Berlin Sponsor, ZiLOG provides innovative, embedded control solutions.

Parks Associates is proud to announce ZiLOG as a 2008 CONNECTIONS Europe Berlin sponsor.

Founded in 1974 by Federico Faggin, the inventor of the world's first microprocessor, ZiLOG builds semiconductor products that enable design engineers to break through the barriers to creativity and innovation in embedded design. ZiLOG is the inventor of the award-winning Z80 and Z8 microchip architectures that have been embedded in over a billion end-use devices worldwide. Companies get more innovative products to market faster because ZiLOG products and design tools help them turn their imagination into consumer appliances, remote controls, vending machines, telecommunications controllers, home automation systems, spacecraft instrumentation, industrial automation systems, and thousands of other products.

Within the five broad product segments of the semiconductor market, which includes micro-logic, other logic, memory, analog and discrete devices, ZiLOG 's products are focused primarily in the micro-logic device segment. Micro-logic devices are processor-based semiconductors that include microprocessors, microcontrollers and digital signal processors that process information, output data or control signals according to programmed instructions and various external inputs.

ZiLOG designs, manufactures and markets both general-purpose and application specific standard products (ASSPs). ASSPs are tailored for a specific application but are not proprietary to a single customer, while general-purpose products are neither application nor customer specific. Most of our products focus today on micro-logic devices used in embedded control, primarily 8--bit microcontrollers. In turn, 8-bit microcontrollers are embedded into literally hundreds of different end-use applications.

ZiLOG will also be participating on the Digital Home Customer Support: Enhancing the Experience panel on August 29th at 3:30 PM.

Parks Associates at ShowStoppers

Parks Associates Vice President of Research, Kurt Scherf attended the ShowStoppers press reception on Wednesday, August 27th in Berlin, Germany.

Read Kurt's comments here.

Macrovision speaks at CONNECTIONS Berlin

Macrovision's Chief Evangelist, Richard Bullwinkle, will speak at the CONNECTIONS Europe Summit in Berlin on this Friday, August 29. Mr. Bullwinkle will participate on the Evolution of Video Devices panel scheduled to begin at 13:00 (1:00 PM) Central Europe Time.

Macrovision is focused on providing a brilliantly simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision’s technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision’s solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, acquiring, managing and enjoying digital content.

Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, metadata on music, games, movies and television programming, media recognition, interactive programming guides, and copy protection. The company also operates entertainment portals including http://www.tvguide.com/ and http://www.allmusic.com .

Macrovision is also an Advisory Sponsor of CONNECTIONS Europe 2008.

F-Secure, Berlin Sponsor

Parks Associates is proud to announce F-Secure as an Advisory Sponsor for CONNECTIONS Europe 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. F-Secure’s award-winning solutions are available as a service subscription through more than 160 Internet service providers and mobile operator partners around the world, making F-Secure the global leader in this market. The solutions are also available as licensed products through thousands of resellers globally. The company aspires to be the most reliable security provider, helping to make computer and smartphone users’ connected lives safe and easy. This is substantiated by the company’s independently proven ability to respond faster to new threats than its main competitors.

Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Finland, F-Secure has been listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki since 1999. The company has consistently been one of the fastest growing publicly listed companies in the industry. The latest news on real-time virus threat scenarios is available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/.

Cord Stukenberg, Director, Service Provider Solutions of F-Secure will be speaking on the Customer Support panel on Friday, August 29 at 3:30 PM.

support.com Sponsors Berlin's CONNECTIONS Europe Summit

Parks Associates proudly welcomes support.com as a 2008 Advisory Sponsor for CONNECTIONS Europe in Berlin, Germany.

support.com provides Instant Technology Relief(r) to consumers and small businesses by resolving their PC-related problems quickly and easily. support.com also powers premium support offerings for partners such as eircom and Office Depot, using an integrated remote service delivery system to ensure a world-class customer experience.

The company behind support.com is SupportSoft, a leading provider of software and services that make technology work by allowing both users and analysts to detect, diagnose and correct problems at home, in the office and anywhere in between.

Anthony Rodio, Chief Operating Officer, support.com will be speaking on the Digital Lifestyles Customer Support: Enhancing the Experience panel on August 29 at 3:30 PM. In addition, Anthony will be participating in the Retailers and Tech Support for the Digital Home session. This is a special Q & A Session regarding how tech support companies are applying lessons learned in the U.S. retail space to selling and servicing the digital home in Europe.

For more information about the company, visit http://www.supportsoft.com/.