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Sponsoring CONNECTIONS Europe
provides companies with visibility and brand
recognition throughout the year through
pre-event marketing efforts and on-site
visibility and networking opportunities.
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2586 Fern Valley Road
Chula Vista, CA 91915 USA
+1-818-206-2809
www.ibm.com |
IBM
With over 80 years of experience, IBM is aligned
around a single business model: Innovation. IBM
takes its breadth and depth of insight on
issues, processes and operations across a
variety of industries, and invents then applies
solutions to help solve our clients' most
intractable business and competitive problems.
Our industry specific solutions combine deep
industry insight with high-powered technology to
unlock business value for our clients. Our teams
have the ability to think globally and act
locally with consultants positioned in virtually
every country and culture worldwide. To learn
more about how IBM is helping our clients become
more innovative, visit www.ibm.com. |
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90 av Lanessan – 69410 – Champagne au Mont d’Or
- FRANCE
+45 29 66 39 67
+33 437 49 13 82
www.io-homecontrol.com |
io-homecontrol
Imagine
a home that takes care of you. After millions of
years of man adapting his habitat, now for the
first time the habitat can adapt itself to man.
io-homecontrol® is a simple and safe
wireless technology that enables homeowners'
direct control and automatic
cross-functionalities of appliances such as
windows, doors, roller blinds, heating &
ventilation , alarm systems, garage doors or
gates without the need for extra equipment. So
homeowners can enjoy unheard-of levels of
comfort, security and energy savings.
Already
incorporated into their products by leading
brands, io-homecontrol is about to revolutionise
home automation. |
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2050 Bleury, Suite 300
Montreal, PQ H3A 2J5
514-286-2636 x2688
www.radialpoint.com
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Radialpoint
Radialpoint provides managed Value Added
Service (VAS) solutions for the largest
Broadband Service Providers (BSPs).
Radialpoint's managed VAS solutions deliver
tangible business results enabling BSPs to
generate new revenues and reduce the costs of
delivering and supporting new services.
Our proven approach combines best-in-class
consumer services optimized for a consistent
user experience, with innovative service
intelligence and VAS management capabilities.
Radialpoint manages over 50 VAS programs
available to over 20 million subscribers
worldwide. Our customers include: Bell Canada,
TELUS and Videotron in Canada; Adelphia,
BellSouth and Verizon in the US; and Virgin
Media in Europe.
For more information, visit
www.radialpoint.com. |
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Cap Alpha
Avenue de l'europe
34830 Clapiers
France
+33 4 67 59 30 94
+33 4 6759 36 61 (Fax)
www.awox.com |
AwoX
AwoX is the European leader in network media
solutions. The company's core business is
developing software and electronics products for
license to OEMs, operators, and consumer
electronics manufacturers. AwoX helps its
customers to rapidly market DLNA-compliant
network media device by either integrating its
patented modular SDK, or adapting AwoX's
hardware reference designs, or customizing
AwoX's finished product. |
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600-20 Toronto Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5C 2B8
+1.416.913.6180
www.casero.com
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Casero Inc.
Casero offers white label
solutions to carriers looking to include
personal digital media management and sharing
into their service offerings. The Casero Digital
Media Suite provides secure storage of personal
digital media such as photos, videos and music,
while encompassing both social networking and
mobile applications. These solutions allow the
carriers to create their own online communities
and offer premium services such as storage,
photo-finishing, and video monitoring.
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4 Charles Robert Darwin, 2
ES 46980 Paterna (Valencia)
Spain
00 34 96 136 6004
00 34 96 136 6250 fax
www.ds2.es
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Design of Systems on Silicon DS2 is the
leading technology innovator and a global
provider of high-speed semiconductor solutions
for Powerline Communications and other wire-line
network communications products. DS2 products
deliver quality multimedia home networking,
networked entertainment and broadband access
applications to and throughout the home, office,
or building, and to and throughout regions. Our
state-of-the-art ICs and software solutions
enable consumer electronics, home networking and
digital entertainment equipment and broadband
access products. DS2 - connecting the Planet. |
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Intamac Systems Ltd
+44 (0) 870 111 7234
+44 (0) 870 111 7235 (Fax)
www.intamac.com |
Intamac Systems Ltd
Intamac Systems Ltd 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 have 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 have been recognised 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. |
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Friedrichstraße 60
D-10117 Berlin
Germany
+49 30 200099 0
www.investingermany.com
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Invest in Germany
Invest in Germany is the
official investment promotion agency of the
Federal Republic of Germany. Our mandate is to
promote Germany’s international image and to
assist and advise potential investors in
Germany. Foreign enterprises planning to
establish their business operations in Germany
can obtain information on the business
environment such as corporate investment
framework, tax regulations, and subsidies. Our
range of services includes strategic planning,
market research, and competitive analysis.
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One Heathrow Blvd
286 Bath Road West Drayton, United Kingdom UB7
0DQ
0208 4768000
www.nds.com |
NDS
NDS creates the security and enabling
technologies and the applications that allow
operators to generate revenues by delivering
digital content to TVs, STBs, DVRs, PCs, PMPs,
mobile phones, and removable security over one
or more networks. NDS VideoGuard® protects
service revenues of more than $32 billion while
its subscriber base, currently 75 million,
continues to grow. NDS employs more than 3,600
people with R&D centers in Israel, France,
Denmark, Korea, China, India and the UK. |
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Netineo
22, rue de Paradis, 75010, Paris, France
+33 872887390
+33 147707391
pbornstein@netineo.com
www.netineo.com |
Netineo Netineo is a premiere interactive
broadcasting solution created by internetphiles
for internetphiles. This technology allows you
to broadcast live, time delayed and
video-on-demand from the click of your mouse. It
gives you the power to create original programs
and customize your channels. With Netineo, you
are able to watch an unprecedented amount of
interactive programs, share your passion,
express your talents and communicate your
thoughts. |
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Carlo van Pelt
Communications Mgr High Tech
Campus 60 Eindhoven +31.40.2725231
www.nxp.com |
NXP
Semiconductors NXP Semiconductors is
powering the revolution in the TV viewing
experience by delivering solutions that process
all global digital formats, offer best possible
picture quality and enable a variety of audio,
video, data and images to be available anytime,
anywhere throughout the home and on-the-move.
The TV, including PC TV and TV-on-mobile, will
soon be the window to a world of new content,
and NXP is unique in supporting these
developments with a full range of semiconductor
components, system solutions and connected
systems based on industry standards. |
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Delta 100
Delta Business Park Welton Road
Swindon, UK
SN5 7XP
+44 (0) 1793 422 300
www.siconnect.com |
SiConnect SiConnect provides market
leading in-home powerline communications (PLC)
technology. Its innovative silicon and software
solutions enable existing domestic electrical
wiring to be used to transport audio, video,
voice and data throughout the home. Working in
partnership with the world’s blue chip
telecommunication operators, cable companies and
consumer electronics manufacturers, SiConnect is
creating new benchmarks for PLC technology that
achieve all capacity, reliability, ease of use
and cost point goals. |
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www.thomson.net |
Thomson
World leader in digital video
technologies Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453;
NYSE: TMS) provides technology, services, and
systems to help its Media & Entertainment
clients - content creators, content distributors
and users of its technology - realize their
business goals and optimize their performance in
a rapidly changing technology environment. The
Group is the preferred partner to the Media &
Entertainment Industries through its
Technicolor, Grass Valley, RCA, and Thomson
brands. |
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www.yitran.com |
Yitran Communications Ltd. Founded in
1996, Yitran Communications is a leading
provider of cutting edge power line modem
technology. A fabless communications
semiconductor company, Yitran Communications
designs, develops, and markets proprietary
digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits for
home networking, power line communications,
access, AMR (Automatic Meter Reading)
applications, automation and control
applications over existing electrical
infrastructure.
Yitran offers a wide spectrum of broadband
and narrowband solutions aimed at home
networking, residential access and home
automation markets. Yitran delivers advanced,
extremely reliable, low-cost, high-speed home
networking components for the implementation of
broadband and narrowband control networks over
power lines. Yitran also develops an advanced
line of reliable long-distance components that
enable transmission control, telemetry and
low-speed data transmission. |
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Zensys Inc.
39350 Civic Center Drive
Suite 210
Fremont, CA 94538
510-744-2100
www.zen-sys.com |
Zensys Inc. Zensys is a leading provider
of wireless networking technology for control
and status reading applications. The company's
Z-Wave® technology is a proven, affordable and
interoperable wireless mesh networking
technology that is the standard in wireless home
control and is available in more than 100
wireless home control products today. Zensys
offers a family of low-cost, low-power,
integrated MCU/Transceiver chips embedded with
Z-Wave, as well as a suite of development tools
and services making it easy for companies to
develop wireless products for residential and
light commercial applications. Z-Wave brings
many benefits to everyday life including remote
home monitoring, safety and security, and energy
conservation by controlling a wide array of home
devices including lighting, appliances, HVAC,
entertainment, and more. |
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SmartLabs, Inc.
16542 Millikan Avenue
Irvine, CA 92606-5027 United States
+1-503-705-4577
www.smartlabsinc.com |
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2830 De La Cruz Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95050
Phone: (408) 562-8400
Fax: (408) 567-1800
www.macrovision.com |
Macrovision
Macrovision provides distribution, commerce
and consumption solutions for software,
entertainment and information content to the
home video, PC games, music, cable/satellite,
consumer software, enterprise software and
information publishing industries as well as
middleware solutions to enable the development
of connected devices. Macrovision holds
approximately 240 issued or pending United
States patents and more than 1,200 issued or
pending international patents, and continues to
increase its patent portfolio with new and
innovative technologies in related fields.
Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara,
California, U.S.A. with other offices across the
United States and around the world. |
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Passatge Sert 8 bis
E-08003 Barcelona
+34 935 846 615
http://www.smartdesign
worldwide.com |
Smart Design Smart Design has a 25-year
history of turning insight and innovation into
successful consumer products, interactive
experiences and brands. Smart Design is one of
the most awarded design companies; in the last 8
years Smart has received 24 awards from
IDEA/Business Week. Their multi-disciplinary
approach brings together experts in product,
graphic and interaction design, engineering,
strategy and design research to ensure that our
solutions connect with people. Its consistent
results are delivered by an international staff
of 90 creative people, working in teams across
offices in New York, San Francisco and
Barcelona. |
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Institutenweg 21
7521 PH Enschede, Netherlands Phone
+31 53.488.8000
http://www.uei.com |
Universal Electronics Over the past
several years, UEI has developed a broad
portfolio of industry-leading patented
technologies and an extensive database of
infrared control software that have been adopted
by many Fortune 500 companies in the consumer
electronics, subscription broadcast and
computing industries. These include Comcast®,
Cox Communications ®, DirecTV®, Sky®, and
TimeWarner® in the subscription broadcasting
arena and consumer electronics giants like
Mitsubishi®, Panasonic® and Pioneer®. UEI also
sells and licenses wireless control products
through distributors and retailers under the One
For All® brand name, and provides home control
solutions for the professional custom
installation market under the brand name Nevo®.
The Company also develops software solutions for
digital media control and enjoyment in the
consumer and original equipment manufacturer
(OEM) markets under the brand SimpleCenterTM.
Our entire platform is driven by one
overarching goal: to simplify the home
technology environment. As the digital
entertainment landscape undergoes radical
transformation as technology — and how people
interact with it — continues to evolve rapidly,
UEI is enhancing the user experience for
everyone by making digital content and control
easier and more accessible, in every home and at
every price point. |
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Berlin Partner As your partner
in site selection, foreign trade
consultancy and capital city
marketing, we believe Berlin is good
for business. We provide investors
on-site support, help Berlin-based
companies tap foreign markets, and
make the city a strong brand. Active
both locally and internationally, we
are engaged in local, European and
international networks.
As the top contact point for
companies, Berlin Partner maintains
a close strategic partnership with
the Brandenburg Economic Development
Board (ZAB). Working together for
your success, we offer contacts in
government agencies, banks, chambers
of commerce and associations,
research institutes and scientific
communities, and companies
throughout the capital region. |
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Berlin
Welcome to Berlin. At Berlin’s
official internet site
www.berlin.de, you can find
information about different aspects
from Berlin: Hotels and Hotel
Booking, Visitors Guide of Berlin,
Entertainment in Berlin and Tickets,
Political System and Local
Authorities, Berlin Capital City,
Business in Berlin. |
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ADMIN Ltd.
ADMIN
Ltd. is a St. Petersburg based
consultancy focused on mobile
content & Internet industry
development, electronic commerce,
high-tech investments, business
consulting and international
cooperation. ADMIN Ltd. is an
organizer of annual Mobile VAS
Conference (www.vasforum.ru), Mobile
Monday St. Petersburg (www.mobilemonday.ru)
and other IT events. The Russian
Mobile Content Market Report is also
available. |
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Broadband Services
Forum
The
Broadband Services Forum is an
international industry resource that
provides a forum for dialogue and
development, along with the tools
and information to address the
fundamental business and technology
issues vital to the growth and
health of the broadband industry.
The Broadband Services Forum fosters
collaboration across the broadband
value chain including content,
service and technology providers. |
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CABA
CABA
is the only industry association to
offer industry intelligence to
stakeholders in all areas of home &
building automation. CABA's
resources cover areas such as HVAC,
lighting, security, A/V,
communications technologies, energy
management and controls. A number of
resources are available through the
association including iHomes &
Buildings magazine, research, CABA's
forums, CABA's monthly eBulletin,
Information Series reports, Event
Reports and the CABA web site.
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OSGi Alliance
The OSGi Alliance is an independent
non-profit corporation comprised of
technology innovators and developers
and focused on the interoperability
of applications and services based
on its component integration
platform. The OSGi Alliance is a
worldwide consortium of technology
innovators that advances a proven
and mature process to assure
interoperability of applications and
services based on its component
integration platform. The OSGi
Service Platform is delivered in
many Fortune Global 100 company
products and services and in diverse
markets including enterprise,
mobile, home, telematics and
consumer. The OSGi Alliance was
founded in March 1999. |
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Wi-Fi Alliance
The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global,
non-profit industry association of
more than 300 member companies
devoted to promoting the growth of
wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs).
With the aim of enhancing the user
experience for mobile wireless
devices, the Wi-Fi Alliance’s
testing and certification programs
ensure the interoperability of WLAN
products based on the IEEE 802.11
specification. Since the
introduction of the Wi-Fi Alliance’s
certification program in March 2000,
more than 3,000 products have been
designated as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED®,
encouraging the expanded use of
Wi-Fi products and services across
the consumer and enterprise markets.
Wi-Fi®, Wi-Fi Alliance®, the Wi-Fi
CERTIFIED logo, and the Wi-Fi logo
are registered trademarks of the
Wi-Fi Alliance; Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ and
the Wi-Fi Alliance logo is a
trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. |
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