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Company Overview
Faith West Inc. Faith West Inc. was founded in May, 2002, the US-based subsidiary of Faith, Inc. ? the Japanese company that pioneered the technology behind polyphonic ringtones through its relationships with such wireless carriers as NTT DoCoMo and KDDI. Faith, Inc. established Faith West to deliver mobile content to U.S. consumers, and to support the licensing of Faith Inc.'s software-based sound solutions for mobile phones and other communications and electronic devices globally. The company also provides technology licensees with market support and authoring tools to create mobile content, including the CMX multimedia format developed by QUALCOMM, which uses Faith Inc.'s sound technology. Faith West launched polyphonic ringtones services under the brand Modtones? in June 2002 and quickly became an industry leader in mobile content, cutting deals with all major U.S. carriers and record companies. The company changed its name to Moderati, Inc. in March of 2005, while remaining a subsidiary of Faith, Inc. In February 2007, Moderati?s content business was purchased by BellRock Media. To learn more about Moderati?s ringtones and other mobile entertainment products, visit www.moderati.com and www.bellrockmedia.com. Embedded Licensing division has remained a subsidiary of Faith, Inc. and has returned to our original name, Faith West, Inc. Faith West is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
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Recent Coverage
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Editorial: Why Mobile Games Need Better Audio
Games on Deck, July 9, 2007
Mobile technology companies like Faith West Inc., Beatnik and Nokia have been among the first to realize the potential of these formats and offer tools used by game developers today to create these powerful formats. In fact, Faith West believes so strongly in mobile DLS/XMF for game audio that it offers developers a downloadable library of 125 game sound effects in that format free of charge.
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Wireless Week, June 13, 2007
Faith West has released mXMFTool, a new product promising improvement in audio quality. mXMFTool leverages open standards, allowing developers to create ringtones, mobile game audio and other applications. Faith West is also bundling a library of 125 royalty-free mobile game audio sound effects with mXMFTool, making it easier for developers to enhance the mobile game experiences for their consumers. The in-house sound files include animal noises, human actions, sports effects, weapons, vehicular noises and environmental sounds in standard Mobile DLS format.
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Faith West: high-quality mobile sounds
Inbabble.com, June 13, 2007
You wouldn't expect to find high-quality game sound on a limited-bandwidth mobile phone. But that's what Faith West's software is providing to mobile game developers. Compact, flexible sound formats - mXMF and mDLS - are making it possible.
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Product: Faith West Announces mXMFTool
Games on Deck, June 13, 2007
Mobile content technology developer Faith West has announced mXMFTool. Designed with game audio in mind it "leverages open standards to allow developers to create robust mobile game audio." Faith West is also bundling a library of 125 royalty-free mobile game audio sound effects with the product.
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Faith West debuts mobile audio tool
Fierce Mobile Content, June 12, 2007
Mobile content technology developer Faith West announced mXMFTool, which leverages open standards flexibility to enable mobile content developers to create improved audio quality for ringtones, mobile games and related applications.