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ROK Global PLC : ROK, Piershore and Qello Collaborate to Deliver Music Video Applications
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ROK Global PLC : ROK, Piershore and Qello Collaborate to Deliver Music
Video Applications
23.02.2012 / 10:00
ROK, Piershore and Qello Collaborate to Deliver Music Video Applications
Ticker Symbol: RKG
WKN: A0YKFS
22nd February 2012
ROK Global PLC, the technology applications and services company, has today
announced it has teamed-up with Piershore and Qello in a unique
collaboration to create branded applications for BlackBerry devices
distributed via Orascom´s new Mobile Bananas app store and 14 of its mobile
networks in the Middle East and Africa and via BlackBerry App World(TM) to
over 127 countries and multiple operators therein.
Offering up to 8 music genres including Pop, Rock, Jazz, Hip Hop, Blues,
Metal, Classic Rock and Alternative, the ROK-built, Qello-branded app will
be available for download priced at $2.99 and includes a 6 month
subscription wherein consumers are able watch high quality video over
Wi-fi, 3G and mass-market 2.5G GPRS, for an ´anytime, anywhere´ experience
on over 40 compatible BlackBerry devices.
Piershore enables content owners to distribute their content through its
direct partnerships with mobile operators such as Orascom and other
operators in many other countries worldwide.
Qello is a digital syndication service providing music entertainment
content in association with leading media companies as well as artists and
creative entities. ROK´s experience in Mobile TV, particularly working with
America Movil to provide its ROK TV service across 11 countries, has
enabled it to develop video streaming applications compatible with more
than 370 mobile devices.
Listed on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, ROK Global PLC
was co-founded by US Billionaire John Paul DeJoria and UK-based serial
technology-specialist entrepreneur, Jonathan Kendrick. In addition to being
co-founder of ROK, John Paul DeJoria is Chairman and CEO of John Paul
Mitchell Systems and is also co-founder of Patron Tequila, the world´s
leading premium tequila brand.
ROK has pioneered many new and innovative technologies in the
rapidly-evolving mobile and web space, including high quality mass-market
Mobile TV (which can be streamed, live and on-demand, over mass-market 2.5G
as well as 3G and Wi-Fi) as well as multi-language text-to-speech
technologies and mobile security and policing technologies, amongst others.
Safe Harbor Statement; The statements contained herein are forward-looking
statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-
looking statements, including, but not limited to, certain delays beyond
the company´s control with respect to market acceptance of new technologies
or products, delays in testing and evaluation of products, and other risks
detailed from time to time.
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