``but do EDIG`s patents reach beyond that application? Cameras, cell phones, PDAs, digital voice recorders ???``...

The ANSWER is YES...

All you have to do look at the pictures from the CES-2000, when EDIG shared the space with SAMSUNG in DATA PLAY PAVILLION...

They had Samsung Camera`s, Phones, PDA`a, you name it; all

signalling the coming of the digital data transmission age and convergence...

So, who is the biggest manufacturer of phones, cameras, PDA`s now? SAMSUNG you say!?...

Creative also had a booth in the CES 2000 Convention. They were the WANNA BE`S of the PDAS. For the next 2 years they spent 100 million on trying to corner the market on MP3s.

They survived it by taking a 100 million right off in 2003, or 2004...

When it comes to ``Monetizing IP``, they are not in the same LEAGUE as EDIG...

Blow the Lid indeed...If they can get something from I-pod because of the similarity in the name ``Nano``, TPL can easily convince Apple to part with part of Billions jobS made in resuscitating Apple via I-pod...

Good luck to us all...

Gil...