Success of ShoZu Cell Phone Image Sharing Service Prompts Appointment; Langkamp
to Shepherd Company’s Product Management and Strategic Roadmap
London UK, April 04 2006 – Cognima, the effortless mobile imaging company, today
announced that Steve Langkamp, a senior executive with substantial wireless industry
experience, has joined Cognima as chief operating officer, a new position. Langkamp
is expected to play a major role in developing Cognima’s social software strategies,
including the continuing evolution of Cognima’s successful one-click cell phone
image sharing service, ShoZu.
Langkamp comes to Cognima from Magic4 Ltd., a leading mobile phone messaging
software provider acquired in 2004 by Openwave Systems. As Magic4’s chief operating
officer, Langkamp helped the startup become the global leader in its category
by consistently meeting the time-to-market requirements of its handset manufacturer
customers. After the company’s acquisition by Openwave, Langkamp was named Openwave’s
vice president and general manager of client products and services; and led the
merger of its worldwide client services organization.
Prior to his time with Magic4/Openwave, Langkamp was vice president/mobile solutions
for Euronet Worldwide, one of the world’s leading financial transaction processors.
He also served as executive director of sales and marketing at Eurotel Praha,
a unit of US West-Media One Group, and as general manager-business markets and
product management at One 2 One (now T-Mobile UK).
“Steve Langkamp has a profound understanding of the mobile services marketplace.
His executive experience with US, UK and Czech mobile operators will be of real
value to Cognima in the months ahead,” said Mark Bole, CEO. “We look forward to
Steve’s contributions in product management and marketing, as well as in the development
of a long-term strategic and technology roadmap that will further deliver the
potential of ShoZu.”
“In ShoZu, Cognima has created a breakthrough service with the potential to remake
wireless content sharing,” stated Langkamp. “Its one click convenience is now
the mobile industry benchmark for ease of use. I’m excited to work alongside Mark
and the rest of the Cognima team as we leverage the initial success of ShoZu in
this hotly competitive market.”
Langkamp graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri with a bachelor’s
degree in mathematics. He earned his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1984.
About ShoZu
ShoZu is the simplest, quickest and smartest way to share photos, videos and
text using your mobile phone. The ShoZu gateway service includes a free phone
application and a website for users to personalize and configure their mobile
experience. Whether you are traveling the world, separated from family and friends
or just want to share a moment, ShoZu makes it easy, immediate and affordable
from anywhere, at anytime. With easy over-the-air download and activation, ShoZu
opens up mobile blogging of high-quality content to online community partners
such as photo portals, social networks and other sharing sites, all from one user
friendly interactive service. Visit www.shozu.com.
About Cognima
Cognima is a developer of innovative mobile application software that is licensed
to service providers (including mobile operators, online portals and digital imaging
companies) and mobile phone manufacturers. Cognima’s patented data replication
technology allows end-users to get images and other content on and off mobile
phones easily, efficiently and reliably. The ease-of-use created by Cognima’s
technology is unique to the market. It results in higher adoption and usage of
mobile data services, and increased customer satisfaction. Cognima’s technology
overcomes many of the barriers to effective and profitable mobile services by
handling the unreliable and variable nature of mobile data connections, as well
as the diverse security, fraud and other challenging issues specific to the mobile
environment. Cognima’s customers include service providers across the USA, UK
and Europe.
Cognima’s website is www.cognima.com |