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Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Tao Group | Subject: Intent
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 May 2003
Multimedia platform powers digital
recorder
Tao Group's Intent multimedia platform is being used in Sony's new NDR-XR1 network digital recorder.
Tao Group's Intent multimedia platform is being used in Sony's new NDR-XR1 network digital recorder The NDR-XR1 is a new product in Sony's newly branded "CoCoon" product group which is targeted at home network use to provide new audio-visual entertainment experience in Japan
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Intent delivers incredibly fast Java functionality to the NDR-XR1 and enables a rich, graphical user interface (GUI).
Intent now powers a variety of products such as a digital video camera from JVC, Kyocera's next generation PDA PocketCosmo and Philips' iPronto remote controller.
Intent allows consumer electronics manufactures to develop an integrated GUI image with a single look and feel across entire device portfolios in the embedded products market.
Because intent is independent of operating system, hardware and programming language, it allows manufacturers the freedom to choose different building blocks for each device whilst maintaining cross-device functionality, single look-and-feel and single GUI image Tao's range of Java products have been designed from their inception to combine the Java language with Tao's multimedia platform to run real-world content many times faster than any alternative.
Intent is also the ratified core technology in the Open Contents Platform Association (OCPA), launched in Japan during October 2001.
Francis Charig, Chairman and Chief Executive of Tao commented: "Sony is correctly perceived across our industry and among the consumers themselves to be a 'blue ribbon' brand and we are excited to see our innovative technologies powering Sony's prestigious new product".
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