Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (NPDT.OB)

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Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. offers a rich portfolio of competencies in RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification), WiMAX, eLearning, LED Signage, and Security & Surveillance. Utilizing its technological expertise and creativity, the company enables its customers to take full advantage of the nearly limitless possibilities offered by increasingly sophisticated applications.

Newport is committed to meeting specific customer requirements by delivering complete solutions for a broad spectrum of applications. The company is building a global distribution, licensing, and sales network of industry-leading partners as well as third-party Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) and component suppliers to ensure its clients world-leading technology with strong local support capabilities.

The company has established a synergistic partnership with Taiwan’s premier technology incubators, the Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), under which the company develops and customizes their advanced technologies to meet the needs of businesses across the globe. Having a pool of more than 7,900 engineers and scientists, these R&D powerhouses have developed cutting edge capabilities in fields such as Information Communications Technology (ICT), electronics, and nanotechnology.

Newport’s management team has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience within the technology industry as well as the corporate world. Maintaining a strong track record of delivering results to investors and customers, the team retains over two centuries of combined experience. Leveraging each team member’s area of expertise, Newport has established a solid foundation to penetrate emerging technology markets.

[protostars]

They've somehow managed to hit all the hot tech areas:

- RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification)
- WiMAX, eLearning
- LED Signage
- Security & Surveillance."

[rose]

So these guy's are distributors?

[protostars]

In a sense. They offer solutions, implementations of advanced technologies developed in the incubators.

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Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (NPDT.OB) Becomes Official Sponsor of University of Arkansas RFID Research Center

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. announced this morning that it is a Lab Sponsor to the University of Arkansas RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) Research Center at the Sam M. Walton College of Business.

“We are pleased to officially become a sponsor of the University of Arkansas RFID Research Center,” stated NPDT CEO Gary DeMel. “Our Company has made a commitment to bringing leading edge RFID solutions to market and we are excited to be a part of the leading RFID research center in the world. As we previously announced, Newport Digital has opened up a sales and research and development office in Bentonville, with proximity to Wal-Mart, and we are dedicated to developing strong ties to the University’s research center.”

“In the future RFID will provide numerous societal benefits including ensuring that your medical history pops up at the nursing desk as you are checked into a hospital. Also, a shopper will know exactly the total cost of everything in her shopping cart as she shops,” Mr. DeMel added. “We are confident that the bar code will be replaced by RFID.”

“The University of Arkansas RFID Research Center is committed to creating and extending knowledge in RFID utilization and to be an internationally recognized leader in RFID application research,” commented NPDT CTO and COO Weiling Tsao. “Back in 2003, Wal-Mart asked its top 100 suppliers to begin tagging products at the pallet and case level by January 2005. This program initiated an entire industry centered on production and application of RFID technology. The University and many industry-leading companies, now including NPDT, have joined forces to support a multidisciplinary, neutral, third-party research and testing facility, the RFID Research Center, a sub-unit of the Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at the University’s Sam M. Walton College of Business.”

Justin Patton, Managing Director of the RFID Research Center at the Sam Walton College of Business, said, “We welcome Newport Digital Technologies as a new Lab Sponsor to the University of Arkansas RFID Research Center. They join a long list of Auto-ID technology vendors that have joined the lab with the goal of collaboration to help drive market adoption of RFID and EPC technology.”

NPDT also told investors that it is participating in the VICS Conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas to introduce its total RFID Solutions. With plans to demonstrate its capabilities as a full RFID solution provider, the company will exhibit RFID tag programmers, kiosks, mobile computing readers, and tags.

Matthew Jones, Lab Manager, stated, “I am very excited to work with the University of Arkansas Lab through this sponsorship. The University of Arkansas RFID Lab has given me the foundation that I carry into NPDT. I look forward to assisting them in creating and extending knowledge in RFID utilization and its impacts on business and society. I will work with them to make NPDT the most advanced provider of RFID solutions. Our total solutions will provide any company with the most innovative, price competitive, and customer specific integration of RFID equipment and software in today’s market.”

[rose]

A nice addition in an area where opportunity is boundless

[protostars]

Wonder exactly what the relationship is. I have a hunch it is not like the one they have with those two Taiwan incubators.
But, if you want to be known in the RFID world, you have to be known to Wal Mart.

[mwest]

Walmart is the best in this

[rose]

Call me silly but how does WalMart figure in?

[protostars]

Walmart is like California. It's so big that, if they decide to get into something, it's a done deal.

Walmart has decided to embrace and push RFID, and that means bye-bye UPC bar coding.

[mwest]

I agree the fact that Walmart is able to weather this storm and still be a force to reckon with says a lot and you are prevelidge if choose to be associated with you

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Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (NPDT.OB) – The New Age of Partnerships

The driving philosophy of corporate America used to be based on the principle of in-house development. If it wasn’t made in-house, companies simply weren’t interested. Companies wanted things over which they had full control, and from which they could enjoy 100% of the profits. Total independence. Total control. If a good idea came along that wasn’t developed in-house, the temptation was to find some way to tweak it and claim that it was developed in-house.

All of this led to some pretty nasty lawsuits. One of the best known cases, popularized in the movie Flash Of Genius, was that of Robert Kearns. Kearns was a Detroit engineer who developed the electronic intermittent windshield wiper for automobiles, getting his first patent for it in 1967. When he failed to get the major automakers to buy his idea and then saw them come out with their own shortly thereafter, he sued. After more than 10 years of legal battling, and millions in associated fees, Kearns finally received a total of $40 million from Ford and Chrysler.

Today, of course, companies still spend vast amounts of money on in-house research and development, and employ teams of attorneys to defend their claims. But now there is a huge difference in the way companies view the outside world and outside ideas. And the difference can be expressed in one word: partnerships. Never before has the idea of partnership carried such weight. Never before have companies been more willing to work together to generate profits. In doing so, they are discovering that there is a real synergy; that companies together can be far more than the sum of their parts. We’re not talking about mergers, although the same principle can sometimes apply, but rather about very specific working agreements. It may or may not involve creating a formal separate operating entity, and could be as simple as a one-time project.

In the case of marketing, it’s often just the sharing of customers through limited joint ventures or strategic alliances. For example, companies have found that one of the fastest ways to grow is to tap into someone else’s customer database, splitting the resulting profits. The company with the database gets to make money on a product or service that they themselves don’t have, while the company with the product makes money selling to customers that they don’t have. The idea has exploded for Internet based companies, but is now seen in almost every industry.

Technological partnerships are also increasingly common, not only between companies, but between institutions and companies. On the high end, giants like General Electric (NYSE:GE) are actively seeking technological partnerships, both in and out of the U.S. It’s easy to forget that it was only in 2007 that GE took its first serious steps at developing technological partnerships with companies in Japan. Compare that with the joint venture between Fuji (Nasdaq: FUJI) and Xerox (NYSE: XRX), a partnership that has been around since 1962. On the opposite end of the scale, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories (OTCBB: KBLB), a small biotechnology company specializing in creative new ways to produce technical fibers, has managed to significantly leverage its own efforts through cooperative partnerships with select university laboratories.

Today there are thousands of partnership arrangements, involving every conceivable form of sharing. One of the purest examples of a technological/marketing partnership is Newport Digital Technologies (OTCBB: NPDT). Based in Newport Beach, California, NDT has worked out an exclusive partnership with Taiwan’s premier technology incubators, the Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). By taking on the role of a link between these two R&D powerhouses and a worldwide network of technology hungry customers, NDT has given itself an immediate and major technological edge, without having to go through the impossible task of developing everything in-house. As a result, NDT now has a rich portfolio of RFID, WiMAX, eLearning, LED Signage, and Security & Surveillance technologies it can offer its customers. NDT co-owns all the intellectual property rights and has exclusive worldwide distribution rights. At the same time, the two incubator institutions gain access to customers around the world.

In short, companies have discovered that there is more (and easier) money to be made by bringing together and sharing existing resources and ideas, rather than by locking them up just to maintain total independence and total control. It represents a permanent shift in the way companies do business, a new age of partnerships.

[protostars]

NDT is a perfect example of how to leverage your efforts by identifying a single critical role you can play to bring together already existing assets.

[mrsfelix06]

Interesting Wal-Mart analogy, a full service company can really be similar to a major corporation.

[rose]

I hope it is protected well

[mwest]

Choosing to share instead of keep all the ideas to yourself to many that is a foreign concept

[mrsfelix06]

So are the partnerships with Tiwan soild, or still in the works

[rose]

Still working on understanding the product but if WM is interested there must be an opportunity. They say one can sell 10,000 of anything

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Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (NPDT.OB) to Implement Microsoft Licensing Agreement; Signs Distribution Agreement with Ingram Micro

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc., a technology solutions driven company organized to focus on serving the fastest-emerging businesses in the technology space, announced today after the closing bell that it has implemented the licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. to develop applications for its Windows Mobile platform. The Company has also progressed with their distribution agreement previously announced with Ingram Micro, Inc. (NYSE: IM), which will serve as its initial primary sales channel partner.

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (NPDT), in conjunction with leading Taiwan-based R&D technology incubators, the Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), is commercializing a number of leading-edge Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. The first product is the N37B Ruggedized Handheld RFID reader and computing device that was unveiled this week at the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association (VICS) conference hosted by the University of Arkansas RFID Research Center. NPDT is a named sponsor of this research center at the Sam Walton College of Business.

The N37B will offer two more complementary integrated options that include 3G connection module and location and navigation-based GPS. The 3G option will enable the handheld to have data connectivity anywhere a cellular connection is available, making for a “connect anywhere” scenario for RFID business applications. The GPS option will allow for the N37B to not only collect RFID data from item level inventory but to pinpoint and report the location of the inventory scanned by the RFID reader. This greatly enhances and expands the applications that can be offered from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).

“We are thrilled to be approaching final certification of this RFID reader for use on a major telecom’s wireless network,” stated NPDT CEO Gary DeMel. “We are also excited by the response of the RFID industry at the VICS conference to the total RFID solution NPDT demonstrated at the VICS conference. The N37B, which will run on Microsoft’s Mobile Computing Platform, has wide application in RFID market. NPDT will offer this device along with a comprehensive line of mobile computing products and solutions targeting RFID field applications for asset tracking, inventory management and point-of-sale for various B2B markets.”

NPDT’s planned RFID product suite includes: Electronic Product Code (EPC) Global certification laboratories, ruggedized, military/commercial-grade RFID enabled, mobile handheld tablet computers, RFID forklifts, POS kiosks, POS Checkout, EAS readers, USB readers and RFID tags. Utilizing the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system, NPDT will further extend the features and capabilities of its products.

“Newport Digital Technologies has developed truly innovative RFID technologies and we are thrilled to work with them to bring these technologies and applications to the Windows Mobile platform,” commented Daren Mancini, General Manager in the Windows Mobile Sales division at Microsoft.

“We are very excited to work with Microsoft’s technology and business teams to develop the next generation of RFID computing devices by utilizing Windows Mobile with customized application suites,” said Gary DeMel, CEO. “Microsoft, which provides software and hardware products and solutions worldwide, is one of the world’s premier companies and we are looking forward to partnering with them through a successful licensing agreement. This agreement may prove to be the springboard that launches Newport Digital into becoming a recognized name in the wireless space. We are proud to be a company with technology that Microsoft believes in.”

“At the VICS Conference NPDT was presented as sponsor alongside Motorola, Impinj, Avery Dennison, and ADT; all leaders in the RFID industry today,” added NPDT CTO and COO Weiling Tsao. “The NPDT demonstration booth, in our opinion, was by far the most elaborate, and the only one having live RFID demos. NPDT is not interested in just selling a single device or product; our focus is to deliver a total end-to-end RFID solution. Using the Microsoft Operating System enables us to accommodate almost nearly all of our potential customer base. We look forward to providing more guidance to our shareholders and clients as we further develop our RFID solutions.”

[mwest]

to be able to connect anywhere is reason enough to sign up for this one