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Scan Mobile to Provide Games and Shopping Over Odigo's Integrated SMS-Instant Messaging Platform
URL(s): www.scan.com
Joint Offering Increases User Interaction with IM, Allowing Carriers and
Companies to Monetize their Customer Base
New York, NY, January 23, 2002 -- Scan Mobile, a SMS/IM wireless technology
company, and OdigoTM, Inc., the leading provider of Instant Messaging and
Presence solutions, announced today a technology partnership and licensing
agreement designed to extend the value of instant messaging beyond chat by
offering entertainment, commerce, and enterprise applications. Through
this agreement, Scan Mobile will offers its multiplayer Games and Commerce
IM Smart Bots to Odigo users, allowing them to play games, purchase consumer
goods, and, in the future, use other interactive applications over the Odigo
mobile and desktop instant messaging platform.
"We are excited to enter into this partnership with Odigo as part of our
strategic initiative to extend transactions and provide increased
functionality into the mobile and desktop Instant Messaging space," said
Bryon Colby, vice president of business development at Scan Mobile. "By
adding interactive, two-way applications to its instant messaging platform,
Odigo is able to expand its integrated SMS-IM services and offer a more
robust feature-set to clients and end-users."
"The power of IM lies in its intuitive and immediate exchange of
information. Extending the Odigo Open IM functionality to offer games and
shopping is an excellent way for carriers and other companies to drive user
interaction through these value-added services and increase their messaging
revenues," said Ran Cohen of Odigo, Inc. "Scan Mobile's expertise in mobile
transactions and applications - both in SMS and IM - makes them an ideal
partner to provide these services to our users."
Odigo will begin rolling out Scan Mobile's Games and Shopping IM Smart Bots
to their large installed consumer customer base in February, as well as
offer the games to network operator partners. Some of the two-way games
being offered include BlackJack, Word Jumble, and War, as well as a variety
of advanced and multiplayer games such as Wrestling. The Shopping Bot will
allow users to purchase CDs, DVDs and videos from a catalog of over 2
million items using conversational language requests, enabling simple and
easy transactions.
About Scan, Inc.
Scan Mobile is a leading provider of marketing, entertainment and commerce
applications and platform technology that enable carriers and companies to
engage consumers and monetize interactions through SMS, IM, or two-way
messaging. The Scan Mobile Interaction platform enables users to query
back-end databases and complete purchases using conversational language
requests over mobile phones, two-way pagers and Instant Messaging platforms.
Scan's services and technology are licensed by partners such as Vizzavi,
WebLink Wireless, mTicket, and UPOC. The company was founded in December
1999, and has offices in New York and London. Investors include Investor AB,
idealab!, and Primedia Corporation. For more information visit
www.scan.com.
About Odigo, Inc.
Odigo, Inc. is the leading provider of Instant Messaging and Presence
Solutions to wireless carriers, Telcos, ISPs, and portals worldwide. Odigo's
products include IM Servers, SMS-IM Gateways, and Presence Management
Solutions. Odigo, founded in 1998, is a U.S. based company with headquarters
in New York City. Over 100 companies have licensed Odigo's IM Solutions,
including British Telecom, NEC, Austria Telecom, Hungary Telecom, Prodigy,
StarMedia, Netease, DreamNet (of NTT DATA and NTT DoCoMo), Sympatico Lycos,
and others. Learn more at www.odigo.com.
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