e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

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MIR's TechXNY PC EXPO report:
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=706676

EDIG first, then the keynote on handheld computing.


IBM booth:
Larry, Beth and I talked extensively with an IBM representative (out of San Jose) who is VERY familiar with EDIG. He said he has a “puck” in his office.

He is working on the large size micro drives (is that an oxymoron?) but he said there is a lot of excitement at IBM about the edigital reference design which was shown at CEBIT in Germany. (He gave me a contact name to get more info.).
He said IBM is working hard on the travelstar harddrive reference design and we should see the fruits of that in the market soon.

He liked my edigital shirt….and thought it was one of his. He was shocked that I had one...and wondered where I got it since he has one…with the IBM and edigital logos both…on it…. (hmmmmm….smile).

He asked us if we were connected to edigital? And when we said we were investors….he got all excited about the run-up January 2000 and when we talked about how we are holding a ton of shares he was happy for us and wished us good luck and told us to “remember the little guys.”

If I were to “connect some dots here”…it appears quite evident that edigital is actively working with IBM across several levels….and has been for a while. They are currently actively working on “at least” the travelstar hard drive music players.

IMATION booth:
Larry, Beth and I listened to two players at the Imation booth. One looked about the size of “half a mouse” and was square.. We speculate that might be a “home player” for connection to a PC. The gentleman also had one around his neck that had an IMATION label on it…but he laughed and said that was just for the show…it would have another brand when it hit the market. He anticipated players in the market from a lot of branded manufacturers and he rattled off a lot of names….(we already know them all).

He also showed us a mockup/;nonworking camera that will use dataplay disks. I asked him if edigital technology was in that. He suddenly stopped…gave the three of us …a sorta “stunned look”…then said…”no, we were not in the camera”.. I said…”oh, we are just in the audio players…then….??” And he said…”Yes”. No news there…but a nice confirmation.

We also checked out Compaq and swung over to look at Remote Solutions. David Ahn looked pretty miserable…(he might have been tired). The 6 gig PJB played but the 20 gig was not working. Very small table..manned by two people.
No real action going on there.

We also checked out Intel, Palm, HP (has a nice home entertainment center that was just announced), and a bunch of other companies.

Bluetooth as all over the show….WIRELESS is big, handheld computing is big, mobility is big.

Smile…Mary (very LONG)