Openstream(R) Announces Cue-me(TM) Multimodal Browser for Mobile Phones

Launches several self-care & brokerage applications based on multimodal browser built on W3C MMI draft standards for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian and iPhone devices

SOMERSET, N.J., Aug. 20 -- Today, at SpeechTEK 2008 conference in New York, Openstream Inc., a leading player in the Multimodal Technology and solutions market, announced launch of its multimodal browser Cue-Me(TM) for Windows Mobile, Symbian and BlackBerry phones. The company will soon make this technology available on iPhone devices.

Users have long been waiting for the appropriate technology that would make mobile interaction more convenient and intuitive. As mobile phones are becoming more powerful, several usability studies clearly show that people do not find the small keypad-mode of interaction convenient for accessing mobile applications.

"For a person on the move, getting the information quickly without cumbersome key-presses would be very important," says Raj Tumuluri, President & CEO of Openstream Inc.

The pioneering work done at the WorldWideWeb Consortium (http://www.w3c.org/), of which Openstream is a contributing member, has led to the development of a new paradigm of interaction for mobile users that combines voice, touch and key-presses.

"Developers have been struggling for long not having a single platform and model that can help them develop applications for a variety of mobile phones," says Gerald McCobb, Technical Director at Openstream.

Openstream's Cue-me multimodal browser is a major step in that direction, that defines the next leap in mobile interaction. Built on open standards, the browser makes multimodal mobile applications development easy for all the popular phone platforms in the marketplace.

Launching the Cue-me mobile browser at the SpeechTEK 2008 conference in New York, Dr. Deborah Dahl, Principal, Conversational Technologies and Chair of W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group, has said, "This move is just the latest in the growing trend by Openstream and others to drive the speech and voice application business forward from its proprietary, vertical roots into the horizontal world of standards-based development and the contributions from Openstream make it possible for more developers to take advantage of speech and multimodality in their applications."

To support this, Openstream has for some time now already been shipping the Smart Messaging Platform(TM) incorporating several W3C standards based technologies.

About Openstream

Openstream is a leading provider of secure mobile Internet infrastructure platform and applications. Openstream offers Enterprises, Service Providers and SMB Financial Institutions worldwide a suite of cost-saving and brand-loyalty-enhancing mobile applications that implement personalized services in a multi-modal environment, using wireless and speech technologies. Openstream's Smart Messaging Platform (SMP) mobilizes businesses and increases productivity by mobile-enabling business-critical data for customers and employees. With SMP the users will be Informed, In Touch and In Control ... always! Additional information about Openstream's products and solutions can be found at http://www.openstream.com/.

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