AT&T Introduces New Social Networking and Mobile Media Applications from Juice Wireless and Buzzwire
Want to stay connected to many of your favorite online social destination sites while you’re on the go this summer? AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced today the launch of two new mobile applications ? JuiceCaster 6.0 and Buzzwire ? that keep you connected to your online world. JuiceCaster 6.0 enables you to use your AT&T wireless device to instantly share and post your mobile videos and photos with your favorite online communities ? including exclusive mobile video postings to YouTube and Flickr. With Buzzwire, you can access and customize an extensive streaming media library that spans popular video and audio content, as well as live Internet radio, directly from AT&T phones.
JuiceCaster 6.0
This unique application from Juice Wireless lets you share videos and pictures from your wireless device to the Web’s most popular social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. AT&T customers also have exclusive access to post directly to YouTube and Flickr as well. Family and friends can instantly view, rate and comment on content directly from their own phones or directly from an online social-networking site.
“Summer travel doesn’t have to mean taking a vacation from your online world,” said Mark Collins, vice president of consumer data products for AT&T’s wireless unit. “There is real value and demand for giving consumers the tools to create and share video on the fly. JuiceCaster uniquely enables AT&T customers to use their wireless phones to capture, chronicle and share the world around them with their global network of friends.”
“We’re thrilled to launch JuiceCaster with AT&T as it empowers AT&T’s wireless customers to live connected lives around the clock,” said Nick Desai, CEO of Juice Wireless, Inc. “The launch of our innovative technology for mobile communications merges the best wireless operator with the hottest mobile application, bringing convergence to reality.”
AT&T customers can use JuiceCaster to:
- Post mobile pictures and video to popular social-networking Web sites and blogs, including Blogger, Facebook, LiveJournal, MySpace, Twitter and Xanga
- Set their status to update automatically on Facebook and Twitter, and receive friends’ status updates on their own phones
- Broadcast existing or new mobile videos and photos to global audiences using YouTube and Flickr, without requiring a computer or Internet connection
- Make content public or create custom groups by adding and connecting with friends directly from AOL, JuiceCaster, Gmail, Hotmail, MS Outlook and Yahoo!
- Meet new friends within the JuiceCaster community
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