PARIS & DURHAM, N.C.--(Business Wire)--
Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS), a worldwide leader of services to
content creators, and SIMtone Corporation, a privately held company delivering
the first Universal Computing platform, today announced a partnership to deliver
Home-mobility Computing and Entertainment products and services for consumers.
Thomson is undertaking development of solutions that use SIMtone`s Universal
Cloud Computing Platform to offer operators and service providers with a broad
range of plug-and-play home-mobility computing, TV and entertainment integrated
solutions.
SIMtone`s technology will enable consumers to acquire and/or use content and
applications of all types, including personal ones, anywhere inside or outside
the home, via any network and with a single user ID. They will access their
digital content and services seamlessly from many different appliances already
in their possession, such as a desktop or laptop computer, mobile phone, and
televisions as well as from new low-cost "third-screen" devices that plug and
play in a home WiFi network or an HSPA mobile broadband network, and can be
placed anywhere in the home or carried-along.
"Broadband-connected consumers are increasingly demanding flexibility and
simplicity to access their digital content and entertainment services from
anywhere on-the-fly and on-demand," explained Vince Pizzica, Head of Strategy &
Technology, Thomson. "With SIMtone, we can enable operators and content
providers to offer an almost unlimited set of differentiated content services,
that are accessible everywhere, both inside and outside the home and from all
types of devices."
"Designed specifically to meet the needs of large-scale carriers and content
providers, the SIMtone platform can be utilized to build and deliver all types
of convergence solutions such as triple- and quadruple-play services, home
networking, mobile and interactive TV, and gaming, as well as other virtualized
computing environments," explained Mario Dal Canto, Chairman and CEO of SIMtone
Corporation. "Our partnership with Thomson will further enable operators,
service and content providers to deliver consumers with feature-rich
multi-screen solutions for the home and for the road."
SIMtone`s Universal Computing Platform is a plug-and-play, secure and massively
scalable intelligent-network computing solution that allows operators and
content providers to provision, aggregate and deliver all types of applications
and services hosted in any "cloud" to a broad array of existing and new devices,
such as "third screen" ones.
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About Thomson:
Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) is a worldwide leader of services to
content creators. For more information: http://www.thomson.net.
About SIMtone Corporation
The SIMtone Corporation makes Cloud Computing universally simple. The company
has developed and commercialized the patented SIMtone Universal Cloud Computing
Platform that allows network operators and businesses to host, manage and
quickly provision any Cloud-hosted services, and ubiquitously deliver them to
zero-touch terminals that can be standalone, low cost hardware appliances, or
software terminals usable via browsers or on PCs, thin clients and mobile
devices. With the SIMtone, Cloud services such as virtual desktops, DaaS/SaaS,
PC Remote Access or Web services, are simple and very inexpensive to host and
manage for businesses and providers, and become usable without a computer,
on-demand and on-the-fly, simply and safely, by everyone, everywhere. SIMtone
Corporation`s North American headquarters are based in Durham, North Carolina
and SIMtone International headquarters are based in Vevey, Switzerland. SIMtone
is a privately-held company backed by Motorola Ventures, and Kodiak Venture
Partners. For more information: www.SIMtone.net.
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or
Shareholder Relations:
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or
SIMTone
Springboard Public Relations
Domenick Cilea, 732-863-1900 x. 202
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