conVISUAL and Internet portal MSN.de join forces for multimedia mobile communications future
3.07.2002, 08:36
OBERHAUSEN (Germany) (ots/PROTEXT) - Effective immediately,Microsoft's Internet portal is offering its visitors even morefun and entertainment with the addition of chart hit ring tones,creative logos and the transmission of images onto the mobilephone rounding out its current offering. The new service is thefirst project in a strategic partnership between the VisualMessaging Service Provider conVISUAL and MSN Germany. The aim ofthis co-operative venture is to provide the users of MSN.de witha simple means of communicating via the web and by mobile phone.conVISUAL is providing the services and handling the technicalimplementation.
The download service for ring tones and logos(http://logo.mobil.msn.de) marks the launch of the strategiccollaboration between MSN.de and conVISUAL. Both companies planto expand their range of mobile and multimedia services in thecoming months. Mobile Picture Postcards, Mobile Photo Messaging,voicemail announcements and Multimedia Messaging Services arejust some of the projects in the pipeline.
"With its technical expertise and experience in the market,conVISUAL is the ideal partner to accompany us into themultimedia future of mobile communications", says Henrik Schapp,Business Development Manager at MSN.
Gregor Fellner, International Account Manager at conVISUAL,adds: "We are proud to have convinced MSN.de, one of the largestinternational Internet portals, of our vision of standards-independent communication. We are sure that visitors to MSN.dewill try out and use the new possibilities for mobilecommunication intensively."
The Multimedia Message Broker (MMB) platform in particular,which was developed by conVISUAL, was a winning argument for MSNin its decision to go with the Oberhausen-based serviceprovider. The MMB permits different messaging standards - likeSmart Messaging and MMS, for example - to be combined. Thecontents of text and picture messages are automatically convertedto the relevant format by conVISUAL. The messages can thus besent without any problem and regardless of the technicalstandard used by the device. This feature alone increases thenumber of users that can experience multimedia applications by asignificant factor.
conVISUAL - The Home of Visual Messaging Services.
conVISUAL is the first Wireless Application Service Providerfocused on the realisation of Visual and Multimedia MessagingServices. Through an innovative product portfolio conVISUALcreates opportunities for network operators, service providers,ISPs and media companies to expand their businesses by leveragingthe extraordinary potential of multimedia messaging services.conVISUAL's Multimedia Message Broker (MMB) is the intelligentplatform for the creation, personalization, conversion anddistribution of mobile multimedia messages. Using the MMB,conVISUAL operates numerous messaging applications, that aregrowing concurrently with the emerging multimedia facilities ofmobile devices: The MMB supports all of today's common messagingstandards, such as SMS, Smart Messaging, Enhanced MessagingService (EMS), WAP Push and Openwave Download Fun, as well asupcoming GPRS and UMTS technologies such as the MultimediaMessaging Service and i-mode. Based in Oberhausen in Germany,conVISUAL employs a talented and experienced team, concentratinghighest industry excellence including Ericsson, MannesmannMobilfunk, Nokia, Lucent Technologies and Theron BusinessConsulting.
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ots Originaltext: conVISUAL AG
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