(BSNS WIRE) e.Digital's Portable Internet Music Player Design to Support
e.Digital's Portable Internet Music Player Design to Support Secure Digital
--SD-- Memory Card
Business Editors
CES 2000
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2000--
Company Joins New Secure Digital (SD) Association
Formed by Matsushita, Toshiba, and SanDisk
e.Digital Corp. (OTCBB:EDIG) announced today that its portable
Internet music player design will be one of the first to feature
compatibility with the new, Secure Digital (SD) Memory Card announced
in August 1999 by SanDisk, Toshiba, and Matsushita, best known by its
Panasonic brand name.
e.Digital is also an inaugural member of the newly-formed SD
Association announced during a Matsushita/Toshiba/SanDisk press
conference yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2000.
Fred Falk, president and chief executive officer of e.Digital,
said, "We are happy to be part of the newly-formed SD Association, as
one of its stated goals is to provide improved protection for
copyrighted content, including but not limited to music files. The SD
Memory Card is another valuable tool we can use in our endeavors to
offer our OEM customers designs that will support SDMI standards for
secure Internet music." He added, "For years we have built
compatibility into our designs for SanDisk memory products, which have
become the de facto standard for portable devices."
Nelson Chan, senior vice president of marketing for SanDisk
added, "We are very proud of the SD Memory Card, especially its
security features which are becoming more and more important to our
customers. Digital security is being pursued on many levels, and the
SD Memory Card is there to support these efforts in portable devices
of all kinds." He continued, "We are pleased to have e.Digital join
the SD Association as an inaugural member, as they are one of the
first to incorporate compatibility for SD Memory into a portable
product design."
e.Digital's portable multi-codec Internet music player design is
available for licensing by consumer electronics manufacturers and
other OEM partners. The flexible design can be adapted to customer
specifications and includes support for multiple music codecs,
removable memory, and security features. The design is SDMI
compatible.
About Secure Digital (SD) Memory Card(TM)
The flash-memory based removable storage card provides a compact,
reliable and easy-to-use medium to store high volumes of audio,
visual, and other data for digital music players, cameras, personal
digital assistants (PDAs), video cameras, cellular phones, GPS systems
and other digital consumer electronics products. Its strong copyright
protection capability meets the requirements of artists and content
owners and offers greater data security for users.
About e.Digital
e.Digital Corp. offers an engineering partnership for the
world's leading electronics companies to link portable digital devices
to PCs and the Internet. Engineering services range from the licensing
of e.Digital's patented MicroOS(TM) file management system to custom
software and hardware development, design and manufacturing services.
For more information on the company, visit www.edig.com.
Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995: This press release contains forward-looking
statements relating to future performance, technology and product
development that may impact on future results and the future viability
of the company. Actual results could be affected or differ materially
from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of
risk factors such as: future products and results; technological
shifts; potential technical difficulties that could delay new
products; competition; general economic conditions in the markets in
which the company operates; the ability of the company, its customers,
and suppliers to become Year 2000 compliant; pricing pressures; and
the uncertainty of market acceptance of new products by OEM's and
end-user customers.
Note to Editors: e.Digital and MicroOS are trademarks of
e.Digital Corp. SanDisk, SD Memory Card, CompactFlash and
MultimediaCard are trademarks or registered trademarks of SanDisk
Corp. All other product, company, or service names are the property of
their respective owners.
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CONTACT: e.Digital Corp.
Robert Putnam or Wendy Ravenel, 858/679-1504
robert@edig.com or wendy@edig.com
or
The MWW Group (for e.Digital)
Matt Messinger, 201/964-2377
mmessing@mww.com
or
SanDisk
Bob Goligoski, 408/542-0463
bgoligoski@sandisk.com
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