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The mobile telephone world is becoming more colourful
weblicon technologies presents Multimedia Messaging integrated into a Personal Information Manager at the Ericsson Mobilty World Hall 27 Stand D48
Berlin/ Hanover, 14th March 2002. – The mobile telephone world is becoming more colourful. Following SMS, a new generation of mobile phones is now capturing images, sounds and films with Multi Media Messaging (MMS). As a business partner of Ericsson Mobility World at the CeBit in Hanover, weblicon technologies are displaying the possibilities of a new multimedia messaging future: an Online Organizer (Personal Information Manager – PIM) represents the core of the application, offering a diary, addresses and ToDos but also sending and receiving e-mails, SMS, Group-SMS as well as MMS for the first time.
MMS is a totally new messaging technology, turning text messages into a multi-media experience: sounds, texts, images, videos – MMS is being traded as a killer application already before the official start. In Hall 27, Stand D48, the Ericsson Mobility World is presenting this new attraction of mobile telephony as part of the trailblazing applications of their business partners under the motto of ‘Sharing the Knowledge Advantage’.
Weblicon technologies AG, provides the mobile telephony world with the technology to become multi-medial. The Ericsson Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC) makes the colourful message arrive. The Weblicon MMS-Composer, integrated into the MMSC, provides the means to draw up the message. The user chooses an addressee from the weblicon Organizer, writes the text and adds images, sounds and animations stored on the hard disk. By a click of the mouse, the multi-media message wings its way directly to the addressee from the messaging component of the PIM. The Weblicon PIM thus enables the sending of multi-media messages directly from the Internet to all MMS-enabled end devices, such as the Ericsson T68i, and it also receives any MMS.
The providers expect a strong growth thrust from the new MMS mobile messaging standard. The Gartner Market Research Group also forecasts a colourful future for the mobile world of images: in Western Europe, alone, some Euro 23 billion are to be spent on the MMS market by the year 2004. For this year, the Gartner Group reckons that 115 million multi-media messages will be sent out. In 2003, this number is to rise to a billion. With the introduction of the UMTS mobile phone standard of the future, MMS will become even more attractive due to the higher data transmission rates.
This is one reason more for the technology supplier weblicon to extend the development of ever more functions for the Personal Information Manager. With the MMS-Composer, the Online Organizer has extended its messaging and organizer function by a further field of technology: apart from a comfortable PIM with diary, addresses and ToDos, weblicon now offers a complete messaging function with e-mail, SMS, Group SMS und MMS. The synchronisation of all data with mobile end devices is enabled through SyncML server technology, integrated into the Online Organizer and based on the international SyncML standard. This is how the users can sync their data with the Palm PDA, with MS Outlook or Outlook Express and all SyncML-enabled devices. For those on the go, weblicon offers a Voice-XML interface integrated into the Personal Information Manager. Instead of the users having to read the new mails themselves, this task is performed by an e-mailReader.
Company brief:
weblicon technologies AG – set up in Berlin in June 2000 by a founding team around CEO Carsten Brinkschulte – develop and license web-based applications (Weblications) for portals, ISPs, ASPs and telcos. These personal-information-management products are integrated seamlessly into existing networks of servers, applications and databases. The weblicon PIM offers a complete organizer and messaging solution with address book, diary, ToDos, e-mail, SMS, Group-SMS and MMS. Participation of the venture capital shareholder PEPPERMINT.Financial Partners makes it possible for weblicon as the first technology supplier in Europe to synchronise the data ‘over the air’, based on the SyncML industrial standard. A Voice-XML interface makes the PIM extra mobile. The product was awarded the ‘Usability 2001’ certificate for its simple user prompting. The Online Organizer is one of the most successful products and is being used, for instance, by the Dutch KPN Mobile and the German capital portal berlin.de.
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