Mobeo was acquired by AETH.........Wednesday June 30, 3:48 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: mobeo, Inc.
mobeo Announces New F/X Alert II Service With f/xtra
Enhanced Service Offerings
Displays Charts and Numeric Data on Motorola CP1250 Smart Pager; mobeo Triples Quantity of
Information and Increases Speed on F/X Alert II
BETHESDA, Md., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- mobeo, Inc., America's leading provider of real-time financial information for
traders on wireless devices, announces F/X Alert II. This advanced version of its flagship F/X Alert financial service adds new
interactive capabilities for users. Originally launched in 1990, F/X Alert is relied upon by thousands of Foreign Exchange and
global markets traders throughout the US. F/X Alert II operates on f/xtra, mobeo's new proprietary software platform,
providing advanced features and functionality. The service is planned to launch beginning this summer at no additional cost to
existing customers.
''Our new F/X Alert II extends the mobeo services that have become the product of choice for leading investment houses,
traders, banks, brokers, investors, corporations and key federal employees in the financial arena,'' said Edward Spear,
mobeo's Executive Vice President. ''Our customers need more information faster, and F/X Alert II will give it to them along
with 'charts' to make it even easier to use and analyze, virtually anywhere in the country.''
mobeo's newly developed F/X Alert II and f/xtra platform is expected to provide customers with greatly expanded critical
market-related news and real- time price quotes covering global foreign exchanges, fixed income, treasury, derivatives, futures
and commodities markets worldwide. F/X Alert II is expected to be offered on the new lightweight pocket-size Motorola
CP1250 smart pager and utilizes Motorola FLEXsuite technology to achieve high-speed delivery of information over a
nationwide paging network. F/X Alert II customers will receive three times the information currently available on F/X Alert and
will be able to view the information on a wide-screen, eight-line graphics display in both chart and numeric formats. Advanced
features of F/X Alert II include a built-in zoom capability that changes the 8-line graphic display to a 4-line display for users
who prefer a larger character size, as well as advanced personal information management features.
''The CP1250 pager was designed specifically for these types of content- rich applications,'' said Amy Kabcenell, Director,
Distribution Marketing, PCS Americas Paging Operations at Motorola. ''The large graphics screen and its expanded memory
provides end-users with a powerful pocket-sized communications tool which can enhance the mobeo solution.''
About mobeo
mobeo, Inc., is considered the premier provider of wireless, portable, real-time financial information in North America,
delivering real-time quotes on over 150,000 stocks, options, futures, treasury, foreign exchange and other critical market data
content to thousands of financial customers. Since March 1990, mobeo has been providing wireless access to global and US
financial market data to the largest banks and financial institutions, hedge fund and money managers as well as individual
investors and traders.
mobeo is a provider of global financial information as well as a leader in wireless technology development. mobeo is
headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has sales offices in New York and Chicago.
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