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Orb Networks Announces 'No Hassle' Alternative for Instantly Sharing Personal Photos, Videos With Family and Friends Online

Posted on: Thursday, 21 June 2007, 09:02 CDT

EMERYVILLE, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Orb Networks(TM) (http://www.orb.com/) announced today that its free MyCasting service now offers a "no hassle" alternative for people to share photos and home videos with family and friends online. With no file uploading, file-size limitations or special formatting required, Orb users can quickly and easily make their vacation, family or summer memories available to others on the internet. Users select the photos and videos, designate them for sharing and Orb makes them available on a webpage with the user's unique URL. Users can add as many photos and videos as they want to their public page -- there are no size limitations, lengthy uploads, or other hassles associated with most traditional online photo and video sharing sites.

"This is online social networking for the rest of us," said Herve Utheza, Vice President and General Manager for Orb Networks, who said Orb's user survey cited sharing as one of the top reasons people want to use the free service. "It's for moms, dads, grandparents, soccer coaches -- families who want to use the Internet to share vacation photos, the latest ball game or just to stay in touch. We don't want to figure out the complexities of blogs, special web formatting, or the file-size limitations of many other internet sites. We just want it to work, and with Orb it does."

Utheza went on to say that another benefit to the free service is that it doesn't require any additional hardware to work. "You are basically using all of the stuff you already own -- a PC and an internet connection -- and you are ready to get started."

You can learn more about Orb share at http://www.orb.com/en/public_sharing How to Get Orb and Create Your Own Public page:

Download and install Orb onto your the Windows PC where you have all your media at http://www.orb.com/. It takes less than 3 minutes. You will create a user name during this process. And it's free.

After you install Orb, go to mycast.orb.com and sign-on, then: 1. Pick the photos and videos you want to share 2. Drag and Drop them to the "share" area 3. Click "Public share", hit "OK" That's all you need to do. -- Now send your friends and family the URL of your page, which will look like this: * http://public.orb.com/ -- And remember, for Orb to work, keep your home PC always on -- it's the personal broadcasting system that streams all of your photos and videos on this public page to your family and friends. About Orb Networks, Inc.

Orb Networks is an award-winning developer of software and services that unlock the digital media stored on personal computers. Orb MyCasting gives consumers secure, free, instant, and everywhere-access to everything from their photos and video to TV and music on virtually any Web-enabled device. The company's partners and affiliates include: Amino, AOL Winamp, AMD, Creative Labs, Hauppauge, Hutchison, Nokia, Orange and Vodafone. Orb Networks is a privately held company in Emeryville, Calif. For more information about Orb Networks and the Orb MyCasting service, please visit http://www.orb.com/.

Orb and MyCast are trademarks of Orb Networks, Inc. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Orb Networks

CONTACT: Ann Willey of eLuminatePR, +1-513-608-0829,ann@eluminatepr.com, for Orb Networks

Web site: http://www.orb.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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