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ActiveSymbols Debuts MobilePromote Mobile Consumer Service at Toyota Indy 300; Links Popular Camera Phones to Race-Day Alerts, Ring Tones and Wallpapers.


MIAMI Miami, cities, United States
Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə).

1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896.
 -- ActiveSymbols:

--New Service Allows Mobile Consumers to Text Message or Send Photos from Popular Camera Phones and Receive Event-Specific Alerts and Rich Content

Racing fans attending this weekend's Toyota Indy 300 at Miami's Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead-Miami Speedway is a race track in Homestead, Florida southwest of Miami. It plays host to Ford Championship Weekend, the final races of the season in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, Busch Series, and the Craftsman Truck Series.  on March 26 will be invited to "Take a Mobile Test Lap" with MobilePromote 1.0, a fun, new service for mobile consumers. Cell phone users will be able to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day"
subscribe, take

buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company";
 live race-day alerts and download rich content using this brand-new mobile imaging technology service offered by ActiveSymbols, a Logicalis Company and a sponsor of the Rahal Letterman Racing Rahal Letterman Racing (RLR) is an auto racing team that currently races in the Indy Racing League. It is co-owned by 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal and television talk show host and comedian David Letterman and is based in Hilliard, Ohio.  IndyCar team. And, beginning at the Toyota Indy 300 race and leading up to the Indianapolis 500 race, mobile consumers will be able to enter to win a series of Indy-themed prizes.

The MobilePromote service enables mobile consumers with popular camera phones, from manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson For an arrangement of Sony Ericsson products, see list of Sony Ericsson products

Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones.
 and Hewlett-Packard, to send text messages or pictures to an online ActiveSymbols database. Once the message is received, it is matched against a sponsor's promotion and a rich content message link is returned to the caller. As part of the "Take a Mobile Test Lap" service, callers can choose to receive:

--Alerts -- Same day race-day alerts providing car and driver details throughout the race

--Themed Ring tones -- Free racing-themed ring tones, including the inimitable in·im·i·ta·ble  
adj.
Defying imitation; matchless.



[Middle English, from Latin inimit
 and familiar sounds of an IndyCar engine revving and an IndyCar screaming by on the straightaway straight·a·way  
adj.
1. Extending in a straight line or course without a curve or turn.

2. Unhesitating; immediate: a straightaway denial.

n.
 

--Additional Rich Content -- Downloadable camera phone wallpaper of Rahal Letterman Racing IndyCar team drivers, including 2004 Indy 500 champion Buddy Rice Buddy Rice (born January 31, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an auto racing driver best known for winning the 2004 Indianapolis 500 as part of Rahal Letterman Racing. Early career
Buddy's racing career started in 1996, when he dove in one U.S.
 and 2005 IndyCar Series The IndyCar Series is the premier series of the Indy Racing League. Due to the legal settlement with CART, the IRL was unable to utilize the name until the beginning of the 2003 season.  Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year may refer to:
  • Rookie of the Year (award), a sports award for the most outstanding rookie in a given season
  • Rookie of the Year (film), a 1993 starring Thomas Ian Nicholas
  • Rookie of the Year (album) by rapper Ya Boy
, Danica Patrick

--Subscriptions -- Subscribe to Racer magazine from Haymarket Publishing

"ActiveSymbols offers a whole new dimension for event-specific communications and state-of-the-art brand marketing," said ActiveSymbols president Jeff Reed. "As a sponsor of Rahal Letterman Racing, we felt the open-wheel racing environment offered a perfect opportunity to demonstrate this new mobile consumer technology."

Julie Klausner, marketing director at Rahal Letterman Racing, adds: "ActiveSymbols is unique technology that helps match sponsors and racing enthusiasts -- both of whom are our customers -- in a non-obtrusive way. We look forward to leveraging this new technology with Logicalis."

Win Prizes in the "Take a Mobile Test Lap" Contest

Beginning at the Toyota Indy 300 race and leading up to the Indianapolis 500 race on May 28, 2006, MobilePromote participants will also be entered into a special drawing for a chance to win one of three unique prizes, including:

--Replica IndyCar -- An authentic scale replica of Danica Patrick's Rahal Letterman Racing IndyCar, signed by the driver

--HP Camera Phones -- One of a pair of the latest HP camera phones

Race enthusiasts can obtain instructions for subscribing to event-specific alerts for each IndyCar race on signage during each race event, or by visiting the ActiveSymbols Web site at http://www.activesymbols.com

More details about the MobilePromote 1.0 technology are available online at http://www.activesymbols.com

ActiveSymbols for Brand Marketers

The ActiveSymbols platform provides a variety of applications for linking mobile consumers with brand marketers while delivering new revenue opportunities for mobile carriers.

When a MobilePromote consumer texts a message or photographs a branded image from their camera phone and sends it to the ActiveSymbols server, it acts as a trigger for a series of events. When ActiveSymbols recognizes that either the text or image is linked to a brand marketer, it then performs a specific task associated with that brand marketer, such as sending race-day alerts or the opportunity to download a ring tone.

"When ActiveSymbols returns a message related to something that a mobile consumer texts or photographs, the potential of the platform becomes clear," Reed said.

A unique and patent-pending key attribute of the ActiveSymbols technology is its ability to interpret a photograph taken with an auto-focus camera, intelligently match it with an image in its database, and return a response appropriate to the photograph and the time it was taken.

"It is great fun to experiment with MobilePromote, but the technology also has far-reaching business applications," said Reed. "On a simple level, for example, a mobile business consumer can use a camera phone to take pictures of business cards or business receipts, then upload the images to an intelligent database that will sort, file, and store the information for the user," explains Reed.

"In addition, we are developing more complex applications for the technology, including the ability to intelligently interpret images such as logos and respond accordingly," says Reed. "For example, if a racing fan takes a picture of the Rahal Letterman Racing logo, then emails it to our database ActiveSymbols will then send a link to team-specific information, such as car and driver statistics. The possibilities are endless for both consumers and business partners."

MobilePromote 1.0 and other ActiveSymbols technologies will be demonstrated during the CTIA (1) See CompTIA.

(2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry.
 Wireless 2006 show, held in Las Vegas, April 5-7. A major consumer launch of the entire ActiveSymbols platform and applications is scheduled for the Indianapolis 500 race event, held on Sunday, May 28, 2006.

"At Homestead, race fans will get just a taste of what the ActiveSymbols platform can do," said Reed. "At the Indianapolis 500, the biggest and most historic open-wheel race in America, we'll have finished our test drives, and we'll be ready for full competition."

About ActiveSymbols

ActiveSymbols, a Logicalis Company, is bringing mobile consumers together with brand marketers via a unique and patent-pending brand image database technology. ActiveSymbols(TM) Enterprise Server (patent pending) is an enterprise-class scalable platform enabling image and object recognition (computer vision), text recognition (OCR OCR
 in full optical character recognition

Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry.
), biometrics (facial recognition), and linear (1D) and 2D barcode decoding from everyday consumer devices such as camera phones and PDAs. We like to call it "visual searching in the palm of your hand." For more information on ActiveSymbols, please visit www.activesymbols.com.

About Logicalis

Logicalis is a global provider of high-performance technology solutions. Logicalis and its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies

A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company.

Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way.

Notes:
An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary.
 employ 1,000 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who specify, design, deploy and manage IT infrastructure to meet the needs of over 5,000 corporate and public sector customers. Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Cisco and EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. .

Logicalis is a part of Logicalis Group, a division of Datatec Limited (JSE JSE

See: Johannesburg Stock Exchange
:DTCJ), a $3 billion business listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)

Established in 1886, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is the only stock exchange in South Africa. Gold and mining stocks form the majority of shares listed.
. With its international headquarters in the UK, Logicalis Group has annualized annualized

Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared.
 global revenues of approximately $750 million from operations in the U.S., UK, Germany and South America. In North America, Logicalis' annualized revenues amount to some $475 million with over 450 employees in the U.S. For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.

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