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| Gracenote (formerly CDDB) |
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Content and Services
Development Agreement
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PortalPlayer’s PC media manager works with Gracenote to automatically access information from the Internet, which displays album, artist and song names each time a CD or MP3 is played.
GraceNote is the world’s largest online database of audio CD and MP3 information, boasting a database of nearly 620,000 album titles and more than 7.5 million tracks. Recognized as the most accurate music identification service on the Web, Gracenote has data on all kinds of music, even CDs with multiple pressings. Accessing Gracenote is free for your private use. By monitoring the Gracenote/CDDB server activity, Gracenote/CDDB also provides the public and media with a listing of the most popular albums played in computers during the previous 30 days. Updated daily, The Gracenote/CDDB Top 10 is the only worldwide digital music chart.
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| MP3.com, Inc. |
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Content
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Development Agreement
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Easy
access to MP3.com’s database of music and
other value-added services is one of many
features of the PortalPlayer platform. The
companies’ partnership facilitates integration
of MP3.com’s content and website with next
generation Internet Protocol-enabled consumer
devices.
MP3.com
uses the Internet and file formats that
make music files smaller to enable a growing
number of artists to distribute and promote
their music to a broad audience and to let
consumers conveniently access this expanding
music catalog. Consumers can search, preview
and download music free of charge.
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DataPlay Media Technologies
Technology Partnership |
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PortalPlayer will provide a direct interface and software support for DataPlay digital media, a universal solution about the size of a quarter that is designed to permanently store a vast amount of digital content.
DataPlay digital media, with 500 MB of storage capacity, supports all major applications including music, imaging, games, computing, e-books and wireless data. DataPlay digital media is compliant with DRM techniques as well as SDMI initiatives to protect the intellectual property rights of artists and content providers. It also supports the latest and most popular encoding formats to ensure that current types of content are recordable and playable at equal to or better quality than existing formats.
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| InterTrust Technologies Corporation |
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InterTrust
Rights/PD™
Software License
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Offered
by PortalPlayer as a preferred digital rights
management (DRM) system to provide consumer
electronics manufacturers with the ability
to quickly develop and bring to market secure
audio players and other devices that enhance
the consumer’s digital music experience.
Digital
rights management technologies protect and
manage rights and interests in digital information.
InterTrust’s DRM platform provides a common
foundation for distributed e-commerce digital
information and event management.
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| Microsoft Corporation |
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Windows
Media Format and DRM
Technology License |
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Allows for the support of the Windows Media
Device Manager enabling ease of management
and transfer of secure digital media in
Windows 9.x and Windows 2000 environments.
Founded
in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader
in software, services and Internet technologies
for personal and business computing. The
company offers a wide range of products
and services designed to empower people
through great software.
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| QDesign Corporation |
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QDesign
Digital Audio Compression
Technology License |
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The
integration of QDesign digital audio compression
technologies into products enables more
efficient storage and delivery of digital
music. As a result, consumers will be able
to download digital music in less than half
the time of standard MP3 files and portable
players will be able to store up to two
and a half hours of music, versus ninety
minutes associated with other technologies.
QDesign
Corporation has been delivering state-of-the
art audio solutions to the broadcast and
new media industries since 1995. QDesign’s
codec technologies appear in hardware processors,
digital audio production, automation and
distribution systems as well as professional
and consumer multimedia software.
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| SanDisk Corporation |
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MultimediaCard
Collaboration Agreement |
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The
MultiMediaCard - the world’s smallest removable
flash data storage card - is one of many
memory products supported on the PortalPlayer
platform.
SanDisk
Corporation, the world’s largest supplier
of flash data storage products, designs,
manufactures and markets industry-standard,
solid-state data, digital imaging and audio
storage products using its patented, high
density flash memory and controller technology.
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| Sony Electronics |
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Memory Stick Media
Technology License
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Memory Stick media, a compact storage media designed to capture and share data, digital images and secure digital audio files, is one of the many memory products supported by PortalPlayer.
Memory Stick, a flash memory card with a 10-pin connecter, also stores secure digital music files -- whether from the Internet or from a personal CD collection -- for playback on a Memory Stick-enabled portable device. Sony developed the Memory Stick, in July 1997 with Casio, Fujitsu, Olympus, Sanyo and Sharp.
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