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NEOMAR WAP BROWSER
LIVE ON MOTIENT'S eLINK
Key Content Partners
for Neomar Portal Round Out Free Wireless Offering;
First Step in Providing Wireless Solutions to Mobile
Professionals and the Enterprises
San Francisco, CA
(May 8, 2000) - Neomar, a
start-up company which delivers wireless solutions to
mobile professionals and enterprises, today announced
that its Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based microbrowser
is now downloadable from Motient's (NASDAQ: MTNT) eLink
site and also from its own site for eLink customers.
Motient was formerly named American Mobile Satellite
Corp.
The browser will enable
eLink customers to access critical information wirelessly,
from driving directions, weather and restaurant information
to stock quotes. It is the first step in Neomar's plan
to deliver business-critical content and enterprise
applications to mobile professional using a variety
of wireless devices, including the eLink, RIM BlackBerry,
Palms, and the Handspring Visor. Neomar is focusing
on PDAs because their larger screens, interfaces, greater
amount of memory, and ability to handle graphics make
them inherently better devices to deliver business content
and enterprise applications than phones.
"The combination of
the eLink's rise in popularity among mobile professionals
for wireless Web access and business-critical applications,
and the nationwide reach of Motient's ARDIS network
made them a logical choice for us," said Fred Chieux,
senior vice president of strategy and alliances for
Neomar. "With Neomar's browser and access to our wireless
business portal, eLink business users and enterprises
will have a new competitive weapon in their arsenal,
unchaining them from current deskbound enterprise applications
such as customer relationship and supply-chain management."
"Neomar's WAP-based
microbrowser and content provide a true value added
capabilities for our wireless email and internet services,"
said Brian Nimmo, vice president of marketing, Motient
Corporation. "We are firmly committed to evaluating
and adapting the latest in wireless data technology
and our use of a WAP-based solution is indicative of
that."
For its wireless business
portal, Neomar has signed strategic partnerships with
a number of companies that comprise a key piece of the
company's strategy to provide business-critical information
to mobile business users. Each of the partners provides
a critical service to mobile professionals. The partners
include: vVault: vVault is a file management and document
delivery platform that is accessible by Web and wireless
devices. vVault stores and manages your electronic and
hardcopy information, and allows you to access and deliver
that data via fax and email. vVault enables businesses
and portals to quickly and easily integrate and provide
these services to their company or their end users.
"We've built the infrastructure that enables businesses
and portals to deploy a robust, wireless-accessible
file management and document delivery system quickly
and easily," said Bill Ho, CEO of vVault. "We are excited
to add RIM support through the Neomar browser."
weather.com: weather.com,
the world's leading source of The Weather Channel® weather
on the Web, brings up-to-date weather information to
users on their wireless phones and pagers. weather.com
visitors use the site as a planning tool, and through
wireless products can stay connected anytime, anywhere.
"We're pleased to provide our premier weather content
to Neomar and leverage the appeal of weather.com to
road warriors," said Tom Flournoy, director of business
development, wireless at weather.com. "This new relationship
is the latest step in weather.com's goal towards universal
weather delivery, and it reinforces weather.com's position
as a leader in wireless content development."
Go2 Systems: Go2 Systems,
found at www.go2online.com, is the first global addressing
and locator system designed for the Internet and portable
devices. See related news release entitled, "Go2 Systems
and Neomar First in U.S. to Launch WAP Portal."
InfoSpace: InfoSpace.com
(NASDAQ: INSP) is an infrastructure company that provides
enabling services for wireless devices, merchants and
Web sites. InfoSpace will be providing Neomar with personalized
and localized information such as finding the nearest
business, directions, getting real-time stock quotes,
latest news, and a variety of other information services.
Total Sports.com:
Total Sports is a Raleigh,
NC-based online sports media company that offers a wireless
application providing sports fans the opportunity to
receive updated scores, news and headlines via their
digital cellular phones and PQA-capable personal digital
assistant (PDA) products. wap.totalsports.net serves
as the default sports site on WAP browsers being deployed
on RIM devices, providing users with all the news and
information available at www.totalsports.net. "We are
excited by the opportunity to partner with Neomar in
the creation of a wireless solution for sports fans
on the go," said Colin Boatwright, Chief Technology
Officer of Total Sports. "This partnership will only
enhance our efforts to provide in-depth information
to fans, packaged in a convenient form that complements
our online offerings and furthers our vision as the
future of sports information."
Neomar's microbrowser
delivers content from these partners specifically formatted
for wireless devices using WML 1.1, the WAP equivalent
of HTML. WAP is quickly becoming an important factor
in developing wireless content by making it swift and
simple to adapt Web content to handheld devices. As
a result, Neomar's microbrowser gives users a secure,
easy way to access important information. In addition,
WAP is an open protocol, allowing the wireless development
community to deliver WAP applications to customers.
Along with first commercially available browser for
PDAs, Neomar has developed an end-to-end WAP solution
encompassed by a gateway, application server, and a
portal.
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