ADVISORY/Wind River Systems to Present on the Networked Home at Digital Hollywood.Business Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...Wednesday (Oct. 1) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND) WHAT: Sy Choudhury, Wind River's director of market development for digital consumer, will present an industry outlook on the market opportunity for wireless networked devices in the home, and examine the different business opportunities and issues that wired and wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 connectivity brings to the home and the workplace. Mr. Choudhury's panel at Digital Hollywood is entitled "The Wireless Home & the Mobile Connected Consumer" and will explore TV, PCs, DVDs, laptops, telecommunications, handheld devices, and games. -0-
WHEN: October 1, 2003
12:50 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Directors Guild of America Building
West Hollywood, Calif.
WHY: The complete wireless infrastructure is slowly starting to fall into place. Whether it be wireless technology to the home, in the home, in the workplace, in the car, in public spaces or to consumers on the move, a connected world has already begun. Now it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for the rest of the information and entertainment space to catch up. Choudhury and his fellow panelists will share their views on when wireless will become an everyday assumption. Come hear his thoughts on when the PC, the 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. , the broadband connection See broadband and wireless broadband. and the home audio system will be wirelessly networked for every day, non-technical users. The wireless home and wireless world will likely set off an explosion of content and information services See Information Systems. . Learn the timeline for this transition and who the primary technological innovators in the process will be. Mr. Choudhury will be available before and after the panel for press interviews. If you are interested in scheduling a briefing, please contact windriverpr@windriver.com. About Wind River: Wind River is the worldwide leader in 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. and services. It provides market-specific embedded platforms that integrate real-time operating systems (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. , development tools and technologies. Wind River's products and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. Wind River provides high-integrity technology and expertise that enables its customers to create superior products more efficiently. Companies from around the world turn to Wind River to create the most reliable products and to accelerate their time to market. Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located on a small island of the same name next to Oakland, California in the San Francisco Bay. An additional part of the city is Bay Farm Island, which is adjacent to the Oakland International Airport. , with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977. Wind River Systems and the Wind River Systems logo are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc., and VxWorks is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. |
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