Industry-leading resource now includes device-aware video content adaptation data from Mobizoft DotMobi, the firm behind .mobi -- the only ICANN-approved Internet address designed specifically for aiding customers locate mobile content -- today reported the addition of Mobizoft video content adaptation data into the award-winning DeviceAtlas, the authoritative source of mobile handset data for mobile content developers.
As predicted by analyst firm Infonetics Research, the number of worldwide mobile video regular customers is set to climb to over 46 million by the year 2010. To aid content providers capture the advantage of that, Mobizoft, a supplier of mobile Internet-enabling products, now contributes its device-level data to aid DeviceAtlas consumers produce content for the blooming mobile broadcast market.
"Adapting video content for mobile devices has customarily been difficult becuase of wide diversities in device capabilities," claimed Paul Nerger, Vice President of Advanced Services and Applications, dotMobi. "I'm excited to see Mobizoft join the increasing number of companies providing bulk data to DeviceAtlas. Mobizoft carries unique capabilities with regards to media streaming, which is at the cutting edge of the mobile web. DeviceAtlas users will make advantage from Mobizoft's innovation."
As part of this agreement, Mobizoft will earn a licensed access to the DeviceAtlas database, which will also enhance the breadth and width of their own device database and capabilities.
"We are constantly working to improve the experience of developing mobile Web video broadcasting and advertising, which is often made difficult by the variety and capabilities of devices," expressed Maria Christensen, CEO of Sweden-based Mobizoft. "In working with dotMobi, we are able to provide DeviceAtlas users with information for creating rich mobile content for nearly every video-capable device on the planet."
In addition to Mobizoft, many other international mobile operators, handset manufacturers and developers including Nokia, Vodafone, Telecom Italia Mobile, Argogroup, Volantis and Zandan, are working with dotMobi to collate and continually polish data on handset qualities so that developers can produce "device aware" content with the most up-to-date data available.
About Mobizoft
Mobizoft began in 2005 in Lulea, Sweden, with the perception of providing mobile users worldwide a simpler way to access data over the Internet with the richest, full-featured experience conceivable regardless of the device. Mobizoft has become the Northern European market front runner providing technology to build and deliver rich media content optimized in real-time for all types of mobile devices. Through content delivery network partners, Mobizoft C4M is offered to over 1,000 content providers.

