Emuzed, is now a part of
Aricent
Aricent was a global design and engineering services company. It was acquired by French-based company Altran in 2018 and renamed Altran North America in April 2019 and Altran Americas in early 2020. With Altran's acquisition by Capgemini, the s ...
, the communications software company, previously
Flextronics Software Systems spun off from Flextronics International in September 2006.
Emuzed developed and licensed advanced multimedia products and technologies for the embedded multimedia market, principally for
OEMs and
ODMs. The company headquarters were in
San Jose, California with
research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...
centers in
Bangalore and
Chennai,
India.
The company was founded in 1999 by Prabhat Jain and acquired by
Flextronics International Ltd. in 2005.
It had more than 260 employees worldwide. Flextronics bought the company in order to be a dominant supplier for the mobile industry and for better market penetration with Emuzed's technologies.
Emuzed provided a full suite of industry standards-based multimedia
software and services across a wide range of platforms and
operating systems. In addition to customer-ready applications, they also provided customization and
turnkey integration services. Its customers include mobile phone maker
Nokia, and
Panasonic. Emuzed has a reputation for high performance
codecs such as those embedded in
Symbian
Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system
A mobile operating system is an operating system for mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typic ...
smartphones.
References
External links
Emuzed web siteNo longer available (noted 9/4/2011)
Aricent web site
Defunct technology companies of the United States
Technology companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in the United States
Technology companies disestablished in 2006
2006 disestablishments in the United States
2006 mergers and acquisitions
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