Vringo to Exhibit at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011
NEW YORK, Feb 7, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) --
Vringo, Inc. (NYSE Amex:VRNG), a provider of video ringtones and personalization solutions for mobile devices, today announced that it will exhibit at the upcoming GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011 (MWC) to be held February 14-17 in Barcelona, Spain. MWC is the leading mobile industry event of the year with 50,000 attendees from over 200 countries.
Conference participants are encouraged to join us at our booth (No. 7D46, Hall P7 -- App Planet) where they can demo the latest iteration of Vringo's award-winning video ringtone platform which has been successfully deployed for leading carrier partners such as Orange UK, Maxis, Etisalat and more. Vringo will also be demonstrating its new video remix platform for Android which it recently released with T-Pain's Nappy Boy Entertainment.
Andrew Perlman, President of Vringo, said, "Mobile carriers around the world should be looking at Vringo's popular service and apps that bring video ringtones, user-generated video content, and social networking to both smart phones and feature phones. We look forward to meeting with prospective new carrier and content partners at the upcoming MWC conference in Barcelona."
Vringo's fully-hosted carrier platform has now been deployed for international partners in six markets with new launches anticipated in the next quarter. Vringo's scalable, cloud-based, distributed application architecture enables a carrier's subscribers to browse and download mobile videos, set them as video ringtones and instantly share them with friends. In addition to carrier partners, Vringo has content partnerships with major content providers including EMI, T-Pain, Marvel, Discovery Mobile, Ingrooves and Agence France-Presse.
About Vringo
Founded in 2006, Vringo (NYSE Amex:VRNG) is bringing about the evolution of ringtones. With its award-winning video ringtone application and mobile software platform, Vringo transforms the basic act of making and receiving mobile phone calls into a highly visual, social experience. By installing Vringo's application, which is compatible with more than 200 handsets, users can create or take video, images and slideshows from virtually anywhere and make them into their personal call signature. Vringo's patented VringForward(TM) technology allows users to share video clips with friends with a simple call. Vringo has launched its service with various international mobile operators and dozens of content partners, and maintains a library of more than 5,000 video ringtones and growing. For more information, visit http://ir.vringo.com.
For more information about how video ringtones work, visit www.vringo.com/p_video_ringtones.html.
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Forward-Looking Statements
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SOURCE: Vringo, Inc.
CONTACT: Vringo, Inc. Jonathan Medved CEO Email: jon@vringo.com Phone: +1 646-525-4319 x 2501 Investor Relations Firm: Crescendo Communications, LLC John J. Quirk / David K. Waldman Email: vrng@crescendo-ir.com Phone: +1 212-671-1020