ShowStoppers NewsDesk

CTIA Wireless 2007

WAAV®, formerly known as Omniwav Mobile, debuted the first broadband router for use in a fast moving vehicle in 2004. The AirBox® cellular router enables broadband Internet connectivity in remote or mobile environments, and turns any vehicle into its own Wi-Fi hotspot. WAAV has continued to innovate with enhanced software, remote management, and GPS fleet tracking.

In 2007, WAAV debuted the AirBox X2, the world's first multiple connection cellular router. The X2 is designed for wide bandwidth applications like real-time video streaming or use in buses and mass transportation to accommodate many users at once. It also provides redundancy and the combined coverage area of multiple cellular carriers. Get broadband Internet for your vehicle today at www.WAAV.com.

CONTACT: Jennifer Barthe, 888-438-9228, jbarthe@waav.com

Converge 2007

Digital signage, ultra mobile devices, mobile TV and auto, in-flight, train entertainment systems are bringing video content to new eyeballs in new places: in shopping lines, cars, airplanes, elevators, in doctors’ offices and almost anywhere you go. VIA Technologies Inc. is showcasing some of their smallest, most efficient fanless x86 silicon platforms along with chassis from Leadman Electronics and ultra mobile devices such as the VIA C7-M-based Q1B from Samsung for the new generation of sleek, versatile, high quality digital multimedia content delivery and display. See us at www.via.com.tw.

CONTACT: Pat Meier-Johnson, 415-389-1700, patmeier@patmeier.com

Converge 2007

Scenarist® Publisher is a revolutionary system for the creation of full-featured DVD-Video titles from a simple, yet powerful, wizard-driven interface. Scenarist Publisher also serves an important role as the ingest system for Sonic’s digital-distribution initiative, providing an effective way for entertainment content owners to quickly prepare premium back catalog items for electronic sell-through.

Introduced earlier this year, Sonic DVD On Demand™ is a comprehensive technology platform for the electronic sell-through of digital entertainment that can be burned to DVD. With physical costs such as manufacturing, distribution and inventory management all but eliminated, Sonic DVD On Demand makes otherwise cost-prohibitive distribution of special interest or catalog content possible for the first time.

CONTACT: Chris Taylor, 408-367-5231, chris_taylor@sonic.com

Converge 2007

Sling Media Inc. is a digital lifestyle products company creating a family of consumer electronics solutions that are a natural extension of today’s digital way of life.

The first member of the Sling Media family is the internationally acclaimed Slingbox™, a device that allows consumers to access their living room television experience at any time, from any location, using a variety of different displays including laptops and desktop PCs, PDAs and smartphones. The Slingbox is now available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Brazil through retail and local service providers.

CONTACT: Cindy Cooper, 650-293-8257, cindy@slingmedia.com

Converge 2007

Quartics’ USB Monitor Chip enables video and graphics content from PCs and laptops for display
on monitor(s) using a USB cable without additional graphics cards.

Quartics' Wireless Projector Chip allows graphics to be displayed wirelessly from a laptop to a
projector.

Quartics' Media Coprocessor delivers realtime and faster than realtime encode, decode and transcode of HD content on a PC or set-top box.

CONTACT: Angelina Lopez, 949-468-2187 angelina@quartics.com

Converge 2007

Combining several innovative technologies, Move Networks provides a platform that allows content owners and distributors to create and expand new revenue opportunities by providing high-quality, low-cost online streaming of live or on-demand long-form video.

The quality of experience delivered by Move Networks is measured in terms of video quality, the lack of buffering and stalling, and user control and interactivity. Ultimately, this experience drives increased revenue and advertising consumption through longer video sessions and increased viewing frequency. In short, Move Networks media services deliver the highest quality online viewing experience at the lowest cost to the largest audiences imaginable.

CONTACT: Bret Clement, 303-462-3057 bret@pageonepr.com

Converge 2007

When it comes to memory, Kingston Technology offers an end-to-end solution: from modules to optimize your PC, notebook, or printer to Flash memory cards to enhance your digital camera, MP3 player or even expand your mobile phone -- consumers think of Kingston.

Kingston Technology Company Inc. is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. For more information, please visit www.kingston.com.

CONTACT: Claudia Martinez, 714-427-3821 claudia_martinez@kingston.com

Converge 2007

High definition video is transforming the television broadcast industry, requiring content and network providers to transfer large files across long distances without latency or picture denigration.

At Converge, Fujitsu introduces the IP-9500 video encoder/decoder and demonstrates the ability to deliver live, broadcast-quality high-definition video over IP (Internet Protocol) and DVB
(Digital Video Broadcast) networks. Fujitsu’s IP-9500 delivers HD quality pictures at half the bit-rate of currently available MPEG-2 encoders using technology developed by Fujitsu Laboratories, to deliver best-in-class picture quality and low latency as a result of innovative H.264 compression algorithms.

This product was recently used to enable the world’s first HDTV transmission between the U.S. and Japan. Using the IP-9500, Japan’s Nippon TV transmitted a live HDTV broadcast of the Super Bowl in Miami, FL.

CONTACT: Matthew Podboy, 650-228-5178 mpodboy@vocecomm.com

Converge @ Piero's is produced during NAB by ShowStoppers and Pat Meier Associates.

This boutique, press-only event focuses on the convergence of broadcast and digital media, featuring both pro and prosumer tools for audio and video content creation, development and distribution, with special attention to emerging handheld devices.

Highlights include:

- a chip that streams PC graphics to monitors via USB cable, no graphics card required.
- wireless video, from your laptop to a projector.
- the memory you need for mobile video on a cell phone.
- the streaming platform that generates new revenue for content owners and distributors.
- A simple way for content owners to create special-interest digital entertainment and catalogs for electronic sell through.
- The silicon platform that delivers video to new eyeballs in digital signage, mobile TV and auto, in-flight and train entertainment systems.
- your digital life, powered by the latest from Slingbox.
- long-distance, intercontinental HDTV, live, via Internet Protocols.
- the little black box that turns any moving bus, plane, train, car, truck or other vehicle into its own Wi-Fi hotspot.

Pat Meier Associates is the longtime producer of the highly-acclaimed, independently produced Lunch @ Piero’s press event during CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. Now in its 15th year, ShowStoppers produces press-only events where hot companies with cool products meet reporters and analysts. Working together, we combine more than 30 years of public relations and press event experience.

With special thanks to corporate sponsor Digital Media Online.