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The New York Times
"Alltel...recently started its Pic Transfer service.  No major carrier has quite such an easy service."
Bob Tedeschi, "Freeing Those Snapshots Trapped Inside The Cellphone", August 27, 2008

The Seattle Times
"Ontela, whose mobile software helps people move photos between camera phones and personal computers, has appointed Damian Evans to lead the company's engineering team."
John Cook, "John Cook's Venture Blog", August 26, 2008

Washington Post
"Another piece is that Alltel has been a pioneer that experiments with the way to bring value to its subscribers...I strongly suspect that Verizon sees that culture of innovation and that skill-set as a way to maximize innovation and minimize risk to its customers."
Tricia Duryee, "Is Verizon Buying Alltel For Its Assets Or For Its Culture Of Innovation?", June 6, 2008

eWeek
"New partners include...Ontela, which provides technology infrastructure to wireless carriers that allows consumers to more easily access the photos in their camera phones."
Darryl K. Taft, "Gates Kicks Off TechEd Developer", June 3, 2008

The New York Times DealBook
"Ontela, a Seattle-based startup that helps consumers move photos from their mobile phone to their computers for a monthly fee, has raised $10 million in a second round of funding."
"Ontela Raises $10 Million", May 28, 2008

Washington Post
"The company said the sale of its service, which typically costs about $2.99 a month including data fees, are higher than expected. At Cellular South, sales were 217 percent above original projections."
Tricia Duryee, "Ontela Raises $10.3 Million To Expand Its Mobile Photo Technology Abroad", May 28, 2008

CNBC.com
"Ontela's PhotoCopter is a breakthrough data service that makes the distribution of camera phone pictures simple, taking advantage of the communication capabilities of the mobile device to provide significant advantages over the traditional digital camera. There are no memory cards, no cables; photos just appear on a subscribers' home PC."
"nTelos Partners With Ontela To Make Photos Simple", May 28, 2008

Seattle P.I.
"Now, Shapiro will have plenty of cash in the bank as he looks to expand a service that helps consumers seamlessly transfer photos between camera phones and personal computers."
John Cook, "$10 Million in VC Funds for Ontela", May 28, 2008

RCR Wireless
"Ontela Inc. brought its cameraphone sharing service to the BREW platform through NTELOS Holdings Corp., a telecommunications provider based in Virginia."
Matt Kapko, "Qualcomm's BREW gets Flashed", May 28, 2008

Press

Yahoo! Finance
"Ontela’s PhotoCopter provides Photobucket’s more than 20 million unique users in the United States an automatic way to save photos taken with camera phones to their Photobucket accounts."
"Ontela to Use Photobucket's Open API to Automatically Save Photos Taken on Camera Phones to Photobucket", April 22, 2008

Fierce Wireless
"'This is the end of the 'photo graveyard,' where people take pictures and then leave them on the phone until they're deleted. Instead, we've given a new life to these memories by saving them to the places users care about most.'"
"Alltel Partners with Ontela for PhotoCopter", April 17, 2008

Wireless Week
"Photos no longer need to be trapped on the cameraphones that took them if Alltel Wireless has anything to say about it. The operator commissioned Ontela to help its customers with the problem. The result is PhotoCopter, a service that saves and automatically transfers every cameraphone picture to the customers’ home computers and favorite Web photo albums."
"Alltel Ends the Photo Graveyard", April 17, 2008

Business Week
"'PhotoCopter is a simple to use application that will allow our customers to get the most of their phone's camera and enjoy their photos in any setting.'"
"Alltel Wireless and Ontela Launch Service to Automatically Save Photos", April 16, 2008

Seattle PI
"Alltel camera phone users who are on a data plan will be able to have their photographs immediately saved to their hard drives, delivered to their e-mail or posted to photo sharing services Flickr, Blogger, PhotoBucket and Snapfish."
John Cook, "Ontela snaps photo sharing deal with Alltel", April 16, 2008

Telephony
"Consumers are reaching for their mobile phones instead of their cameras when the chance for a memorable picture arises, and Ontela is making sure the magic doesn't stop there. The start-up's latest offering is helping bridge the gap between phone and PC. "
Sarah Reedy, "Say 'cheese' and send", April 14, 2008

bnetTV
Ontela CEO Dan Shapiro chats with bnetTV's Michelle Sklar after winning the CTIA E-Tech award for most innovative consumer mobile application in the Mobile Entertainment and Social Networking category.
Michelle Sklar, April 2, 2008

PhoneGadget Blog
"'Today, camera phones are like graveyards of lost memories. Hundreds of pictures are trapped inside, and the only fate awaiting them is deletion.  PhotoCopter frees these photos and lets customers use them! The photos are immediately saved to all the places consumers want them.'"
"Alltel, Ontela Launch PhotoCopter", April 18, 2008

FOXBusiness
"Pic sender has been a huge success for us, delighting customers for the past five months with 24/7 ease of use and reliability. Our customers' pictures are always delivered where they want them."
"Ontela Wins CTIA WIRELESS 2008(R) E-Tech Award for Innovation in Mobile Entertainment and Social Networking", April 3, 2008

The Mississippi Business Journal
"According to Cellular South, its "pic sender" service, powered by Ontela, has exceeded all expectations with higher than projected sales in its first six months of availability...pic sender has outpaced projections by 217%."
"Pic sender Exceeds Projections", April 1, 2008

The Clarion Ledger
"Cellular South has teamed up with Ontela Inc. to provide an imaging technology that will send pictures automatically from a phone to a destination of your choice...The process is seamless and effortless.  You take the photos and then go logon."
Earnest Hart, "New technology, Web sites make uploading cell phone pictures a snap", March 21, 2008

DMNews
"'The next revolution isn't about the Web, it's about extending the Web.  the newest and most exciting thing about Web 2.0 is the ability to place offers in a relevant context for the user' -Dan Shapiro"
"What will be the next online revolution?", January 14, 2008

bnetTV
Watch Ontela CEO Dan Shapiro chat with Michelle Sklar of bnetTV about Ontela at the CES conference in Las Vegas.
Michelle Sklar, January 8, 2008

WWZD 106.7 FM
Listen here to Kelli Karlson from the Wizard 106 morning show talk about pic sender.
Kelli Karlson, December 28, 2007

Entrepreneur.com
"Ontela, a Seattle company started by ex-employees of Expedia, Microsoft and RealNetworks, is developing similar applications using its PicDeck technology through a partnership with ActiveSymbols..."
Heather Clancy, "One Shot Says It All", December, 2007

TMCnet
"'The Pic Sender service makes Cellular South camera phones more useful and more fun than ever. Our customers just take a picture and it’s saved automatically to all of their favorite places...'"
Anshu Shrivastava, "Cellular South Introduces Pic Sender", November 26, 2007

Wireless Week
"This solution (pic sender) also addressed an industry concern revealed in a national survey of wireless subscribers that expressed an interest in saving cameraphone pictures on their own computers as well as sending them to their favorite Websites."
Rhonda Wickham, "Cellular South Sends Pics", November 26, 2007

Memphis Business Journal
"Cellular South is launching Pic Sender, a digital photo service that enables Cellular South subscribers to have their pictures delivered automatically to their home PCs."
"Cellular South launching new photo service", November 20, 2007

Always on Real-Time Access
"It should be noted that some of the smaller regional carriers who survive due to laser focus customer service are testing and rolling out innovative solutions ahead of their bigger peers. For e.g. Cellular South launched a picture application (with Ontela)..."
Chetan Sharma, "CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment Roundup", October 28, 2007

Seattle PI
"Seattle-based Ontela, which transfers photos between camera phones and personal computers, will distribute its technology through Cellular South in a deal announced today at the CTIA Wireless & Entertainment conference."
John Cook, "Ontela inks deal with Cellular South", October 23, 2007

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