The miRoamer Product Overview

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Transcript of The miRoamer Product Overview

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W E L C O M E T O T H E D I G I T A L M E D I A W O R L D O F M I R O A M E R

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What does miRoamer do?

1Aggregated ContentWe aggregate global content providers (even other aggregators).

2Secure ContentA strong focus on content copyright indemnity dictates which content providers we carry.

We also provide multiple levels of security to prevent rip-offs of products.

3Value added One Stop ShopWe apply high levels of intelligence and value add.

Our products (such a miRoamer Platinum) give you the power and flexibility to “own your listeners’ ears”.

4You deliver “own branded” content to your customersYou redeliver structured content to your customers. In the case of miRoamer Platinum, you can even re-brand the content creating your own customised media stream.*

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It is not about how much content you have… It is all about how and what you do with the content you deliver. Content needs to be customised to suit the needs of the OEM’s and distributors as well as their customers in different regions and markets. This is what miRoamer does.

miRoamer’s APImiRoamer’s flexible API has seen the technology be integrated into a host of internet enabled products such as

• Car radios

• Mobile phones

• Commercial spaces such as coffee shops, restaurant and hotel rooms

• Portable media players

• Home audio equipment

• Games consoles

• Televisions and set top tv boxes

• Chip sets

• Navigation devices

• Home audio products; and now

• Car radios

• The future will see miRoamer in cruise ships and aircraft.

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miRoamer is Internet Car Radio

Access Anywhere

What is happening to global media?

Content is going mobile.

The growth of wireless digital services such as WiFi, WiMAX, Edge, and 3 & 4G has made delivery of digital content effectively universal.

Traditional media delivery (including the Internet as we know it) is undergoing revolutionary change – change as great as the advent of the world wide web itself.

Now, no matter where you are or what you are doing, miRoamer provides safe and secure access to over 35,000 streaming radio stations.

World leader

miRoamer and Internet Car Radio

miRoamer and its partners have been testing Internet Car Radio in Europe since mid 2008 with significant technical success.

So much so, that miRoamer’s partners will be rolling out miRoamer enabled vehicles as early as 2010/11.

Our extensive experience in this specialised field means that miRoamer has become the world leader in Internet Car Radio technology – understanding the technical, content and marketing demands of radio manufacturers and car makers alike.

miRoamer believes (and it is an opinion shared by our partners) that internet radio, over time, will become a standard in-car radio feature.

Furthermore, the opportunity exists to couple the radio with satellite navigation devices to provide a single internet enabled media and navigation console in every car.

World’s first Internet Car Radio

In the opinion of the German industry association BITKOM, an important IT trend for 2009 is the increasing mobility of applications.

Blaupunkt’s developers recognized this trend early on and together with miRoamer, they are bringing the whole world of music the car – having presented the world’s first Internet Car Radios at CeBIT in 2009.

These “world-firsts” were awarded the “Editor’s Choice Award” by the American technology magazine, Popular Mechanics, at CES in Las Vegas as one of the best new products.

The miRoamer API enables a clear navigation menu, making selecting Web radio stations intuitive (without having to go to the trouble of entering URLs).

The mi-Roamer Web portal furthermore allows users to pre-configure additional settings such as music genre and favourite stations.

Internet Car Radio delivery Why miRoamer Car Radio

Key Features

• Brought to you by the world leader in the field

• Established products already being prepared for market

• High levels of customisation (control the nature and the branding of the content)

• User-specific data opens a world of advertising opportunity

• miRoamer interface and web portal both add value to your customers listening experience

• User profiles are globally available meaning that you can own their listening experience beyond the confines of their vehicles

• No need for firmware updates as miRoamer technology updates dynamically allowing all products to have the latest and newest content.

Advantages

• Product differentiation

• Innovation

• Global “early mover” opportunity

• Heightened brand awareness and improved brand positioning (greater brand and product loyalty)

• Marketing data – value added

1Value added aggregated contentContent is aggregated and customised to your specific needs. These can include custom selection of your own stations; language and even which devices receive what content based on user demographics and geographic location.

It is also branded to your requirements.

2Two way communicationData is distributed via WiFi, WiMAX, 3G and 4G networks (as appropriate to the respective location). The entire communication is bi-directional allowing us to gather user data, opening up a world of advertising and marketing opportunities.

3Media deliveryYour branded content is delivered to the vehicle, with a wide range of easy to understand user enhancements. For example, the user (and their families if desired) may customise their individual listening profiles on a web portal.

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Great quality off the shelf

Premier overview

It is not about how much content you have… It is all about how and what you do with the content you deliver. Content needs to be customised to suit your needs as well as your customers’ needs in different regions and markets.

This capability is what miRoamer Premier provides!

miRoamer’s digital media universe has over 35,000 stations and podcasts. miRoamer Premier gives you the flexibility to structure the content for your market as you see fit or allows your customers to arrange their own listening experience through our easy to use web portal.

So, if you opt for the miRoamer Premier Service, you will be giving your listeners a world of choice and a simple interface to manage it.

At the same time, you maintain high levels of control over the medium – from a content and advertising point of view.

Key Features

• Implement your own brand into the entire interface including the web portal.

• Select your own content (or choose the default of over 35,000 stations and podcasts)

• Recognises each user individually, opening up a world of customised advertising opportunities – both audio and visual.

• Add premium and paid content

• Take advantage of our E-commerce capabilities

• Give your customers a web portal to customise their listening experience (unlimited users can register)

• No need for firmware updates as miRoamer technology updates dynamically allowing all products to have the latest and newest content.

miRoamer Premier

1The power of the web portalListeners log in and create their own listening profile

2 Instantly and universally availableThis profile is then available on any miRoamer enabled device, enabling you to hold their attention wherever they might be

Custom tailored OEM and distributor solutions

miRoamer Platinum

Custom designed to unleash the full power of media ownership

miRoamer Platinum is designed to unleash the full power of media content control and put it in your hands.

Key features – total customisation

Unlike other content providers, and even unlike miRoamer Premier, Platinum provides you with a custom selection of our own streaming services.

This miRoamer service incorporates tens of thousands of songs arranged into a suite selected radio stations or music/news genres.

You may customise and rebrand this service as follows:

• Rebranded existing stations to carry your own identity and colours

• Rename each station (for example to reflect your brand values)

• Rearrange content into your own new station structure (for example combine Modern Rock and Classic Rock into a single station or dedicated news and sport into one stream)

• Include only the content or genres that appeal to your target audience.

• And more… miRoamer Platinum is made to measure. Ask us how we can customise our product just for you.

1Brand the splash pageYour branded still or video imagery launches the Internet radio

2Pre-Roll your own product adsPromote your own products as application launches

3Select and brand your own contentSelect which stations to broadcast. Name them according brand objectives

4Brand persistenceYour branded service remains on screen at all times

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miRoamer’s iPhone™ roadmap

The smartphone phenomenon

Apples iPhone™ – and in particular the app store – has led a revolution in the way we access media. Mobile now truly means mobile, and other smartphone manufacturers have moved to launch similar, competitive products and services.

miRoamer’s interface and content structure places it in an ideal position to take advantage of this exciting and developing media platform.

As a business to business provider, we are developing our iPhone application to a point where we can add it into the suite of products we offer to our partners and business customers.

In doing so, we have established a development roadmap with three increasing levels of sophistication.

All developments are native to the latest iPhone operating system, 3GS.

Version 1

Version 1.0 has been released internally as a demonstration of concept – to gather OEM and other partner feedback regarding the product.

The objective is that the user is able to:

• successfully find and play their stations easily and intuitively.

• store stations for future quick access.

• search for a station by name and display basic station information.

Version 2

Version 2.0 of the miRoamer iPhone aims to serve the content in a smart, customized and easy way to the end user.

The user is armed with more powerful search tools and the content will carry much richer information. An EPG will be introduced to give the users more options to get their desired content faster and more easily.

This version will be running on the enhanced miRoamer back end system, providing not only comprehensive media content information but also superior search capability.

Furthermore it provides content filtering capabilities for different device types.

The objective of version 2.0 is to provide quality, local and customized content with significantly smarter access to content.

Version 3

Version 3.0 aims to allow users to share, manage and purchase content that has been supplied to them in version 2.0.

The app will further enhance the content search capability and provide smarter browsing and content refining tools

It will also allow for sharing of content via social networking sites.

How our iPhone app will work for you

miRoamer will be providing iPhone application technology to all its partners.

There are a number of ways that you might take advantage of this capability.

1. Extend your brand

As an OEM or distributor, you will gain a captive audience as long as your listener is engaged with your device.

By extending your service through an iPhone App, you can extend your relationship with that consumer to wherever they may be.

Since our iPhone app takes advantage of the same miRoamer engine, your customers’ user profiles will be instantaneously available to them once they log on and the customised content they have created on your other devices will also be mirrored on the iPhone.

2. Build it into your iPhone app

Chances are, you either have considered building or are currently building an iPhone app to support your brand positioning or your sales/marketing strategy in some way.

As a miRoamer customer, we would be pleased to assist you to add additional functionality to your app through the implementation of our technology.

3. Enable your existing devices

A cost effective and rapid way of entering the internet radio market is to use the iPhone as an enabler of your existing devices – devices that may not have their own monitors or are not even internet enabled.

By connecting the iPhone to these products, miRoamer’s iPhone application will allow you to instantly transform these devices to internet enabled products with a fully featured interface.

The modifications required to enable iPhone connectivity are relatively modest. The resulting savings in time and resource and will help springboard your participation into the global internet radio market.

4. Dream it… we may be able to do it

A feature of the iPhone app store is the ingenuity of the myriad of app developers. If you have a plan that will be empowered by using our iPhone engine, please speak to us – we may well be able to assist.

5. Other smartphones

Our roadmap goes on beyond the iPhone. Future developments include the extension of our capability to other smartphones.

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Why miRoamer?

1. We aggregate other aggregators

2. Total customisation

Superior customisation through out two levels of service – Premium and Platinum.

Premium Service

• Implement your own brand into the entire interface including the web portal.

• Select your own content (or choose the default of over 35,000 stations and podcasts)

• Recognises each user individually, opening up a world of customised advertising opportunities – both audio and visual.

• Add premium and paid content

• Take advantage of our E-commerce capabilities

• Give your customers a web portal to customise their listening experience (unlimited users can register)

Platinum Service

Unleash the power of media content control an put it in your hands.

• Re-branded existing stations to carry your own identity and colours

• Rename each station (for example to reflect your brand values)

• Rearrange content into your own new station structure (for example combine Modern Rock and Classic Rock into a single station)

• Include only the content or genres that appeal to your target audience.

3. Superior content delivery

miRoamer’s internet radio content and delivery is unsurpassed in the industry.

Our EPG

Our services provide an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) so that end users can search by topic of interest, rather than having to depend on location and genre

Value added content

miRoamer’s platform supports a host of different services and content, not just internet radio

• Genre based content i.e. Artist based searching of music tracks

• Virtual storage of music.

• Local and global broadcast radio technology automatically identifies which content to provide based on the location of the device. Local first then global thereafter.

• A branded portal for end users to customize content

• There is no need for firmware updates as miRoamer technology dynamically updates all products to have the latest and newest content.

Our competitors

miRoamer

1 x Database

1 x many databases

Security & Stability

• LightTPD web server, which powers major sites

such as YouTube and Wikipedia

• Development done under Enterprise

Framework which provides comprehensive

control over data access, internationalization

and standardization

• MySQL database, which is used by major sites

such as Yahoo!, Google, YouTube and Adobe

• Unique authentication process for device

information protection

Scalability & Performance

• Distributed Servers across all continents

• Smart Server Load Balancing

Maintainability

• Proprietary iRobot technology ensures

reliability and quality of content and that there

are no “dead links”

Accessibility

• Smart content browsing mechanism

• Superior search capability

• Search with comprehensive meta data

parameters

• Smart search algorithm for best fit result

• Local content browsing

Content customisation

2 way filtering rules

• Each device can be restricted with what content to be accessed on the device

• Content can be restricted to one particular device only

For example

• A German car manufacturer will only play content that is from Germany, 64kbps Bitrate, mp3 codec, broadcasting language in German.

• miRoamer Premier Smooth Jazz will only be accessible by a single range of product/car within a manufacturer’s range. None of the other types in the product range will be able to access or search that station.

Example of the Flexibility of 2 way filteringFor illustrative purposes only. Depicts only a fraction of the capability

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Content Grouping customisation

Client defined menu grouping mechanism

• How content is grouped and displayed to the

end user can be customized by each client

individually.

• E.g. One OEM may want to have 4 root menu

items whilst another OEM may only want 3

root menu items.

Codec

• WMA

• MP3

• RealAudio

• ACC

• ACC+

Media Type Support

• Internet Radio Stations

• Podcasts

• Shows

• Supports IPTV and Pictures (Content under

development)

API Access

• Small footprint allows for ease of integration

• RESTful web service API for industry standard

data access

miRoamer Technical Specs

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