Colibria's Strong Community Message at Global Messaging 2005
Colibria's CEO Keith Gibson delivered a clear community-based message at the Global Messaging 2005 conference, illustrating how the success of community services on the Internet can be translated into huge potential for the mobile sector.
Colibria AS, the leading international developer of mobile instant messaging and presence (IMPS) technology platforms, outlined the steps involved in mobile community building based on IMPS at London's Global Messaging 2005 conference yesterday. Colibria's CEO Keith Gibson elaborated on the mobile community can leverage the enormous success of the existing SMS community to build a dynamic new set of IMPS-based services quickly and economically. Colibria also focused on multiple client operability in the accompanying exhibition, with demonstrations underlining the universal flexibility of the Colibria Companion Instant Messaging and Presence Server.
CEO Keith Gibson explained how IMPS holds the key to building mobile community services now: "We believe that IMPS (IM and Presence) represents an important and accessible service enabler for mobile community services, using existing standardised technology to ensure efficient application development and overcome interoperability issues. At the end of the day, the mobile user is not interested in the technology per se, but in the value-added services they can access. The job of the mobile sector is to bridge the different technologies and concentrate on delivering exciting new services that reflect existing messaging practices and build compelling new community services that are fun and easy to use. If operators start with IMPS now, they have a clear pathway to evolve initial community services through IMS and SIP in future. The key is to launch services now whilst ensuring a future-proof strategy that will accommodate the great potential that SIP/SIMLE-based IM and Presence technology promises for the future."
At the Global Messaging 2005 exhibition, Colibria showed the Colibria Companion Instant Messaging and Presence Server in operation with a variety of IMPS and SIP clients, illustrating the differences in style and functionality that can be offered to the end-user, all delivered via the Colibria Companion's seamless client access and comprehensive IMPS service integration tools. Making its UK debut was the Colibria Cast Media Suite of products, a powerful set of tools that enable mobile campaigns, polls and competitions to be set up easily and quickly.
The Dynamics of Presence
The company's 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. Colibria's demonstrations at Global Messaging 2005 encompassed a variety of different clients, with all communication between the devices being handled through the Colibria Companion server:
- Embedded IMPS and SIP clients from various mobile phone vendors
- Downloadable smartphone clients
- Colibria's own PC client, WAP client and SMS client
A powerful messaging and presence enabler, the Colibria Companion delivers certified OMA WV support for presence, instant messaging, groups, shared content and core features. The Colibria Companion comprises the full range of core components, including 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.
The Colibria Companion contains powerful presence interfaces and APIs that can be used to share presence information between a variety of 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.
Colibria Cast for Audience Interaction Solutions
The Colibria Cast suite offers a powerful set of audience interaction solutions for promotions and broadcast tie-in applications, enabling service providers to provide customers with a flexible set of tools to create and administer campaigns. Comprising Colibria Cast Mobile Campaign and Colibria Cast Mobile Vote, these products offer enormous potential for both media companies and service providers as an important low-cost channel for increasing revenue with exciting new services.
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 newgeneration 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 WV IMPS 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
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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
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