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weComm Delivers Sky Anytime On Mobile For Pre-Installation On MOTO Z8

by Staff Writer | posted on 24 May 2007


London, UK – 22nd May 2007 – weComm, the leader in interactive mobile data solutions, today announced that it has delivered Sky Anytime on Mobile for Motorola's recently announced MOTO Z8.

weComm develops the Sky Anytime on Mobile application for BSkyB, and has worked closely with Motorola to port the application to the MOTO™ Z8 for pre-installation in the factory. The Z8 is a 'kick-slider' smartphone running the UIQ on Symbian OS platform with a Motorola soft key implementation.

Sky Anytime on Mobile is an interactive mobile TV application that extends Sky's digital TV experience to the mobile platform. As well as offering access to an on-demand library of updating news, entertainment and sports, Sky's Anytime application also provides an access point to Sky's range of live mobile TV services. There are now over 30 TV channels streamed over 3G networks supported by in-stream programme information and fast channel switching. The Anytime application also allows customers to use their mobile phone to programme their Sky+ boxes remotely, place bets through SkyBet and search their full 7-day electronic programme guide (EPG), Anytime on Mobile replicates the standard Sky EPG, allowing for an intuitive and fully accessible mobile content experience.

The MOTO Z8 combines Motorola's signature design quality with outstanding video capture/playback and hi-fi audio quality for a mobile experience without compromise. MOTO Z8 features Motorola's first ever "kick slider," a graceful mechanism that achieves a "fit-to-face" profile by gliding open in a curve to match the contour of the user's face.

"Sky Anytime on Mobile has been very successful with exactly the types of people who will buy the MOTO Z8 and this handset is designed exceptionally well to be able to deliver Sky's high quality TV and on-demand content services over mobile," said Stephen Nuttall, Director, Commercial Group, BSkyB, "weComm has delivered a great application whilst continuing to support additional Sky initiatives in mobile."

"The MOTO Z8 takes the consumer entertainment experience to a new level, making Sky Anytime on Mobile a natural choice to include pre-installed on UK handsets," said Ian Meakin, VP Marketing and Alliances at weComm. "We are delighted to have been involved in bringing two of the biggest brands together to deliver a best-in-class interactive mobile TV solution. Both the application and the device epitomise a high-quality, rich media converged mobile experience."

MOTO Z8 will be available for purchase in Europe in June.

About Motorola


Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of seamless mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you connect simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $42.9 billion in 2006. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit www.motorola.com

About Sky

Sky is the UK's leading entertainment company and operates the most comprehensive multichannel, multi-platform television platform in the UK and Ireland. Around 21 million viewers in 8.4 million households enjoy an unprecedented choice of movies, news, entertainment and sports channels and interactive services on Sky Digital, the UK and Ireland's most watched digital television service.

Sky's aim is to offer customers unparalleled choice in content, delivered through innovative and technological advanced platforms that best serve the demands of today's viewers. In delivering entertainment through the TV, PC and mobile, customers have more control and flexibility over what they watch and how they watch it. In addition to its digital television service, Sky also provides the UK's largest mobile TV service (Sky Mobile TV) and offers the most popular on-demand broadband download service (Sky Anytime).

About weComm

weComm is the world leader in interactive mobile data solutions with over 35 patents and patents-pending covering techniques for high performance and reliability over variable mobile networks. Its wave™ platform provides subscribers with a high quality, dynamic user experience that includes interactivity, personalisation, transactions and a wide range of rich media including live TV, multimedia and news/data feeds.

weComm provides solutions for interactive mobile TV, on-device portals, betting and gaming and financial trading applications. Applications include BSkyB's Sky Anytime on Mobile, Cantor Mobile's interactive financial and sports betting, eSpeed's mobile Treasuries and Foreign Exchange and BSkyB's mobile Sky Bet. weComm's partners include Microsoft, RIM, Symbian, Ericsson and OpenTV.

Founded in 1999, weComm is headquartered in London and is privately held with investors Elderstreet and Frontiers Capital. For more information please visit www.wecomm.com


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