Intertainment's Ortsbo Announces Strategic Relationship with Variety
NEW YORK / LOS ANGELES / SAN MATEO / TORONTO - January 5,
2012 - Intertainment Media Inc. ("Intertainment" or
the "Company") (TSXV:INT / OTCQX: ITMTF / FRA: I4T)
announces that its social media, real time, experiential
communications platform, Ortsbo.com
(www.ortsbo.com) has formed a Strategic
Relationship with Variety, the world's leading publication
for business entertainment news.
Intertainment is pleased to transmit the following that was
released by Variety this morning in the United States.
Variety Entertainment Summit at The 2012 International CES® Provides Exclusive Launch of Ortsbo Multi-Lingual Closed Captioning System
LOS ANGELES / LAS VEGAS / TORONTO - January 5, 2012 -
Variety, the world's leading publication for business
entertainment news, is pleased to announce that it has
formed a strategic relationship with Los Angeles and Toronto
based Ortsbo Inc. ("Ortsbo"), the leader in real time
experiential language services, to power Variety conferences,
summits and events, allowing entertainment, business and
sports professionals global remote access to conference
content via Ortsbo's Live & Global platform beginning with
The Variety Entertainment Summit at The 2012 International
CES® taking place in Las Vegas.
Variety and Ortsbo are offering an exclusive view of this new
technology, on an introductory no charge basis at www.variety.com/CES.
Together, Variety and Ortsbo's Live & Global platform will
provide users with the ability to watch the Summit sessions
via an online broadcast video stream with multi-lingual
closed captioning, allowing viewers around the world to
select their broadcast language of choice. The event at CES®
will be available online at www.variety.com/CESbeginning at 10 am Pacific (GMT -8) on January
11, 2012.
The Variety Entertainment Summit will be the exclusive launch
of Ortsbo's new proprietary service; multi- lingual closed
captioning, or Ortsbo's Language Captioning System, which
allows viewers to watch video broadcasts, and also view an
accompanying language real time text stream, like closed
captioning found on television broadcasts, but in their
personally selected choice of over 50 languages. This
game-
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changing proprietary system, which is part of Ortsbo's Live &
Global platform, provides the ability for universal language
broadcasting on a global basis, regardless of the native
language of the broadcaster, potentially changing the face of
ethnic, cultural, sports, entertainment, business and other
forms of online, video and television live and pre-recorded
broadcast programming.
Once a user reaches the Variety event web broadcast page, the
Language Captioning System will default to the user's pre-set
system language. The users can also select the language of
their choice from an on-page drop down menu, with continuous
live streaming updates. The system will automatically deliver
a "real time" effective stream of "closed captioning" in the
user's chosen language.
"We are very excited to be working together with Variety to
create new ways for users around the world to attend Variety
events regardless of their location or language," said David
Lucatch, CEO of Ortsbo Inc. "The Ortsbo Language Captioning
system expands the Ortsbo suite of services and allows
broadcasters around the world to engage their audiences
regardless of the language that they broadcast in, or the
language that the audience speaks providing significant
commercial value."
"It's critical that Variety constantly evolves how we deliver
our content to audiences, who are quickly embracing new
platforms and digital experiences," said Neil Stiles, CEO and
President of Variety. "Our partnership with Ortsbo definitely
accomplishes this, as we are strengthening the ability for
our global audience to benefit from our premier entertainment
business coverage."
Featured speakers at Variety's Entertainment Summit at CES®
include keynoter Jonathan Miller, Chairman and CEO of News
Digital Media and Chief Digital Officer at News Corp; Thomas
Gewecke, President of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution; Ross
Levinsohn, EVP of the Americas at Yahoo; Matt Jacobson, Head
of Market Development at Facebook; and Lori MacPherson, Head
of Global Product Management at Walt Disney Studios.
About Variety
www.variety.com
Variety is the leading publication for business entertainment news, recognized and respected throughout the world of show business. The Variety Group - Daily Variety, Daily Variety Gotham, Weekly Variety and Variety.com - are all owned by Reed Business Information (RBI), the largest business publisher in the U.S. RBI is a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE: RUK) (NYSE: ENL).
About Ortsbo Inc. www.ortsbo.com
With over 40 Million monthly users in over 170 countries and
territories, Ortsbo (www.ortsbo.com) enables real-time
conversational translation in over 50 languages and
seamlessly integrates with today's most popular social
media platforms.
Ortsbo's flagship product for social media (www.ortsbo.com)
supports global communications with instant translation
capability, real time multi-lingual social media chat
connects to PC and Mac computers, mobile browsers as well as
all major chat platforms including MSN, Google, Facebook,
Twitter and Yahoo! and others.
Ortsbo allows users to communicate with family, friends and
colleagues around the world, providing users with the ability
to break down language and cultural barriers through its easy
to use, language centric interface.
Ortsbo also provides plug-in email translation capabilities
for Microsoft Outlook.
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Ortsbo's Live & Global platform offers a unique solution for
broadcasting events to a global audience, with video and real
time, multi-lingual chat. Ortsbo currently hold the Guinness
World Record for the most nationalities in an online
chat.
International rock legend, accomplished global entrepreneur
and one of the world's most recognized personalities, Gene
Simmons has endorsed Ortsbo.com, having signed on as a
business partner and to serve as Ortsbo's official
spokesperson.
Two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash to become an official
spokesperson for Ortsbo. Leading Ortsbo's global sports fan
program, Nash will present and participate in a number of
online fan chats with international athletes from a number of
sports disciplines.
With headquarters in Los Angeles, CA and Toronto, Canada
region, with offices in New York and San Mateo, CA, Ortsbo
Inc. is a subsidiary of Intertainment Media Inc. a publicly
listed company on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the
symbol "INT" (TSXV:INT) and traded in the US on the OTCQX
under the symbol "ITMTF". ". Intertainment is also traded in
Europe, on the Frankfurt Exchange on the XETRA trading
platform under the symbol "I4T".
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This news release may contain certain forward-looking information. All statements included herein, other than statements of historical fact, is forward-looking information and such information involves various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. A description of assumptions used to develop such forward looking information and a description of risk factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking information can be found in the company's disclosure documents on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
This release may contain forward looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of US laws. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements. Intertainment Media Inc. does not assume any obligation to update any forward looking information contained in this news release.
Contacts Variety
Linda Buckley-Bruno, Publishing Director
323-617-9429 Linda.Buckley@Variety.com
David Lucatch, CEO
Tel: 800-395-9943 / 905-763-3510
Email: info@intertainmentmedia.com
To learn more, visit: www.ortsbo.com
To learn more, visit: www.intertainmentmedia.com
Email: mcampe@sspr.com
Web site: www.sspr.com
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