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1.Registration
2.WIT Software
3.Zoran
4.Limelight Networks
5.Exent
6.Verisign
7.Silitronics
8.Siemens
9.Axentra
10.ThinkOptics
11.PassAlong Networks
12.PaymentOne
13.Gyration
14.EZTakes
15.ACS/Digital
Domicile
16.Media
17.Hillcrest Labs
18.Kingston
19.MoCA
20.Media |
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Zoran Corporation is a
leading provider of digital solutions for applications
in the growing digital entertainment and consumer electronics
markets. With two decades of expertise developing and
delivering digital signal processing technologies, Zoran
has pioneered high-performance digital audio and video,
imaging applications, and Connect and Share technologies
for the digital home. Zoran’s proficiency in integration
delivers major benefits for OEM customers, including
greater capabilities within each product generation,
reduced system costs, and shorter time to market. Zoran-based
DVD, digital camera, DTV, multimedia mobile phone, and
multifunction printer products have received recognition
for excellence and are now in hundreds of millions of
homes worldwide. |
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Digital Domicile T is a PC Media solutions provider.
Our goal is to enhance the end user experience by doing
a Wants, Needs and Desire assessment of our customers
to determine the configuration of the PC Media that
meets those requirements. This then removes much of
the challenges faced by consumers when they buy a PC
product. We address the market in terms of benefits
of our PC Media products and not by just "techno" talk.
This frees the customer from having to keep up with
the latest technology while still realizing the latest
improvements. All Digital Domicile Products are built
under a registered ISO 9000:2000 Quality Management
System. |
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Whether
it's advanced compression systems, on-demand or interactive
television, TANDBERG Television (TAT.OL) delivers the
technology and expertise that's moving digital media
forward. The company's award-winning solutions are used
by the world's leading network operators, broadcasters,
content owners and program makers to deliver new viewer
experiences and advertising opportunities. With a broad
suite of open, standards-based products TANDBERG Television
offers the highest quality digital TV solutions including
IPTV, HDTV, video on-demand, advertising on-demand,
IPTV and interactive TV applications, all of which are
designed to maximize consumer appeal and generate increased
return on network investment. www.tandbergtv.com |
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Exent
is the leading global market solutions provider for
broadband-based monetization of PC and video games.
Exent's product line supports multiple solutions, including
digital distribution of video games, cross-platform
enablement, in-game advertising and community building
solutions. Exent delivers technologies and products
for video game publishers, broadband service providers,
consumer portals, consumer electronics manufacturers,
media companies, advertising agencies, brand owners,
retailers and others. Among the companies using Exent's
technologies and services are Comcast, Verizon, Intel,
Turner Broadcasting, Bell Canada , RCN, Telefonica,
Deutsche Telekom , France Telecom , Portugal Telecom,
KPN, and Telstra. Exent's major shareholders include
Intel Capital, Cisco,Time Warner, Comcast, Concord Ventures,
Avansis, Geyser, and New Enterprise Associates. |
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Gyration
is a technology innovator whose products are revolutionizing
the way people interact with PC's and CE devices in
the growing ecosystem of digital media devices. Based
on their breakthrough gyroscope technology, Gyration's
products enable intuitive cursor control from a couch
or across a room by tracking natural hand motion. Gyration
boasts the only cursor control allowed under Microsoft's
"Green Button" specification, and markets
remotes and mobile devices to OEM and retail customers. |
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Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment
makes Internet protocol television (IPTV) services a
reality today - throughout the world - with industry-leading
processes, solutions and knowledge of broadband network
infrastructures. Built on an open standards-based architecture,
the Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment solution provides
rich user experiences, efficient back-office management
tools and the building blocks for complete convergence
of entertainment, communication and smart home solutions
- the Siemens LifeWorks vision. |
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At
VeriSign, we want everyone to reap the benefits of the
ongoing revolution in digital commerce and communications.
It is towards that goal that we focus our company, our
technology, our services, and our people. VeriSign Inc
(NASDAQ: VRSN) operates intelligent infrastructure services
that enable and protect billions of interactions every
day across the world's voice and data networks. Every
day, we process as many as 15 billion Internet interactions
and facilitate over 100 million telephony queries. We
also provide the services that help over 3,000 enterprises
and 500,000 Web sites to operate securely, reliably,
and efficiently. VeriSign is a global enterprise with
offices throughout the Asia-Pacific region, Europe,
Latin America, and North America , supported by a widespread
international network of data centers and operations
centers. |
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We are a software development company
that works in the area of mobile telecommunications,
mobile internet and every area related with mobile business.
Our target market includes: Mobile Operators, Media
Companies, Banks, Distribution Companies, Healthcare
Providers, Telematics industry. |
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PassAlong Networks is an innovative
technology company passionate about the future of digital
media. Our goal is to enable new pathways to connect
content
creators and consumers. Founded in 2002, PassAlong Networks
is based in Nashville, Tennessee where it began its
foray into digital media distribution by
launching (PassAlong.com) the company's own music download
store. At launch, the PassAlong™ music service
offered several distinctive features including
Passing and Points™. Passing occurs when consumers
pass music to their friends via instant messaging services
by MSN, Yahoo! and AOL or by e-mail. Points,
which are redeemable for free music, are earned when
consumers pass music to each other and a sale results. |
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EZTakes lets consumers download movies to playable DVDs.
The service supports both Windows and Mac clients and
will soon support iPod, Zune, PSP and other portable
devices. EZTakes is fully operational with about 1,400
feature-length DVD downloads, including a number of
Oscar winners and dozens of films that won at Cannes,
Sundance and other festivals. Because of the unmatched
value we provide, it makes no sense to buy a title from
another service when that title is available on EZTakes.
We developed our own patent-pending technology, and
we also have a number of upcoming B2B offerings. |
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Founded in July 2000, PaymentOne has pioneered advanced
"No Credit Card Required" payment and marketing
services that accelerate the adoption of digital services
and premium content. As the foundation of its services,
the company manages the PaymentOne Carrier Network â"¢
(PCN) which provides digital merchants a single integration
point and direct access to over 150 million billable
consumers across over 1000 network operators. PaymentOne's
turnkey payment platforms, hosted commerce management
and content syndication services help clients attract,
convert and retain more consumers. The company's services
and best practice expertise have proven to lift client
revenue and subscriber acquisition rates by 25% or more.
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Founded
in 1987, Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world's
largest independent manufacturer of memory products.
Kingston designs and builds a range of modules for high-end
gaming rigs, desktop PCs, notebooks, and printers as
well as Flash memory cards for PDAs, cameras, and now
mobile phones to offer consumers an end-to-end memory
solution. Supporting all memory processing functions
from receipt of wafer through to completed module, Kingston
operates manufacturing facilities in Fountain Valley
, California , USA ; Malaysia ; Taiwan ; and China ,
to service a global network of distributors, OEMs, and
retail customers in more than 3,000 locations worldwide. |
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Axentra
is the leading provider of digital media platforms for
smart appliances. The HipServ platform is a simple,
easy, unified media experience offered to OEM and Service
Providers who want to offer the next generation smart
storage - intelligent NAS, residential gateway - super
router, or intelligent set top box CPE. HipServ
offers a modular, scalable, solution that enable consumers
to save, show, sync and share their digital media anytime
anywhere, in the home and beyond. OEM and SPs
can extend and with infrastructure based systems to
deliver enhanced rich media experiences, offer additional
products, targeted goods and services. |
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Association Sponsor |
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Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCAT), www.mocalliance.org
, an open industry initiative promoting delivery
of video and entertainment over coax, ensuring interoperability
with member products and coexistence with other delivery
mediums, under a RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory)
licensing environment. Co-founders Cisco/Linksys,
Comcast, Cox, Echostar, Entropic Communications, Motorola,
Panasonic, Toshiba, RadioShack and Verizon are on the
board of directors. MoCA has completed numerous certification
waves, independent field tests validating more than
110 Mpbs net throughput, and has more than 43 members
to date. |
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Hillcrest
Labs (www.hillcrestlabs.com) has created the first pointer-based,
digital media system for TV. Hillcrest enables
CE manufacturers and service providers to deliver the
most visually engaging and intuitive way to browse,
discover, and interact with digital media throughout
the home. Components of Hillcrest's digital media system
can be embedded across a wide range of in-home entertainment
devices including PCs, DVRs, media adapters, and more.
The company was honored with the 2006 International
CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award presented
by the Consumer Electronics Association. Based
in Rockville , Maryland , Hillcrest Labs was founded
in 2001 by Dan Simpkins. |
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Silitronics
Telco ODM group is a new Strategic Business Unit formed
in August of 2006
when Arya B hattacherjee -CEO, Steve T abaska - Executive
VP and members of the Soni family completed the rollup
of three companies - Silitronics, Inc. San Jose, CA
- ISO 9001:2000 contract custom microelectronics manufacturer,
SunTech Manufacturing, Bangalore
India - a Tier 1 DRAM manufacturer and D'GiPro, Bangalore,
India a 140 person engineering services organization.
The management team added value with a Functional System
in a Package Group focused on Wireless applications
and the Telco ODM group focused on triple play technologies. |
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Limelight
Networks is the high performance content delivery network
for digital media. Limelight's massively scalable, global
delivery solutions are uniquely tailored to those doing
on-demand and live delivery of video, music, games and
downloads to broadband and mobile audiences. Limelight
leads the industry in "Delivering the Digital LifestyleT". |
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ThinkOptics,
Inc. is a San Jose-based technology start-up, founded
in 2004. ThinkOptics' core innovation is an optical
sensing and tracking technology in 3D space. It
transforms the ten-foot remote control navigation experience
in the living room, as we know it. It does so through
its singular focus on simplicity . Its unique
optical-based approach combines a very intuitive
direct-pointing capability with six-degrees of freedom,
for multiple, simultaneous users . The control is
precise and fast, like no other devices currently available
in the market, and works like a 'magic wand'. The technology
is in product prototype stage with leading and emerging
solution vendors in the Home Entertainment and Gaming
space. Multiple patents are pending. |
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blinkx,
the world's largest and most comprehensive video search
engine, has indexed more than 7,000,000 hours of video,
audio, viral and TV content, making it fully searchable
and available on demand. As video content on the Web
explodes, keyword-based search technologies only scratch
the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen
to and see the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and
accuracy of search results not available elsewhere.
In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many
of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is a privately-held
company based in San Francisco and London . Visit us
www.blinkx.com. |
Media
Partners |
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S2
Data was founded by Jason Blackwell and Greg Fawson
in April 2004. The company specializes in providing
platform-based research products. Platformbased research
enables OEMs and semiconductor IC designers to gain
greater insights into the market dynamics and technology
trends for their target platforms. |
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The
Wi-Fi Alliance is a global, non-profit industry association
of more than 275 member companies devoted
to promoting the growth of wireless Local Area Networks
(WLANs). Since the introduction of the Wi-Fi Alliance's
certification program in March 2000, more
than 3,000 products have been designated as Wi-Fi
CERTIFIEDT, encouraging the expanded use of Wi-Fi products
and services across the consumer and enterprise markets.
Wi-Fi®, Wi-Fi Alliance®, the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
logo, and the Wi-Fi logo are registered trademarks of
the Wi-Fi Alliance; Wi-Fi CERTIFIEDT and the Wi-Fi Alliance
logo is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. |
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iSuppli Corporation clients improve performance in the
electronics value by providing them with the facts,
analysis and advice they require to know precisely how
to succeed. Our team of over 100 globally positioned
electronics industry veterans monitor the status of
the electronics industry value chain, and continuously
update a score of self-consistent databases that track
industry performance and significantly improve forecast
accuracy. iSuppli tracks unique datasets - such as contract
terms and conditions, pipeline inventories and component
pricing - to allow clients to instantly pinpoint specific
actions to enhance performance. |
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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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VC
Task ForceT is building an organization that venture
capitalists can give input and direction to and get
immediate results that benefit both themselves and their
portfolio companies. We were established to provide
a system of services including: business, legal and
financial programs that provide real-time, strategic
and tactical information addressing imminent concerns
of venture capitalists and portfolio companies. VC Task
ForceT provides a forum for venture capital firms, institutional
investors and portfolio company management in which
they can share ideas and information that will help
them manage their businesses for maximum success. |
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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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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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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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