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Ecrio Inc., And Zero Gravity, Inc., Partner to deliver rich instant messaging to wireless Canadian market

Ecrio's Rich Instant Messaging Platform Enables Rich Communications On Palm OS PDAs

CUPERTINO, California and MANITOBA, Canada - February 15, 2001 — Ecrio Inc., a provider of advanced wireless messaging applications and infrastructure, and Zero Gravity, Inc., a wireless service provider that enables subscribers to remotely access e-mail, optimized Internet content, corporate information and applications, today announced they will be teaming together towards offering Rich Instant Messaging for the wireless PDA market in Canada. Beginning in April, Zero Gravity users will be able to send and receive handwritten notes in any language, including drawings, images and texts to and from any Internet-enabled wireless Palm OS handheld computer, with desktop and mobile phone users.

"Zero Gravity is leading the way in transforming PDAs into truly useful, innovative, and compelling communication devices for the Canadian market," said Nagesh Challa, president and CEO of Ecrio. "By partnering with Ecrio and enabling enhanced features such as the ability to incorporate graphics and personal handwritten notes for Instant Messaging, Zero Gravity expands their services offering, attracts new customers, and increases market share and revenue."

"Through our partnership with Ecrio, and with the existing partnership with network, hardware, software and content providers, our growing user base benefits from an established wireless network that brings a liberating mode of data communication such as the exchange of graphical and free-form handwritten messages directly from handheld devices," commented Harold Korsunsky, CEO of Zero Gravity, Inc. "We recognize the huge market for wireless Rich Instant Messaging and want to lead the way by bringing Ecrio's capabilities to our customers."

About Zero Gravity

Headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Zero Gravity is a wireless service provider that allows subscribers to remotely access e-mail, optimized Internet content, corporate information and applications. Services are currently available for the Palm and Handspring brands of handhelds on the CDPD and CDMA cellular networks. Future services will be extended to GPRS and cdma-2000 networks as they become available.

About Ecrio's Rich Instant Messaging Platform

The Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform has both server and client-side components, and is device and network agnostic. The platform includes client applications for internet-enabled PDA's running Palm OS, Windows CE, Blackberry RIM, or Symbian Epoc operating systems, desktop appliances, and server-side clients for WAP and SMS enabled phones. Its server components include user management, message notification and delivery, interactive protocol support, as well as billing and system administration utilities. Additional features include user and device presence detection, enterprise level security, email, SMS, and fax messaging support.

About Ecrio

Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Ecrio is the leading vendor of real time commerce and communications software for mobile phones. Ecrio provides interoperable and standard compliant software to mobile phone manufacturers and mobile operators. Solutions include mobile commerce applications, including NFC and MoBeam mobile barcode redemption, along with 3G communications applications such as Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS), VideoShare, Voice over IP (VoIP), and Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC). Ecrio's customers include industry leaders such as ASUSTeK, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic and Visa. Visit www.ecrio.com

Ecrio and MoBeam are trademarks of Ecrio Inc. All other brands, products, and company names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holders.

Press Contact:

Larry Loper,
Ecrio lloper@ecrio.com
+1 408 596 1500

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