LONDON, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- OutblazeVideo Named Best 'Tools and Infrastructure Application' of 2007

Outblaze (http://www.outblaze.com), the world's largest online
service platform providing white label email, collaboration, security and
social media services, today announced its OutblazeVideo service has been
named Tools & Infrastructure Application of the year 
( http://www.apicta.com/article.cfm?id=40 ) at the 7th Annual Asia
Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards competition. OutblazeVideo is a white
label platform that deploys a social media sharing service on a client's web
site, allowing the client's users to create, edit, and share video clips,
photos, and presentations in a social networking environment.

"This award is further international recognition for our
world-leading photo and video content editing and sharing service," said
Richard Bye, Outblaze's Vice President, Sales & Corporate Development, EMEA.
"There is already a great deal of interest in this technology among Europe's
service providers and media businesses as they start to build fully-converged
social networking, social media and interaction services for their users."

The APICTA Awards provide industry-wide recognition to
Information & Communication Technology (ICT) innovators in the Asia Pacific
region. Candidates for the awards are nominated by APICTA Network members in
16 countries and economies in the Asia Pacific region based on the best
qualifiers in local ICT competitions.

OutblazeVideo is a full suite of multi-media creation, editing
and sharing tools offered in one turnkey web-based service, and is ideal for
clients who wish to leverage the growing popularity of social media. The
service is customised to the look and feel of the client's brand and can be
easily integrated with other messaging and communication tools in the
Outblaze product suite to create a comprehensive and appealing consumer
portal. OutblazeVideo is operated, maintained, and upgraded by Outblaze, but
controlled by the client.

With support for most major image and video formats, a
customisable interface, search capabilities, sharing tools, and multilevel
metadata indexing, OutblazeVideo is designed to let clients tap the success
of user-generated content and social networking. End users not only upload
and share their content, but also are able to edit that content using
OutblazeVideo's online editing suite, which includes flexible and
straightforward layout tools and hundreds of transitions and effects.

"We are honoured to receive APICTA's distinguished recognition
for our social video service," said Yat Siu, CEO and Founder of Outblaze.
"OutblazeVideo is a versatile product that lets portals and media companies
improve their social media offering without having to develop and manage
additional products."

Siu added, "OutblazeVideo's ground-breaking editing
capabilities inspire users to let their imaginations run wild. It's more than
just a great way to share memories with friends and family, it's a way for
users to let their creativity flourish."

About Outblaze

Outblaze operates the world's largest online service platform providing 
white label email, collaboration and social media services to service 
providers, telecoms operators, corporations, academia, media and publishing 
companies and portals. The company services 76 million users across 480,000 
domains. The Outblaze suite of services also includes online scheduling, file 
sharing, and protection against spam, viruses and phishing. Outblaze is 
reliable, affordable and fully customisable and helps clients make these 
services a profitable part of their business. Founded in 1998, Outblaze is 
privately held with offices in the USA, the UK and Hong Kong. For more 
information visit http://www.outblaze.com.

About the APICTA Awards

The Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards is an
international Awards Program initiated by the Multimedia Development
Corporation of Malaysia to increase ICT awareness in the community and assist
in bridging the Digital Divide. By providing networking and product
benchmarking opportunities to ICT innovators and entrepreneurs in the region,
the program is designed to stimulate ICT innovation and creativity, promote
economic and trade relations, facilitate technology transfer, and offer
business-matching opportunities via exposure to venture capitalists and
investors.

Participants of the Awards Program comprise members of the APICTA 
Alliance. They are guided by the Framework of Cooperation identifying how
member-economies can work together in support of the Awards Program as well
as other programs that foster development and growth of the ICT industry in
the region. Its 16 member-economies include Australia, Brunei, China, Hong
Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan,
Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. For more information
visit http://www.apicta.com and http://www.sitf.org.sg/singapore2007/.