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Summus and Agence France-Presse Announce the Commercial Availability of AFP Mobile News

Posted on: Monday, 23 February 2004, 06:00 CST

Powerful and Advanced News Application, Powered by BlueFuel, is

Now Available for Wireless Subscribers

¶ Summus, Inc. (USA) (OTCBB: SUMU), a developer of applications and information processing tools that optimize the wireless multimedia experience, and Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Worldwide News Agency, today announced that the companies have launched an advanced mobile news application available in the market, today. The application delivers AFP's award-winning news and photo content to users of Nokia Series 60 devices and other Symbian-based wireless handsets. ¶ AFP Mobile News, powered by BlueFuel(TM), gives subscribers access to a broad array of news topics including US & International News, Middle East News, Sports, Politics, Financial and Offbeat news. The best news photos of the day, selected from the AFP award-winning photo service, illustrate the breaking news and can be viewed as a photo gallery. The application includes an advanced feature set based on Summus' Superfast, Superthin(TM) BlueFuel(TM) platform tailored for efficient and easy interaction with information in the mobile environment. Features include:

¶ -- Up to the minute news stories

¶ -- Ability to select and download multiple stories and photos at

one time to be viewed without incurring additional air time,

¶ -- Automatic scrolling of news stories

¶ -- Shortcut keys to enable quick and easy navigation throughout

the application

¶ -- Ability to localize the application for various languages

including English, French, Spanish, German and Chinese

¶ -- High-powered, low-stress navigation designed for a

consistently superior user experience, both for the novice and

the advanced

¶ The application will be distributed by Summus to carriers in the U.S and Canada, and via AFP outside North America. AFP is presenting the AFP Mobile News application at the 3GSM World Congress on February 23-26 in Cannes, France. AFP will share the application with major wireless carries from Western Europe, the UK, South America, the Far East and other regions. ¶"Having access to AFP news and photos in such an attractive and interactive way is extremely interesting for wireless data users," said Yves de Saint Jacob, Director of Multimedia Development of AFP. "The combination of our award-winning content and Summus' BlueFuel advanced platform delivers the most compelling news experience possible on a mobile device."¶"AFP is a global leader in news distribution and editorial services. The creation of AFP Mobile brings a well recognized name in international news to a mobile audience and puts AFP in a leadership position for news distribution," said Gary Ban, CEO of Summus. "We are excited about delivering a compelling, revenue-generating application to wireless carriers and their subscribers worldwide."¶ Summus' BlueFuel platform enables service providers, content providers and handset manufacturers to create and deliver robust mobile applications quickly and on a much wider range of devices and operating systems than competing solutions. The platform and architecture give developers the tools necessary to easily build applications for today's resource-constrained wireless environment while providing a superior user experience.

¶ About AFP Worldwide News Agency

¶ Paris-based AFP is one of the world's largest general news agencies with 1,200 reporters, 200 photographers and 2,000 stringers based in 165 countries. Its U.S. regional headquarters are located in Washington, DC. AFP brand is based on editorial quality, speed and accuracy. AFP provides a 24/7 worldwide multilingual news coverage and produces daily more than 2 million words, 700 photos, 50 news graphics, as well as video, sound and multimedia content for the web and mobile environment. Its news, pictures and multimedia services are edited at regional centers in Paris, Nicosia, Washington, DC, Montevideo and Hong Kong. For more information, visit www.afp.com.

¶ About Summus

¶ Summus is a developer of applications, platforms and innovative information processing tools that enable service providers, content providers and handset manufacturers to optimize the customer's wireless experience. The company's leading wireless applications, available through carriers such as AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, ALLTEL, U.S. Cellular and Cingular, are powered by its BlueFuel platform. The Superfast, Superthin platform enables Summus and its developer partners to quickly build user-friendly applications within today's processing and bandwidth-constrained wireless environment. The BlueFuel platform enables wireless carriers to deliver more efficient applications that can be easily shared between a greater variety of devices, operating systems and content providers. It also allows device manufacturers to develop more processing-efficient devices. For more information, see www.summus.com.

¶ This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning Summus' business, products, and financial results. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted. More information about potential risk factors that could affect our business, products, and financial results is included in Summus' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002, and in reports subsequently filed by Summus with the Securities and Exchange Commission("SEC"). All documents are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov or from Summus' web site at www.summus.com. Summus hereby disclaims any obligation to publicly update the information provided above, including forward-looking statements, to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

¶ BlueFuel and Superfast, Superthin are trademarks of Summus, Inc. (USA). All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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