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iPhone Gets 20,000 Widgets
    SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Plusmo announced today the
availability of its free and customizable mobile widgets service to users
of Apple's new iPhone. A custom interface gives iPhone users access to more
than 20,000 Plusmo widgets - most of them created by users. The service is
live at http://iphone.plusmo.com.
    Content providers, media houses and bloggers can now extend their
services to the iPhone through Plusmo widgets for free within minutes.
    Plusmo also enables users to create personalized widgets out of useful
web services, XML/RSS based sources including news feeds as well as
professional media, and user generated content such as blogs, photos and
videos, and other Web 2.0 content.
    "Plusmo's personalized homepage makes it easy for iPhone users to
discover, install and personalize widgets making them instantly available
at the touch of an icon on the iPhone," says Mike Elgan, a leading
technology blogger. "Plusmo makes text- and photo-based content far more
readable than the iPhone Safari browsers zoom-and-pan interface. Plusmo
also offers iPhone users easy access to external iPhone widgets."
    Plusmo widgets are mini web applications that offer traffic reports,
store locators, games, blogs, specialized searches, live sport updates and
much more.
    "Plusmo is a wonderfully elegant mobile widget solution. I have come to
find it indispensable. It's everything one looks for - easy to use, fast,
and nicely designed. No doubt smart marketers will find Plusmo ideal for
mobile advertising too," says Scott Kraft, EVP Marketing of Six Apart, one
of the leading makers of weblog software and services.
    Kelvin Chong, Chief Architect of Plusmo, says, "Plusmo widgets for the
iPhone are standards based and use Javascript and XHTML. We eagerly await a
developer kit for the iPhone so that we can support other Plusmo features
for the iPhone such as idle screen mash-ups, and always-on support for
widgets even when there is no connectivity."
    Apart from iPhone, Plusmo's device agnostic widget approach supports
most Java phones including Symbian devices, RIM Blackberry devices, Windows
Mobile Smart phones, Palm Treos, Pocket PC-enabled PDAs as well as
WAP-enabled devices.
    About Plusmo
    Plusmo is a free mobile media service that delivers personalized rich
mobile experiences through mobile widgets.
    Plusmo, started in June 2006, has a gallery of more than 20K widgets
published by users and on an average get 10 million mobile page views
monthly. Plusmo enables people to extend social networking through mobile
devices, anywhere, all the time on the move.
    Simplest way to get mobilized - visit http://www.plusmo.com from any
mobile device, download, register and personalize. Plusmo service is
currently in beta.
    Service is available on 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi

    CONTACT:
    Raghu Chandrapati
    press@plusmo.com
    (408) 718-5532
    Plusmo
    4800 Patrick Henry Dr.
    Santa Clara, CA 95054
    http://www.plusmo.com
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SOURCE Plusmo
http://www.plusmo.com
http://iphone.plusmo.com
CONTACT:
Raghu Chandrapati of Plusmo, +1-408-718-5532,
press@plusmo.com