PacketVideo

PacketVideo Corporation
Type	Privately Held
Founded	San Diego, California, USA
Headquarters	San Diego, California, United States
Key people	Mark Tapling, CEO and Team ;
Website	http://www.pv.com

PacketVideo Corporation or PV is a San Diego-based company that produces software for wireless multimedia, including the display of video on mobile handsets.

History

PV was founded in San Diego, California on 10 August 1998 by James C. Brailean, Cheuk Chan, Osama Al-shaykh, Gene Wen and Mark R Banham. In 2003 PacketVideo sold its infrastructure division to Alcatel. In 2005, PacketVideo was acquired in NextWave Wireless. In 2010, PacketVideo became a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT DoCoMo.

Products

PV's customers include mobile operators such as Verizon Wireless, NTT DoCoMo and Orange, handset manufacturers, and consumer electronics companies. PV's software is embedded in more than 249 million devices worldwide and more than 248 different products.

Major product groups from PV are:

CORE, which provides a universal structure for mobile multimedia applications. CORE is an established framework that can support any media services.
MediaFusion, a white-label client-server software application to develop and launch on-device portals for rich media services.
TwonkyMedia suite of products that connect home entertainment devices.

Locations

PacketVideo has presence in three continents, with its headquarters in San Diego. Major development centers are in San Diego, Chicago, Chandigarh, Charlotte, Tokyo, Tampere, Berlin, Boston, and Basel. Sales and customer support centers are in San Diego, Chicago, Charlotte, Tokyo, Tampere, Nice, and Basel.

Affiliations

PacketVideo is a member of industry forum and consortiums, including the Open Handset Alliance, 3rd Generation Partnership Project, Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum, FLO Forum, International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium, Mobile DTV Alliance, MPEG Industry Forum, Open Mobile Alliance, and the Digital Living Network Alliance

External links

PacketVideo Corporation

Open Handset Alliance

Mobile operators	Bouygues Telecom China Mobile China Telecom China Unicom KDDI Nepal Telecom NTT DoCoMo SoftBank Mobile Sprint Corporation T-Mobile Telecom Italia Telefónica Telus Vodafone

Software companies	Access Ascender Corporation eBay Google Myriad Group Nuance Communications NXP Software Omron PacketVideo SVOX VisualOn

Semiconductor companies	AKM Semiconductor, Inc. ARM Holdings Audience Broadcom CSR plc (joined as SiRF) Cypress Semiconductor Freescale Semiconductor Gemalto Intel Marvell Technology Group MediaTek MIPS Technologies Nvidia Qualcomm Qualcomm Atheros Renesas Electronics ST-Ericsson (joined as Ericsson Mobile Platforms) Synaptics Texas Instruments

Handset makers	Acer Inc. Alcatel Mobile Phones Asus Chaudhary Group(association of LG) CCI Dell Foxconn Garmin HTC Huawei Kyocera Lenovo Mobile LG Electronics Motorola Mobility NEC Corporation Samsung Electronics Sharp Corporation Sony Mobile Communications Toshiba ZTE

Commercialization companies	Accenture Borqs Sasken Communication Technologies Teleca The Astonishing Tribe Wind River Systems Wipro Technologies

See also	Android Dalvik virtual machine Google Nexus T-Mobile G1

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