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Siemens Chooses Ecrio's Mobile Instant Messaging Platform for its Carrier Offering

Munich, Germany, and Cupertino, California - March 13, 2002 — The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile), a leading provider of mobile networks, solutions and devices for mobile businesses, and Ecrio, a leading provider of mobile instant and multimedia messaging software, today announced an OEM agreement that brings the Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform into Siemens' offering for advanced messaging and presence-enabled mobile services.

Under the agreement, Siemens will bundle and integrate Ecrio's solution with its mobile messaging offering, including the Siemens presence server, and therefore provide real-time mobile network-based presence into instant messaging. Siemens will market and sell the combined solution worldwide.

By leveraging Ecrio's capabilities to exchange All Media™ -- text, digital photos, maps, drawings, ring-tones, logos, audio, video, and documents, between PCs, PDAs, J2ME™, WAP, and SMS phones worldwide, and across all networks, the combined solution will enable operators to offer a pre-integrated presence and messaging service, with the ability to capitalize on Multimedia Message Services (MMS).

"We found in Ecrio a company that has products, technical leadership, and vision in perfect alignment with Siemens's own outlook on the future of mobile services." said Volker Ziegler, President of Solutions within Siemens' Information and Communication Mobile Group. "We see Ecrio's support of interoperability and standards such as Wireless Village and multimedia messaging, as critical in bringing much needed applications to the market."

"Our partnership with Siemens reinforces the mobile messaging business case, and makes it easier to bring new services into fruition for operators worldwide" said Nagesh Challa, President & CEO of Ecrio. "With Siemens' capability to offer mobile networking equipment, presence servers, and handsets, along with Ecrio's Rich Instant Messaging Platform, we are able to bring mobile operators uniqueness in branding and services at advantageous economies of scale."

Siemens will be showcasing the integrated multimedia and instant messaging solution based on Ecrio's Rich Instant Messaging Platform and the Siemens Presence Manager at the CeBIT fair, March 13th-20th, Hanover, Germany. Visitors will see how they can engage in instant messaging sessions, exchange video clips and discuss movie star's gossip, and purchase and redeem movie tickets, all on a combination of phones, smart-phones, and personal computers.

About Siemens

The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) offers the complete range of mobile solutions including mobile devices, infrastructure and applications. Devices include mobile phones, wireless modules, mobile organizers and cordless phones as well as products for wireless home networks. The infrastructure portfolio includes GSM, GPRS and 3G mobile network technologies from base stations and switching systems to intelligent networks, e.g. for prepaid services. Mobile Applications cover end-to-end solutions for Messaging, Location Based Services or Mobile Payment. For the fiscal year 2001 (September 30), IC Mobile recorded sales of EUR 11.3 billion and employed 30,730 people worldwide. You can access further information about Siemens IC Mobile on the Internet at www.siemens-mobile.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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