Bebo Goes Mobile With NewBay.NewBay's User Generated Content Gateway Now Allows Users to Upload Mobile Photos Direct to Bebo DUBLIN, Ireland -- NewBay Software, the leading provider of mobile multimedia and social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network solutions, today announced that its UGC See user-generated content. Gateway now supports interaction with Bebo, one of the world's largest social networks. Beboers will now be able to upload images and text, browse profiles and receive text alerts to their mobile phone. Orange UK today announced that it is the first mobile operator to partner with Bebo. Orange UK customers will be able to stay in touch with their friends on Bebo, meet new people and express themselves anytime, anywhere from any Orange phone. NewBay's addition of Bebo to its UGC Gateway demonstrates its leadership in delivering the most advanced family of solutions based on mobile user generated content to mobile operators worldwide. NewBay's UGC Gateway gives mobile operators the flexibility to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. media uploads through one click posting, shortcode or through a custom link on the handset. Bebo is a global social networking website which aims to bring together likeminded individuals who are creative, expressive and socially aware. It has a membership of more than 31 million world-wide. "Bebo users live their lives online and want to be able to take that experience with them wherever they go. The addition of Bebo to NewBay's UGC Gateway makes access to Bebo simple and seamless for our users world-wide," commented Joanna Shields, President of International at Bebo. "Our support of Bebo in our UGC Gateway demonstrates our commitment to provide mobile operators with complete solutions to enable mobile multimedia lifestyles and monetize Monetize 1. To convert into money. 2. To convert from securities into currency that can be used to purchase goods and services. Notes: For example, you'll often hear Internet marketers talk about "monetizing website visitors. user generated content. Bebo is one of the top online social networking services and one of the services operators wish to offer their mobile subscribers. NewBay's UGC Gateway expands the range of blogs, albums and online sites mobile subscribers can interact with, making mobile social networking mainstream today. We are very excited to be able to include Bebo in our list of options," said Dr Nagappan Arunachalam, Chief Marketing Officer at NewBay Software. The UGC Gateway enables Mobile Operators to connect to multiple third party sites such as Bebo, including posting media, viewing WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. pages and sending text alerts to users' devices. UGC Gateway manages the integration with third party sites and routes the multimedia content to the requested blog/album service(s). NewBay's live mobile operator services A variety of telephone services that require human intervention, including person-to-person calls, collect calls, credit card billing and directory and dialing assistance. Such services are performed by LECs, IXCs and alternative operator services (AOS), organizations that are used by are currently processing in excess of 1 million picture messages a day and creating over 10MB per user per month in high resolution photo uploading. UGC Gateway is available now to mobile operators worldwide as a software license product or an ASP making it simple to deploy. About NewBay Software NewBay Software develops products and services to build dynamic mobile communities and social networks based on user generated content. Solutions include FoneBlog, mobile blogging and multimedia album solution; PIXOTA, mobile imaging handset client; UStarTV, to monetize user generated mobile video and FonePIM, carrier grade mobile synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. . NewBay sells to mobile operators worldwide enabling them to increase messaging, data and content revenue, strengthen customer loyalty and build viral, fun mobile communities. Customers include T-Mobile USA, O2, Alltel Wireless, Orange, Vodafone, Bell Mobility, Swisscom, Maxis and SETAR SETAR Self-Exciting Threshold Autoregressive (financial dynamics) SETAR Senior Engineering Technology Assessment Review SETAR Sequential Electronic Timer and Recorder NV. NewBay Software is based in Dublin, Ireland, London, UK and Bellevue, USA. NewBay was founded in 2002 and is privately held. Investors include Benchmark Capital Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups, including eBay. In 1995, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999 and resulted in one of Silicon . About Bebo Bebo is a global social networking website which aims to bring together like minded individuals who are creative, expressive and socially aware. Bebo has a membership of more than 31 million world-wide, with five people register for the site every second (a). Bebo ranks as the UK's third most engaging website after Google and MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). (a). Bebo won the People's Choice award in the Social Networking category at the 2006 Webby awards For the Ducktales character, see . Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the "world's best websites". The awards have been given out since 1996. and was named as the number one search term in the Year-End Google Zeitgeist 2006. Bebo was founded in 2005 by Michael and Xochi Birch birch, common name for some members of the Betulaceae, a family of deciduous trees or shrubs bearing male and female flowers on separate plants, widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. . (a) Source: comScore World Metrix www.bebo.com |
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