ShoZu Signs 3Austria As Its First Mobile Operator Partner, Expanding Distribution Channel for ShoZu's Mobile Media Services.Agreement Reflects Value of ShoZu's Platform to Carriers LONDON & VIENNA, Austria -- ShoZu Inc. today announced an agreement to provide its mobile media services to customers of Austrian mobile network provider Hutchison 3G Austria, initially as a free download to the handset from the carrier's mobile portal and tentatively as a pre-installed application on select phones. The agreement marks ShoZu's first partnership with a mobile operator and an important step in building a mass distribution channel for ShoZu's services through carrier affiliations. Effective immediately, 3Austria subscribers can use ShoZu's one-click "Share-It" service to upload photos and video clips A short video presentation. from their camera phones to the carrier's 3FotoAlbum photo community without transferring the files to a computer, dealing with the complex navigation of other uploading methods, or interrupting normal use of the phone. Image uploads to 3FotoAlbum are free of charge as part of the subscriber's flat-rate data package. Over the longer term, 3Austria plans to add ShoZu's "ZuCast" service for automated delivery of videos, photos, music and other user-selected content directly to the mobile phone. ShoZu's proprietary data replication technology enables files to be downloaded invisibly in the background without the need to open a mobile phone browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used , perform complex multi-click navigation sequences, wait for pages to load, interrupt phone calls, start over in the event of a dropped connection, or sync to a PC. "Mobile subscribers today are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an easy bridge between their camera phones and the online world. ShoZu offers a fast, user-friendly solution that will be especially attractive for members of our 3FotoAlbum community," said Berthold Thoma, 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. of 3Austria. "We believe this will help us attract new subscribers, drive sales and upgrades of data bundles, and continue to build our market share." "This agreement is part of a broader strategy to establish commercial relationships with mobile operators, and our success with 3Austria reflects the appeal of our service as a means of driving consumer adoption of value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. and increased data usage," said Dean Wood, Senior Vice President, Commercial, for ShoZu. "It also demonstrates the significant time-to-market advantages and flexibility of our managed service approach to carrier partnership. This is a strong case study to take to the wider Hutchison Telecommunications Group and other carriers around the world." ShoZu enables mobile operators to generate new revenue streams by offering a wide range of multimedia services through a single gateway and a single application on the phone. Additional benefits include ease of use, rapid rollout, nominal upfront investment, no interference with other revenue-generating services, and support for a wide variety of destinations ranging from photo communities and social networks to personal blogs and citizen-contributed photojournalism sites. ShoZu also offers easy interaction with customers in the mobile channel for brands, media companies and content providers; increased web usage and stickiness for web communities through easy extension of community services to the mobile phone; and unlimited content support on one open application platform for handset manufacturers, eliminating the need to install different clients for each service or upgrade the client when a new service is added. ShoZu currently supports 95 handsets, including Symbian and Java devices as well as 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 phones 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]. . About ShoZu ShoZu is a mobile media service that gives consumer and media companies direct access to customers' mobile phones through fast, easy, interactive 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. About 3Austria Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH started in May 2003 with the brand 3 as the first sole mobile multimedia provider in Austria. 3 offers multimedia products such as video calling, music videos and mobile television on the UMTS-mobile and in addition provides the classic ways of communication (voice calling, SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. and 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. ). With more than 370,000 customers as of August 2006, 3 is the clear market leader with UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) The GSM implementation of the 3G wireless phone system. Part of IMT-2000, UMTS provides service in the 2 GHz band and offers global roaming and personalized features. applications. Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH is wholly owned by Hutchison Whampoa Hutchison Whampoa Limited or HWL (Traditional Chinese: 和記黃埔有限公司, HKSE: 0013 Limited in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . |
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