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PangolinSMS, a leading provider of SMS text and MMS picture messaging
systems, demonstrated SMS Interactive HDTV
applications at the CTIA Wireless
convention in New Orleans, LA, giving live demos of its Interactive
Messaging Unlimited (IMU) system.
PangolinSMS was also featured at the iHollywood Forum Mobile Entertainment Summit,
providing up to four rooms of interactive Q&A and voting for the
attendees. 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 worked: “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 iHollywood Forum events, questions
from the audience are submitted via SMS. IMU receives the
messages, which are 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 are displayed on a
projection screen. As Stroud indicates, audience members and panelists
find this to be very effective. The moderator can ensure no “repeat”
questions, and the most interesting questions are 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. 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,
we demonstrated how easy it is to create SMS opportunities at
stadiums, festivals, trade shows, discos and nightclubs, and other special
events.”
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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