w-Technologies to Offer Its Wireless Application Platform for Enterprise-Wide Software Development.

Business Editors

Internet World Wireless 2001

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2001

Mobilero 4 will allow companies the ability to develop their own

wireless applications or modify pre-existing w-Technologies software

products

w-Technologies, a global provider of wireless application products and mobile business solutions, today announced that Mobilero 4, the most advanced version of the company's wireless application development platform, will now be available for organizations looking to develop or customize their own enterprise or customer-facing wireless application products. In development since 1995, Mobilero supports communications, content delivery, and transactions across complementary and competing wireless devices, networks and service providers. And unlike other wireless application development tools in today's overcrowded mobile business market, Mobilero is a proven platform that has been deployed in nearly twenty corporations globally.

"Mobilero 4 is quite simply an extension of w-Technologies' commitment to offer the most powerful, extensible, secure and scalable wireless technology products that can support any mobile business need," said w-Technologies Chief Technology Officer Sergey Fradkov. "Mobilero's architecture and development capabilities can support any wireless initiative - from a single application deployment to an enterprise-wide wireless system. And perhaps most significantly, it demystifies mobile development projects by empowering a company's development staff to control their own wireless infrastructure."

Mobilero fully integrates with an enterprise's pre-existing computing platforms, as well as proprietary information, messaging and transaction systems. By utilizing Mobilero 4, companies can control the full development and customization of wireless applications through two licensing approaches: the Application Development Kit (ADK) and the Application Modification Kit (AMK).

Application Development Kit (ADK): Mobilero's Application Development Kit enables companies to create new wireless applications, completely controlling their own wireless application development and customization processes. The Mobilero platform and application products would be hosted in the organization's own data centers. In addition, developers using the ADK can also choose to customize any or a combination of w-Technologies' 25 pre-developed applications.

Application Modification Kit (AMK): Mobilero's Application Modification Kit allows developers to customize licensed w-Technologies applications. w-Technologies currently offers 25 wireless application products that offer complete wireless functionality in five areas - finance, commerce, enterprise, content and communications. Applications can be used alone or combined to build both customer-facing and enterprise solutions. The AMK also entitles organizations to professional services, hosting and training.

Mobilero Server Components

Mobilero 4 consists of three server component layers:

-- Wireless application server: the platform for executing business logic and
transaction processing. It also supports distributed computing capabilities
such as clustering, load-balancing and failover.

-- Wireless application services: shared application services are maintained
within the wireless application services layer, including message delivery to
mobile devices, security, alerts, message formatting, mobile device
recognition, caching, connection pool service, and context service.

-- Wireless application engine: manages multiple customized and integrated
wireless software products, allowing a single log-on to connect users to a
company's complete set of mobile applications.

Mobilero's Network and Device Components

Mobilero 4 is built to support all existing and future wireless networks and mobile device types. Components include:

-- Network gateways: Mobilero's network gateways translate data

between networks and the Mobilero server. The gateways can be

easily adapted to support additional networks and protocols.

-- Wireless network communications: Mobilero gateways are able to

transmit data across all existing and emerging wireless

networks.

-- System management: Mobilero provides both local and remote

system management and monitoring capabilities through SNMP

(Simple Network Management Protocol).

-- Device support: Mobilero provides support for nearly 300

wireless handheld device types in three categories -

thin-client (e.g. Palm OS-based, RIM, Pocket PC, EPOC),

browser- or proxy-based (e.g. phones with WML or HDML support;

handheld computers with WML or HTML browsers), and card-based

(e.g. devices with removable media, such as phones with SIM

cards or devices with smart card).

Although Mobilero 4 has been in production since December 2000, this is the first time that w-Technologies has offered its patent-pending technology platform as a stand-alone product. w-Technologies offers Mobilero licensing models and deployment options that not only can match an organization's current needs but also can adjust as a company's commitment to wireless technology grows.

"Our licensing packages can work with any company at any level of wireless interest," said Frank Zammataro, w-Technologies' Chief Marketing Officer. "For companies who desire to `test the wireless waters,' our AMK will allow them to quickly deploy a state-of-the-art wireless application product customized to their unique business needs. And for those companies ready to stake part of their business model in wireless, our ADK gives them the power to build a comprehensive wireless product arsenal."

About w-Technologies, Inc.

Founded in 1997, w-Technologies Inc. (www.w-technologies.com) introduced mobile commerce to the world when it released the first of its wireless application products nearly three years ago. Today, the company continues to set the standard in wireless application development, offering Mobilero - its patent-pending wireless application platform - and 25 wireless software products in five groups: mobile finance, commerce, enterprise, content and communications.

w-Technologies is headquartered in New York City with an international presence in Europe and Latin America. Its clients include some of the world's leading corporations. Through its Mobile Vision Partner (MVP) program, the company also has built strategic alliances with many of the leading telecommunications companies, device manufacturers and wireless infrastructure organizations.