First Mobile Content Search and Discovery Engine for TVs and
Browsers
Zodigo Debuts at the Famous DEMO 08 Conference for Emerging
Technology, January 28-30 in Palm Desert, Calif.
PALM DESERT, Calif.--(Business Wire)--Zodiac Interactive, a multiple Emmy-nominated and Emmy
award-winning developer of software for interactive television, today
launched a new mobile content search engine, Zodigo(TM). Much like a
Movies-On-Demand service from cable operators, Zodigo is navigated
either by remote control or by keyboard and mouse and includes
revolutionary features that make it easy for consumers to discover and
download mobile content instantly to their mobile phones. Zodigo is
also the first and only software platform built for release on digital
TV systems (cable, satellite, & telco), Blu-ray & HD-DVD players, all
next-gen gaming consoles (Wii(TM), Xbox 360(TM), and the
Playstation(R) 3), as well as at Zodigo.com and many other Web
distribution partners. Perhaps most importantly, Zodigo is an
intelligent system that quickly and automatically learns about users'
preferences, as well as their exact mobile phone type, and recommends
only content that works for that phone.
Parks Associates' Director of Broadband & Gaming Michael Cai,
comments: "The breadth and depth of mobile content will increase
significantly over the next few years, and the ability to easily
discover and download this content from the TV and Web gives consumers
a much better mobile phone shopping experience. Today, consumers
typically turn to their mobile phone/operator for new content, but the
phone deck features a poor merchandising environment for content
discovery and purchase. We are pleased to see Zodiac leveraging its
years of experience in developing interactive TV applications for some
of the largest U.S. cable and satellite operators to make mobile
content shopping an easy, on-demand service for consumers."
Matt Johnston, Zodiac's SVP of strategy and the CEO of the new
Zodigo operating company, comments, "Consumers are beginning to
experience an explosion in the breadth and diversity of content and
applications available for the mobile phone, and, until today, have
not had an adequate content discovery solution. Part of the problem is
that content directories, for the most part, have only been available
either on the mobile phone through existing mobile operators, through
cluttered teen-targeted Web sites or directly from individual,
fragmented publishers. Zodigo was developed with a better shopping
experience in mind and the result is an easy-to-use search experience
that helps create a truly long-tail of mobile content discovery."
Zodigo allows consumers to channel and Web surf to discover great
content for their mobile phones. Whether it's games, applications,
ringtones, movies, podcasts, coupons, mobile manga, tickets, alerts,
or full songs, Zodigo helps consumers easily find and download
interesting stuff recommended by like-minded people.
Johnston continued, "To be selected by Chris Shipley and the DEMO
08 conference team is a wonderful validation of our team's vision and
hard work. DEMO remains the industry's premier launch pad for emerging
technology and consumer-facing products and we couldn't be more
pleased with the opportunity to launch and showcase the power of
Zodigo at DEMO 08."
About DEMO
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the
semi-annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new
products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the
technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their
reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge
technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such
as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to
secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and
influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately
70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information,
visit www.demo.com.
About Zodiac Interactive
Zodiac Interactive, the Interactive TV 2.0 Company(TM), is a
multiple Emmy-nominated and Emmy award-winning developer of software
for interactive television. The company also runs one of the world's
premier studios for interactive television games. For more
information, visit www.zodiac.tv.
For Zodiac Interactive, Palm Desert
HighTech PR, Inc.
Terry May / Tammy Snook, 321-632-1690 / 407-667-9355
terrymay@hightechpr.net / tammysnook@hightechpr.net
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