Akira Technologies Signs Commercial Agreement With Digital Wireless Mobile Consulting to Focus on the European Market; Will Use Akira Publisher 2.0 Platform to Develop, Deploy, and Distribute Compelling, Interactive Content for Mobile Devices.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Akira Technologies, a leader in publishing technologies for mobile networks and devices, today announced it has signed Digital Wireless Mobile Consulting (DWMC) as its first commercial customer in Europe. DWMC has been working with Akira as a regional development partner for over two years. The DWMC management team has provided publishing oriented professional services and application development to European operators and content owners for over 15 years. DWMC will use the recently announced Akira Publisher 2.0 platform to provide single unified solutions, which include development, deployment, hosting, and distribution of rich, interactive content, to its mobile customers.

Akira and DWMC will be showcasing Publisher 2.0 at the 3GSM World Congress Conference and Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 13-16, 2006, in Hall 4, Hospitality Suite HS8.18.

Akira Publisher 2.0, a patented web-based publishing and content management tool, empowers users with the ability to create and deliver most forms of industry-standard digital content, including video, audio, images, text, vector graphics, and dynamic data such as blogs and RSS feeds, to mobile devices. In addition, Publisher allows complex business logic, such as those found in forms, to be executed by the 8 to 90K Akira players that are downloaded OTA (over-the-air) to, or preinstalled on, the mobile devices.

Publisher 2.0 applications work on most GSM Java MIDP 2.0 devices in Europe, from the leading manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and Motorola. Visiongain predicts that by 2009, there will be about 2.4 billion Java handsets in the market.

Publisher 2.0 overcomes device and carrier fragmentation issues, and works with the inherent bandwidth constraints of mobile devices. In effect, it generates a Postscript-like description language that intelligently uses bandwidth and balances client/server load to maximize rich media application performance.

"DWMC is an industry leading, feet-on-the-street company that has strong ties to both the mobile market and the publishing industry," said B. McKinley Hackett III, vice president of sales for Akira. "They were one of the first early adopters and advocates for Postscript PDF technology in the mid-90s for operators and carriers such as Vodafone and others. The Publisher 2.0 platform today is to phones what Adobe's Postscript PDF format was 15 years ago to print. So, this is a perfect fit for DWMC."

"3GSM Barcelona is an excellent launching pad for Akira's technology and the Publisher 2.0 platform," said Stephen Shepherd, principal, DWMC Ltd. "The mobile market for content is exploding with Java MIDP 2.0 phones, and both content owners and distributors have been restlessly waiting for a solution that reduces fragmentation and addresses the bandwidth constraints of mobility."

Current projects for DWMC include the official Mobile Event Guide for 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona as a consultant to Roundpoint Ltd. One of the first .mobi sites, it provides an exhibitor guide, event schedule, news, exhibition map, and a city guide. Akira will be featured in the Guide, along with Akira mobile demo downloads. Representatives from both DWMC and Akira will be available at the 3GSM World Congress Conference and Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 13-16, 2006, in Hall 4, Hospitality Suite HS8.18.

About Akira Technologies (www.akiraone.com)

Akira Technologies is a leader in publishing technologies for mobile networks and devices. Akira products enable publishing of rich interactive media that is operating system, hardware, and network independent. Akira technology is based on open standards and solves the problems of device fragmentation, authoring productivity, device constraints, and bandwidth limitations, in the mobile market today. Akira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, visit our website at www.akiraone.com.

About Digital Wireless and Mobile Consultancy (DWMC)

DWMC Ltd., based in London, has been operating in the mobile field for 14 years, from the era of AMPS/TACS/NMT market, and more recently focusing in the GSM environment in Europe. DWMC has worked closely with many of the major handset manufacturers and operators, and has been involved in the development and launch of a number of technological

innovations in the mobile space. For more information, contact DWMC at [phone].

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