14 DAY TRIAL // Orb Networks announced that its free MyCasting service now allows users to share Internet videos from their PCs to mobile phones. This is achieved by sending text messages containing links to videos from popular Internet sites including YouTube, Google, DailyMotion and Yahoo. This new capability, offered first in beta to users in the U.S. will be rolled out internationally in the coming weeks.
"We're breaking out Internet video sharing from the PC only and onto the mobile phone," said Joe Costello, Chairman and CEO of Orb Networks. "Think about how you typically find out about an Internet video - your friend pings you on IM or sends you an email with a link so you can watch it. Orb takes that spontaneous moment of sharing to another level - you send a text message with a link to the video from your PC to your friend's mobile phone. They click and watch anytime, anyplace. It's that simple."
Users can use the Internet video sharing feature by following three easy steps. First, they must download Orb on an always-on Windows home PC and then download the OrbThis Plug-In to any Web browser for quick addition of Internet videos. Then, users have to go here, find their recently added online videos and select the one they want to share. For the last step, users must click on "Share", select the SMS option, type in the mobile phone number and hit "Send".
Mobile sharing is the latest in a series of Internet video capabilities introduced by Orb in the past two months. Orb was the first to bring Internet videos to mobile devices with its MyCasting service, as well as the ability to search for, find and play Internet videos directly on mobile devices using the phone's native video player.
The Orb MyCasting service is available as a free download here and the OrbThis Plug-In is available here.