TAO GROUP

'Tao Group' is a software company headquartered in Reading, Berkshire, UK. Branch offices of Tao Group are located in Japan and USA with resellers in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It has developed intent, a software platform licensed to its clients to run console-quality interactive games, music and other advanced entertainment services on mobile and other digital devices. intent enables content portability, resolving fundamental industry fragmentation problems by delivering services in a platform independent format called Virtual Processor (VP) and executing at native speed on feature phones and smart phones of different architectures. Tao has protected its product line with a patent portfolio.

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History

Products

Company Awards

References

External links

History

★ In 1990 a small group of people joined forces with Chris Hinsley to develop an operating system. These included Andy Henson who developed the core VP translator technology.

★ Tao Group was set up by Francis Charig, Chris Hinsley, Andy Henson and Andy Stout in 1992.

★ In 1992, Tao Group released the first generation of its virtual machine called Virtual Processor (VP).

★ In 1998, Tao Group released the second generation of its virtual machine called VP2.

★ Since early 2004 Tao has licensed more than 20 million copies of intent and its players to blue-chip companies world-wide.

★ The company was placed into administration on 31 May 2007.

★ Support for Tao products is now performed by Tao Support Ltd in conjunction with Replevix and Cross Atlantic Capital Partners.

Products

★ intentPlayers (GamePlayer, MusicPlayer and JavaPlayer).

★ Products incorporating its players include mobile phones, televisions, set top boxes, cameras and home servers.

★ Licensees include Sony, NEC, Panasonic, Philips, JVC, HTC.

Company Awards

★ World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers (2006)

★ BAFTA winners (2001/2005)

★ Red Herring Europe 100 (2005/2006)

★ Deloitte Fast 50

★ Computing Innovation Gold Award for Excellence.

References

External links

★ Tao Group website

★ Tao Group throws in the towel

★ Tao Support Ltd website