Press Release
October 28, 2004
Outercurve and O2 to Deliver Financial Applications to BlackBerry® Users
Outercurve Technologies, a leading global provider of wireless handheld business solutions, today announced a new partnership with O2, a UK market leader in mobile data services. The partnership makes Outercurve’s financial applications suite available for BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds™ from Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM).
The relationship enables O2 to market Outercurve’s flagship InfoEdge On-Demand™ service and suite of financial applications to its business customers as part of the BlackBerry from O2 portfolio. At launch, the companies will focus on applications that deliver financial industry intelligence information and wireless document access, including SnapShot Market Indicators™ and news stories to your handheld from FT.com.
The applications being marketed by the two companies enables market data, news, research and document access on BlackBerry wireless handheld devices, providing the information financial professionals need, wherever they may be. SnapShot Market Indicators™ leverages comprehensive market data from ComStock, Inc., and can easily integrate to an enterprise’s own market data feeds. FT.com for BlackBerry® is an intelligent news service that delivers customized financial news content from the world’s leading business information provider.
“O2 was the first mobile communications provider to launch BlackBerry® in the UK, so we knew they were the perfect partner for achieving the next level in wireless data services,” said Derek Roga, Outercurve’s CEO. “Combining our breakthrough market applications and O2’s unrivaled wireless networks and services is sure to create unprecedented decision-making power for the financial organizations in Europe.”
O2 and Outercurve kicked off the partnership on September 14th with the launch of a free 30-day trial of the Outercurve solutions. For more information on free trials from O2 and Outercurve please contact:
O2 - www.my-blackberryfromo2.com for details on BlackBerry from O2, or
Outercurve - http://www.outercurve.com for details on InfoEdge On-Demand.
About Outercurve Technologies
Outercurve Technologies is a leading global provider of wireless handheld business solutions. Outercurve's InfoEdge service provides organizations using the BlackBerry® wireless platform from Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) the ability to create, deploy and manage robust client-server wireless applications. By using InfoEdge, its unique development environment and over-the-air application deployment capability, companies can rapidly deliver packaged and/or custom applications to thousands of mobile users globally, thereby reducing time to market, total cost of ownership and significantly increasing the value of their technology investment. InfoEdge is delivered through partnerships the company has with wireless carriers in the US, Hong Kong, Europe, Singapore, and Australia. For more information about Outercurve Technologies please visit www.outercurve.com.
About O2
O2 aims to enrich customer's lives by enabling them to get the most from their mobile. As a leading provider of mobile services to consumers and businesses in the UK, O2 offers a range of services including text, media messaging, games, always on data connections (via "GPRS"), music over mobile and mobile video. O2 is the UK market leader in mobile data services such as text, with three quarters of a billion messages being sent by O2 customers each month.
O2 was formed in 2001 following the demerger from British Telecom of its former mobile business, BT Wireless. O2 (UK) Limited is a subsidiary of mm O2 plc which also delivers O2 branded services in Ireland and Germany. O2 has over 13.5 million customers in the UK.
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