April 2006 Coding Technologies and DTS demonstrate world's first MPEG-4 aacPlus/DTS transcoder solution for digital multi-channel broadcasting

April 2006 Orban and Coding Technologies bring MPEG-4 aacPlus audio to Windows Media Player

March 2006 Coding Technologies wins "Grand Technology Award" by Swedish news magazine Ny Teknik

December 2005 Coding Technologies appointed company of the year and wins prestigious Swedish "Golden" Mobile Award

October 2005 Coding Technologies and IRT demonstrate world's first MPEG Surround 5.1 broadcast over DVB-T at Medientage in Munich 2005

September 2005 DTS and Coding Technologies announce their cooperation to bring MPEG-4 aacPlus multi-channel audio to digital TV and radio services

September 2005 DVB-H debuts at IFA 2005 featuring MPEG-4 aacPlus at IFA 2005 in Berlin

June 2005 Lars Liljeryd ranks as # 8 of Sweden's most influential IT brains

June 2005 Orange UK adopts MPEG-4 aacPlus for its mobile music download service

June 2005 After only 6 months on air, KDDI's EZ "Chaku-Uta Full™" mobile music download service announces 10,000,000 songs sold

January/February 2005 Ericsson Mobile Platform licenses aacPlus v2. More and more hardware and solutions providers such as TTPCom, LSI Logic, or Equator include aacPlus in their offerings, evidencing the success story of the world's most efficient audio codec across multiple business fields.

September 2004 3GPP standardizes aacPlus v2 for streaming and messaging services. The standardization establishes aacPlus as the common denominator codec between mobile music services, digital broadcasting, consumer electronics and Internet streaming.

July 2004 The DVD Forum selects aacPlus for the Compressed Audio Zone (CA-Zone). Only few months later, Amon Tobin's "Splinter Cell 3 - Chaos Theory" is the first DVD-Audio with pre-compressed aacPlus song tracks, enabling new consumer uses for portable and jukebox applications.

July 2004 Via Licensing, the licensor of MPEG-4 audio patents, adds an aacPlus patent licensing program to its portfolio. aacPlus related patents are now available from a single source, making licensing easier and more cost effective.

July 2004 AOL licenses aacPlus v2. The integration of the codec in the popular Winamp player, together with the earlier inclusion in RealPlayer10, gets aacPlus on virtually every desktop PC worldwide.

July 2004 Nokia, world leading mobile handset manufacturer, signs a broad licensing deal with Coding Technologies. Under the agreement Nokia acquires the right to integrate aacPlus v2 in its products.

June 2004 Coding Technologies introduces aacPlus v2, the new member of the aacPlus audio codec family. aacPlus v2 incorporates the newly standardized Parametric Stereo technology, developed by Coding Technologies and Philips. Parametric Stereo represents a major step forward in audio codec development through a further increase in compression efficiency.

January 2004 RealNetworks licenses aacPlus for inclusion into RealPlayer10. The deal marks the first step in aacPlus' adoption for Internet content distribution.

November 2003 mmO2 is the first European mobile operator to offer full track music downloads to mobile phones. Its decision to use aacPlus is followed by many other operators throughout 2004, like Vodafone Germany, Japan's KDDI or Spanish Telefónica Móviles. Only 48 days after its start, KDDI's "Chaku-Uta Full" download service has already sold 1 M songs.

November 2003 Coding Technologies and Beijing E-World form a joint venture to create an audio codec for the new Chinese EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc) standard, the successor of the DVD (Digital Versatile Disc).

September 2003 SK Telecom, the leading provider of mobile services in Korea, adopts aacPlus for its content offerings. The provider's decision to move ahead with aacPlus based on the MPEG-4 standardization marks the first deployment of aacPlus into the mobile space.

August 2003 iBiquity Digital adopts Coding Technologies' SBR (Spectral Band Replication) technology for its HD Radio system in the United States. After XM Satellite Radio and Digital Radio Mondiale, HD Radio is the third digital broadcasting system enabled by Coding Technologies' groundbreaking audio compression technology.

June 2003 Digital Radio Mondiale, the international open standard for digital broadcasting in the long, medium/AM, and short wave bands, officially starts its radio service using Coding Technologies' aacPlus audio compression.

March 2003 In the course of the standardization process inside MPEG-4, Coding Technologies' aacPlus audio codec reaches FPDAM status. Only the formal approval by the ISO's national bodies remains in the process, which is accomplished in October of the same year.

October 2002 Coding Technologies establishes its new office in Mountain View, California.

October 2002 Coding Technologies' aacPlus is called a clear winner by the European Broadcasting Union independent listening test.

November 2001 XM Satellite Radio, the first digital satellite radio service in the US, is available from coast to coast, incorporating Coding Technologies groundbreaking aacPlus audio coding scheme.

June 2001 Worlds first freely available mp3PRO Player/Encoder is launched by Thomson/RCA and Coding Technologies. Within eleven days, more than 600.000 downloads of the free software are registered.

January 2001 mp3PRO is publicly announced and demonstrated at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas.

December 2000 Coding Technologies and Thomson Multimedia finalize a licensing and collaboration agreement for an enhanced mp3 technology called mp3PRO.

September 2000 Coding Technologies GmbH founded in Nuremberg, former IIS employes join Coding Technologies.

September 2000 Licensing agreement between Coding Technologies Sweden and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.

February 2000 Plans for a technology merger are developed. This involves a spin-off from Fraunhofer IIS and software licensing from Fraunhofer IIS to Coding Technologies Sweden.

1998 Start of collaboration with the Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG).

1998 Coding Technologies Sweden joins the DRM consortium (Digital Radio Mondiale).

1997 Coding Technologies Sweden becomes member of MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group).

1997 Founded as Coding Technologies Sweden by Lars Liljeryd financed by Swedish venture capital firm CIMON.