4HomeMedia Recognized as Industry Top Vendor.4HomeMedia Wins Five (5) CES Innovations Awards, Adding to the Momentum and Accolades Earned in 2007 SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- 4HomeMedia announced today that the company has been awarded five CES 2008 Innovation awards, either directly or through licensee partners, for its market leading home control services software platform. This follows 4HomeMedia's "Best of Innovations" award that commemorated its official company launch at CES 2007 and numerous other accolades earned throughout 2007. The CES 2008 Innovations awards were in the categories of integrated home systems, home health, home networking, and multi-room audio/video. The 4HomeMedia home control services platform consists of ControlPoint(TM) embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. that can be deployed in a home router or residential gateway (RGW RGW Rat für Gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe (East-German acronym for COMECON) RGW Residential Gateway RGW Roentgen-Gymnasium Wuerzburg (German high school) RGW Roaming Gateway ), a set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. (STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box ), or a networked attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) and Portal Sever, a backend hosted application and management server. Only one instance of ControlPoint is needed for whole home coverage, and one Portal Server can service up to 10,000 homes per server for a broadband service provider An ISP, telephone company, cable company or other carrier that offers high-speed communications to homes and businesses, typically for Internet access. Cable modems, DSL and T1 lines are the common technologies. See broadband, cable modem, DSL and T1. rollout. Home control services consist of home monitoring, media & entertainment management, home health, and energy management. "4HomeMedia has dramatically redefined the model of home control both in how to deliver it as a profitable for-fee service for service providers and in terms of a broader designation of mass-market of home control," said Leon Hounshell, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of 4HomeMedia. "This broader definition includes presenting a unified, consistent, and comprehensive user-interface across the '4 screens' of a consumer's life for automation & monitoring, media & content management, and universal control of entertainment center components. The 4 screens include the television, the personal computer, mobile phones, and touch panels/devices, and also include using a computer or mobile phone remotely to control and monitor the home from any location." Between CES 2007 and the upcoming CES 2008, 4HomeMedia has won other accolades and recognitions, including: "Best New Start-up" by a vote of cable industry executives at the CableLabs Innovation Showcase, "Best of" from the European Utility Awards for energy management, LonMark's "Software Product of the Year" award, and a "Top 50 Company to Watch in 2008" from Dow Jones. 4HomeMedia has also donated its powerful XML-based software framework, FCML FCML Fayette County Memorial Library (Fayette, AL) , into various international standards bodies and is making it available in 2008 for public use, all to support vendors and service providers entering the fast emerging home control services industry. "As broadband service providers around the globe are now looking to deploy the next wave of services after voice, video, and data to the home, the 4HomeMedia platform is in a strong position to empower service providers to add value to their customers," said Ben Bajarin, Senior Analyst at Creative Strategies. "Home control services, particularly if paired with a strong user-interface, are intriguing for both service providers and the end-consumer." 4HomeMedia will be exhibiting its solutions at the international Consumer Electronics Association January 7-10, both at its private suite in the Las Vegas Hilton The Las Vegas Hilton is a hotel, casino, and convention center in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a joint venture between Colony Capital, which owns 60 percent, and New York City-based REIT Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds, which owns the remaining 40 percent. and in the Z-Wave Alliance Pavilion in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . About 4HomeMedia, Inc. 4HomeMedia is the leading provider of "home control services" which include home monitoring, media and entertainment management, home health, and energy management. With the sudden commoditization Commoditization 1. A situation when illiquid financial contracts are changed or modified in a way that promotes trading and results in a more liquid market. 2. Making a product into a commodity. Notes: 1. of the "triple play," 4HomeMedia's solution is in high-demand. 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint[TM] and Portal Server software products allow hardware vendors and service providers to create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use, and profitable new applications and services for the connected home. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed anywhere on the home network provides whole home coverage -- from anywhere and at anytime. Portal Server is a robust broadband application server for the NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, providing scalable and manageable home control services for a broad, mass-market rollout. 4HomeMedia, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information on 4HomeMedia and its award-winning solutions, please visit http://www.4HomeMedia.com. 4HomeMedia, Inc. 1235 Midas Way Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Phone: +1 (408) 469 4222 Fax: +1 (408) 469-4229 info@4homemedia.com www.4HomeMedia.com |
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