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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Nominate a company to present at Under the Radar

CONTACT INFORMATION

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

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New mobile application development and distribution platform makes it easy for almost anyone to create, test and distribute mobile applications

TORONTO, ONT. – June 30, 2008

WHAT IS BEING ANNOUNCED:

• Cascada Mobile (www.cascadamobile.com) announced today Breeze, a new development platform that can transform ideas into globally distributed mobile applications in as little as fifteen minutes.
• There are more than 2 billion mobile phones already in use around the world.
• Cascada’s Breeze platform provides anyone with knowledge of even the most basic Web programming languages the easiest method for creating, testing and distributing mobile applications to phones anywhere in the world.
• Breeze-created applications are subsidized by mobile advertisements making the service free for anyone to use.

WHAT IS THE MOBILE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE:

• Unlike the “write once, run anywhere” world of Web programming, where a single set of code can work universally on any computer, operating system and Web browser, mobile application development is fraught with complexities.
• Mobile phones can have different screen sizes, button and keyboard configurations, and other features that impact how a mobile application runs.
• Despite the fact that J2ME, the mobile version of the Java programming language, is supported on billions of phones in the market today, an application that runs on one phone may not work on hundreds of other phone models, even if those phones are similar in design or come from the same manufacturer.
• To ensure that an application works on all handset makes and models, it must be tested.
• The daunting task of testing applications on hundreds of different phones by itself puts mobile development out of reach for a great many developers.
• Beyond the testing, global application distribution requires dealing with more than 100 different wireless carriers and network operators.

HOW BREEZE SOLVES THE MOBILE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE:

• The Breeze platform takes code written in HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and automatically converts it into J2ME code, also known as the Java Platform, Micro Edition or Java ME.
• As a result, any Breeze created application can run on hundreds of different mobile phone types.
• Breeze enables Web programmers unaccustomed to mobile development to add important functions that don’t exist on the Web, such as using the built-in camera, accessing the contact list or even adding an exit button for their applications.
• Once the HTML and JavaScript is compiled into J2ME, Breeze produces a mobile application that can be distributed to phones anywhere in the world, and will automatically detect the correct version to send to a phone.
• Developers receive a simple line of code they can embed onto their websites, blogs or social network pages allowing people to download their new application directly to their phone over their wireless service provider’s network.
• The Breeze platform reduces the testing of mobile applications for hundreds of different handsets down to a single run on the Breeze Simulator.
• Developers receive a simple line of code they can put on their websites, blogs or social network pages allowing people to download the application merely by entering their mobile number.
• Breeze also takes care of distribution via SMS, WAP Push and direct download from a mobile phone, ensuring the right version of the application is sent to each end user’s phone.

WHAT BREEZE CAN CREATE:

• Breeze offers developers the ability to create fully integrated mobile applications, and not merely mobile “widgets.”
• Increasingly common, mobile widgets are small applications that usually require a separate widget container to be installed on your phone, in addition to each widget.
• With Breeze, the result is a standalone application that installs on a phone with its own icon.
• Breeze gives developers a full range of HTML, JavaScript and CSS capabilities, plus the ability to take full advantage of the features on mobile phones, such as built in cameras or contact lists.
• The only limitations are imagination and the capabilities of mobile phones.

WHAT ELSE:

• During Cascada’s three month closed beta, developers used the Breeze platform to easily create applications from Tile Puzzles to Image Slideshows and News Readers.
• With today’s announcement, Breeze is now available to anyone who wants to create applications for mobile phones.
• The Breeze platform is free for any developer or programmer to use to create and distribute their mobile applications.
• To subsidize the cost of distribution, Cascada Mobile ad-enables each application.
• End users of Breeze-created applications will see mobile ads while using the applications.
• Options are available for developers who wish to pay for their use of the Breeze platform in order to offer ad-free applications to end users.

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QUOTES

Craig Mathias, a principal with the wireless and mobile advisory firm Farpoint Group (Ashland, MA)

“The mobile handset is very clearly the critical application platform going forward. But building mobile applications has traditionally been difficult and expensive due to complex programming environments and the wide diversity of handsets and mobile platforms. Cascada Mobile’s new Breeze Platform enables anyone with knowledge of Web programming to build mobile applications quickly and inexpensively, and equally important, to distribute these apps to a broad range of handsets easily and efficiently.”

Alan Lysne, CEO of Cascada Mobile

“By removing the complexities inherent in mobile application development, we believe we’re going to see a new era in mobile application innovation as the mobile platform becomes available to literally millions more developers. Now that we’ve simplified the creation, testing and distribution of mobile applications, we expect to see evolution in the mobile arena akin to the evolution on the Internet that became Web 2.0.”

About Cascada Mobile
Cascada Mobile offers the simplest method for creating and distributing mobile applications for the more than 2 billion mobile phones in use around the world. Cascada Mobile’s Breeze platform eliminates the enormous complexities of writing mobile applications in J2ME – the most widely used mobile platform, now known as Java ME – and provides a one-stop-shop for mobilizing applications to run on hundreds of different handset models and distributing them across of wireless operators worldwide. Using basic HTML and JavaScript, any Web savvy individual can create rich J2ME applications though Breeze. For more information on Cascada Mobile and the Breeze Platform please visit www.cascadamobile.com.

RELATED LINKS

Cascada Mobile

Cascada Mobile Online Press Kit

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Melissa Burns (Agency)
  Mobility Public Relations
  +1 208-946-4849 (office)
  Email: cascada@mobilitypr.com
  Website: http://www.cascadamobile.com
  Press kit: http://cascada.mobilitypr.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

Museum of Mobility History Collection Unveiled

MuMoH, the Museum of Mobility History, launches website and wiki to showcase the evolution of mobility technologies

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. — June 9, 2008

• With a growing collection of more than 50 artifacts spanning over 100 years of mobility technology, the Museum of Mobility History, a private collection, will be made available online at www.mumoh.com.
• The collection includes many important technology firsts
• The collection also includes print ads and other historical images of mobility technologies.
• The collection is a project of Mobility Public Relations, a PR agency focused on mobility technology companies and organizations.
• Sprung from a passion for mobility technology and a fascination for history, the collection was first used in place of art on shelves at the Mobility PR offices.
• The collection soon grew large and finding new artifacts and researching them became an office pastime.
• Each item in the collection will have a write up available on MuMoH’s blog.
• In addition to writing about information, MuMoH is posting multimedia it is finding on other sources, such as a collection of early cell phone ads found on YouTube.
• The online museum also includes a companion Wiki (www.mumowiki.com) so that people with an interest in mobility technology can submit entries of their own or add detail to items already online.
• Although not open to the public, the collection can be loaned or brought to places so it can be viewed in person.
• The collection made its public debut inside a first grade classroom in Lake Oswego earlier this year.
• The MuMoH will continue to grow both its physical collection and its virtual collection online.
• To contribute to the collection online, people can create an account and login to mumohwiki.com and begin editing and posting right away.
• To contribute to the physical collection or to inquire about borrowing the collection or having it travel to your location, send an email to info@mumoh.com.

MuMoH’s collection includes such items as:

• A Kellogg portable U.S. Army camp phone and telegraph from World War I
• The Osborne 1, the first portable computer
• Three different models of the gigantic Apple Newton PDA, the first touch screen PDA
• Motorola’s Lazer “brick” phone and 2600 bag phone, two of the earliest cell phones
• A Highway Hi-Fi demonstration record
• The Mattel Football handheld game (the one with the red LEDs)
• The Ergo Systems Hush 80 printer, the first printer designed for portable computing
• The US Robotics Pilot, the one made before the Pilot Corporation’s (of pen fame) lawsuit forced a name change to Palm Pilot
• The RIM 957, the original BlackBerry smartphone
• The XO laptop from One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

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John Sidline, Mobility Public Relations

“It’s particularly fun for an old guy like me to see the reaction of kids. I showed a nine year old boy a Mattel Football game from 1979, like the one I had when I was twelve. He asked me ‘where are all the players?’ and I pointed to the three rows of LED lights. He just quietly gave me a look of sympathy for my childhood plight. But it’s still fascinating to me to watch how children relate older technology to the modern things they have in their homes and take for granted.”

About MuMoH
MuMoH, the Museum of Mobility History, is a collection of artifacts spanning more than 100 years of mobility technology evolution. The collection can be viewed online at www.MuMoH.com. A companion Wiki is open to people with an interest in mobility technology to post their information at www.MuMoHWiki.com. MuMoH is a project of Mobility Public Relations.

RELATED LINKS

MuMoH
The Museum of Mobility History

MuMoH Wiki
Contribute to the MuMoH virtual collection

Mobility Public Relations
The museum’s caretakers

CONTACT INFORMATION

• John Chilson (Agency)
  Mobility Public Relations
  503-343-4133 (office)
  jmchilson (Skype)
  Email: mumoh@mobilitypr.com
  Web site: http://www.mumoh.com
  Blog: http://www.mumoh.com/blog
  Wiki: http://www.mumohwiki.com

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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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Times Internet Ltd. Partners with Hovr to Bring Advertising Supported Mobile Games to India

Partnership Will Spearhead the Mass Market Adoption of Mobile Gaming in the Fastest Growing Mobile Market in the World

GURGAON, INDIA and NEW YORK, N.Y. – February 4, 2008

• Times Internet Limited (TIL), part of The Times Group, India’s largest cross-platform media and entertainment company, announced a partnership with Hovr, the world’s leading ad-supported mobile content and social gaming service, to launch GameZone.
• GameZone is India’s first free mobile gaming portal, offering hundreds of fun, addictive mobile games to Indian consumers – all free of cost.
• Through this partnership, tens of millions of mobile subscribers in India will be able to download and play mobile games from Hovr’s extensive portfolio of gaming titles.
• All mobile games are available for FREE.
• Players are able to challenge friends in multi-player games, compete for high scores, and meet and interact with other gamers.
• GameZone launched a beta version in December 2007, generating tremendous interest and excitement in the marketplace, attracting hundreds of thousands of users in its first month and gaining substantial interest from advertisers and carriers.
• TIL will provide wide reach to market and distribute the GameZone offering, and will work in tandem with Hovr to jointly sell mobile advertisements in India.
• GameZone is utilizing “Powered by Hovr,” Hovr’s white label mobile gaming offering that allows online and mobile portals, communities and distributors as well as mobile operators to offer their consumers direct access to hundreds of free, highly entertaining mobile games, all under their own brand.
• Beyond free ad-supported mobile games, the Powered by Hovr white label service offers online and mobile social community features brands can leverage to maintain, extend and strengthen their brand in a powerful and engaging manner.
• India’s mobile subscriber base is one of the largest and fastest growing in the world, with more than 235 million subscribers today and growing at over five million subscribers each month.
• With the penetration of mobile phones far exceeding that of personal computers, the mobile phone is set to become the largest gaming platform in India.
• With a business model that relies on mobile advertising, TIL’s partnership with Hovr is set to shift the entire mobile gaming paradigm in the Indian marketplace by bringing users mobile games free of charge.

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Dinesh Wadhawan
CEO and Managing Director of TIL.

“Based on the sheer number of mobile subscribers and consumer interest in ad-supported mobile content, we believe that mobile marketing is poised to overtake online marketing in India within the next few years. TIL was looking for a partner with a powerful and compelling offering to revolutionize the mobile gaming industry in India, and we found that partner in Hovr. Hovr brings a deep understanding of the Indian market, along with strong, carrier-grade technology, an attractive catalogue of mobile games and a powerful mobile advertising platform.”

Deepak Gupta
VP of Business Development at Hovr

“Partnering with TIL, the most innovative mobile and entertainment company in India, furthers Hovr’s goal of leveraging our white-label ad-supported mobile gaming solution to drive the mass market adoption of mobile gaming in one of the largest and fastest growing mobile markets in the world.”

About Times Internet Limited
Times Internet Limited (TIL) is the digital arm of India’s largest and most innovative cross-platform media and entertainment conglomerates, The Times Group. One of the most respected business houses in India, the 168-year-old group is a market driver across all media platforms. The Times Group has market dominance in all major media sectors including newspaper, Internet, mobile, magazine, television, movie, radio, events, exhibitions and concerts, building deep relationships with hundreds of millions of users around the world. Times Internet Limited is the most popular Internet and mobile value-add services company in India. GameZone is the newest TIL media property and will be a featured part of IndiaTimes and The Times of India mobile and web portals.

About Hovr Inc.
Hovr is a mobile media company that provides a mobile social gaming service, offering users fun, high-quality, free, ad-supported mobile games integrated in a social gaming community where users have the ability to connect, compete, and interact with friends. Hovr marries the needs of mobile users who want entertaining content on their phone with that of the advertisers who are seeking to reach their target audience in the most engaging, interactive and effective manner. The Powered by Hovr white-label platform is being leveraged by several online and mobile sites, portals, and carriers to bring free ad-supported mobile content to their customers. For more information visit www.Hovr.com.

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Hovr Inc.
Hovr Home Page

GameZone
Free Mobile Game Community by Indiatimes

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Hovr Press Kit
Hovr Online Press Kit

MobileSpace
Hovr’s Social Network

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Melissa Burns (Agency)
  Mobility Public Relations
  +1-208-946-4849 (office)
  melissakburns (Skype)
  Email: hovr@mobilitypr.com
  Web site: http://www.hovr.com

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