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Oregan Networks Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnHollywood 100
Top Private Company Award Winner.
Recognized for leadership in emerging technology
for digital entertainment and media
London, UK, 23 April,
2007– Oregan Networks,
a developer of embedded technology for consumer electronics, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media. Oregan was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria -- innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
Oregan Networks and the OnHollywood 100 will be honored at the OnHollywood digital entertainment and media event, May 1-3, 2007, at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California. OnHollywood delves into the challenges, opportunities and business models of the digital era, and showcases the most innovative private companies that are changing the way entertainment and media is created, distributed, consumed and monetized.
"OnHollywood is an important forum that presents and debates the critical issues surrounding the transformation of the entertainment economy to one based on digital technology," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn.
"Digital technology has transformed the way content is created and delivered to consumers everywhere. The OnHollywood Top 100 companies are an elite group of innovators who are using this technology to revolutionize the industry."
The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts.
The award marks the achievements of Oregan Networks as a pioneer of digital entertainment convergence, who has defined and enabled new ways for consumers to receive and interact with personal and commercial content, faithfully following the path of standardization and interoperability, and essentially contributing to consumer adoption of next-generation IP-connected home theatre devices.
A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site.
Milya Timergaleyeva, VP of Marketing at Oregan Networks said, "Oregan is proud to be selected by AlwaysOn as one of the world’s most ambitious and innovative technology companies. The OnHollywood awards and AlwaysOn network have proved a tremendous success in fostering creativity and collaboration of companies that shape the future of digital entertainment."
About OnHollywood 2007:
May 1-3 @ The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, California
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OnHollywood is where cutting edge technology from the backstreets of Silicon Valley converges with Hollywood's media and entertainment elite. The two-and-a-half day event borrows from the "film market" tradition by providing an open environment for digital media and entertainment entrepreneurs to meet the big-time studio, telco and consumer electronics executives, venture capitalists and media. At OnHollywood, our editors will also honor the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the OnHollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase."
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| About Oregan™ Networks Ltd. |
Oregan Networks (www.oregan.net) is a leading developer of advanced, highly integrated Internet media client solutions for consumer electronics and carrier grade IPTV appliances. With its innovative holistic approach to enabling network media access, Oregan has extended the notion of Internet browsing to include search,
playback and sharing of personal and commercial digital content from a variety of sources: inside and outside the home.
Over 3 million units of Oregan’s software have been licensed to leading global brands, including Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Philips Electronics and NTT.
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| About AlwaysOn |
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Stanford Summit, AlwaysOn Hollywood, AlwaysOn Media and GoingGreen) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.
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PR Contacts
Oregan Networks Ltd
Milya Timergaleyeva
Oregan Networks Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)20 8846 0993
Fax: +44 (0)20 8846 0999
press@oregan.net |
OnHollywood
Edelman
Renee Edelman
Ph: +1.212.704.8249
renee.edelman@edelman.com |
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