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Mobileum and Luminant Announce Mobile Commerce Partnership

URL(s): www.mobileum.com

PLEASANTON, Calif., March 26, 2001-- Companies To Develop Wireless Application Solutions For Consumer Brands, Energy, Financial Services, Transportation, And Health Industries

Mobileum, Inc., a software infrastructure platform provider for wireless and mobile commerce applications that redefine the way businesses sell products and empower workforces, today announced that it will partner with Luminant Worldwide Corporation (NASDAQ:LUMT), a leading e-business professional services firm, to jointly develop enterprise-class mobile commerce solutions that provide on-the-go connectivity to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and sales force automation systems. The companies will work cooperatively on joint marketing and sales opportunities focused on the consumer brands, energy, financial services, transportation and health vertical markets.

"Our partnership with Luminant greatly enhances our services delivery capabilities to organizations eager to leverage wireless channels to increase profits and productivity," said Chris Brennan, president and CEO of Mobileum, Inc. "The combination of Luminant's expertise in customer-facing systems, with Mobileum's wireless application platform will bring corporate data out of the enterprise and put it in the hands of employees and customers who need it most."

Teams from Mobileum and Luminant will work with clients to define, architect, and implement successful mobile commerce applications accessible through a variety of wireless Internet-enabled devices such as Palms, PDAs, WAP phones, and RIM pagers. Dallas-based Luminant, is one of the world's largest and most experienced professional services firms focused on helping customers leverage innovative, rapidly delivered e-business solutions.

"Luminant and Mobileum will enable today's leading-edge companies to use the mobile Internet to expand their presence to an increasingly mobile customer base," said Tod Knight, Luminant Chief Technology Officer. "Together, our companies will redefine the way data is accessed and delivered and will empower the enterprise to solve even the most demanding e-business challenges."

The Mobileum(TM) platform easily accommodates rapidly evolving wireless technology through an extensible, modular, standards-based architecture integrating voice and data as well as traditional telephony services. Mobileum also offers a number of unique, patent-pending wireless services modules that deliver differentiated mCommerce applications. Built-in security and privacy management assures users that their wireless transactions are safe, reliable and secure. The Mobileum platform ensures 100 percent device, network and data source independence - resulting in seamless global access. And powerful design tools offer rapid development and unparalleled presentation services - so customers can come to market quickly.

Luminant Worldwide Corporation (www.luminant.com) is a leading e-business professional services firm. Luminant professionals "Stretch the Net" to deliver measurable business results through increased revenues, productivity and customer loyalty. Multidisciplinary client teams imagine and realize successful strategy, creative, technology and marketing solutions for the company's premier client base. Some of the firm's clients include Administaff, Inc., The Container Store, Dr Pepper, Enron Corp., IBM Corporation, MasterCard International, United Airlines and Verizon Communications. Luminant has principal locations in Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Houston, New York and San Francisco. The company also maintains satellite operations in Herndon, VA, and Seattle. For more information about Luminant, please visit the Company Web site, www.luminant.com, or call 888.225.4468.

Mobileum's wireless and mCommerce software platform is designed to power the $100B+ global wireless applications market by meeting the specific needs of organizations looking to offer mission-critical mobile applications and information services to their customers and employees. Mobileum customers are establishing a competitive advantage in the exploding wireless web economy to grow revenue, expand distribution channels, cut costs, extend their brand and provide superior service. Mobileum is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit www.mobileum.com.

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