News: Mobilezone and Amiga Introduce Amiga Content
Across Brazilian Digital Devices
May 1,
2006 - San Francisco, CA/Sao Paolo, Brazil.–
Mobilezone and Amiga bring AmigaAnywhere™ applications
to Mobilezone's customers worldwide. Now, visitors to Mobilezone can
purchase their favorite Amiga content for their
Microsoft Windows PCs, Smartphones, and PDAs. Amiga's
innovative technology allows mobile users to take
advantage of emerging technologies such as media storage
cards and U3 mobile storage devices.
This announcement brings another strong
channel for application developers that are looking for
a refined and efficient solution to developing content
one-time and running it across a myriad of devices.
MobileZone gives current information about
mobile technologies and provides a local web reference
for PDAs, smartphones, Pocket PCs and wireless
technologies like Wi-Fi. It has quickly grown into
Brazil's leading and most complete Wi-Fi hotspot
locator, earning well over 400,000 unique visitors to
Mobilezone webpages since it was created, 3 years ago.
The "Plugged" section of the site gives up to date news
about what's happening with the wireless market inside
and outside the country. It also carries monthly
articles about interesting related subjects, such as
mobile content and WiMax "hype" analysis.
Brazil is part of the BRIC (Brazil,
Russia, India and China) group of countries with the
fastest expanding wireless markets, is the second
largest mobile market in South America and 6th largest
in the world. The country's mobile penetration rate is
41.1%, reaching 79.9 million customers through September
2005. Further, Brazil dominates the Latin American
Internet market with broadband growth of 31% in 2005.
"The growth in complex mobile and web usage in Brazil is
very attractive to Amiga", said Gregory Sigel, Amiga's
vice president of sales and marketing. "MobileZone
provides a great entrée to this market, given their
popularity with wireless and wired subscribers."
Amiga's cross-platform technologies fit
well with Brazil, given the growing popularity of
convergence strategies. In October 2004, TV Cidade and
TVA were the first Brazilian operators to adopt the
triple play strategy, combining VoIP, broadband and pay
TV services. It also meshes well with MobileZone's
combined mobile and WiFi target areas. "Brazilians
continue to be big fans of the Amiga name", said Ricardo
Menezes, President of Mobilezone. "We are very excited
to provide our customers with rich graphical Amiga
content and let them run it across their mobile,
desktops and ultimately TV-based devices."
Mobilezone is highlighting Amiga with an
About Amiga section ("Sobre Amiga") and an updated
News/Interview ("Entrevista") section. The Amiga Games
("Jogos") section on the website lets Mobilezone's
customers from over 20 countries purchase Amiga content
for their devices of choice. As Amiga grows its
applications and content portfolio, the two companies
will work together to update the Mobilezone-Amiga site
with the most market-relevant content.
About MobileZone:
MobileZone is a Brazilian portal that
focuses on wireless and mobile technologies, news and
related content. With its operations started in early
2004, MobileZone has, since then, received more than
360.000 unique visitors searching for Wi-Fi hotspots,
news and exclusive content covering a variety of
subjects including WiMax, UMTS, UWB and EVDO.
The majority of Mobilezone’s
visitors, can be classified as IT professionals,
wireless providers, doctors, business executives,
government organizations and university students.
Contact:
contato@mobilezone.com.br
About Amiga:
Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier
provider of multimedia enabling technologies. For almost
two decades its award-winning software has been a
mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia
creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around
the world. Today Amiga builds on this legacy leading the
way in multimedia development by providing developers
with hardware-independent technologies for writing and
porting applications to new platforms and interactive
devices. AmigaAnywhere™ enables applications to run on a
broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM,
Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, x86, and Hitachi SH series
and to run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems
including Linux, Windows CE .NET, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP. AmigaAnywhere™ applications are available
online at http://www.shopamiga.com/.
For more information visit http://www.amiga.com/.
AmigaAnywhere™ is a registered
trademark of Amiga, Inc. All other company and product
names may be trademarks of the respective companies with
which they are associated.
Contact:
Amiga: publicity@amiga.com
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