| 9th January - Droplet Technology
began a 4-day showcase of the company's 3G personal mobile video services at CES
2008 (January 7-10, Meeting Room #70127, Sands Expo & Convention Center, Las
Vegas). Personal mobile video services provide real-time or non-real-time exchange
of user-generated or user-selected video, with at least one mobile handset involved. At
CES 2008, Droplet is showcasing video services running live on off-the-shelf commercial
handsets over multiple 3G wireless (AT&T HSDPA/UMTS and Verizon EV-DO) and
Wi-Fi networks, including: -- video capture, instant sharing, upload, and
messaging -- automated video editing, multimedia mash-ups, and streaming --
one-to-one video chat and multi-party video conferencing -- direct-to-subscriber
deployment via all-software handset client download -- browser-based video
player, eliminating transcoding and enhancing both device and network interoperability.
Droplet's patented breakthroughs in all-software video processing and video
communications eliminate the traditional hardware costs, complexities, and constraints
that limit today's video-enabled devices and services. This approach allows Droplet
to deliver personal mobile video services with higher-quality video capture and
playback, video editing and sharing, and video communications functionality, via
all-software client or browser applications, into a much wider range of lower-cost,
higher-volume handset platforms than is otherwise commercially feasible. These
same technology breakthroughs have also been incorporated into Droplet's video
server applications, significantly reducing the cost and complexity of the infrastructure
required to deploy video communications, business collaboration, entertainment,
and social networking applications over wireless networks and the Internet. According
to John Ralston, Droplet's President and CEO: "CES 2008 marks a milestone
in Droplet's commitment to provide converged and truly open personal mobile video
services that can work on any wireless network, and with any mobile device or
PC. Utilizing a single all-software video service platform, Droplet has unified
mobile video communications and user-generated video services that otherwise require
multiple disparate hardware and software platforms, and cannot be deployed without
extensive handset manufacturer and operator intervention. By demonstrating direct-to-subscriber
service deployment with off-the-shelf commercial handsets, multiple handset operating
systems, and multiple 3G operators, Droplet has delivered, to both users and service
providers, a far more powerful vision for 'open' mobile and Internet video services." About
Droplet Technology, Inc. Capitalizing on the rapidly expanding adoption
of video applications over the Internet and in mobile devices, Droplet provides
video services direct to mobile subscribers, as well as through customization
/ distribution partnerships with mobile operators, Internet portals, and device
/ service providers. Droplet's unique innovations in all-software video processing
leverage and enhance the evolution of the Internet as a software-enabled platform
for communications services, business collaboration, entertainment, and social
networking. Droplet is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with key outsourced
software engineering teams Back
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