NEW YORK—Emblaze Systems said it has concluded successfully an MPEG4 compliance interoperability test with Samsung Electronics.The companies conducted the trial to determine whether Emblaze's wireless media platform is interoperable with Samsung's cdma2000 1x network, thereby allowing it to transmit multimedia content.Emblaze said it supplied...
Handsets/wireless devicesSonySony Electronics unveiled its CLIE handhePEG-T415 ld with reduced profile, featuring a slim design with aluminum case and enhanced infrared port for controlling audio and video equipment. The company also...
Qualcomm Inc. announced it signed memoranda of understanding to provide its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless technology to several wireless operators around the world. BellSouth in Guatemala, Telcel-BellSouth in Venezuela and Vesper in Brazil will now receive products and services based on Qualcomm's BREW...
NEW YORK—Motorola Inc. will port Emblaze Systems Ltd.'s MPEG4 multimedia player into its DragonBall MX1 microprocessor, which is one of the major processors used by personal digital assistant makers and mobile-phone manufacturers."This is a significant agreement for us," said Sasson Darwish, Emblaze's president. "It...
NEW YORK—Wireless streaming video company Emblaze Systems warned that its revenues for the year will be "substantially below market expectations," blaming carriers' tightened spending and the late introduction of video-capable handsets as underlying reasons.The company didn't provide concrete numbers for its revenues.Emblaze said it...
SAN DIEGO and NEW YORK—The Wireless Multimedia Forum (WMF) completed a six-month interoperability trial that included five wireless multimedia vendors, including PacketVideo and Emblaze Systems.The six-month test included encoding and decoding of raw audio and video bit streams; encoding, distribution and playback of WMF-compliant...
NEW YORK—Italy's Wind Telecommuicazioni has licensed and purchased Emblaze Systems' Wireless Media Platform and backend system. Wind will integrate the architecture with its systems to operate on GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks, allowing it to offer its customers next-generation multimedia applications.
NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems introduced its next-generation, carrier-grade back-end system for the delivery of standards-based MPEG4 video over wireless networks. The company said five European cellular carriers have signed trial agreements to test the system, but did not name the carriers. The company said its...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. said it has agreed to conduct an eight-week trial of Emblaze Systems' technology using a scaled-down version of a cdma2000 1xRTT network.It is designed to test the capabilities of live-on-demand video and video mail to handsets and other handheld devices.
NEW YORK-Wireless steaming multimedia company Emblaze Systems Inc. announced a distribution deal with Network Appliance Inc. for Emblaze's Wireless Media Platform, the company's streaming audio and video technology.As a part of the partnership, the companies said they will engage in joint marketing activities aimed...
NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems Inc. will optimize its patented streaming media technology for use in wireless devices running on Symbian's EPOC operating system, under an agreement announced last week.A simulation using content from Emblaze's content partners and Symbian-based smart phones will be available on Symbian's...
NEW YORK-The Wireless Multimedia Forum, which recently celebrated its first birthday, is on schedule in building a framework for content that must be written just once for delivery to any device over any network.Earlier this year, the WMF released Version 1.0 of its Recommended...
Streaming content onto wireless devices seems like a perfect match of technology. Without the hard drive space required to download and save large files, streaming content to wireless devices is a good way for wireless customers to experience large data files.PacketVideo Corp. has jumped...
NEW YORK-GEO Interactive Media Group announced it will change its name to Emblaze Systems Ltd., which is the name of the company's streaming video technology."We intend to invest heavily in creating a world brand and put all marketing resources behind one compelling brand name,"...
PDA technologyBlue ImpactBlue Impact, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system (GPS) module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with CellPoint's location platform and services, allowing the Visor to access all CellPoint location services offered by...
NEW YORK-ITN News Media of the United Kingdom will stream video reports to handheld wireless devices using technology developed by Geo Interactive Media Group Ltd. of Israel, under an agreement announced Dec. 18.Geo said it holds worldwide patents for delivery of streaming video over...
NEW YORK-Geo Interactive Media Group Ltd. announced it will develop a streaming MPEG-4 video player for the new Nokia 9210 Color Communicator and supporting telco-grade video server/gateway technology for Nokia Networks.Both solutions will use Geo's Emblaze Wireless Solution technology, a client-server video solution designed...
NEW YORK-Mobile news junkies will soon be able to watch The Associated Press' video news reports under a new deal between the news organization and GEO Interactive Media Group.The project, which was created to demonstrate GEO's technology, will wirelessly stream AP news video in...
Digital PagingDigital Paging Co. released its new Hit plus pager, which the company said can carry three different frequencies. The pager also features a hands-on screen programming function, and has an inputted pass code option for resellers. The Hit plus, as well as all...
