First Digital Home Compliant Product Now Commercially Available from Mediabolic.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Intel Developer Forum Intel Developer Forum (IDF), is a twice yearly gathering of technologists to discuss Intel products and products based around Intel products. The first IDF was in 1997. There is usually a Spring IDF and a Fall IDF. Spring 2004 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2004 Mediabolic M1 Server Passes All Intel(R) Networked Media Products Requirements Tests Mediabolic, Inc., the industry leader in network entertainment software, today announced that its M1 server technology has successfully passed the interoperability test tools (ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) ) and conformance test tools (CTT CTT Correios (Portuguese Postal Service) CTT Certified Technical Trainer CTT Charity Technology Trust CTT Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' (collaboration) CTT Common Task Training ), the key criteria for Intel's Networked Media Products Requirements (Intel NMPR NMPR Networked Media Product Requirements (Intel) ). The Intel NMPR define common use models and establish interoperability among networked media devices, platforms and applications. The Intel NMPR use the same interoperability framework as the Digital Home Working Group. Introduced in June 2003, the Digital Home Working Group (DHWG DHWG Digital Home Working Group ) is a cross-industry organization of leading consumer electronics, computing industry and mobile device companies. The group includes industry leaders like Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, Intel, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Kenwood, Lenovo, Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), Microsoft, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. CustomTechnica, Nokia, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, STMicroelectronics and Thomson. "Our work with the Intel NMPR tools and a modular M1 architecture, which permits multiple communication protocols to easily plug in and operate simultaneously, allowed our engineering team to achieve compliance ahead of other companies. Mediabolic's flexible architecture was specifically designed to support guidelines such as Intel NMPR," says Jeremy Toeman, Vice President of Product Management and a cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found of Mediabolic, Inc. Mediabolic, Inc. licenses its technology to manufacturers that wish to deploy state-of-the-art connected entertainment devices. The software, called M1, includes Windows-based media server and media player components, as well as a suite of embedded components which power devices including multi-tuner personal video recorders (PVRs), networked DVD players, portable media players and more. Announced licensees include Fujitsu, HP, Creative and Denon. "Mediabolic's technology will play an integral role in Denon's next generation of digitally networked devices," says Stephen Baker, President of Denon Electronics. "The ability of our products to interoperate with those of other premium brand consumer electronics and PC manufacturers is important to Denon's future plans, and we're confident that Mediabolic's M1 technology will help us achieve our goals." "Enabling networked entertainment in the digital home is a key part of Intel's strategy," said Kevin Corbett, vice president, corporate technology officer, Intel Desktop Platforms Group. "Consumers want to enjoy their digital media available anywhere, anytime. We feel it is essential to help drive interoperability through industry groups such as the Digital Home Working Group. Mediabolic's offering is important to the industry as well as consumers to help deliver cross-brand interoperability in future connected devices." Mediabolic's M1 software is being demonstrated at the next Intel Developer Forum (IDF (Intermediate Distribution Frame) A wiring rack located between the MDF (main distribution frame) and the intended end user devices (telephones, routers, PCs, etc.). Cables run from the outside world to the MDF and then to the IDFs. See MDF and wiring rack. ) in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] from February 17th - 19th, 2004. The Mediabolic M1 Entertainment Operating Platform is available for licensing. Contact businessdevelopment@mediabolic.com for more information. About Mediabolic, Inc. Mediabolic 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. providing an embedded software platform for consumer electronics products, PCs and PC peripherals. The middleware leverages patent-pending technology and open industry standards to create and extend consumer entertainment devices. The software operates both in new and traditional categories of consumer electronics products. The modular platform is compatible with a wide variety of operating systems and chipsets and recently won top honors at CES 2004. Founded in 1999, Mediabolic is based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, please see: http://www.mediabolic.com Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries. |
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