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Ecrio and Mobileway Partner
to Deliver Instant Messaging to Wireless Network Operators
and Businesses Globally
Ecrio Inc., a leading provider
of advanced wireless messaging software, and Mobileway,
Inc., a leading provider of global data access over wireless
networks, today announced a partnership to deliver global
instant messaging solutions over fixed and wireless networks.
Through this partnership, Ecrio and Mobileway have made
available the Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform over
the Mobileway Global Network. Corporate and consumer users
can now send messages from any mobile phone, on any network,
to any device or desktop. They can exchange text, images,
drawings, and business documents worldwide. In addition,
enhanced presence, availability, and location knowledge
is persistently shared among the user community, facilitating
general interaction as well as critical business applications.
"Extending rich instant
messaging to global mobile networks increases revenue for
mobile operators, and provides a global communication tool
for consumers and corporations alike," said Nagesh
Challa, President and CEO of Ecrio. "We are very happy
to be working with Mobileway and reaching out to the wireless
messaging market over Mobileway's global network."
The solution includes Ecrio's
robust carrier-grade messaging server that seamlessly integrates
into Mobileway's global network. The Ecrio Rich Instant
Messaging Platform is a client/server offering enabling
the sharing of multimedia content between wireless and desktop
devices. The server includes messaging management and notification
engines for delivering messages and dynamically transcodes
content for the recipient device, as well as includes security,
authentication, presence & availability modules. Revenue
generating third-party services, including m-commerce applications,
are easily integrated into the system via an open application
interface, enhancing the system's value.
From a personal digital assistant
(PDA), personal computer, WAP™ or SMS enabled phones;
users may send each other handwritten notes, digital pictures,
video clips, and text messages over any 2G, 2.5G, and 3G
network. The Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform supports
one-to-one, broadcast, and chat messaging, and is interoperable
with popular instant messaging services. Ecrio Rich Instant
Messaging Platform users may personalize their simple text
messages with rich content when communicating with Pals
on services Powered by Ecrio™, on SMS phones, or Yahoo!™
and MSN® messaging services. Ecrio Messenger Clients
are available on Palm OS™, Pocket PC™, Rim Wireless,
and Symbian EPOC™ PDAs, WAP and SMS phones, as well
as personal computers.
"By combining Mobileway's
leading global network with Ecrio's rich instant messaging
and m-commerce solution, the result is increased value-add
for the mobile market as a whole," said Patrice Peyret,
CEO of Mobileway. "Mobile users and enterprises can
now benefit from carrier-independence, while operators benefit
from the ability to offer rich deployment of wireless data
services."
By leveraging Mobileway's
global network of direct and secure connections to wireless
operator networks worldwide, businesses now have a single-point
access to 300M phones for 2-way data exchanges and 500M
phones for one-way messaging. With more than 80 contractual
relationships with wireless operators, Mobileway provides
global coverage, high performance, and service quality needed
for mobile consumer and enterprise applications. By working
closely and locally with mobile network operators around
the world, Mobileway delivers access, billing and application
provisioning to enterprises, content providers and financial
institutions which want to deploy value-added services to
mobile users.
About Mobileway
Mobileway, Inc. is a leading provider of global data access
over wireless networks for businesses and mobile operators.
Mobileway manages the deployment of wireless data applications
and enables associated payments. The company's global network
and value-added wireless services are designed to enable
network operators, content providers, enterprises and financial
institutions to bring customized, user-authorized, and secure
data services to mobile users. Mobileway offers wireless
data services that include text messages, ring tones, m-commerce
solutions, and service data such as copyright reports, click-rate
reports, phone software updates, and user validation cryptograms.
A North American company, Mobileway has offices located
throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Additional
news and information about the company is available at
www.Mobileway.com.
About Ecrio
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ecrio
Inc. is a provider of advanced wireless multimedia messaging
applications and infrastructure. Ecrio provides wireless
carriers, portals, service providers, and corporations a
family of rich communication and m-commerce solutions, including
the Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform, Ecrio Intelligent
Delivery Engine, and Ecrio Rich Communications Gateway.
These solutions enable the messaging of multimedia content-drawings,
handwritten notes, images, digital pictures, video, and
animation-to and from a broad range of wireless and desktop
appliances over the world's 2G, 2.5G, and 3G networks, including
GSM, GPRS, and UMTS. Ecrio's messaging solutions are device-agnostic;
running on PDAs, WAP and SMS enabled phones, and personal
computers. Ecrio supports Palm OS™, Pocket PC™,
Rim Wireless™, and Symbian Epoc™ handhelds, WAP,
SMS, J2ME™, and BREW™ phones, Microsoft® Windows,
and Internet Explorer and Netscape® browsers. www.Ecrio.com
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