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dotMobi Acquires Mowser Assets
Friday, May 09, 2008
DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- dotMobi -- the
company behind the .mobi internet domain name for mobile phones and the
dev.mobi developer forum -- today announced it has acquired the intellectual
property assets of Mowser, a San Mateo, Calif.-based mobile browsing company.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
dotMobi's acquisition of Mowser's technology, developed by Bay Area mobile
pioneers Russell Beattie and Michael Rowehl, is another way for dotMobi to
provide a complete range of mobile content creation solutions for businesses
of all sizes.
James Pearce, dotMobi Vice President of Technology, said, "When Mowser's
founders decided to make the assets available, dotMobi was first in line to
acquire them. The work Russell and Mike put into making Mowser a 'best of
breed' product is well-known throughout the industry. Being able to add that
technology into dotMobi's product line is exciting because it will
exponentially stimulate mobile content growth."
dotMobi plans to integrate Mowser technology into new business-grade and
consumer-grade mobile development tools as well as include aspects of it into
dotMobi's popular content creation tools like http://find.mobi, DeviceAtlas
and http://ready.mobi, all of which help businesses more easily create
device-aware mobile content.
"At its heart, Mowser is a PC website-to-mobile website content adaptation
engine," said Trey Harvin, CEO of dotMobi. "dotMobi has been vocal against
'blind' content adaptation because it doesn't allow site owners to have
control over their content. dotMobi believes that brands and businesses should
always have the final say over how their material is presented, and that the
content should uniquely take advantage of the capabilities of a mobile device.
This has been one of our core philosophies all along, and something dotMobi is
looking forward to addressing with the integration of the Mowser assets into
the dotMobi product line."
About dotMobi
dotMobi (the informal name of mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd.), a consortium
headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is leading the growth of internet use from
mobile phones with the .mobi domain name. Unique among domain name providers,
dotMobi ensures that services and sites developed around .mobi are optimized
for use by mobile devices. On-the-go consumers can have confidence that a web
site will work on their mobile phones when using a .mobi address.
dotMobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network & device
manufacturers, and internet content providers, including Ericsson, GSM
Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung
Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM, Visa and Vodafone.
For more information on dotMobi domains and registration information,
visit http://dotmobi.mobi. Visit the dotMobi blog at http://blog.mobi.
For more information, please contact:
Vance Hedderel
dotMobi
+1-703-485-5563
vhedderel@dotmobi.mobi
Danielle Siemon
A&R Edelman for dotMobi (US)
+1-650-762-2947
danielle.siemon@edelman.com
Gareth Davies
Edelman for dotMobi (Europe)
+44-20-7344-1216
gareth.davies@edelman.com
SOURCE dotMobi
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