Leading UK-Based Carrier Drives Adoption of Innovative Mobile Lifestyle Utilities
LONDON (August 2, 2007) --- ShoZu Inc. announced today that its one-click mobile-to-Web image uploading service for mobile phones is among a handful of applications featured on 3neXt (www.next.three.com
and http://3next.mobi for mobile access), a new mobile applications community website from mobile operator 3. The site is designed to aid consumers in finding innovative mobile lifestyle applications that fit 3's focus on mobilising the Internet, as reflected in 3's X-Series phones introduced last year.
3's 15 million worldwide subscribers can now easily discover ShoZu's service on the 3neXt site, review user comments and ratings, and click through to www.shozu.com to download the ShoZu application on their X-Series phones free of charge. 3's X-Series pricing structure provides mobile data services for a flat fee on top of the user's basic subscription, enabling consumers to use ShoZu's service to send images to their preferred Web communities as part of the X-Series flat-fee package without additional upload and download charges.
ShoZu's media service is one of seven third-party mobile applications being spotlighted in the launch of 3neXt. Other applications showcased on the site range from the Litefeeds RSS feed service to Vringo's video ringtones and Map24's mobile navigation and mapping utility.
"3 is driving mobile media forward with its X-Series service, and their 3neXt site will make an important contribution to that effort by allowing customers to explore a variety of mobile applications in one location," said Dean Wood, ShoZu SVP Commercial. "ShoZu's inclusion on the site will help us advance our strategy of bringing ShoZu's services to consumers around the world through the leading mobile operators, handset manufacturers and media companies."
ShoZu previously announced an agreement with 3 Austria, 3’s Austrian arm, to provide its image uploading service as a free download from that business's mobile portal. ShoZu is forming agreements like these as well as arranging for pre-installation of the ShoZu application on select carriers' handsets to simplify consumer access to ShoZu's services.
ShoZu's Share-It image uploading service enables users to upload mobile photos and video clips to the Web with fewer clicks, larger file support, and more destination options than any other method. Upload options currently include YouTube, Facebook and nearly two dozen other photo sharing, social network, blogging and news desk sites as well as any FTP or email address. Videos and photos can be uploaded at full resolution at file sizes up to 10MB, offering support for 10-minute video clips compared to just 30 seconds for other methods, or at a lower resolution for blogging use. Users can also add titles or tags before or after uploading, exchange comments between Web and phone, and automatically add location tags for sites that support geotagging. Consumers can make phone calls or take more photos while an image is transferring.
The company also offers ZuCasts, a media delivery service enabling select videos, photos, music, games, news and other content to be downloaded directly to the mobile phone at the user's request without manual user intervention or download downtime. ShoZu's patented data replication technology allows files to be downloaded invisibly in the background. ZuCasts provide the first user-friendly way for brands, media companies and content providers to interact with their customers through the critical mobile channel.
Benefits for carriers include patented technology that maximizes network utilization, an open gateway that can support any number of Web communities without requiring users to change client software, and a revenue-sharing model that provides downstream revenue opportunities from mobile advertising as well as subscribers who sign up for flat-rate data bundles.
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