TNO Launches Farcast TV, a TV Channel Created Using Your Mobile Phone

TNO Launches Farcast TV, a TV Channel Created Using Your Mobile Phone

DELFT, Nederland, February 13/PRNewswire/ -- TNO today announced the launch of Farcast TV allowing anyone
to create their own television channel using their mobile phone. Farcast TV
is built on the Farcast platform, a next generation content repurposing
platform. Farcast TV allows consumers to start their own TV channel filled
with content created via a mobile device. Farcast TV can be embedded into any
weblog or website creating an enhanced experience for visitors.

Farcast TV provides website owners with a few lines of code to
incorporate into their website. Movies can be sent from the consumer's phone
to the TV channel either via MMS or via a dedicated application. TV channel
managers can invite customers to contribute to the TV channel or they can
even allow anyone to post into their channel. All videos are handled by the
Farcast platform.

The Farcast platform transcodes, stores, manages and
distributes content in all popular web and mobile formats. It incorporates
subscription (content owner and consumer), secure content management,
transcoding and delivery (push and pull) functionality. The carrier grade
platform can be sold as an integrated or remotely hosted solution. Farcast
can also be seamlessly integrated into IMS or SIP-based architectures,
generating a new breed of rich media applications which encourage the
creation and sharing of multimedia content.

Applications developed to date on the Farcast platform include
Farcast Reporter, Farcast AudioLink and FeedMe!. Farcast Reporter enables
journalists to publish news text, images, audio and video files via their
mobile along with GPS-based location tags. Farcast AudioLink distributes
regular bulletins with the latest news in audio files to subscribers'
mobiles. Farcast FeedMe! offers webloggers the possibility to make their
blogs mobile. Visitors of the weblog can fill in their mobile number and will
receive the latest weblog item each time a new post appears on the blog.

"Farcast TV is another step in bringing together the telecom
operators, internet and media industries. It changes the way in which users
experience television, they no longer only watch it, they create it." said
Robert Westers, product manager of Farcast. With the combination of the
Farcast platform and Farcast applications we enable media companies and
operators to gain competitive edge in supporting global trends like "user
generated content", "semantic web" and "cross-media".

Demonstrations of Farcast TV will be running at 3GSM World
Congress in Barcelona at Hall 1, Stand F14, from 12 to 15 February 2007.

About Farcast

Farcast from TNO is a next generation content repurposing
platform. It supports applications that let users manage and share multimedia
content whenever and wherever, regardless of format or device used. Farcast
transcodes, stores, manages and distributes content in all web and mobile
formats. Applications include Farcast Reporter, Farcast AudioLink and Farcast
FeedMe! as well as Farcast TV.

More informationFor more information please visit www.tno.nl/farcast

Source: TNO

Contact: Robert Westers, Info-ict@tno.nl, Phone: +31-15-2857113

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