724 Solutions Enables Enhanced Mobile Content Optimization
Enhanced X-treme Mobility Suite features, including WiderWeb partnership, enrich and improve end-user mobile experience
Santa Barbara, CA (June 5, 2006) - 724 Solutions (TSX: SVN; Pink Sheets: SVNX), a leading provider of next-generation IP-based network and data services, today announced the expansion of its X-treme Mobility Suite (XMS) to include enhanced content rendering and content delivery capabilities used to optimize website content and graphics for convenient and enhanced viewing on mobile devices.
724 Solutions' XMS provides mobile network operators a comprehensive set of solutions for deploying data infrastructure that can seamlessly support the dynamic growth of next-generation data services. XMS provides a truly layered infrastructure that allows operators to deploy components that can enhance services as needed to fit their business model and to take advantage of growing off-portal access and commerce. 724's XMS is now available with new transport optimization features including intelligent content pre-fetch and clientless content compression. Content rendering is further enhanced on 724's XMS by seamlessly integrating the web content optimization capability from WiderWeb, a leader in web content adaptation. When combined, both capabilities enhance the end users' experience when accessing off portal content and commerce applications regardless of the devices they choose or access method they use.
"724's vision of the Unwired LifestyleTM enables people to use mobile data-services to enhance and enrich their professional and private lives with services relevant to their specific needs, preserved across generations of technology," says Michael Luna, Chief Technology Officer at 724 Solutions. "Enhanced content rendering allows mobile users seamless access to personalized, relevant services located anywhere on the web."
"With content rendering, service providers can take advantage of the global trend of off-portal access and purchasing," said Steve Evans, Chief Technical Officer at WiderWeb. "In addition to the additional revenue opportunity, service providers can focus on simplifying networks that provide an enhanced user experience. WiderWeb and 724 Solutions share in our vision of the future of wireless data services and how it relates to mobile users. We are excited to be working together to further personalize the end-user mobile experience."
724 Solutions' patented technology uses a uniquely fault tolerant and high-availability architecture, that can be deployed in whole or in part as needed. XMS is based on open standards technologies, including WAP 2.0, MMS, SMS, and J2ME. The X-treme Mobility Suite includes: X-treme Mobility Gateway, X-treme MMS Accelerator, X-treme Alerts Platform, X-treme Service Activity Manager, Application Gateway and its newest additions Sentinel, MVNO Data Bundle, Golden Gate and the CTIA Emerging Technology Award wining product, Thulean.
About 724 Solutions
724 Solutions delivers intelligent any-to-any service message and traffic handling solutions built upon a common carrier-grade architecture that allows mobile network operators and virtual network operators to rapidly deploy flexible and open next generation IP-based network and data services. The company's solutions enable the Unwired Lifestyle™, 724's vision of seamless communication without barriers; a vision of how subscribers will use mobile data services to enhance and enrich their professional and private lives with services relevant to their specific needs, with user communities preserved across generations of technology and with data services as reliable and ubiquitous as voice services. 724 Solutions is a global company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California and with development centers in Canada, Switzerland and India. 724 Solutions is privately owned by Austin Ventures. For more information, visit www.724.com.
About WiderWeb
WiderWeb is a leader in web content adaptation. WiderWeb Mobile is a pure server platform for improving and optimizing the experience of accessing the web from browsers deployed in mobile handsets. Pages are automatically adapted to the capabilities of the mobile device and a user's own preferences with standard web pages being converted into highly compressed yet functional mobile versions. WiderWeb Mobile not only delivers a simplified view of web content but through advanced page handling techniques it also ensures that those pages can be fully used.
WiderWeb Mobile is deployed by mobile operators wishing to enhance the mobile web experience and by content owners looking to bring web content quickly and easily to the mobile arena.
For more information, contact:
Avichai Levy, VP Marketing Mobixell Networks
Tel: +972 544 666 785
Avichai.levy@mobixell.com
Kirsten Scott and Kim Smith, éclat Marketing
Tel: +44 (0)1276 486000
mobixell@eclat.co.uk
