Notify Technology and Motient Corporation Team Up to Offer Enterprise Wireless Solutions
SAN JOSE, CA – May 6, 2003 – Notify Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: NTFY), a leading provider of enterprise wireless solutions, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Motient Corporation (OTC:MNCP). Under the agreement Motient will offer to its enterprise customers all versions of Notify’s NotifyLink Enterprise Edition. Notify’s enterprise family of products currently provide organizations using Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise, and various IMAP4/POP3 email systems with secure wireless push notification, access, and management of email, calendar, contacts, and tasks.
Notify’s enterprise products will provide our current and future customers with a secure, real time enterprise solution for their mobile users”, said Dan Croft, senior vice president of business development and marketing for Motient. “We are especially excited about Notify’s new enterprise functionality providing users with both fixed and mobile wireless access to their email and calendar.”
NotifyLink Enterprise Edition will be offered as part of a complete enterprise mobility package that includes unlimited monthly airtime, server and client software license fees, as well as software maintenance under a single pricing plan of only $44.95 per month. The package will be immediately available to Motient users of the RIM 850 and RIM 857 Wireless HandheldsTM on Motient’s nationwide data network.
"We are excited about the opportunity to provide Motient with our family of NotifyLink Enterprise wireless solutions", said Paul DePond, President and founder of Notify Technology Corporation. “Motient will now be able to offer all of their customers expanded enterprise wireless email and PIM solutions with our NotifyLink enterprise products.”
Supported Devices
NotifyLink provides users with a rapid and transparent connection to their email when they are mobile, using the Research In Motion (RIM) Wireless Handheld™ 850/857 BlackBerry 5810™, the BlackBerry 6710™, BlackBerry 6750™, the Kyocera Corporation 7135 SmartPhone, the Handspring Inc. Treo 180, 180g, 270, 300 Series, the Nokia 9290 Communicator, the Palm Solutions Group i705, the Palm™ Tungsten™ W, Siemens SX56 Pocket PC, O2 XDA Pocket PC, T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition HTC 9500, as well as the Motorola Talkabout T900 and/or the Motorola Timeport P935 2-way devices utilizing the CDMA/1XRTT, DataTAC, GSM/GPRS, Mobitex, and ReFLEX networks.
High Level Features
NotifyLink is easy to install within a Novell GroupWise or Microsoft Exchange email system environment, and is comprised of three components: the server software, web interface for admin and client configuration, and a smart device client interface. NotifyLink server software gives corporations the security in knowing that their information will be securely stored, safely behind their corporate firewall. In addition, NotifyLink’s custom “Smart Device Client” software, was specifically designed to work with each device so that users would no longer need to use WAP or HTML browsing. An individual users information is loaded onto the device, over the air, with no cradle synchronization required.
NotifyLink Enterprise Edition has been designed with both the Corporate User and the IT Professional in mind. Some of the most notable features are as follows:
Corporate User
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Wireless Access and Management of your Existing Email Accounts
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Over-the-Air (OTA) synchronization of email, calendar, contacts, and tasks
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Email and PIM information is stored on the wireless 2-way device
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Real-Time Push Notification of Email to the wireless 2-way device
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Customize Settings with a Simple to use Web Client Interface
IT Professional
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Centralized Configuration, Administration, and control behind the Corporate Firewall
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Centralized Control and Management of Global Settings
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Encryption using AES and Triple DES
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Enterprise Scalability System Architecture
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Multiple Device Support
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Multiple Network Support
For a complete list of product features, please visit http://www.notifycorp.com.
Availability
The NotifyLink Family of mobile email solutions is immediately available through Notify Technology’s eStore at http://www.notifycorp.com and to all wireless carriers. For more information about NotifyLink Family of mobile email solutions, please contact Edward R. Toro at etoro@notifycorp.com.
About Motient Corporation
Motient Corporation (www.motient.com) owns and operates the nation's largest two-way wireless data network - the MotientTM network - and provides a wide-range of mobile and Internet communications services principally to business–to–business customers and enterprises. The company provides eLinkSM and BlackBerryTM by Motient two-way wireless email services. Motient's wireless email services operate on the RIM 850 and RIM 857 Wireless HandheldsTM and Motient's MobileModem for the PalmVTM series handhelds. Motient serves a variety of markets including mobile professionals, telemetry, transportation and field service, offering coverage to all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S., Virgin Islands.
About Notify Technology Corporation
Founded in 1994, Notify Technology Corporation, (OTC: NTFY) is an innovative communications company offering wireless and wireline products and services. Notify Technology is quickly becoming a leading consumer, SOHO, and Enterprise environment provider of mobile wireless software and services for Over-The-Air synchronization and management of email and PIM (contacts, calendar, tasks) independent of device and network. Notify’s wireline solution provides consumer voice mail notification to customers of CLECs in multiple states. Notify sells its products through wireline carriers and wireless carriers. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more information, visit www.notifycorp.com or contact 408-777-7920.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995
The statements in this press release regarding our product features, product release and product availability are forward-looking statements based on current information and expectations. Achievement of product acceptance and product compatibility is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected are: market acceptance of the product; compatibility of software solutions with certain networks or 2way wireless devices, pricing acceptability and the decision of certain carriers to make our products generally available to the public.
For more information concerning these and other possible risks, please refer to the company's Form 10-KSB filed on December 28, 2001, filings on Form 10-QSB and other filings with the Securities and Exchange. These filings can be accessed over the Internet at www.sec.gov.
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