Volantis Continues to Innovate the Mobile Web with New Ubik.com Features
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Expanded capabilities bring Google Docs, Amazon Kindle compatibility and more social media interactivity to mobile GUILDFORD, U.K.--(Business Wire)-- Volantis Systems today announced new features and enhancements to its award winning, easy-to-use mobile website creator, Ubik.com (www.ubik.com). Ubik.com`s free service allows anyone to build and host a mobile Internet site and the new functionality announced today takes mobile web capabilities to the cutting edge. With Ubik.com, small businesses can effectively market to mobile users and consumers can deliver user-generated social content through the mobile web. The new features of the service take the next leap in bringing web 2.0 technology to the mobile world, with online document integration, expanded RSS blog feed technology and international compatibility. Ubik.com is a complete solution for designing and hosting a professional mobile website, without the need for mobile development expertise. "Ubik.com provides a venue for Volantis to showcase the most dynamic and innovative mobile web technologies," said Mark Watson, CEO of Volantis Systems. "Volantis offers robust, highly scalable solutions for mobile operators and content providers through the suite of applications in the Volantis Content Delivery Platform. With Ubik.com, we have the opportunity to provide cutting-edge mobile web tools to consumers and small businesses at no charge." The new features in Ubik.com include: * International language compatibility: Addressing the mobile web`s international audience, Ubik.com supports translations for Bahasa, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. * Kindle mobile preview: Ubik.com helps users design sites by previewing exactly what they will look like on certain device types, such as the iPhone. Volantis now adds the ability to preview on the popular Amazon.com wireless reading device, the Kindle. * Google Docs integration: Users can add Google Docs word processor documents to their sites, allowing memos, articles, price sheets, contracts and more to be shared with visitors. * Google Picasa integration: With this new functionality, users can easily add images from Picasa into their Ubik.com mobile sites. Photos are grouped in albums and tagged for easy retrieval. * Yahoo Flickr integration: Users can now quickly include images from Flickr on their mobile web pages. Ubik.com`s simple interface eases the process of organizing and adding these photos. * Enhanced RSS functionality: Harnessing the power of Volantis` BuzzCast application, Ubik.com offers more efficient RSS feed handling and improved appearance on mobile devices. To see a demo of some of these new features, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680GH1wVIIM. Making use of the Volantis device library of more than 6,300 different mobile devices, Ubik.com websites provide the best user experience on virtually any grade of handset, from the iPhone and BlackBerry to inexpensive pay-as-you-go devices. Ubik.com allows users to share blogs, comments and pictures and notify friends and family about their sites through email and social networks like Facebook. Ratings and comments raise visibility of sites and build a closer sense of community, within the user`s network. About Volantis Volantis Systems (www.volantis.com) helps organizations solve the complexity of selling and delivering digital content to thousands of unique devices, without compromise, to the highest quality user experience, performance and reliability. Volantis software is protected by the following granted and pending patent applications: United Kingdom: 2371896, European Patent EP 1320972 (Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland), pending European Patent Application EP 1641211 (designating Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom), Hong Kong: HK1049046, Japan: 2002-531257, Singapore: 95431, 200301776-9, India: 325/DEL/03, South Korea: 7004318/03, People's Republic of China: ZL01819526, US: 10/381802. Google Docs is a trademark of Google, Inc Picasa is a registered trademark of Google, Inc Flickr is a registered trademark of Yahoo! iPhone is a registered trademark of Apple Kindle is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc Amazon.com is a registered trademark of Amazon.com, Inc BlackBerry is a registered trademark of Research In Motion Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc Volantis Rachel Borland, +44 (0) 1483 739732 Rachel.Borland@volantis.com or Schwartz Communications Jen Barlow or Joe Palladino 781-684-0770 Volantis@schwartz-pr.com Copyright Business Wire 2009
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