SeeStorm won Pulver-100 annual award for 2nd year in a row

SeeStorm Inc., an innovator in speech and computer vision technologies, had been picked by Pulver.com for 2003 pulver100 list, which includes the most innovative and fastest-growing private companies on the telecom landscape. This was the second consecutive pulver100 nomination for SeeStorm.
"The pioneers need to press forward without some of the comforts of the late 90's, but it seems clear these companies embody the telecom future", Jeff Pulver said about companies nominated for pulver100 (www.pulver.com/pulver100).

SeeStorm's mission is to redefine the way people communicate over wireless devices. In 2003, SeeStorm made steps to break bounds in mobile communication market, and presented applications for creation and usage of animated 3D talking heads on cellular phones.
SeeStorm application enables multimedia messaging (MMS) with animated 3D talking heads: 1-click talking head animation, pasting user face over any background picture/environment, replaying user-recorded audio messages.

SeeStorm's goal is to benefit international Carriers, OEMs and Content Providers by bringing interactive, real-time, vision and speech-enabled peer-to-peer communication to wireless users.

SeeStorm application got the Overall Best Exhibitor Award at Wireless Japan-2003 expo in Tokyo, July 2003. The service based on SeeStorm application was recently launched in Netherlands (www.funlcip.nl), by a large European content provider Endemol.

About SeeStorm, Inc.

SeeStorm Inc. is a spin-off of SPIRIT Corp, a prominent supplier of DSP software products that licenses its software and technology to such multinational giants as Atmel, Japan Radio Company, Hyundai, Namco/Mitsui, NEC, Toshiba, Nortel Networks, Panasonic, Trans Cosmos, Samsung and Texas Instruments.

About nomination:

The pulver100 list, first introduced in September, 2002, includes private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. The list seeks to include the companies that represent the future of the communications ecosystem. The value chain characterized by listed companies differs substantially from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. The companies prospering in the new environment have followed the computer and networking industry model with open interfaces, connectivity decoupled from services, and software decoupled from hardware. The companies have little or no dependence on the traditional telephone network, equipment, or service providers.

Contacts:

Alexander Drozdov, Marketing Director, +7-095-912 6823, press@see-storm.com