i3 Mobile, Corechange to Add Wireless Capability to Access Framework Software
PR Newswire
Alliance Allows Mobile Work Force to Interact with Business Information On Mobile Phones, Pagers, Other Wireless Devices
STAMFORD, Conn., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- i3 Mobile (Nasdaq: IIIM), a leading provider of innovative wireless media solutions since 1991, from personalized, localized information to e-commerce services, today announced that it will integrate its wireless service capabilities into Coreport(TM), the corporate access framework platform developed by Corechange, Inc. Corechange is a global provider of enterprise information (EIP), business-to-business (B2B), and business-to-mobile (B2M(TM)) access framework software.
The alliance between the two companies will enable users of the Coreport software to access and interact with corporate data on a wide range of wireless devices, including digital mobile phones and devices with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) microbrowsers. Additionally, Coreport users will have wireless access to news, business and financial information, as well as email and personal information management (PIM) services from i3 Mobile. This alliance extends i3 Mobile's technology into the fast-growing business-to-business portal market.
Coreport is a leading e-business access framework delivering an individually tailored, browser-based computing environment to an organization's employees, business partners and customers. The Coreport access framework is unique in that it provides customized access to applications and information based upon the user's role within the organization. The software also enables access not only to web-based information, but also to desktop and legacy applications.
"In the fast-moving world of today's business, the need for access to corporate information is moving beyond the desktop," said Stephen G. Maloney, president and CEO of i3 Mobile. "Our alliance with Corechange further extends i3 Mobile's reach into the B2B market in partnership with a leading international provider of enterprise solutions. The power of Coreport's role-based access framework software is a natural fit with i3 Mobile's technologies for providing customized wireless data, content and transaction management."
About Corechange, Inc.
Founded in 1996, Boston-based Corechange is a leading e-business access framework company providing EIP, B2B and B2M(TM) software. On February 22, 2000, Corechange announced that it had received $18 million in second round financing from ABN AMRO (NYSE: ABN), Xcelera.com (Amex: XLA), and Boston venture capital firm HarbourVest Partners. Corechange's customers include CSFB, Fidelity, Ericsson, Volvo, Philips, AMB Property Management, among others.
For more information, visit the Corechange web site at corechange.com
About i3 Mobile
i3 Mobile is a leading provider of wireless media solutions that enable wireless network operators, Web sites and enterprises to extend personalized, location-based information, mobile commerce and wireless advertising services to their customers. As of the end of first quarter 2000, i3 Mobile was delivering up to two million wireless messages daily and had more than 700,000 users receiving personalized information on mobile phones, pagers, PDAs and other wireless devices. i3 Mobile's services are available to more than 50 percent of the North American mobile phone marketplace through relationships with more than 20 leading wireless network operators and new media distributors. i3 Mobile was selected by Deloitte and Touche in 1999 as one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in America and is included in Upside magazine's "e-business 150" for 2000. For more information, please visit i3mobile.com
This news release may be deemed to include forward-looking statements as defined by applicable U.S. law and, as a result, may involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The words "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," variations of such words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those related to the overall market acceptance of i3 Mobile's products and services; uncertainties related to i3 Mobile's reliance on a small number of wireless network operators for a significant portion of its revenues, i3 Mobile's dependence on the distribution of its products by third parties, and competition from companies with substantially greater financial, technical, marketing and distribution resources. Further information regarding these and other risks are included in i3 Mobile's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2000 and in its prospectus dated April 6, 2000. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. i3 Mobile undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Source: i3 Mobile
Contact: Mike Miller of smartpr, 908-879-2942, or Pager, 973-290-0247, mike@smartpr.net, for i3 Mobile; or Lars Ivarsson of Corechange, Inc., 617-204-3373, lars.ivarsson@corechange.com; or David Lilly of Kekst and Company, 212-521-4800, or david-lilly@kekst.com, for Corechange, Inc.
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