Coding Technologies Delivers High Audio Quality to Telenor Using Groove Mobile Platform; Full Track Audio Download Services Considered Essential Drivers for 3G Data Revenues.OSLO, Norway & NUERNBERG, Germany -- Coding Technologies, the leading provider of audio compression Encoding digital audio data to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. Audio compression typically uses lossy methods, which eliminate bits that are not restored at the other end. ADPCM and MP3 are examples of audio compression methods. See audio codec and data compression. technologies for mobile music, digital broadcasting and the Internet, together with Telenor and Groove Mobile, today unveiled the inclusion of the company's aacPlus audio codec into Telenor's full track mobile music download service. aacPlus has proven in several independent tests to provide the highest audio quality at the lowest possible bit rates. After being selected by 3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol for high quality audio content delivery, aacPlus has recently been integrated into Groove Mobile's latest mobile music player software, which builds the platform for Telenor's service offerings. Mobile music services are widely regarded as a main driver for data revenues of 3rd Generation (3G) mobile networks, increasing the average revenue per user (ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) A calculation often used to determine the overall value of an application. It is also used to rate particular customers, especially in the wireless space, by comparing someone's account to the overall average. ) and thus producing a significant return on investment for operators. aacPlus further caters to this application by minimizing network traffic and simultaneously maximizing customer satisfaction through highest audio quality. "Adopting aacPlus enables us to make a deeper music catalog available to our customers," said Adam Sexton, VP Marketing and Product Management, Groove Mobile. "Together, we are broadening and expanding the mobile music market by allowing consumers to discover new music on their mobile handsets." "Mobile music download services are highly innovative, and we are extremely pleased to have Telenor and Groove Mobile in the boat," said Oliver Kunz, Vice President Strategic Marketing Coding Technologies. "People want one device to carry with them, playing any song, at any time, at any place, in high audio quality. This is exactly what our partners provide to their customers." Coding Technologies Coding Technologies provides the best audio compression for mobile, broadcasting and Internet. SBR SBR - Spectral Band Replication (TM) (Spectral Band Replication (audio, compression) Spectral Band Replication - (SBR) Guessing the nontransmitted higher frequency range of a compressed audio file by some helper bits (transmiited with the stream) and the transmitted base band. ) from Coding Technologies is a backward and forward Adv. 1. backward and forward - moving from one place to another and back again; "he traveled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York"; "the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner"; "the old man just sat on the porch and rocked back and forth all compatible method to enhance the efficiency of any audio codec, putting the "PRO" in mp3PRO and the "Plus" in aacPlus. Parametric Stereo from Coding Technologies and Philips again significantly increases the efficiency of audio codecs for stereo signals at low bit rates. Products from Coding Technologies are fundamental enablers of open standards such as MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). , Digital Radio Mondiale (communications) Digital Radio Mondiale - (DRM) A form of monaural digital broadcast using carrier frequencies below 30 MHz. DRM uses MPEG-4 AAC Main Profile and SBR at data rates of 16-25 kbps. http://drm.org/. , HD Radio and the DVD Forum. Coding Technologies is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with offices in Sweden, Germany and Silicon Valley. Founded in 1997 in Stockholm, the company later merged with a spin-off of the renowned Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, the inventor of MP3. Coding Technologies' customers include America Online, iBiquity Digital, mmO2, Nokia, RealNetworks, SK Telecom, Thomson, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and XM Satellite Radio. For more information, visit www.codingtechnologies.com. Groove Mobile Groove Mobile is a leading provider of mobile music download services in Europe. Now available in six countries through providers including Orange (UK), Telenor (Norway), PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. (Poland), Eurotel (Czech Republic), Pannon (Hungary) and SingTel (Singapore). Groove Mobile's Mobile Music Solution enables full-length music downloads directly to the handset over-the-air on today's mobile networks. A complete end-to-end, 100 percent software solution, it is fully integrated with each network operator's billing system. Further information about Groove Mobile can be found at www.groovemobile.net. |
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