Multimedia

Broadcom to Demonstrate HSUPA on Breakthrough '3G Phone-on-a-Chip' Processor, New GPS Product Offering and Its Technology Leadership Portfolio Including Mobile Multimedia, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Mobile TV, RF and Power Management

IRVINE, Calif., Feb 05, 2008 -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, will demonstrate its innovative and leading portfolio of complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for mobile devices at the 2008 Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, from February 11th through February 14th.

Verizon Wireless Customers To Have Access To Engaging Always-on Channels

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has named Verizon Wireless its exclusive wireless carrier launch partner in North America for delivering all new Adobe mobile applications.

Additionally, Adobe announced that Verizon Wireless will be the first wireless operator in North America to bring Adobe® FlashCast® based data services to mobile subscribers, in the second half of 2007.

Adobe FlashCast technology enables personalized, intuitive data services through a new generation of Adobe Flash® Player compatible mobile applications called channels. Users will be able to easily discover and enjoy up-to-the-minute, always-on channels with a breadth of information, including sports, weather, news, entertainment, music and more. Rich content is packaged in an engaging way, with an easily navigable and branded user interface that is designed to differentiate and drive customer loyalty.

CSR says it has boosted its multimedia Bluetooth technology with the addition of QSound Labs’ QXpander technology. QSound offers a powerful suite of audio enhancements for digital playback that provides a richer, more natural and immersive enhanced audio for CSR’s BlueCore3 and BlueCore5-Multimedia systems. Music transmitted over Bluetooth via CSR’s BlueCore technology now benefits from spatial stereo expansion through QSound’s QXpander audio algorithms. QSound will be demonstrating its technology on CSR’s BlueCore Multimedia systems this week at exhibition Stand 463-A at the CTIA Wireless 2007, in Orlando, Florida.

QXpander technology uses purpose-specific algorithms for maximum spatial impact on headphones and speakers. The three-dimensional spatial processing adds new depth to music playback by expanding the soundstage beyond the physical limitations of speaker locations; this expands the acoustic image outside of the user’s head when using headphones. The sophisticated enhancement algorithms are particularly effective on highly compressed audio content such as MP3 and SBC.