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(Hong Kong, February 14, 2001) - PSINet Hong
Kong ("PSINet"), a wholly owned subsidiary
of PSINet Inc., the Internet Super Carrier, is pleased
to introduce a new service offering "PSINet Mobile
- MobileWEB " together with media60X. Realizing
the rising trend for mobile Internet, MobileWEB offers
a simple and effective mobile commerce solution for
businesses looking to expand communications channel.
With a rapid emergence of wireless products in the
market, there is a growing importance for enabling exchange
of information over wireless products. Mobile commerce
is viewed as one of the high potential channel bringing
tremendous business opportunities to every enterprise.
PSINet Hong Kong will be launching a series of mobile
Internet solutions under PSINet Mobile family to address
the local market needs.
The first member of PSINet Mobile is MobileWEB, which
is the result of a partnership formed between PSINet
and media60X. PSINet adopted media60X's technology to
offer a unique mobile solution to businesses looking
to expand their communications channel that includes
mobile phone and personal digital assistant (PDA).
"We are excited, as our partnership with media60X
enables PSINet to provides a significant value-added
solution to hosting customers looking to expand and
provide services that can deliver content and applications
to PC as well as Mobile devices" said Layton Lok,
General Manager, Business & Corporate Development
of PSINet. Lok added, "we know that our service
is unique in terms of quality and cost of ownership,
and we are one of the first to offer mobile solution
to business and corporate customers."
With this newly formed partnership PSINet is able to
offer customers a unique value-added mobile solutions
to enhance business Internet productivity.
"We are glad to be the technology partner of PSINet
Hong Kong. Together with PSINet, corporate customers
are now able to enjoy this unique mobile service of
MobileWEB " said Mr. Kiok S. Tan Vice President
of Marketing. "SnapViewTM, the deployment platform
for MobileWEB is an integrated graphical development
environment for mobile services. SnapViewTM is now the
leading rapid mobile service creation platform in the
region".
E-Business with the mobility element will increase your
business exposure regardless of time and place. Mobile
technologies allow information to be sent or received
anytime, anywhere.
PSINet Mobile - MobileWEB enables clients to select
information and services from their websites, and deliver
them to mobile devices, dynamically and automatically.
For example, if a customer desire to build a WAP financial
portal for mobile access, he may simply configure MobileWEB
to capture various financial information, like stock
quotes, headline news and company fact sheets from its
existing financial website. MobileWEB server would take
all incoming WAP calls, fetches the requested information
from the website and then translates the contents to
WAP format for mobile access automatically. Without
writing a single line of WAP code, its WAP portal is
up and running!
MobileWEB helps extend clients Web services to mobile
users and is maintenance free and carrier- independence.
It supports Unicode which enable users to use both single-byte
and double-byte language codes, including all Asian
languages and all European languages.
Media Contact:
Priscilla Wat
Phone: 852-2170-7536
Email: mediaenquiry@CPCNet.com
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