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CTIA Wireless 2007

27 March -- The National Crime Prevention Council’s McGruff the Crime Dog®, a champion for crime prevention and safety and one of the most recognizable icons in America, teams up with The Wireless Foundation to raise awareness about the importance of the Wireless AMBER Alerts™ Initiative and other child safety measures at ShowStoppers during CTIA WIRELESS 2007®.

To date, AMBER Alerts have helped to safely recover more than 320 children. The wireless industry, in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), launched the Wireless AMBER AlertsTM initiative in May 2005 as a way to extend the AMBER Alert program to more than 230 million wireless subscribers.

AMBER stands for “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response” and was created in 1996 when Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters teamed with local police to develop an early warning system to find abducted children. The AMBER Alert program was soon adopted across the nation and is a legacy to Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and then murdered. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have since established AMBER Alert programs.

Signing up to receive Wireless AMBER AlertsTM is simple and free. All you have to do is log on to www.wirlessamberalerts.org or your wireless carrier’s website and complete an easy registration form. You’ll be notified via text message when an AMBER Alert has been issued in your area, which will allow you to serve as valuable additional eyes and ears for law enforcement in the search effort.

For more information on the Wireless AMBER Alerts™ campaign, check out www.wirelessamberalerts.org or contact Shannon Nix at snix@ctia.org.

Also, check out the National Crime Prevention Council’s new Cyberbullying campaign at www.ncpc.org or contact Michelle Boykins at mboykins@ncpc.org.

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Imagine a world where every mobile user can receive secure and synchronized emails and data without the expense of owning a BlackBerry™! emoze (www.emoze.com), the world’s first free global email and data synchronization service, is allowing for this dream to become a reality.

Launched in January 2007, the emoze service is compatible with nearly all mobile devices. By simply downloading the emoze service from www.emoze.com, mobile users with a data package from their carrier can transform their devices to send and receive mobile email and personal information management (PIM) data in real-time - anytime, anywhere. And because emoze does not store emails, they are received quickly and securely straight from the user’s PC…or now, being introduced at ShowStoppers, a new central server solution that doesn’t require users to leave their PCs on to receive their emails and calendar events.

On the show floor, emoze will be challenging BlackBerry, for the second time, to a western style “Ultimate Showdown” to prove which company is able to deliver emails the quickest (www.ctiashowdown.com). The initial showdown, which took place at 3GSM World Congress in 2007 in Barcelona, Spain, resulted in a “win” for emoze.

For info, contact Christa Conte [cconte@kcsa.com]

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27 March -- Visa will discuss its mobile strategy, which includes global pilots, a mobile platform and partnerships with wireless carriers and mobile-device manufacturers. Visa's mobile platform includes contactless payments, over-the-air personalization, couponing, mobile banking, and person-to-person funds transfers.

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27 March -- FlipStart Labs will demonstrate the FlipStart® at ShowStoppers CTIA. With a design based on extensive user preference research and usability studies, FlipStart is the only compact PC (under two pounds) with a clamshell design. FlipStart coalesces everything mobile professionals expect from their laptops — full Windows® application usage, communications, entertainment and constant connectivity — in a convenient form factor. Whether sitting at the office, standing in line at the coffee shop or traveling between destinations, FlipStart is comfortable to use in people’s hands, on a desk or mounted in a vehicle. FlipStart is the first commercial product from FlipStart Labs, a Paul G. Allen company.

FlipStart will be delivered with the choice of Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista™ Business, delivering support for the business applications needed by today’s mobile professionals for full productivity wherever they are. With FlipStart’s bundled port replicator, professionals can connect to full-size monitors and keyboards in an office setting or plug in a projector to present at a meeting. FlipStart also facilitates entertainment. Users can play their favorite games, watch movies or listen to music with their favorite media player.

“People want a device that is easy to use, packed with the power to run their vital applications and that enables ongoing connectivity to e-mail and the Internet,” said Robin Budd, senior director of FlipStart Labs. “FlipStart accomplishes all of this --- taking the quality of mobile computing to the next level.”

Click here or for more information contact: joscelyn.zell@edelman.com or martha.mendillo@edelman.com.

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27 March -- At ShowStoppers CTIA, CellTrust Corporation demos CellTrust WALLET™ beta, its automated, secure software and subscription service offering for cell phones.

CellTrust WALLET gives consumers the ability to use their cell phones to proactively prevent fraud and identity theft; manage personal account information including real-time flight and travel information, finances/banking, as well as retail accounts; and to securely purchase goods and services anywhere, anytime. CellTrust WALLET is now immediately available to consumers as a “free” beta download at www.celltrust.com.

Consumers worldwide are becoming more dependent on extreme transparency and mobility to maintain control of their private and commercial lives — but not at the expense of security. Moreover, a recent InfoTech: Telecom Intelligence Group Mobile Information Management survey found that 87 percent of respondents indicated that they “Always” or “Usually” use the same mobile communications device for both personal and business activities and 79 percent of traveling executives stated that their mobile communication device was “Absolutely Necessary” or “Very Important” in managing their personal affairs while on the road for business.

Satisfying this growing consumer and business demand, CellTrust WALLET is built on CellTrust’s advanced, Internet-based Secure Mobile Information Management platform which comprises CellTrust’s patent-pending Micro Agent Technology together with the CellTrust Personal Portal to provide consumers with a secure software and services offering to better mobile-enable life.

For info, contact Lee Rech, lee@lbrcommunications.com.

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27 March -- Wilson Electronics announces several new products today, including a new line of SIGNALBOOST™ dual-band amplifiers and SOHO dual-band amplifiers that work with all Cellular/PCS carriers and have up to 3 watts of output power to increase your cellular signal for either voice or data service.

Wilson amplifiers significantly improve data communication rates needed for the latest 3G technologies, which is a real boost for people using laptops in a portable office environment. The Wilson antenna/amplifier combination increases data rates for data users in shadowed or weak signal areas and helps reduce dropped calls and disconnects by increasing cellular signal quality and range.

Wilson amplifiers’ advanced circuit design and high receiver sensitivity allow them to receive weak signals that would go undetected by most cell phones. Wilson’s amps also have a higher quality transmitter that is much more powerful than what is in a cell phone or laptop data card, which allows better voice and data communication with distant cell sites. Wilson’s boosters work great on cars, trucks, boats, RVs or most any other application and can be adapted for home or office use. Wilson amplifiers work with all generations of CDMA, TDMA, GSM and the latest high-speed data technologies. If you need better cellular signal, either on the go or at a home office, then visit Wilson Electronics.

For info, contact Alan Preston, alanp@wilsonelectronics.com

CTIA Wireless 2007

Vringo is launching a video sharing community which allows you to share video ringtones (or Vringo's) with your buddies each time you call them.

You choose the clips you'd like your buddy to see and they chose the clips they'd like you to see. These Vringo clips are licensed content from the best of movies, TV, music or are user generated and created from your own mobile phone. Vringo will make sharing viral videos as easy as calling your friends.

Vringo allows for a personalized media sharing content community through video ringtones. Technologically, enabling ring-forward video tones is an exceedingly complex task. Getting an application to essentially control the call process (by dictating what is displayed and how), is almost unheard of, and Vringo has done so very effectively in a wide, and growing, set of handsets.

For info, contact Benjamin Levy [benjamin@vringo.com]

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3rd Dimension (www.3rdDimensionTech.com), a mobile marketing and application company, recently launched its Mobile Traffic Cam (www.freetrafficcam.com), which enables users of compatible, data-enabled cell phones to view real-time traffic conditions from traffic cameras. This free, innovative service launched in New York earlier this month and has already attracted thousands of users throughout the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut areas.

Now, users of Windows Mobile smart phones, including such popular models as the Motorola “Q;” Samsung Blackjack; Palm Treo 700w, 700wx and 750; Verizon XV6700; Cingular 8525 and 8125; T-Mobile Dash, SDA and MDA; and Sprint PPC-6700 can also view from the 480 traffic cameras along major crossings in the region, stretching from New Haven, Connecticut to Southern New Jersey and including New York City’s five boroughs. The service was previously available to data-enabled cell phone, as well as BlackBerry and Palm Treo devices.

For info, contact Jennifer Handshew [jhandshew@kcsa.com]

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27 March -- At ShowStoppers CTIA, MobiMate Ltd. announces its next generation mobile travel service code named “WorldMate i10”. The service is the first of its kind, designed to empower the tens of millions of business travelers and frequent fliers when they are in need of real-time information. It combines context-based push and pull services culminating in a "Personal Travel Assistant" experience. A public beta to follow later this year

WorldMate i10 is comprised of downloadable mobile client and server, a Microsoft Outlook ® Add-In and an accompanying website. The Outlook ® Add-In automatically pieces together the travelers’ itinerary details - flights, hotel, car rental and meetings, for immediate inspection on their mobile phones or through the WorldMate i10 website. Just prior to the trip, WorldMate i10 starts tracking the itinerary in real-time pushing details and suggestions when required. For example, when a flight is delayed or cancelled, the user is notified immediately and then presented with alternative flights for the desired destination. When arriving at a new destination, WorldMate i10 greets the user with a message outlining the next few items on her itinerary along with the local time and weather as well as maps/directions to her hotel.

The WorldMate i10 service also includes many of the popular services from MobiMate’s longstanding WorldMate product franchise including flight schedules, world clocks, currency exchange rates, travel information and more.

For info, contact Aaron Katz [aaron@mobimate.com]

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27 March -- At ShowStoppers, Smith Micro Software Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI), a leading provider of a wide range of software and services for the wireless market, demos QuickLink Media, an intuitive, all-in-one, PC-based multimedia manager for mobile devices. Designed for end-users and wireless carriers, QuickLink Media Simplifies the Mobile Media Experience by delivering Music, Photos, Video and More to End Users, Wireless Carriers and Device Manufacturers.

Smith Micro also demos QuickLink Mobility, a suite of connectivity and security applications designed for the enterprise mobile workforce and provides seamless network roaming and a secure wireless solution for mobile PCs and smart devices. QuickLink Mobility allows users to always be connected and always on!

And, the Mobile Device Management solution is designed to help carriers, device manufacturers and service providers solve complex device-related issues such as end-to-end device management, open standards solutions, broad device support, and offer subscribers an improved experience while significantly reducing costs.

For info, contact Nisha Kapoor [nkapoor@smithmicro.com]

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Do you have friends at your college or university? Well, don’t despair, because Fun Friends is going back to school. As of October 2006, Fun Friends has received licensing for eight different college schools from the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC).

Fun Friends is busy at work producing mascots for the major universities and schools in the U.S. In production now are mascots for University of Alabama, Auburn University, University of Georgia, University of Tennessee, University of Florida, University of Kentucky, Louisiana State University and University of Miami. These flip and bar-style covers will be available for purchase in Spring 2007.

Don’t see your alma mater? Fun Friends is still in the process of receiving licensing for more colleges and universities. There’s no better way to show your school spirit than to sport Fun Friends’ college mascots.

Founded in 1999, Fun Friends are plush animal cell phone covers created for both flip and bar-style phones. Seven years later, Fun Friends has experienced growth of more than 300 percent since 2003 and expected 2006 sales of $6 million. The covers are currently sold at Verizon Wireless stores and Claire’s Boutiques. With more than 100 styles of cell phone covers, remote control, stapler and iPod covers, Fun Friends has endless ideas for more.

For more information, please visit www.funfriends.com, or contact 1-877-203-7185.

CTIA Wireless 2007

27 March -- TeleNav will showcase its award-winning GPS navigation application for mobile devices at ShowStoppers CTIA.

TeleNav GPS Navigator includes GPS-enabled voice and on-screen driving directions - all on mobile phones and PDAs. The service also includes Biz Finder - with more than 10 million business listings, cheapest gas price finder, WiFi hotspot finder, full-color 3D moving maps, and traffic alerts and one-click rerouting. For consumer, small business or enterprise mobile customers, TeleNav GPS Navigator brings the features and convenience of navigation all to the mobile device. TeleNav GPS Navigator is now available internationally in the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe and Latin America. U.S. carriers offering TeleNav GPS Navigator include Sprint Nextel, Cingular, Alltel, Qwest, Boost Mobile and SouthernLINC. Earlier this month, Sprint Nextel also announced "Sprint Navigation, powered by TeleNav" which will be bundled into a data plan with other popular applications including Sprint TV, music, radio and email.

TeleNav will also feature TeleNav Track which is its mobile resource management (MRM) solution, providing businesses and government organizations with a powerful tool for monitoring mobile assets. TeleNav Track includes real-time GPS tracking and reporting, wireless timesheets, wireless job dispatching, wireless forms, wireless barcode scanning, and GPS-enabled driving directions. Cingular recently launched TeleNav Track on the BlackBerry 8800, the HP iPAQ 6925 and the Motorola MC35. TeleNav Track is also available on multiple Sprint Nextel mobile devices.

For info, contact Lowell, MaryBeth [marybethl@telenav.com]

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27 March -- BeVocal's demos and ShowStoppers CTIA solutions that address the significant domestic and global requirements for wireless operators to reduce costs, increase revenue and improve mobile customer satisfaction.

Through the recent the acquisition by Nuance Communications, BeVocal brings to Nuance a portfolio of highly repeatable applications, proven success within major reference accounts and a predictable, recurring revenue stream derived from software-as-a-service (SaaS) and subscription-based offerings. BeVocal's customers include Cingular, Liberty Wireless, Metro PCS and Virgin Mobile.

Driving revenue with customer care techniques is possible with BeVocal products and services. Based on specific criteria pre-set by the carrier to define demographics and other telling information to offer anything from ring tones, games, accessories and more, voice-activated sales suggestions are presented and responses tracked - giving carriers valuable insight into their customers' likes and dislikes. These tools include real-time reporting and an Intelligent Management System, which grows more accurate with every call, making target marketing and up-sell easier. With the acceleration of mobile marketing and the ever-attractive concept of elevating ARPU by delivering what your customer is looking for - BeVocal can deliver exactly what carriers need to solidify the relationship with its customers, reduce churn and increase its bottom line.

For info, contact Kelly Weston [kweston@globalresultspr.com]

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27 March -- At ShowStoppers CTIA, Autodesk Location Services demos Autodesk Insight and Family Minder. Autodesk Insight software provides small businesses that rely on a mobile field force with an on-demand mobile resource management solution. Autodesk® Family Minder is a product suite aimed at improving quality of life by promoting informed communication within the family circle.

Autodesk Location Services enables wireless network operators with complete location-smart solutions that can change the way we live, work and play. With the award winning Autodesk LocationLogic platform, Family Minder and Insight applications, Developer Program and a dedicated team of industry experts, Autodesk is the only location solution provider built specifically for the mobile environment.

For info, contact Kali Bean [Kali.Bean@edelman.com]

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27 March -- LogicaCMG Telecoms, soon to become Acision, announces at ShowStoppers CTIA a new feature in its Intelligent Charging offering that brings a popular voice billing feature into the data world, giving operators and users more flexibility in how they charge and pay for data services.

It will also announce its predictions for the growth of the North American mobile messaging market, as well as the results of its survey of North American mobile users that reveal some interesting differences in how men and women, and people of various ages, differ in their use of mobile phone data services. For this and more news, keep watching the LogicaCMG Telecoms press room and this blog.

For info, contact Todd Van Hoosear [tvanhoosear@topazpartners.com]

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27 Mar. 2007 – At ShowStoppers CTIA, AskMeNow (OTCBB:AKMN) announces its third generation search engine (Beta) featuring natural language automated search within structured and unstructured databases.

Years of in-depth linguistic analysis featuring our proprietary and complex algorithms are now enabling mobile phones to search any data just like humans, for the first time.

AskMeNow will demonstrate the latest in semantic search technology across multiple consumer content such as directory service, sports and Wikipedia as well Enterprise database search & extensibility highlighting Mobile Help Desk, CRM and Market Intelligence.

For info, contact Andrea Vaccaro, avaccaro@askmenow.com

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27 March -- At ShowStoppers, Picsel showcases a range of content solutions that highlight Picsel's ability to deliver full and rich content - document viewing, web browsing, mobile magazine solutions featuring Flash and video, music jukebox features and Picsel's user-generated content browser. With Picsel software in over 80 million handsets worldwide, the booth will feature a range of devices from major manufactures such as the Samsung BlackJack and Motorola Q which will showcase our wide selection of market leading products. As interactive comics and magazines, social networking capabilites and on-demand advice for the consumer makes a foray onto the mobile platform, attendees will be able to experience firsthand how Picsel is breaking down the barriers to deliver the best mobile user experience and drive mobile revenues.

Picsel Technologies enables viewing of any type of content on mobile handsets however, whenever and wherever consumers want. Working with carriers, manufacturers, and content companies around the world, Picsel supplies a content-agnostic mobile delivery platform that provides images, documents and videos to handsets in innovative and engaging ways. Picsel's objective is to make the latest content look fantastic on the mobile screen regardless of whether it was designed to be viewed on a handset. With next generation content flooding the market, Picsel empowers content providers to reach consumers the way they intended to, thus extending their brands without compromising communication.

For info, contact Imran Ali [imran.ali@picsel.com]

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27 March -- Kingston Technology announces its microSD dual adapter pack in a higher capacity! The pack comes with microSD card with mini- and standard-size Secure Digital (SD) adapters to maximize microSD card compatibility and interoperability between mobile phones, digital cameras and portable media devices.

When it comes to memory, Kingston Technology offers an end-to-end solution: from modules to optimize your PC, notebook, or printer to Flash memory cards to enhance your digital camera, MP3 player or even expand your mobile phone--consumers think of Kingston for all their memory needs.”

For info, contact Claudia_Martinez@Kingston.com

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27 March -- Parrot introduces at ShowStoppers CTIA the new Parrot BOOMBOX, a stylish wireless speaker that plays streaming music. It’s a compact, 60-watt 2.1 Bluetooth Class-D hi-fi speaker. It is compatible with any Bluetooth stereo (A2DP) music source such as mobile phones, iPods and MP3 players, or PCs. Non-Bluetooth sources coupled with a Bluetooth USB Parrot dongle are also compatible with the Parrot BOOMBOX. An RCA auxiliary line-in plug provides for analog audio devices such as CD players and tuners, and the unit will automatically detect the music source.

The Parrot BOOMBOX is designed to deliver high-performance audio across the music spectrum. Two wideband drivers perfectly reproduce the subtleties of the high and medium frequencies, while the woofer adds depth and a dynamic feel to the bass frequencies.
“The Parrot BOOMBOX transforms music to emotion across a wide range of genres such as classical, pop, jazz, country or rock,” says Ed Valdez.

The Parrot BOOMBOX will start shipping to the U.S. in the third quarter and carry an MSRP of $269.

For info, contact Mike Hedge [mike.hedge@parrot.biz]

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27 March -- At ShowStoppers CTIA, Parrot shows its new Parrot CONFERENCE speaker phone, which brings wireless Bluetooth® convenience to corporate boardrooms, offices and conference rooms. The speakerphone features Parrot’s proprietary advanced digital signal processing technology with full duplexing for clear, echo-free conversations in both small and large rooms. Its three highly-sensitive microphones provide complete 360-degree voice pickup and a powerful 5-watt speaker allows conversations in normal voice levels for all participants.

“With over 100 million registered users of Skype worldwide, professionals will be able to enjoy a high quality conference speaker in an untethered way,” says Edward Valdez, president and COO of Parrot, Inc. “Our new Parrot CONFERENCE transforms our innovative Bluetooth expertise from our automotive and home product lines to bring convenience and ease of use to the office.”

Because it is wireless and powered by three rechargeable Ni-MH batteries, the speakerphone can be easily moved from office to conference room to accommodate phone meetings wherever they occur. The batteries provide 10 hours of continuous talk-time, and fully recharge in five hours. And the Parrot CONFERENCE can be paired with up to 50 phones. The Parrot CONFERENCE has fully integrated Internet communications (VoIP) software. And, for the Skype subscribers, the Parrot CONFERENCE comes with an integrated Skype™ interface so it is ready to use out of the box.

The Parrot CONFERENCE also features a large, bright active-matrix TFT color display that makes its menus, settings and phone listings easy to see and read. It will store up to 6,000 contacts that are automatically loaded wirelessly via Bluetooth-enabled cell phones, PDAs, and laptops.

A built-in digital keypad also allows manual dialing if required. The self-contained Parrot CONFERENCE is relatively lightweight and has a small footprint for convenience and easy portability. It measures about 10 inches in diameter, sits less than two inches high and weights only 22 ounces including the batteries. MSRP for the base unit is only $299.99.

For info, contact Mike Hedge [mike.hedge@parrot.biz]

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27 March -- You no longer have to look at all your great photos on that tiny screen of your camera phone. Upload them to a Parrot digital photo frame.

Parrot at ShowStoppers CTIA shows its new line of wireless digital photo frames which continues to grow with the recent addition of the company’s new Parrot PHOTO VIEWER 7” model. It holds more than 500 images and has a seven-inch active-matrix TFT screen for exceptionally bright, crisp photo images.

The new Parrot PHOTO VIEWER 7” joins Parrot’s 3.5 inch model introduced earlier this year that holds 120 photos. Both photo viewers are available online (see www.parrot.com) and through retailers in the U.S. with an MSRP of $ 239.99 and $169.99 respectively.

Photos can be transferred quickly and easily to the Parrot photo viewers from a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, digital camera, laptop other storage device. To upload pictures, simply select the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER in the list of Bluetooth devices on your phone, digital camera or computer. Then select the picture you want to display and send it to the frame via Bluetooth. The picture is instantly converted to the size of the screen.

Both Parrot PHOTO VIEWERs have built-in sensors that keep the image upright whether the frame is positioned vertically or horizontally. They also allow for brightness adjustment and shut off automatically when it’s dark. Enjoy your favorite photos, in the order you want, with customizable slide shows and an ultra-simple three button user interface.

For info, contact Mike Hedge [mike.hedge@parrot.biz]

CTIA Wireless 2007

MOBIMATE’S “WORLDMATE i10” REVOLUTIONIZES TRAVEL SERVICES FOR
TENS OF MILLIONS OF FREQUENT FLIERS; Groundbreaking service eliminates uncertainty and stress while on the road, ushers in a new era of contextual push data services for the mobile industry

27 March -- MobiMate Ltd. announced details of its next generation mobile travel service code named “WorldMate i10.” The service is the first of its kind, designed to empower the tens of millions of business travelers and frequent fliers when they are in need of real-time information. It combines contextbased push and pull services culminating in a "Personal Travel Assistant" experience. MobiMate demos WorldMate to the press at ShowStoppers CTIA. A live demonstration is open to CTIA attendees with a public beta to follow later this year.

“WorldMate i10 is the culmination of many years of experience building mobile travel utilities and painstaking research conducted with Fortune 500 companies as well as MobiMate’s huge user base of business travelers,” reveals Nadav Gur, MobiMate’s CEO. “Our solution revolutionizes the travel experience, proactively guiding the traveler by the hand through all aspects of his journey. Ultimately, we believe that WorldMate i10 will drive the market for on the-road travel services making it a killer mobile application – akin to push email and GPS navigation.”

WorldMate i10 is comprised of downloadable mobile client and server, a Microsoft Outlook ® Add-In and an accompanying website. The Outlook ® Add-In automatically pieces together the travelers’ itinerary details - flights, hotel, car rental and meetings, for immediate inspection on their mobile phones or through the WorldMate i10 website. Just prior to the trip, WorldMate i10 starts tracking the itinerary in real-time pushing details and suggestions when required. For example, when a flight is delayed or cancelled, the user is notified immediately and then presented with alternative flights for the desired destination. When arriving at a new destination, WorldMate i10 greets the user with a message outlining the next few items on her itinerary along with the local time and weather as well as maps/directions to her hotel.

The WorldMate i10 service also includes many of the popular services from MobiMate’s longstanding WorldMate product franchise including flight schedules, world clocks, currency exchange rates, travel information and more.

For info, contact Aaron Katz [aaron@mobimate.com]

CTIA Wireless 2007

27 March -- Traveling down here to CTIA, there’s a great chance you needed one of the newest services of Pocket Express at some point in time. Be it flight status, flight scheduling, hotel information, frequently dialed travel numbers or maybe even currency conversion, business travelers now have a new best friend in Pocket Express 4.0, an upgrade that Handmark sneak peeks at Showstoppers CTIA.

Pocket Express is a way to a make a smart phone…smarter. From news, sports, weather, 411, maps, directions, stock information, movie times and the world’s only mobile cierge operator, it’s the real deal. That deal just improved with the Travel Channel added.

You know when the screen flashes changes at the airport, giving delayed or on-time updates? That’s the same feed Pocket Express uses. Instant updates delivered to your mobile phone. Hotel search? Got that too, powered by Hotels.com. And here’s a real news flash. Pocket Express actually lets users use a phone…as a phone. Yup, it’ll find your hotels, rank them by price and with one click you’ll be talking to an operator. And of course, there are more, more, more updates to talk about – but they’re better just shown in person. So, drop by the booth, stop by the table and let us help you take Pocket Express for a test drive.

For info, contact Andrew Pray [andrewp@waggeneredstrom.com].

Mobile computers set to deliver ultimate experience by combining innovative designs with powerful functionality and connectivity

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27 March — High Tech Computer Corp. (TAIEX: 2498; “HTC”), the world’s leading provider of Microsoft® Windows Mobile®-based smart devices, today announced the expansion of its product portfolio to include two new groundbreaking computing devices that focus on providing users with the definitive mobile computer experience.

The HTC Shift brings the full power of Windows Vista and advanced wireless connectivity into an innovative and compact design that is sure to create a new paradigm for mobile computing. The HTC Advantage delivers extreme portability that leverages the mobile office strengths of Windows Mobile 6 and advanced wireless connectivity in one of the smallest mobile computer designs available.

The HTC Shift combines the power of Windows Vista with an innovative QWERTY-based keyboard design and 3G-connectivity. The days of compromising productivity for portability are gone. The HTC Shift provides all the power, functionality and connectivity the busy professional needs in a sleek design that is half the size and a fraction of the weight of what they lug around today. Similar in size to a couple of DVD cases, the HTC Shift comes with Windows Vista Business, includes a brilliant 7-inch widescreen touch display and a 30-gigabyte hard drive. Packed with advanced connectivity, the HTC Shift features high-speed global connectivity with Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA, Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi. A multimedia maven, the HTC Shift leverages Windows Media Player 11 to provide easy access to music, videos and photos.

Developed from the ground up to be extremely portable, the HTC Advantage liberates the traveling executive from their bulky notebook PC. The HTC Advantage packs powerful productivity features into a unique and innovative design that is small enough to slip into a jacket pocket or purse. Based on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6, the HTC Advantage includes Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile for quick access to email, calendar and contacts and Microsoft Office Mobile enabling the creation and editing of Microsoft Office documents. The HTC Advantage includes a thin, magnetically connected QWERTY keyboard and advanced connectivity with Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA, Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi. In addition, the HTC Advantage enables powerful navigation capabilities with built-in GPS navigation. Other features include:

• 5-inch VGA touch display
• HDD 8GB, ROM 256MB, RAM 128MB
• miniSD™ card slot
• HTC VueFLO™ for easy navigation
• 3.5mm Stereo audio jack

For info, contact Jason Gordon, Jason_Gordon@america.htc.com, or Susan Schmitz, susans@waggeneredstrom.com.

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27 March -- Sprint (NYSE: S) and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) announced the upcoming availability of UpStage by Samsung, the first U.S. wireless phone designed with a revolutionary form factor that optimizes music capabilities with the look of a phone on one side and an MP3 player on the other. Operating on the Sprint Mobile Broadband network, UpStage by Samsung provides easy access to Sprint’s exclusive multimedia content, including Sprint Music Store with quick over-the-air music downloads.

The screen on the phone side of the UpStage by Samsung is dedicated to making calls, text messaging and contacts management. With a simple push of the “flip” button, the focus is shifted to the music side. The music side features a large, bright-color LCD screen that is ideal for navigating the music library and allows easy access to Power Vision products and services, including Sprint Music Store and Sprint TV.

UpStage by Samsung comes packaged with essential tools to get started right out of the box including a stylish extended battery wallet that increases talk time up to 6.3 hours or 16 hours of music listening. Dual battery gauges show remaining battery life in the extended battery wallet and the internal battery. The box also contains a 64MB MicroSD memory card, USB cable, 3.5mm adapter with microphone for standard music headphones and accessories, the Sprint Music Manager application on CD-ROM and a Quick Tips guide.

For info, contact Tracy Calabrese [tcalabrese@mww.com]

CTIA Wireless 2007

27 March -- Visit Showstopper’s at CTIA Wireless 2007 and experience the latest in Bluetooth handsfree speakerphone technology from BlueAnt Wireless. Stylish in design, easy to use and with no installation requirements, the new BlueAnt Supertooth Light offers the latest in handsfree technology. Incorporating Clear Voice Capture (CVC) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) from Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), the device uses real-time audio to process any echo or background noise, improving the sound quality of the user’s voice. It also adjusts sound levels to compensate for loud engine noise or external noise created when the windows are wound down. Easily mounted to the car’s sun-visor, the BlueAnt Supertooth Light offers an amazing 15 hours talk-time or 33 days standby.

For info, contact Suzanne Harrison [suzanne@myblueant.com]

CTIA Wireless 2007

27 March -- The new enterprise mobility business from Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today introduced at ShowStoppers CTIA the MC35 Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA), an all-in-one communication device that harnesses the voice and data applications people expect from an office setting and delivers them in the form of a durable and compact handheld mobile computer.

The MC35 joins the durable MC50 and rugged MC70 as the third device in Motorola's family of EDAs and is designed to withstand the rigors of everyday use in the office or in the field while providing enterprise-class wireless connectivity, functionality, and manageability to mobile professionals.

The MC35 combines advanced cellular technology, including built-in Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) capabilities, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, with laptop functionality, camera, and bar code reader. Users can talk, e-mail, connect to the Internet, use mission-critical business applications, and capture data (including signatures) with one, easy-to-use device for lower total-cost-of-ownership.

With support for high-speed EDGE wireless data networks based on the GSM standard for wireless, and Motorola's relationships with AT&T and other wireless carriers, the MC35 EDA gives users fast wireless data speeds and access to rich applications with enterprise-level security. It can easily connect to an organization's wireless LAN (WLAN) via 802.11b/g for data communications, providing better control over wireless WAN usage and costs. The MC35’s Bluetooth functionality also lets users connect wirelessly to printers and other peripherals.

For info, contact Traci Hoch [Traci.Hoch@motorola.com]

CTIA Wireless 2007

BlueAnt Interphone Handsfree & Intercom for Motorcycle Riders

Visit BlueAnt at the Showstopper’s CTIA Wireless event and learn how motorcyclists can now enjoy the freedom of Bluetooth handsfree communication. The new BlueAnt Interphone Handsfree and Intercom easily attaches to full-faced or open-faced helmets and incorporates a world class Digital Signal Processor (DSP) designed to ensure excellent clarity of sound. With automatic volume adjustment which fine-tunes to speed induced environmental noise, the Interphone offers excellent performance up to 80mph. The microphone incorporates an anti-noise and anti-echo feature, minimizing noise and wind interference. The intercom feature can be used between either pillion riders or motorcyclists riding together (up to 490 feet apart). This facility is enabled when two units are being used.

For info, contact Suzanne Harrison [suzanne@myblueant.com]

CTIA Wireless 2007

Teens rush to join new free mobile phone service that lets them create their own "interactive mobile websites" in minutes, no computers needed.

Powerful, Easy-to-Use New Mobile Service from FoneMine Lets Consumers Create, Connect & Share Rich Content and Make Group Calls with Friends Using Any Mobile Phone Anywhere in World

27 March -- Noelle Schriner always enjoyed sending text messages to her friends. But now, thanks to a new mobile service from FoneMine, she’s moved beyond texting and simple 1:1 phone calls. This 14-year-old from California just built her very own mobile website on her phone – and in less than 15 minutes, she had joined five friends on a free group call using FoneTalk and sent her first FonePage…to her mom. Today, instead of text, she sends whole pages, most filled with text, images, color and links, not to her mom, but to her friends at Los Altos High School.

“It was fun sending text messages to my friends, but this is so much better. I can put together a FonePage really fast. I just write a headline and some text, insert a photo and send it to ten friends at the same time. Then they send me funny comments and links back. Or I can use FoneTalk to call a whole group of friends at once,” she said.

Schriner is one of thousands of global mobile users (and particularly teens) signing up – and inviting their friends – to join FoneMine, a new mobile service that officially launches this week at the CTIA Wireless 2007 conference in Orlando, Florida -- and demos to the press at ShowStoppers. Built on a powerful new mobile marketing platform, FoneMine lets consumers build their own interactive mobile websites in just minutes…using only their phone. Once signed up, users can use FoneMine to create, connect and share with friends using voice, text, wap and web services. FoneMine works on any phone, anywhere in the world.

For info, contact Patricia A. Roche’, proche@fonemine.com