[M4IF News] MPEG special in EE Times

[Rob Koenen]

MPEG-4 watchers,
This week's EE Times has a special issue on MPEG technology.
Most of it focuses on MPEG-4, but there is also interesting material
on MPEG-7 and even a bit on MPEG-21, including how the standards
relate to each other.
Visit http://www.m4if.org and look under "MPEG-4 in the News"
Things are heating up around MPEG-4. Yesterday alone, the following 
news items were released:
* Vweb Introduces Industry's First MPEG Network CODEC Chip 
* Sigma Designs Provides First Full Resolution MPEG-4 Decoder; 
  New EM8470 Chips ... 
* NEC To Offer PacketVideo's Industry-Leading Wireless 
  Streaming Products to Japan ... 
* Alchemy Semiconductor Demonstrates MPEG-4 Streaming With Media 
  Excel Software 
* Pace Introduces IPTV Digital Home Gateway for Telecom and 
  Broadband IP Networks 
* Hutchison Telecom Acquires Luxxon's Mediator Streaming System 
  to Deliver Rich Media ... 
* iVAST And Sigma Designs Form Partnership to Offer a Set-Top 
  Box Based On MPEG-4 
* DivXNetworks and Broadway Television Network Launch 
  Video-on-Demand Service 
Announced today - will be listed on m4if home page shortly:
* KDDI to offer GPS navigation service, deliver MPEG-4 video to cell
  Phones in December 
For all of these, go to http://www.m4if.org and look under
"Press Releases"
Also, in the Hot News Section of http://www.m4if.org under 
  "MPEG-4 and IPMP session of the 143rd SMPTE Technical 
   Conference and Exhibition [SMPTE, 6 Nov 01]"
we are collecting the slides from last week's tutorial session.
Best,
Rob Koenen