What Company Is Offering:
Chorefinder.com provides a marketplace where anyone looking to outsource chores, errands, or projects can locate (and do business with) responsible and experienced local help.
How It Works:
At Chorefinder.com, you can have all your chores completed by SOMEONE ELSE - all from the comfort of your own home. For the past few years, thousands of companies have relied on similar websites to outsource their business needs - and saved themselves valuable time and money in the process. Now you can benefit from the outsourcing trend, too! And, if you're an individual or business that provides services to others, Chorefinder.com is an easy-to-use outlet where you can showcase your abilities and grow your business. If you often find yourself too busy to enjoy life, consider hiring a qualified person (or business) to give you some much-needed relief. It's FREE.
More at:http://www.chorefinder.com/
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Xactly Corporation is providing the most affordable on-demand sales compensation solution
What Company Is Offering:
Xactly Corporation was created to meet the needs of the broader market by providing the most affordable on-demand sales compensation solution allowing companies to improve their business performance through the use of more effective sales compensation programs.
How It Works:
Xactly enables companies to easily and affordably design, implement, manage, audit and communicate sales compensation programs. By providing more effective plans and better visibility, these companies can dramatically improve sales performance.
The core purpose of Xactly is to empower companies of all sizes to achieve success and thrive. For years great business leaders have recognized that sales compensation is one of the prime motivators for a company's success. The right plans can increase profits, control expenses and drive consistent quarter-over-quarter results.
More at:http://www.xactlycorp.com/
Xactly Corporation was created to meet the needs of the broader market by providing the most affordable on-demand sales compensation solution allowing companies to improve their business performance through the use of more effective sales compensation programs.
How It Works:
Xactly enables companies to easily and affordably design, implement, manage, audit and communicate sales compensation programs. By providing more effective plans and better visibility, these companies can dramatically improve sales performance.
The core purpose of Xactly is to empower companies of all sizes to achieve success and thrive. For years great business leaders have recognized that sales compensation is one of the prime motivators for a company's success. The right plans can increase profits, control expenses and drive consistent quarter-over-quarter results.
More at:http://www.xactlycorp.com/
Matoumba is a very simple to use, free web application to keep track with the information that matters the most to you
What Company Is Offering:
Matoumba is a very simple to use, free web application to keep track with the information that matters the most to you. It is designed to dig up automatically the information the most important to you within the feeds you suscribe to (and those you haven't!), so that you never again feel drowned or constrained by an oppressive amount of information.
How It Works:
By voting for stories you consider interesting and by rejecting those you don't, you teach Matoumba what are your fields of interests and prefered feeds. So when you come back, Matoumba will be able to tell you which information should be important to you within all the feeds you suscribed to, or even within the feeds from users who share the same interests as you. Very easy, very intuitive.
A website that sorts everyday the most relevant information to you. Vote for the news and Matoumba will learn your tastes and the information that you like the most. It is all FREE!
More at:http://www.matoumba.com/
Matoumba is a very simple to use, free web application to keep track with the information that matters the most to you. It is designed to dig up automatically the information the most important to you within the feeds you suscribe to (and those you haven't!), so that you never again feel drowned or constrained by an oppressive amount of information.
How It Works:
By voting for stories you consider interesting and by rejecting those you don't, you teach Matoumba what are your fields of interests and prefered feeds. So when you come back, Matoumba will be able to tell you which information should be important to you within all the feeds you suscribed to, or even within the feeds from users who share the same interests as you. Very easy, very intuitive.
A website that sorts everyday the most relevant information to you. Vote for the news and Matoumba will learn your tastes and the information that you like the most. It is all FREE!
More at:http://www.matoumba.com/
FindPhoneSolutions is an emerging online lead generation firm
What Company Is Offering:
FindPhoneSolutions is an emerging online lead generation firm focused on the telecommunications and IT industry. Through a propriety network of online advertising programs and partnerships FindPhoneSolutions specializes in targeting, connecting with, and empowering SMB buyers who are actively researching and shopping for new voice and data solutions to connect them with the most qualified local and regional telecom and IT resellers best able to meet their needs.
How It Works:
FindPhoneSolutions, an emerging online marketing firm focused on the telecommunications and IT industry, today announced the launch of their new online sales lead service designed to help resellers, vendors, and solution providers of SMB communications products and services improve new customer acquisition. Leads are accumulated through their new website www.FindPhoneSolutions.com, a free online resource center offering white papers, news, and articles to help small business owners simplify the world of voice and data technologies.
Founded by a team of telecommunications and Internet industry professionals lead by John Zietzke, an eleven year telecom veteran and web entrepreneur, FindPhoneSolutions' value proposition to voice and data resellers is simple. "Hundreds of thousands of small businesses actively shop online everyday for new VoIP phone systems, IT services, unified communication features, you name it. We excel at finding them, reaching out to them, and funneling them to the right solution providers who can deliver exactly what they need," noted John Zietzke.
More at:www.findphonesolutions.com
FindPhoneSolutions is an emerging online lead generation firm focused on the telecommunications and IT industry. Through a propriety network of online advertising programs and partnerships FindPhoneSolutions specializes in targeting, connecting with, and empowering SMB buyers who are actively researching and shopping for new voice and data solutions to connect them with the most qualified local and regional telecom and IT resellers best able to meet their needs.
How It Works:
FindPhoneSolutions, an emerging online marketing firm focused on the telecommunications and IT industry, today announced the launch of their new online sales lead service designed to help resellers, vendors, and solution providers of SMB communications products and services improve new customer acquisition. Leads are accumulated through their new website www.FindPhoneSolutions.com, a free online resource center offering white papers, news, and articles to help small business owners simplify the world of voice and data technologies.
Founded by a team of telecommunications and Internet industry professionals lead by John Zietzke, an eleven year telecom veteran and web entrepreneur, FindPhoneSolutions' value proposition to voice and data resellers is simple. "Hundreds of thousands of small businesses actively shop online everyday for new VoIP phone systems, IT services, unified communication features, you name it. We excel at finding them, reaching out to them, and funneling them to the right solution providers who can deliver exactly what they need," noted John Zietzke.
More at:www.findphonesolutions.com
Turbine, Inc that foster powerful social gaming communities has raised $40 million
What Company Is Offering:
Turbine, Inc. is the premier creator and operator of massive, persistent online worlds that foster powerful social gaming communities. Turbine has grown to become one of the largest privately-held online gaming studios in North America. Turbine has created some of the world's most popular and award- winning online games, including The Lord of the Rings Online(TM): Shadows of Angmar(TM), Dungeons & Dragons Online(TM) and Asheron's Call(R).
How Much They Got From VCs:
Turbine, Inc. today announced that it has raised $40 million in equity financing. Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) and GGV Capital, a leader in expansion-stage venture capital investments in the U.S. and China, led the investment along with existing investors, Highland Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, Tudor Ventures and Columbia Capital. The investment will be used to further accelerate Turbine's growth as a global leader in online entertainment.
"This is truly an exciting time for Turbine. The addition of Time Warner, one of the world's largest media companies, and GGV Capital, one of the financial community's most sophisticated investors, adds a level of access, perspective and experience to Turbine that is singularly unique in the global online entertainment space," said Jim Crowley, president and CEO of Turbine, Inc. "Turbine has an extraordinary team, incredible technology and a growing portfolio of games based on some of the most popular brands ever created. With this funding we are uniquely positioned to change the future of online entertainment as we bring new titles to market, expand the platforms we support and introduce new technologies to sustain self-evolving game worlds."
An online entertainment veteran, Turbine is recognized globally for its industry-leading technology platform, groundbreaking game graphics and its exceptional ability to create and operate multiple massive, persistent online worlds that power hundreds of thousands of interactive social gaming experiences. The company currently operates three award-winning franchises around the globe and is one of the largest privately-held online gaming studios in North America.
More at: www.turbine.com
Turbine, Inc. is the premier creator and operator of massive, persistent online worlds that foster powerful social gaming communities. Turbine has grown to become one of the largest privately-held online gaming studios in North America. Turbine has created some of the world's most popular and award- winning online games, including The Lord of the Rings Online(TM): Shadows of Angmar(TM), Dungeons & Dragons Online(TM) and Asheron's Call(R).
How Much They Got From VCs:
Turbine, Inc. today announced that it has raised $40 million in equity financing. Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) and GGV Capital, a leader in expansion-stage venture capital investments in the U.S. and China, led the investment along with existing investors, Highland Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, Tudor Ventures and Columbia Capital. The investment will be used to further accelerate Turbine's growth as a global leader in online entertainment.
"This is truly an exciting time for Turbine. The addition of Time Warner, one of the world's largest media companies, and GGV Capital, one of the financial community's most sophisticated investors, adds a level of access, perspective and experience to Turbine that is singularly unique in the global online entertainment space," said Jim Crowley, president and CEO of Turbine, Inc. "Turbine has an extraordinary team, incredible technology and a growing portfolio of games based on some of the most popular brands ever created. With this funding we are uniquely positioned to change the future of online entertainment as we bring new titles to market, expand the platforms we support and introduce new technologies to sustain self-evolving game worlds."
An online entertainment veteran, Turbine is recognized globally for its industry-leading technology platform, groundbreaking game graphics and its exceptional ability to create and operate multiple massive, persistent online worlds that power hundreds of thousands of interactive social gaming experiences. The company currently operates three award-winning franchises around the globe and is one of the largest privately-held online gaming studios in North America.
More at: www.turbine.com
ChipIn Inc is provider of software for raising and collecting money online, has raised $5.1 million
What Company Is Offering:
ChipIn’s mission is to make it easy to collect money. We enable users to organize group payments and fundraisers (”ChipIns”) in a quick, easy, and secure way. We also make it simple for organizers to publicize their ChipIns, by providing powerful fundraising widgets that can be embedded in social media.
How It Works:
ChipIn Inc., a Honolulu-based provider of software for raising and collecting money online, has raised $5.1 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include Polaris Venture Capital and Japan's GVC.
More at: www.chipin.com
ChipIn’s mission is to make it easy to collect money. We enable users to organize group payments and fundraisers (”ChipIns”) in a quick, easy, and secure way. We also make it simple for organizers to publicize their ChipIns, by providing powerful fundraising widgets that can be embedded in social media.
How It Works:
ChipIn Inc., a Honolulu-based provider of software for raising and collecting money online, has raised $5.1 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include Polaris Venture Capital and Japan's GVC.
More at: www.chipin.com
Bradford Networks develops advanced network access control solutions for wireless, wired and VPN networks
What Company Is Offering:
Bradford Networks develops advanced network access control solutions for wireless, wired and VPN networks. Bradford’s award-winning, out-of-band appliances leverage existing network infrastructure to automatically enforce NAC policy at the network edge, making networks more secure and efficient. Privately held, Bradford Networks is located in Concord, NH.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Bradford Networks, an award-winning provider of comprehensive network access control (NAC) solutions, today announced it has secured $8 million in Series B funding led by Updata Partners with participation from Bradford’s Series A investor, Windspeed Ventures.
Bradford will use the infusion of capital to expand its award-winning product portfolio, and expand sales and marketing efforts into new market segments and geographies. The company will also grow the customer support and professional services team that has earned Bradford industry-leading customer loyalty.
Updata’s investment validates Bradford Networks’ out-of-band, edge enforcement architecture, which currently secures more than 1 million network users at more than 400 organizations worldwide. The funding comes on the heels of Gartner’s MarketScope for Network Access Control, 2008. "Gartner estimates that this market grew 87 percent from 2006 to a total of $225 million in 2007. Gartner anticipates that the market will grow approximately 100 percent in 2008.” In the report, Bradford Networks received a “Positive” rating; Gartner evaluated 17 NAC vendors for the report. (Gartner Inc. “MarketScope for Network Access Control, 2008,” by Lawrence Orans, John Pescatore, and Mark Nicolett, published March 25, 2008.)
More at:www.bradfordnetworks.com
Bradford Networks develops advanced network access control solutions for wireless, wired and VPN networks. Bradford’s award-winning, out-of-band appliances leverage existing network infrastructure to automatically enforce NAC policy at the network edge, making networks more secure and efficient. Privately held, Bradford Networks is located in Concord, NH.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Bradford Networks, an award-winning provider of comprehensive network access control (NAC) solutions, today announced it has secured $8 million in Series B funding led by Updata Partners with participation from Bradford’s Series A investor, Windspeed Ventures.
Bradford will use the infusion of capital to expand its award-winning product portfolio, and expand sales and marketing efforts into new market segments and geographies. The company will also grow the customer support and professional services team that has earned Bradford industry-leading customer loyalty.
Updata’s investment validates Bradford Networks’ out-of-band, edge enforcement architecture, which currently secures more than 1 million network users at more than 400 organizations worldwide. The funding comes on the heels of Gartner’s MarketScope for Network Access Control, 2008. "Gartner estimates that this market grew 87 percent from 2006 to a total of $225 million in 2007. Gartner anticipates that the market will grow approximately 100 percent in 2008.” In the report, Bradford Networks received a “Positive” rating; Gartner evaluated 17 NAC vendors for the report. (Gartner Inc. “MarketScope for Network Access Control, 2008,” by Lawrence Orans, John Pescatore, and Mark Nicolett, published March 25, 2008.)
More at:www.bradfordnetworks.com
PocketGear provides a platform connecting millions of people around the world with smartphone applications
What Company Is Offering:
PocketGear provides a platform connecting millions of people around the world with smartphone applications from a network of more than 30,000 developers. PocketGear powers smartphone application distribution for direct channels including PocketGear.com, SymbianGear.com, PalmGear.com, Smartphone.net, and Mobile2Day.de and for more than 15 partners including Palm, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, T-Online, and AOL. Since its inception, PocketGear has powered more than 100 million downloads to smartphones and mobile devices from a catalog of more than 50,000 applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Jud Bowman, co-founder of Motricity, announced today the creation of his new venture, PocketGear, and the acquisition of the smartphone applications business from Motricity. The company also announced today that it has received investment from leading venture capital firms Noro-Moseley Partners and Wakefield Group.
“Mobile phones are increasingly smartphones that run advanced operating systems such as Palm OS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian OS or Linux, and Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android are helping accelerate smartphone adoption,” said Jud Bowman, President and CEO of PocketGear. “The smartphone application market is poised for significant growth, and PocketGear is a platform that connects more than 30,000 developers of smartphone applications with millions of smartphone users around the world.”
The new company will be headquartered in Durham, North Carolina with offices in Munich, Germany.
“While it’s difficult to leave Motricity, I’m incredibly excited about the opportunity to lead PocketGear and build a great company based in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina,” said Bowman.
More at:www.pocketgear.com
PocketGear provides a platform connecting millions of people around the world with smartphone applications from a network of more than 30,000 developers. PocketGear powers smartphone application distribution for direct channels including PocketGear.com, SymbianGear.com, PalmGear.com, Smartphone.net, and Mobile2Day.de and for more than 15 partners including Palm, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, T-Online, and AOL. Since its inception, PocketGear has powered more than 100 million downloads to smartphones and mobile devices from a catalog of more than 50,000 applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Jud Bowman, co-founder of Motricity, announced today the creation of his new venture, PocketGear, and the acquisition of the smartphone applications business from Motricity. The company also announced today that it has received investment from leading venture capital firms Noro-Moseley Partners and Wakefield Group.
“Mobile phones are increasingly smartphones that run advanced operating systems such as Palm OS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian OS or Linux, and Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android are helping accelerate smartphone adoption,” said Jud Bowman, President and CEO of PocketGear. “The smartphone application market is poised for significant growth, and PocketGear is a platform that connects more than 30,000 developers of smartphone applications with millions of smartphone users around the world.”
The new company will be headquartered in Durham, North Carolina with offices in Munich, Germany.
“While it’s difficult to leave Motricity, I’m incredibly excited about the opportunity to lead PocketGear and build a great company based in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina,” said Bowman.
More at:www.pocketgear.com
Yodlee’s proven personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information got VCs
What Company Is Offering:
Yodlee’s proven personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information to deliver a simple, centralized and secure way for consumers to manage all of their financial tasks – any time, anywhere. Yodlee makes financial institutions’ websites essential to their customers and generates new revenue opportunities. Over 100 leading financial institutions and portals today offer Yodlee-powered solutions to millions of customers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Yodlee, Inc., today announced that Bank of America is the lead investor in Yodlee’s recent $35 million financing. Existing Yodlee investors, including Warburg Pincus, Accel Partners and Institutional Venture Partners also participated in the financing.
“We’re very bullish on Yodlee and its continued momentum with customers and partners,” said Pat Hackett, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus LLC, Yodlee’s largest shareholder.
Yodlee plans to use the proceeds of the financing to further accelerate and scale its sales, deployment and operational infrastructure for the company’s innovative online bill pay solutions and services.
More at:www.yodlee.com
Yodlee’s proven personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information to deliver a simple, centralized and secure way for consumers to manage all of their financial tasks – any time, anywhere. Yodlee makes financial institutions’ websites essential to their customers and generates new revenue opportunities. Over 100 leading financial institutions and portals today offer Yodlee-powered solutions to millions of customers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Yodlee, Inc., today announced that Bank of America is the lead investor in Yodlee’s recent $35 million financing. Existing Yodlee investors, including Warburg Pincus, Accel Partners and Institutional Venture Partners also participated in the financing.
“We’re very bullish on Yodlee and its continued momentum with customers and partners,” said Pat Hackett, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus LLC, Yodlee’s largest shareholder.
Yodlee plans to use the proceeds of the financing to further accelerate and scale its sales, deployment and operational infrastructure for the company’s innovative online bill pay solutions and services.
More at:www.yodlee.com
AudioMicro is a revolutionary collection of user-generated royalty-free stock music, sound effects, production music, production elements and music
What Company Is Offering:
AudioMicro is a revolutionary collection of user-generated royalty-free stock music, sound effects, production music, production elements and music cues. Finally, high quality audio content is available at unbelievable prices with no hidden costs or fees.
How It Works:
AudioMicro is an artist friendly community, paying the highest royalty rate in the micro stock music industry! In addition, customers can purchase AudioMicro content at the most competitive rates available! Sign up and start contributing and licensing content today! Welcome to the AudioMicro community!
AudioMicro is free to join. Upload and Sell your wholly owned stock music, sound effects, music cues, production music, and production elements on AudioMicro. Research, Locate, Purchase, and Download stock music and sound effects for your projects. Visit our Knowledge Base to learn more and Sign Up to start licensing stock music and sound effects to the premier stock audio community.
More at:http://www.audiomicro.com/
AudioMicro is a revolutionary collection of user-generated royalty-free stock music, sound effects, production music, production elements and music cues. Finally, high quality audio content is available at unbelievable prices with no hidden costs or fees.
How It Works:
AudioMicro is an artist friendly community, paying the highest royalty rate in the micro stock music industry! In addition, customers can purchase AudioMicro content at the most competitive rates available! Sign up and start contributing and licensing content today! Welcome to the AudioMicro community!
AudioMicro is free to join. Upload and Sell your wholly owned stock music, sound effects, music cues, production music, and production elements on AudioMicro. Research, Locate, Purchase, and Download stock music and sound effects for your projects. Visit our Knowledge Base to learn more and Sign Up to start licensing stock music and sound effects to the premier stock audio community.
More at:http://www.audiomicro.com/
Yidio video search service provides a variety of ways to sort the search results returned for a given search
What Company Is Offering:
The Yidio video search service provides a variety of ways to sort the search results returned for a given search. By default, video search results are sorted by the highest rank to the most recent, most relevant and most popular videos.
How It Works:
If you would prefer to sort search results differently, a different sorting scheme can be specified by including a sorter, for example 'sort:mostRecent', in your search query. Only one sorter can be used per search query expression.
Yidio allows users to create a custom playlists where videos can be saved and shared with the world. Each playlist can be set as public, which allows all users to view playlist, or private, which only allows the user to view the saved videos.
More at:http://www.yidio.com/
The Yidio video search service provides a variety of ways to sort the search results returned for a given search. By default, video search results are sorted by the highest rank to the most recent, most relevant and most popular videos.
How It Works:
If you would prefer to sort search results differently, a different sorting scheme can be specified by including a sorter, for example 'sort:mostRecent', in your search query. Only one sorter can be used per search query expression.
Yidio allows users to create a custom playlists where videos can be saved and shared with the world. Each playlist can be set as public, which allows all users to view playlist, or private, which only allows the user to view the saved videos.
More at:http://www.yidio.com/
When you send a Jott message, they translate your voice to text, and can deliver your message to someone in both email and text
What Company Is Offering:
When you send a Jott message, they translate your voice to text, and can deliver your message to someone in both email and text. In the email, they will be able to easily click on a link to hear your voice. In the text message, not only will they see the text translated, but they can dial the number [866-JOTT-BOX or 866-568-8269] supplied in the text message, and hear your recorded message.
How It Works:
If you have entered both the person's email address and phone number, they send both a text message and email to the person. If you prefer to send only text messages, please delete your contacts email address by clicking on the "Contacts" button on the right hand side of the Inbox and then on the person whose contact info you would like to edit. From there you can delete any of the information in the text boxes provided. If you would like to only send emails, please delete your contacts phone numbers by following the same steps.
Jott Feeds is a new and easy way to access RSS Feeds from your cell phone. Add feeds to your Jott account, and have them read to you when you call Jott. It is a simple and powerful tool designed to make accessing your favorite information and news services as easy as phone call. Whether you are in the car, on the train, or walking around town- you can now listen in to your trusted sources of news without needing internet access or a radio.
More at;http://jott.com/
When you send a Jott message, they translate your voice to text, and can deliver your message to someone in both email and text. In the email, they will be able to easily click on a link to hear your voice. In the text message, not only will they see the text translated, but they can dial the number [866-JOTT-BOX or 866-568-8269] supplied in the text message, and hear your recorded message.
How It Works:
If you have entered both the person's email address and phone number, they send both a text message and email to the person. If you prefer to send only text messages, please delete your contacts email address by clicking on the "Contacts" button on the right hand side of the Inbox and then on the person whose contact info you would like to edit. From there you can delete any of the information in the text boxes provided. If you would like to only send emails, please delete your contacts phone numbers by following the same steps.
Jott Feeds is a new and easy way to access RSS Feeds from your cell phone. Add feeds to your Jott account, and have them read to you when you call Jott. It is a simple and powerful tool designed to make accessing your favorite information and news services as easy as phone call. Whether you are in the car, on the train, or walking around town- you can now listen in to your trusted sources of news without needing internet access or a radio.
More at;http://jott.com/
CloudPrint is a new service that allows you to share, store and print documents easily using your mobile telephone
What Company Is Offering:
CloudPrint is a new service that allows you to share, store and print documents easily using your mobile telephone.
From your desktop computer, print your documents to the CloudPrint "virtual printer" and your print job will live "in the cloud." When you print a document to CloudPrint, we'll notify all the people you send it to with an SMS message containing a unique document code. With just your telephone number and that document code, you can retrieve your documents from anywhere.
Send CloudPrints to yourself to easily make your documents accessible wherever you go, or send CloudPrints to friends. Now wherever your go, your documents can go too.
SMS web URLs to CloudPrint from your mobile device, and we'll render the document automatically, and SMS you a document code. No more having to read web pages on a small screen!
Print CloudPrint documents to your home or office printer, no matter where you are. When you get back, your printed documents will be waiting for you!
How It Works:
To print to the Cloud (upload documents): First, download the virtual printer driver to your Windows PC and install it. It'll add a new printer called CloudPrint to your printer menu, accessible whenever you hit File > Print in any application.
When you print using the virtual printer, you'll enter your own mobile telephone number, and the telephone numbers of all the people you'd like to send it to. Then your document gets printed "to the cloud," and all the recipients get notifications via SMS.
To print from the Cloud (retrieve documents): With your SMS containing your document code, visit our website from any computer, anywhere. On the main page, enter your phone number and the document code, and press Retrieve. Your document will appear as a PDF, ready to be printed to the local printer.
More at:http://www.cloudprint.net/
CloudPrint is a new service that allows you to share, store and print documents easily using your mobile telephone.
From your desktop computer, print your documents to the CloudPrint "virtual printer" and your print job will live "in the cloud." When you print a document to CloudPrint, we'll notify all the people you send it to with an SMS message containing a unique document code. With just your telephone number and that document code, you can retrieve your documents from anywhere.
Send CloudPrints to yourself to easily make your documents accessible wherever you go, or send CloudPrints to friends. Now wherever your go, your documents can go too.
SMS web URLs to CloudPrint from your mobile device, and we'll render the document automatically, and SMS you a document code. No more having to read web pages on a small screen!
Print CloudPrint documents to your home or office printer, no matter where you are. When you get back, your printed documents will be waiting for you!
How It Works:
To print to the Cloud (upload documents): First, download the virtual printer driver to your Windows PC and install it. It'll add a new printer called CloudPrint to your printer menu, accessible whenever you hit File > Print in any application.
When you print using the virtual printer, you'll enter your own mobile telephone number, and the telephone numbers of all the people you'd like to send it to. Then your document gets printed "to the cloud," and all the recipients get notifications via SMS.
To print from the Cloud (retrieve documents): With your SMS containing your document code, visit our website from any computer, anywhere. On the main page, enter your phone number and the document code, and press Retrieve. Your document will appear as a PDF, ready to be printed to the local printer.
More at:http://www.cloudprint.net/
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