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WebMessenger Announces Mobile Instant Messaging Solutions

Posted on: Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 06:00 CDT

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- WebMessenger, Inc., a leading provider of platform-independent mobile Instant Messaging (IM) solutions, today announced Webmessenger Mobile Platform 3.0 (WMP) at Instant Messaging Planet conference. This major new release enables complete interoperability and presence that spans the majority of IM solutions across variety of mobile PDA, phones and desktop systems. The WMP 3.0 solution is targeted at enterprise, financial service and service provider clients who need to provide complete secure IM interoperability of enterprise data and communications.

"The mobile workforce is changing the way we communicate. People need secure and reliable access to sensitive enterprise or financial data to employees, partners and customers across different types of devices and systems," said Val Babajov, CEO of WebMessenger, Inc. "WMP 3.0 is a major step forward in providing a mobile device and system agnostic IM solution targeted at customers who demand real-time secure, reliable, interoperable access to enterprise data and communication"

The WMP 3.0 main new features and functionality include presence, enhanced security, real-time communication, interoperability across all major IM solutions and access to wireless enterprise data.

"Webmessenger was the first company to integrate the majority of wireless PDA's and phone handsets into business application solutions interoperable with private secured instant messaging systems, behind the firewall", said Konny Zigo, WirelessDeveloper's Agency President. "The ability of Webmessenger Mobile Platform (WMP) to send IM traffic to and from wireless devices like Pocket PC, Palm and BlackBerry for time-sensitive communications is a critical requirement for mobile IM customers in the various industries: healthcare, emergency services, logistics, financial services, field support. The compliance of Webmessenger clients and server with Open Mobile Alliance -- Wireless Village protocol expands the reach of mobile IM to millions of wireless consumers/prosumers."

Major Features include:

- Instant Messaging: Webmessenger Mobile Platform (WMP) provides

real-time communication between professionals, and enables

collaboration with colleagues, customers and partners.

- Presence: Advanced presence delivers extended status information for

the availability of your contacts (online, offline, busy, away,

custom, etc.). Also, presence information is updated and exchanged

with all of the supported third party messaging networks.

- Interoperability: WMP provides interoperability with all major public

and enterprise messaging systems (Sametime, MS Exchange, MS RTC,

SIP/SIMPLE, Jabber and Wireless Village). It is also interoperable

with most of the wireless networks (Mobitex, DataTAC, GPRS, CDMA,

iDEN, etc.).

- Wireless Enterprise Data (WED): Webmessenger 's WED framework is a

network agnostic and device-agnostic solution that extends corporate

data and applications over wireless networks to the mobile users.

WebMessenger Mobile Platform Deployment Options

- ASP, Hosted: WMP is available as hosted ASP type solution through

direct sale channels or through web sites.

- Enterprise, 'Behind the Firewall' Installation: WMP is installed in a

secure environment behind the company firewall.

About WebMessenger

WebMessenger is a leading provider of mobile instant messaging solutions, interoperability software and mobile data solutions for the enterprise and consumer market. WebMessenger Mobile Platform (WMP) is tested on mobile network operators in the United States, Europe and Asia. WMP clients and server are compliant with the Wireless Village Protocol, now part of Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). WMP includes clients for Blackberry, Palm OS (Treo, Tungsten, Palmi705), Pocket PC, Nokia Communicator, J2ME, SMS, and BREW phones. WMP provides private, secure messaging which is interoperable with Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft RTC server, SIP/SIMPLE, Jabber and other third party messaging platforms.

http://www.webmessenger.com/

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