e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

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I would take Note -

SAN DIEGO, Mar 6, 2002 - e.Digital to Design, Develop, Manufacture, and Deliver Eclipse-Branded
Products for Automotive Infotainment and Telematics Systems. Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten automotive audio and infotainment products and technology received prestigious Audio Sound Grand Prix Awards in 2000 and 2001. Eclipse is
the fastest growing brand in the car stereo world.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=294523

From the amended S3 - Also in March 2002, we announced that we had entered into a Development and Manufacturing Agreement with Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten, a car stereo company. Under the agreement, e.Digital will receive NRE fees for design and development services, as well as revenues for the manufacture and delivery of Eclipse-branded audio products. Specifically, the agreement provides that e.Digital will provide Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten with engineering services to integrate file management and compressed audio management technology designed by e.Digital into an advanced automotive audio system. Eclipse refers to their automotive audio system as an "infotainment" platform because it includes not only a radio and CD Player, but also may -

(i) connect wirelessly to the Internet to download music or other data,

(ii) store, organize, retrieve, and play back data, including digital audio files, from a hard disk drive,

(iii) connect wirelessly to a user's home personal computer while parked in the driveway for purposes of downloading and/or uploading music or other information,

(iv) record radio signals to a built-in hard disk drive as they are received and

(v) recognize the driver's voice commands to perform a variety of operations.

Prior to entering into the Development and Manufacturing Agreement, we had collaborated with Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten for several months to develop and deliver state-of-the-art automotive OEM and aftermarket infotainment systems integrating the latest digital audio, voice recognition, data storage, video, and wireless Internet technologies for sale under the Eclipse brand name. The first system was unveiled at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 8 -- 11.

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TI is with IBOC-DigitalRadio. Agere/Lucent is with Sirrus/XM-DR. Both set to ePAC/tPAC/AAC... Kinda a win win for us :)

March 13 - 01 in Hannover, Germany, Eureka DAB Solution Powers Breakthrough DAB Radio Product for Maycom A low cost Eureka digital audio broadcast (DAB) radio receiver solution from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) NYSE: TXN) has enabled the industry's first portable DAB radio for Korea-based Maycom Co., Ltd. TI's digital baseband and analog chipset powers the unique DAB radio and will be used in future Maycom digital radio products
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/newsletter/news/sc02030.htm

Automotive Business - From Jan. 01 Letter from President.
We were pleased to announce last week an automotive product developed and designed through our collaboration with Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten. The Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten automotive product (MP-3 Changer) introduced at CES represents the first automotive system incorporating e.Digital’s MicroOS and VoiceNavTM technologies. In addition to the design shown at the Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten booth, e.Digital demonstrated an advanced prototype of the product utilizing a beta version of its MicroOS 3.0 which enables music files to be remotely transferred from a PC to the player via 802.11 wireless protocol.

The Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten product is the first of several major opportunities for our technology to be included in next-generation automotive infotainment systems. Infotainment systems are part of the automotive telematics market, which is expected to be worth over $1.1 billion in 2002, and projected to grow 16-fold by 2006. (Telematics Research Group). There is significant interest among several automotive electronics manufacturers and suppliers in e.Digital’s digital data management and wireless infotainment solutions. Automotive infotainment and telematics applications are expected to generate substantial licensing, NRE fees, and royalties for your Company. Each OEM agreement may also include revenue for manufacturing services, warranty services, marketing, customer service, order fulfillment, and technical support services.
http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr011602.html


Eclipse is coming - Wonder if any other of iBiquity's numerious unit builders could have come to us....
2 current Eclipse reviews... However IMO NexGen Eclipse will incorporate features such as internal Harddrive capable of 'Write-Back' buffering for FM record, wireless 802.11 - and MP3, AAC capabilities and very possibly IBOC.
http://www.caraudioelectronicsweb.com/testreports/0211cae_eclipse/
http://www.thedoublee.com/caraudio/reviews/headunits/cd5442/


With the development of digital radio, iBiquity Digital is partnering with some of the biggest names associated with receivers, semiconductors and radio broadcasting, as well as wireless data content providers. We are working with receiver manufacturers Alpine, Blaupunkt, Delphi, Fujitsu Ten, Harman Kardon, JVC, Hyundai AutoNet, Kenwood, Mitsubishi, Recoton, Sanyo and Visteon; electronic component manufacturers Alps, Sanshin, TBK and TOKO; automaker Ford; and consumer electronics retailer Crutchfield. We are also working with semiconductor manufacturers Philips Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments and content providers Accuweather, The Associated Press, Impulse Radio, Hollywood.com, Movietickets.com and SmartRoute Systems. In addition, we are working with our fourteen radio broadcast owners and other AM/FM broadcasters, and transmission equipment manufacturers Andrew, Armstrong, Broadcast Electronics, Continental Electronics, Dielectric, Energy-Onix, ERI, Harris Corporation, Jampro RF Systems, LowPass Prototype, LPB, Moseley Associates, Nautel, Orban, QEI, Shively Labs, and Telos/Cutting Edge. All of our partners have agreed to develop coordinated strategies for the market launch of iBiquity Digital’s IBOC technology and their associated products. Our partnership with leading companies is one of the most important strategies in bringing digital AM/FM radio to consumers. These alliances will help to ensure radio's rapid transition to a digital future.
http://www.ibiquity.com/navframe.html?06content.html


HOW DATA TRANSMITTED OVER AN IBOC STATION

5th page bottom left paragraph -
7th page 'Application Examples'
Note emphisis on DRM/encription needs

http://www.impulseradio.com/NAB_whitepaper.pdf

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