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Diamond
Accenture
Accenture
is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 126,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$15.55 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2005. www.accenture.com

Panasonic
Panasonic
is the best known brand of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE:MC), one of the world’s largest electronics companies. The company develops, manufactures and markets a broad line of innovative digital products for consumer, business and industrial applications. True to Panasonic’s corporate slogan – “Ideas for Life” – these products reflect the needs and aspirations of business customers and consumers around the world, and are designed to enrich personal and business lives.

In entertainment, Panasonic is a leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of high-definition televisions, particularly plasma displays, and a wide variety of audio/video products. And, merging business and personal interests, the company is at the forefront of the digitally networked society, offering a wide variety of innovative networking products – from wireless laptop computers to network cameras, among others.

At CONNECTIONS 2006, Panasonic will demonstrate its most recent innovation in networking -- HD-PLC (High-Definition Power Line Communication). This new technology makes it possible to establish a powerful, robust, high bandwidth network, using household power lines. HD-PLC allows transmission of digital data, including HDTV video, Internet and VoIP Phone. www.panasonic.com


Siemens Home Entertainment
Siemens makes Internet protocol television (IPTV) services a reality today – throughout the world – with industry-leading processes, solutions and knowledge of broadband network infrastructures. Built on an open standards-based architecture, the Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment solution provides rich user experiences, efficient back-office management tools and the building blocks for complete convergence of entertainment, communication and smart home solutions – the Siemens LifeWorks vision. www.siemens.com/surpass

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ZigBee™ Alliance: Wireless Control That Simply Works
The ZigBee Alliance
creates specifications that leverage existing standards to enable reliable, wirelessly networked, cost-effective, low-power consuming, and secure, monitoring and control products. ZigBee is the perfect solution for applications that transmit periodic data or intermittent data, such as light switches, motion sensors, access controls, and security monitoring. ZigBee is supported by more than 175 leading semiconductor manufacturers, technology providers, and OEMs worldwide. The ZigBee Specification is available to individuals, companies and institutions free of charge for all non-commercial purposes (including university research, technical evaluation, and development of non-commercial software, tools, or documentation). To download the ZigBee Specification or learn more, visit: www.zigbee.org.

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Platinum

iControl Networks
iControl Networks
is a venture-backed software and services company providing mass-market solutions for the residential and small-business remote monitoring market. Our Internet-enabled solutions empower end users with an easy and affordable way to see, know and respond remotely to the comfort and safety of family members, property or business. iControl Networks partners with service providers, Internet portals, telecommunication companies, homebuilders, and consumer electronics manufacturers to bring its solutions to market. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA., visit the company at www.icontrol.com.

Intel Corp.
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com.

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Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA™)
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA™) is an open, industry driven initiative promoting distribution of digital video and entertainment through existing coaxial cable in the home. MoCA technology provides the backbone for whole home entertainment networks of multiple wired and wireless products.

MoCA's Board of Directors include Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK), Cox Communications, EchoStar (NASDAQ: DISH), Entropic Communications, Linksys, a division of Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Panasonic (NYSE: MC), Radio Shack (NYSE: RSH), Toshiba and Verizon (NYSE: VZ). For more information, please visit www.mocalliance.org.

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Philips Electronics
Philips Electronics
is a leading supplier of semiconductors, software and reference designs for connected consumer appliances. Industry leading consumer electronics, PC and mobile phone companies use Philips Nexperia systems on silicon (SOCs) to power a wide range of new digital products including multimedia cell phones, personal media players, digital televisions, media adapters, IP set top boxes, and home media servers. For more information connect to: www.semiconductors.philips.com

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Pulse~LINK, Inc.
Pulse~LINK, Inc.
is a fabless semiconductor company developing CWave™ Ultra Wideband (UWB) for both wireless and wired home connectivity. The CWave chipset provides Gigabit data rates wirelessly, over in-home coax cables and power lines; simultaneously streaming multiple HDTV signals, high quality audio, and high speed data throughout the home. CWave is ideal for connecting consumer audio/video islands located throughout the home. www.pulselink.net

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Streamlined Home
Today’s electronic equipment and services vastly different from those offered 10 years ago. With the introduction of home offices, computers, home theaters, digital satellite dishes, the Internet and similar types of equipment and services, the conventional wiring in a home has become overloaded and outdated. Streamlined Home, Inc. was formed in 2006 in response to the increasing complexity, inefficiency and insufficiency of conventional wiring. Our response: to “streamline” your home in a network with a One Line* solution.

A Streamlined Home* is a home that is connected from room to room and to the world outside. By networking your home with a One Line* solution, you can maximize your quality of life, experience the best that technology has to offer, and fully enjoy your home. www.streamlinedhome.com

*Patent/Trademarks Pending


Zensys Inc.
Zensys
is the creator of the Z-Wave wireless mesh networking technology for home control. Z-Wave enables consumers to monitor and manage their lighting, security systems, media centers and other home products easily, conveniently and securely from anywhere in the world. More than 125 companies are developing Z-Wave-enabled products and are members of the Z-Wave Alliance, a consortium of leaders in the home technology space dedicated to solidifying Z-Wave as the standard for wireless home control products. In recent months, Z-Wave has been recognized with a CNET Best of CES Award and has been named a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovations 2006 Design and Engineering Award honoree, a Best Enabling Technology of the Year by the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) and a 2005 Product of the Year by Electronic House magazine. www.zen-sys.com

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Gold

Blue Peach
Blue Peach
develops software and hardware products that enable the ongoing device revolution. Our products are specifically designed to share digital multimedia content among network enabled consumer electronic products. Our products are designed with portability onto traditional embedded RTOSes resulting in a digital home suite appropriate for most OEM products. Blue Peach's flagship product is the Blue Stream NAS Digital Media Server; a full-featured integrated hardware and software platform based on the Intel IOP321 I/O and IntelR 80219 general purpose PCI processors, Mentor Graphic's NucleusPLUS RTOS, and Blue Peach's digital home product suite. www.bluepeach.com

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DivX, Inc.
DivX, Inc.
is a digital entertainment company positioned at the center of multimedia convergence. The company's core offering is the DivX® video codec, among the world's most popular video compression technologies with over 200 million users worldwide. The patent-pending DivX video technology offers DVD-quality at 10 times greater compression than MPEG-2 files, enabling full length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. DivX video technology powers a range of applications that span the convergence value chain, from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products and video software applications. DivX, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, California. www.divx.com

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Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation
is a pioneer and world leader in control networking — networks that connect machines and other electronic devices — for the purpose of sensing, monitoring and controlling the world around us. Echelon's LonWorks platform for control networking was released in 1990 and has become a worldwide standard in the building, industrial, transportation, and home automation markets. www.echelon.com

Entropic Communications
Entropic
is a privately held semiconductor company based in San Diego, California. The company provides chipsets and the associated software that enable home networking of digital entertainment.

Entropic c.LINK architecture services two distinct market opportunities: (1) home networking for digital entertainment, and (2) high speed broadband access used in Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB) deployments for Multiple Dwelling Units (MDUs) and Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) deployments for Single Family Units (SFUs).

Entropic’s products allow consumers to easily share digital entertainment throughout the home by leveraging the existing coax cable infrastructure to fundamentally change the way content such as video (SDTV & HDTV), music, gaming, and images are shared in the home. www.entropic.com

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SmartLabs, Inc.
SmartLabs, Inc.
is the world's leading authority on electronic home improvement and automation and the industry leader in home-control wireless networking technology. SmartLabs Technology is the pioneering architect of INSTEON, the first home automation network technology to combine the home's electrical wiring with radio frequency communications. INSTEON delivers a secure, reliable and fast connection for remote control of lighting, security, entertainment systems, appliances, climate and more. SmartLabs' INSTEON Alliance offers a focused community for developers to incorporate the INSTEON standard into their products. Information regarding INSTEON can be found at www.insteon.net. SmartLabs (www.smartlabsinc.com) is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. www.insteon.net

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Nortel
Nortel
is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical information. Our next-generation technologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.

Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated
provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company’s businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.ti.com.

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OpenPeak, Inc.
OpenPeak, Inc.
creates innovative software and products that enable a consumer to have a simple experience when setting up and operating consumer electronics and home systems. OpenPeak software also allows management, control and playback of digital media and internet content. The company’s Thinking Homes® product line includes the WiFi connected “SimpleRemote”, WiFi to IR and Z-Wave bridges, and lightweight embedded software delivering simple setup, usability, auto-discovery and an intuitive user interface. OEMs benefit from OpenPeak’s portable architecture, reference designs, and turnkey solutions providing quick and cost-effective integration of advanced control and VoIP technology into their product lines. www.openpeak.com

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Reception

Atheros Communications, Inc.
Atheros Communications
is a leading developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless communications products. Atheros combines its wireless systems expertise with high-performance radio frequency (RF), mixed signal and digital semiconductor design skills to provide highly integrated chipsets that are manufacturable on low-cost, standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes. Atheros technology is being used by a broad base of leading customers, including personal computer, networking equipment and handset manufacturers.  www.atheros.com

Hanley Wood’s Digital Home Magazine
Announcing Hanley Wood’s Digital Home Magazine… An exciting new magazine from the publisher of BUILDER and CUSTOM HOME—created to help builders, architects, and installers capitalize on the demand for digital technology. Whether small or large, mid-or high-end, ample coverage of products and specifications will be presented so builders and architects can understand how technology affects the design and construction of new homes.

Hanley Wood’s Digital Home Magazine debuts April 2006. www.hanleywood.com

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Silver

Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices
(NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of innovative microprocessor solutions for computing, communications and consumer electronics markets. Founded in 1969, AMD is dedicated to delivering superior computing solutions based on customer needs that empower users worldwide. For more information visit www.amd.com.

Affinegy
Affinegy
provides software solutions to service providers that help grow revenue and profits from new digital home services while keeping deployment and support costs low. Affinegy’s InstaLAN™ and Airkit™ software provide truly easy self-installation and self-management, ideally matched to mainstream consumers. The resulting superior user experience is reducing churn and eliminating costly support-desk calls today in volume deployments with leading national broadband service providers. With a focus on wireless security from the start, service theft is eliminated while ensuring peace of mind and better quality of service for subscribers. www.affinegy.com

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Allegro Software Development Corporation
Allegro Software Development Corporation
is the premier provider of Web and UPnP/DLNA networking technologies specifically targeted at embedded devices. Since 1996, Allegro has been a force in the evolution of device management solutions with its RomPager embedded web server toolkit. As an active contributor to UPnP/DLNA initiatives, Allegro also supplies a range of toolkits that offer portability, easy integration and full compliance with UPnP/DLNA device specifications. Allegro is a headquartered in Boston, MA. www.allegrosoft.com

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AwoX
AwoX
is the European leader in the development of middleware technologies for aggregation of digital content on home networks. The company‘s core business is developing software and electronics products for license to OEMs, operators, and consumer electronics manufacturers, based on UPnP and DLNA standards. AwoX helps them to rapidly add network functionality by using its patented modular SDK, or by adapting AwoX’s hardware reference designs, or by customizing AwoX’s finished product. For more information: www.AwoX.com

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Axentra Corporation
Axentra Corporation
is a lead developer of network centric software platform for the digital home. Our flagship product, HipServ™, unifies and standardizes all aspects of personal content and digital home computing and consumer electronics networked devices management. Combined with xSPs services integration for remote access and sharing, HipServ eliminates in a secure and effective way the boundaries between the home network and the Internet at large. As a modular network-centric solution, HipServ can reside on any networked device in the home such as NAS drives, Internet gateways or set top boxes to ensure an always on connection to all network resources from any connected device, anywhere, anytime. www.axentra.com

Bedrock Learning, Inc.
Bedrock Learning
provides foundational training for residential technology professionals through online courses and printed learning materials. Through detailed and engaging online courses, installers become field-ready. Students are awarded a Certificate of Completion upon passing a course. Courses include Introduction to Residential Technologies, Structured Wiring, Lighting Control, Home Networking, Whole House Music, and other core topics. Bedrock Learning also provides custom curriculum development, online course hosting, and Learning Management System (LMS) services to residential technology corporations. www.bedrocklearning.com

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Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance (CEPCA)
Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance (CEPCA)
is a nonprofit corporation established to promote and continuously advance high speed PLC technology to utilize and implement a new generation of consumer electronics products through the rapid, broad and open industry adoption of CEPCA specifications. CEPCA aims to provide consumers with a comfortable and friendly user experience while achieving optimal performance. CEPCA implementations will become an essential function to the widespread usage of CE devices. www.cepca.org

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DigiOn, Inc.
DigiOn, Inc.
is a middleware vendor with particular strengths in networks, multimedia and storage, and has established a firm position in the home network field. DigiOn's DiXiM® multimedia home-network middleware has been incorporated into new product models from major companies such as NEC, Fujitsu, Sharp and Sony in Japan. DiXiM products became three of the first eleven DLNA CERTIFIED™ products from seven companies. DigiOn is a member of the UPnP Forum and the UIC (UPnP Implementers Corporation), which issues UPnP certification, and we are a DLNA Contributor. www.digion.com

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Digital Deck
Digital Deck
is a complete home media system that accesses entertainment devices in a home, including DVDs, music and live TV and plays them all in every connected room. This is controlled in each room by a single remote and simple TV interface.

Digital Deck features distributed DVR and video over Ethernet, works with iTunes for music, TiVo for recorded video, Flickr for photos and more. See us at www.digitaldeck.com.

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DS2
DS2
is the world leader in powerline communications (PLC). DS2´s mature 200 Mbps chips power products that deliver high-speed home networking solutions and broadband access over powerline, coaxial cable, and telephone wires today. As the industry leader, recognized global industry bodies have adopted DS2 technology in support of multi-vendor standard certified product. www.ds2.es

Exent Technologies
Exent
is the global market leader in secure digital delivery of video games for service providers seeking to distribute, manage and monetize an on-demand service. Exent delivers technology, products and solutions that support video game publishers, BSP’s, hardware manufacturers, media companies, brand owners, consumer portals, retailers and others. Exent enables all standard business models – purchases, subscriptions, rentals, and try-before-you-buy. Exent’s DRM solution lowers software piracy and enforces licensing restrictions. For more information visit http://www.exent.com.

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Hewlett-Packard
HP
is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. HP provides consumers with a great user experience by combining ease of use, reliability and a digital DNA in ways that no other company can. HP’s unique advantage comes from its heritage in digital products – from printers and PCs to cameras and TVs, along with the networking know-how that makes them all work together anywhere, anytime. www.hp.com

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Hillcrest Labs
Hillcrest Labs
is reinventing how consumers discover and navigate content in the digital home. Our software technology - called Spontaneous Navigation™ - makes it easy for consumers to easily browse virtually unlimited content choices on TV - with only a few clicks. Spontaneous Navigation™ technology may be embedded in consumer electronics, set top boxes, and a wide range of other devices to provide a best in-class user experience that maximizes product differentiation and value. Founded in 2001, Hillcrest Labs is based in Rockville, Maryland. www.hillcrestlabs.com

Jungo
Jungo
is a leading provider of CPE software for residential and business gateways and networking devices. We enable our OEM/ODM and Telco customers to develop innovative networking equipment.

OpenRG and OpenSMB, the company’s flagship products, offer OEMs and ODMs an integrated software solution that includes a range of broadband applications coupled with extensive remote management capabilities. It is a complete suite of software technologies for residential/SOHO gateways, Triple Play gateways, VPN/Firewall router, wireless access points, cable/DSL modems and integrated access devices. www.jungo.com

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Maxtor Corporation
Maxtor
is the leader in delivering simple, innovative and quality network storage and backup solutions for safeguarding critical business data, personal content and digital entertainment. The company’s line of Maxtor OneTouch™ external storage and backup solutions and Maxtor Shared Storage™ solutions for home and small networks make it easy for users to store, share, protect and expand their digital lives. For Mac and PC users, Maxtor Branded Products can be found at major retail channels around the world. www.maxtor.com

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Mediabolic
Mediabolic
develops entertainment networking software that enables digital consumer products to share content anywhere and anytime. Our digital Media Player and Media Server software enables OEMs to ship connected entertainment products that are designed to DLNA guidelines. Mediabolic's technologies can be embedded in products like televisions, set-top boxes, and network-attached storage devices, so that consumers can enjoy their personal digital media throughout the home. www.mediabolic.com

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Microsoft Corporation: Windows Media Center Extender Technology
Shipping today in all Xbox 360 consoles, Windows Media Center Extender technology will soon be powering millions of wireless Digital Homes, delivering the best high-definition experiences, premium music, TV, movies, and more. Start learning now how to plan integration of the upcoming Windows® Vista generation of Media Center Extender technology into your Digital Home products and solutions. www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/extender/default.mspx

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NDS
NDS
is a leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay-TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and IP devices.

NDS enables broadcasters, network operators, and content providers to profit from the deployment of digital TV technologies including personal TV solutions, middleware, interactive infrastructure and applications as well as secure broadband solutions. Around the world, NDS VideoGuard® conditional access systems secure service revenues of more than $30 billion, and are used by more than 61 million subscribers. www.nds.com

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Nero, Inc.
Nero
provides high quality software solutions for the global digital media market.
With its compression technology- Nero Digital, based on industry standard ISO MPEG-4, Nero presents a complete a/v solution for CE and mobile devices.  With AVC/H.264 video and HE-AAC audio, Nero offers profiles that also include STB and HD, ISO MPEG extensions, 3GPP compliance, transcoding capabilities and outstanding audio/video quality. www.nero.com

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Pepper Computer
Pepper Computer
develops and markets the Pepper Pad handheld media computer platform. The Pepper platform includes all the software, hardware and services necessary to create a completely customized, seamless user experience for broadband entertainment and communication service delivery to the Digital Home.

The Pepper platform enables non-PC devices that combine the richness of Mozilla Firefox Web browsing, Adobe/Macromedia Flash, MPEG and WM9-based music and IPTV, SIP-based VoIP and videophone, and IR and UPnP-based remote control. www.pepper.com

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PIXPO
The current method for publishing and sharing media on the Internet is based on an “upload” model whereby the content is hosted on a server for viewing. Blogging, Vlogging and Photo Hosting sites are common uses of this model.

PIXPO Inc. has developed proprietary software that allows users to broadcast directly from their PC to the web, with no uploads required. PiXPO is leveraging personal broadcasting technology to aggregate a global User Generated Content Network. www.pixpo.com

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PsiNaptic
PsiNaptic
is a technology company that develops and markets software based on open standards, to connect small, low-power wired or wireless devices without human intervention, configuration or set up. PsiNaptic software uses the Java concept of “write once, run anywhere” and code mobility to deliver application code to devices when and where the code is required. This approach to device interaction eliminates the need for both devices to have pre-installed application specific software, drivers or graphical user interfaces. Resource constrained devices, such as mobile phones, music or game players, appliances, meters etc. can execute an infinite number of applications. PsiNaptic solutions operate on multiple platforms, across various networks including Bluetooth and WiFi. www.psinaptic.com

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Quartics
All content, both personal and professional, old and new, still photos and HD video, is going digital. Internet-based video services are growing stronger as evidenced by Google, AOL, Yahoo, eBay, Skype, mySpace, YouTube, GoFish, JumpTV and many more new video specific sites. Brokeback Mountain is the first film to become available simultaneously on DVD and for on-line download. Broadband connectivity and wireless networking is now prevalent within the home. Plasmas, LCDs and projectors are becoming widespread, multiplying available displays within the home and the office. But convergence of these technologies to allow seamless movement of video from varied sources to any display has been elusive. Quartics products deliver the digital lifestyle by enabling this convergence. Quartics is providing a complete reference design for PC-to-TV solution based on its QV1403 SoC. QV1403 provides high-resolution graphics and full motion video from any WiFi enabled PC to any display over standard 802.11G networks. www.quartics.com

Renesas Technology
Renesas Technology
, ranked the #1 microcontroller supplier worldwide and a global leader in semiconductor sales, offers solutions for manufacturers of home networking equipment that not only encompass Renesas’ broad line of semiconductors, but also key support products such as security and protocols. Renesas’ solutions are developed using their extensive technical resources and cover Ethernet, IEEE-1394 and PLC wire-based networks, as well as wireless LANs that use ZigBee and UWB. www.renesas.com/america

Sereniti Inc.
Sereniti Inc.
offers Service Providers a unifying platform for the delivery and management of next generation broadband services. Sereniti's turnkey managed services solutions enable providers to quickly deliver value-added services, reduce support costs, and improve customer loyalty.

For consumers in the Digital Home, Sereniti provides network and PC support services leveraging a combination of networking hardware, software and 24/7 technical assistance. For more information on Sereniti's home network solutions and services, please visit www.sereniti.com.


Sonic Solutions
Sonic Solutions
(NASDAQ: SNIC; www.sonic.com) is the leader in digital media software, providing a broad range of interoperable, platform independent software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users, and technology partners. Sonic’s products range from advanced DVD authoring systems and interactive content delivery technologies used to produce the majority of Hollywood DVD film releases, to the award-winning Roxio®- and Sonic-branded CD and DVD creation, playback and backup solutions that have become the premiere choice for consumers, prosumers, and business users worldwide. www.sonic.com

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ST&T
ST&T
is the world frontier in Powerline Communication. ST&T provides full range PLC products and applications in OEM and ODM services. Products includes PLC Networking Adaptor, Audio systems, Video, Camera.

Streamload
Streamload
is a leading provider of online digital media services. It launched its new online media center, Streamload MediaMax™, in October 2005. Streamload MediaMax™ encompasses five online services which help consumers easily manage their entire media collection in one central location. Users can easily store, organize, access and share their videos, photos, music, and more in a private and secure environment. www.streamload.com

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SupportSoft
SupportSoft
is a leading provider of Real-Time Service Management software to assist digital service providers with automated installation, service verification and ongoing support for homes and small businesses, plus provide for network management within the "last mile." Our solutions enable triple play service automation for VoIP, video or broadband delivery. Digital service providers incorporating our software into their service offerings include: BellSouth, Charter Communications, Comcast Communications, Cox Communications, KPN, TDC, TeliaSonera, Time Warner, and UPC. www.supportsoft.com

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TwonkyVision
TwonkyVision
provides highly customizable DLNA 1.0 certified media server software with minimal footprint and resource consumption for embedded devices. Target applications include network attached storage devices (NAS), networked DVR/PVRs and mobile devices. TwonkyMedia is available as a ready to install application for various embedded platforms and comes bundled with leading NAS solutions. A complete SDK including media server, control point and renderer is available for different standard platforms, including Windows XP/CE, Linux and MacOS. www.twonkyvision.com

TZero Technologies
TZero Technologies
is a fables semiconductor company developing WiMedia compliant UWB solutions. TZero enables UWB to be used as a wireless transport mechanism for whole-home coverage, supporting "real-time multi-media streaming" between devices in Consumer Electronics, Hand-Held and PC segments with high level of A/V quality reliability and robustness. TZero's all-CMOS UWB chipset including its patent-pending extended range & interference cancellation technologies, makes the vision of the "Connected Consumer" a reality. www.tzti.com

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WiLife
WiLife
develops plug-and-play digital video surveillance products. WiLife's do-it-yourself product, LukWerks™, provides home and small business owners with professional-grade video surveillance at a fraction of the cost of traditional professionally installed systems. LukWerks can be set up in less than 30 minutes and does not require coaxial cable runs, wireless networks or static IP addresses. LukWerks includes smart cameras, powerful software for monitoring, recording and sending e-mail alerts, and remote viewing of cameras through Internet-connected PCs and mobile devices. www.wilife.com

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XANBOO INC.
Xanboo empowers the every day user to view live video of their home, control lights/switches/devices, and be notified of events, right on their cell phone! Simply put, Xanboo is the most intuitive, simple to use and affordable solution on the market today for controlling one's home or business via a cell phone. Users simply download a simple J2ME application into their phone and within minutes they're controlling their devices with a simple click of a button. Now that's 'wickedly cool'! -Live Streaming Video-Thermostat Control-Control Lighting-Event Notification-Verified Alarm Response www.xanboo.com

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Breakfast

Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
is part of the entertainment operations of Viacom Inc., one of the world's largest entertainment and media companies and a leader in the production, promotion, and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and music. www.paramount.com

Toshiba Storage Device Division
Toshiba SDD
, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., leads the market in the development, design and manufacturing of small form factor 0.85-inch, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch hard disk drives. Toshiba SDD markets high-quality peripherals to OEMs, VARs, value-added dealers, systems integrators and distributors in the U.S. Inherent in the Toshiba storage family are the high-quality engineering and manufacturing capabilities that have established Toshiba products as worldwide leaders. For more information, visit www.sdd.toshiba.com.

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Lunch

Broadcom Corporation
Broadcom Corporation
is a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Our products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. Broadcom provides the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.

Broadcom, one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies with annual revenue of more than $2.5 billion, is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. www.broadcom.com


Zetera Corporation
Zetera Corporation
is the developer of Z-SAN™, a SoIP (Storage over Internetworking Protocol) technology that enables networked storage to be realized at unprecedented price-performance levels. The technology was invented by the creators of the IDE and ATAPI disk drive standards, which have shipped in billions of disk drives. Leveraging the latest IP advances, Zetera has created a new class of network storage technology that is superior in performance, cost, scalability and compatibility to all other types of network storage. Zetera licenses its technology to leading storage, computer, peripheral and device manufacturers worldwide. Please visit us at www.zetera.com.

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Break

CyberLink
Producer of the world's leading DVD software player, PowerDVD, CyberLink Corp is a pioneer in developing software for the digital home. Through advanced research into digital video, audio, and TV, CyberLink is delivering complete entertainment applications for PC, CE, and handheld platforms. www.cyberlink.com

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Integra5
Integra5 Communications
is empowering the eTelecomm™ generation with personalized IP content and converged communications services for broadband service providers, including telcos, cable operators and emerging ”Netelcos”. The company’s I5 Services Delivery Platform features patented and patent-pending technology and has been commercially deployed in service provider networks since 2004. www.integra5.com

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