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Ecrio Inc. Announces First Wireless Village Compliance of Client and Server Instant Messaging Solution

Company First to Comply Entire Solution on a Commercial Live Mobile Phone and Global Network

Cupertino, California - July 15th, 2002 — Ecrio Inc., a leading provider of wireless messaging applications and infrastructure software, today announced the availability of its end-to-end Wireless Village™ compliant instant messaging client and server solution. Ecrio completed the WV1.1 compliance tests after successfully demonstrating interoperability between the Ecrio™ Rich Instant Messaging Platform, Ecrio Embedded Handset Software, and other Wireless Village member companies' server and emulated client software solutions. Ecrio is the first company to have its solution comply with a commercially available handset running on a global network. The Wireless Village interoperability event - the first in a series - was held in Stockholm Sweden the last week of June 2002.

"We are very proud to achieve this important milestone, and to contribute to the success of the first mobile instant messaging and presence interoperability event," said Nagesh Challa, President, and CEO of Ecrio. "Our ability to successfully complete the compliance tests with our embedded client running on a live handset and our server software demonstrates our commitment to Wireless Village, and our ability to deliver real solutions that generate real revenues to mobile operators worldwide."

Ecrio's flagship product, the Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform (ERIMP), enables the delivery of AllMedia™ - handwritten notes, images, drawings, digital photos, images, voice, and documents- across fixed and wireless networks in addition to the support of instant messaging and presence services. Instant Messaging users on services Powered by Ecrio™ can use SMS, EMS, MMS, WAP, and J2ME mobile phones, PDAs (Palm OS and PocketPC), as well as personal computers and Internet browsers to participate in the worldwide messaging community. Moreover, with Ecrio's modular messaging architecture and its support of web services and industry standards, mobile operators can quickly deploy revenue generating value added services such as games, entertainment, content sharing, and mobile commerce.

About the Wireless Village initiative

Founded by Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERICY), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Wireless Village, the mobile Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) initiative, was formed in April 2001 to define and promote a set of universal specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence services. The specifications will be used for exchanging messages and presence information between mobile devices, mobile services and Internet-based instant messaging services, all interoperable and leveraging existing internet technologies. Through its Supporters, the Wireless Village initiative is building a vibrant community of users, mobile operators and global business partners where internet and wireless domains converge. The IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO) provides day-to-day administrative support to the Wireless Village initiative. New members have the opportunity to comment and make contributions to the specification, participate in interoperability events and attend quarterly face-to-face board meetings. The Wireless Village initiative recently announced its intent to consolidate into the newly formed Open Mobile Alliance (http://www.openmobilealliance.org). For more information on the Wireless Village initiative, how to join the Wireless Village initiative, details of technical specifications and more, visit http://www.wireless-village.org.

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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