@Motion Inc. Announces Full Support of Wireless Application Protocol.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1999--

@Motion Inc., the venture-backed developer of the Internet Voice Portal Server(TM) for wireless and Internet service providers, today announced that its server will fully support the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) standards, pioneered by Phone.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:PHCM). @Motion's compliance with WAP standards will ensure its compatibility with all WAP-based wireless Internet services and wireless devices.

The @Motion Internet Voice Portal Server will link any wireless handset on any wireless network with any Internet content or service. It thereby enables any of today's 350 million wireless handsets in the world to become powerful Internet terminals.

"With wireless handset ownership outstripping personal computer ownership both in the U.S. and worldwide, @Motion believes that the wireless device is the next great Internet terminal," said George Sollman, president and CEO, and co-founder of @Motion. "That belief mandates full support of the current WAP standard. We believe WAP provides one of many important building blocks to bridge the Internet to the wireless handset."

Announced this July, and currently in beta trials, @Motion's server provides a comprehensive and turnkey infrastructure that allows any wireless carrier or portal provider to launch an Internet voice portal and bring a complete set of portal services to any wireless telephone subscriber. Through this portal, the end user can access general web information and commerce services like news, weather and travel services; access location-specific web information like yellow pages and directions; receive time-critical, pro-actively delivered information like commute and flight updates; access time-critical services like transcription and travel reservation updates; make and receive phone calls; and, access a calendar, directory and unified message inbox, all with a simple set of voice commands.

@Motion believes that a mobile portal must have universal reach and be designed to optimize the user experience when the subscriber is in motion. The @Motion server can work with any wireless handset, any wireless network, any Internet content or service, and with any prevalent personal information manager (PIM) database. In addition to WAP, the server will support voice recognition, text-to-speech, DTMF (touch-tones), SMS, pager, browser, and micro-browser as ways for a subscriber to interact with the system. In this way, the @Motion server allows subscribers to use any and all of these interfaces, with the goal of making the applications powerful and easy to use.

While @Motion will support a WAP input and output interface to all of its portal applications, @Motion believes that WAP is often more easily used as an output method. For example, flight reservations can be made easily and quickly just by saying, "Make a flight reservation from San Francisco to San Diego on Thursday, August 19 at 8:00 AM," allowing users to choose to receive available flight information as WAP output. @Motion will uniquely enable the subscriber to mix voice and text interfaces to create the easiest and most efficient application interface.

WAP also provides an ideal method for delivering alerts, whereby the @Motion server will proactively deliver user-requested updates on commute conditions, travel schedules, portfolio changes or even auction bids.

"By necessity and design, the Internet voice portal differs from the traditional portal in the way it delivers information to users," said Dave Weinstein, Vice President of Marketing at @Motion. "Users have additional constraints introduced by both their mobility and the wireless device itself. With this in mind, we've designed the @Motion server to deliver information and services in a variety of formats, depending on user preference, the capabilities of the wireless device, and the nature of the information."

"We are focusing, first and foremost, on usability for the customer," said Weinstein. "For example, a wireless device may be WAP-capable, but that may be of little use to a subscriber while they are driving. SMS may be optimal for message notification, but not for a subscriber without an SMS-capable phone. The result of this flexibility in delivery is a positive user experience for all subscribers -- regardless of handset, application, or location."

About @Motion Inc.

@Motion Inc., was founded to link the Internet and mobile communications through "mobile-optimized" web portal offerings. The company's founders and management team come from leading wireless, telecom, internet and networking companies including Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASD:CSCO), 3Com Corporation (NASD:COMS), Centigram Communications, Inc. (NASD:CGRM), Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASD:SUNW), Keynote Systems (NASD:KEYN) and Telco Systems. @Motion is located at 303 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood Shores, California. The company's web site is [e-mail] and includes a demonstration of the product features and capability.

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