VTap is a video search engine launched on 10 September 2007 and designed for broadband-enabled phones[1] and developed by venture capitalist firm Veveo;[2] a funded startup headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts. The company claims Vtap has a huge index of web videos comparable to the biggest video portals,[3] providing a search-and-browse system that enables finding videos from a huge network database even using devices such as phones and televisions.[4] Videos can be played on a number of phones including iPhones, Windows mobile phones, several Nokia phones. and the BlackBerry wireless device.[5] [6][7][8] Veveo's network servers convert the original format on-the-fly into a format that can stream and play on the specific phone in question.

VTap's basic search technology is not specific to videos. The service also provides a phone-enhanced Wikipedia search service. The same technology can also be used to enhance remote-control based TV Listings and VOD search offered by IPTV and cable television operators.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Startup Veveo Mines Mobile Search". ABC News.
  2. ↑ "Coming soon: Outstanding mobile video search from Veveo". Webware.
  3. ↑ "First look: cool cell phone video app". Scobleizer.
  4. ↑ "Vtap, easy mobile search". Venture Beat.
  5. ↑ "Possibly the best iPhone Web app yet: vtap trumps built-in iPhone YouTube app". iPhoneAtlas.
  6. ↑ "Profile: Veveo Simplifies Mobile Video With Vtap". Contentinople.
  7. ↑ "Killer iPhone (and other Mobile phone) video search". Scobleizer.
  8. ↑ "Interview with Veveo's VP/GM on vTap for BlackBerry". Pinstack.com.
  9. ↑ "Veveo Powers IPTV Content Search". Daily IPTV.
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