Digital Music Relationships - We plan to continue to develop and build strategic relationships with key third parties in the digital music field that are engaged in the compression, component, copy protection and product development segments of digital music distribution. We believe these relationships enhance our ability to participate in this explosive new field of business.
Lucent Technologies Inc. - Lucent contracted us to serve as the DSP engineering specialist to port (configure software to operate on a new processor) EPAC software to a new class of Texas Instruments DSPs. In addition, we collaborated with Lucent to develop a music player prototype that features Lucent's EPAC audio compression technology and our MicroOS(TM) file management system.
Maycom - As one of our first customers for our portable Internet music player design featuring EPAC music compression format, along with available support for other audio codecs Maycom will incorporate our reference design into their third-generation music player. Maycom is a turnkey manufacturer of digital audio and radio communication products.
Texas Instruments - Our current music player designs use a new class of Digital Signal Processor manufactured by Texas Instruments. We served as the DSP engineering specialist to port (configure software to operate on a new processor) Lucent's EPAC software to a new class of Texas Instruments DSPs. Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company and a leading designer and supplier of DSP solutions. We are currently working together on business opportunities where their DSP's and our technology can be combined.
SanDisk Corporation - We worked with SanDisk to incorporate their CompactFlash into our voice recorder and music player designs. We have also worked with them to incorporate their new Secure Digital Card, or SD Card, into our product designs. SanDisk specializes in designing, manufacturing and marketing Flash memory data storage products. SanDisk developed the SD Card with Toshiba and Matsushita, best known by their Panasonic brand name in America, and the three companies introduced the new media in January 2000.
Sony Corporation - We have licensed Sony's ATRAC3 proprietary audio compression format for inclusion in our portable Internet music player designs.
RioPort - We are collaborating with RioPort to integrate their secure digital audio platform with our Internet music player design which will provide portable hardware manufacturers with a secure, licensable solution for seamless delivery of digital audio content to consumers. RioPort, Inc. is redefining digital audio by delivering an integrated, secure platform for acquiring, managing and experiencing music and spoken audio programming from the Internet.
from Form 10 -KSB ,March 2000
