DiBcom President Addresses Attendees at Paris EUROPLACE International Financial Forum; Yannick Levy Speaks on French High-Tech Expertise.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 -- DiBcom, the leader in DVB-T See DVB. and DVB-H See mobile TV and DVB. chipsets for Digital TV reception in mobile and portable environments, today announced that Yannick Levy, DiBcom's 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. & President, was an invited speaker at the Paris EUROPLACE International Financial Forum in New York during the afternoon session entitled: "US Direct Investment in Europe." The 7th Paris EUROPLACE International Financial Forum was a one day event held in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on Monday, October 4, 2004. This year's Forum focused on "Boosting Transatlantic Investment" and served as an opportunity for U.S. fixed income and equity investors to get an update on the state of the European economy and specific insights into European investment opportunities/possibilities. "We were delighted to be invited to this financial forum to discuss DiBcom and its groundbreaking DVB-H reception solution for the Tablet PC (1) A tablet computer environment from Microsoft that is based on an enhanced version of Windows XP. Designed to function more like a portable writing tablet than previous tablet-based computers, it includes handwriting recognition as well as the ability to retain handwritten words ," said Yannick Levy. "We have successfully demonstrated our TV for the PC solution at the world renowned IBC IBC International Building Code IBC Iraq Body Count IBC Institutional Biosafety Committee IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer IBC International Business Company IBC Independence Blue Cross IBC Insurance Bureau of Canada IBC International Broadcasting Convention show in Amsterdam, and have a demonstration currently running at the Mondial de L'Automobile The Mondial de l'Automobile (Paris Motor Show in English) is a bi-annual auto show in Paris. Held in late September, it is one of the most important auto shows, often with many new production automobile and concept car debuts. show through October 10th in Paris. This latest demo is being done in cooperation with our partners TF1, the leading TV station in France, and with Citroen, an industry-leading French car manufacturer. A technical experimentation has also taken place in the United States with Broadcast Operator Crowncastle, who announced officially at the IBC show their intention to use DVB-H in the U.S.A. in the future. The interest in this exciting new technology has been extremely high so we look forward to helping our many customers bring this technology to the eagerly-awaiting marketplace." DVB-H, the recent evolution of the digital TV standard for handset devices, is bringing Mobile TV to laptops and tablet PCs with a quality of transmission never before witnessed in a mobile environment. While DVB-H is compatible with DVB-T and can offer new mobile TV services on existing DVB-T networks, it also offers three major breakthroughs: a stronger error protection scheme for more robust reception in mobile situation, a dramatically reduced power consumption to fit onto handset devices, and the possibility to use any new Codec scheme such as MPEG-4 or Windows Media 9 Series. Fully integrated DVB-H equipped Tablet PCs will be demonstrated in the United States within the coming months. About DiBcom Founded in June 2000, DiBcom is a French fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. that designs, manufactures and markets integrated circuits for digital terrestrial TV reception in portable and mobile environments. With an expert team of 40 people, the company has its headquarters in Palaiseau, France. In January 2004, DiBcom successfully concluded a third round of fund raising 10.7 millions euros with 6 international investors: Convergent Technologies, Credit Lyonnais Private Equity, Infineon Ventures, Freescale/Motorola Ventures, Societe Generale Asset Management and Vertex Management -- Israel. For more details about DiBcom's technology, please visit www.dibcom.net. All trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this news release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. |
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