SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Webalo, Inc. today announced that, for the first time, users of the Microsoft® Business Intelligence (BI) platform can easily access business reports on any mobile device. This makes available real-time, critical business information without the need to program custom solutions or reports.

This capability is made possible by the newly released Webalo Mobile Dashboard™ for the Microsoft BI suite. The Webalo Mobile Dashboard can transform, without complex reprogramming, SQL Server, PerformancePoint, SharePoint, or Excel content into easy-to-read, easy-to-navigate mobile displays that conform to whatever brand or model of handheld device being used.

According to Gartner, Inc., the 2007 market for business intelligence was just over $5.1 billion, with Microsoft BI steadily gaining market share over the past few years. Since Webalo is the only solution to deliver many kinds of business intelligence on any mobile device, the Mobile Dashboard has a very large business opportunity.

“Our goal is to make it possible for any mobile professional to have access to exactly the information they need on any kind of device,” said Peter Price, president and CEO of Webalo, Inc. “Our intent is to mobilize this sizeable market to enable business executives to keep pace with the hyper-speed of business today.”

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SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zimbra, a Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) company and the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software, today announced the availability of a new open extension framework for Zimbra Collaboration Suite™ (ZCS) that enables two-way interoperability with leading collaboration platforms. Large enterprises and academic institutions can now easily integrate teams using Zimbra to work seamlessly with other departments that use different collaboration servers like Microsoft Exchange, exploring the benefits of Zimbra without having to make the decision to replace their current systems up front. This extends Zimbra’s history of openness and compatibility to a broader range of platforms, and builds on Yahoo!’s leadership in e-mail as a key starting point for users.

The first extension, built by Zimbra for the Microsoft Exchange 2003 platform, and now in beta, allows Zimbra users to access and share two-way free/busy information, schedules and global address book with colleagues whose data resides on Microsoft Exchange. The framework is also openly available for anyone in the Zimbra community to write an extension to other collaboration platforms such as IBM Lotus Domino, Novell®®, or PeopleCube Meeting Maker. GroupWise

“Interoperability with Exchange and other leading collaboration systems is a top request by many enterprises and academic institutions where mixed deployments are common,” said Satish Dharmaraj, Zimbra co-founder and Yahoo! vice president. “Zimbra’s recent growth with large organizations has been tremendous, with recent customer wins and deal expansions including Dai Nippon Publishing, Reliance Industries, H&R Block and Texas A&M University. This interoperability builds upon a long record of compatibility work by Zimbra and is one of the key needs for our largest customers.”

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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yougetitback.com, whose recent North American launch gained wide acclaim for helping to protect and recover mobile devices from theft and loss, today announced new features that further enrich the service in preserving the owners’ highly personal – and valuable — information and preventing identity theft.

“Our goal all along has been a truly feature-rich Yougetitback.com that goes way beyond ‘lost and found’ by helping people to protect their privacy and recover their valuable lost and stolen mobile assets, such as phones, laptops, iPods, etc.,” said Yougetitback.com CEO Frank Hannigan. “By enhancing our website, we’re giving our users a variety of tools they can use to minimize intrusion into their personal and private information and save them from huge bills – or worse – if their mobile devices go missing.

“For instance, we think our new device-location and -locking features will be very appealing to users who are concerned about never having the information stored in their smart phones, PDAs or laptops falling into the hands of personal-identity thieves,” he added.

Hannigan said the new upgrade offers users of Yougetitback’s “Mobile SuperHero” application additional levels of protection for their smart phones if a device is lost or stolen, including significantly extended device-location and -locking capabilities.

If a user’s device is GPS-capable, Yougetitback’s ability to pinpoint its location when lost or stolen is “fantastic,” he said. And because Yougetitback supports RIM’s BlackBerry operating system 4.2 and above, and the Symbian operating system S60 2nd and 3rd editions, many devices without GPS can be located via their proximity to individual wireless-network cell sites.

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NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CallWave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CALL), a leading global provider of mobile and Web-based unified communications solutions, will demonstrate at Interop New York 2008 and Web 2.0 Expo mobile video collaboration on the new BlackBerry Bold. FUZE on the BlackBerry Bold will be available later this year and will enable mobile real-time collaboration with synchronization of media, including video, on the device.

FUZE on BlackBerry and other devices currently enables users to initiate and manage conference calls directly from their phones. This includes fetching attendees into meetings and as well as being able to IM with meeting attendees in real-time during conference calls. Slated for release later this year are image capabilities, which will enable users to present high resolution video and other media on their mobile devices.

Now available in beta, FUZE is a new hosted service that enables high-impact online meetings anytime-anywhere, bringing advanced collaboration capabilities to Web conferencing. FUZE can be used with any computer or smartphone, and provides synchronized high definition video collaboration with high quality audio conferencing, secure instant messaging with managed presence, local and international Internet calling and a unique “Fetch” feature that allows the FUZE moderator to bring attendees directly into meetings on-the-fly.

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DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MapQuest today announced the beta launch of MapQuest 4 Mobile, a free, downloadable application that extends MapQuest.com capabilities to compatible BlackBerry smartphones.

MapQuest 4 Mobile offers users an easy-to-use interface and the same accurate directions and maps they rely on from the MapQuest.com site. Local search is also accessible, enabling users to search for businesses by proper name or category. Additionally, MapQuest 4 Mobile provides hybrid imagery, traffic and incident information as well as a GPS “find me” feature which locates a user and tracks the progress to their destination. MapQuest 4 Mobile also utilizes smaller map tiles allowing for faster downloads and quicker screen refresh.

“Smartphones are growing at a record pace and this an important market segment to address as more users rely on their phones for maps and directions,” said Christian Dwyer, Senior Vice President and GM, MapQuest. “MapQuest 4 Mobile is our next-generation service that mirrors the intuitive interface and simplicity that MapQuest is known for.”

MapQuest 4 Mobile is the latest addition to MapQuest’s suite of mobile products which include voice-guided navigation from MapQuest Navigator, WAP site at www.mapquest.com, and Send To Cell, Garmin and OnStar functionality. The newest mobile product continues MapQuest’s on-going mission of providing mobile services that help consumers get to where they need to go, anytime, anywhere.

Initially, the MapQuest 4 Mobile service will be available via Sprint on the BlackBerry 8830 and AT&T on the BlackBerry 8800, 8820, and 8310. Support for many additional handsets will roll out over the coming months. MapQuest 4 Mobile can be downloaded from a mobile browser at m.mq4m.com. For additional information about MapQuest 4 Mobile please visit www.mapquest.com/mq4m.

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PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast.net, www.comcast.net Comcast’s premier broadband service which combines extensive content available to a national audience with an exclusive suite of online tools for Comcast High Speed Internet customers, announced today that it has partnered with Thumbplay to add a mobile entertainment library to the site. Comcast.net users can download today’s hottest music, ringtones, videos and games directly to their mobile phones from m.Comcast.net.

Comcast.net Mobile delivers information and entertainment including on-the-go Comcast.net email access, search function, up-to-date breaking news, local weather, TV & movie listings and now the great Thumbplay entertainment features.

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OTTAWA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TrueContext has broadened the extensive smartphone support for its flagship Pronto Forms product to include Research In Motion’s premium smartphone, the BlackBerry© Bold™. Now, enterprise users with the new RIM device can augment the capabilities of this powerful new smartphone with the rich Pronto mobile forms platform.

The Pronto solution allows companies to immediately eliminate the use of paper forms in the field while providing real-time capture and reporting of mission-critical information using mobile devices. Pronto’s Software as a Service platform easily mobilizes common processes like inspections, audits, surveys and work orders used in industries like retail, health care, energy, property management, financial services and education.

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