Chaoticom Announces First Ever Direct-to-Phone Mobile Music Full-Track Download Service in Europe at Midem Party.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2004 Chaoticom, Inc. announced today that it will launch its Chaoticom Mobile Music Solution for cell phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. software. Solutions for the Symbian Operating System will also be launched. Eurotel, the largest and most innovative mobile telecom operator in the Czech Republic, has selected this solution and is in beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the now. So far Warner Music International and BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass Czech Republic have signed on to provide major label music for the service, which will enable mobile consumers to download full audio tracks to their Windows Mobile-based devices, among others. "We are excited to have the opportunity to be the first in Europe with a direct-to-mobile music download jukebox service," said Justin Stockton, Director of Business Development, Eurotel Praha. "Chaoticom's mobile music solution includes leading edge technology that will enable Eurotel to be a leader in providing legitimate music downloading via our mobile network. It also provides an excellent user experience for our customers." Chaoticom's mobile music solution is a turnkey platform complete with content licenses that enables mobile operators to offer music downloading services on more than 15 handset models on today's 2.5G networks, including Windows Mobile-based devices such as the Motorola MPx200, Eurotel Dataphone, and the Eurotel Smartphone. Handsets from Nokia, Samsung, and Sony-Ericsson are also supported. The revolutionary KOZ encoding format makes real-time high quality direct-to-mobile music downloads possible for the first time on European GSM Networks. The small media player can be provisioned over-the-air and does not require additional hardware or software. "We're pleased to see Chaoticom launch its mobile music service for Windows Mobile-based devices and look forward to it providing opportunities for operators to bring new multimedia experiences to their customers," said Jason Gordon, Product Manager with the Mobile Devices Division at Microsoft Corp. The service was announced at a party at Club Love in Cannes, France, sponsored by Microsoft's Mobile Devices Division and Nike France, that brought together a first-ever combination of celebrity DJs, including BMG Recording artists Ali Shaheed Noun 1. shaheed - Arabic term for holy martyrs; applied by Palestinians to suicide bombers Arabic, Arabic language - the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects martyr, sufferer - one who suffers for the sake of principle from A Tribe Called Quest A Tribe Called Quest is a critically acclaimed and highly-influential American hip-hop group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip (Kamal Fareed), rapper Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. , Questlove from The Roots, and Pasemaster Mase from De La Soul. The party was organized by Lauren Coleman of Punch Media. "We are very excited to work together with Eurotel and Chaoticom on this project," said Milan Herman, Managing Director at BMG Czech Republic. "At the moment, this new technology seems much safer than internet downloading and opens new possibilities for the music industry. We are pleased that Czech Republic mobile users will have the opportunity to be one step ahead of the rest of Europe, and we believe that BMG's content will contribute to the success of the JukeBox service." "We are expecting the urban music genre featured at the party to become quite popular in the Czech Republic in 2004," said Lucy McQuilken, 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 Chaoticom. "Eurotel, BMG Czech Republic, and Warner Music International have been fantastic development partners for us and are showing real vision in working with us to pioneer this new frontier for the sale of music. This service is the next logical development to build upon the popular ringtone The audible sound made by a telephone to announce that a call is coming in. The traditional ringtone was in the 440-480 Hz range, but as cellphone usage grew, it became obvious that ringtone differentiation would become important. market for mobile operators." About Chaoticom Chaoticom, Inc. is a software and services company that has invented a revolutionary new technology to compress, secure and distribute multiple types of media content over wireless networks. Chaoticom is based in Andover, MA U.S.A. The Chaoticom mobile music solution runs on mobile devices and supports Microsoft Smartphone and Symbian operating systems. Both the Chaoticom media encoder and decoder are 100% software based. Eurotel Praha Eurotel Praha, spol. s r.o. is the largest provider of wireless voice and data services in the Czech Republic. By the end of 2003, the company exceeded 4.2 million customers. Eurotel's GSM (900/1800 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. ) and T!P (450 MHz) networks cover 99 percent of the Czech Republic's more than 10 million residents. Eurotel is the owner of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) The GSM implementation of the 3G wireless phone system. Part of IMT-2000, UMTS provides service in the 2 GHz band and offers global roaming and personalized features. license for the operation of the third generation of mobile services. Eurotel has 330 roaming partners in 134 countries worldwide. Eurotel Praha, spol. s r.o. is a limited liability company owned by Cesky Telecom, a.s. (100%). BMG Czech Republic The local BMG office in Prague, Czech Republic was founded in September 1991 as one of the first "majors" offices in Eastern Europe. BMG Czech Republic is one of the main leaders of the Czech and Slovak music market (the Slovak branch office was founded in 1994). The company had 12% market share in 2003. BMG Czech Republic will release the first local POP IDOL album this year. BMG is the global music division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's leading media companies. BMG owns more than 200 record labels in 41 countries including Ariola, Arista Records, J Records, Jive Records, RCA Records and RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. Label Group - Nashville. BMG's music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. operations are the third largest in the world. Warner Music International WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) A programming interface (API) in Windows that allows system and network devices to be configured and managed. WMI is based on WBEM, which stores all definitions in a CIM database. , a division of Warner Music group Warner Music Group (WMG) is one of the four major record labels. Warner Music Group also has a publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, which dates back to 1929, when Jack Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. , a Time Warner company, has its headquarters in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of with offices in London and operates in over 70 countries through a network of 47 affiliates and numerous licensees. Trademarks and Service Names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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