ShoZu Extends One-Click Image Uploading to YouTube; Users Can Shoot, Click & Share Directly from Camera Phones; Service Now Supports Dozens of Web Partners & Handsets.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 users of its free one-click image uploading service can now transmit video clips directly from supported camera phones to their accounts on YouTube, the Internet video-sharing site that gets a staggering 80 million video views a day. ShoZu's support for YouTube eliminates the need to transfer the files to a PC or struggle with wireless email Wireless Email or Push E-mail for enterprises is an email solution for small handheld platforms that is secure and managed centrally by enterprise server. Wireless technology adoption has seen a dramatic increase over the past few years. or MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. messaging. It also adds to the dozens of web destinations to which ShoZu users can upload photos and videos captured on their handsets, from snapshots of family or friends to breaking news, concert footage and oddities of all kinds. With ShoZu's image sharing service, consumers can "shoot and send" camera phone photos and video clips on the spot without a PC and without the complex commands, loss of image quality, or interruption of other activities associated with other uploading methods. The service allows users to make phone calls or take more photos while an image is transferring, and it automatically resumes from the point of failure in the event of a dropped connection rather than forcing users to start over. Descriptions and tags can be added before or after uploading, and only one upload is required even if the file is sent to multiple destinations. These and other capabilities make ShoZu the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective method of sharing images from handsets. The service offers the additional advantage of providing a wide choice of destinations without requiring installation of multiple applications on the phone. Destination sites currently supported by ShoZu include photo and video sharing See video sharing site. communities such as 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, Textamerica and Webshots; personal blog sites such as Blogger, Typepad and Wordpress; any MetaWeblog-enabled blog; and citizen-contributed photo galleries like CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. and Scoopt. In addition, images can be sent to 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 to any email address for easy image sharing with family and friends. ShoZu is scheduled to add more than three dozen additional destinations over the next six months, ranging from extra photo communities and blogs to social networking, photo hosting, photo printing and document/whiteboard scanning sites. The company also recently announced that Sony Ericsson is now making the ShoZu application available directly from its online Fun & Downloads portal in 65 countries, with the option to download the ShoZu software either from a PC or from the handset itself. ShoZu is currently negotiating similar agreements with other handset manufacturers. "Support for YouTube has been a high priority because it is such a major player in the Web 2.0 space, but it is just one of dozens of destination options available to camera phone owners who use our service," said ShoZu 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. Mark Bole. "Our base of web and handset partners already outstrips that of any other uploader application, and it is expanding rapidly because of the clear ease-of-use and technical advantages that we provide. ShoZu is well on its way to becoming a fixture of mobile life, with more consumers 'ShoZu-ing' their images every day." About ShoZu ShoZu specializes in interactive media solutions that enable cellphone (CELLular telePHONE) The first ubiquitous wireless telephone. Originally analog, all new cellular systems are digital, which has enabled the cellphone to turn into a smartphone that has access to the Internet. users to get more out of the mobile experience, providing fast and easy handset access to multimedia web content ranging from photo portals to blogs, videocasts and podcasts. Services include 'ZuCasts' delivered directly to handsets on a subscription basis, one-click uploading of camera phone images and video clips, and two-way message exchange with community websites. The company's patented technology transfers any kind of data effortlessly and inexpensively between a mobile phone and the Internet 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. Visit www.shozu.com. |
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