Movial Moves Rich Media with Colibria IM and Presence Server

Colibria AS, the leading international developer of mobile Instant Messaging and Presence Service (IMPS) platforms, announces that its Colibria Companion server technology is enabling the Movial Corporation to demonstrate the power of converged IMPS and SIP messaging.

Working in close collaboration, the two companies have proved the success of Colibria's server technology, with Movial also now sending rich media messaging content via the Colibria Companion server, including images, video and voice clips. As part of the collaborative work between the two companies, Movial has undertaken extensive interoperability testing across its Movial Connect wireless client products, using Colibria's server technology to test its OMA compliance. Movial joins the ranks of some 100 mobile operators, service providers, applications developers and client vendors that employ Colibria's IMPS test server facilities for product and service trials. Colibria reports that regular users from over 27 countries are using its facilities for testing new Presence and IMPS-related concepts and applications.

Victor Donselaar, of Finland-based Movial Corporation, which markets a wide range of wireless handset clients and instant messaging applications, commented: "Colibria is an extremely responsive and approachable organisation, and we have been working with the company for some time across many aspects of the Open Mobile Alliance standard. The results of our interoperability testing underline the success of Colibria's OMA 1.2 implementation, and the validity of their instant messaging and presence server technology. Our joint ability to demonstrate the reality of converged messaging between PC and mobile applications, using IMPS and SIP protocols, greatly empowers the business case for presence and its breadth of usage. These developments give us the confidence that the performance of our own products is fully reinforced by the capabilities of Colibria's server technology, putting us in a strong position to meet the market shift to IMS."

Dynamic Server Technology
The carrier-grade Colibria Companion Instant Messaging (IM) and Presence Server is a scalable, flexible and future-proof solution that supports advanced presence, messaging and multimedia services. Enabling rapid and economical rollouts, it provides mobile operators with the means to build new ARPU-increasing revenue streams. The Colibria Companion is a standardised platform that supports seamless, efficient network and service evolution. A proven solution with an international customer base, including Globe Telecom in the Philippines, the Colibria Companion was recently selected by Saunalahti Group Oyj - the fastest growing MVNO in Finland - for the first Nordic IMPS service.

The Colibria Companion delivers certified OMA WV support for presence, instant messaging, groups, shared content and core features, and comprises the full range of core components. These include Presence server; Instant Messaging server; Instant Messaging Gateway (MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and ICQ); Groups server; IMPS PC and Mobile Clients; Communities and Blogs server and clients; and Chat server. Powerful presence interfaces and APIs can be used to share presence information between multiple applications, over and above core Instant Messaging functionality. This supports existing and new applications that use presence information more intelligently, enhancing standard telecom services - for example, SMS, MMS, voice calls, games and communities, where the emphasis is on meeting new friends and encouraging group interaction, and on maintaining efficient contact with staff and work colleagues.

About Movial
Movial Corporation develops software and services for the mobile multimedia and presence-enabled applications market. By enhancing the ability of device, system, and IM vendors to conceive, design, and deliver the software differentiators that drive revenue, Movial is the choice of Nokia, HP, Orange, and Jabber, Inc. Movial has distinguished itself with mobile presence innovations such as 'Push-to-Video', while simultaneously becoming the time- and cost-to-market leader for Linux-based consumer electronics. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Movial was founded in 2001 and currently employs a staff of 95.

About Colibria
Established in 2000, Colibria is a technology leader in the field of instant messaging and presence systems, with its IMPS and Communities solutions widely deployed by a variety of mobile operators - including Cable & Wireless, Enitel, Globe Telecom, Megatel, Saunalahti, Telefonica Moviles and Telenor Mobil - in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Colibria's new generation core network mobile platforms are scalable and flexible solutions that provide the vital infrastructure for advanced presence, messaging, and multimedia services - fully supporting IMPS today, as well as ensuring a seamless use of IMPS and SIP for future IMS-enabled networks. Colibria's new generation carrier-grade IM and presence servers are designed to provide operators with a future-proof pathway to support network and service evolution.

The company operates from locations in Norway, the Philippines, Belgium and the UK, and is a member of the Open Mobile Alliance, contributing extensively to the OMA IMPS (previously Wireless Village) forum. Colibria is highly active in interoperability testing, and provides server test access to the major OMA IMPS client vendors.

For more information, please contact:
Liv Anne Løkka
Colibria AS
5/F Lysaker Torg
Postboks 255
1326 Lysaker
Norway
Tel: + 47 67 11 35 00
Fax: + 47 67 11 35 01
Email: lokka@colibria.com
Web: www.colibria.com

Georgina Garrett/Simon Jones
Garrett Axford
Harbour House
27 High Street
Shoreham by Sea
West Sussex
BN43 5DD, UK
Tel: +44 1273 441200
Fax: +44 1273 441300
Email: mail@garrett-axford.co.uk
Web: www.garrett-axford.co.uk