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Ecrio and MobileWay Partner to Deliver Instant Messaging to Wireless Network Operators and Businesses Globally

Cupertino and San Ramon, California - October 22, 2001 — Ecrio Inc., a leading provider of advanced wireless messaging software, and MobileWay, Inc., a leading provider of global data access over wireless networks, today announced a partnership to deliver global instant messaging solutions over fixed and wireless networks. Through this partnership, Ecrio and MobileWay have made available the Ecrio™ Rich Instant Messaging Platform over the MobileWay Global Network. Corporate and consumer users can now send messages from any mobile phone, on any network, to any device or desktop. They can exchange text, images, drawings, and business documents worldwide. In addition, enhanced presence, availability, and location knowledge is persistently shared among the user community, facilitating general interaction as well as critical business applications.

"Extending rich instant messaging to global mobile networks increases revenue for mobile operators, and provides a global communication tool for consumers and corporations alike," said Nagesh Challa, President and CEO of Ecrio. "We are very happy to be working with MobileWay and reaching out to the wireless messaging market over MobileWay's global network."

The solution includes Ecrio's robust carrier-grade messaging server that seamlessly integrates into MobileWay's global network. The Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform is a client/server offering enabling the sharing of multimedia content between wireless and desktop devices. The server includes messaging management and notification engines for delivering messages and dynamically transcodes content for the recipient device, as well as includes security, authentication, presence & availability modules. Revenue generating third-party services, including m-commerce applications, are easily integrated into the system via an open application interface, enhancing the system's value.

From a personal digital assistant (PDA), personal computer, WAP™ or SMS enabled phones; users may send each other handwritten notes, digital pictures, video clips, and text messages over any 2G, 2.5G, and 3G network. The Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform supports one-to-one, broadcast, and chat messaging, and is interoperable with popular instant messaging services. Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform users may personalize their simple text messages with rich content when communicating with Pals on services Powered by Ecrio™, on SMS phones, or Yahoo!™ and MSN® messaging services. Ecrio Messenger Clients are available on Palm OS™, Pocket PC™, Rim Wireless, and Symbian EPOC™ PDAs, WAP and SMS phones, as well as personal computers.

"By combining MobileWay's leading global network with Ecrio's rich instant messaging and m-commerce solution, the result is increased value-add for the mobile market as a whole," said Patrice Peyret, CEO of MobileWay. "Mobile users and enterprises can now benefit from carrier-independence, while operators benefit from the ability to offer rich deployment of wireless data services."

By leveraging MobileWay's global network of direct and secure connections to wireless operator networks worldwide, businesses now have a single-point access to 300M phones for 2-way data exchanges and 500M phones for one-way messaging. With more than 80 contractual relationships with wireless operators, MobileWay provides global coverage, high performance, and service quality needed for mobile consumer and enterprise applications. By working closely and locally with mobile network operators around the world, MobileWay delivers access, billing and application provisioning to enterprises, content providers and financial institutions which want to deploy value-added services to mobile users.

About MobileWay

MobileWay, Inc. is a leading provider of global data access over wireless networks for businesses and mobile operators. MobileWay manages the deployment of wireless data applications and enables associated payments. The company's global network and value-added wireless services are designed to enable network operators, content providers, enterprises and financial institutions to bring customized, user-authorized, and secure data services to mobile users. MobileWay offers wireless data services that include text messages, ring tones, m-commerce solutions, and service data such as copyright reports, click-rate reports, phone software updates, and user validation cryptograms. A North American company, MobileWay has offices located throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.mobileway.com.

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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