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OMNISKY AND vVAULT
ENTER INTO STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT TO OFFER
EMAIL ATTACHMENT VIEWING ON WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICES
San Francisco, CA
(March 5, 2001) - vVault,
a leading provider of mobile productivity solutions,
together with OmniSky, the award-winning provider of
branded wireless e-mail and Internet services for users
of mobile devices, announced today the selection of
the vVault Platform to power additional mobile productivity
enhancements for all subscribers of OmniSky's wireless
services. These enhancements will offer mobile professionals
a richer wireless e-mail experience by allowing them
to access corporate e-mail (Microsoft Outlook and Lotus
Notes) attachments over any mobile device using the
OmniSky service.
Access to -- and management
of -- corporate e-mail, with attachment handling, is
considered to be the wireless data capability users
are most interested in, according to a recent survey
by Telephia, an independent wireless research firm.
Handheld users prized this feature the most, with 74
percent of them ranking it on their "top three" list.
The collaboration between
vVault and OmniSky marks the first offer of full e-mail
attachment access by a major wireless service on multiple
platforms for multiple file formats. vVault's e-mail
attachment view supports a number of popular business
software formats including Microsoft Office documents,
including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and
Microsoft Word, and Adobe Acrobat PDF files, among others.
Omnisky will offer this capability in future releases
of its service.
"E-mail is without
a doubt the killer app on the wireless Internet for
mobile professionals, but to date, this experience has
been limited by lack of attachment support," said Dave
Rensin, OmniSky's chief strategy officer. "We believe
our customers require a complete email solution, regardless
of the technology they use. We chose the vVault Platform
for its excellence in technical innovation and for its
ability to deliver this solution via a rapid and highly
integrated offering."
"OmniSky's selection
of vVault as the partner to provide enhanced messaging
and other productivity services marks a significant
endorsement of vVault's Platform technology," said Will
Aldrich, Vice President of Product Development at vVault.
"We share OmniSky's vision to pioneer and promote innovative
and useful wireless applications for the growing ranks
of mobile professionals. Our XML API will enable us
to add future applications which serve the needs of
OmniSky's subscribers in the way that they prefer to
work."
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