Press Release
Mobile Social Media Solution Now Available With iSkoot Notifier For T-Mobile UK Phones
Free App by iSkoot Makes Phones Smarter with Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and News
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Feb. 11, 2010 – T-Mobile (UK) Ltd and iSkoot, a leading provider of mobile Web services, today announce that they are trialling iSkoot Notifier, a free social media application that allows customers in the United Kingdom to simplify their mobile social networking with a single app.
iSkoot Notifier makes it easy for T-Mobile UK customers to stay fully connected to popular social media sites, including Facebook©, MySpace™, and Twitter©. Notifier also provides access to over 50 customer-selected feeds in news, sports and entertainment. Customers can easily view and manage their social networks and news alerts through live feeds and real-time notifications.
“We know that our customers want to use social networking,” said Matthew Dove, Head of Prepaid Products. “Notifier works on low end devices, which means we can get it to the widest number of customers, not just smartphone users.”
When customers sign in to Notifier, they can easily view friends’ activity, news feeds, status updates and new photos. Customers can directly post new status messages and tweets, send comments and messages, and receive updates from their preferred news sources through a single stream on their mobile phone in real time.
“We know from speaking to carriers throughout Europe that one of the most sought after capabilities on any handset is the ability to stay plugged in to social media,” said Mark Jacobstein, CEO of iSkoot. “Because our solutions do the heavy lifting in the cloud and deliver communications to a single platform, service providers can bring social networking and news feeds to almost any mobile device they offer regardless of the technology.”
Notifier is based on iSkoot’s popular Kalaida™ Mobile Web Services Platform, which powers social media for subscribers of leading U.S. carriers. For more information on iSkoot services and solutions visit: http://www.iskoot.com/.
About T-Mobile UK
T-Mobile is one of the world’s largest mobile operators with more than 150 million customers worldwide and is the service provider of choice for 16.6 million customers in the UK. T-Mobile offers a range of innovative products and services, such as Solo, the SIM-only plan, Combi, a traditional minutes and text package, and Flext, the UK’s first flexible tariff. T-Mobile continues to innovate with new devices such as the UK’s first Android-based smart phone, the T-Mobile G1, and its successor the T-Mobile G2, both with access to more than 1,000 applications. T-Mobile has pioneered the mobile internet, and operates an award-winning 3G network with speeds of up to 4.5Mbps. As a pioneer of deep network sharing in the UK, T-Mobile is continuously improving population coverage for 3G services and will operate the best 3G network by the end of 2010.
For more information about T-Mobile UK, please visit www.t-mobile.co.uk
About iSkoot
San Francisco-based iSkoot, Inc. works closely with mobile network operators to bring leading internet services like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and more to mobile handsets around the world. iSkoot’s Kalaida Platform brings the power of cloud computing to virtually any consumer mobile device and gives carriers the ability to deliver compelling interactive experiences with minimal impact on network and handset performance.
Facebook© is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.
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