Audio Watermarking

Hamburg, February 12, 2007 – CoreMedia, the global provider of software solutions for convergent content business, today announced that its leading interoperable DRM platform now supports embedded Watermarking for mobile Music.

CoreMedia supports the leading Watermarking technology by MusicTrace, a successful Fraunhofer Institute spin-off. With embedded Watermarking it is possible to transmit audio files like MP3s with additional un-removable and imperceptible information, e.g. a transaction number – wireless or fixed line.

With this addition, CoreMedia offers a smart, open and unbeaten interoperable technology for secure end-to-end content distribution. CoreMedia now complements DRM technology for OMA 1.0 and 2.0, Windows Media DRM with MusicTrace Watermarking. Watermarking for other formats will be supported as well.

“With the support of MusicTrace’s Watermarking CoreMedia emphasizes its leading position for interoperable, people-centric content technology”, said Willms Buhse, Executive Director CoreMedia. “For us it is important to deliver an open technology and to enable our customers to create new business models”.

MusicTrace GmbH was founded in August 2004 as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen. The core team of MusicTrace started the development of Audio Watermarking Algorithms at Fraunhofer IIS and continued their work on improving the technology and creating market-ready solutions since MusicTrace was founded. From the very beginning, MusicTrace has been preferred partner of Fraunhofer IIS for licensing the Watermarking technology. (www.musictrace.de)

CoreMedia pioneers the mobile world with new solutions that enables mobile content business by deploying powerful 3G services. The company is working with the leading players in the telecommunications market for global interoperability to enable new business models in the mobile world, amongst them Deutsche Telekom, debitel, Motorola, Musicload, Nokia, O2, Panasonic, QUALCOMM, Soft Bank, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile, T-Online, ViVo and Vodafone.

Visit CoreMedia at the 3GSM 2007 at booth 7C47 in hall 7 in Barcelona - Fraunhofer-Institut in Hall 2, booth 2A1226.