Kinoma
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Engineering |
| Founded | (2002) |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, USA |
| Key people | Peter Hoddie, CEO Brian Friedkin, Co-Founder Michael Kellner, Co-Founder |
| Employees | 15 (2008) |
| Website | kinoma.com/ |
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Kinoma is a privately-held company founded in 2002 by ex-Apple employees Peter Hoddie, Brian Friedkin, Michael Kellner, and Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson to design and build mobile media products. All four founders worked together in Apple's QuickTime team.
Kinoma is created a media player for Palm OS. Every Palm OS-based Treo currently shipping includes some edition of Kinoma Player. Additionally, Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile for Palm OS is based on Kinoma's core technologies.
On February 14, 2011 Marvell announced they had acquired Kinoma.[1]
[edit] Kinoma Play
Kinoma Play is described as the first "mobile media browser", since its feature set goes beyond capabilities traditionally associated with "players" traditionally available for mobile phones. For example, the built-in Kinoma Guide content discovery system allows users to browse, search and stream over a half terabyte of mobile-ready content. Additionally, it can play video, audio and pictures directly from built-in services like Flickr, YouTube, Audible and Live365.
Kinoma Play was introduced for Windows Mobile on August 25, 2008. Kinoma has stated that support for Symbian and other popular mobile OSs is underway.
Kinoma FreePlay is the free edition of Kinoma Play. It is ad-supported and supports a subset of Kinoma Play features.
Kinoma Player 4 EX is Kinoma's retail Palm OS player.
Kinoma Media Embedded is a streaming-only version of their retail product, and is included with every Treo. Kinoma Media Embedded is used as the Sprint TV player.
Kinoma Media Producer is a Windows/Mac OS encoding application focused on creating files for playback on the Palm Treo, iPod and PSP.
[edit] References
- ^ "Marvell Introduces Kinoma - Revolutionary Open Software Platform to Unify Applications". http://www.marvell.com/company/news/press_detail.html?releaseID=1468.
