VoiceGenie and MessageVine Team Up to Bring State of the Art Voice Enabled Instant Messaging Solutions to Wireless Carriers, Telcos and ISPs

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VoiceGenie and MessageVine Team Up to Bring State of the Art Voice Enabled Instant Messaging Solutions to Wireless Carriers, Telcos and ISPs

URL(s): www.voicegenie.com

TORONTO, ON and NEW YORK, NY, Aug. 15 - VoiceGenie Technologies Inc., the leading provider of Voice XML Gateway solutions, and MessageVine, the premier provider of private label Instant Messaging servers, announce their agreement to integrate VoiceGenie's VoiceXML Gateway technology with the MessageVine solution, offering state of the art voice-enabled Instant Messaging to wireless carriers, ISPs and telcos the world over. VoiceGenie's carrier-grade VoiceXML Gateway is a robust, extensible and scalable platform that adapts to the evolving and growing needs of its customers. It is the first complete Voice Web solution to provide 100% compliance to the VoiceXML 1.0 standard with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) capability supporting SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and H.323 protocols. The VoiceGenie OA&M (Operations, Administration, & Maintenance) Suite, engineered for large-scale deployment and integral to the Gateway, allows carriers and enterprises to significantly reduce lifecycle costs and simplify deployment of voice-driven applications and services. "Instant messaging is a critical deliverable in providing complete voice- enabled solutions for carriers, ISPs and enterprises," said Eric Jackson, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for VoiceGenie. "Our partnership with MessageVine allows our mutual customers to deploy complete Instant Messaging solutions that are 100% compliant to VoiceXML, that are scalable and flexible, and that integrate with their existing infrastructures.

With VoiceGenie and MessageVine, customers may select the best in class speech technologies of their preference, and are assured a completely integrated Voice Web solution that delivers all the latest features and functionality." MessageVine provides mobile operators with a highly scalable and customizable server-based IM solution, which allows for seamless communication between different devices including mobile-to-mobile, mobile-to-desktop, and desktop-to-mobile. MessageVine powers the T-Online private label IM solution, dubbed TOM, which is fully functional wireless and desktop IM to its 7.9 million subscribers over the Internet. MessageVine's mobile IM technology runs on several platforms including SMS, WAP, i-mode, BREW and J2ME. "Instant Messaging is taking off and voice access will play a big role in consumer acceptance and excitement. MessageVine is committed to offering our customers such best-of-breed technologies that will keep them and their users on the cutting edge of innovation," said Bob Morgan, Vice President, Business Development of MessageVine. "We are, therefore, delighted to work with VoiceGenie and to integrate our solutions with their VoiceXML Gateway to deliver voice-enabled instant messaging that will help our customers attract and retain users and generate revenue."

About VoiceGenie

With six years of extensive market development expertise, VoiceGenie is the first company to ship a fully compliant VoiceXML Gateway product supporting multiple speech and text-to-speech engines, offering vendor- agnostic, best-of-breed combinations. The VoiceGenie VoiceXML Gateway allows any phone to access Voice Web applications developed using the VoiceXML standard. VoiceGenie's customers and partners comprise many leading organizations, including AT&T, Lucent, Intel/Dialogic, SpeechWorks, Oracle- Mobile, Everypath, Audium, Brience, VoxSurf, Nuance, and more. VoiceGenie has established an early leadership position in the Voice Web market. Industry analysts predict that the market for voice-enabling services will grow to $41 billion by 2005. For more information, please call 416.736.0905 or visit www.voicegenie.com

About MessageVine

MessageVine is the leading worldwide provider of private-label Instant Messaging server products, delivering completely branded and customized carrier-scale wireless and wireline IM solutions to wireless carriers, telcos and ISPs. MessageVine's products, designed with open architecture that integrates with the full array of back-end systems, enable its customers to extend their brands and maintain constant communication with their subscribers. Privately funded, MessageVine was founded in 1999 and has offices in New York, San Mateo and Tel Aviv.

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