NewBay Offers Blogging Software for Mobile Phones

Posted on March 7, 2003

NewBay Software has developed a mobile phone blogging system. With FoneBlog camera phone users can instantly publish their pictures and comments to their personal website. Blogging has become a mainstream Internet activity in the past few years, with individuals creating websites on topics as diverse as politics, movies, religion, travel, family and technology. Popular search engine provider Google.com recently purchased blogging leader Blogger.com, which should increase interest in blogging even more.

"NewBay FoneBlog has struck a chord with both mobile operators and phone users," said Paddy Holahan, chief executive officer of NewBay Software. "Operators throughout the world see FoneBlog as the perfect application to drive MMS and data traffic and increase camera phone and PDA sales. FoneBlog offers consistent, long-term revenue for network operators and unmatched loyalty from consumers."

Using FoneBlog, mobile network operators can provide unique web addresses for their customers who can then update their personal website by simply sending images, audio and text from their mobile phone using MMS or SMS messaging. The website can be viewed from any Internet browser, PDA or WAP browser.

NewBay Software develops software to enable mobile phone users to easily create and run websites. NewBay sells its FoneBlog software system to mobile phone operators worldwide enabling them to increase revenue, customer loyalty and internet data services. NewBay Software is based in Dublin, Ireland. NewBay was founded in 2002 and is privately held.