CMWare Brings myMobileMedia Place-Shifting Solution To Symbian Smartphones.CMWare and Symbian Partner to Deliver New Digital Media Streaming Experience to the Mass Market LONDON -- CMWare, Inc., a leading provider of PC place-shifting solutions for mobile carriers, today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for Symbian OS An open standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones (smartphones) from Symbian Ltd., London (www.symbian.com). It supports Java, PC synchronization, Bluetooth local wireless access and GPRS packet-switched data. [TM]. As a Platinum Partner, CMWare is extending its newest application, myMobileMedia(TM) to the Symbian ecosystem. myMobileMedia is a turn-key PC place-shifting solution for mobile carriers that reliably streams digital media from subscribers' PCs to their mobile devices in any format, including music files, pictures, and DRM-protected content. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the 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. that powers today's most popular smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed by the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers and to date, over 82 million Symbian smartphones have shipped to over 250 major mobile network operators worldwide. Symbian smartphones are growing in popularity. During H1 2006, 24 million Symbian smartphones shipped, representing a 65% increase compared to H1 2005. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. leading market analyst firm, Gartner, over 200 million smartphones will be selling worldwide each year by 2008. "This partnership reflects our dedication to the PC place-shifting technology market and our commitment to further enhance our mobile strategy," said Dale Skran, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. "By becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, we are expanding the market reach for myMobileMedia and strengthening our relationships with Symbian smartphone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). users, smartphone manufacturers and carriers." "Imagine the common scenario in which you are away from home or the office and you would like to use your mobile phone to gain instantaneous in·stan·ta·ne·ous adj. 1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous. 2. access securely to any data stored on your PC - that's what CMWare's myMobileMedia technology delivers," said Jerry Panagrossi, vice president of US operations, Symbian. "We are delighted to partner with CMWare, as this partnership underscores our joint commitment to bring PC place-shifting technology to the growing Symbian ecosystem." CMWare will be demonstrating myMobileMedia for Symbian OS at the Symbian Smartphone Show in the Listen Lounge, 17-18 October 2006 at the ExCel Centre in London, U.K. Notes to Editors About the Symbian Platinum Program The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the Program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team. For more information please see http://www.symbian.com/partner/platinum/platinum.html About CMWare CMWare, Inc. is a leading provider of PC place-shifting solutions that create value-added data services revenue streams and enhance subscriber loyalty for mobile carriers. CMWare's myMobileMedia[TM] service is the first complete, turn-key PC place-shifting solution that works over any mobile network to reliably stream digital media from subscribers' PCs to their mobile devices in any format, including music files such as MP3, M4A M4A MPEG 4 Audio (audio compression format) M4A Mpeg4 Audio , M4P M4P Making Markets Work Better for the Poor (Hanoi, Viet Nam) and WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. , as well as pictures and DRM-protected content. myMobileMedia is powered by CMWare's patent-pending myPCStream[TM] technology that extends the content and applications stored on PCs to the broad range of mobile handsets used by consumers. For more information, visit www.cmware.com. About Symbian Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During H1 2006, 24 million Symbian OS phones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian OS phones shipped to 82.8 million. Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ Technology The Company UIQ Technology develops and licenses an open software platform to the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers and supports licensees in the drive towards developing a mass market for open mobile phones. AB)), Israel and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan). |
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