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32 mobility startups to be selected to present to an expert panel and audience of industry influencers

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — July 23, 2008

• Dealmaker Media is announcing a CALL FOR COMPANIES for Under the Radar: Mobility
• Under the Radar: Mobility is a one-day event featuring 32 emerging mobility technology startups held on November 12, 2008, at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, CA.
• Companies that submit by July 30, 2008 will receive priority consideration for early acceptance.
• Under the Radar: Mobility will uncover 32 vetted, test-driven startups that have launched within the year in hot sectors such as iPhone apps, location-based services, mobile gaming, mobile social networking, enabling technologies and mobile marketing/advertising.
• Selected companies will receive expert advice and guidance on messaging and positioning along with assistance in preparing their presentations from Mobility Public Relations.
• A panel of industry experts as well as audience members will vote to award companies believed to stand the best chance of success.  Awards will be given in each conference category as well as a best of show award, and presented at the end of the conference.

Who’s in the Audience

•  Now in its 12th series, Under the Radar features an audience of media, business executives, venture capitalists and industry influencers seeking to discover tomorrow’s leading tech companies.
• Presenting companies will also be in front executives from major carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint.

Who Presents

• Presenting companies have come from all over the globe.
• Past Under the Radar successes include Flickr, Loopt, LinkedIn, MobiTV, Photobucket, Blinkx, Glu Mobile, Sling Media, Userplane, Zimbra and more.
• Past mobile presenters have gone on to raise $430 million in financing, while others have been acquired or inked strategic partnerships.
• To nominate a company to present, complete the online form at http://www.undertheradarblog.com/utr_nomination_form.html.

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Debbie Landa
CEO of Dealmaker Media

“While the perception may be that Under the Radar is a conduit to venture capital, the conference is really a conduit to making business deals.  When we put together the Under the Radar conference, we work to ensure that all of the pieces needed to make and close a deal are not only present in one room, but are also ready to make deals happen. So whether a company is trying to get a meeting to present your technology to carriers, is trying to raise money or find other business development partners, the right people are attending Under the Radar and looking to make deals happen.  After all, we are Dealmaker Media.”

Vipul Sawhney
CEO of Hovr, 2007 winner of the Under the Radar Judges Choice Award for Mobile Advertising

“The Judges Choice honor that Hovr was awarded validates the growing scope of ad-supported content, along with the value that the social networking elements of our site bring to users. Hovr aims to continue to innovate within the social gaming arena and bring to market new value added services to enhance our customers’ mobile gaming experiences. Participating in UTR allowed us to share that mission with the mobile community.”

About Dealmaker Media
Dealmaker Media operates at the intersection of business, technology, venture capital, and the future. Our conferences, roundtables, blogs, and research are designed to inter-connect CEOs, technology executives, investors, analysts and press. Dealmaker Media brings dealmakers together with one ultimate goal: to get the deal done.  For more information visit www.undertheradarblog.com.

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• John Sidline (Agency)
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  503-946-3311 (office)
  Email: utr@mobilitypr.com
  Web site: http://www.undertheradarblog.com/

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June 18, 2008 — GWAVA, Novell’s largest collaboration partner for GroupWise and Teaming, announced today new features for Retain for GroupWise, its leading email archiving solution.

GWAVA has been continually focusing and expanding Retain by adding new features and powerful functionality including support for MS SQL 2000 and 2005; Oracle 10 and 11, PostgreSQL 8.2, as well as support for EMC Centera.

The latest version also supports GWAVA Reload, making it easy to integrate the product into Reload and adding powerful features of Retain. It is also more flexible for leading database programs.

“Companies already running their own database solutions can now easily add a powerful and focused e-mail archiving product with the latest version of Retain for GroupWise. It is the first time we have introduce this functionality so it is a major step for GWAVA to be able to introduce to customers these improved flexible and manageable features,” said Richard Bliss, vice president, global marketing, GWAVA.

In its first year of releasing the product, GWAVA Retain for GroupWise was also given a favorable mention in the Gartner Magic Quadrant report for the Email Archiving Market.

“GWAVA’s strategy of slowly and carefully developing Retain for GroupWise is paying off with our customers and the recognition from Gartner,” said Bliss. “Gartner’s nod, our increasing customer base and continual improvements prove our commitment to the GroupWise space.”

About GWAVA
GWAVA is the worldwide leader of software solutions for Novell GroupWise and Novell Teaming. GWAVA continues to lead the GroupWise partner community with email retention, Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, and Content Control and email management on Linux, NetWare and Windows. GWAVA has a global presence with a worldwide network of resellers, and has forged an array of technology partnerships with companies including Novell, Inc. www.gwava.com

Optima® Cell Site Solutions deliver industry’s best way to reduce wireless service operational costs and repair time while improving service quality

CTIA, LAS VEGAS, NEV. – March 31, 2008

Kentrox, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of two new Optima® Cell Site Solutions: Optima Site Manager and Optima WAN Manager.

• The Optima remote cell site monitoring, maintenance and management solutions deliver wireless service providers unrivaled visibility and control of their cell sites.
• Operations, engineering and field staff will now have the most comprehensive 360 degree, real-time dashboard views of network and physical site elements and an increased ability to correct myriad problems without the need for a truck roll.
• Optima solutions, such as Site Manager and WAN Manager, directly impact service quality – the leading factor driving subscriber loyalty – by delivering wireless operators a cost effective way to achieve faster diagnosis of problems, shortened repair times and reduced operations costs.
• Optima Cell Site Solutions by Kentrox are flexible, highly-scalable, turnkey solutions that automate critical network site management tasks in real-time.
• Optima gives service provider staff, from technicians to executives, the power to remotely collect, monitor, repair and report on operating data from all critical cell site network and infrastructure elements including power supply and back-up, environment and temperature, security and alarms, and wide area network performance and throughput. Even aircraft warning lights atop cell towers are monitored through Optima.
• Optima’s unique 360 degree, real-time dashboard views of network elements and site conditions allow carriers to proactively diagnose and repair potential network problems before they have an impact on users and operating costs while substantially reducing the need for a technician to travel to the site.

The two new Optima Cell Site solutions released today feature the following:

Optima WAN Manager

• Monitors the network for errors including issues with backhaul
• Proactive diagnostics to prevent failures
• Remote troubleshooting tools that cut repair time in half
• Generation of a full strength signal to radio equipment that results in improved wireless network uptime, availability and performance

Optima Site Manager

• Automates maintenance and management of cell site infrastructure and physical elements
• Monitors power supplies and batteries, and can start backup generators
• Monitors and controls environmental and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems
• Monitors and controls facility security including live video monitoring of site
• Monitors and provides remote management of microwave radios, Multi-Carrier Power Amplifiers (MCPA) and multi-vendor remote electrical tilt (RET) antennas
• Checks the status of other cell site equipment, including antenna lights

• Today when a trouble ticket is issued, technicians have little or no data to diagnose the problem and therefore a truck must be dispatched to the cell site to determine the nature of an outage.
• Once a diagnosis occurs, another expensive, time-consuming truck roll is typically dispatched for repairs.
• In many cases, it takes additional trips before the problem is accurately diagnosed and fully corrected.
• With remote monitoring and automated control of cell sites, wireless service providers can cut mean time to repair (MTTR) in half.

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GWAVA introduces Retain^TM for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the first clientless text message archiving solution, solving compliance requirements on the popular mobile platform

MONTREAL, QUEBEC – December 17, 2007

Why Retain is important in the enterprise

• New compliance regulations require enterprises to track all text communication by their employees. Unlike email messages that pass through a mail server making them easy to archive and audit, text messages are sent directly from one device to another over the networks of wireless service providers, making archiving and auditing messages extremely challenging for IT departments.
• Retain for BlackBerry Enterprise Server helps solves this challenge by archiving text messages, letting enterprises comply with regulations for preserving text communication without affecting employees’ ability to utilize all the text messaging functionality of the Research In Motion® (RIM) BlackBerry.

No client software needed

• Retain is installed directly on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and requires no client software for the BlackBerry device. Without a client, Retain does not use any memory or processing resources on the device, eliminating any impact on the device’s performance and making the solution tamper-proof by individual end-users. The server-side solution eliminates the need for IT departments to “touch” every BlackBerry device deployed, repaired or replaced within the enterprise, saving time and expense.

How and where Retain works

• The Retain Archive Viewer is installed on one or several workstations allowing administrators to easily audit the database. Retain works on both the common short message service (SMS) text messages used for mobile phone-to-mobile phone messaging, as well as BlackBerry-specific personal identification number (PIN) form of text messages that allow one BlackBerry user to send a message directly to another BlackBerry.
• The Retain agent collects the information contained in the countless files of SMS, PIN and phone log information and imports them into a SQL database. Organizations can then create comprehensive audit trails and quickly and easily access this information for any necessary investigations.

Powerful searching and archiving

• All data archived by Retain is completely searchable down to the most granular level of detail from the Archive Viewer. In addition to its search functions, Retain can also alert administrators when certain keywords appear in real time text communication. Auditing PIN, SMS text messages and phone logs that previously took weeks to perform can now be completed quickly.

Storage

• Retain’s archives use a small amount of hard drive space to keep data for an entire enterprise. A medium-sized business can store its whole BlackBerry text message archive for all employees using only a few gigabytes.

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QUOTES

Charles Taite, CTO of GWAVA

“Apart from voice, texting is the most popular method of mobile communication, so addressing associated compliance issues is of paramount concern for organizations that issue BlackBerry smartphones to their employees. This simple and fast form of communication has become a vital business tool used by virtually everyone with a mobile phone. Retain provides the means for organizations running BlackBerry Enterprise Server to ensure that they can collect and audit all their mobile text communications, not just email.”

Kathryn Weldon, Principal Analyst for Enterprise Mobility at Current Analysis

“IT departments racing to meet compliance mandates often have difficult compromises to make. Text messaging may be viewed as an essential business tool by employees, but IT departments that need to install software on hundreds or thousands of devices may opt instead to switch off such messaging functions. GWAVA Retain for BlackBerry addresses this dilemma head-on by developing a clientless, server-side archiving solution that installs quickly and brings an entire enterprise BlackBerry deployment into compliance, saving IT departments time and expense while eliminating end-user tampering.”

About GWAVA
For more than six years GWAVA has developed security and policy compliance solutions for enterprise data communications. GWAVA solutions are in use today by over seven million employees at 3,700 medium to large enterprises in more than 60 countries around the world. GWAVA is a member of the BlackBerry® ISV Alliance program and develops security solutions for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Founded in 2001, GWAVA has offices throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information visit www.gwava.com.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

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Increase brand loyalty and grow revenue with free ad-supported mobile games and social networking features

NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 14, 2007

• Hovr Inc. today announced the launch of Powered by Hovr, a white label mobile gaming service for mobile operators and online communities.
• Through this service, consumer-oriented web sites, mobile portals and carriers worldwide can offer their users direct access to hundreds of free, highly entertaining, engaging, ad-supported mobile games, all under their own brand.
• The Powered by Hovr service creates significant new revenue opportunities through enhanced entertainment choices for end users.
• The Powered by Hovr white label service also offers cutting edge online and mobile social networking features.
• Hovr’s social networking tools provide a whole new way for community members to connect and interact around mobile game play and the sharing of mobile content.
• The value proposition is simple – users enjoy free mobile games that generate advertising revenue each time they are played.
• Several Powered by Hovr communities have already begun service with excellent results.
• Tanzanian-based Push Mobile and Indonesian-based mobile firm BuzzCity are providing Hovr’s free mobile games to their customers.
• Push Mobile, the leading provider of mobile content in Africa, previously only offered ringtones and wallpapers to its user base but now offers customers free access to Hovr’s entire mobile games catalog, resulting in an order of magnitude increase in traffic and users.
• Mobile community provider Buzzcity is also using the Powered by Hovr service for its myGamma mobile portal.
• Both Hovr.com and Hovr’s MobileSpace community enjoy active participation by millions of gamers from more than 190 different countries as they download, play and enjoy Hovr’s fun, high quality, free mobile games.

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Vipul Sawhney, CEO of Hovr

“It’s a win-win solution for brands, portals, carriers and online communities of all sizes. With Powered by Hovr, our partners not only maintain control of their customer base, they protect, extend and even strengthen their brand through an expanded offering that includes free mobile games that drive new customers to their site and keep their existing customers even more engaged.”

Brian Waluchio, Marketing Manager of Push Mobile

“Offering mobile games on our own was just too complicated and cost prohibitive. We chose Hovr to provide us with its Powered by Hovr service based on the high quality gaming catalog as well as the excellent user experience gained by the use of the social networking features built around the games. The ability to grow and engage more effectively with our user base as well as generate an additional revenue stream really sets the Powered by Hovr service apart from other offerings in the mobile space.”

About Hovr Inc.
Hovr is a mobile media company that marries the needs of advertisers seeking to reach the important and growing mobile demographic with the desires of mobile users wanting entertaining content and applications on their mobile phones. Hovr provides users with free ad-supported mobile content such as high-quality, fun-to-play mobile games. The Hovr MobileSpace social network lets users connect, compete and interact with their friends and other players in a compelling community environment. For more information visit www.hovr.com.

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  Email: hovr@mobilitypr.com
  Web site: http://www.hovr.com

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Aicent eXchange services deliver GRX and CRX services for WorldCell’s Inter-Standard Roaming Service for wireless carriers.

SAN JOSE, CALIF. — OCTOBER 17, 2007

• WorldCell, a leading provider of turnkey technology solutions to wireless operators, has selected two of Aicent’s Roaming eXchange services for the company’s inter-standard data roaming offering.
• WorldCell’s Inter-Standard Roaming (ISR) service allows travelers with service on one type of cellular phone network to use data services such as email and mobile Internet on their mobile phones when using cellular networks of a different type, greatly extending their ability to stay connected worldwide.
• Aicent’s CDMA Roaming eXchange (CRX) and GSM Roaming eXchange (GRX) services are critical components of WorldCell’s network architecture,
• Aicent’s eXchange services give WorldCell global reach for inter-standard roaming between networks based on CDMA – the most popular mobile standard in North America – and GSM – the most popular mobile standard in the rest of the world.
• WorldCell’s ISR is the industry’s first fully hosted solution offering with integrated GSM roaming footprint, consolidated billing and clearing functionality, thanks in large measure to Aicent’s technology.
• Aicent’s CRX and GRX services connect to CDMA and GSM operators worldwide with quality connections and the ability to provision these connections quickly and reliably.
• Aicent’s eXchange services offer mobile operators highly-scalable solutions for roaming, authentication and network interconnectivity.
• Both Aicent’s CRX and GRX services are cost-efficient solutions that enable CDMA and GSM operators to offer a high-performance worldwide data roaming services with secured private IP network infrastructure and world class support.

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Lokdeep Singh, vice president of engineering at WorldCell.

“Wireless operators understand that people depend on their mobile phones just as much when they are traveling as they do when they are in their home town on their home networks. But just as much as they depend on their phones, they also expect them to simply work when they turn them on, which is why inter-standard roaming is an essential service for wireless operators to provide their customers. WorldCell evaluated and tested a great deal of technology before determining which to integrate with our Inter-Standard Roaming service. We found that Aicent’s CRX and GRX roaming eXchange services were some of the most scalable and reliable on the market.”

About Aicent, Inc.
Serving more than one billion mobile users around the world, Aicent Inc. is a leading provider of data network services and solutions for global mobile operators. To enable interoperability between Aicent customers and other networks, Aicent operates one of the world’s largest GPRS and 3G network exchanges, connecting to over 50 operators, including four of the world’s five largest. Through extensive peering arrangements, the Aicent network reaches nearly all GPRS/3G operators around the world. Aicent also operates integrated mobile messaging services, including one of world’s first and largest multimedia messaging exchange, and offers other value-added services to help carriers maximize revenue opportunities. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Aicent has regional offices in Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe. For more information, please visit: www.aicent.com.

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Aicent technology enables mobile operators in any country to let subscribers send and receive text messages in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

SAN JOSE, CALIF. — SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

• Aicent, Inc. today announced support for Asian languages – such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean – in its SMS eXchange Service for mobile operators.
• Especially important for operators serving large Asian ethnic communities outside of Asia, this advanced language support lets subscribers write text messages in Asian languages and have them accurately delivered to recipients in other countries regardless of their service provider.
• Without such support, short message services (SMS) perceive a Korean message, for example, as having been written in English resulting in the recipient receiving an unintelligible string of characters rather than a coherent message.
• The research firm IDC finds that 65 percent of mobile users in Asia – where country-by-country mobile phone service adoption often exceeds 90 percent – send at least one text message daily.
• Increasingly, mobile phone manufacturers are adding multi-language support that includes Asian languages.
• The telecommunications industry uses “single-byte” alphabets, used for English and many Western European languages, as the default character set for SMS communications.
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean are “double-byte” languages.
• Because each double-byte character uses twice the memory as characters in single-byte alphabets, text messages composed in double-byte languages require a different method for processing.
• Even if both the sender and recipient’s handsets support Asian characters, the network must likewise possess double-byte language support or the recipient will receive a meaningless string of characters instead of the intended coherent message.
• The Aicent SMS eXchange Service allows mobile operators to easily support subscribers wishing to send messages in either single-byte or double-byte character sets.

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Danilo J. Mojica,
Head of the Wireless Consumer Division of SMART, the largest mobile operator in the Philippines

“SMART understands our subscribers often send text messages in different languages to people in other countries, and we wanted to offer our large Korean population a service that lets them send and receive text messages in their mother tongue. Because sending text messages in multiple languages to people not on SMART’s network presented us with complex transcoding challenges, we chose Aicent to power our Korean SMS service. Aicent’s SMS eXchange Service with support for Asian languages made turning up SMART’s Korean SMS service very fast and easy.”

About Aicent, Inc.
Serving more than one billion mobile subscribers, Aicent Inc. provides data network, messaging and roaming solutions to more than 100 mobile operators worldwide. Aicent enables interoperability between its customers and other carriers by operating one of world’s largest GRX networks. Through extensive direct connections and peering arrangements, the Aicent network reaches nearly all 2.5G/3G operators across the globe. Aicent also operates integrated mobile messaging services, including one of the world’s first and largest multimedia messaging exchanges, and offers other value-added services that help carriers maximize revenue opportunities. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Aicent has regional offices in Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe. For more information, please visit: www.aicent.com.

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Pioneering citizen photojournalism site lets commercial content buyers seek top quality images from millions of photographers around the world

NEW YORK, N.Y. — AUGUST 27, 2007

• Citizen Image announced today the availability of its ciAssignment Board, a service allowing commercial content buyers from a wide variety of businesses – from news organizations to advertising agencies – to solicit and acquire submissions of photographs with specific, assigned content.
• The ciAssignment Board, which has been in beta since early this year, provides commercial outlets a valuable resource for soliciting and acquiring images of breaking news events from camera-equipped bystanders, as well as specific stock images for commercial purposes.
• To extend its reach, Citizen Image has struck several new business development deals including an agreement with Fotolog (www.fotolog.com), the world’s largest photo-blogging community and the third most actively-used social network on the Internet.
• The Fotolog agreement allows its contributors to respond to Citizen Image’s assignment board requests within the Fotolog site, adding almost 10 million potential new photographers to Citizen Image’s reach.
• Posting requests on the ciAssignment Board is open to any image buyer who creates a free account with the service.
• The buyer sets the bounty and the outline of the request, and the responding photographer receives 50 percent of the gross proceeds each time their image is sold.
• The ciAssignment Board has already successfully matched many top quality images from Citizen Image contributors with the requests of professional content buyers, providing income to Citizen Image contributors for their images.
• Citizen Image users have been on the scene at important news events capturing pictures as news unfolds, beating professional photojournalists, sometimes by hours, who can only take pictures of the aftermath.
• The ciAssignment board is available to anyone at: http://www.citizenimage.com/view_assignments.do.

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John Borthwick, CEO of Fotolog

“It’s not surprising that with so many affordable and high quality digital cameras available, there is a huge volume of really good pictures, many of which sit unshared on the photographers’ computers. We created Fotolog so that people interested in photography and proud of their pictures can network and share their pictures and experiences. Working with Citizen Image gives Fotolog users an easy way to profit from their creativity and share their work with a broader audience – all within the Fotolog platform.”

Kelly Kingman, photo editor of The Week

“New and affordable technology makes it possible for amateur photographers to capture high quality images, many of which are never seen outside of the photographer’s circle of friends. By reaching out to photo sharing sites and other news organizations, Citizen Image is helping photo editors find the best available photography, no matter what. Citizen Image is on the cutting edge of this new and important trend to find quality content from as many sources as possible.”

About Citizen Image
Citizen Image is an image agency that professionally represents photographic and video content of citizen photojournalists to editorial outlets around the world. Through Citizen Image, any photographer – professional or amateur – can offer his images for sale to media organizations by creating an account and uploading his content. Citizen Image allows news organizations to take advantage of camera-equipped bystanders who can take important pictures or video long before professional photojournalists can arrive on the scene. For more information visit www.citizenimage.com.

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  Email: ci@mobilitypr.com
  Web site: http://www.mobilitypr.com

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