Streamezzo Announces Milestones and Progress in its Mission to Unify the Mobile Ecosystem

(Business News & Technology News, 18 Sep 2008)

Streamezzo, creator of the Universal Software Platform that overcomes mobile industry fragmentation and powers the Mobile Internet, has announced its progress toward the company's overall mission: unifying the mobile industry ecosystem through an open and universally accessible software infrastructure; and offering end-users the ultimate mobile user experience via a rich, multimedia environment.

Founded in January 2004, Streamezzo holds a significant head start over Apple's iPhone platform and Google's Android initiative—each of which seek to address one of these two pressing industry issues.

<>The Universal Software Platform
Nearly four years in development, Streamezzo's Universal Software Platform is an end-to-end software framework that overcomes the challenges of industry fragmentation caused by competing mobile operating systems, networking technologies and handset designs. The platform is based on an innovative and insightful client-server architecture in which a customized client application (on the device) and Streamezzo's content server software create an "abstraction layer" which operates "above" the fragmentation caused by the industry's lack of true mobile standards.

Mobile O/S Compatibility
Streamezzo's rich media-based software platform is compatible with all major mobile operating systems, including: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Brew, Java, Linux, Android, and Apple's proprietary iPhone O/S. Software developers can now create mobile applications that "write once, run anywhere" on Streamezzo's software environment.

Mobile Device Certifications
Streamezzo's comprehensive software platform is certified for interoperability on hundreds of mobile devices—a number that is increasing rapidly as the company's engineers certify approximately 50 new devices each month.

Compatibility with Major Mobile Technology Standards
Streamezzo is interoperable with a wide variety of mobile networking standards and protocols, including: GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, CDMA, EVDO, and Wi-Fi. Additionally, the Universal Software Platform seamlessly supports video applications in both unicast (VOD/streaming) and broadcast (e.g. DVB-H, S-DMB) modes, along with support for a broad array of audio and video codecs.

Funding Status To-Date<>
To date, the company has completed three successful funding rounds raising a total of $48 million from an expanded roster of top-tier investors. Investors participating in Streamezzo's successful Round C financing include: Sofinnova Partners, Qualcomm, AXA Private Equity, I-Source Gestion, Sofinnova Ventures, NTEC and GET Valorisation.

A Global Roster of Our Blue Chip Customers
Streamezzo's software platform is in use by nearly 50 of the world's largest companies—primarily mobile operators, handset manufacturers and global service providers. To-date some of Streamezzo's customers include: SFR, Orange-Israel, Nokia, Neuf Cegetel, Telecom Italia Mobile, Telstra, Samsung, and M1, among others.

Simplifying Mobile Development with Streamezzo Workbench SDK
In February 2008, the company unveiled its Workbench SDK open development platform. Today, six months later, while Android and other open mobile platform plans are still in development, Streamezzo has been busy deploying cross-platform, rich media mobile services for over two years. Workbench SDK empowers developers, system integrators and the rest of the mobile community to develop mobile applications once and run them in virtually any mobile environment.

A Suite of Ready-Made Skinnable Applications for Developers
Streamezzo recently released four pre-built, skinnable applications for use in developing compelling new rich media-based mobile applications and services: Music Player, VoD Player, RSS Reader, and Photo Gallery. These standalone applications can be easily deployed for use on all mobile operating systems. Now, developers and mobile development agencies can rapidly create and deploy fully branded mobile websites, news portals, video and music entertainment portals, and can easily integrate these applications with existing mobile services.

"Content providers and application developers spend considerable time and effort creating and adapting rich content and services for the complexities of today's mobile environment. Instead of adapting existing content, these resources could be better invested in the creation of new content, application innovation, and the marketing of existing titles, which would substantially enhance mobile content and services penetration," said James Brehm, Senior Consultant, Mobile Communications Practice, Frost & Sullivan. "Frost & Sullivan believes that the Streamezzo platform is a breakthrough in solving one of the mobile industry¡¯s great challenges."

"Android shares our goal of overcoming fragmentation via an open mobile operating environment, but their approach compounds the problem by introducing yet another mobile operating system," says Pierre-Emmanuel Struyven, CEO of Streamezzo. "And iPhone deserves high marks for demonstrating the power of a compelling user experience, but in the process they have also compounded the problem with new proprietary hardware, software and another operating system that developers must now contend with. Streamezzo has clearly demonstrated our commitment and progress towards concurrently solving the fragmentation issue and creating the ultimate rich media user experience."

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