It's past Midnight here in Chicago, so I can officially extend a "Happy e.Digital Birthday" greeting to all of you on the anniversary of the renaming of Norris Communications.
I went back through the posts and appropriately, here was one from Betty on that first day:
I just got home from the Annual Meeting. All of the shareholder proposals passed, and the company is now e.Digital Corporation. They are trying to get the symbol "edig" for NASDAQ, and we'll be informed in a few days. The website address will probably be
www.edig.com.
No real surprises at the meeting. About 80-100 people attended. The use of LU's compression of 15:1 (called PAC vs. MP3 which is used by others) was discussed, and we were told that some companies which have used MP3 are now saying that PAC is better. LU's technology produces real CD-quality sound - not near CD quality. Also, the final version of the player that e.Digital is working on with Lucent will play through the FM radio in your car -- with no wires. A small company in Baton Rogue, LA called Celestial Technology, is providing software for computers that will link the music player to the computer and allow you to manage your music library on your computer. You'll be able to take downloaded music and select individual tracks that are then put on a flash memory card (using Micro OS from e.Digital) in any order that you want them played. We saw a short demo of the software, which seems pretty neat.
I'll have to listen to my tape and go through my notes for more later.
We all got nice coffee mugs with e.Digital printed on the side. (The "e" stands for "embedded systems" we were told.)
Betty
Betty was just one of a number of great information sources following Norris Communications on Silicon Investor. Savant, Jim Claspill, bob, Burt, Kerry Sakolsky, Dave Swanson and, yes, Walter Morton, among many others, all provided tremendous research and analysis of the company's prospects to this cheapskate former lurker of SI.
All of you continue to serve your fellow investors with your hard work and interest. It has been my pleasure to meet most of you in the past year, either in person at the November shareholder meeting, or through our Private Messages here.
I am in debt to all of you and extend my personal thank you and congratulations to all of you!
JimC |
