Company Extends Its Consumer Product Line by Entering Into Exclusive
Publishing Deal With Morpheus Software
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smith Micro
Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMSI) today announced it has signed an exclusive
publishing agreement with Morpheus Software, LLC., a leading publisher of
digital photo animation software. The company's pioneering product, known
as Morpheus Photo Animation Suite(TM), contains three easy-to-use, creative
photo animation products -- Morpher, Warper and Mixer. These products
enable users to morph, distort, exaggerate, or blend portions of multiple
images into a single image.
"Although morphing technology has been around for over a decade,
complicated applications and a steep learning curve have kept it out of
reach from the everyday user ... until now," said David Polzine, Product
Manager at Smith Micro Software, "Adding flash animation to sites using
Morpheus software can help attract attention to online social networking
communities such as MySpace, Match.com and even online photo and video
communities such as YouTube and Flickr."
Morpheus Software offers three main products: Morpheus Photo
Morpher(TM) is a morphing application that transforms one person or object
into another right before your eyes. Morpheus Photo Warper(TM) is a
distortion application that warps and exaggerates portions of photos such
as body parts. Morpheus Photo Mixer(TM) is a compositing application that
mixes up faces and body parts between two photos. The program supports
popular file formats for saving your work, including Flash SWF and Animated
GIF, as well as a built-in email feature for seamlessly sharing animations
with friends and family.
"We are thrilled to work with Smith Micro in bringing our software
products into the retail market," said Dan Engel, CEO of Morpheus Software.
"Combining our innovative line of products with Smith Micro's strong
reputation will create a mutually-beneficial relationship for years to
come."
"We are very excited to team up with Morpheus Software. Our aim is to
have a strong market presence in the photo and digital imaging markets,"
said Jonathan Kahn, Senior Vice President at Smith Micro. "Our partnership
with Morpheus Software compliments our growing line of photo imaging and
compression technology which includes StuffIt Image, StuffIt Deluxe, Active
Image and our personal photo software product line."
Morpheus Software Features Include:
* Easy-to-use wizards to help create morphs, warps, and mixes
* The ability to morph an infinite number of pictures from one to another
* An easy technique for sharing morphs with friends and family with a
built-in email feature
* An incredible new interface for working on multiple pictures
* A lightning-fast rendering engine for previewing morphs by playing them
within the program itself
* The ability to render morphs in a variety of popular formats including
Flash SWF and Animated GIF
* The ability to export morph frames in still formats such as JPEG, PNG,
TIFF and more
* The ability to easily create html web pages for each saved file
* The ability to save your layouts as you work
* The ability to zoom to any level for precise control when working with
large images
* A timeline window to quickly see a thumbnail of every frame in your
animation
Pricing, Availability and Requirements
Morpheus Photo Animation Suite has an MSRP of $49.99 and is available
from Smith Micro and from popular retailers, catalogs and distribution
partners worldwide. For more information on the product, visit:
http://www.allume.com/win/win_graphics.html.
System Requirements:
Windows 2000 or XP with a 500 MHz or faster processor, 64MB of RAM,
DirectX 8.1 or later and Windows Media Player 9.0 or newer.
To learn more about our complete line of products, visit:
http://www.smithmicro.com or http://www.allume.com.
About Smith Micro Software:
Smith Micro Software, Inc., headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, is a
developer and marketer of wireless communications and utility software
products for multiple OS platforms. The company designs easy-to-use
software for personal computing and business solutions around the world.
With a focus on wireless and broadband technologies and the Internet, the
company's products and services enable wireless communications, file and
image compression, digital image and music management. In addition, Smith
Micro develops and publishes award-winning software solutions for Windows
and Macintosh, empowering users in the areas of information access,
removal, recovery, security, and Internet distribution. Smith Micro's
leading brands are QuickLink(R), StuffIt(R), CheckIt(R), Internet
Cleanup(TM) and Spring Cleaning(R). Smith Micro's complete line of products
is available through retail stores, Value-Added Resellers (VARs), Smith
Micro's consumer, enterprise, wireless OEM sales groups and the company's
websites. Smith Micro's common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market(R)
under the symbol SMSI.
About Morpheus Software:
Morpheus Software is a leading publisher of digital photo animation
software products that help consumers bring their pictures to life. The
company's software products include Morpheus Photo Morpher, Morpheus Photo
Warper, Morpheus Photo Mixer and Morpheus Photo Animation Suite.
For more information on the company and its products, please visit
Morpheus Software's Web site at http://www.animatephotos.com.
This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties, including without limitation risks and uncertainties
relating to the company's financial prospects and projections, the
company's plans for returning to sustained profitability and the company's
ability to increase its business in segments of the company. Among the
important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those in the forward-looking statements are new and changing technologies,
customer acceptance of those technologies, fluctuations or cancellations in
orders from distribution customers, new and continuing adverse economic
conditions, and the company's ability to compete effectively with other
software companies. These and other factors could cause actual results to
differ materially from those presented in any forward-looking statement and
are discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission including its recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
Smith Micro, the Smith Micro logo, StuffIt, StuffIt Image, StuffIt
Deluxe and Active Image are trademarks or registered trademarks of Smith
Micro Software, Inc. All other trademarks and product names are the
property of their respective companies.
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CONTACT:
Nisha Kapoor, +1-949-362-8510,
nkapoor@smithmicro.com, or Bruce T. Quigley, Vice President of
Business Development and Investor Relations, +1-949-362-5800,
bquigley@smithmicro.com, both of Smith Micro Software, Inc.; or
Media, Bruce Freeman of ProLine Communications, +1-973-716-9457,
bfreeman@proline-com.com, for Smith Micro Software, Inc.; or
Investor Relations, Charles Messman or Todd Kehrli, both of MKR
Group, +1-818-556-3700, ir@mkr-group.com, for Smith Micro
Software, Inc.
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