ShoZu Adds Support for Pikeo, a New Web 2.0 Photo Sharing Community.One-Click Image Uploads Available from ShoZu-Equipped Camera Phones 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 -- ShoZu Inc. announced today that its free Share-It one-click image uploading application for camera phones now can transmit images to Pikeo (http://www.pikeo.com/), the new photo sharing Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately). This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images. community recently unveiled by Orange, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. Pikeo offers photo storage, tagging and sharing capabilities as well as geotagging that enables members to associate their photos with online maps to show where they were taken. The site is available in English, French and Spanish worldwide. "Adding Pikeo support is an indication of our commitment to providing the largest possible choice of Web destinations for camera phone users who want to share images as soon as they capture them," said Dean Wood, Senior Vice President, Commercial for ShoZu. "In addition, carriers like Orange are a critical component of the mobile value chain, and we are actively pursuing opportunities with mobile operators that will be important in ongoing expansion of the ShoZu platform." "Pikeo is the first Web 2.0 product in our Open Communities strategy. We're glad to enable Pikeo with one-click upload functionality provided by ShoZu," said Pascal Thomas, France Telecom NExT.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. Chief Executive. ShoZu's Share-It service enables consumers to "shoot and send" camera phone photos and video clips on the spot without transferring the files to a computer or struggling with the complex commands, loss of image quality, or interruption of other activities associated with other uploading methods. In addition to Pikeo, users can use Share-It to send images to Buzznet, Flickr, Kodak EasyShare Kodak EasyShare is a sub brand of Eastman Kodak Company products identifying a consumer photography system of digital cameras, snapshot printers, printer docks, accessories, camera docks, software, and online print services. EasyShare was first introduced in 2001. Gallery, Samsung Fun Club, Textamerica, YouTube and Webshots, various personal blogging and citizen-contributed photojournalism sites, and any FTP site A server on the Internet that maintains files for downloading. An FTP site may be one or more servers or just one or two folders dedicated to file transfer on a single server. See FTP and anonymous FTP. or email address See Internet address. . ShoZu also offers a unique ZuCast service that allows media files from various sources to be downloaded invisibly in the background without the need to open a mobile phone browser, wait for pages to load, interrupt phone calls, start over in the event of a dropped connection, or sync to a PC or Mac. Users simply click the ShoZu icon on their handset, and the latest ZuCasts will be waiting. ShoZu currently supports 95 handsets, including Symbian Series 60v2 and 60v3, Microsoft Smartphone 2003 and Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Mobile phone-type devices such as the Motorola Q The Motorola Q is a Windows Mobile smartphone first announced in the Summer of 2005 as a thin device with similar styling to Motorola's immensely popular RAZR. Motorola in a partnership with Verizon Wireless released the Q on May 31, 2006[1]. . A full list of supported handsets is available at www.shozu.com. About ShoZu ShoZu is a mobile media service that enables consumer and media companies to interact with customers on their mobile phones through fast, easy exchange of multimedia content and web-based services. The company's patented technology allows consumers to download and upload photos, videos, music, text and other digital content to and from the handset without the need to open a mobile browser A mobile browser (earlier referred to as a microbrowser or minibrowser) is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA. Mobile browsers are optimised so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable , wait for pages to load, interrupt phone calls, start over in the event of a dropped connection, or sync to a PC. Services include innovative ZuCasts that deliver content to the handset automatically, one-click uploading of camera phone images and video clips to community websites and other destinations, and two-way mobile-to-web messaging and interactivity. For more information, visit www.shozu.com/aboutus. |
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