[From PRN] The Me Inc. mobile division of The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX), a leading provider of mobile services, today announced the availability of the free trial version of Shout Postcard, a new mobile service that lets users quickly and easily share life's experiences on-the-go through photos, text and voice.
Designed initially for Palm(R) Treo smart phones, Shout Postcard features a colorful, easy-to-use interface that helps users quickly combine a photo, a recorded audio message up to a minute long, and text to create a personalized, multimedia postcard that can then be sent to family, friends, co-workers and social networks. Shout Postcard includes many unique features that integrate with Palm Treo phones based on the Palm OS platform.
The free Community version of Shout Postcard can be used to send a greeting to up to five contacts at once. Contacts can be added on-the-fly or easily uploaded from the Palm Treo address book. Users can include photos taken using the Palm Treo camera or any photo within their Palm Treo library of pictures that are stored on their phone or memory storage card. In addition to sending postcards for free, users also receive a free Shout Web album that is automatically created to allow them to share photos and participate in photo blogging on their own Shout website. Shouts can be added to a user's site directly from the phone or by logging in to their account at http://www.shoutpostcard.com. Shout Postcard was created following the successful release of the Shout Marketing mobile service that has been used by the Utah Jazz basketball team, Utah Blaze arena football team, BYU athletics, Bajio Mexican Grill Restaurants, and many others. Drawing upon this experience of designing and implementing mobile solutions for businesses and organizations, Shout Postcard is the first consumer Me Inc. mobile service to be released to the market.
"We've developed Shout Postcard to integrate with many of the features that are available on today's Palm Treo phones including multimedia and Internet features," said Shaun Cutler, director of product management for Me Inc. Shout mobile solutions. "Shout Postcard is a mobile application that will help users get even more out of their Palm Treo. Using Shout Postcard, users can share life's experiences from anywhere, and actually build a free multimedia website from anywhere in the world with no expertise required, all from their Treo smart phone. With the free trial version now shipping, we encourage Palm Treo users to download the service from http://www.shoutpostcard.com and start enjoying the fun of sending personal, multimedia postcards to their friends, family and their extended social network. We encourage Treo users to use it freely and share it with others." Shout Postcard is one of many available mobile products from the Me Inc. mobile division of SCO. Other mobile products include Shout Marketing, a one- to-many multi-media marketing communications service, and HipCheck, a proactive mobile solution to remotely manage your Windows and UNIX servers from your smart phone. All of these mobile solutions are featured at http://www.me-inc.com.
Pricing and Availability
The free, Community version of Shout Postcard for use with five contacts at a time is now available for download at http://www.shoutpostcard.com and http://www.handango.com. The Commercial version of Shout Postcard which will be priced at a few dollars per month and will be available in the coming weeks, allowing users to send Shout Postcards to groups or large numbers of recipients at once. It will also include the ability to create integrated video Shouts, and have enhanced photo blogging capabilities, multiple Shout websites, and the ability to receive Shout Postcards from a myriad of mobile phones. Once loaded onto a Palm Treo, the program can be beamed to other Palm Treo users. For more information on Shout Postcard, call +1-801-932-5423.
