Maxim Mobile Expands Service to 20 Countries, World's Largest Men's Mobile Brand
(ContentDesk) August 12, 2005 -- Maxim Mobile is a mobile service built around Maxim Magazine, the world's largest men's magazine with 27 international print editions launched in 36 countries. The magazine has a growing international readership of over 17 million, with 4 million copies sold each month. In the U.S. alone, it boasts a guaranteed rate base of 2.5 million issues, making it also the largest men's lifestyle magazine in America, more than doubling the number of its nearest competitor. Beginning in 2003, Maxim began extending its audience to wireless by partnering with Netherlands-based Mowave Inc.
Mowave, formerly known as Mobile Media International, has launched 20 international mobile versions in 10 different languages. The service is available on official portal menus of over 28 operators, such as Vodafone, Orange, O2 and many more. The Maxim Mobile service is unique in that it closely coordinates its mobile content with each local edition, cross-marketing content initiatives in each country. It offers a global brand with an optimal mix of international and local content. The Maxim Mobile site provides a wide range of men's editorial content on a subscription basis, as well as downloadable items such as ringtones, wallpaper, video, games, promotions, MMS blogs and a variety of Maxim-only wireless applications."Maxim Mobile has seen tremendous growth since launching in the summer of 2003.
It's a tribute to the strength of Maxim's global brand appeal and its unique content mix. I know of no other magazine brand that has penetrated both print and mobile across so many diverse territories, both on the major operator portals and out in the open-WAP environment, and that is accessible in multiple languages around the world," said Giles Richter, CEO of Mowave, Inc.2005 Maxim Mobile benchmarks:- Over 1.5 million commerce transactions completed on Maxim Mobile sites- Hundreds of thousands of paying monthly subscribers worldwide- 100,000+ Maxim Mobile users have participated in interactive Maxim Mobile campaigns- 3G Video offered in more than 10 countries- 20 mobile editions worldwide, in 10 languages- Tripling of user traffic in under 1 yearMowave intends to continue to expand Maxim Mobile's international reach and service offering in the coming months. To date, Mowave has launched Maxim Mobile on multiple platforms, including i-mode, Vodafone live!, Orange World and o2 Active, and is live in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Thailand."The close partnership between Mowave and Dennis Publishing has enabled us to make Maxim Mobile much more than a content service. It is a whole platform that allows Maxim's audience worldwide to interact with the brand, join its community, participate in promotions, and experience a growing suite of Maxim's franchises on mobile. It is now also a premier marketing channel where Maxim can reach readers one-to-one, globally, while maintaining the quality and consistency of its brand image.
About Mowave, Inc.:Founded in 2003, Mowave, Inc. is a wireless entertainment company supplying content services to telecommunication carriers in over twenty markets in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Mowave is a privately financed company headquartered and incorporated in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mowave's products include mobile magazines, wallpaper, ringtones, video and games, in addition to acting as a systems integrator, and provider of marketing solutions on wireless operators around the world. Some of Mowave's mobile services include Maxim Mobile, LIFE Pix, and YoCards! Additional company information can be found online at http://www.mowave.com.About Dennis Publishing:Dennis Publishing is one of the world's fastest growing independently owned media companies.
Group turnover exceeds ?200 million a year. The company publishes 19 magazines in the UK (including Maxim, Auto Express, PC Pro, Viz and The Week) and four titles in the US (Maxim, Stuff, Blender and The Week). Maxim is published in 27 editions in 36 countries and sells 4.1 million copies per month worldwide. Dennis Publishing is privately owned by Felix Dennis. Additional company information can be found online at http://www.dennis.co.uk..
Sprague Brothers Hits Now Available as Ringtones
New Ringtone store featuring music from rock'n'roll artists opened by Wichita Falls Records. Wichita Falls Records Announces Ringtones Availability; All of your favorite Sprague Brothers songs from our label on your cell phone!Today Wichita Falls Records announced immediate availability of ringtones from all of its artists, enabling customers to download from their new ringtone store Wichita Falls Mobile.tripod.com . The availability of ringtones from such well-received and popular albums as The Savage Sprague Brothers, has spurred a frenzy of cell phone users downloading rock'n'roll ringtones like never before. "Our ringtone store is experiencing unprecedented deployment success," said Lee Holley, director of A&R at WFR. "It has already surpassed our highest expectations, and we expect to hear our music playing on cell phones everywhere." Wichita Falls MobileMany customers have already begun downloading the ringtones.
We hope to spread the word about our new ringtone store and...
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Mobile Phone Ringtones
Mobile phone ringtones are like hot cakes for the youngsters, the market is huge, estimated world wide sales of $ 2.5 Billion per year. The cost of a mobile phone ringtone ranges from ?1.99 to over ?10. Most singers and performers provide rights for their melodies to be converted to ringtones versions. Survey shows that about 26% of mobile phone owners downloaded at least once a ringtone. Many people downloading more than one as you can customise and set the phone to play different ringtones for a specific caller.
For instance if your mum is calling the mobile phone will play a certain ringtone and another one for dad and for your girl friend a different one so you don't have to guess who is calling you, it is totally personalized per caller.
There are four types of ringtones:
* Monophonic ringtones play a melody of a song one note at a time, with no harmonies.
* Polyphonic tones add harmonies to the song.
* Real-life or True...
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Free Arabic Ringtones
The ringtone has become a remarkable cultural tool that is enjoying a great deal of popularity worldwide. Users in different parts of the world like to use their specific languages and music to personalize their mobile content. Today, Arabic ringtones have become a form of great entertainment and a way to show you ethnicity.
Normally, Arabic music that is popular all over the world is the favorite choice of many Arabic speaking mobile users. The favorite artists being Ya Tabtab by Nancy Airam, Dana, Amr Diab, Samira Saeed, Ihab Tawfic, Arwa, Elissa, Assi Al Hellani, Grace Deeb, Ilham Al Madfai,
Umkulthoum, Majed Al Mohandis, and many more. But the Arabic language is not just confined to Saudi Arabia and the surrounding areas.
In fact, the northern Africa has a large Arabic speaking population, which further mixes with the local ethnic culture resulting in cross cultural language usage. This is also evident in the types of ringtones available. For example...
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New Technology Alert: Ringtone Provider Becomes First to Deliver to Verizon Phones
Philadelphia, PA (ContentDesk) June 30, 2005 -- Ringingphone.com (http://www.ringingphone.com), one of the pioneers in North American ringtones, is pleased to announce that it has become the first independent ringtone provider to permit Verizon customers to access its database of thousands of unique ringtones and wallpapers.
This is being done through a unique proprietary technology that has pushed Ringingphone to the forefront of the ringtone industry.
It is believed that Ringingphone is the only independent ringtone provider in North America to provide ringtones to Verizon customers."This is obviously huge news for us," said Bob Bentz, director of marketing at Ringingphone.
"It gives us a unique competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Verizon customers have waited too long to be able to access some of the tremendous mobile content that exists in the marketplace today."Bentz added, however,...
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Silansys joins Texas Instruments OMAP? Developer Network to Provide Advanced Polyphonic Sound Synthesis
Silansys Technologies Ltd (www.silansys.com), a leading developer of embedded multimedia firmware and silicon for mobile devices, today announced that it has become a member of Texas Instruments Incorporated's (TI's) OMAP? Developer Network, joining a group of leading applications developers driving the next generation of multimedia applications for wireless devices.The highly innovative Silansys MoMedia audio solution performs high quality, high polyphony sound synthesis, especially targeted at low-to-mid ranged phones.
The extremely low MIPS, low memory architecture now enables high polyphony sound synthesis through software for low-cost platforms with baseband processors and delivers ultra-low power in handsets with high performance applications processors.
Utilizing TI's industry-proven multi-core OMAP architecture, MoMedia gains an additional dimension of performance optimization, enabling an extremely...
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Maxim Mobile Expands Service to 20 Countries, World's Largest Men's Mobile Brand
(ContentDesk) August 12, 2005 -- Maxim Mobile is a mobile service built around Maxim Magazine, the world's largest men's magazine with 27 international print editions launched in 36 countries. The magazine has a growing international readership of over 17 million, with 4 million copies sold each month. In the U.S. alone, it boasts a guaranteed rate base of 2.5 million issues, making it also the largest men's lifestyle magazine in America, more than doubling the number of its nearest competitor. Beginning in 2003, Maxim began extending its audience to wireless by partnering with Netherlands-based Mowave Inc.
Mowave, formerly known as Mobile Media International, has launched 20 international mobile versions in 10 different languages. The service is available on official portal menus of over 28 operators, such as Vodafone, Orange, O2 and many more. The Maxim Mobile service is unique in that it closely coordinates its mobile content with each local edition, cross-marketing content...
Maxim Mobile Expands Service to 20 Countries, World's Largest Men's Mobile Brand
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Mobile Phone Ringtones
Mobile phone ringtones are like hot cakes for the youngsters, the market is huge, estimated world wide sales of $ 2.5 Billion per year. The cost of a mobile phone ringtone ranges from ?1.99 to over ?10. Most singers and performers provide rights for their melodies to be converted to ringtones versions. Survey shows that about 26% of mobile phone owners downloaded at least once a ringtone. Many people downloading more than one as you can customise and set the phone to play different ringtones for a specific caller.
For instance if your mum is calling the mobile phone will play a certain ringtone and another one for dad and for your girl friend a different one so you don't have to guess who is calling you, it is totally personalized per caller.
There are four types of ringtones:
* Monophonic ringtones play a melody of a song one note at a time, with no harmonies.
* Polyphonic tones add harmonies to the song.
* Real-life or True...
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Moving Day Made Easy with Tips from ShipnShred.com
Denver, CO (ContentDesk) April 13, 2006 ShipnShred.com, the document shredding and recycling service experts, have some useful moving tips for consumers as the beginning of moving season approaches. As you get ready to move into your dream home, the best moving advice is, dont move the things you no longer want or need, says Steve Hastert of ShipnShred.com. This is especially true of old clothes, childrens toys, and documents in your filing cabinet that are ten years old or more. Filing...
Moving Day Made Easy with Tips from ShipnShred.com
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Residential VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, services are provided for two segments: businesses and consumers. Consumer VoIP is targeted at homes and hence referred to as residential VoIP. As with any other consumer product, the demand for residential VoIP is driven by cost and quality of service.
With more homes taking to the broadband services for entertainment, news and online purchases, voice-based services, almost free, have caused the consumers to switch to the VoIP telephony. The...
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Hundreds Pledge to Lead a Drug Free Life at Community Day in Inglewood
(ContentDesk) January 17, 2006 -- Hundreds of new Drug-Free Marshals raised their right hands and pledged to be drug-free this Saturday in Inglewood. This made the Drug-Free Marshals booth one of the hottest attractions for young people at the 11th Annual Community Day, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department and the Sheriffs Multi-Faith Clergy Council. Held at the Department of Public Social Services Building on West Imperial Highway, Community Day, despite the rainy weather,...
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Colour Contact Lenses - Corrective, Therapeutic and Cosmetic
Contact lenses are classified as corrective, therapeutic, and cosmetic. For those who are short sighted, near sighted, or who have astigmatism (all refractive defects of the eye) corrective contact lenses are in order. In these cases, an eye patient will mostly likely be prescribed "spherical" lenses. Therapeutic contact lenses cure other problems that are non-refractive, like "dry eye," and some types of therapeutic lenses even deliver medicine to the eye.
Two types of cosmetic...
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An Introduction to Car Transporting
There are several ways to transport your car across the country or across the world. Car transporters are identical to other moving companies: they arrange to pick up your vehicle, load it, and deliver it to your final destination. All auto carriers are required to be registered with the Department of Transportation. You can look up a US DOT number or company name from the Department of Transportation's website. Make sure you are dealing with a legitimate business.
The most popular and...
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