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John Grosfeld, San Francisco Sales Director
(A-M companies)
at 650-759-8728 or john@ihollywoodforum.com
Michael Naughton, Corporate Accounts
Coordinator (N-Z companies)
at: 310-566-7748 or mnaughton@ihollywoodforum.com
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Snell
& Wilcox Inc.
Suite 1704, 274 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212.481.2416
www.snellwilcox.com
Snell & Wilcox is widely recognized as a world leader
in the design and development of infrastructure solutions
for digital media markets. The company's digital signal
processing products include standards and format conversion;
live production switching; infrastructure for digital,
HDTV and IPTV broadcasting; video compression; and content
repurposing for a variety of content delivery platforms
such as broadcast, IPTV and mobile. Many of the world's
most important broadcast, media & entertainment
companies trust Snell & Wilcox to deliver state-of-the-art
hardware and software solutions to enhance the quality
and integrity of their video and audio media assets.
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Qualcomm
Incorporated
5775 Morehouse Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
858.587.1121
www.qualcomm.com
Next-generation wireless communications is emerging
as the most important technology of this millennium.
To
ensure that the entire wireless industry is inspired
and continues to evolve, innovate and experience success,
QUALCOMM develops its technologies and solutions for
the purpose of enabling key participants in the wireless
value chain. By partnering with and acting as an enabler
to the business activities of these participants,
QUALCOMM ultimately enables consumers, professionals
and government entities - the end users who benefit
from the success of the wireless industry today and
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MediaFLO
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Attn: MediaFLO
5775 Morehouse Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
866.259.3814
www.qualcomm.com/mediaflo
The latest wireless innovation from QUALCOMM is here.
The MediaFLOT System, a comprehensive end-to-end solution,
simultaneously and cost-effectively delivers unprecedented
volumes of high-quality, streaming or clipped, audio
and video multimedia to wireless subscribers. MediaFLO
transforms multimedia delivery and opens market opportunities
for the entire mobile value chain including wireless
operators, device manufacturers, and content providers.
The MediaFLO System complements existing networks and
drastically expands the ability to deliver the multimedia
customers desire without impacting the voice and data
services they expect. |
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Mobile DTV Alliance
2400
Camino Ramon, Suite 375
San
Ramon , CA 94583 USA
925.275.6635
http://www.mdtvalliance.org
The
Mobile DTV Alliance is an open industry consortium
that focuses on promoting the best practices and open
standards to deliver premium-quality broadcast television
to mobile TV devices in North America . The alliance
includes leading companies from across the mobile
business system and entertainment value chain. Our
promoters include HiWire, Disney, Intel, Microsoft,
Modeo, Motorola, Nokia, and Texas Instruments. |
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Envivio
400 Oyster Point Boulevard
Suite 325
South San Francisco, CA 94080
www.envivio.com
Envivio is the leader in IP video convergence solutions
using MPEG-4 technology to make IP video a reality over
any type of network and to any multimedia device - from
3G to xDSL and from mobile TV to HDTV. Supporting a
wide range of network protocols, resolutions, bit rates
and devices, Envivio is the only company to offer IP
video convergence solutions that deliver industry leading
AVC/H.264 compressed video quality at the lowest bit
rate for mobile TV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadcast
services. Telcos, ISPs, broadcasters, cable operators
and enterprises worldwide can use Envivio solutions
to reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers
compelling video services anytime and anywhere.
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Fenwick
& West LLP
Silicon Valley Center
801 California Street
Mountain View, California 94041
650.988.8500
www.fenwik.com
Fenwick
& West provides comprehensive legal services to
technology and life sciences clients of national and
international prominence. We have over 250 attorneys,
with offices in Silicon Valley and San Francisco,
California.
Fenwick
& West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective
and practical legal services that focus on global
technology industries and issues. We differentiate
ourselves by having a deeper understanding of our
clients' technologies, industry environments and business
needs than is typically expected of lawyers.
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News Over Wireless
CBC New Media Group
2619 Western Blvd.
Raleigh, NC 27606
919.821.8781
www.newsoverwireless.com
News
over Wireless offers custom applications and services
for local television broadcasters to deliver news
and information to mobile phone users across the nation.
Mobile users can access news, weather, traffic and
sports from local TV stations, incorporating video
clips, radar and satellite images and more, in one
convenient location. A recent Gallup poll shows local
television news continues as America 's number one
news source. Station partners focus on the local news
they know best, while News Over Wireless ensures it
reaches viewers with industry-leading technology and
platforms. Our service suite is available on-deck
with carriers across the United States . News Over
Wireless partner stations reach over 60 million television
households and carrier relationships touch over 168
million mobile subscribers. For
more information, visit www.newsoverwireless.com
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HandHeld
Entertainment
539 Bryant St., Ste. 403
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-495-6470
www.zvue.com
We are a digital-media-to-go
company with our own online video content stores at
ZVUE.com, Dorks.com, FunMansion.com, YourDailyMedia.com
and Putfile.com as well as a family of mass-market
portable media players priced at mass-market prices.
We are focused on two large and growing synergistic
multi-billion dollar markets - distributed digital
content and portable digital media devices. Our strategy
is to capitalize on the synergy between portable digital
entertainment products and related digital content.
We offer consumers access to a large and growing library
of commercial and user generated digital content which
is complimented by easy to use mobile devices at a
compelling value. Our ZVUE devices have been designed
to be compatible with virtually all formats of content.
Consumers can also download free user-generated videos
and other media from the "Free STUFF!" section of
ZVUE.com, as well as from Dorks.com, FunMansion.com
and YourDailyMedia.com. Our media players are sold
in more than 2,000 Wal-Mart stores in the United States
, as well as retail store websites, including Amazon.com.
As of February 15, 2007, we had approximately 425,000
media files available for download, consisting of
music video, news clips, television shows, short films
and feature-length films. We also have over two million
songs available for download through our strategic
partnerships with content providers, eMusic and Rhapsody.
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Ericsson
North American Headquarters
6300 Legacy Drive
Plano, TX 75024
972.583.0000
www.ericsson.com
Ericsson is the largest supplier of mobile systems in
the world and supports all major standards for wireless
communication. We drive the telecoms industry and are
shaping the future of mobile and broadband internet
communications through continuous technology leadership.
Ericsson has been providing innovative solutions in
more than 140 countries and is helping to create the
most powerful communication companies in the world.
Ericsson IPX is a non-branded, white-label service that
comprises mobile billing and connectivity via SMS, MMS
or GPRS/UMTS. The premium service, IPX Payment, is available
to more than 650 million mobile subscribers in 20 countries,
and new markets are being added continuously. With the
non-premium service, IPX Messaging, content providers
can deliver and receive SMS messages from mobile subscribers
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Streamezzo
France
83 Boulevard du Montparnasse
75006 Paris
+33.1.53.63.28.30
www.streamezzo.com
Streamezzo is the leading software provider enabling
mobile operators, content providers and handset manufacturers
to rapidly and cost effectively develop, deliver and
render profitable Rich Media and Interactive Mobile
solutions and services. Streamezzo provides a unique,
richer and more compelling mobile consumer experience
through it standards-based Rich Media ExperienceT
suite of software and dramatically boosts the consumption
and attraction of mobile content and applications.
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V4x
France
Parc Scientifique UNITEC 1
2, allée du Doyen Georges Brus, 33600 BORDEAUX
PESSAC
+33 (0) 5.56.45.13.61
www.v-4-x.com
V4x is the first digital software platform to create
and broadcast high quality shows for Mobile TV. The
small screen sizes of mobile devices require unique,
user-friendly content and navigation. From a production
standpoint, this means proper scaling of content and
a new way of inserting interactive graphics. V4x offers
a unique turn-key solution. Producers can pull content
from TV productions, select and edit material, and add
high quality graphic overlays that will be rendered
on the handset. The producer can simultaneously design
and manage the navigation for interactive screens. |
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Entriq
1900 Wright Place, Suite 200
Carlsbad, CA 92008
760.795.2600
www.entriq.com
With over 20 years of pay media experience, Entriq Inc.
provides a full, end-to-end solution to secure and monetize
multimedia content for broadband, mobile and IPTV consumers
worldwide. Entriq gives content and service providers
the complete tools needed to manage and protect valuable
media assets they wish to track and/or sell. Our technology
enables content providers to easily set up and manage
digital storefronts through an easy to use drag and
drop interface. The solution provides state-of-the-art
content management, security, commerce, and tracking.
Entriq is a division of MIH Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN). http://www.entriq.com |
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PacketVideo
Headquarters - San Diego
10350
Science Center Drive, Suite 210
San
Diego , CA 92121
858.731.5300
www.packetvideo.com
For
nearly a decade, PacketVideo has been the software
pioneer helping mobile carriers and mobile device
manufacturers realize their dreams of bringing dazzling
- and profitable - new multimedia features and services
to their end-users. |
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Irdeto
2320 130 th Ave. NE, #E-200
Bellevue, WA 98005
425 497-2800
www.irdeto.com
Irdeto is a world leader in content security and provides
comprehensive solutions for digital contention protection
in digital TV, IPTV and mobile environments. The company’s
customer support, sales and R&D offices are located
worldwide with corporate headquarters near Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. The Irdeto Mobile product range includes
solutions for securing DVB-H, T-DMB and S-DMB mobile
broadcast networks based on Irdeto’s nearly
40 years of pay TV experience, as well as OMA DRM
1.0 and 2.0 clients designed to meet the most stringent
security requirements while providing a simplified
integration process on mobile devices. |
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Teqcorner
Building
1616 Anderson Road
Suite 206
McLean, VA 22102
703.286.0777
www.javien.com
On the forefront of the online payment industry, Javien
Digital Payment Solutions, Inc., is an experienced leader
in the paid digital content arena. In 2001 Javien merged
with microCreditCard, established in 1998 and one of
the first to introduce micropayment processing technology.
Javien now offers comprehensive, e-commerce solutions
to content-rich web sites. Javien Digital Payment Solutions
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Javien, Inc., a Delaware
Corporation registered with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. The company is based in McLean, Virginia,
outside Washington, DC. |
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Media
Excel, Inc.
8834 N. Capital of Texas Hwy.
Suite 302
Austin, TX 78759
512.502.0034
www.mediaexcel.com
Media Excel is a high-technology company that provides
advanced real-time digital video encoding, transcoding,
streaming, and decoding (playback) solutions for Internet
Protocol Television (IPTV), Mobile TV and Digital
Home Entertainment initiaves. Media Excel's product
lines have been selected by leading-edge IPTV, Mobile
TV and Consumer Electroics companies and are currently
part of worldwide pilots and deployments. |
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NAGRAVISION
841 Apollo Street Suite 300
El Segundo, CA 90245
310.335.5225
www.nagravision.com
Nagravision
is a market leader in the field of conditional access
for digital TV and broadband Internet. Leading operators
are equipped with its technology which ensures secure
access to their services via more than 40 million
decoders (analog and digital). |
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ABI Research
501 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10018
516-624-2500
www.abiresearch.com
ABI Research was founded in 1990 to assist manufacturers
of wireless semiconductor components in understanding
and entering new markets. As tech-driven emerging markets
proliferated during the 90's, ABI Research expanded
its analytical coverage to a broader base of manufacturers
and service companies participating in the technology
market revolution. ABI Research is committed to reinvestment
in research infrastructure, enhancing knowledge sharing
and speeding the flow of information between our research
teams and the industries we cover. |
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Business Wire
44 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
415-986-4422
888-381-WIRE (9473)
www.businesswire.com
Business Wire disseminates full-text news announcements
from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide
(our members) to news media, financial markets, disclosure
systems, investors, information web sites, databases
and other audiences. With more than four decades of
experience and leadership, Business Wire is a trusted
source for journalists, investors, regulatory agencies,
and communications professionals. In fact, Business
Wire enables companies to fulfill the disclosure requirements
in many countries, including the US, UK, Canada, France
and Germany as well as reach financial audiences around
the globe. |
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Chetan
Sharma Consulting
1778 12th Ave NE
Issaquah
, WA 98029
206.931.1820
443.269.1435
www.chetansharma.com
Chetan Sharma Consulting is a leading strategy and advisory
firm. We are focused on evolving trends, emerging problems
and opportunities, new business models and technology
advances that will take our mobile communications industry
to the next level. Our expertise is in developing innovation-driven
product and Intellectual-Property strategy. We've helped
companies like NTT DoCoMo, Disney, Sprint Nextel, Qualcomm,
Samsung, KTF, SAP, Reliance Infocomm, AT&T Wireless,
BEA, HP, Merrill Lynch, Bain, Virgin Mobile, Infospace,
Cincinnati Bell, American Express, and many others. What
can we do for you? |
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Conference Guru
773-496-1081
www.conferenceguru.com
Conference Guru knows that the reasons you attend conferences
are to help establish your leadership position in the
marketplace and network with your peers. A worthwhile
conference experience generates new contacts, sales
leads, potential strategic partners and investors; helps
gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration
for new products and services. We help make sure that
happens for you. |
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Digdia
11234 Mount Crest Place
Cupertino , CA 95014
408-981-2288
www. digdia.com
digdia helps companies find growth opportunities, create
winning strategies and business plans for companies
in the digital entertainment value chain. Services include
strategic consulting and market analysis with a balanced
business & technical perspective. Strategic consulting
services are further described on the Services
page, and market reports can be found on the Reports
page. Presentations can also be given to
groups or conferences that seek a strategic view of
the market, technology and companies. |
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IPTV
Industry
888.955.4816 ext 89
www.iptv-industry.com
IPTV Industry is the leading online trade publication
dedicated to the internet television B2B marketplace.
Providing news, white papers, development resources
and online buyer's guide for the IPTV Industry. With
a worldwide readership of manufacturers, content providers,
distributors, resellers and integrators, IPTV Industry
is the number one online source for industry sales leads,
branding and promotion of IPTV products and services. |
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iSuppli
1700 East Walnut Avenue, Suite 600
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-524-4000
www.isuppli.com
iSuppli Corporation is the global leader in communications,
media and technology value chain research and advisory
services. iSuppli provides market intelligence
services for the EMS , OEM and supplier communities
in addition to servicing consumer electronics and media
concerns. Services afforded by iSuppli range
from electronic component research to device-specific
application market forecasts, from teardown analysis
to consumer electronics and from display device and
systems research to multimedia content and services.
More information is available at www.isuppli.com |
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JupiterReserach
Century House
Priestly Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 9RA
UK
+44(0)
1256.830002
www.jupiterresearch.com Juniper
Research is a telecoms analyst firm specialising in
the mobile and wireless sector with particular emphasis
on business models, applications, content and device
strategies. Juniper is headquartered in the UK and
has been operational for five years. Juniper Research
provides market expertise and advice to organisations
operating across the telecoms and related sectors.
We publish regular off-the-shelf research reports
and provide business modelling, market sizing, forecasting
and competitive analysis to consultancy clients across
the world. |
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MPEG Industry
Forum
48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
510.492.4028
www.mpegif.com
The MPEG Industry Forum is a not-for-profit organization
with the following goal: To further the adoption of
MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted
and widely used standards among creators of content,
developers, manufacturers, providers of services,
and end users." The activities of MPEGIF generally
start where MPEG stops. This includes issues that
MPEG cannot deal with, e.g. because of ISO rules,
such as clearance of patents. |
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Newtonstrand
3841, Rhodes Ave ,
Suite 201 , Studio City , CA 91604
1-866-379-0404
www.newtonstrand.com
Newtonstrand is an innovative technology center which
was founded by three former Microsoft employees. Newtonstrand's
headquarters are in London, it has a US subsidiary located
in Los Angles and an R & D facility in Israel. Our
vision is as clear as our passion. To introduce the
world of "corporate events and training's" to innovative,
advanced technology based services to improve customer
satisfaction and to generate excitement from their events.
Together, we are one of the leading integrated multimedia
and Structured Networking service providers. Our products
are designed to meet the demands of the growing business
networking market. We offer solutions to a wide spectrum
of the business world such as advertising agencies,
conference & event organisers and large (blue-chip)
companies. Our high workmanship combined with the state
of the art technology leaves you with nothing but the
best in audio-visual re-enactments of actual and virtual
event presentations, as well as pre organised Structured
Networking meetings held in conjunction with your conference.
Our products are personalised to meet individual needs
and we maintain the highest level of confidentiality.
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Parks Associates
5310 Harvest Hill Road
Suite 235, Lock Box 162
Dallas, Texas 75230
972-490-1113
www.parksassociates.com
Parks Associates is a market research and consulting
firm focused on all product and service segments that
are "digital" or provide connectivity within the home.
The company's expertise includes home networks, digital
entertainment, consumer electronics, broadband and Internet
services, and home systems. |
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Rogers & Cowan
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue, 7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-854-8124
www.rogersandcowan.com
Rogers & Cowan, through its Convergence specialty
practice, has been meeting the public relations needs
of clients in new media and digital entertainment, consumer
technologies and lifestyles, and related programming,
hardware and software since 1994. Rogers & Cowan,
part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, provides
public relations and strategic marketing counsel services
to iHollywood Forum seminar and conference properties
including Digital Media Summits, Mobile Tech Forums
and Mobile Entertainment Forums. |
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SNL
Financial LC
One SNL Plaza
P.O. Box 2124
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
434
951-7715
www.snl.com/media_comm/
SNL Financial
is the premier multisector-focused information and
research firm in the financial information marketplace.
SNL Financial collects, standardizes and disseminates
all relevant corporate, financial, market and M&A
data - plus news and analysis - for the industries
we cover: banking, specialized financial services,
insurance, real estate, energy and media/communications.
Since our founding in 1987, SNL Financial has continuously
expanded the scope and depth of our coverage and products
without compromising the standards of quality and
customer service that drive our success. |
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Television Week
6500 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 2300
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Editorial: 323.370.2400
www.tvweek.com
The television business is changing radically...and
TelevisionWeek is your comprehensive guide. With our
in-depth coverage of the people, events, new technologies
and trends that affect the industry, TVWeek keeps everyone
who
works in television ahead of the curve week after week.
And now that television is defined by far more than
just a box in the living room, TVWeek provides comprehensive
coverage of the developments that affect all areas of
entertainment and media, including broadband, On Demand,
Podcasting and HDTV. |
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The
Diffusion Group
408-981-2288
www.thediffusiongroup.com
TDG provides research and advisory solutions for companies
serving the connected home and new media markets.
Using a unique think-tank approach that blends executive-level
consultants and in-depth market research, TDG produces
reasoned and pragmatic insights that help clients
make more intelligent market decisions. TDG
generates more than research - we create Intelligence
in Action®. |
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