Action Engine joins Symbian Platinum Program; Action Engine Platform Enables Quick Deployment of Rich Connected Data Applications Across Wide Range of Symbian OS Smart Phones.

Business Editors

3GSM World Congress 2003

CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2003

Action Engine (www.actionengine.com) today announced that Action Engine has joined the Symbian Platinum Program. Symbian is the creator of Symbian OS(TM), the global industry standard operating system for advanced mobile phones.

With the Action Engine Mobile Web Services Platform, network operators can create, manage and deploy browserless data applications that fully exploit the capabilities of smart devices and operating systems.

"Action Engine has an innovative, browserless approach to delivering rich and easy to use mobile web services on smart phones," said Gilles Alain, Symbian Vice President Partnerships & Alliances. "Action Engine's technology is designed enhance services offered Symbian OS mobile phones. We look forward to working with Action Engine and their contribution to the growth of the adoption of Symbian OS phones worldwide."

Symbian OS is licensed by the world's leading handset manufacturers, including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. In total, Symbian OS licensees account for more than 80% of annual worldwide mobile phone sales.

"Achieving Symbian Platinum partner status for Action Engine is a critical milestone and demonstrates clearly that our Mobile Web Services Platform is a core technology for allowing operators to easily develop and deliver key data services to mass consumer markets on mainstream smart devices," said Craig Eisler, Action Engine CEO. "Moreover, the unit volume and market momentum behind the Symbian OS allows us to be deployed on a massive scale across a wide range of different devices that will be launched in the coming months," continued Eisler.

As a certified Symbian Platinum partner, Action Engine gains the same access to source code that Symbian has already extended to mobile phone manufacturers. This enables Action Engine to offer major operators an extremely integrated version of its Mobile Web Services Platform for deployment on all Symbian OS devices such as the Nokia 3650 and Sony Ericsson P800. The membership also strengthens Action Engine's leadership position in building smart software for the exploding smart devices market.

"Action Engine adds an extra layer of intelligence to smart devices, making them easier for subscribers to use, while allowing them to easily and seamlessly collect and connect information on and off wireless Internet sessions -- as if they had been connected the whole time," said Becky Diercks, director, Custom Research and principal analyst, Wireless Data/Internet, In-Stat/MDR, a division of Reed Business Information.

The Action Engine Mobile Web Services Platform is a client-server solution for smart devices that, by using a thick client, provides a rich and easy-to-use experience, unparalleled network efficiency, and convenient and always-available access to applications and data independent of a network connection.

Action Engine provides a free downloadable SDK for its Mobile Web Services Platform that allows developers to build smart client, smart server applications using industry standard XML. These applications then run on top of the Mobile Web Services Platform on smart device operating systems like Symbian OS.

Action Engine also provides a comprehensive Over-The-Air Device Management Platform that simplifies device configuration, device registration, software maintenance, service provisioning, security, wireless data backup/restore, applications downloads, and more.

About Symbian Platinum Program

Symbian Platinum Program members benefit from a range of Symbian products and services allowing them to design highly integrated hardware and software solutions for Symbian OS. The commercial services available to Symbian Platinum Partners include technical support and joint marketing opportunities. Symbian Platinum Partners may also get early access to the Symbian OS Development Kit(TM), which incorporates source code, test code, internal documentation, kernel and device driver programming interfaces and ROM building tools. For more information see www.symbian.com/partners/part-platnm.html

About Symbian

Symbian develops and licenses the global industry standard operating system for advanced mobile phones. The world's leading handset manufacturers license Symbian OS, including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. In total, Symbian OS licensees represent over 80% of worldwide mobile phone sales.

Symbian's mission is to create a global mass market for Symbian OS mobile phones by enabling its licensees to build winning products. Publicly announced Symbian OS phones include the NTT DoCoMo FOMA F2051, Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone, Nokia 9210 series, 7650, 3650 and N-Gage. As at January 2003, 9 Symbian licensees had 20 Symbian OS phones in development. For further information about Symbian, please visit www.symbian.com

About Action Engine

Action Engine's browserless Mobile Web Services Platform delivers a superior user experience and access to web services, also called connected applications, and personal data from smart mobile devices. With Action Engine's evolutionary "smart software for smart mobile devices," carriers and wireless network operators, smart device manufacturers, and enterprises can rapidly deploy mobile web services that are easy to use and manage, are network efficient, and do not require a constant network connection. For more information visit www.actionengine.com. Our network operator customers include Orange SA (FOREIGN OTC:ORGEF) and mmO2 (NYSE: OOM; LSE OOM).