Barcelona, Spain, Mobile World Congress, February 15th, 2010 – 3GVision, a world leader in barcode-scanning technology for mobile phones, and Czech search engine and portal Seznam.cz, announced today a partnership enabling fast and easy access to Seznam.cz’s mobile content and services. The agreement between Seznam.cz and 3GVision will provide opportunities for further development of mobile barcode reading solutions and services tailored for the needs of the rapidly growing Czech mobile internet market.
The Czech Republic has shown a tremendous growth in the number of mobile Internet users during the past year while mobile internet search has grown to approximately …percent of all internet searches. By selecting 3GVision’s i-nigma mobile barcode reader application, Seznam.cz will dramatically improve the search experience for Czech mobile users.
With 3GVision’s i-nigma Czech mobile users will gain fast and simple access to mobile content by simply pointing their camera phone at a two dimensional barcode (2D), found on signs, billboard, posters and websites. The i-nigma application ensures immediate access to the latest news, sport and weather information as well as, localized maps, video content, special offers and tourist information from a wide range of handsets and platforms, including iPhone and Android.
Seznam.cz is the largest online community in Czech, running more than 15 different web services and associated brands, including the leading internet search portal in the Czech Republic. Among the most popular services are Seznam homepage, Seznam Email, Seznam Search and Seznam yellow pages.
Come and learn more about the growth and adoption of mobile codes at 3GVision’s booth at Mobile World Congress, Hall 2, Israel National Pavilion, stand 2C72.
Since 2002, 3GVision has embedded over 150 million mobile phones with its 1D/2D barcode readers for global Tier-1 mobile operators such as France Telecom, Telstra and NTT Docomo; mobile handset manufacturers including Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola; and most Japanese handset vendors including Sharp, NEC, Kyocera and Toshiba. Moreover, 3GVision is the ‘de facto’ industry standard in Japan – the world’s first fully developed mobile barcode market.
Seznam.cz, a.s. is the leading portal in the Czech internet market. Seznam was founded in 1996 by Ivo Lukacovic and has more than 2.4 millions unique users every day. In addition to being a search engine, Seznam offers many other services: e-mail, news, community, chat and much more. In 2006 the total revenue crossed 1 billion Czech Korunas (36 million EUR). For more information please visit www.seznam.cz.