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Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:14:20 PM
Industry Synopsis: Updated
Industry Synopsis: All Investors – As per e.Digital Corp.
e.Digital, Intel, Lucent, TXN, IBM, Samsung and DataPlay. Years of Achievements With Flash Memory Management and Voice Recorder Innovations Have Led e.Digital To The Forefront Of The Emerging DataPlay Format & IBM Microdrive Platforms – And The ‘Soon To Be Announced’ Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM & VOICENAV Technology.
Intel’s ‘Flash Presentation’ This indicates where we’re headed with 3-4th Generation PDA’s. http://developer.intel.com/design/flash/intro/fdi30demo/fdiflash.htm
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=509750
Intel & ADI’s new DSP Core & Intel’s New DAP Audio Player ‘Pocket Concert’.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20010417net.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2658478,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551122
Taipei, May 2, 2001 (Bloomberg) Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, plans to order NT$2 billion ($61 million) worth of so-called MP3 audio players from Eastern Asia Technology Ltd., Eastech. Could e.Digital be involved – Or just a coincidence. Note e.Digital and Eastech platforms below.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=668929+
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
Aug. 16, 2001 - Digital video is "going to take off," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754775
Could e.Digital’s MicoOS be embedded in this product and other DSPs? e.Digital now has top Intel personnel onboard and is exhibiting advanced reference designs as seen the last two years - and most recently at 2001 CES for Samsung and Toshiba. In my opinion, new flash/HDD hybrids and dedicated DSPs are on the horizon. Expect to see more advanced DAPs & PDAs from many of the giant chip makers and Consumer Electronics OEMs as quality emerges with security for Internet music and other content. eDigital is extremely well positioned – Intel’s CEO recently commented that the ‘Pocket Concert’ is format agnostic. The player is also made by Samsung. IMO - this means when/if multi-codec and ‘digital rights management’ issues become needed by content providers, they have access to our MiroOS platform. Intel DAP picture: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/electronics/B000059ZYB/pictures/14/104-5074239-...
Fred Falk, June 2000 -''We are working with major manufacturers to have our technology embedded into their programmable DSPs and/or microcontrollers'' His DSP comments and a Flash Glue View. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
IMO - Embedded Projects Are Ongoing.
These NDA’s Verify The Sectors Enormity & Complexity.
October 30, 2000 - Fred Falk, ‘’We are also working with OEMs who may compete against each other with product offerings designed by e.Digital. Our non-disclosure agreements with our OEMs are in place to ensure that we are not disclosing any details of their product and our agreements to other OEMs and the public until they are ready to have this information made available. ‘’ Feb. 14, 2001 – e.Digital Form 10-QSB – Informed Investors that some revenue sources may stay unnamed until they decide to become known.
I Believe This is What Intel Is Going To Do For Secure Internet Content With It’s DRM/ISIS which includes ePAC.
http://www.convera.com
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=551558
http://www.agoracom.com/agora/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=50275&refid=0&orig=50275
February 2, 2000; WW6 From Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell International Corporation to purchase a wafer fabrication facility (fab) located in Colorado Springs, Colo. The purchase will add significant manufacturing capacity for Intel to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. The new Holy Grail for the company is the business of selling flash-memory chips -- used in battery-operated devices that hold their memory even when the device's power is off. Intel is quickly rebuilding itself into the world's largest manufacturer of flash chips.
Three top Intel people from its Flash/Mobile Divisions are now with e.Digital.
e.Digital was selected by Intel to design and prototype a number of portable digital voice recorders utilizing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Intel plans to sub-license the reference design created by e.Digital to Intel's OEM customers, referring them back to e.Digital for licensing and any additional design and/or manufacturing work required. e.Digital has also filed a number of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; We have received notification of allowance from the United States Patent Office for use: MicroOS TM, FlashBack(R), Hold That Thought(R), Fumble Free(R), SoundClip(R), Smart Song Selection(tm), MicroCAM TM - Micro Compressed Audio Manager, AMIS TM - Audio Manager Interface, TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link, VIAGGI – ie, Travels, and VOICENAV as registered trade names.
Internet Audio Market. Excerpt Source: Texas Instruments.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=566858
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/innovate/iaudio/opportunity.htm
Today's Internet Audio application is based upon the downloading of digital audio content, either speech or music, via the Internet and then playing the encoded digital audio content on an Internet Audio playback device. Very soon, these playback units will be a sub-system in PDAs, digital still cameras, cellular phones, set-top boxes, and other devices. The total market potential is even larger when you consider other complimentary products such as headphone stereo, personal CD, personal MD, car audio, and future DSC, cellular phone, etc., TI has the commanding market share lead with key design-ins at most of the major consumer electronics and PC makers. The following customers have already been publicly announced: a. Thomson Consumer Electronics b. Sanyo c. e.Digital.
TI DSP’s & My Opinion on DSP’s and our MicroOS. TXN CES Comments.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=738850
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=554726
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=546798
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=592843
TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – ePAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital.
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
1999 -IBM VoiceTimes alliance announced - Including e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=595357
March 23, 2001 - e.Digital Corporation announced today that the first production-level Internet music player design incorporating IBM's Microdrive™.is being featured in the IBM booth at the CeBIT trade show which runs through March 28. The design is currently being marketed by e.Digital and Maycom, Co., Ltd. worldwide. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr032301.html
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
July 20, 2001 – Wireless IBM Microdrive & IBM Voice Navigation.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=156344
Sep. 5, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION ANNOUNCES NEW DIGITAL PLAYER/RECORDER USING IBM'S MICRODRIVE(TM) MEDIA. Product Based on e.Digital's MicroOS(TM) 2.0
with VoiceNav(TM) Speech Interface. Production is already under way in Asia for OEM customers to meet demand for our MicroOS-based product in time for the holiday selling season.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=176407
So Many Digital Downloadable Music Players: With a Big Problem – Multiple Codecs & ‘Digital Rights Managements’ and Increasing Advanced Functions Within Smaller Devices. http://www.ecoustics.com/Home/Home_Audio/MP3_Players/MP3_Player_Reviews/
This Is What It’s All About – IMHO.
Look at All the New Music Services, Video/Media Players, Interactive & Content Enabled Set-Top-Boxes, Home Servers, Kiosks, Karaoke Devices, 3G MP3 Phones And Satellite Digital Radio Applications Coming To Market. Then Read The Article about Bertelsmann’s Tj.net/MP3 De Cellular and its intentions to create a Secure Subscription Model with Napster. IMO - The PJBs and DataPlay devices will create New Excitement due to design & features – See Treo’, ET700 and ‘Volan’ Concept designs below. This Synopsis Concludes with four knowledgeable shareholder’s analysis on the emerging technology and how it could very easily include e.Digital’s Patented Micro OS as a standard in this emerging sector.
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
Oct. 6, 2000 – e.Digital Corp. and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea today announced the launch of the MP2000 multi-codec, portable digital music player in time for the holiday shopping season. Initial shipments are now beginning and the product will be introduced into the European and Asian markets as well as in other countries and specialty markets through Maycom and other OEMs. The unit has superb audio quality and louder output levels than most other portable music players on the market, without sacrificing battery life. Its backlit LCD screen supports English and Japanese characters. The multi-codec unit supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and ePAC music compression formats, and is firmware upgradeable to support the QDX format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The SDMI-capable unit ships with WMA Digital Rights Management included. It can be firmware upgraded to support InterTrust's Digital Rights Management, which the world's largest recording company, Universal Music Group, has announced it will be using in its online music distribution.
Powered By e.Digital Technology – Maycom/edig ‘Merit’ Player Picture.
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.100600/bb5.jpg
August 2001 – Maycom’s new site. MP2000 And New ‘Advanced Voice Recorder’.
http://www.emaycom.com/eng/default.asp
Nov. 9 2000 – e.Digital & Samsung announce agreement to produce two separate DataPlay enabled devices to premier at CES Jan. 6, 2001. October 19, 2000 - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today announced that it is developing portable digital products incorporating DataPlay's quarter-sized 500 MB digital media and micro-optical engine. DataPlay has secured $50 million in strategic financing from Universal Music, Toshiba, Samsung, S3 and Creative. It's not certain that Universal's prerecorded music will be available in the format. But DataPlay announced last month that Universal's eLabs president Lawrence Kenswil has joined DataPlay's board of directors.
Our DataPlay device. [This financing has now reacher 110 million – in 2001]
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/index.jsp and http://www.edig.com.
DataPlay Product Rollout – CES 2001
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=590380
DataPlay/Volan Concept Designs. Very Innovative.
http://www.volan.com/proof/eDigital/visuals-06.cfm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15135565
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-02.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-05.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-06.html
Samsung’s Handheld Video Motion YEPP & DataPlay Orbit Music Player http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-112.gif
http://www.etown.com/categories/print_article.jhtml?article_type=news&articleID=3554
2001 - Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
July 30, 2001 – Samsung Electronics is partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to jointly develop and market new products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755021
July 9, 2001 – Samsung will diversify its portfolio of Yepp Internet audio portables in the summer and fall with its first MP3-CD portable, its first pendant-style flash-memory portable, and its first firmware-upgradable flash-memory portable, which will also be
among the company's first multicodec models.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=718688
July 17, 2001—Samsung and AOL Time Warner Announce Multi-Year Strategic Marketing and Technology Alliance. Samsung to Manufacture Next-Generation AOLTV Set-Top Boxes, In addition, the companies will explore the development of a range of future consumer electronics products as well as introduce new digital products to consumers to enhance Samsung Brand Through Promotion Across AOL Time Warner Online and Offline Brands.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145128
July 2001 - Samsung Electronics and CompUSA – Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
The Eastech, ZapMedia, HarmonKardon, Samsung, CompUSA Connection –
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=735946
Aug. 15, 2001 - Samsung unveils new chip for Web audio devices.The latest SOC, called CalmRISC-Portable Audio Device, is designed to process a variety of audio files including MP3, WMA (windows media audio) and AAC (advanced audio coding). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754137
Sep. 1, 2001 – Samsung to Produce Mobiles in China.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=767128
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=162681
Nokia Music PlayerPhone HDR-1 – Using MP3 & AAC.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=176111
Aug. 25, 2001 – Samsung will launch a home network server in cooperation with U.S-based software group Microsoft. The home server, which will be able to connect computers, consumers electronics and home appliances and other devices through a wide range of wired and wireless standards. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=169685
March 29, 2001 – Fred Falk, Following our business plan, we have dedicated strategic engineering resources to the development and implementation of new product platforms that include digital video for portable devices, automotive and home stereo designs, cellular phone accessories, and set-top boxes. We are working with multiple OEMs on specific applications of these MicroOS- and MicroCAM-powered platforms for inclusion in a variety of branded products.
SET TO DEBUT IN 2001 WITH 10GIG HDD –
Nov. 13, 2000 - Hy-Tek Previews e.Digital’s ‘Treo’ PJB at COMDEX – 2000 Songs on a Handheld Player. RemoteSolutions/Hango/e.Digital Works-In-Progress.
And an Excellent Candidate for a PC Bundle.
http://www.treoplayer.com Palmed Treo’ http://hardware.dmusic.com/details.php?id=169 http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/treo.html
e.Digital VP Comments about Treo’ and PC Manufacturers -
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=540326
COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=596645
August 22, 2001 - Intel, Compaq and TI- handheld collaborations.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=760478
July 12-13, MP3 Summit 2001 – "Best Overall Portable MP3 Player: Treo Digital Music Jukebox. MP3 Summit 2001 attendees found the Treo to be the smallest and lightest hard-drive based player, at only 8 ounces with batteries. The Treo is manufactured by Hy-Tek Mfg. and designed by e.Digital." http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145410
January 3-4, 2001 – e.Digital & Toshiba to develop and provide mult-codec portable Internet music player. Also e.Digital contracts with EASTECH a multi-million dollar firm with name-brand consumer electronics manufacturers including but not limited to Philips,Sony, Kenwood, Sanyo, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi and Pioneer. http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
June 5, 2001- Devices for DataPlay’s mini disks expected To reach market by fall. Toshiba and Samsung DataPlay production models are ready!!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=121533
DataPlay Sees Sept. Delivery Of 1st Products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=725928
DataPlay, which will introduce 500MB blank discs and prerecorded discs this year, will be "multi-codec compatible.
July 24, 2001 - Digital Clearing and Distribution Partnership Final Piece in DataPlay Strategy to Connect Retail Networks, Content Owners and Electronics Companies. Reciprocal, Inc., the provider of business infrastructure for the distribution of digital assets, and DataPlay, Inc., today announced an electronic media distribution agreement that will provide new levels of portability, security and ease-of-use for media companies, as well as consumers. The agreement leverages content across an extensive network of retailers and distributors, including Coconuts, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=733457
June 6, 2001—SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that their new FlashVision fabrication (fab) plant has gone into production of advanced flash memories, and shipments of the product have started. The NAND memory wafers being produced by FlashVision will primarily be used to manufacture flash memory storage cards for use in digital
cameras, digital Internet music players and future generations of cell phones.
Keep in mind e.Digital’s JUSTRI invitation SD association and the Flash Patents.
Jan. 5, 2001 - Sending Moving Pictures to Cell Phones - Toshiba's Single-Chip. http://www.mobileinfo.com/News_2001/Issue05/Toshiba_video.htm
Aug. 27, 2001 - SanDisk Reports Major Retail Expansion in Europe In Approximately 10,000 Retail Stores In 30 European Countries for mobile phones, Internet music players and small-size digital cameras. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170017
EASTECH’s version of the Treo’ the ET-700 & Our Toshiba’s DP Player.
http://www.acousticsys.com/products/IA/portable/ET700.html
http://www.eastech1.com/english/prod.htm
http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-117.gif
Remember The Intel/Eastech Connection –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=164838
2001 – Eastech Secures New Contracts Worth US$43 Million - it has secured two new major contracts, worth US$43 million, with consumer electronics companies SANYO and Singing Machine.
July 27, 2001 - Does MTV Karaoke spell EDIG?? Soon available at consumer electronics, toy and general merchandise stores throughout the US, including Best Buy, Toys R' Us and Meijer, and by catalog at JC Penney, Sears and Fingerhut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=151235
e.Digital & Qdesign – Madonna’s codec-of-choice. Qdesign is Promoting edig’s MicroCAM platforms IMO to Apple’s QuickTime. Also IMO we’ll work with PortalPlayer - per links below. http://www.qdesign.com/news/pressreleases_07_24_00.htm
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=581347 August 1, 2000 –
QDesign selects e.Digital portable internet music player design for showcase product Custom Music Player to Demonstrate the New QDX Codec for Digital Music to Executives in Music and Electronics Industries. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=685824
Texas Instruments and Qdesign Announce Enhanced Digital Audio Music Storage Design for Portable Players. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99050.htm
Now Read The Bertelsmann Article Link Below – Also Note Vivindi’s New ‘Universal Music Mobile’- Then Go to http://www.edig.com For the Facts On The Company Which Has The Key To It All - An Advanced MicroOS Solution For The Audio/Video Format/Codec & DRM Delima. Read The Last Letter To Shareholders And View Their Growing List of Impressive Partners. e.Digital Recently Added More DSP Engineers, Equity Investments And Key Personnel To Its BOD. The Company’s Micro OS Has Been Recognized As a Benchmark With These Same Companies: Intel, IBM, SanDisk, Lucent & Texas Instruments And Many Other Industry/Sector Leaders.
Aug. 30, 2000-- Bertelsmann (BMG), the world's largest international media enterprise, launched tj net to provide a new service for mobile phone users in Italy. Tj net expects to add additional centers in Germany, UK, France and Benelux in Europe, as well as in the U. S. and Japan. Tj net transforms mobile phones into cost-free receivers for a wide variety of music and top news stories. http://www.inin.com/News/PressReleases/pressreleases.asp?id=118
2000-2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio seek interoperability using Lucent’s EPAC and AAC for the Automotive and Stereo Industry. IMO – This will be Huge for e.Digital per handheld reception and recording of streamed/downloaded content. Also see iBiquity.com.
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=82063
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=534184
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=587686
1-2001 - Sirius VP Tracey Stanyer says. "We want to use position-based commerce, or P-commerce, to turn drive time into buy time."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=124007
My Reasoning For Digital Radios Importance –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170561
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170539
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168999
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=153309
Jan. 8, 2001 - XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
August 23, 2001 – BMW of North America, LLC and Sirius Satellite Radio the satellite radio broadcaster, announced today that BMW will offer Sirius satellite radio service to new car buyers beginning in the second quarter of 2002.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
Sep. 5, 2001 - Beginning in November, General Motors will become the first auto manufacturer in the world to offer XM Satellite Radio as a factory-installed option. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=177562
Sep. 6, 2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio signed distribution agreements with Porsche Cars North America to offer their satellite radio service as an option to customers in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=770850
June 25 – Agere Systems the world leader in communications semiconductors, a branch of Lucent, today announced that seven consumer electronics manufacturers – Alpine, Clarion, Delphi Delco, JENSEN, Kenwood, Panasonic and Visteon -- are developing radios that include Agere's chip set capable of receiving broadcasts from Sirius Satellite Radio. The Agere chip set will be able to capture digital signals from satellites and terrestrial repeaters broadcasting Sirius' service
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=133558
A look at VR in ‘Telematics’ within the Auto Industry with Intel and IBM
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=542328
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/DC3F600187220BF9852569CE0057BC67
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010106/nv_motorol.html
July 12, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND BANG & OLUFSEN ENTER INTO LICENSING AGREEMENT – Visteon has paired its world-class audio and electronic capabilities with prestigious Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to develop a new level of automotive audio sophistication. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=142952
July 30, 2001 - Visteon & SpeechWorks. We are thrilled that Visteon, a leader in the telematics industry, has chosen to work with us to bring our combined technologies to telematics and other markets such as mobile devices and cable set-top boxes with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152129
PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. – IMO e.Digital and PacketVideo are well aware of each other and will eventually work together on advanced video platforms.
June 13, 2000 - PacketVideo today announced that it has agreements with over 35 global media and online companies to trial the delivery of video to wireless devices. Warner Bros, FOXSPORTS.com, E! Entertainment, ABCNEWS, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment etc,. , PacketVideo - Interview
http://boss.2.navisitestreaming.net/real/2/fconf/000825/28_robert_tercek.smi
http://www.packetvideo.com
July 28 -Time Werner & PDA’s. Signaling the entertainment industry's determination to move aggressively into the dawning wireless-entertainment field, Time Warner Inc. is developing original programming that will be beamed to handheld devices. The company will work with PacketVideoCorp., a San Diego software firm backed by, among others, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. The closely held concern already has conducted widespread trials of its wireless audio-video programming with other content giants, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Pictures, using mostly promotional material such as movie trailers. See PacketVideo’s News Releases for these: Intel and PacketVideo. Lucent Streams Entertainment To Cell Phones. Wireless device users are way beyond using their cell phones just for phone calls, they want entertainment, and they want speed. The communications equipment giant is teaming with wireless video start-up PacketVideo to develop this next-generation device. Motorola with PacketVideo, Bell & PacketVideo, Nortel Networks and Packetvideo, Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo, Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo. March 20, 2001 - PacketVideo Partners with Symbian to Provide Mobile Video Software for Smartphones - Symbian's licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=641600
Aug. 22, 2001 – Texas Instruments and PacketVideo Corporation today announced plans to create a variety of differentiated streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices that will enable capabilities like streaming video and audio, speech recognition, JPEG image processing and others. Aug. 28, 2001- DoCoMo, PacketVideo to Deliver 3G Video when
it launches a full commercial services on October 1.
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating CellPhones, PDAs, PJBs, Set-Top-Boxs and Automotive Telematics link-ups using Handheld Voice Remotes via OutPut/Input-Jacks, Push/Pull via TWIRL, 802.11 and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below - http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=123586
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. (ZapMedia), today announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gannett Co., Inc./ USA TODAY (NYSE: GCI), one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, to provide an all-in-one Internet driven, interactive entertainment environment, making it a reality for consumers today. With the click of a button people will serve up music, movies, television, the Internet, and email using ZapMedia's co-branded products and services
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=604252
ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
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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
August 7, 2001 – ClickRadio = ePAC & Gateway/Kmart/Wal-Mart - The company has a distribution deal with Gateway and will soon have its software available at Kmart, Wal-mart, Staples and Electronics Boutique.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=157180
12/15/00 - ONLINE music seller Soundbuzz has snagged a deal with major record label BMG to sell the music of artists; allowing purchase music in digital-file format for immediate download to their hard disk. using Intertrust and Liquid Audio to provide encryption and digital-rights management.
January 10, 2001- NTT DoCoMo to Start Music Distribution to PHS Users
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583848
Jan 22, 2001 - IBM to Offer New Technology to Prevent Unauthorized Music Distribution on Web & IBM/e.Digital Player and Toshiba/IBM - EMMS .
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E07957156C96DBD7852569DC0051460E
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/micro/edigital.htm
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Toshiba and IBM’s EMMS. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642853
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 2001 - BMG Entertainment announced today a substantial expansion of its digital music offerings In addition, BMG announced that its labels are now making new releases simultaneously available as Digital Downloads.
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Feb. 22, 2001 - Vivendi/Universal, Sony team up for online Music site
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=622436
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
DALLAS, Feb 27 - Blockbuster Inc. & Universal Pictures films via its video on-demand service include RadioShack its stores for in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=67262&refid=0&orig=67262
Feb. 27, 2001 - Warner Music to Sell Downloadable Albums.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=625247
March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=637683
March 14, 2001 – Handleman Company one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. will offer a catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads – See Handleman Kiosks Coming Below. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
Mar 16, 2001 - Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific, PlanetMG uses Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology for secure music downloads and to prevent piracy.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=638941
March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
March 19, 2001 - Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, and Lucent Technologies today announced a three-year, $5 billion contract which positions Lucent to become the largest supplier of Verizon (3G) mobile network infrastructure. Verizon will purchase multiple products and systems from Lucent's designed to expand wireless coverage, increase capacity, and support high-speed data and mobile Internet applications. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
Sep. 6, 2001 - Sprint and Verizon claim they will, by year's end, turn on new cell phone networks that will let wireless users do things like download music onto cell phones, or other functions previously reserved just for personal computers.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=177413
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
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April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet. Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=655253
April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=71535
May 20, 2001 – Vivendi Universal Acquires MP3.com in Move to Strengthen Digital Distribution Capacity and Web Audience. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
May 23 2001 – Vitaminic Announces New Music Publishing Company, ZipMind, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of music on the Internet, announced today it will offer music publishing services to authors, publishers and third parties. Vitaminic offers the largest legal online catalogue of music in Europe. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112443
June 5, 2001- -RioPort, & BestBuy - the leading music application service provider (ASP), today announced that it will distribute commercial music downloads to BestBuy.com(TM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. the nation's number one specialty retailer of
consumer electronics. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
January 6, 2000 – E.DIGITAL AND RIOPORT, INC. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP SEAMLESS, SECURE INTERNET MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEM.
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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 subscription service backed by major labels. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729103
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Aug. 28, 2001 - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010828/wr/media_bertelsmann_napster_dc_1.html
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
July 25, 2001 - U.S. Government Stepping Up Internet Antipiracy Efforts In the past week the U.S government has escalated efforts to squash Internet piracy by conducting sweeps in nine states and expanding the ranks of attorneys assigned to prosecute copyright violators.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/board.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736507
Aug. 9, 2001 – Liquid Audio, Inc. today announced it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=748032
Using MP3 and AAC also - like Nokia/Samsung.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=177558
Aug. 13, 2001 – Texas Instruments and RealNetworks today announced they have broadened their strategic alliance to offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable
digital signal processing (DSP)-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video client devices including IP set-top boxes, network video appliances, personal video recorders, streaming media servers and IP video. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=750783
Aug. 16, 2001 – Five Major Film Studios on Thursday announced a joint on-demand
movie service that will offer old and new releases for broadband Internet users in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755026
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
Aug. 20, 2001 - BMG musical downloads in Europe. OD2 will work with BMG to support the sale of selected catalogue, via secure digital download, in partnership with a number of leading European retailers via the internet.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=166104
Aug. 21, 2001 - DataPlay Delays Launch. After following a seemingly smooth product development road, DataPlay is being forced to push back the introduction of its 500MB removable storage media and hardware from this fall to early 2002.
Aug. 23, 2001 "Short-term, this is a disappointment, but we understand the reasons," said Putnam. "It offers us the opportunity to get in more devices. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168130
Positive Spin On The Delay - DABOSS Talks To Robert Putnam.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
AUGUST 24, 2001 – 5 labels using 'stealth CDs' to discourage copying songs.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168084
Aug. 27, 2001 - Vivendi Launches Mobile Music in France, a music service for listening to records on mobiles before they are on general released.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170347
Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736528
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=140833
KIOSKS – Here & Abroad –
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-02-26-musicteller.htm http://www.riohome.com/RioMusicTeller.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010115/ny_ibm_kio.html
http://asia.internet.com/biz/2000/12/1219-japan.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com/services/retailers/liqkiosk/index.html
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Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
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Jimee11’s Response: #258031
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emit’s Response: #258056
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e.Digital & Lanier Worldwide’s Medical Dictation Handheld – Cquence Mobile. According to market analysts, the medical dictation market is the largest vertical market in the speech technology industry. http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/sep00/doc_doc.shtml
http://www.edig.com/products/custom-cquence.html
http://www.lanier.com/ps/apps/cqmobile.html
Lanier & Allscripst Creating Compaq PDA For Medical Industry. + Cquence
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=708671
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Now Think About It……. It’s coming our way and involves much more than just music – Handheld mobile voice recognition, video on demand, VR Medical Records and (c)Publications & eBooks. e.Digital is the Codec/DRM and flash storage file management for Secure Internet Content and Advanced Handheld Design.
(February 15, 2001) E.DIGITAL HIRES FLEISHMAN-HILLARD INC. TO LEAD U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS. The Worlds' largest public relations firm, to lead domestic and international media relations and communications. Michael Busselen, senior vice president, "e.Digital has developed unique technology that has the potential to impact millions of consumers. The story is captivating, the business is timely, and we look forward to using our expertise and understanding of the media to share e.Digital's story with the business and technology communities."http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr021501.html
Think Global…DOS to MOS http://www.edig.com http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.071400/bb3.jpg
This is all ‘My Humble Opinion’
emit…
Industry Synopsis: All Investors – As per e.Digital Corp.
e.Digital, Intel, Lucent, TXN, IBM, Samsung and DataPlay. Years of Achievements With Flash Memory Management and Voice Recorder Innovations Have Led e.Digital To The Forefront Of The Emerging DataPlay Format & IBM Microdrive Platforms – And The ‘Soon To Be Announced’ Advanced Voice Enabled Personal JukeBox Designs Based On e.Digital’s Patented MicroCAM & VOICENAV Technology.
Intel’s ‘Flash Presentation’ This indicates where we’re headed with 3-4th Generation PDA’s. http://developer.intel.com/design/flash/intro/fdi30demo/fdiflash.htm
http://www.ragingbull.Lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=509750
Intel & ADI’s new DSP Core & Intel’s New DAP Audio Player ‘Pocket Concert’.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20010417net.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2658478,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
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Taipei, May 2, 2001 (Bloomberg) Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, plans to order NT$2 billion ($61 million) worth of so-called MP3 audio players from Eastern Asia Technology Ltd., Eastech. Could e.Digital be involved – Or just a coincidence. Note e.Digital and Eastech platforms below.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=668929+
June 2001 - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chipmaker, is scheduled to sell an MP3 player model with a 128MB memory from August this year in partnership with TriGem Computer, a PC maker in Korea. TriGem is Korea's largest PC manufacturer and is eMachines in USA. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=100478&refid=100439&orig=100439
July 30, 2001 – Intel is set to launch an attack on the mobile wireless device market with the release of its new XScale microprocessor expected this fall.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152242
Aug. 16, 2001 - Digital video is "going to take off," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of microprocessor marketing at Intel. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754775
Could e.Digital’s MicoOS be embedded in this product and other DSPs? e.Digital now has top Intel personnel onboard and is exhibiting advanced reference designs as seen the last two years - and most recently at 2001 CES for Samsung and Toshiba. In my opinion, new flash/HDD hybrids and dedicated DSPs are on the horizon. Expect to see more advanced DAPs & PDAs from many of the giant chip makers and Consumer Electronics OEMs as quality emerges with security for Internet music and other content. eDigital is extremely well positioned – Intel’s CEO recently commented that the ‘Pocket Concert’ is format agnostic. The player is also made by Samsung. IMO - this means when/if multi-codec and ‘digital rights management’ issues become needed by content providers, they have access to our MiroOS platform. Intel DAP picture: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/electronics/B000059ZYB/pictures/14/104-5074239-...
Fred Falk, June 2000 -''We are working with major manufacturers to have our technology embedded into their programmable DSPs and/or microcontrollers'' His DSP comments and a Flash Glue View. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
IMO - Embedded Projects Are Ongoing.
These NDA’s Verify The Sectors Enormity & Complexity.
October 30, 2000 - Fred Falk, ‘’We are also working with OEMs who may compete against each other with product offerings designed by e.Digital. Our non-disclosure agreements with our OEMs are in place to ensure that we are not disclosing any details of their product and our agreements to other OEMs and the public until they are ready to have this information made available. ‘’ Feb. 14, 2001 – e.Digital Form 10-QSB – Informed Investors that some revenue sources may stay unnamed until they decide to become known.
I Believe This is What Intel Is Going To Do For Secure Internet Content With It’s DRM/ISIS which includes ePAC.
http://www.convera.com
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February 2, 2000; WW6 From Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell International Corporation to purchase a wafer fabrication facility (fab) located in Colorado Springs, Colo. The purchase will add significant manufacturing capacity for Intel to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. The new Holy Grail for the company is the business of selling flash-memory chips -- used in battery-operated devices that hold their memory even when the device's power is off. Intel is quickly rebuilding itself into the world's largest manufacturer of flash chips.
Three top Intel people from its Flash/Mobile Divisions are now with e.Digital.
e.Digital was selected by Intel to design and prototype a number of portable digital voice recorders utilizing advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. Intel plans to sub-license the reference design created by e.Digital to Intel's OEM customers, referring them back to e.Digital for licensing and any additional design and/or manufacturing work required. e.Digital has also filed a number of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; We have received notification of allowance from the United States Patent Office for use: MicroOS TM, FlashBack(R), Hold That Thought(R), Fumble Free(R), SoundClip(R), Smart Song Selection(tm), MicroCAM TM - Micro Compressed Audio Manager, AMIS TM - Audio Manager Interface, TWIRL TM - Two-Way Infrared Link, VIAGGI – ie, Travels, and VOICENAV as registered trade names.
Internet Audio Market. Excerpt Source: Texas Instruments.
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=566858
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/innovate/iaudio/opportunity.htm
Today's Internet Audio application is based upon the downloading of digital audio content, either speech or music, via the Internet and then playing the encoded digital audio content on an Internet Audio playback device. Very soon, these playback units will be a sub-system in PDAs, digital still cameras, cellular phones, set-top boxes, and other devices. The total market potential is even larger when you consider other complimentary products such as headphone stereo, personal CD, personal MD, car audio, and future DSC, cellular phone, etc., TI has the commanding market share lead with key design-ins at most of the major consumer electronics and PC makers. The following customers have already been publicly announced: a. Thomson Consumer Electronics b. Sanyo c. e.Digital.
TI DSP’s & My Opinion on DSP’s and our MicroOS. TXN CES Comments.
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TI DSP Music Player Presentation -
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Lydstrom/Lucent/e.Digital – ePAC Home System
http://www.lydstrom.com/l_partners.html
Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments and e.Digital.
Announce Secure Internet Music Download Device MIDDLETOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--Lucent Technologies announced today that it is working with e.Digital on the development of a new handheld device for listening to downloaded music from the Internet. The new device, to be manufactured by e.Digital, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC(TM)) and will employ e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system.
The ‘Puck’ - http://www.jump2net.com/dash/player4/index.htm
1999 -IBM VoiceTimes alliance announced - Including e.Digital -- expertise in the design and development of digital mobile devices interfacing with PCs and the Internet. e.Digital is working with Intel on advanced digital voice recorders." “e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions." Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/enterprise/ms_2.html
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March 23, 2001 - e.Digital Corporation announced today that the first production-level Internet music player design incorporating IBM's Microdrive™.is being featured in the IBM booth at the CeBIT trade show which runs through March 28. The design is currently being marketed by e.Digital and Maycom, Co., Ltd. worldwide. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr032301.html
August 14, 2001, Fred Falk - We are particularly excited by plans to brand and market different versions of our Microdrive-enabled digital music player platform this fall , and we look forward to sharing details about this important new product line in future communications.
July 20, 2001 – Wireless IBM Microdrive & IBM Voice Navigation.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=156344
Sep. 5, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION ANNOUNCES NEW DIGITAL PLAYER/RECORDER USING IBM'S MICRODRIVE(TM) MEDIA. Product Based on e.Digital's MicroOS(TM) 2.0
with VoiceNav(TM) Speech Interface. Production is already under way in Asia for OEM customers to meet demand for our MicroOS-based product in time for the holiday selling season.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=176407
So Many Digital Downloadable Music Players: With a Big Problem – Multiple Codecs & ‘Digital Rights Managements’ and Increasing Advanced Functions Within Smaller Devices. http://www.ecoustics.com/Home/Home_Audio/MP3_Players/MP3_Player_Reviews/
This Is What It’s All About – IMHO.
Look at All the New Music Services, Video/Media Players, Interactive & Content Enabled Set-Top-Boxes, Home Servers, Kiosks, Karaoke Devices, 3G MP3 Phones And Satellite Digital Radio Applications Coming To Market. Then Read The Article about Bertelsmann’s Tj.net/MP3 De Cellular and its intentions to create a Secure Subscription Model with Napster. IMO - The PJBs and DataPlay devices will create New Excitement due to design & features – See Treo’, ET700 and ‘Volan’ Concept designs below. This Synopsis Concludes with four knowledgeable shareholder’s analysis on the emerging technology and how it could very easily include e.Digital’s Patented Micro OS as a standard in this emerging sector.
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=593637
Oct. 6, 2000 – e.Digital Corp. and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea today announced the launch of the MP2000 multi-codec, portable digital music player in time for the holiday shopping season. Initial shipments are now beginning and the product will be introduced into the European and Asian markets as well as in other countries and specialty markets through Maycom and other OEMs. The unit has superb audio quality and louder output levels than most other portable music players on the market, without sacrificing battery life. Its backlit LCD screen supports English and Japanese characters. The multi-codec unit supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and ePAC music compression formats, and is firmware upgradeable to support the QDX format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC platforms. The SDMI-capable unit ships with WMA Digital Rights Management included. It can be firmware upgraded to support InterTrust's Digital Rights Management, which the world's largest recording company, Universal Music Group, has announced it will be using in its online music distribution.
Powered By e.Digital Technology – Maycom/edig ‘Merit’ Player Picture.
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.100600/bb5.jpg
August 2001 – Maycom’s new site. MP2000 And New ‘Advanced Voice Recorder’.
http://www.emaycom.com/eng/default.asp
Nov. 9 2000 – e.Digital & Samsung announce agreement to produce two separate DataPlay enabled devices to premier at CES Jan. 6, 2001. October 19, 2000 - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) today announced that it is developing portable digital products incorporating DataPlay's quarter-sized 500 MB digital media and micro-optical engine. DataPlay has secured $50 million in strategic financing from Universal Music, Toshiba, Samsung, S3 and Creative. It's not certain that Universal's prerecorded music will be available in the format. But DataPlay announced last month that Universal's eLabs president Lawrence Kenswil has joined DataPlay's board of directors.
Our DataPlay device. [This financing has now reacher 110 million – in 2001]
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/index.jsp and http://www.edig.com.
DataPlay Product Rollout – CES 2001
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=590380
DataPlay/Volan Concept Designs. Very Innovative.
http://www.volan.com/proof/eDigital/visuals-06.cfm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15135565
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-02.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-05.html
http://www.volandesign.com/work/projects/pop-concept-06.html
Samsung’s Handheld Video Motion YEPP & DataPlay Orbit Music Player http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-112.gif
http://www.etown.com/categories/print_article.jhtml?article_type=news&articleID=3554
2001 - Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
July 30, 2001 – Samsung Electronics is partnering with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to jointly develop and market new products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755021
July 9, 2001 – Samsung will diversify its portfolio of Yepp Internet audio portables in the summer and fall with its first MP3-CD portable, its first pendant-style flash-memory portable, and its first firmware-upgradable flash-memory portable, which will also be
among the company's first multicodec models.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=718688
July 17, 2001—Samsung and AOL Time Warner Announce Multi-Year Strategic Marketing and Technology Alliance. Samsung to Manufacture Next-Generation AOLTV Set-Top Boxes, In addition, the companies will explore the development of a range of future consumer electronics products as well as introduce new digital products to consumers to enhance Samsung Brand Through Promotion Across AOL Time Warner Online and Offline Brands.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145128
July 2001 - Samsung Electronics and CompUSA – Samsung eager to further expand its presence in the United States with a more global image, has entered into a strategic alliance with CompUSA, a major U.S. electronics goods distributors for the supply of digital home electronics to sell the very latest of our technologies. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=732258
The Eastech, ZapMedia, HarmonKardon, Samsung, CompUSA Connection –
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=735946
Aug. 15, 2001 - Samsung unveils new chip for Web audio devices.The latest SOC, called CalmRISC-Portable Audio Device, is designed to process a variety of audio files including MP3, WMA (windows media audio) and AAC (advanced audio coding). http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=754137
Sep. 1, 2001 – Samsung to Produce Mobiles in China.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=767128
Aug. 16, 2001 - Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co.,
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=162681
Nokia Music PlayerPhone HDR-1 – Using MP3 & AAC.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=176111
Aug. 25, 2001 – Samsung will launch a home network server in cooperation with U.S-based software group Microsoft. The home server, which will be able to connect computers, consumers electronics and home appliances and other devices through a wide range of wired and wireless standards. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=169685
March 29, 2001 – Fred Falk, Following our business plan, we have dedicated strategic engineering resources to the development and implementation of new product platforms that include digital video for portable devices, automotive and home stereo designs, cellular phone accessories, and set-top boxes. We are working with multiple OEMs on specific applications of these MicroOS- and MicroCAM-powered platforms for inclusion in a variety of branded products.
SET TO DEBUT IN 2001 WITH 10GIG HDD –
Nov. 13, 2000 - Hy-Tek Previews e.Digital’s ‘Treo’ PJB at COMDEX – 2000 Songs on a Handheld Player. RemoteSolutions/Hango/e.Digital Works-In-Progress.
And an Excellent Candidate for a PC Bundle.
http://www.treoplayer.com Palmed Treo’ http://hardware.dmusic.com/details.php?id=169 http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/treo.html
e.Digital VP Comments about Treo’ and PC Manufacturers -
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=540326
COMPAQ CEO and a Jukebox Prototype! Compaq’s ‘Remote Solutions’ is a manufacturer of our Treo design – Eastech will introduce the ET platform.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=596645
August 22, 2001 - Intel, Compaq and TI- handheld collaborations.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=760478
July 12-13, MP3 Summit 2001 – "Best Overall Portable MP3 Player: Treo Digital Music Jukebox. MP3 Summit 2001 attendees found the Treo to be the smallest and lightest hard-drive based player, at only 8 ounces with batteries. The Treo is manufactured by Hy-Tek Mfg. and designed by e.Digital." http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=145410
January 3-4, 2001 – e.Digital & Toshiba to develop and provide mult-codec portable Internet music player. Also e.Digital contracts with EASTECH a multi-million dollar firm with name-brand consumer electronics manufacturers including but not limited to Philips,Sony, Kenwood, Sanyo, Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi and Pioneer. http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
June 5, 2001- Devices for DataPlay’s mini disks expected To reach market by fall. Toshiba and Samsung DataPlay production models are ready!!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=121533
DataPlay Sees Sept. Delivery Of 1st Products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=725928
DataPlay, which will introduce 500MB blank discs and prerecorded discs this year, will be "multi-codec compatible.
July 24, 2001 - Digital Clearing and Distribution Partnership Final Piece in DataPlay Strategy to Connect Retail Networks, Content Owners and Electronics Companies. Reciprocal, Inc., the provider of business infrastructure for the distribution of digital assets, and DataPlay, Inc., today announced an electronic media distribution agreement that will provide new levels of portability, security and ease-of-use for media companies, as well as consumers. The agreement leverages content across an extensive network of retailers and distributors, including Coconuts, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=733457
June 6, 2001—SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that their new FlashVision fabrication (fab) plant has gone into production of advanced flash memories, and shipments of the product have started. The NAND memory wafers being produced by FlashVision will primarily be used to manufacture flash memory storage cards for use in digital
cameras, digital Internet music players and future generations of cell phones.
Keep in mind e.Digital’s JUSTRI invitation SD association and the Flash Patents.
Jan. 5, 2001 - Sending Moving Pictures to Cell Phones - Toshiba's Single-Chip. http://www.mobileinfo.com/News_2001/Issue05/Toshiba_video.htm
Aug. 27, 2001 - SanDisk Reports Major Retail Expansion in Europe In Approximately 10,000 Retail Stores In 30 European Countries for mobile phones, Internet music players and small-size digital cameras. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170017
EASTECH’s version of the Treo’ the ET-700 & Our Toshiba’s DP Player.
http://www.acousticsys.com/products/IA/portable/ET700.html
http://www.eastech1.com/english/prod.htm
http://www.dataplay.com/images/en/random/home-product-117.gif
Remember The Intel/Eastech Connection –
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2001 – Eastech Secures New Contracts Worth US$43 Million - it has secured two new major contracts, worth US$43 million, with consumer electronics companies SANYO and Singing Machine.
July 27, 2001 - Does MTV Karaoke spell EDIG?? Soon available at consumer electronics, toy and general merchandise stores throughout the US, including Best Buy, Toys R' Us and Meijer, and by catalog at JC Penney, Sears and Fingerhut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=151235
e.Digital & Qdesign – Madonna’s codec-of-choice. Qdesign is Promoting edig’s MicroCAM platforms IMO to Apple’s QuickTime. Also IMO we’ll work with PortalPlayer - per links below. http://www.qdesign.com/news/pressreleases_07_24_00.htm
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=581347 August 1, 2000 –
QDesign selects e.Digital portable internet music player design for showcase product Custom Music Player to Demonstrate the New QDX Codec for Digital Music to Executives in Music and Electronics Industries. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=685824
Texas Instruments and Qdesign Announce Enhanced Digital Audio Music Storage Design for Portable Players. http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1999/99050.htm
Now Read The Bertelsmann Article Link Below – Also Note Vivindi’s New ‘Universal Music Mobile’- Then Go to http://www.edig.com For the Facts On The Company Which Has The Key To It All - An Advanced MicroOS Solution For The Audio/Video Format/Codec & DRM Delima. Read The Last Letter To Shareholders And View Their Growing List of Impressive Partners. e.Digital Recently Added More DSP Engineers, Equity Investments And Key Personnel To Its BOD. The Company’s Micro OS Has Been Recognized As a Benchmark With These Same Companies: Intel, IBM, SanDisk, Lucent & Texas Instruments And Many Other Industry/Sector Leaders.
Aug. 30, 2000-- Bertelsmann (BMG), the world's largest international media enterprise, launched tj net to provide a new service for mobile phone users in Italy. Tj net expects to add additional centers in Germany, UK, France and Benelux in Europe, as well as in the U. S. and Japan. Tj net transforms mobile phones into cost-free receivers for a wide variety of music and top news stories. http://www.inin.com/News/PressReleases/pressreleases.asp?id=118
2000-2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio seek interoperability using Lucent’s EPAC and AAC for the Automotive and Stereo Industry. IMO – This will be Huge for e.Digital per handheld reception and recording of streamed/downloaded content. Also see iBiquity.com.
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=82063
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=534184
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=587686
1-2001 - Sirius VP Tracey Stanyer says. "We want to use position-based commerce, or P-commerce, to turn drive time into buy time."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=124007
My Reasoning For Digital Radios Importance –
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170561
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170539
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168999
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Jan. 8, 2001 - XM Satellite Radio Set to "Rock and Roll" with IBM
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/96BBCCD93032E5A8852569CE0056D169
http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01040140.html
August 23, 2001 – BMW of North America, LLC and Sirius Satellite Radio the satellite radio broadcaster, announced today that BMW will offer Sirius satellite radio service to new car buyers beginning in the second quarter of 2002.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
Sep. 5, 2001 - Beginning in November, General Motors will become the first auto manufacturer in the world to offer XM Satellite Radio as a factory-installed option. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=177562
Sep. 6, 2001 - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio signed distribution agreements with Porsche Cars North America to offer their satellite radio service as an option to customers in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=770850
June 25 – Agere Systems the world leader in communications semiconductors, a branch of Lucent, today announced that seven consumer electronics manufacturers – Alpine, Clarion, Delphi Delco, JENSEN, Kenwood, Panasonic and Visteon -- are developing radios that include Agere's chip set capable of receiving broadcasts from Sirius Satellite Radio. The Agere chip set will be able to capture digital signals from satellites and terrestrial repeaters broadcasting Sirius' service
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=133558
A look at VR in ‘Telematics’ within the Auto Industry with Intel and IBM
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=542328
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/DC3F600187220BF9852569CE0057BC67
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010106/nv_motorol.html
July 12, 2001 – E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND BANG & OLUFSEN ENTER INTO LICENSING AGREEMENT – Visteon has paired its world-class audio and electronic capabilities with prestigious Danish audio-video manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to develop a new level of automotive audio sophistication. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=142952
July 30, 2001 - Visteon & SpeechWorks. We are thrilled that Visteon, a leader in the telematics industry, has chosen to work with us to bring our combined technologies to telematics and other markets such as mobile devices and cable set-top boxes with the goal of creating a vast array of voice-enabled products and applications for both the automotive and consumer markets.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=152129
PacketVideo & e.Digital – Although there is yet a confirmed partnership. – IMO e.Digital and PacketVideo are well aware of each other and will eventually work together on advanced video platforms.
June 13, 2000 - PacketVideo today announced that it has agreements with over 35 global media and online companies to trial the delivery of video to wireless devices. Warner Bros, FOXSPORTS.com, E! Entertainment, ABCNEWS, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment etc,. , PacketVideo - Interview
http://boss.2.navisitestreaming.net/real/2/fconf/000825/28_robert_tercek.smi
http://www.packetvideo.com
July 28 -Time Werner & PDA’s. Signaling the entertainment industry's determination to move aggressively into the dawning wireless-entertainment field, Time Warner Inc. is developing original programming that will be beamed to handheld devices. The company will work with PacketVideoCorp., a San Diego software firm backed by, among others, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. The closely held concern already has conducted widespread trials of its wireless audio-video programming with other content giants, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Pictures, using mostly promotional material such as movie trailers. See PacketVideo’s News Releases for these: Intel and PacketVideo. Lucent Streams Entertainment To Cell Phones. Wireless device users are way beyond using their cell phones just for phone calls, they want entertainment, and they want speed. The communications equipment giant is teaming with wireless video start-up PacketVideo to develop this next-generation device. Motorola with PacketVideo, Bell & PacketVideo, Nortel Networks and Packetvideo, Sharp Corporation and PacketVideo, Siemens in wireless video deal with PacketVideo. March 20, 2001 - PacketVideo Partners with Symbian to Provide Mobile Video Software for Smartphones - Symbian's licensees include Ericsson, Kenwood, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=641600
Aug. 22, 2001 – Texas Instruments and PacketVideo Corporation today announced plans to create a variety of differentiated streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices that will enable capabilities like streaming video and audio, speech recognition, JPEG image processing and others. Aug. 28, 2001- DoCoMo, PacketVideo to Deliver 3G Video when
it launches a full commercial services on October 1.
(These Music/Video distribution services will probably become subscription based; incorporating CellPhones, PDAs, PJBs, Set-Top-Boxs and Automotive Telematics link-ups using Handheld Voice Remotes via OutPut/Input-Jacks, Push/Pull via TWIRL, 802.11 and Bluetooth Technology – And should arrive next year, if not this year.) ie., see link below - http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=123586
May 2, 2000 - ZapMedia.com, Inc. (ZapMedia), today announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gannett Co., Inc./ USA TODAY (NYSE: GCI), one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, to provide an all-in-one Internet driven, interactive entertainment environment, making it a reality for consumers today. With the click of a button people will serve up music, movies, television, the Internet, and email using ZapMedia's co-branded products and services
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=604252
ZapMedia Inc. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., have said they will produce an entertainment convergence product.
The "Samsung ZapStation" will allow consumers to access digital audio and video entertainment and surf the Internet without a computer. Due out by the end of 2001, It will contain a digital audio jukebox that can play Windows Media Audio and MP3 formats, a CD and DVD player, and a CD ripper.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=131034
(Reuters 10-10-2000) - The National Music Publishers' Association Inc. (NMPA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) (RIAA) said Tuesday they have agreed on procedures for licensing of musical compositions, or songs, that are distributed on the Internet. The RIAA represents big record companies, including Seagram Co. Ltd.'s Universal Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Time Warner's Warner Music Group and EMI Group Plc (news - web sites).
October 23, 2000 – Delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc. In the latest sign that music subscription is emerging as a prominent avenue for delivering music through the Web, America Online Inc said it is developing an online music-subscription service, and Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group has launched a test of a subscription-music service.
10/25/00 - LYCOS aims to be web music one-stop ...
Lycos took another step last week by signing a partnership with BMG Entertainment, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Lycos will sell digital downloads of albums and singles by 100 of BMG's recording artists.
(Oct.31,2000) -Bertelsmann And Napster Form Alliance. Entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG (BTGGga.D) and controversial song-swap company Napster (news - web sites) Inc. said on Tuesday they formed an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service.
Oct 31, 2000 -- Radio Free Virgin and Playboy.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., announced the launch of Radio Free Virgin, a downloadable0, CD-quality digital radio tuner available free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com.
http://billboard.com/daily/2000/1201_04.asp
Nov. 1, 2000 - Warner Music Group (WMG) and Microsoft Corp, In a multiyear agreement, WMG has selected Windows Media Format as a primary format for commercial music download initiatives in the United States and Canada, with security provided by Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Nov. 2000 – PHILIPS SHOWCASES CLICKRADIO ON DIGITAL SET-TOP-BOX. Through an exclusive agreement with Lucent Technologies, ClickRadio uses the patented ePAC (Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coding) compression format to deliver secure digital music programming while protecting artists' copyrights. IMO - TiVo features are coming for Audio Content.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=112461
06/05/01 – Philips has released a new family of highly integrated solid state audio devices for MP3 audio players, car radio systems, portable CD players, flash memory cards, Internet radio and simple jukebox applications. Able to support a range of stereo audio decompression algorithms, including MP3, AAC and Microsoft WMA, the SAA7750 chip's programmable DSP architecture enables it to become the basis of MP3, CD and SSA (flash memory) products.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=728640
August 7, 2001 – ClickRadio = ePAC & Gateway/Kmart/Wal-Mart - The company has a distribution deal with Gateway and will soon have its software available at Kmart, Wal-mart, Staples and Electronics Boutique.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=157180
12/15/00 - ONLINE music seller Soundbuzz has snagged a deal with major record label BMG to sell the music of artists; allowing purchase music in digital-file format for immediate download to their hard disk. using Intertrust and Liquid Audio to provide encryption and digital-rights management.
January 10, 2001- NTT DoCoMo to Start Music Distribution to PHS Users
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583848
Jan 22, 2001 - IBM to Offer New Technology to Prevent Unauthorized Music Distribution on Web & IBM/e.Digital Player and Toshiba/IBM - EMMS .
http://www.ibm.com/Press/prnews.nsf/jan/E07957156C96DBD7852569DC0051460E
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/micro/edigital.htm
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
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Feb. 22, 2001 - Vivendi/Universal, Sony team up for online Music site
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=622436
Feb 05, 01 - Qualcomm, MP3.com, Samsung To Stream Tunes To Phones.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=607773
DALLAS, Feb 27 - Blockbuster Inc. & Universal Pictures films via its video on-demand service include RadioShack its stores for in-home entertainment, in whatever form our consumers want it delivered. http://www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/msgreview.asp?id=67262&refid=0&orig=67262
Feb. 27, 2001 - Warner Music to Sell Downloadable Albums.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=625247
March 14, 2001 - Hard Rock Cafe Teams Up With Liquid Audio to Launch Commercial And Promotional Digital Downloads on hardrock.com
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=637683
March 14, 2001 – Handleman Company one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. will offer a catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads – See Handleman Kiosks Coming Below. http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
Mar 16, 2001 - Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific, PlanetMG uses Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology for secure music downloads and to prevent piracy.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=638941
March 20, 2001 - Samsung and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=642134
March 19, 2001 - Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, and Lucent Technologies today announced a three-year, $5 billion contract which positions Lucent to become the largest supplier of Verizon (3G) mobile network infrastructure. Verizon will purchase multiple products and systems from Lucent's designed to expand wireless coverage, increase capacity, and support high-speed data and mobile Internet applications. IMO - This is excellent news for ePAC http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=640314
Sep. 6, 2001 - Sprint and Verizon claim they will, by year's end, turn on new cell phone networks that will let wireless users do things like download music onto cell phones, or other functions previously reserved just for personal computers.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=177413
April 2, 2001 - RealNetworks and America Online Each to Launch Consumer Subscription Services Powered by MusicNet to Offer Extensive Collection of Secure Downloadable and Streaming Music. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=653048
May 7, 2001 - Computer retailer CompUSA Inc. and America Online have joined forces in a marketing alliance. Under the agreement, AOL products and services will be offered to CompUSA shoppers, and AOL will promote CompUSA across several brands.
April 4, 2001 - In a Landmark digital-music announcement today, the MTV music network said that it had forged the first agreement that licenses music from all five major record labels for download off the Internet. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=654745
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=649488
April 5, 2001 - Yahoo! and Duet. Now ‘’PressPlay’’ Announce an Alliance to Market the On-Demand Music Subscription Service Created by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=655253
April 5, 2001 - HitHive's deal with EMI: music via cell phones
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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.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689937
June 6, 2001 – Napster secures its first music licenses from three of the five major labels, paving the way for the file-trading network to launch its new subscription service by the end of the summer. The service is expected to offer both radio-like streaming technology and downloading capabilities. MusicNet will be available through AOL, Real Networks and Napster.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44322,00.html
Jul 11, 2001 - Judge orders Napster not to resume service.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=722712
July 12, 2001 – Pressplay & Microsoft -- a joint venture between music giants Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp is near a deal to offer its online music subscription service on Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=720867
July 13, 2001 - Elibron Adds Downloadable Music To Its Collection of Electronic Books Adamant Media, already partnered with two of the world's largest libraries to bring its customers over 30,000 electronic books, now officially announces the addition of secured downloadable music to its website.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729657
July 16, 2001 – TOWER RECORDS, The largest independent record store in the world, joins forces with OD2 and PlayLouder to begine commercial download sales. http://www.newmediamusic.com/articles/NM01070154.html
July 18, 2001- NAPSTER READY TO LAUNCH a second phase subscription service backed by major labels. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=729103
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=682979+
Aug. 28, 2001 - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010828/wr/media_bertelsmann_napster_dc_1.html
July 24, 2001-- Radio Free Virgin, and RioPort, Inc., to provide listeners with the ability to purchase digital downloads of available tracks and albums that they hear on Radio Free Virgin digital broadcasting network. The service will be launched at the end of July 2001. http://news.excite.com/news/pr/010724/ca-radio-free-virgin
July 25, 2001 - U.S. Government Stepping Up Internet Antipiracy Efforts In the past week the U.S government has escalated efforts to squash Internet piracy by conducting sweeps in nine states and expanding the ranks of attorneys assigned to prosecute copyright violators.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/board.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736507
Aug. 9, 2001 – Liquid Audio, Inc. today announced it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=748032
Using MP3 and AAC also - like Nokia/Samsung.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=177558
Aug. 13, 2001 – Texas Instruments and RealNetworks today announced they have broadened their strategic alliance to offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable
digital signal processing (DSP)-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video client devices including IP set-top boxes, network video appliances, personal video recorders, streaming media servers and IP video. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=750783
Aug. 16, 2001 – Five Major Film Studios on Thursday announced a joint on-demand
movie service that will offer old and new releases for broadband Internet users in the United States. http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=755026
August 20, 2001- Pressplay Reaffirms Plan For September Debut. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=165492
Aug. 20, 2001 - BMG musical downloads in Europe. OD2 will work with BMG to support the sale of selected catalogue, via secure digital download, in partnership with a number of leading European retailers via the internet.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=166104
Aug. 21, 2001 - DataPlay Delays Launch. After following a seemingly smooth product development road, DataPlay is being forced to push back the introduction of its 500MB removable storage media and hardware from this fall to early 2002.
Aug. 23, 2001 "Short-term, this is a disappointment, but we understand the reasons," said Putnam. "It offers us the opportunity to get in more devices. http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168130
Positive Spin On The Delay - DABOSS Talks To Robert Putnam.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=168267
AUGUST 24, 2001 – 5 labels using 'stealth CDs' to discourage copying songs.
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Aug. 27, 2001 - Vivendi Launches Mobile Music in France, a music service for listening to records on mobiles before they are on general released.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=170347
Kiosks – Coming 2001.
MTVi-RioPort/Bestbuy - http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=689931
Handleman –LQID/JC Penny - http://www.handleman.com/f_news.htm
July 25, 2001 - Look for Kmart and Wal-Mart to work more closely with music distributor Handleman, which is nine months into a three-year plan to invest up to $40 million in ecommerce initiatives, including web-based fulfillment and in-store kiosk systems.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=736528
The first big test of DataPlay will come this fall when Borders plans to launch brand-new downloading kiosks that will allow customers to record music on CDs, Memory Stick, and DataPlay.
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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
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=588824
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=579020
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=548914
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=583845
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=635180
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Daboss – Brought this to our Attention 3-24-2000
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/momentum/iaudio.htm
Haiyaku’s Response: #258082
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Jimee11’s Response: #258031
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=258031
emit’s Response: #258056
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e.Digital & Lanier Worldwide’s Medical Dictation Handheld – Cquence Mobile. According to market analysts, the medical dictation market is the largest vertical market in the speech technology industry. http://www.speechtechmag.com/st.mag/sep00/doc_doc.shtml
http://www.edig.com/products/custom-cquence.html
http://www.lanier.com/ps/apps/cqmobile.html
Lanier & Allscripst Creating Compaq PDA For Medical Industry. + Cquence
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=708671
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=136432
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=713877
Now Think About It……. It’s coming our way and involves much more than just music – Handheld mobile voice recognition, video on demand, VR Medical Records and (c)Publications & eBooks. e.Digital is the Codec/DRM and flash storage file management for Secure Internet Content and Advanced Handheld Design.
(February 15, 2001) E.DIGITAL HIRES FLEISHMAN-HILLARD INC. TO LEAD U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA RELATIONS. The Worlds' largest public relations firm, to lead domestic and international media relations and communications. Michael Busselen, senior vice president, "e.Digital has developed unique technology that has the potential to impact millions of consumers. The story is captivating, the business is timely, and we look forward to using our expertise and understanding of the media to share e.Digital's story with the business and technology communities."http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr021501.html
Think Global…DOS to MOS http://www.edig.com http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.071400/bb3.jpg
This is all ‘My Humble Opinion’
emit…
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