Gemini Mobile Technologies, Inc. develops wireless software infrastructure solutions for mobile companies, including 3D community applications that send messaging and multimedia content to wireless devices. In 2007, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu put the company on its Wireless Fast 50 list of fast-growing wireless companies.[1]
Gemini has operations in China, Japan, and the United States and is headquartered in San Mateo, California with additional offices in Asia and Europe. The company was founded in 2001 by Scott Driggers, Hiroshi Ohta, and Michael Tso, former engineering director at Inktomi.[2]
Gemini makes two products. HyperScale Messaging Center (HMC) is a messaging platform which supports multimedia messaging services, short message services, WAP push, instant messages, voice messages, and email.[3]
eXplo is a 3D mobile community platform that provides a three dimensional interface for chat, photo sharing, and streaming media. [4]
Both products are built on Gemini’s HyperScale architecture, which accepts multimedia messages from a number of sources, converts them to formats that can be displayed on a phone, then routes the messages to their destinations.[5]
Additionally, Gemini Mobile brought eXplo to the Chinese wireless marketplace by offering Palm Campus with China Unicom in November 2008. Palm Campus targets university students and is available in Hubei Province of China. In the 3D mobile community, users are also represented as their avatar of choice. Several features for university students to connect with their social network of current and new friends are available. These features include access to the Web, photo-sharing in the Campus Dorm, chatting with friends in the Campus Plaza, dancing or listening to music in the Campus Disco, playing games in the Campus Arcade, or taking their avatar into the Love Garden to check out the dating scene.[6]