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Ecrio Inc., Debuts Ecrio Intelligent Delivery Engine for Advanced Wireless Messaging at CTIA Wireless 2001

Cupertino, California - March 19, 2001 — Ecrio Inc., a provider of advanced wireless messaging applications and infrastructure, today announced the launch of its second messaging product, the Ecrio™ Intelligent Delivery Engine. Benefiting carriers, service providers, and corporations alike, Ecrio's Intelligent Delivery Engine, a multi-purpose messaging and notification software, enables the offering of rich notification and transaction services for mobile commerce and corporate applications, stimulating new revenue opportunities for carriers, and streamlining and simplifying applications and processes for the enterprise.

The company also announced the general availability for deployment of its Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform V1.0, which enables users to send rich instant messages-images, pictures, drawings, handwritten notes in any language, and text-to and from any internet-enabled wireless or desktop appliance. Ecrio will demonstrate the Ecrio Intelligent Delivery Engine and the Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform March 20- March 22, 2001 at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, Booth #7948.

"Ecrio is powering the wireless Web by focusing on communication and messaging, as opposed to simple phone surfing," said Nagesh Challa, president and CEO of Ecrio. "The Intelligent Delivery Engine, with its support for open standards and APIs, integrates into any third-party or existing applications as wide ranging as interactive graphical games for the teenage market, system notification of corporate order fulfillment, or mobile ticketing delivery. Since the Intelligent Delivery Engine also enables the secure delivery of messages with monetary value, carriers and service providers can now implement mobile commerce across any network worldwide."

About Ecrio's Intelligent Delivery Engine

The Ecrio Intelligent Delivery Engine is a Java and XML-based messaging software that supports a wide-variety of devices and protocols. Developed as an open platform and plug-in technology, the Intelligent Delivery Engine features a modular architecture that enables customers to deploy flexible wireless messaging solutions. For example, the Intelligent Delivery Engine features modules such as presence and availability management, message management, personalization and profiling information, protocol management, provisioning and billing, and rich media formatting modules. The Ecrio Intelligent Delivery Engine relies on open standards and is interoperable with corporate messaging solutions, as well as IM servers based on IETF's CPIM specifications, and adheres to the PAM Forum's specification for presence and availability. It also provides hooks for integration with location-based services, LDAP interfaces for authentication and access control, secure interfaces for mobile commerce and corporate applications, and more.

About Ecrio's Rich Instant Messaging Platform

The Ecrio™ Rich Instant Messaging™ Platform provides a highly scaleable and reliable end-to-end solution for wireless carriers, portals, service providers, and corporations to deliver rich instant messaging on internet-enabled wireless and desktop appliances. Ecrio's Rich Instant Messaging Platform enables users to send images, pictures, drawings, handwritten notes in any language, and text to and from any internet-enabled wireless or desktop appliance.

The Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform has both server and client-side components, and is device and network agnostic. It 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 component is entirely based on the Ecrio Intelligent Delivery Engine.

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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