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| (More media coverage...) |
| Dan Hanttula |
| Smartphone & PocketPC Magazine |
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| “PocketCaster is so easy to use that I encourage people
to find new ways to to utilize mobile video in their personal
and professional lives to take advantage of this innovative
product... Now, instead of purchasing thousands of dollars
in camera equipment, leasing expensive on-site editing
vans and paying for a satellite feed back to your office,
you can simply hand each member on your team a Pocket
PC or Smartphone.” Read
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| Mike Heck |
| Infoworld, Test Center Daily |
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| “YouTube proves the value of Internet video. But what
if you could build the infrastructure for live video,
broadcast from camera phones (like the Motorola Q or Palm
Treo 700w), and embed GPS tracking data frame-by-frame
as a bonus? That's exactly what ComVu's done with its
PocketCaster solution.” Read
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| Olga Kharif |
| Businessweek, The Tech Beat |
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| "We've all tagged photos on Flickr. Next up, we'll
be increasingly tagging videos in new and innovative ways.
I've seen two interesting announcements on this recently.
On Sept. 14, ComVu, which hosts people's mobile video
blogs, unveiled its automated geotagging software that
automatically records the location a cell phone video
was taken at. The feature will allow for dynamic mapping:
Say, you want to see what's been happening at Times Square
lately. You might go to a video sharing site and, using
tags, do just that." Read
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| Keith Shaw |
| Network World |
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"Whenever a company uses the term 'paradigm shift'
I roll my eyes and go, Yeah, right. But when the folks
at ComVu Media used the term to describe their PocketCaster,
I actually believe them.
The PocketCaster product and service basically lets
users become mobile broadcasters, uploading video content
in live streams across the Web. It's really one-button
Webcasting, and this could change the way end users
and businesses use their phones with video cameras ."
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| Jason Dunn |
| PocketPC Thoughts |
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| "The concept is actually so powerful it's hard to easily
wrap your brain around, because the possibilities are
vast. In essence, PocketCaster is a Windows Mobile client
that does real-time encoding and uploading of video to
the Web. After seeing a demonstration of how it worked
with Google Maps - they encode latitude and longitude
information in every single video frame - my jaw was on
the floor. It was amazing to see a video on the left of
someone driving inside a car, and on the right a live
satellite map showing a real-time movement of the vehicle
along the road. Very impressive stuff." Read
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| Stephen Davies |
| PR Blogger |
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| "So here’s the (perfect) scenario: You have 100
people subscribed to your mobile video cast. You see something
that know your subscribers will be interested in and it’s
something that they need to know quickly so you begin
to film. 60 of your subscribers are by their computers
so they watch it over the Internet live. 20 aren’t at
their computer but they get the text alert and thus watch
it via their phone also live. The remaining 20 who aren’t
by their computer or with their phone, well it’s tough!
But at least they can watch it later. I think this is
great! In terms of citizen journalism and certain segments
of PR it has a lot of potential as it effectively makes
the public video broadcasters." Read
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| Editor |
| Springwise.com |
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"ComVu has created PocketCaster, the world's first
live video broadcasting solution from mobile devices to
global audiences...The key here is 'live': this is not
moblogging (uploading videos for all to download), this
is streaming video, i.e. turning consumers' cameraphones
into TV style live broadcasting tools.
ComVu is catering to an interesting new market, inspired
by initiatives such as Scoopt, the citizen journalists'
photo service. In their own words: "it's only a matter
of time before all newspapers and broadcasters will seamlessly
tap into 'on the spot' video feeds streamed live from
cameraphone users". Springwise's translation: there will
forever be a promise of lots of money from making professional
services available to the masses!" Read
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| John Dietz |
| Group Product Manager Microsoft
Corporation |
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| "Mobile video has landed on the scene with great response
from mobile operators and users and we're excited to see
an innovative company like ComVu take this concept one
step further with practical video management tools. With
PocketCaster and Mobile Video Studio, ComVu is demonstrating
the power and innovation of personal video broadcasting
that's available today for anyone with a Windows Mobile
5.0 powered device." Read
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| John Virata |
| Digital Producer |
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| "The technology is quite interesting because it enables
people out in the field, be it on a train, public event,
just about anywhere a signal can be had, to become their
own mobile newscasters. There is a saying in Southern
California touted by one of the network TV news stations,
'There goes that news van again.' With a properly outfitted
SmartPhone and ComVu's PocketCaster technology, you could
be the one broadcasting that news, on your own news channel,
on the Internet." Read
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| Barbara Gengler |
| Australian IT |
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| "THERE was a time when heavy duty camera equipment
separated professional telejournos from the rest of us,
but that's a thing of the past." Read
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