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Geoworks Mobile Site(TM) Mobilizes Web Sites in a Flash Companies Have Quick New Option for Transmitting Web Content to Mobile Devices With Mobile Site from Geoworks ALAMEDA, Calif., May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Geoworks Corporation (Nasdaq: GWRX - news), a pioneer in mobile data communications services and technologies, today launched Mobile Site, a complement to Geoworks' current Mobile ASP(TM) solution. Mobile Site allows any business to mobilize its existing Web content for any mobile device affordably and quickly. With Mobile Site, companies can deploy a mobile service to their customers in approximately one week. ``In the race for customer market share, companies without a comprehensive mobile solution are hard-pressed to maintain their competitive advantage,'' said Rhonda Jobe, Vice President of Marketing for Geoworks. ``Mobile Site offers businesses an economical way to reach their mobile customers in about a week, before their competitors have a chance to respond.'' With Mobile Site, Geoworks dynamically pulls data from any company's Web site and programs it in a format suitable for transmission to WAP, HDML, SMS, Palm and HTML mobile devices. Monthly pricing for Mobile Site includes site hosting, monitoring and technical customer care, and ranges from $3,000 to $15,000, based on number of unique Web visitors per month. For companies that wish to explore a more robust and customizable mobile solution for their customers, Geoworks also offers its full Mobile ASP solution. Mobile ASP provides companies with the consultation, technology and services necessary to extend their operations, communications and customer service initiatives to the mobile medium and to achieve enhanced, immediate business-to-consumer communications. ``Customers who require the speed of the Mobile Site solution can easily begin working with Geoworks to develop a mobile solution based on their existing Web site content,'' added Jobe. ``Once businesses begin to realize a return on their investment in Mobile Site, they can quickly upgrade to Geoworks Mobile ASP solution to offer a more robust mobile communications channel to their mobile customers.'' About Geoworks Geoworks Corporation is a pioneer in mobile data communications services and technologies for the business and consumer markets. The company's vision is to enable mobile Internet access in the business to business and business to consumer markets. Geoworks' Mobile ASP(TM) and Mobile Site(TM) solutions utilize a flexible combination of its patented Premion Server+ technology and its mobile media expertise to enable businesses to reach their mobile customers with relevant and timely information. By licensing its essential Intellectual Property Rights for the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Geoworks plays a central role in advancing the worldwide market for mobile devices that enable people to easily and instantly access and interact with information and services. Based in Alameda, California, the company has international offices in Sweden, Japan and the United Kingdom, and can be found on the World Wide Web at geoworks.com. In keeping with U.S. law, Geoworks notes that this press release includes forward-looking statements, including the emergence of, and Geoworks' participation in, the mobile data and technology services market. Actual results may vary significantly due to various risks and uncertainties. Those include, but are not limited to, the following: i) the mobile data and technology services market may not emerge to the degree or timing anticipated; and ii) new technologies and new services are inherently subject to development, timing and consumer acceptance risks. Additional information is available in the Risk Factors and Business discussions in the Company's Forms 10-K, 10-Q and other filings available from the Company or from the Securities and Exchange Commission. SOURCE: Geoworks Corporation biz.yahoo.com