Datalink.net Joins Phone.com Alliance
Monday July 31, 7:21 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Company to Join Alliance in Two Categories
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2000--Datalink.net (AMEX:DLK - news), a leading Wireless Application Service Provider (w-ASP), today
announced that it has joined the Phone.com(TM) Alliance Program as an application developer and consultant/systems Integrator.
As a member of the Phone.com Alliance Program, Datalink.net develops applications, content, and solutions for mobile phones equipped with Internet
microbrowsers, such as the Phone.com UP.Browser(TM) microbrowser. This significantly enhances the reach of Datalink.net's current WAP-enabled offerings and
ensures tight integration with future WAP applications and services.
Datalink.net developed Net-2-GO, a wireless Internet enabled product that makes it possible to retrieve real-time information through WAP enabled phones. The
application allows users to retrieve a wide variety of information including stock quotes, financial and headline news, sports, weather, horoscopes, lottery, trivia, and
much more when and where it is most useful to them.
``Phone.com is the industry standard, and joining their alliance affirms our position among the leading developers of wireless applications and solutions,'' said Pamela
LaPine, Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Datalink.net. ``This agreement is also consistent with our core strategy of
securing alliances and partnerships with elite companies in key wireless technology areas.''
The Phone.com Alliance Program has two aims. The first is to promote the concept of wireless information access, and the second is to coordinate the exchange of
ideas and information among Alliances Program members, other companies developing wireless Internet products and services, and Phone.com's network operators.
Datalink.net joins a growing list of alliance members that includes content providers, application developers, tools providers and systems integrators using the
Phone.com Product Family. For more information about Phone.com, please visit their Web site at phone.com.
Datalink.net -- Where the Web Meets Wireless(TM)
Datalink.net is a leading wireless application service provider (w-ASP) that delivers end-to-end wireless data solutions to enterprises and custom data applications to
their customers. As today's premier provider of consumer wireless data, and the first to deliver real-time wireless financial information, Datalink.net pioneered the
development of wireless information technology. Today, Datalink.net enables a new generation of wireless devices that allow enterprises and consumers to
customize, respond and interact with critical data. Its XpressLink technology processes high-speed data content feeds or corporate databases for wireless
applications that are compatible with the entire range of wireless devices, networks and protocols.
Founded in 1993, Datalink.net is based in San Jose, Calif. with research facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information: datalink.net.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company
believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements and assumptions upon which forward-looking statements are based are reasonable it can
give no assurance that such expectations and assumptions will prove to have been correct.
Note to Editors: Phone.com, and the family of terms carrying the ``UP.'' prefix are trademarks, and UP.Browser is a registered trademark, of Phone.com, Inc. All
other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners
Contact:
Datalink.net
Jesmine Peirce, 408/367-1724
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