PortalPlayer, a leading System on a Chip (SOC) developer for portable media devices has an interesting SideShow development plaftom called "Preface". Read more about PortalPlayer's Preface at this URL:http://www.portalplayer.com/preface/index.html. PortalPlayer envisions SideShow in every laptop or mobile device and calls the SideShow technology "a great idea". Portal player is a sidehow hardware and software platform, targeted at media player companies that want to integrate Vista Sideshow technology from a "one stop solution provider".  Also great about PortalPlayer is the fact that last month, video card manufacturer giant NVIDIA announced an agreement to purchase PortalPlayer for the modest sum of 375 million USD. PortalPlayer's customers include Bang & Olufsen A/S, Inventec , Kaga Electronics Co. Ltd., Philips Consumer Electronics and Samsung Bluetek Co., Ltd. and Thomson Multimedia (RCA).