Mobile Webcasting from Laptop to Smartphone with World's First 'One-To-Many' Service

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February 18, 2005 Today at 3GSM World Congress 2005, ComVu announced the availability of the world's first service that enables users to stream live video from a smartphone to a global audience. ComVu also announced a licensing agreement with Fifth Media to provide ComVu's PocketCaster software for the new AXIA A108 PDA phones. PocketCaster leverages AXIA's onboard 1.3 megapixel CMOS camera, and next generation Freescale i.MX21 processor, to transmit real-time MPEG 4 video to ComVu's automated streaming server network. ComVu's PocketCaster turns the smartphone into a live broadcast device, rather than solely a passive receiver of video content. ComVu's deployment of a simple, "one-to-many" live broadcasting service will create numerous new commercial opportunities for users. A typical user may be a blogger who wants to add live video to online reporting; or a mobile field technician in an urgent situation where text alone doesn't get across all that needs to be communicated.

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