e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

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e.Digital Corporation: Key Developments

July 22, 2002
e.Digital Corp. introduced its new Odyssey 1000 digital jukebox and data storage device. Powered by e.Digital's MicroOS 2.0, the Odyssey 1000 has the capacity to download 4,800 songs, or 400 CDs, and it is PC and Mac compatible.
June 28, 2002
e.Digital Corp. and Bang & Olufsen, a European audio/video company, announced that the first consumer product incorporating e.Digital's technology and Bang & Olufsen's sleek industrial design is now available to consumers through Bang & Olufsen retail stores in the United States and Canada.
June 27, 2002
e.Digital Corp. announced the creation of its Broadband Entertainment Business Unit. The Company also announced the development of e.Digital's new Web-based digital music subscription service, which will feature streaming and downloadable music by a growing collection of nearly 3,000 independent artists. The site is projected to become e.Digital's one-stop entertainment destination for its users to access digital music, movies, books, and more.
June 13, 2002
e.Digital Corp. announced that it has begun shipments of its new Treo 15, a lightweight, pocket-sized digital music jukebox with the capacity to store over 300 CDs worth of digital music. Treo 15 features Smart Song Selection, allowing users to quickly and easily manage and navigate music files even as they are listening to their favorite selections.
May 30, 2002
e.Digital Corp. introduced its new Odyssey line of digital audio players. All players come with embedded flash memory, a SmartMedia card expansion slot allowing consumers to add up to 128 MB of additional storage, and e.Digital Odyssey Manager software, which is compatible with both PC and Macintosh platforms.
May 22, 2002
e.Digital Corp. and Digitalway Co. Ltd., a digital audio player manufacturer, announced a joint development and marketing partnership. The two companies are collaborating to develop and brand digital music (MP3) players and voice recorder/players for sale to end users in the United States, Europe and Asia.
May 07, 2002
e.Digital Corp. and DGN Inc. (Digital Global Network), a provider of digital audio and multimedia devices, announced a joint venture agreement to develop and market portable digital audio products under the e.Digital brand name.
April 09, 2002
e.Digital Corp. and DivXNetworks Inc., the creator of DivX MPEG-4 compatible video compression technology, announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop and market a range of consumer electronics devices that play back DivX video. The agreement will enable the creation of a number of DivX Certified hardware devices, including handheld DivX video players, DivX-enabled DVD players, home video jukeboxes, Digital Video Recorders, digital set-top boxes, digital video cameras and more. Additionally, the two companies will work together to integrate digital rights management (DRM) technology into the devices to ensure secure playback of high-quality digital video.
March 18, 2002
e.Digital Corp. announced that CompUSA, a computer superstore retailer, will add e.Digital-branded products to its selection of digital audio products in stores nationwide beginning in early April.
March 06, 2002
e.Digital Corp. announced that it has signed a development and manufacturing agreement with Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten. Under the agreement, e.Digital will receive non-recurring engineering (NRE) fees for design and development services. Additionally, e.Digital will receive revenues for the manufacture and delivery of Eclipse-branded audio products for the automotive infotainment and telematics market.
February 14, 2002
e.Digital Corp. announced that Good Guys Inc. will offer e.Digital Corp.'s branded line of digital audio players. Good Guys, who will begin carrying the products in early March, is a retailer of higher-end consumer electronics.
December 06, 2001
e.Digital Corp. announced that Maycom Co. Ltd. of Korea's MP2000 Internet music player, powered by e.Digital technology, is now available to consumers through the Company's online store.
December 04, 2001
e.Digital Corp. introduced Treo 10, a lightweight, pocket-sized digital music jukebox with the capacity to store approximately 200 CDs worth of music.
December 03, 2001
e.Digital Corp. and Musical Electronics Ltd., a major Asian OEM manufacturer, announced that the first product, the Classic XP3, created under their multi-year licensing agreement is now available on shelves at Circuit City. The e.Digital-powered jukebox product features the ability to encode music directly from a CD player into MP3 files, bypassing the need for a PC to perform digital compression. The unit is field upgradeable to support other popular formats as they become available. The Classic XP3 also ships with MusicMatch Jukebox software.
November 07, 2001
e.Digital Corp. announced that Ran Furman has been named CFO of the Company.
November 05, 2001
e.Digital Corp. introduced the MXP 100, the first wearable digital music player that gives consumers hands-free navigation using voice commands, by passing manual scrolling which is the only choice on other portable players. A digital music player/voice recorder, e.Digital's MXP 100 offers consumers the advantage of high storage capacity with the IBM Microdrive as the primary removable media.
November 05, 2001
e.Digital Corp. and Lucent Technologies announced their collaboration on a speech interface for portable electronic devices. e.Digital's VoiceNav voice navigation interface was developed utilizing a voice recognition engine from Bell Labs' Advanced Technologies, a division of Lucent's research and development arm, which pioneered speech recognition technology. VoiceNav is now available to consumers for the first time in e.Digital's new MXP 100 portable digital music and voice recorder/player, which features hands-free navigation using spoken word commands.
October 16, 2001
e.Digital Corp. and Actel Corp., a supplier of programmable logic solutions, announced a technology relationship that will allow e.Digital's proprietary design to be produced within Actel's ASIC-like (application-specific integrated circuit-like) eX field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. e.Digital's new solution is designed to increase reliability and reduce the board space required for implementation of advanced digital voice and music recorder/player functionality in small portable devices, such as portable Internet music players and personal digital jukeboxes.
September 19, 2001
e.Digital Corp. and DataPlay Inc., a developer of a universal media format, announced a broad strategic alliance and agreement to develop and deliver portable products uniting DataPlay's digital media, micro-optical engine and ContentKey technology with the Company's patented technology and design integration services. The agreement specifies that e.Digital will provide engineering and technology development, enabling worldwide application of DataPlay's digital media in a variety of portable products. DataPlay will also refer OEM customers to e.Digital for product design, technology integration and application development around DataPlay's removable digital media and micro-optical engine. In addition to non-recurring engineering fees for design and development efforts, e.Digital will collect royalties from OEM customers on certain DataPlay-enabled products.
September 05, 2001
e.Digital Corp. announced a digital audio and music player/recorder incorporating IBM's Microdrive removable hard disk media. Based on e.Digital's new MicroOS 2.0 operating system, the ultra-portable product supports VoiceNav, e.Digital's natural speech-recognition user interface for performing navigation and playback functions. e.Digital's new compact product features digital music and voice recording and playback.
June 01, 2001
e.Digital Corp. announced the resignation of Chief Financial Officer and Operations Manager Jane Rinard.
January 04, 2001
e.Digital Corp. and EASTECH, an Asian conglomerate specializing in developing and designing "Sound, Vision and Internet appliance" products for the OEM consumer electronics market, announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent. EASTECH is expected to license e.Digital's MicroCAM technology-based, DataPlay-enabled product designs created by e.Digital and incorporating removable optical storage disc technology from DataPlay Inc.
January 04, 2001
e.Digital Corp. announced that e.Digital and Toshiba are working to create, develop, and deliver to Toshiba, music player samples based on e.Digital's proprietary reference design and built to Toshiba's specifications.
January 03, 2001
e.Digital Corp. and EASTECH, an Asian conglomerate specializing in developing and designing "Sound, Vision and Internet appliance" products for the OEM consumer electronics market, announced a royalty-bearing licensing agreement under which EASTECH has licensed e.Digital's MicroOS-based portable jukebox design for use in consumer products to be marketed worldwide by name-brand consumer electronics companies. Under the licensing agreement, EASTECH will use e.Digital's portable jukebox design and custom engineering services to bring private-labeled Internet audio jukeboxes to the consumer market in early 2001.
December 06, 2000
e.Digital Corp. announced that it has hired Jane Rinard, C.P.A., as its chief financial officer and operations manager. Rinard will head the Company's accounting and finance and oversee daily operations.
October 06, 2000
e.Digital Corp. and Maycom Co., Ltd. Korea 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.
August 24, 2000
e.Digital Corp. announced an agreement with Remote Solution, the U.S. marketing and sales organization for HanGo Electronics, Co., Ltd., Korea. Under the agreement, Remote Solution will license e.Digital's MicroOS-based Internet music player design for a new multi-codec, SDMI-capable portable jukebox product named Cleo. Remote Solution plans to introduce the Cleo to the consumer market under its own brand name and in addition will make it available for licensing by name-brand OEM customers in the electronics, computer, and audio industries.
August 01, 2000
e.Digital Corp. announced that it has been contracted by QDesign Corporation to create and deliver special edition portable digital music players incorporating a Texas Instruments DSP and featuring the QDesign QDX scalable music compression format. The special edition QDX/MP3digital audio player is expected to be delivered to QDesign by the end of August and will be used to showcase the new QDX technology to leading members of the digital music industry.
April 13, 2000
e.Digital Corp. announced that Allen Cocumelli was appointed Chairman.
January 05, 2000
e.Digital Corp. announced that it has licensed its portable Internet music player design to Maycom Co. Ltd., manufacturer of the I-Jam digital MP3 player. Maycom will incorporate e.Digital's reference design into their music player, which will support multiple music codecs and various Digital Rights Management schemes.


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