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CMWare and Symbian Partner to Deliver New Digital Media Streaming Experience
to the Mass Market
LONDON-- CMWare, Inc., a leading provider of PC place-shifting solutions for
mobile carriers, today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program
to support the growing market for Symbian OS™. As a Platinum Partner, CMWare is
extending its newest application, myMobileMediaTM to the Symbian ecosystem.
myMobileMedia is a turn-key PC place-shifting solution for mobile carriers that
reliably streams digital media from subscribers’ PCs to their mobile devices in
any format, including music files, pictures, and DRM-protected content. Symbian
develops and licenses Symbian OS, the operating system that powers today’s most
popular smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone
manufacturers and to date, over 82 million Symbian smartphones have shipped to
over 250 major mobile network operators worldwide.
Symbian smartphones are growing in popularity. During H1 2006, 24 million Symbian
smartphones shipped, representing a 65% increase compared to H1 2005. According
to leading market analyst firm, Gartner, over 200 million smartphones will be
selling worldwide each year by 2008.
"This partnership reflects our dedication to the PC place-shifting technology
market and our commitment to further enhance our mobile strategy," said Dale Skran,
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. "By becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, we
are expanding the market reach for myMobileMedia and strengthening our relationships
with Symbian smartphone users, smartphone manufacturers and carriers.”
“Imagine the common scenario in which you are away from home or the office and
you would like to use your mobile phone to gain instantaneous access securely
to any data stored on your PC – that’s what CMWare’s myMobileMedia technology
delivers,” said Jerry Panagrossi, vice president of US operations, Symbian. “We
are delighted to partner with CMWare, as this partnership underscores our joint
commitment to bring PC place-shifting technology to the growing Symbian ecosystem.”
CMWare will be demonstrating myMobileMedia for Symbian OS at the Symbian Smartphone
Show in the Listen Lounge, 17-18 October 2006 at the ExCel Centre in London, U.K.
Notes to Editors
About the Symbian Platinum Program
The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic
position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding
Symbian OS. As part of the Program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of
commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities
as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner
Support team. For more information please see http://www.symbian.com/partner/platinum/platinum.html
About CMWare
CMWare, Inc. is a leading provider of PC place-shifting solutions that create
value-added data services revenue streams and enhance subscriber loyalty for mobile
carriers. CMWare’s myMobileMedia™ service is the first complete, turn-key PC place-shifting
solution that works over any mobile network to reliably stream digital media from
subscribers’ PCs to their mobile devices in any format, including music files
such as MP3, M4A, M4P and WMA, as well as pictures and DRM-protected content.
myMobileMedia is powered by CMWare’s patent-pending myPCStream™ technology that
extends the content and applications stored on PCs to the broad range of mobile
handsets used by consumers. For more information, visit www.cmware.com.
About Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS,
the market leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones,
also known as smartphones.
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and
has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across
the mobile industry. During H1 2006, 24 million Symbian OS phones were sold worldwide
to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian OS phones
shipped to 82.8 million.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United
States, Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ Technology AB)), Israel and Asia (India,
P.R. China, Korea, and Japan).
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