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CNN Money
"Ten companies were given top marks by attendees and
expert panelists at Dow Jones' Wireless Innovations
conference this week...(The honorees, including Ontela,
were) chosen through a combination of audience voting
through text-messaging; popularity of the presentations
as judged by the number of attendees in each session;
and voting by the expert panel of VCs."
"Dow Jones Picks Top 10 Wireless Start-Upgrades", April
25, 2008
Yahoo! Finance
"Ontela’s PhotoCopter provides
Photobucket’s more than 20
million unique users in the United States an automatic
way to save photos taken with camera phones to their
Photobucket accounts."
"Ontela to Use Photobucket's Open API to
Automatically Save Photos Taken on Camera Phones to
Photobucket", April 22, 2008
Fierce Wireless
"'This is the end of the 'photo graveyard,' where people
take pictures and then leave them on the phone until
they're deleted. Instead, we've given a new life to
these memories by saving them to the places users care
about most.'"
"Alltel Partners with Ontela for PhotoCopter", April 17, 2008
Wireless Week
"Photos no longer need to be trapped on the cameraphones
that took them if Alltel Wireless has anything to say
about it. The operator commissioned Ontela to help its
customers with the problem. The result is PhotoCopter, a
service that saves and automatically transfers every
cameraphone picture to the customers’ home computers and
favorite Web photo albums."
"Alltel Ends the Photo Graveyard", April 17, 2008
Business Week
"'PhotoCopter is a simple to use application that will
allow our customers to get the most of their phone's
camera and enjoy their photos in any setting.'"
"Alltel Wireless and Ontela Launch Service to
Automatically Save Photos", April 16, 2008
Seattle PI
"Alltel camera phone users who are on a data plan
will be able to have their photographs immediately saved
to their hard drives, delivered to their e-mail or
posted to photo sharing services Flickr, Blogger,
PhotoBucket and Snapfish."
John Cook, "Ontela snaps photo sharing deal with
Alltel", April 16, 2008
Telephony
"Consumers are reaching for their mobile phones instead
of their cameras when the chance for a memorable picture
arises, and Ontela is making sure the magic doesn't stop
there. The start-up's latest offering is helping bridge
the gap between phone and PC. "
Sarah Reedy,
"Say 'cheese' and send", April 14, 2008
bnetTV
Ontela CEO Dan Shapiro chats with bnetTV's Michelle
Sklar after winning the CTIA E-Tech award for most
innovative consumer mobile application in the Mobile
Entertainment and Social Networking category.
Michelle Sklar, April 2, 2008
Press
PhoneGadget Blog
"'Today, camera phones are like graveyards of lost
memories. Hundreds of pictures are trapped inside, and
the only fate awaiting them is deletion.
PhotoCopter frees these photos and lets customers use
them! The photos are immediately saved to all the places
consumers want them.'"
"Alltel, Ontela Launch PhotoCopter", April 18, 2008
FOXBusiness
"Pic sender has been a huge success for us, delighting
customers for the past five months with 24/7 ease of use
and reliability. Our customers' pictures are always
delivered where they want them."
"Ontela Wins CTIA WIRELESS 2008(R) E-Tech Award for
Innovation in Mobile Entertainment and Social Networking", April
3, 2008
The Mississippi Business Journal
"According to Cellular South, its "pic sender"
service, powered by Ontela, has exceeded all
expectations with higher than projected sales in its
first six months of availability...pic sender has
outpaced projections by 217%."
"Pic sender Exceeds Projections", April 1, 2008
The Clarion Ledger
"Cellular South has teamed up with Ontela Inc. to
provide an imaging technology that will send pictures
automatically from a phone to a destination of your
choice...The process is seamless and effortless.
You take the photos and then go logon."
Earnest Hart, "New technology, Web sites make uploading
cell phone pictures a snap", March 21, 2008
DMNews
"'The next revolution isn't about the Web, it's about
extending the Web. the newest and most exciting
thing about Web 2.0 is the ability to place offers in a
relevant context for the user' -Dan Shapiro"
"What will be the next online revolution?",
January 14, 2008
bnetTV
Watch Ontela CEO Dan Shapiro chat with Michelle Sklar of
bnetTV about Ontela at the CES conference in Las Vegas.
Michelle Sklar, January 8, 2008
WWZD 106.7 FM
Listen here to Kelli Karlson from the Wizard 106 morning
show talk about pic sender.
Kelli Karlson, December 28, 2007
Entrepreneur.com
"Ontela, a Seattle company started
by ex-employees of Expedia, Microsoft and RealNetworks,
is developing similar applications using its PicDeck
technology through a partnership with ActiveSymbols..."
Heather Clancy, "One Shot Says It All",
December, 2007
TMCnet
"'The Pic Sender service makes Cellular South camera
phones more useful and more fun than ever. Our customers
just take a picture and it’s saved automatically to all
of their favorite places...'"
Anshu Shrivastava,
"Cellular South Introduces Pic Sender",
November 26, 2007
Wireless Week
"This solution (pic sender)
also addressed an industry concern revealed in a
national survey of wireless subscribers that expressed
an interest in saving cameraphone pictures on their own
computers as well as sending them to their favorite
Websites."
Rhonda Wickham,
"Cellular South Sends Pics",
November 26, 2007
Memphis Business Journal
"Cellular South is launching Pic Sender, a digital
photo service that enables Cellular South subscribers to
have their pictures delivered automatically to their
home PCs."
"Cellular South launching new photo service",
November 20, 2007
Always on Real-Time Access
"It should be noted that some of the smaller regional
carriers who survive due to laser focus customer service
are testing and rolling out innovative solutions ahead
of their bigger peers. For e.g. Cellular South launched
a picture application (with Ontela)..."
Chetan Sharma, "CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment Roundup", October 28, 2007
Seattle PI
"Seattle-based Ontela, which transfers photos
between camera phones and personal computers, will
distribute its technology through Cellular South in a
deal announced today at the CTIA Wireless &
Entertainment conference."
John Cook,
"Ontela inks deal with Cellular South", October 23, 2007
Fierce Wireless
"Holy cow, even more news from CTIA: Ontela
announced its first carrier deal with Cellular South,
which will deliver the mobile imaging solutions
provider's digital photo service under the Pic Sender
brand.""Ontela, Cellular South Partner for pic sender", October 23, 2007
The Seattle Times
"Ontela
says Cellular South will start using the Seattle
company's picture-delivery service, which allows people
to automatically save camera-phone photos to their home
computers or Web albums."
Tricia Duryee, "Taking a Whrrl at CTIA show", October 23, 2007
LAPTOP
"Another option we're eagerly awaiting is Ontela (www.ontela.com), which is lining up carriers for its PicDeck app."
"26 Things You Can Do With Your Cell Phone", June 28, 2007
The New York Times
"...PicDeck software from Ontela can be configured
automatically to send a copy of each camphone shot to a
folder on your PC, as well as to a blog or a
photo-sharing site. Ontela is working with several
wireless carriers, and PicDeck is expected to arrive on
phones in the fall."
J. D. Biersdorfer, "The Parthenon Looks Solid From My Cellphone", June 5, 2007
Wireless Week
"Customers want to access and use their cameraphone
pictures, and they would switch operators if someone
made it easier."
Wireless Week Staff, "By The Numbers", May 15, 2007
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