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Parks Associates announces sponsors for Fall Focus:
Making Media Meaningful, an executive conference focused on content
personalization and distribution
Parks Associates today released the list of
participating sponsors for Fall Focus:
Making Media Meaningful, an executive conference to be held Nov 9-11,
2005, at the Fairmont San Jose. This year, Fall Focus, an annual
conference hosted by leading market analysts Parks Associates, is focused
on content personalization and distribution, and the event’s sponsors
include companies addressing the many opportunities, successes, and
obstacles in this evolving digital domain.
“We are pleased to have the support of our sponsors,
who are each helping this industry meet the challenges of meaningful
content delivery,” said
Tricia Parks, President of Parks Associates. “This year’s event is
dedicated to exploring the business and technical issues involved in the
development of personalized content for the consumer. Significant growth
in these industries will result in revenue opportunities for all companies
on the digital value chain.”
Recent research from Parks Associates’ study
Digital Entertainment: Changing Consumer Habits indicates new
revenue opportunities are emerging for entertainment services and hardware
and software products that target the residential environment. Advanced
entertainment technologies have changed the advertising paradigm, and the
impact continues to be far reaching throughout the digital home markets,
especially as telcos and cable MSOs deploy more interactive IP video
services.
A special session featuring the
Fall Focus Gold Sponsors will be held on Friday, Nov 11, at 9:45 am.
Speakers will represent Entropic Communications, Metalink Ltd., Navic
Networks, Nortel, and Ruckus Wireless.
“The convergence of consumer electronics and wireless
networking has allowed consumers to enjoy the flexibility and speed of
sharing digital media seamlessly throughout the house,” said
Ron Cates, Vice President, North American Sales and Marketing,
Metalink Ltd. “Advancements in wireless technology will continue to
proliferate in the home environment providing a significantly extended
network range and higher data rates, enabling both video and multimedia
delivery throughout the home.”
“Fall Focus provides a great opportunity for people
interested in learning about the new home digital entertainment network,”
said
Ladd Wardani, Vice President of Business Development at Entropic
Communications and President of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA).
“Attendees can learn about state-of-the-art technologies from industry
leaders with real-world experience.”
Gold Sponsors
Entropic Communications
Entropic Communications is a privately held semiconductor company
based in San Diego, Calif., enabling home networking for digital
entertainment. Entropic's products allow consumers to easily share digital
entertainment throughout the home by leveraging the existing coax
infrastructure to fundamentally change the way content such as movies,
music, and images are stored and networked by the average user.
www.entropic.com
Metalink Ltd.
Metalink Ltd. (NASDAQ: MTLK) develops high performance silicon
solutions revolutionizing the broadband experience by facilitating the
convergence of telecommunication, networking and entertainment. Metalink’s
WLAN and DSL technologies are designed to enable true broadband
connectivity in every home through cost-effective, very high-speed
delivery of advanced applications.
www.Metalinkbb.com
Navic Networks
Navic Networks is the leading interactive television technology and
service provider to the cable and direct broadcast satellite television
industry. Navic's technology powers interactive applications on nearly 27
million digital set-top boxes in North America. Navic Networks is a
privately held corporation headquartered in Needham, Mass.
www.navic.tv
Nortel
Serving both service provider and enterprise customers in more than 150
countries, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing
end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications,
and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world's greatest
challenges. www.nortel.com
Ruckus Wireless
Formed in June 2004 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Ruckus
Wireless is a next-generation wireless company specializing in multimedia
802.11 wireless systems for home networks. It designs, develops and
markets products and technologies that enable the home media network
ecosystem.
www.ruckuswireless.com
Silver Sponsors
imeem
imeem is a technology leader delivering the next generation platform
for social media. As a consumer-focused company, imeem allows users to
easily communicate with friends and family and find new people and groups
over the internet. With imeem’s free download users can share digital
media, IM, and publish and subscribe to blogs and podcasts.
www.imeem.com
Kontiki, Inc.
Kontiki, Inc. is a privately held software company whose customers
include AOL, BBC, Ernst&Young, and Palm. Its award winning software, The
Kontiki Delivery Management System (DMS), is a suite of software products
that enables content providers and enterprises to publish, protect,
deliver, and track digital rich media content.
www.kontiki.com
NDS
NDS is the 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.
www.nds.com
Nero Inc.
Nero Digital™, co-developed by Nero and Ateme, is a complete
audio/video codec solution based on industry standards MPEG-4 Video
(MPEG-4 SP/ASP and AVC/H.264) and MPEG-4 Audio (LC AAC und HE AAC)
compression technologies, allowing the flexibility to play MPEG-4
compliant content, yet offering advanced interactive features in
unprecedented audio and video quality.
www.nero.com
Streamload
Streamload is a leading provider of online digital media services. It
launched its 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
Reception Sponsors
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade
association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry through
technology policy, events, research, promotion and the fostering of
business and strategic relationships. CEA represents more than 1,500
corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing,
distribution and integration of audio, video, mobile electronics, wireless
and landline communications, information technology, home networking,
multimedia and accessory products, as well as related services that are
sold through consumer channels.
www.CE.org
Motorola, Inc. - Connected Home Solutions
Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides
seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded
systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all
spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people,
things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility
harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster,
cost-effective and flexible communication.
www.motorola.com
Break Sponsors
BigBand Networks, Inc.
BigBand Networks, Inc. provides platforms uniquely capable of
communicating and processing video, voice and data for best delivery
throughout networks. As a result, network operators can cost-effectively
expand revenue-generating offerings of rich content and advanced,
interactive services such as digital television, HDTV, transport of high
quality video, local advertising, VOD, iTV, broadband Internet and VoIP.
www.bigbandnet.com
EZTakes, Inc.
EZTakes provides movie downloads that consumers can easily burn to
discs that play on standard DVD players. EZTakes is the first movie
download store that bridges the gap between the Internet and the TV for
the millions of consumers that don't want to watch feature-length movies
on PC monitors.
www.eztakes.com
Terayon
Terayon provides innovative digital video networking solutions to the
telecommunications, cable, satellite and broadcasting industries. Comcast,
EchoStar, Verizon, FOX and other leading service providers worldwide are
using Terayon’s digital video systems to deliver increasingly targeted
services – such as local advertising insertion – and to brand their local
network affiliates programming.
www.terayon.com
Breakfast Sponsors
Umbria
Umbria is a marketing intelligence company that analyzes and distills
the opinions and perceptions of the online community – from more than 16
million blogs, message boards, opinion sites and other public forums –
into actionable market insights about companies, products, people and
issues. Through a combination of technology and services, we provide
cost-effective, tailored analysis for our customers, and help them
integrate this information into their business to make more informed
business decisions.
www.umbriacom.com
Universal Electronics Inc. & SimpleDevices
Universal Electronics and its subsidiary SimpleDevices develop
software, firmware and turnkey solutions enabling consumers to wirelessly
connect, control and interact with consumer electronics and digital media
in an increasingly complex and connected home environment. Primary markets
include consumer electronics OEMs, computing, and cable/satellite MSOs.
www.uei.com
Platinum Supporting Organization
Wi-Fi Alliance
The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global, non-profit industry association of
more than 200 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.
www.wi-fi.org
For more information on Fall Focus, visit
www.fallfocus.com.
About Fall Focus
Fall Focus conferences are targeted events providing a full analysis and
evaluation of the “focus” topic. These conferences typically host 250-300
people, and the agenda features industry leaders from the relevant domains in an
interactive environment, moderated by Parks Associates’ analysts.
About Parks Associates: Parks Associates is an
internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing
in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks
Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to
small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research,
custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service
subscriptions.
The company's expertise includes new media, digital
entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services,
digital health, mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, and home
control systems and security.
Each year, Parks Associates hosts executive thought
leadership conferences CONNECTIONS™, with support from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), and CONNECTIONS™ Europe. In addition, Parks
Associates produces the online publication Industry Insights in
conjunction with the CONNECTIONS™ Conference series.
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