYSE: VC) and SpeechWorks International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPWX), today announced a joint licensing and development alliance with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets. This partnership is expected to take the voice and telematics industries to the next level.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001201/DEF008LOGO )
Visteon and SpeechWorks will work together to bring to market new, speech- enabled products and services for telematics, multimedia, information services, personal productivity, banking, finance, and other applications.
Under the terms of the agreement, SpeechWorks is licensing Visteon's C- REC(TM) technology, a continuous, speaker-independent, phonetic-based speech recognition engine, designed specifically for embedded devices. Together with Visteon, SpeechWorks will enhance C-REC capabilities with its own speech recognition technology and user interface design expertise. This will accelerate C-REC's deployment into vehicles and other devices and the development of distributed speech recognition (DSR) systems. These enhancements will be targeted at applications such as mobile telephony handsets, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and cable set-top boxes as well as automotive. The DSR systems will provide an intuitive user interface for access to information services such as stock quotes, news, weather, traffic and e-mail -- all through natural voice commands.
In addition, Visteon is licensing SpeechWorks' text-to-speech (TTS) technology, known as ETI-Eloquence(TM), to bring more personality and functionality to speech-enabled car services. With ETI-Eloquence, for example, car owners may hear, "Bear left at Route 1; You have one new e-mail from John Smith." Other dynamic information read to occupants in an intelligible voice is scheduled to include e-mails, directions, news, weather and traffic reports.
Visteon plans to integrate ETI-Eloquence into its future telematics and multimedia products and services. Currently, Visteon Voice Technology(TM) is available to consumers on several production vehicles. It allows drivers to use voice commands in the vehicle to adjust the temperature, tune the CD and radio, make phone calls with voice activated dialing capabilities such as, "Call dad at home."
"Our partnership with SpeechWorks is ideal because they have the technology, user interface expertise, and marketing leadership to help us commercialize our embedded speech recognition technology and bring it to markets well beyond the telematics industry," said Michael Johnston, Visteon's President and Chief Operating Officer. "Speech applications in their initial phase have won strong support from vehicle manufacturers and owners alike and they already are asking for more sophisticated 'hands-free' services that can help them get the information they need quickly and safely. Working with SpeechWorks will accelerate our ability to deliver these innovative, new capabilities."
Stuart R. Patterson, CEO of SpeechWorks said, "The introduction of speech recognition and TTS solutions into telematics and mobile computing devices will drastically change the way consumers interact with these devices and with online services over the next few years. 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."
Visteon Corporation is a leading full-service supplier that delivers consumer-driven technology solutions to automotive manufacturers worldwide and through multiple channels within the global automotive aftermarket. Visteon has about 80,000 employees and a global delivery system of more than 130 technical, manufacturing, sales and service facilities located in 25 countries.
Through the power of SpeechWorks(R) technologies, the human voice is all a caller needs to access instant information and conduct transactions from any landline or wireless phone. Around the world, customer service innovators such as America Online, E*Trade and Yahoo! are realizing returns on SpeechWorks applications that consistently serve and delight customers 24 hours a day. With over 100 partners, SpeechWorks delivers natural language speech recognition, speaker verification and text-to-speech (TTS) solutions to leading corporations, telecommunications providers and government organizations worldwide. For a description of SpeechWorks' products, services and unique customer programs such as the SpeechWorks Here(TM) Guarantee, call 617-428-4444 or visit www.speechworks.com .
SpeechWorks, ETI-Eloquence and SpeechWorks Here are trademarks or registered trademarks of SpeechWorks International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks may be the property of their respective companies.
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SEATTLE, July 24, 2001--RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), the global leader in Internet media delivery, today announced the immediate availability of commercial content offerings for Symbian OS-based mobile handsets, demonstrating a new generation of media applications for users of RealPlayer® Mobile and advanced mobile handsets. The free music and video content for the RealPlayer Mobile and the Nokia 9210 Communicator is located at http://www.real.com/player/mobile/.
Today's announcement marks the industry's first commercially available offerings for the Symbian OS platform, made possible through the combination of the RealPlayer Mobile and the Nokia 9210 Communicator. As part of today's announcement, leading European content providers are making compelling audio and video programming available for consumers in English, French and German. These content providers include: Virgin Radio, BMG Entertainment, Kirch New Media, TF1, Darker Than Blue, Aestheticom and Supersoni.com.
"Virgin Radio has always sought to be a pioneer in embracing new technologies in order to offer our listeners new and innovative ways to hear our content--whether at home, at work or on the move," said Steve Taylor, Enterprise Director at Virgin Radio. "The RealPlayer Mobile will allow us to reach even more people across the world."
"The future of mobile media delivery is now, and we are excited to be a part of this new era in content delivery to advanced mobile media handsets," said Dr. Marcus Englert, CEO, Kirch New Media. "Delivering short movies shows that streaming media will be an important and usable application also for mobile devices."
RealPlayer Mobile, the first media player commercially available with a Symbian OS-based mobile handset, is the mobile version of the world's most popular digital media player. RealPlayer Mobile ships with the new Nokia 9210 Communicator, which is available for purchase in Europe.
"The RealPlayer Mobile and Nokia 9210 Communicator enable content providers to create rich multimedia programming for a new class of consumer devices," said Mark Bretl, vice president, Consumer Appliances, RealNetworks, Inc. "Our goal is to enable the more than 200 million RealPlayer users to access their favorite Internet media from any platform and on any device, and this is a huge step forward in that direction."
RealNetworks and Symbian recently announced they have formed an alliance to enable broad new classes of mobile multimedia solutions for Symbian OS licensees. As a part of today's announcement, Symbian will be making available a multimedia resource center where RealPlayer Mobile can be downloaded, and where visitors can find links to the content offerings, as well as more detailed information, about the RealPlayer Mobile for the Symbian OS. Symbian licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony.
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
Visteon to use SpeechWorks VR - Bloomberg/WSJ
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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 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.
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
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
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
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
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…
Find out more about how to use DataPlay digital media for recording and playing your downloads, digital photographs and software oe files for your computer, PDA and cell phone.
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/en/whatsplaying/index.jsp
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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redwing99 - IMHO, handhelds will/are being developed to use in conjunction with DigitalRadio using AAC/PAC, only they should 'Enhance' it - Thus FCC :)
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ck... I added that to Synopsis... makes sense in the Singing Machine and on other advanced handhelds also.
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 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://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=89201
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001002/tx_tx_inst.html
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TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – EPAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital,
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
IBM VoiceTimes alliance announced. "e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
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 -
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COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=596645
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.
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
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
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
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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.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
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Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
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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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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://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=89201
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001002/tx_tx_inst.html
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, 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.
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
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
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
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
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
Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736528
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=588824
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http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=548914
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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…
``We've had strong demand for our microprocessors, chipsets and flash products in this region in the second quarter -- Asia Pacific represented 31 percent of our worldwide revenues versus 28 percent in first quarter, and 26 percent last year,'' he noted.
[Thus TriGem]
emit...
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. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Getting Back Inside the Box
Big box retailers Kmart and Wal-Mart are buying out the partners in their respective web operations, which they never should have separated from their off-line businesses.
Traditional retailers wasted millions of dollars setting up dot-coms that weren't integrated with brick-and-mortar stores. Like a lot of business decisions made when Internet money was stupid, the idea that people either shopped online or they didn't made no sense.
People use the 'Net to compare prices, check product availability, listen to sound clips, watch trailers and, of course, buy stuff. Increasingly, retailers are integrating online elements into their off-line stores; for example, some stores have implemented in-store kiosks that charge users to download music.
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.
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
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
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http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=105309
emit... thx ck-
OT: Best Buy Debuts Fun Zone Mobile Technology Truck; Fully-Equipped Vehicle Brings Technology, Fun on the Road
--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- -0- What: The Best Buy Fun Zone Mobile Technology Truck, a mobile marketing and entertainment destination, is available for media tours. The traveling Fun Zone features kiosks with interactive gaming and digital music zones; the latest technology offered at Best Buy stores, including products featured in integrated home office, high-definition home theater and high-tech kitchen settings; and an expandable stage for events. This Fun Zone features a home environment with home integration and satellite connectivity within the 53-foot trailer. Seven televisions and two computers feature dynamic content streamed through an advanced networking solution. The trailer also features a cutting-edge satellite two-way high-speed Internet connection that provides high-performance broadband delivery for both uploading and downloading. The Fun Zone will make its debut at Best Buy corporate headquarters before beginning its cross-country journey to events. Where: Best Buy Corporate Headquarters parking lot 7075 Flying Cloud Drive Eden Prairie, Minnesota When: Friday, July 27 9 to 11 a.m. Interviews: Reporters and photographers welcome
boston - Sounds good to me.
That would give a whole new meaning t ''Universal Player''
emit...
greatturtle - Truth Is...
We Don't really know.
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 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://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=89201
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001002/tx_tx_inst.html
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, 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.
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
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
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
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
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. 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
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…
Whats To Come ….. Of It All.
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones. MP3 is now Vivindi -
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
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.
July 2001 – Samsung Electronics and CompUSA. Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
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
Feb. 21, 2001 - 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
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. and Gannett Co. today announced a ground-breaking partnership; 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
David Kaimner, Hy-Tech pr-guy worked at Gannett for many years and has strong connections - We had a large amount of Treo articles nation-wide a while back via Gannett.
FWIW - Also Gannetts Principle sits on IBM board.
Eastech and Harman Kardon are backers of ZapMedia –
Taking a different tack, Eric Hartz's ZapMedia has designed a standalone (no PC required) home audio component that is both more capable and more expensive than the Simple solution. Stereo manufacturer Harman Kardon will release the first ZapMedia product in Q3. On March 6, ZapMedia is presenting at Red Herring's Venture Market South event in Atlanta.
http://beta.redherring.com/cod/2001/0226.html.
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.
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.
emit...
My TigerDirect mag shows the 1gig Microdrive slipping into a 'Zio'
No compitition for DiskGo -
http://www.microtechint.com/qs-zio.html
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/search.asp?keywords=zio&image1.x=14&imag...
emit...
Pegasus Express Powered by DirecPC will let you experience the World Wide Web in a whole new way. With a small satellite dish and two modem sized boxes, Pegasus Express will provide super-fast Internet access via satellite, delivering connection speeds comparable to cable and DSL modems - many times faster than dial-up modems and ISDN connections. That means instantaneous web pages, super-fast MP3 downloads and streaming media!
Always-On Internet Access!
No Dialing, No Busy Connections - and Never Any Tied Up Phone Lines!
Instantaneous Web Access, with Blazing Fast Downloads!
Amazing Interactive Capabilities!
High-Speed Internet Access Virtually Anywhere in the U.S.!
Super-Fast MP3 Music Downloads
IP Multicasting capabilities for uninterrupted service,
TV-Quality Video and Much More!
http://www.pgtv.net/ContentExpress.htm
[IMO This type of system will fuel retail Kiosks]
emit...
July 20, 2001 / News Archives
Napster Alternatives On The Rise
By Michael Singer
Is it official yet? Has Napster been kicked off the throne as P2P king of music file sharing?
A new report out Friday by Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI) seems to give that impression. The report says the total time spent using the Napster file-sharing application plummeted 65 percent among home users in 14 leading wired countries, from 6.3 billion minutes in February 2001.
"Last year Napster became one of the fastest growing software applications Media Metrix ever reported, with its U.S. user base nearly quadrupling within six months of the application's debut into the ratings reports," says Media Metrix president Doug McFarland. "Today, our ratings show a wide scattering of the former Napster audience to various other music file-sharing resources."
The study is a bit of a no-brainer considering the Redwood City-based Internet song-swapping service is currently off-line while it prepares for its summertime subscription launch, but that doesn't mean that Napster won't have to make up for lost ground after it comes back online.
"The grim reality is that Napster's audience is beginning to be fragmented across many services, which will be very difficult, if not impossible, to litigate against in the same way," says vice president and senior analyst Mark Mooradian. "The next generation of underground file sharing services underscores the need for legitimate music providers, and not just the major labels, to act promptly, putting battles over platforms and copyrights behind them as soon as possible."
Ready to take Napster's place seem to be six other file-sharing applications according to the Media Metrix report.
Bodetella, a client designed for the Gnutella network, held steady at around 1.0 million unique users between January 2001 and May. Audiogalaxy, the second most popular file-sharing application, had 978,000 unique visitors in May 2001, up 78 percent from March 2001, the first month it was reportable. Next was Imesh with 474, 000 unique visitors, up 11 percent from April 2001, its first reportable month.
Rounding out the list of Napster alternatives are Web sites like LimeWire, Bearshare and Napigator
July 23, 2001 / News Archives
Samsung Electronics Enters Internet Phone Market
By asia.internet.com staff
Samsung Electronics wants to capture at least one-fifth of the global market for Internet phones and it will start the ball rolling by shipping 20,000 units of its IP-based model ITP-100 to U.S. shores by the end of this year.
The Korean manufacturer expects at least 20 percent of the world's corporate telephone systems to be replaced by IP-based Internet phones. The VoIP function of such phones, when connected to a LAN, ADSL modem or other high-speed networks, enables the transmission of voice and data over a single line.
Samsung also envisions that long distance and international calls can be made at local call rates with the use of the Internet, shaving off up to 70 percent in phone charges.
Targeted at the mid- to low-end market, the phone is expected to retail for about US$300. There are three models available:
* High-end (six LCD lines): U$500
* Mid-end (three LCD lines): U$350
* Low-end (No LCD or one LCD line): US$200-250
According to a Samsung spokesperson, the Internet phone will start shipping in September this year - but only to the U.S. market. The company has formed an agreement with Lucent Technologies to supply such phones to U.S. customers.
Samsung plans to export 20,000 units by end-2001, followed by 150,000 in 2002 and eventually at least one million units by 2004. It intends to eventually capture at least 20 percent of the world's Internet phone market.
The spokesperson added that Samsung will monitor the North American response to its Internet phone, which will help determine when the company will introduce it to Asian markets. Details for shipment into Asia "are not finalized as yet," she said.
"Shipments of the Internet phone to the region are in the pipeline, and will depend on variables such as negotiations and tests with telecommunication operators and market conditions," a company statement read.
murgirl... That's the link I was looking for this morning while compiling that...
Take that Mr. CRQ
Thnx murgirl
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 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://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=89201
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001002/tx_tx_inst.html
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, 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
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
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.
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
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
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
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. 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
Jul 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+
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
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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