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Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving nearly 93 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 81,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com

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Cisco

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.

Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn. www.cisco.com

Intel

Intel is a world leader in silicon innovation and develops technologies, products, and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. At Intel, we constantly push the boundaries of innovation in order to make people's lives more exciting, more fulfilling, and easier to manage. Our unwavering commitment to moving technology forward has transformed the world by leaps and bounds.

We're a company that's always in motion, fueling an industry that never rests. We inspire our partners to develop innovative products and services, rally the industry to support new products, and drive industry standards. We do this so that we can collectively deliver better solutions with greater benefits more quickly. www.intelconsumerelectronics.com

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Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 181,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009. www.accenture.com

ActiveVideo Networks

ActiveVideo Networks is redefining interactive TV (iTV 2.0) by intelligently streaming Web-infused television to any STB or Web-connected CE device. ActiveVideo creates a new layer of personalized, video-rich interactivity that is increasing viewer engagement and generating new revenues for the media ecosystem. The ActiveVideo platform intelligently streams Web-based media and targeted, clickable advertisements with the high-quality video, immediate responsiveness and remote control navigation of television to provide a uniform interactive experience for every consumer. With ActiveVideo, viewers move beyond traditional programming to engage in an immersive content experience that includes social networking; personal media; niche content; and targeted, actionable advertising. www.activevideo.com

Allegro

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

DivX, Inc.

DivX, Inc. is a leading digital media company that enables consumers to enjoy a high-quality video experience across any kind of device. DivX creates, distributes and licenses digital video technologies that span the "three screens" comprising today's consumer media environment -- the PC, the television and mobile devices. Over 300 million DivX devices have shipped into the market worldwide from leading consumer electronics manufacturers. DivX also offers content providers and publishers a complete solution for the distribution of secure, high-quality digital video content. Driven by a globally recognized brand and a passionate community of hundreds of millions of consumers, DivX is simplifying the video experience to enable the digital home. www.divx.com

D-Link

D-Link is the global leader in connectivity for small, medium and large enterprise business networking. The company is an award-winning designer, developer and manufacturer of networking, broadband, digital electronics, voice, data and video communications solutions for the digital home, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), Small to Medium Business (SMB), and Workgroup to Enterprise environments. With millions of networking and connectivity products manufactured and shipped, D-Link is a dominant market participant and price/performance leader in the networking and communications market. D-Link Systems, Inc. headquarters are located at 17595 Mt. Herrmann Street, Fountain Valley, CA, 92708. Phone (800) 326-1688 or (714) 885-6000; FAX (866) 743-4905; Internet www.dlink.com

Gigle Networks

Gigle Networks provides System-on-Chip (SoC) integrated circuits and complete system solutions for multimedia home networking that can extend wired and wireless Ethernet everywhere in the home –without the need for new wires. Targeted for applications such as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), broadband TV (BBTV), video on demand (VoD), and Voice over IP (VoIP), Gigle Networks' products offer superior performance, coverage and quality of service when compared to alternative communication technologies, and are designed to be easily integrated into consumer electronics and networked products. Gigle Networks is a strong supporter of open standards, a board member of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, and an active participant in the IEEE P1901 standards body and the ITU-T G.hn wireline standardization initiative. Gigle Networks has offices in Redwood City, Calif., Barcelona, Spain, and Edinburgh, UK. www.giglenetworks.com

Intamac Systems Ltd

Intamac Systems Ltd is the global leader in Internet based monitoring, messaging and control services. Founded in 2000, and based in Northampton UK, the company has developed an Internet-based communications platform that allows consumers to remotely monitor and control devices in their home. Intamac has signed contracts with major corporate partners who use their broadband services to increase ARPU, leverage broadband and reduce customer churn.

With an established customer base on 3 continents, Intamac has been recognized for market leading innovation: Winner of the 2003 British Security Industry Association Excellence Awards for Best Innovation, winner of Digital Home Magazine "Best online home service" and a Red Herring “Top 100” company for 2006. Intamac is committed to innovating with new technology products and services to improve the lives of people at home and at work. www.intamac.com

ProVision Communications

ProVision Communications is widely recognised for its expertise in delivering high quality video reliably over wireless. The company has developed this reputation through working with leading PayTV service providers and consumer electronics manufacturers.

ProVision’s knowhow is built upon years of research and consultancy, latterly focusing on wireless networking of HD video. The company’s founders are acknowledged leaders in the field and have grown the company to be a key contributor to future home networked environments. www.provision-comm.com

PacketVideo

PacketVideo's software facilitates the sharing and enjoyment of media wherever it is stored, by converging devices, applications and services that enable users to enjoy media seamlessly between home and mobile environments. TwonkyMedia is PacketVideo's line of software and mobile applications for your PC, Mac or phone. Intuitive and fast, each product offers an impressive level of convenience and control. TwonkyMedia perfects the connected home experience. www.pv.com, www.twonkymedia.com

RedMere

RedMere provides cable-embedded semiconductors and advanced cable reference designs to cable industry leaders and manufacturing partners. In a world where connection speed increases, RedMere enables easy to use, high quality, smart connectivity for The Home, On the Move and The Office. These new active cable systems deliver the ultimate in compact digital connectivity over HDMI, DisplayPort and USB for Video and Still Cameras, Smartphones, HDTV, Blu-Ray DVD, PS3 and Xbox, as well as enterprise solutions using Infiniband and PCI Express. RedMere is a private company with lead investors Celtic House Venture Partners and EdgeStone Capital Partners. www.redmere.com

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Rovi Corporation

Rovi Corporation is focused on revolutionizing the digital entertainment landscape by delivering solutions that enable consumers to intuitively connect to new entertainment from many sources and locations. The company also provides extensive entertainment discovery solutions for television, movies, music and photos to its customers in the consumer electronics, cable and satellite, entertainment and online distribution markets. These solutions, complemented by industry leading entertainment data, create the connections between people and technology, and enable them to discover and manage entertainment in an enjoyable form.

Rovi holds over 4,000 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. www.rovicorp.com

Support.com

Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT) provides services and software that help consumers and small businesses with their technology needs. Support.com's North American Personal Technology Experts™ can provide a quick, cost-effective and stress-free technology support experience over the Internet and the phone using Support.com's advanced technology platform. Support.com also provides consumer software for the do-it-yourself customer. Support.com, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Support.com is a trademark or registered trademark of Support.com, Inc. or its affiliates in the US and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. www.support.com

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4Home

4Home is the leading provider of connected home services, which include energy management, home security and monitoring, media management, and home health. 4Home's ControlPoint(TM), Portal Server, and SDK software products allow hardware vendors and service providers to create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use, and profitable new applications and services for the connected home. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed anywhere on the home network provides whole home coverage--from anywhere and at anytime. Portal Server is a robust application server for the NOC providing scalable and manageable home control services for a broad, mass-market rollout. 4Home, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information on 4Home and its award-winning solutions, please visit www.4Home.com. www.4home.com

Accedo Broadband

Accedo Broadband is the leading provider of applications for IPTV and Connected TV. Accedo Broadband provides the largest available application portfolio and an app store engine for IPTV and Connected TV containing, for example, IPTV games, VoD, Catch-up TV, music, video art, comics, karaoke, lifestyle, niche sports, weather, social media and communication services. Accedo’s Funspot gaming service is the most widely deployed IPTV gaming service in the world.

 

Accedo is a privately held company founded by telecom and media entrepreneurs Michael Lantz and Fredrik Andersson primarily backed by Swedish VC Industrifonden. Accedo Broadband is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with branch offices in London, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Sydney. For more information, visit www.accedobroadband.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 DigiDo suite software provides 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

AlertMe

Founded in Cambridge UK in 2006, AlertMe provides simple and affordable home energy management systems to consumers both directly and indirectly through their energy provider enabling them to manage and reduce consumption, save money and reduce their carbon footprint.

 

The company is private and venture backed by Good Energies, Index Ventures, SET Venture Partners, and VantagePoint Venture Partners. For more information please go to www.alertme.com

Arxan

Arxan Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of software security solutions that protect applications from attack in distributed or un-trusted environments. We harden applications against tampering and reverse engineering for unauthorized use, piracy, and theft of intellectual property. Our advanced software protection solutions secure ISV, digital media providers’ and enterprise applications to proactively defend the integrity of code and business models. We defend, detect, alert and react to attacks through a threat-based, customizable approach that works without changing source code. Proven, durable and resilient, Arxan’s offerings support a full range of application protection needs, from commercial software to military grade assurance. Founded in 2001, Arxan Technologies has offices in Bethesda, MD, San Francisco, CA and West Lafayette, IN. For more information, please visit www.arxan.com.

IBM

IBM is a leading service provider to the consumer electronics industry. With a unique portfolio of services, software, hardware solutions, IBM supports the worlds leading consumer electronics firms to define and successfully achieve powerful business and technology change initiatives. www.ibm.com

iTOK

iTOK is the leading provider of US-based remote technical support for home and home-based business computers. Since 2004, iTOK has been building a team of trained, fluent English-speaking support representatives based in Utah that eliminates the frustration of working with the cheaper foreign-based computer service companies.

With the click of a mouse, a user can immediately connect with a service representative, get help on a technical problem and schedule routine maintenance, all while working with someone who knows their computer, their issue history and their language. iTOK provides service to thousands of customers directly and through major broadband service providers. www.itok.net

LEVEL

An independent digital agency, LEVEL helps consumer electronics manufacturers create multichannel product experiences that are easy to use and marketing messages that are easy to understand. LEVEL blends award-winning creative with technical expertise to deliver a seamless total user experience from the customers’ first interaction with a brand to everyday product use. Come by our booth to learn more about how we’ve helped leading CE manufacturers optimize web experiences, market products, create intuitive interfaces and develop cohesive cross-device user experiences. For more information, please visit our website at www.level-studios.com/connected. http://level-studios.com

PlumChoice

PlumChoice is the largest independent provider of premium U.S.-based 24/7 technical support services for home, home office, and small business. The company’s remote services include support for PCs, Macs, MP3 players, smart phones and other mobile devices, networking and network devices, peripheral devices, and any software, connectivity, or operating system level issues. www.plumchoice.com/partner

VUZE

Vuze creates and distributes innovative digital media applications that are changing the way people consume media. The Vuze peer-to-peer application and media hub has been installed 90 million times in the last 36 months by a growing community representing Hollywood's biggest fans and consumers, as well as technology trendsetters.

Consumers should be in control of their entertainment and digital media, and technology and entertainment companies should help them. Vuze focuses on the technology part, and works with savvy entertainment and consumer electronics companies who share our vision.

In 2009, Vuze launched Device Playback giving tens of millions of users the ability to download video from the web and play back on the device of their choice: iPhone, iPod, iPad, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PSP, and Tivo. Vuze Device Playback is currently one of the largest, most actively used DLNA implementations in the industry. In 2010, the Vuze team is focusing on a new suite of software products that will change the way you access and interact with digital media in the living room and on the go.

Vuze has a massive community of users, disruptive technology, highprofile investors, a solid business model, and an obsession for innovation. Come hear what's next...www.vuze.com

Zenverge

Zenverge is a leading developer of Advanced Media ICs devoted to accelerating consumer access to next generation digital content and services. Based on the Zenverge Entertainment Nexus (ZEN), a groundbreaking new architecture for HD media convergence, the company’s products represent industry-leading video quality and performance for media transcoding, encoding and decoding at the lowest system cost. Zenverge ICs are shipping to consumer electronics and operator equipment manufacturers worldwide, enabling them to provide consumers higher quality, universal access to all sources of content. www.zenverge.com

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Roxio

Roxio enables consumers to easily manage, share, and be creative with their personal digital media and, through Roxio CinemaNow, conveniently access Hollywood entertainment from a broad range of connected devices. A wide array of leading retailers, manufacturers, and businesses rely on Roxio applications, services and technologies to bring innovative digital media functionality to next-generation devices and platforms. Roxio is a brand of Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC). www.roxio.com

 

 

 

 

 

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