Openshark, Inc. Focuses On Cell Phone Market Growth And Rich Mobile Email And Attachments

Huge market looms for Openshark's email enhancement software

SAN JOSE, Calif.  - Openshark, Inc. has directed its focus on the opportunities that the newest generation of cell phones is bringing to the US market. The newest generation of cell phones and networks has Internet and image capabilities, which make them ideal for using Openshark® MAI Messaging Agent™ software solution that allows them to seamlessly view rich email and attachments.

MAI Messaging Agent supports a wide range of files while translating them for optimum viewing based on the specific characteristics of each client device including screen resolution, display color depth, markup language support, and network size limits. Most mobile users today do not have access to rich email and attachments and for the small percentage that do, they receive only text versions.

Cell Phone Market to Grow to 2 Billion

Various forecasts show that cell phones will have a market penetration of over 2 billion* phones worldwide by 2006/2007. Many of these will have email and internet capabilities to utilize Openshark's MAI software. MAI enables files to be viewed on these devices by using the computing power located at the data center leaving the cell phone to retrieve and view the information. MAI does not require additional software or applets to be installed on the client device.

Designed for Mobile Access

Openshark's process typically reduces the message size to a fraction of the original, while retaining the graphics, embedded objects such as charts and graphs, colors and font. Newer wireless standards are still much slower than wireline access making Openshark MAI a necessity for mobile access to rich email and attachments.

MAI also provides a link to the original file within the message allowing users to download the original if required and is for users accessing their mail with a PC and high-speed connection. MAI is highly scalable, cost-effective, secure and reliable making it ideally suited for large-scale deployment for carriers and large enterprises.

Openshark MAI Messaging Agent software platform is designed to integrate with all third-party email and messaging servers to provide a transparent user email experience. The device only requires an Internet connection and a web browser to view over 70 file types. The software works just as well with PDAs, PCs, and Internet Appliances, but the clear opportunity is with cell phones.

MAI is currently deployed in Japan where data-enabled cell phones have been available for at least two years. Japanese customers are using MAI to exchange data between incompatible networks as well as previewing email attachments. Extensive testing with over 160 cell phone models has been done in Japan.

About Openshark

Openshark is a privately held company focused on the development and sales of software designed to translate and transform various data types for access by a wide range of mobile and connected devices. The company is located in San Jose, California and was incorporated in January 2000. For more information please visit http://www.openshark.com.

*Projection sources: Dell'Oro Group, Gartner Dataquest; In-Stat/MDR

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