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Pannon GSM and Voxline launch PocketWeb 19 July, 2002, Budapest - The more than 2 million subscribers of Pannon GSM can now access the most popular Internet portals on their mobile phones thanks to an innovative service developed by Voxline, Ltd. PocketWeb makes the entire content of more than a dozen Internet Web sites viewable on Pannon’s Wap site, PannonW@P. This internationally patented solution represents a long-awaited link between the World Wide Web and WAP. The innovation behind PocketWeb can potentially lead to a breakthrough in the practical usefulness and radical expansion of the mobile Internet. What's been happening on the stock exchange? Who'll be the next Formula 1 world champion? What is this summer's latest fashion? What is making the nation laugh? - PocketWeb, a unique WAP service launched jointly by Pannon and Voxline that ensures direct and unabridged access to Internet sites over conventional mobile phones, provides the answers to these questions and thousands more. PocketWeb, the world’s first fully automated service that maps selected Web content into Wap services, enables subscribers to access the most popular forums of the Hungarian Internet community on their mobile phones. "PocketWeb is a great leap forward in the development of WAP content. With this service WAP users have really been given mobile Internet capability," said Sándor Fejes, the CEO of Voxline. The launch of PocketWeb is an important milestone in the history of WAP, which has been criticized with its lack of content since its birth. Behind PocketWeb, there is an internationally patented solution, which has been developed by Voxline Ltd., a software technology company that focuses on mobile content aggregation applications. This innovative technology is capable of filtering and converting existing Internet content into various mobile formats, such as SMS, WAP or even MMS, fully automatically, without the need for tedious re-programming or re-publishing of the original Web pages. This breakthrough application makes it possible to drastically improve both quality and quantity of today’s existing WAP arsenal and eventually make all existing Web sites accessible over common WAP phones. And the links in PocketWeb are certainly colorful. When selecting content for the service, Pannon GSM endeavored to meet the widest possible range of user-requirements. Many of the major Hungarian Web portals can now be accessed via PocketWeb. Users interested in financials, politics, or fans of the latest breaking news in technology or entertainment can all find their sites of choice on PocketWeb. The selection is being continuously extended, and users are able to browse a growing number of Internet portals day-by-day. About Voxline:Voxline, Ltd. is a B2B software technology provider for the wireless Internet. The company develops critical portal applications, which enable mobile operators, Internet portals and corporations worldwide to provide value-added wireless content services. Voxline is currently establishing strategic partnerships with major players in the mobile communications and Internet markets and focuses mainly on North America and Europe. The company raised first stage financing in 2001 from 3TS Venture Partners (a joint venture of 3i and SITRA). Voxline’s software technology is being developed in its Budapest headquarters, while the company’s U.S. office located in Belleville, New Jersey coordinates international sales activities.
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