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Hunt Ventures, Oak Investment Partners and Voyager Capital Back Mobile Imaging Software for Wireless Carriers. “Consumers can’t figure out how to get images off their camera phones and into the digital photography ecosystem. We’ve cracked the nut with a solution that’s incredibly easy to use, and packaged it into a service that carriers and imaging companies can provide to their customers,” said Dan Shapiro, CEO of Ontela.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) November 10, 2006 — Ontela (www.ontela.com), an innovator in mobile imaging technologies headquartered in Seattle, today announces that it has secured funding from Hunt Ventures, Oak Investment Partners and Voyager Capital. This funding will support the company’s efforts as it moves from closed service trials to market deployment of its PicDeck™ mobile imaging platform in 2007.

Modern camera phones are breaking the two, three and even 10 megapixel barrier, but while studies show that consumers are taking hundreds of photos each year, 98% never leave the handset. Ontela solves this problem for wireless carriers and imaging services alike with technology that automatically, reliably, and securely transfers photos from consumers’ camera phones to their PCs and favorite online image services.

“Consumers can’t figure out how to get images off their camera phones and into the digital photography ecosystem. We’ve cracked the nut with a solution that’s incredibly easy to use, and packaged it into a service that carriers and imaging companies can provide to their customers,” said Dan Shapiro, CEO of Ontela. “Our investors have been watching the problem fester for years and understood our solution immediately. By fixing this broken link in the value chain, Ontela unlocks revenues for carriers and mobile imaging companies alike.”

Ontela’s patent-pending installer provisions new users in less than 60 seconds, and it requires no actions on the part of the user once set up – pictures are automatically moved to the user’s PC or favorite web-based photo gallery. Ontela chairman and wireless veteran Tom Huseby explains, “In the past four years, a lot of companies seeking funding have taken my picture with a camera phone. Every one is followed by a mad flurry of keypad tapping, followed by a blurry picture of me in some photo service I’ve never heard of. Dan took out a camera phone, hit the shutter button, and set it on the table. The picture showed up on Flickr® and in the ‘My Pictures’ folder of the computer a minute later. I was hooked.”

Ontela’s platform is currently in closed trials and supports many popular BREW, J2ME, Symbian®, and Windows Mobile camera phones such Motorola’s RAZR® and Sony Ericsson’s Walkman® phones. PC connectivity is supported on Windows 2000® or later.

landing MySpace, YouTube, and now PhotoBucket…………it just keeps getting BETTER and BETTER for Level3……….

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September 19, 2006

The Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) licenses auction by the Federal Communications Commission has come to a close, and that means more 3G wireless coming your way in, well, just about everywhere. The big winner is T-Mobile, which spent $4.182 billion (with a B) to land 120 licenses for spectrum coving areas of the U.S. (including Hawaii and Alaska) and Puerto Rico, including prime markets of LA, Chicago and New York. NextWave Wireless didn’t do badly either, getting 154 licenses (for just $115.5 million)  covering markets like Pittsburgh, Puerto Rico, Indianapolis, Sacramento, New Orleans, Tulsa, Little Rock, El Paso, Albany, Louisville, Sarasota, Anchorage and Fort Myers — but it wasn’t even considered one of the top five winners. They include Verizon Wireless, MetroPCS, Cingular, and a consortium of cable companies (Time Warner, Cox, Comcast and Bright House) under the name Spectrum Co. It’s all still subject to regulatory approval. The total amount raised by the FCC with this auction? $13.9 billion for 1,087 licenses spread across 104 bidding companies. In 2008, the FCC will sell off unused television broadcast spectrum

wow, these are AWESOME NUMBERS that Google is going to charge for “”VIDEO ADVERTISING”"

HOW does the Black Boxes of  Google and YouTube play into this scenario????

Answer:::: FREE WIMAX in USA supplied by Google

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imagine a world where “”LIVE VIDEO CONTENT ‘’ meets your mobile Cellular Device?????  Watch Level3 and OmniVision team up for the one =Two knock out punch…………….wifi/wimax cellular video content two ways mobile to mobile????????   Could be an interesting Ten Years Play…………..

LVLT announces Earnings October 24th………….too bad ski season aint open yet!!!!  OVTI awaiting Micron’s earnings today……….I am guessing Micron does well in CMOS sales as Micron is still ramping up production………..OVTI is rolling out NEW LINE UP of products…………..how will Samsung and Micron REACT to OVTI new Wave Front Coding??????

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what does Level3 have to do with OmniVision????????

Which is a better buy for ski season??????? for Long Term????
Google may have some  NEWS which makes Level3 the  better investment……….but, WFC can and will change ALOT in Camera phones……….Google, Level3 and Skibare on OVTI Crack………..

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Apple is set to unleash the biggest GADGET ever made and ever announced……….a cell phone video camera mp3………..will it be an OmniVision (OVTI) camera using Wave Front coding for a clear picture????

Just for tommie to help in his BUY Decision:::::::

OmniVision underrated?
Our first disappointment this week is OmniVision Technologies (Nasdaq: OVTI), a maker of digital camera sensor chips. The company reported quarterly sales of $137 million and pro forma earnings of $0.39 per diluted share — lagging estimates on both counts. The analyst community had hoped for $152 million in gross revenues and earnings at $0.44 per share. That’s 42.7% sales growth year-over-year, but only 10.4% growth on the bottom line.

OmniVision is a heavily shorted stock, to the tune of more than a quarter of all shares outstanding. It doesn’t look like an overvaluation situation, since the P/E ratio of just 9.6 is well below the industry average among camera chip makers, which stands at roughly 27 times trailing earnings. One might be tempted to think of this one as a bargain.

As for business opportunities, OmniVision mostly caters to cameraphones and consumer-level digital cameras, and I don’t see those markets cooling down anytime soon. It’s true that OmniVision is competing in a crowded market, with rivals ranging from tiny Pixelplus to giants like Samsung and Matsushita (NYSE: MC). However, a promising new product scheduled for debut this month could make a real difference in this highly commoditized industry.

Dubbed OmniFocus, the chip results from a $30 million acquisition finalized in the spring of 2005. It promises to replace the mechanical autofocus functions of today’s cameras with digital image processing techniques performed by the sensor chipset. Fewer moving parts should lead to cost savings and more reliable end products, and the technology is unique to this company. If OmniVision does indeed deliver on its promises, it should end up with all the customers it can handle.

OmniVision isn’t even on the list of tech companies under investigation for stock option problems. I have to say that I’m mystified by the low valuation here. It might be fair to drop the price a bit with a missed earnings target, but not when the shares were so inexpensive to begin with. OmniVision goes on my watch list for further investigation.

for anyone wanting to do SERIOUS DUE DILIGENCE, you MUST subscribe to Camera Phone Report……….Mr Reiter covers, discusses, and is the BEST imho of HOW to DIGG into Camera Phone Sales and Stats!!!  Much Thanks!!

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and I have INCLUDED a HOT LINK onto my site to link to Camera Phone Report

An interesting recon mission on the Sprint PCS and Verizon wireless stores here in Boulder , Colorado where we PLAYED with the Chocolate and the RAZR and the new MP3 Players! Wild and crazy with way too many buttons is all I could deduct from my ole fart syndrome…………but, the YOUNG crowd was there in force and the CHOCOLATE was definetly HIP and even I could figure out that wagon wheel turn knob and the amount of entertainment was priceless. Chocolate and RAZR are selling OUT THE DOOR so fast its not funny. With the Omnivision 1.3mp and the 2.0mp inside the RAZR and the Chocolate, life is going to be good on August 31st. Pictures to websites is going to be more difficult than I originally thought. August 31st for OmniVision is going to be MORE than Interesting. Let the SHORTS be warned, the PHONES are going out the door!!!!

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my ideas are simple and my dreams are large………to have the MySpace.com and the YouTube.com website of skiing Videos/pictures of Skiing on Steroids.

To allow Skiers to Mingle, Enjoy, and Explore Skiing through our SHARING of Videos and Pictures of Skiing………….

to facilitate Skiing at Mary Jane………..to explore the Pow POW of the Trees which are the BEST in North America Tree Skiing (ok, all you Steamboaters send me hate mail but Aspen Tree Skiing is NOT the same as Pine Trees!)

To Allow CU Students and MaryJane residents to “”INTERN”" on this site to grow the ideas an expand the BASE and FOLLOWING…………

and, to DISCUSS the Phenomonen of Mobile blogging and Camera Video phones through an INVESTMENT in the BEST camera/video phone developed at the University of Colorado Physics/Optics group and sold/spun off to OmniVision Technologies(Naz-OVTI). The Motorola RAZR and the LG Chocolate are the best examples of OmniVision Inside and once you LEARN what Wave Front Coding does for VIDEOS through a camera phone, well, GAME OVER!!!! OVTI BABY!!! OVTI!

To JOIN this group, call me and leave me a MESSAGE 303 731-5471 or send an email to me

Skibare@yahoo.com

Live Long, Ski Hard, Die in Powder Heaven!! He who skiis the Most, Loves the MOST !!! MaryJane Mantra!

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