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iPhone App Store: ShoZu launches its free iPhone application

Published by Stuart Dredge on July 10, 2008 in Applications. 0 Comments

shozu-iphone-app.jpgIt shouldn’t come as a surprise to see media-sharing service ShoZu on the iPhone App Store on Day One - it’s always been keen to get onto as many handsets as possible.

Like its existing mobile versions, ShoZu for iPhone lets you upload photos to all manner of sites, including Flickr, Facebook, Blogger, Twitter, Photobucket, Typepad and many more. You can also keep track of your friends’ photo feeds, change your profile status, and blog direct from the application.

It’s free, and works with the iPhone or iPod Touch. To get it from the new App Store, click this link.



ShoZu adds eight new sharing sites, including Twitter and Photobucket

Published by Stuart Dredge on May 9, 2008 in Applications and Photography. 1 Comment

shozu-twitter-1.JPGShoZu is ace: it was one of the first mobile applications to make it easy to upload your mobile snaps (and later videos) to the web. And it’s stayed relevant due to gathering a bunch of services in one place - I use it to upload to Facebook, Flickr and YouTube for example. Anyway, ShoZu has just announced that it’s added eight new destinations, taking its total to 36. Twitter is the most high-profile new addition, allowing you to check your timelines and post new tweets from within the ShoZu application. Other popular additions include Dailymotion, Photobucket and Friendster. The other four are more niche: Twitpic, Cellfish, Seesmic and Ipernity, but it’s good news if you’re a user of any of them. ShoZu says it plans to add more services in the coming weeks, too.



Moto unveils touch-screen E8 and Z10 ‘mobile filmstudio’ at CES in Vegas

Published by Chris Leonard on January 8, 2008 in Handsets. 0 Comments

moto-e8.jpgMotorola has followed Sony Ericsson’s lead in going handset crazy at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

There are the mid-range W230 (candybar) and W270 (slider), but the headlines will surely be grabbed by the new touch-screen E8 and the long-delayed Z10.

The ROKR E8 (right) might only have GPRS/EDGE, but its selling point has got to be the ability to switch between camera, music player (including Windows Media Player 11 compatibility), contacts and phone calls at the touch of your fingertip, using a haptic vibrating touchpad.

The other handset, the slider Z10 (below), is being pitched as a “mobile filmstudio[sic]”. Aside from the dodgy spelling, it does at least have HSDPA connectivity and 3.2-megapixel camera. Oh, and it runs on Symbian, which is a good alternative to Motorola’s infamously Marmite-like OS.

However, the ‘mobile filmstudio’ aspect comes from the phone having the ability to let you instantly upload photos and videos to YouTube, Google, Yahoo and Shozu. So it’s not quite a proper ‘film studio’ but its still an appealing new handset.

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Motorola discusses vision for mobile entertainment in 2008

Published by Chris Leonard on December 14, 2007 in Biz & Tech. 0 Comments

motorizr_z8_phone.jpgPocket Picks was lucky enough to be invited to a special round-table hosted by Motorola this week, featuring some of its senior execs and key content partners.

The purpose was to talk about ‘The Future of Mobile Entertainment’ and how mobile technologies are creating new opportunities for the industry. Among those present were representatives from Motorola itself, EA Games, Universal, Wecomm and Shozu.

The key issue was the current exponential growth in consumers using mobile services and content like picture sharing, downloading games and accessing multimedia content, all because operators and manufacturers started offering one-click access to services.

Think Shozu embedded on a new Motorola handset or Sony Ericsson’s Cybershot, or even operators’ one-click access to their portals. As Andrew Till, Motorola’s Senior Director for Applications and E2E solutions said: ‘Single click access to features makes all the difference.’

But you’re reading this wondering so what? What does it tell me about what to look forward to? Well, according to the panel, the big thing for 2008 is going to be… [drum roll]… ‘User discovered content.’ And what’s this?
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