MSM5500 Integrated Circuit and SURF Development Platform Solution OmniSky Wins MobileFocus 2001 Award for Best Mobile Service

Newsletters

Content

- Articles
- Columns
- Training
- Library
- Glossary

Career Center

- Career Center Home
- View Jobs
- Post A Job
- Resumes/CVs
- Resource Center

Marketplace

- Marketplace Home
- Software Products
- Wireless Market Data
- Technical Books

News

- Daily News
- Submit News
- Events Calendar
- Unsubscribe
- Delivery Options

Community

- Discussion Boards
- Mailing List
- Mailing List Archives

About Us

- About WirelessDevNet
- Wireless Source Disks
- Partners
- About MindSites Group
- Advertising Information

Wireless Developer Network - Daily News

MSM5500 Integrated Circuit and SURF Development Platform Solution OmniSky Wins MobileFocus 2001 Award for Best Mobile Service

SAN FRANCISCO, July 9, 2001--OmniSky Corporation (Nasdaq:OMNY), a leading global provider of award-winning wireless applications and services, has received the MobileFocus 2001 Award for the industry's best mobile service, beating out, GoAmerica Go.Web, Motient eLink, Verizon Wireless Mobile Web and Metricom Ricochet. The MobileFocus Awards honor the best products and services in the mobile computing and wireless arenas in 12 categories.

"This award validates OmniSky's strategy, which is to provide the best-possible user experience for wireless e-mail and the Internet -- on a wide variety of leading mobile devices, including handhelds, laptops and mobile phones," said Kristine Stebbins, OmniSky vice president of marketing.

The winners were announced at PC Expo in New York on June 25, 2001. The MobileFocus awards are hosted by Pepcom, a leader in technology showcases, and co-sponsored by Popular Science Magazine.

Pepcom Inc., based in Boynton Beach, FL, produces the acclaimed Focus series of technology showcase events. Each event is highly targeted and features the world's top technology companies and leading press and analysts. The events include MobileFocus(TM) (mobile products and services), DigitalFocus(TM) (digital imaging and digital video), eFocus(TM) (e-commerce and Internet innovation), and the DigitalHome Experience(TM) (technology for the home).

Popular Science, the world's largest-circulation science and technology magazine, is published by Time Inc. The magazine also produces an award-winning Web site, PopSci.com, which can be reached at www.popsci.com.

OmniSky (Nasdaq:OMNY) is a leading global provider of wireless applications and services for users of mobile devices. OmniSky's award-winning service offers mobile professionals access to up to six e-mail accounts, including corporate e-mail via Microsoft Outlook as well as POP3 e-mail, the ability to search and surf the Internet, a broad range of optimized Web content, and the ability to securely conduct e-commerce transactions. The OmniSky service is available on the Palm V and Palm Vx, Handspring Visor Platinum, Visor Prism and Visor Edge, HP Jornada 520/540 Series Pocket PCs, the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC, and soon on the Casio E-125 and HP Pavilion Notebook PCs, and can be purchased online or in over 2000 retail outlets across the U.S. Service coverage includes over 167 major metropolitan areas within the United States, encompassing over 172 million people. OmniSky also offers its service outside of the U.S. through U.K. and German beta programs and has plans to expand into additional international markets this year.

In 2001, OmniSky expects to offer its proprietary wireless applications and services, including Communications, Content Delivery, and Location-Based Services to telecommunications carriers, online service providers, hardware manufacturers, and other third parties. OmniSky intends to enable these companies to offer differentiated wireless data solutions on any mobile device, from WAP-compliant cell phones to PDAs and laptop computers, and on the most widely available wireless networks, such as CDPD, CDMA, GSM and GPRS.

OmniSky is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information visit www.omnisky.com or call 415/764-2200.

The foregoing information contains forward-looking statements that are based on OmniSky's current expectations. These expectations are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause OmniSky's actual results to differ materially from those referred to in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause OmniSky's actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, risks related to: market acceptance of an early stage service such as OmniSky's; delays in the development or introduction of new versions of OmniSky's service; technical difficulties with networks or operating systems on which OmniSky relies to deliver its service; changes in technologies that affect the wireless, Internet or handheld mobile device industries; the ability of an early stage company such as OmniSky to manage its growth; the protection of OmniSky's proprietary information; release of competitive products and services; and general economic downturns. These and other risks are more fully described in OmniSky's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can be obtained online at the Commission's web site at http://www.sec.gov. Readers should consider the information contained in this release together with other publicly available information about OmniSky for a more informed overview of the company.

Sponsors