Airwide Hosts Discussion on Mobile Messaging 2.0 - Named Official Blog of Global Messaging Congress 2007


Industry experts convene for intense discussion and debate on future of mobile messaging

READING, U.K. and BURLINGTON, Mass., May 22 / -- Airwide Solutions, the leading provider of mobile messaging infrastructure and applications, today announced that the company is sponsoring an independent industry blog on Mobile Messaging 2.0 at www.mobilemessaging2.com/. Editorially produced and managed by Corante, the world's first blog media company, the blog focuses on mobile messaging and counts among its contributors some of the industry's keenest observers, commentators, and prognosticators. Also worth noting: it is a "hosted discussion," a bold experiment by a growing number of companies to sponsor editorially independent conversations around the respective company's industry or category.

Contributors to the blog are the top tier intellectuals and achievers from the mobile-related blog space across Europe and North America including Imran Ali, Nancy Broden, Ajit Jaokar, Debi Jones, Helen Keegan, Darla Mack, Ewan Spence, Chetan Sharma, Russell Shaw, Oliver Starr, Daniel Taylor, and Emily Turrettini. In the blog and related editorial offerings, the group will explore how the landscape of mobile messaging is evolving in the face of rapid technological change and innovation. Included in the topics and themes these insightful experts will explore are:

o The future of mobile messaging
o Mobile messaging technologies, platforms and devices
o Innovation in SMS and MMS
o Emerging mobile messaging-based applications and more

Vince Kadar, chief technology officer at Airwide Solutions comments: "The mobile messaging market, like many others, is in a perpetual state of change, with phenomenal growth that has taken directions few could have predicted. What started a few years ago as the emergence of ground-breaking market shifts is now coalescing into a new vision for using and enabling mobile messaging technology -- Mobile Messaging 2.0."

The Airwide-sponsored blog has already been appointed the official blog of Global Messaging Congress 2007, being held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo, June 5-6 2007. The Mobile Messaging 2.0 blog will provide real-time analysis, podcasts and snapshots of the most important and buzzworthy developments at the show, which is internationally recognized as the world's most important messaging event. Join the discussion leading up to the industry's premier event, meet the contributors as they blog from Monte Carlo, or follow the important show developments with up-to-the-minute updates, audio and photographs at www.mobilemessaging2.com/.

"We know there are some very insightful and intelligent thought leaders in the industry, with a lot to say about mobile messaging 2.0," said Jay Seaton, chief marketing officer at Airwide Solutions. "By bringing together the best to discuss and debate the most important issues and strategies driving innovation and development on this topic, Airwide Solutions is helping to shape what we might all come to expect in the coming years. This blog has been created not only to share knowledge from the industry's leading experts, but to encourage readers to share their own thoughts and opinions through comments posted. Increasingly, modern communication is interactive and direct dialogue with our customer base is the key to future innovation and development of our products and services."

About Airwide Solutions
Airwide Solutions is the innovation leader in next-generation mobile messaging infrastructure and applications. Its products allow more than 80 wireless operators in 46 countries to deliver and manage the millions of mobile messages their subscribers send every day. With a history of industry firsts -- including the first text message ever sent and the introduction of the first SMS router and A2P MMSC -- the company continues to pioneer new technologies. Airwide's open Fusion architecture offers mobile operators more revenue options and a practical pathway to Mobile Messaging 2.0, while giving subscribers more messaging choices.

Airwide Solutions operates globally with offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Africa. For more information about Airwide Solutions, please visit http://www.airwidesolutions.com/.
Source: Airwide Solutions

CONTACT:Elena Dunn of Skywrite Communications, +44 (0) 20 7608 4646, airwide@skywritecomms.com, or Carrie O'Neil of Beaupre & Co. Public Relations,
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Web site: http://www.mobilemessaging2.com/

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