SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 25, 2006) - VoiceIndigo today announced that Palm, Inc., one of the world's leading providers of smartphones, has selected VoiceIndigo as the podcasting partner for its mobile portal (http://mobile.palm.com). This alliance will enable mobile users of Palm™ 700p and Treo 700w smartphones to discover, listen, and share podcasts.
VoiceIndigo joins Yahoo, Google, ESPN, Weather.com and other leading Internet properties on Palm's mobile portal to give mobile users easy-to-use access to news, email, weather, sports, and now podcasting. Used by tens of thousands of users daily, mobile.palm.com is the go-to site for Palm mobile users. With VoiceIndigo, Treo smartphone users can now have quick access to podcasts including NPR, BBC, the Onion, Infoworld and others.
"When we recently redesigned our mobile portal, we selected and partnered with those companies that could provide the best solutions for Treo mobile users, who increasingly want news and entertainment on-the-go," said Audrey Muller, product manager, web applications, Palm, Inc. "For mobile podcasting, we selected VoiceIndigo as our exclusive partner because it provides our users with the easiest and most complete way to manage and listen to podcasts on their Treo smartphones."
"We are excited to be a part of Palm's mobile solution and believe that VoiceIndigo's mobile podcasting solution will greatly benefit Treo mobile users," said John Mayerhofer, VoiceIndigo's co-founder and CEO. "Podcasting is an important medium for entertainment, commentary and news and is increasingly being accessed by mobile devices. With the growing popularity of Palm Treo smartphones, we look forward to making it easy for Treo users to enjoy podcasts."
From http://mobile.palm.com, Treo users will be able to act as their own audio programming director, finding interesting podcasts, create audio channels, and share them with friends. Some key features available to Treo users include the following:
Treo mobile users will find the VoiceIndigo podcasting solution on the http://mobile.palm.com home page under the Audio channel. In addition to Palm Treo 700p and Treo 700w smartphones, VoiceIndigo supports most other mobile phones. Visit http://mobile.voiceindigo.com/ from your mobile phone browser. For more information please visit www.voiceindigo.com.
VoiceIndigo is a Mobile Brand Enabler. VoiceIndigo provides brands with innovative, highly targeted, and cost effective new ways to connect with high value consumers on their mobile phones and on the web by leveraging the rapidly evolving medium of podcasting. VoiceIndigo consists of VoiceIndigo Strategic Marketing Services, the VoiceIndigo Podcast Advertising Network, and www.VoiceIndigo.com, a podcast distribution service for mobile phones. VoiceIndigo's patent pending Ambient Advertising. enables brands to reach out to the farthest corners of the mobile network edge, the blogosphere, and the audible web to transact with consumers via click-to-call, click-to-request, and click-to-buy. VoiceIndigo makes podcasts mobile and everybody wins.
In the past the company's team members have delivered value to firms such as AT&T Wireless, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone, PCCW, The Interpublic Group, Ogilvy & Mather, Infoseek, Apple, Oracle, Yahoo!, Overture, Napster, Propel, BroadVision, and e-Music. VoiceIndigo partners with leading brands, wireless carriers, and mobile handset OEMs to distribute our solution to the end consumer.
Palm and Treo are among the trademarks or registered trademarks owned by or licensed to Palm, Inc.
Sophia Chiang
VoiceIndigo
415.613.7788
sophia.chiang@voiceindigo.com
