Volantis Mobile Device Database Expands to 3000+ Devices; 95% Of US Devices Now Covered; Database Now Available via Standalone Licensing Program.

SEATTLE -- Volantis, the world's leading supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation(TM) solutions for the Mobile Information Age, today announced that it now supports more than 3000 mobile devices, the broadest reach in the industry by a significant margin. The milestone was reached as Volantis experiences a dramatic growth in demand for its integrated mobile content solutions incorporating browsing, download, search and messaging functionalities. Volantis also announced the availability today of the database for third parties via its Device Database Licensing Program. Previously the database was accessible only for existing customers of Volantis' mobile content platform.

Industry analysts suggest device diversity is one of the greatest barriers to achieving consistent, high quality content delivered to each device. With each Volantis-registered device defined by more than 500 feature and performance attributes, Volantis ensures content is optimized for the best user experience on 2G, 2.5G and 3G mobile handsets, smartphones, PDAs and other platforms covering GSM, GPRS, UMTS/WCDMA and CDMA2000 wireless standards.

In less than eight months Volantis has increased the size of its device coverage by 50 percent, reflecting increased support for existing customers and Volantis' growing business in the United States and Asia. The database includes attributes such as MIME types and codecs for supported content types, attributes to enable optimized downloads of wallpapers and screensavers and DRM compliance standards.

Serving more than 40 content provider and carrier customers, including Cingular, eBay, Hearst Magazines, MobileOne, Orange and Reuters, Volantis delivers compelling content for all popular handsets in the UK and Europe, and 95 percent of U.S. devices. Volantis ensures that customers' applications and services automatically support the new devices as they are added to the database.

"This latest milestone reflects our aggressive initiative to provide optimized mobile content for the broadest base of devices in the world," said Matthew Harris, Chief Executive Officer of Volantis. "The marketplace has acknowledged the significance of optimizing content for broad distribution and we will continue working to achieve our goal of 100 percent coverage, worldwide, across all networks."

For information about and pricing on the Device Database Licensing program, contact Jan Younger at +1.206.382.4242 extension 0.

Volantis (www.volantis.com) is the world's leading supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation(TM) solutions for the mobile Information Age, providing applications, tools and platforms that solve the complexity of delivering optimized services to any mobile device.

Volantis' extensive experience of serving content providers, mobile network operators, and enterprises, along with its standards leadership, enable a unique position for Volantis to create innovative technology for the Mobile Information Age that is more useful and more useable than the PC Internet of today.

Volantis is used around the world by organizations such as 3, Hearst, Accenture, Channel 4, Cingular, CSC, Discovery, eBay.co.uk, FT.com, Hearst, HP, IBM, lastminute.com, MobileOne, Orange Poland, Reuters, Telefonica Moviles, Telecom Italia Mobile and Telenor Mobil and World Wrestling Entertainment. Volantis also Chairs the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Device Independence Working Group and is a Founding Member of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.

Volantis' global headquarters are in Seattle, USA, with international offices in Guildford, UK, Hong Kong, China, Madrid, Spain and Krakow, Poland. Volantis is privately held with investors Accel Partners, Kennet Venture Partners, and SOFTBANK Europe Ventures.