COMUNICADO DE ECRIO, INC.

Siemens chooses Ecrio's mobile Instant Messaging Platform for its

carrier offering

MUNICH (GERMANY), AND CUPERTINO (CALIFORNIA), 13 (PRNewswire)

The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC

Mobile), a leading provider of mobile networks, solutions and devices

for mobile businesses, and Ecrio, a leading provider of mobile

instant and multimedia messaging software, today announced an OEM

agreement that brings the Ecrio Rich Instant Messaging Platform into

Siemens' offering for advanced messaging and presence-enabled mobile

services.

Under the agreement, Siemens will bundle and integrate Ecrio's

solution with its mobile messaging offering, including the Siemens

presence server, and therefore provide real-time mobile network-based

presence into instant messaging. Siemens will market and sell the

combined solution worldwide.

By leveraging Ecrio's capabilities to exchange All Media(TM) --

text, digital photos, maps, drawings, ring-tones, logos, audio,

video, and documents, between PCs, PDAs, J2ME(TM), WAP, and SMS

phones worldwide, and across all networks, the combined solution will

enable operators to offer a pre-integrated presence and messaging

service, with the ability to capitalise on Multimedia Message

Services (MMS).

"We found in Ecrio a company that has products, technical

leadership, and vision in perfect alignment with Siemens's own

outlook on the future of mobile services." said Volker Ziegler,

President of Solutions within Siemens' Information and Communication

Mobile Group. "We see Ecrio's support of interoperability and

standards such as Wireless Village and multimedia messaging, as

critical in bringing much needed applications to the market."

"Our partnership with Siemens reinforces the mobile messaging

business case, and makes it easier to bring new services into

fruition for operators worldwide" said Nagesh Challa, President & CEO

of Ecrio. "With Siemens' capability to offer mobile networking

equipment, presence servers, and handsets, along with Ecrio's Rich

Instant Messaging Platform, we are able to bring mobile operators

uniqueness in branding and services at advantageous economies of

scale."

Siemens will be showcasing the integrated multimedia and instant

messaging solution based on Ecrio's Rich Instant Messaging Platform

and the Siemens Presence Manager at the CeBIT fair, March 13th-20th,

Hanover, Germany. Visitors will see how they can engage in instant

messaging sessions, exchange video clips and discuss movie star's

gossip, and purchase and redeem movie tickets, all on a combination

of phones, smart-phones, and personal computers.

About Siemens

The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC

Mobile) offers the complete range of mobile solutions including

mobile devices, infrastructure and applications. Devices include

mobile phones, wireless modules, mobile organisers and cordless

phones as well as products for wireless home networks. The

infrastructure portfolio includes GSM, GPRS and 3G mobile network

technologies from base stations and switching systems to intelligent

networks, e.g. for prepaid services. Mobile Applications cover

end-to-end solutions for Messaging, Location Based Services or Mobile

Payment. For the fiscal year 2001 (September 30), IC Mobile recorded

sales of EUR 11.3 billion and employed 30,730 people worldwide. You

can access further information about Siemens IC Mobile on the

Internet at www.siemens-mobile.com

About Ecrio Inc.

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ecrio Inc.

is a provider of advanced wireless messaging applications and

infrastructure. Ecrio(TM) provides wireless carriers, portals,

service providers, and corporations a family of rich communication

and m-commerce solutions, including Ecrio(TM) Rich Instant Messaging

Platform, Ecrio Intelligent Delivery Engine, and Ecrio Communication

Gateway. These solutions enable the messaging of All Media(TM)

content -- drawings, handwritten notes, images, digital pictures,

video, and animation -- to and from a broad range of wireless and

desktop appliances over the world's 2G, 2.5G, and 3G networks,

including GSM, CDMA, TDMA, GPRS, and UMTS. Ecrio supports Palm

OS(TM), PocketPC(TM), and Symbian Epoc(TM) handhelds, J2ME, WAP and

SMS phones, Microsoft(R) Windows, and Internet Explorer and

Netscape(R) browsers. www.ecrio.com

Source: Ecrio, Inc.

Contact: Michael Becker of Ecrio Inc., +1-408-366-7900, ext. 125,

or pr@ecrio.com; or Marion Bludszuweit, Press Office Information and

Communication Mobile Solutions of Siemens, +49-89-722-50483, or

Marion.Bludszuweit@icn.siemens.de

Web site: http://www.siemens-mobile.com

http://www.ecrio.com

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