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Droplet Technology Officially Launches First Comprehensive All-Software Mobile Video Solution at CTIA
Breakthrough Technology Allows Users to Create, Edit, Upload, Stream and Share Original Video Content at Full VGA/30 fps Directly From Their Mobile Handsets
| Source: Droplet Technology, Inc.
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - April 1, 2008) - CTIA -- Droplet Technology Inc., an innovator in mobile video
applications and services, today announced a groundbreaking software-based
Personal Mobile Video service to be showcased at CTIA 2008: interoperating
on devices from multiple handset manufacturers (Nokia, Samsung, Motorola,
HTC, and HP); using multiple operating systems (WindowsMobile, Symbian,
BREW, Linux); and interoperating between AT&T and Verizon 3G networks. At
CTIA 2008, Droplet is also introducing a
browser-based video player to eliminate the need for video transcoding.
Combining both handset client and hosted server applications, Droplet's
all-software solution unifies and enhances mobile video communications,
user-generated content, and social networking through high-quality video
capture, editing, uploading, video messaging, and real-time video sharing
directly from mobile handsets.
"Being able to capture full-size and full frame-rate video on your cell
phone, mash it up with music, graphics, photos, and other videos, and then
upload it to the Web or send it to a friend, on-the-fly, is already quite
an achievement, but having it all processed through software without the
need for any specialized video processing hardware is phenomenal," says
John Ralston, President and CEO of Droplet Technology Inc. "At the end of
2007, more than half of the world's population were using cell phones --
3.3 billion users -- and that number will continue to grow for years to
come. For all these cell phone users, sending user generated videos will be
as common as text messaging is today."
Droplet's mobile video client is the first all-software solution for mobile
handsets to integrate full VGA/30 fps camcorder functionality together with
real-time video communications and user-generated video applications.
Furthermore, by freeing mobile video service infrastructure from its
traditional dependency on specialized video processing hardware, and by
merging multiple mobile video services into a single unified platform,
Droplet's new server software can support a higher number of concurrent
users in each server box, significantly reducing the cost and complexity of
mobile video service deployment.
At CTIA 2008, Droplet continues to set new benchmarks in demonstrating
their ability to provide a common user experience across multiple devices,
operating systems, and networks. Droplet's showcase is targeting the
growing urgency among mobile operators, Internet portals, and device /
service providers to enhance the performance and profitability of mobile
video handsets and services. Commercial deployments of Droplet's Personal
Mobile Video services are targeted to start in the second half of 2008.
Supporting fully hosted direct-to-subscriber service deployments, Droplet
is currently in partnership talks with a variety of mobile video service
providers. Droplet's Personal Mobile Video Service platform will also
provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to 3rd party content
providers and advertisers, enabling them to further monetize their media
assets via integration with user-generated videos. Open APIs allow Droplet
and their partners to pursue a variety of advertising models that can
subsidize service costs and provide new sources of revenue through paid
subscriptions and high quality, premium video advertising.
Droplet Technology, Inc. (http://www.droplet-tech.com)
Droplet Technology Inc. provides video services direct to mobile
subscribers, as well as through customization / distribution partnerships
with mobile operators, Internet portals, and device / service providers.
Prior to Droplet Technology Inc., the company's executive team members had
already set industry benchmarks in semiconductor imaging arrays, video
compression technology, video transmission networks, advanced processor
IC's for 3G wireless handsets and base stations, over-the-air download
technologies, mobile Java applications, and performance verification of
advanced wireless applications and services. Droplet is headquartered in
Menlo Park, CA, with key outsourced software engineering teams, product
development teams, and service deployment partnerships in the US, Europe,
Korea, and China.