Multimedia Messaging
Multimedia messaging (MMS), which allows mobile phone users to send text,
pictures, sound, and short videos, might overtake the increasingly popular
text-only (SMS) service within the next three years.
MMS is built upon a rich and well defined set of standards which offers the
potential to go far beyond the simple model of peer to peer photo messaging,
the feature with which MMS has inadvertently become identified. Recent studies
(Ovum report) have estimated that looking forward, significant portions of
MMS traffic will be generated by machine-to-person traffic (M2P).
"By providing an environment which supports media types ranging from text to streaming video, within the framework of IP standards currently in use, MMS can enable truly compelling integrated end-user services". -- David Mantripp
MMS
The first phones with built-in one-megapixel cameras has appeared in March 2003 on KDDI in Japan, with two-megapixel models in the fall. In Italy, from introduction till March 2003, TIM has sold 1 Mio MMS enabled mobile phones, Omnitel-Vodafone 367'000 and Wind 250'000.
MMS Applications
- Softhouse
Softhouse took face-recognition software and turned it into a mobile phone entertainment product named Twin Factor.
A user takes a photo of a friend, sends it to Twin Factor as a standard MMS message, then receives a photo of the celebrity in question along with a comment that includes the percentage to which the two people resemble each other.
MMS Solutions
- Anthropics Technology Limited
Enhance the consumer messaging experience - Bluefactory
BlueFactory Systems is a leading developer of mobile content provisioning software, providing customers worldwide with a complete solution for the design, integration and management of mobile enterprise applications - Octane
Mobile
the Octane MMS Suite, is a value-added service which allows network operators to profitably extend their multimedia messaging service environment (MMSE) to content partners - ArcSoft's
mobile products enabling the creation, management and sharing of multimedia content with PDAs and smart phones - 3united United Mobile Solutions AG
The areas of competence are Premium Services, Entertainment & Content Services, Mobile Tickets & Coupons, Carrier Solutions. 3united is the result of a merger between Connovation, Sysis and XIDRIS. Xidris invented the MMS Feature Proxy, a platform which enables the operator to dynamically enhance and enrich an MMS (adding personal logos or adding an advertisement MMS slide to make the content cheaper to end-users who agreed to receive ad-enhanced MMS messages). - conVISUAL
Visual Messaging - Lifestyle goes mobile - ucp
morgen
MMS Composer, MMS Abo, MMS Center and MMS Mediamanager - Cash-U
- InterNexium
- Liquid
Air Lab
MMS Studio - 3G medialab
- Zellsoft
MMS Solution + Zellsoft photo-album - Hay Systems Ltd.
Mobile Messaging Providers - now.sms
SMS/MMS Gateway and Multimedia Messaging Center (MMSC) - 3dMe
Get emotional over MMS - Optus MMS solutions
- wire2air
- ThunderWorx
MMS Services
- Seesendshare.com
T-Mobile customers simply take a picture with their T-Mobile camera phone and e-mail it to photos@t-mobile.com. The submitted photos will be posted in an online photo album at the company's contest Web site. The voting public will decide who captures the best "you had to be there" photo and wins the trip of a lifetime -- use of a private jet for five days with five friends to five cities in the continental U.S. www.SeeSendShare.com - JJ1 Club Mobile
- Mobidick
- T-Mobile Livingroom
- The
Lycos Mobile Channel
you can send multimedia messages from the web or mobile to any mobile phone or the web - MTV meet
This is a service I've seen on the German MTV: at the bottom of the screen there is an area for displaying SMS messages... what is cool is that the photo of the person sending the SMS appears on the TV screen together with the message... This is not based on MMS, since MTV wants to control the quality of the data first.... but one day it could be... - ublog.it
Wireless Messaging and Blogging Community
Mobile message operators, gateways and solutions providers
- Mobileway
Mobileway partners with best-of-breed developers to enrich its existing portfolio of white-labelled applications. They partner with MIG for innovative SMS & MMS applications and Mobicus for permission-based mobile marketing. They are member of the Mobile marketing association, mobile entertainment forum and the mobile pyment forum. - Mobicus
Mobile Marketing Systems - MIG Asia
- Netsize
International wireless message operator, with ambitions of becoming
world leader in mobile Internet message routing. - Mblox
June 2003, Europe's mBlox and America's MobileSys merged and raised $8 Million. - MIGway
- Crealogix
- Skymo
- Derdack
- Xidris
- Trend Hunter
- Cool Infographics
- Information Aesthetics
- Interactive Architecture
- dataisnature
- Creative Observer
- Design Spotter
- feeladdicted
- Paleo-Future
- TechCrunch
- Trendwatching.com
- Graffiti Research Lab
- t r a n i s m
- Douwe Osinga
- AudioCubes.com
- we make money not art
- Pasta and Vinegar
- Lunch over IP
- Engadget
- Unusual News/Ideas
- CScout Trendblog
- Agenda Inc. News
- digg labs / stack
- Technorati
- Robots Dreams
- gadgetblog
- Create Digital Motion