Wireless Knowledge and MSNBC.com Partner to Bring News and Other Content to Wireless Device Users

Business Wire, Feb 8, 1999

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 1999--

MSNBC is the Anchor News Provider for Wireless Knowledge's

Premier Wireless Data Access Service, Revolv

Wireless Knowledge LLC, a joint venture company between Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) today announced at CTIA's Wireless '99 an agreement with MSNBC on the Internet (www.msnbc.com) that will allow Wireless Knowledge's wireless carrier partners to deliver real-time news, weather, sports and other information to their subscribers using Wireless Knowledge's first service offering, Revolv. Wireless Knowledge expects the first wireless carriers to deliver Revolv(SM) services to their customers in summer 1999.

"The Revolv service is a breakthrough concept for today's mobile professional, and we're thrilled to be a part of it," said John Nicol, general manager of MSNBC on the Internet. "MSNBC.com is the industry's leading content provider for real-time news and information delivery, and now we're helping to take this concept a step further by integrating our offering into the Wireless Knowledge Revolv service."

Wireless Knowledge's Revolv service is the first in a series of services to be offered by the new company. Revolv provides business users with secure access to their important information and Microsoft Exchange groupware using a variety of wireless and mobile devices from anywhere they travel. It is the first service of its kind to truly untether the business user by providing complete wireless access to email, contacts, calendar, news updates via MSNBC and other data residing on either a Wireless Knowledge hosted server or their corporate Microsoft Exchange server.

"Wireless Knowledge's partnership with MSNBC on the Internet is an important step in our nationwide roll-out of the Revolv service via the industry's top wireless carriers," said John Major, president and chief executive officer of Wireless Knowledge. "Our goal is to offer the richest, most complete mobile computing services possible. We will also be looking at a variety of other opportunities together in the near future, including new content and services with particular value for today's mobile business user, as well as consumer-oriented services."

Wireless Knowledge has working relationships with a portfolio of leading wireless carriers and is currently pursuing other strategic alliances with computing, software and telecommunications companies.

Availability

Revolv is available now on an OEM basis to carriers. Commercial end-user availability from the first carrier partners is expected in summer 1999. The service will provide wireless services to access messaging, e-mail, calendaring, contact list, news and information delivery via MSNBC, plus access to Exchange-based corporate networks. Additional features and services will be added over time.

About Wireless Knowledge

Wireless Knowledge LLC, a Microsoft Corporation and QUALCOMM Incorporated company based in San Diego, enables wireless carriers to deliver on the convergence of wireless communications and information technology with the delivery of productivity and information services in an airlink- and device-independent environment. Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. QUALCOMM is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company's CDMA digital technology. For more information on Wireless Knowledge, visit the website at www.wirelessknowledge.com.

About MSNBC

MSNBC on the Internet (www.msnbc.com), visited by 8.8 million unique users a month is the 1998 leader in Internet news, according to Media Metrix, the PC Meter Company. MSNBC on the Internet delivers news and information that is most relevant and timely. The site delivers the best of NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC -- plus original, up-to-the minute, extensive coverage in an engaging and useful style. The MSNBC Front Page using Zip Personalization features breaking stories, top headlines, stock quotes, weather, sports scores and local news. MSNBC's Cool Tools delivers the news that is most relevant and timely. Choose Your News delivers customized news on a personalized front page. Today's Headlines delivers the top headlines of the day by email at preferred delivery times. News Alert provides instant desktop notification of breaking news on customized topics. MSNBC is a partnership between NBC (NYSE:GE) a leading provider of news and information, and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), the leader in personal computer software and a major provider of Internet online services. Built on the worldwide resources of NBC News, MSNBC is a 24-hour cable news network and an Internet news service.

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Note to Editors: For more detailed information on the Revolv service or on the joint venture announced on Nov. 10, 1998, please visit the company's website at www.wirelessknowledge.com.