Linux Serves Free Daily Comic Strips to Mobile Phones
May 8th, 02:06 UTC
SmashPhone Launches Free Daily Comic Strips on Mobile Phones
Beverly Hills, CA - May 5, 2006 - SmashPhone, a Beverly Hills-based start-up, today announced it's bringing to mobile phones the nationally recognized comic strips Girls & Sports and The Meaning of Lila. A new comic strip called Mostly Heads will also debut. For the first time, comic strip fans will be able to see popular comic strips for free on their mobile phones. Bringing comic strips to mobile phones opens up a broad and younger audience to advertisers over traditional newspaper publication. SmashPhone software is compatible with popular phones from Cingular, Sprint, and T-Mobile.
SmashPhone users download a small free Java-based comic strip player to their phones. The back-end server runs on Linux (Fedora). "Using Linux for our mobile server was obvious," says SmashPhone co-founder Robin Rowe. "Linux is a better, faster, cheaper approach for serving mobile phone content." Using customized open source Apache server software, the SmashPhone Linux server hosts the Java mobile player app for installation on phones and also streams the comic strips to the player once it's installed.
More: http://smashphone.com/press.html
(Submitted by Robin Rowe of MovieEditor.com)
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