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Fraunhofer IIS Audio Decoder in Frontier Silicon’s Radio Module powers REVO DAB+ Radio
17.04.2008 - Fraunhofer IIS WorldDAB Member - Germany
Venice 6 is the world’s first digital module capable of receiving Internet radio via Wi-Fi, DAB/DAB , FM and music streamed from a network server. ...
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DRDB appoints Tony Moretta new Chief Executive
15.04.2008 - United Kingdom
Tony comes with a strong understanding of digital media having spent the past five years as General Manager of Broadcast at National Grid Wireless where he was responsible for...
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Frontier Silicon announces latest audio platform enabling home music systems for the digital age
14.04.2008 - Frontier Smart Technologies WorldDAB Member - Hong Kong
Frontier Silicon today announces the latest addition to its range of solutions for Wi-Fi Radio with iPod connectivity. The Jupiter 6.1 platform provides a low-cost, fully-qualified reference design for connected home audio systems, with a wealth of features including extended iPod compatibility and an enhanced graphical user interface.
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Update UK
14.04.2008 - United Kingdom
The latest audience results confirm DAB as by far the most popular digital radio platform in the UK. On a like-for-like comparison, DAB achieved 12 times more radio listening than either Internet Radio or radio over Digital television. During December consumers bought 25,000 DAB digital radios a day, and a major London department store sold more DAB radios per minute than iPods. Ofcom, the government regulator, has also recently announced the award of the second DAB national radio multiplex to the 4 Digital Group Limited. This multiplex license will allow the 4 Digital Group to broadcast radio and multimedia services. There are also plans to provide a selection of pod casts using DAB+. Slideshow trials are currently on going in the London area.
Summer of Sport Promotion for Highway - The Radio Driving In-Car Dab Market
14.04.2008 - Imagination Technologies - United Kingdom
The world’s first plug and play in-car DAB radio, the PURE Highway, is to benefit from on-air promotion worth £250,000 in the months leading up to 2008’s summer of sport as part of a co-marketing campaign with a...
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NeoMagic(R) Announces Production Release of MiMagic 8 Application Processor for Mobile TV Enabled Smart Phones and Other Handheld Products
14.04.2008 - United States
... making it very easy to support all the major mobile TV standards around the world including ISDB-T, T-DMB, DVB-H, etc.," said Douglas R. Young, ...
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SH-Mobile3A
12.04.2008 - Japan
SH-Mobile3A is an application processor designed for use in high-end models of mobile phone, which incorporates the latest multimedia processing functions, including...
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Huashu Media Taps RadioScape for DAB/DAB+/T-DMB Services
11.04.2008 - Radioscape - United Kingdom
RadioScape CEO John Hall added: “2008 is proving to be a year of increasing activity in the international radio market as more countries roll-out DAB and ...
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China Pushes DAB, T-DMB Ahead of Olympics
11.04.2008 - China
WorldDMB lent its support to a publicity effort from Beijing Radio Corp. to kick-start the promotion of DAB technologies in China ahead of the 2008 Summer ...
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Planet Rock bounces back with Sony nods
11.04.2008 - United Kingdom
... in February as part of parent company GCap Media's withdrawal from digital audio broadcasting, or DAB radio, which it said was economically unviable. ...
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