- Kinoma
Infobox_Company
company_name = Kinoma
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = (2002 )
location_city = Palo Alto, California
location_country = USA
key_people =Peter Hoddie , CEOJoe Poletto , PresidentBrian Friedkin , Co-FounderMichael Kellner , Co-Founder
num_employees = 15 (2008)
industry = Software Engineering
homepage = [http://kinoma.com/ kinoma.com/]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 notable as the creator of the most popular media player for Palm OS Fact|date=October 2008. 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.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 andLive365 .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
Kinoma FreePlay is the free edition of Kinoma Play. It's ad-supported and supports a subset of Kinoma Play features.
Kinoma Player 4 EX
Kinoma Player 4 EX is Kinoma's retail Palm OS player.
Kinoma Media Embedded
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
Kinoma Media Producer is a Windows/Mac OS encoding application focused on creating files for playback on the Palm Treo, iPod and PSP.
External links
* [http://kinoma.com/ Kinoma]
* [http://blog.kinoma.com/ Kinoma's blog]
* [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121977962277773693.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Wall Street Journal review of Kinoma Play: "Better Media Navigation for Your Mobile"]
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