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Scott Jamar: My name is Scott Jamar with ComVu media and we allow you to broadcast live video from cell phones.

Ed Kohler: And the live video, how live is live here?

Scott Jamar: Live is live, its about 10 to 15 seconds delayed, but you are live, no MMS limitations, its going straight up to the web, they can go to a friend’s browser, it can go to another person cell phone, there isn’t any limit to where you can watch.

Ed Kohler: So, this is basically a streaming technology?

Scott Jamar: Yes, it is streaming technology, Mpeg 4, Windows Media, basically any technology that’s currently in use for streaming, we are agnostic, we don’t really care.

Ed Kohler: Where is the video going from when it leaves here, your phone?

Scott Jamar: Well video is going from the cell phone through the cell phone data network up to your account on ComVu server or if somebody else deployed the service such as a Carrier, would take you directly to your video account where you can change the titles of your movies, download them, edit them, re-upload them change some meta tag data or how you like create collections and then automatically post those to your blog, to your YouTube accounts, actually we haven’t announced that one yet, but it is almost ready.

So, what we have done is we make it incredibly easy for your capture video, using a mobile phone and immediately post to the web, so there is no intermediate upload steps, its already there, very easy to share and distribute once you get it there.

Ed Kohler: Do you see this as a personal application or business application or separate?

Scott Jamar: Its floor wax - it’s a dessert topping, its both. Yes, its actually great for consumer applications replacing the video camera that everybody has gathering dust in their closet someplace for professional applications, law enforcement is a real  obvious one, especially with our integration with GPS, we can actually track each frame of footage with GPS co-ordinates. So, if you have a situation where somebody says “they were in a particular point of time”, you have on in video, they actually weren’t, it gives you more links in the chain of evidence for those kinds of things, “Citizen Journalists” very-very big application we have got many-many people asking us, “how can we use it for that? There's actually several news organizations that are using our product today have to broadcast breaking news sorts of things.

Ed Kohler: What's this I hear about there is a switcher ties into this?

Scott Jamar: Right, there is a web based application that allows you to monitor, map and switch multiple live feeds into a single feed, kind like a mini TV productions studio.

Ed Kohler: What kind of data rates are you able to get on the phone server, or people expect from the product?

Scott Jamar: Well, data rate is still getting better in the States, but we can actually broadcast a few frames a second at 9600 kilibits per second, or 9.6 kilibits per second, but we can also go as high as 300 K, 500 K, 1 Meg, 1.5 Meg and 2 Meg depending up on the size the pipe and the processor power the device of drive sending the video. So, anywhere from very low bit rates to very high near HD quality, when HD is probably still about 12 months away on a handset, but they are coming, scary.

Ed Kohler: What platform is the software run on?

Scott Jamar: Right now we run on Window Mobile 5.0 and Synbian Series 60 version 2 and 3. We have a blue build in  process, we have a Linex build, they have stunned working on few Motorola handsets, all-in-all we are supporting about a hundred different handsets right now, that will probably grow to twice that by the end of this year.

Ed Kohler: And what’s the business model, how you guys actually make money?

Scott Jamar: Business model – well, it’s a couple of different ways, if people want to subscribe to us directly, today it is free, but eventually we will be charging anywhere from $3 to $5 a month for basic account, for operators it is a client server license fee, so we will sell them N-number of licenses to support N-number of clients. We would start sharing revenue with them once they actually had customer uptake, its a little bit different model than most companies trying to sell something into an operator saying pay us millions of dollars right now and we will setup everything and the risk is all on them, this way we are sharing in the risk and the operators tend to like that a bit more, because we are keeping their issues in mind and jointly helping them make the service grow.

Ed Kohler: Sure, so where can people find out more about the service?

Scott Jamar: They can find all about at comvu.com, C-O-M-V-U.com, there are few people typing in V-I-E-W, confusing , that’s right.

Ed Kohler: Well, thanks a lot.

Scott Jamar: You are welcome.