ActiveSky Opens Handheld Device Distribution Channel to ShareYourWorld.com; Content of ``Digital Talent Agency'' Now Available on Most PDAs.Business Editors REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2000 ActiveSky, a media delivery company whose technology is opening up the handheld device market for hundreds of content providers, is now doing the same for ShareYourWorld.com, a leading broker of video and still image sales to a wide audience of buyers. The ActiveSky platform allows users of PDAs and other handheld devices to enjoy rich content from a wide variety of providers. ShareYourWorld.com enables anyone with a camera or camcorder to license digital pictures and videos to television networks and producers, advertising agencies, various corporations, Web sites and others looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. unique and interesting visuals. "This is an extremely promising new distribution channel for us," said Chase Norlin, chairman, ShareYourWorld.com. "Now, anyone with a wireless handheld device can access our vast library wherever they are, share images with friends and colleagues and look for the new, the unusual, the humorous or the sensational in visual images. The ability to reach so many more people so easily is a real opportunity for us." "Our partnership with ShareYourWorld.com shows that content providers can increasingly look for new ways to deliver their visual media to handheld device users," said Scott Marquardt, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , ActiveSky. "It doesn't matter if your device uses the Palm, Pocket PC, or Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , we support such diversity in rich content. Because ActiveSky operates across so many platforms, our list of content partners continues to grow rapidly." The ActiveSky Media Player is available as a free download from the company's Web site, www.activesky.com. About ShareYourWorld Founded in August 1999, ShareYourWorld Inc. is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation with offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Seattle. As the Internet's first marketplace for user-generated digital photos and videos, ShareYourWorld connects people who create digital media with those interested in licensing it including television shows, Web-based networks, businesses, advertisers and individuals. Using proprietary technology and reaching a global audience via its Web site, www.ShareYourWorld.com, ShareYourWorld showcases, licenses, and syndicates digital media to businesses. About ActiveSky ActiveSky creates products and services that enable the seamless distribution of all forms of visual media content, including video, animation, graphics and enhanced text, to mobile devices. The company offers multiple methods of delivery and cross-platform distribution and can carry more forms of multimedia content to more platforms and devices than any other vendor. ActiveSky's proprietary encoding See encode. , distribution and playback technologies enable a broad range of applications and are designed to perform optimally on both high speed wireless networks as well as today's low Today's Low The intra-day low trading price. Notes: In other words, this is the lowest price that a stock traded at during the course of the day. More often than not this is lower than the closing price. See also: Today's High bandwidth connections. ActiveSky has headquarters in Redwood City and offices in Japan, Europe and Australia. For more information, visit www.activesky.com. |
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