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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orlando, Florida (March 4, 2005)
–
PangolinSMS, a leading provider of SMS text and MMS picture messaging
systems, today announced that it will demonstrate SMS Interactive HDTV
applications at the
CTIA Wireless
2005 convention in New Orleans, LA., from March 14-16, 2005. Located
at booth #134, Pangolin will give live demos of its Interactive
Messaging Unlimited (IMU) system.
PangolinSMS will also be featured at the
iHollywood Forum
Mobile Entertainment Summit
during CTIA 2005, providing up to four rooms of interactive Q&A and voting
for the attendees. This will mark the fourth time that iHollywood Forum
has invited PangolinSMS to exclusively participate in its events at major
tradeshows nationwide.
The president of iHollywood Forum, Zahava
Stroud, describes how the Summit will work: “Pangolin has added a vital
interactive component -- our audience can use SMS to query from their
seats and the speakers appreciate the convenience and feedback. Pangolin
has smoothly handled the voting and speaker questions - and our audience
of executives from carriers, handsets and content are the leaders in the
industry. SMS Messaging at our conferences is always a big hit. Our
audience loves seeing the practical applications of SMS. For many it’s the
first time they have used messaging services in a group context, showing
the huge potential for using SMS in corporate settings.”
Pangolin’s Interactive Messaging
Unlimited (IMU) is a Windows program that lets anyone manage and
display text messages. The messages come into a standard PC by connecting
a cellular modem (included with IMU) or via a dedicated SMS message
server. These messages are screened to remove any objectionable material
and are queued in preparation to be displayed.
At past iHollywood Forum events, questions
from the audience were submitted via SMS. IMU received the
messages, which were then screened and queued by a live moderator. (IMU
also has the option of doing this completely automated, so that no
operator is required.) The resulting questions were displayed on a
projection screen. As Stroud indicates, audience members and panelists
found this to be very effective. The moderator could ensure no “repeat”
questions, and the most interesting questions were listed first.
IMU includes the capability of
running SMS chat sessions like the one used at various iHollywood Forum
events, as well as voting/polling sessions, where SMS votes are tallied
and displayed live. In addition, streaming video and animated
advertisements can easily be added; in just a few minutes, anyone can make
a complete interactive display. The resulting pro-quality screen is then
video-projected at live events, or is broadcast on cable TV shows and chat
channels. For example, the band “Yellowcard” had an IMU chat session
broadcast in HD, just before a live TV concert last year. This IMU-run
event was the first-ever use of interactive HDTV in the U.S.
A new feature of IMU, web chatting,
allows SMS chatting over the Internet. A demonstration is at
http://www.pangolinsms.com/product_web.htm. Additional information on
other applications can be reached from the main page at
http://www.pangolinsms.com.
“IMU is helping bring SMS out of the
phone-to-phone market, and into audience participation and public
display,” stated Pangolin president William R. Benner, Jr. “At CTIA 2005,
we’ll be demonstrating how easy it is to create SMS opportunities at
stadiums, festivals, trade shows, discos and nightclubs, and other special
events.”
For more information and to book a demo at
CTIA 2005, please contact William R. Benner, Jr., Pangolin (407) 299-2088,
fax 299-6066, info@pangolinSMS.com.
ABOUT PANGOLIN’S IMU
Interactive Messaging Unlimited
allows large-scale public displays of SMS text and picture messages.
It processes incoming messages and outputs them to video, for use
in venues such as concerts, nightclubs, trade shows, cable TV chat
channels, and special events. IMU can even control laser graphics
projectors, to create huge scrolling text messages on the sides of
buildings or mountains.
ABOUT PANGOLIN
Pangolin is the world leader in laser display
systems. Over 80% of professional laser shows, worldwide, use Pangolin’s
Lasershow Designer 2000 system. LD2000 has won
more technical and artistic international awards than all other laser
display systems combined.
Pangolin’s IMU system for SMS texting was
first implemented for laser projectors. It was later expanded to handle
video. A single IMU video screen can have various windows with live or
recorded video, SMS text messages, SMS voting polls, scrolling text,
advertising, and graphics. More information is at
www.pangolinSMS.com.
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