Mobile Documents get the ShoZu Treatment

Qipit, the first consumer service for turning written or printed information into a clear, crisp digital copy that can be stored and shared on the go, and ShoZu, the free service for quickly and easily accessing, saving and sharing photos, podcasts, videos and music, have announced the integration of qipit with ShoZu Share-It for cameraphone users.
The partnership means that qipit users with Smartphones will be able to take advantage of ‘one-click’ uploading of their pictures to qipit. The ShoZu uploader eliminates the need to use MMS or mobile email when using qipit from a cameraphone and maintains the original image size. The integration of the two applications also means that ShoZu users can quickly and easily save and share digital copies of documents with their camera phones. This could be a personal handwritten note, class notes, business documents from meetings, information on a bulletin board or a whiteboard, an article in a magazine, or almost anything handwritten or pinted that can be snapped by a cameraphone.
Qipit works with any high resolution cameraphone (1 megapixel or higher), on any wireless network. The service, unveiled at 3GSM 2005 under the name ‘Digitizer’, was subsequently tested with mobile operators and with Clicktoscan, a private beta through the first half of 2006, and publicly launched at DEMOfall on 25 September 2006 in San Diego. New users can register online or directly from a cameraphone by sending a picture of a document to the Qipit website. Qipit users can download the free ShoZu uploader to their cameraphone from the Shozu website, then select qipit as the ‘one-click’ destination in the Share-It service.  ShoZu users can sign up for qipit here. 
ShoZu’s patented technology allows consumers to download and upload photos, videos, music, podcasts, text and other digital content without the need to open a mobile phone browser, wait for pages to load, interrupt phone calls, or sync to a PC. Services include ‘ZuCasts’ that deliver content to the handset automatically, one-click uploading of camera phone images and video clips to community websites and other destinations, and two-way mobile-to-web messaging and interactivity.   
The ShoZu Share-It client is available for Symbian S60, UIQ, Windows Mobile, and leading Java phone, such as Motorola’s RAZR, Sony Ericsson K- and W-series phones, and several Nokia phones.
“Both qipit and ShoZu have been designed to make the life of cameraphone users richer and easier,” says Benoit Bergeret, CEO of Realeyes3D, the company behind qipit. “With this partnership, qipit users get an even more efficient way to bring the information that’s important to them into their personal digital life, and Shozu users are able to join in the revolution of mobile document capture, sharing and storing.”
For ShoZu, CEO Mark Bole adds:
“ShoZu and qipit are natural complements that target the same consumers who use cameraphones as part of their daily lifestyle. Qipit is about document capture anywhere, any time and ShoZu is about easy and trouble-free sharing and receiving pictures, videos and music, and now digital documents. Together, we make our joint vision of a world of mobility, where the convenience and quality of mobile media capture and sharing are readily available, a reality for all cameraphone users.”

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