ROK
Entertainment is offering GeeSpark, the world's first
mobile viral messaging service.
GeeSpark
will enable users to chat, share messages, images and YouTube videos on
their mobile phones and forward these to their friends and groups, in a
viral fashion like broadcast messaging on computers, where
users share messages with multiple friends at the same time
GeeSpark has been developed by ROK's Finland-based
mobile services development company, Geniem. GeeSpark is currently in
invitation-only Beta mode and will be advertising-funded. The service
is free to join from www.geespark.com and is free to use provided the
user has a data plan in their mobile tariff.
"In the past few
years, there has been a phenomenonal uptake in, and migration from, the
use of email onto instant messaging and now onto multi-person
'broadcast' messaging using PC-based social networking services," said
Tuomas Kumpula, Managing Director of Geniem, "and we believe the next
evolution in the networking space will be through mobile phones wherein
GeeSpark users can share messages, images and videos from YouTube with
all of their friends at once, on a viral basis, through their mobile
phones."
Commenting on GeeSpark, Laurence Alexander, Group CEO of
ROK, said, "To be launching the world's first mobile viral messaging
service is tremendously exciting and is another major milestone in the
development and deployment of our suite of revenue-generating mobile
services and technologies."
About ROK Entertainment Group Inc.
ROK Entertainment Group Inc., founded in 2004, is a global mobile entertainment group.
With
approximately 200 staff worldwide, ROK has filed more than 40
international patents for its suite of innovative mobile technologies.
With 3.3 billion mobile handsets in use worldwide -- forecast to grow
to 5.8 billion within 5 years -- the mobile entertainment industry is a
fast-growing, multi-billion dollar business.
ROK TV enables the streaming of live and on-demand TV to mobile phones over mass-market 2.5G, as well as over 3G and Wi-Fi.