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PixSense Wins Mobile Star Award in the Consumer Software Media Category
PixSense’s Mobile photo & video sharing platform wins Silver Star Mobile Star Award™ from Mobile Village®
Santa Clara, CA – November 12, 2008 – PixSense, a leading provider in multimedia and web convergence solutions, today announced that it has won a Silver Star Mobile Star Award™ from MobileVillage®, the 15-year leader in market development and news services about mobile technology.
The seventh annual Mobile Star Awards™ program honors and promotes the top companies, products, deployments, and leaders in mobile and wireless technology. Winners are chosen by subscribers to Go Mobile®, MobileVillage’s free email newsletter sent to technology executives, mobile professionals, IT managers, developers, and top tech journalists.
PixSense has been recognized with the following awards:
• Silver Star Consumer Software: Media
“Despite the economic slowdown, recent studies have predicted minimal impact on the mobile and wireless industry,” says MobileVillage Editor Gary Thayer. “People have fallen in love with mobile productivity and entertainment products, and there’s a real desire to discover and share the latest and greatest. This year we had a record 2,300 votes from MobileVillage readers who are eager to share their knowledge.”
PixSense’s PSP (preserve, share, publish) platform provides a unique solution for mobile operators and their consumers to share full-resolution mobile videos and photos, while minimizing the amount of mobile data usage. With its unique patent-pending Bio-Compression technology, media file sizes are compressed by up to 90 percent without any visual loss of image quality. PixSense also syncs media with major social web destinations, including Facebook, MySpace and Flickr, allowing users to share media with establish groups of online friends in one easy click.
“With this award, it’s clear that consumers and mobile industry professionals alike see the value in our media sharing technology,” said PixSense President and CEO, R. Paul Singh. “We are honored to be recognized by MobileVillage and its readers as an innovator, and intend to build on this with continued success in enhancing our product and the mobile experience for our users.”
This year’s Mobile Star Awards winners are posted online at
http://www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm
About PixSense
Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, PixSense is a mobile P2P media sharing platform. Led by some of the industry’s most renowned experts in mobile & core media technologies, PixSense’s technology includes patent-pending, on-device media compression technology and network optimization technology that ensures fast transfers and significantly reduces costs to both end users and wireless operators. With offices in China, India, and Pakistan, PixSense has deployed their product with leading mobile operators worldwide. PixSense is funded by ATA Ventures, Innovacom, and Qualcomm Ventures. For more information, please visit http://pixsense.com/.
About MobileVillage®
Founded in 1993, MobileVillage is a market and solution development company dedicated to advancing mobile and wireless productivity in a wide range of industries. MobileVillage accomplishes this by fostering education and alliances through its Mobile "Best of Breed" solution identification, event partnerships, an online industry directory, industry job postings, daily online news, its widely respected Go Mobile® newsletter, a Mobile Mentors™ program, and popular annual Mobile Star Awards™ program. Visit MobileVillage online at www.mobilevillage.com.