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ShoZu Wins Gold at Future Mobile Awards 2008, Earning Kudos for Mobile Social Media Gateway
LONDON --(Business Wire)-- ShoZu Inc. announced today that it has been honored as the Gold award winner in the Mobile Web 2.0 category of Juniper Research's Future Mobile Awards 2008 for its mobile social media gateway, which enables users to connect to and interact with more than 50 Web 2.0 sites from a single interface on the mobile phone. The award recognizes ShoZu for its "outstanding contribution to the future of the Mobile Web 2.0 market."
The Future Mobile Awards are given to companies that Juniper Research believes have made significant progress within their sector during the previous year, and are poised to make considerable market impact in the future. Awards were also given in the mobile search, advertising, games, music, TV, adult services and UGC services categories.
"Supporting one-click transfer of digital content between mobile phones and 50+ social web destinations, geo-tagging, mobile-to-web messaging, and behavioural targeted advertising, ShoZu offers mobile network operators an established, all-round Mobile Web 2.0 on/off-deck turnkey platform," the judges said. "The average user is said to generate 20 network 'events' (i.e. content uploads/downloads) per month, with heavy users generating in excess of 100 events per month. This success demonstrates what can be achieved if users have the right tools available."
In addition, the judges noted, "ShoZu has partnered with Telecom Italia, Singapore's StarHub and 3 (Austria and UK) under revenue-share agreements, while shipping as an embedded application on Motorola and Samsung handsets. By providing the mobile web equivalent of a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) and catering to the needs of the prosumer, ShoZu is a deserving Gold winner this year."
ShoZu is a mobile utility that speeds and simplifies the process of interacting with online social media ranging from Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Google Blogger to Dailymotion, Picasa, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Photobucket, WordPress and many others. More than 50 sites can be reached from the ShoZu interface, eliminating the need to open a mobile browser and navigate to each community separately.
With ShoZu installed on the handset, smartphone, iPhone or BlackBerry, users can mass-publish any photo or video to multiple websites and/or email addresses with a single upload; send Twitters and update Facebook status from the same interface; have friends' photos, comments and other posts delivered directly to the mobile device without intervention; and more.
"ShoZu has received some of the top awards in the industry, but being recognized by a respected analyst firm like Juniper Research is particularly gratifying. They clearly understand the problems of the mobile Web, the need to mobilize social media, and our contributions in both areas," said ShoZu CEO Mark Bole. "Our goal all along has been to help users manage their online social lives from the handset, and this award shows that we have done that better than anyone else in the industry."
The Future Mobile Awards were granted by a panel of expert judges based on criteria including innovation, customer growth, commercial deployment, ease of use/user interface, revenue generation and capability/functionality. Gold and Silver awards were conferred for each category.
More award information is at www.juniperresearch.com/futuremobileawards.htm or by contacting John Levett at john.levett@juniperresearch.com or telephone +44(0)1256 830002. Juniper Research provides research and analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, providing consultancy, analyst reports and industry commentary.
About ShoZu
ShoZu is the leading provider of mobile social media services that connect mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties from the handset. The company's patented technology provides fast, easy, one-click uploads of photos and video clips from the mobile to the Web, full-resolution photo and video delivery without compression, an emerging suite of services that push content to the phone, the ability to work in the background even if a connection is dropped, and other unique features that simplify and enhance the user experience, plus a mobile advertising service that provides non-intrusive and behaviorally targeted ad delivery. The company was founded in 2000 and has formed partnerships with some of the leading players in the mobile ecosystem, including Motorola and Samsung. For more information, visit www.ShoZu.com/AboutUs
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