Onset Technology Acquires MessageVine to Extend METAmessage Emergency Communications for BlackBerry

Market Wire, May, 2006

Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2006 -- Onset Technology, a leading developer of enterprise access software for wireless handhelds, announced today it is acquiring MessageVine, a leading provider of mobile instant messaging and presence solutions for mobile operators, service providers and enterprises. Onset will augment its research and development team with MessageVine developers and intellectual property. Terms of the acquisition are not disclosed and completion is subject to shareholder approval.

Onset's METAmessage® is the leading software optimizing emergency communications through the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution(TM). BlackBerry is developed and manufactured by Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM). The addition of MessageVine's capabilities will enable users of METAmessage Emergency Communications to blast emergency messages across multiple platforms -- letting a BlackBerry user simultaneously communicate with a diverse deployment of handheld systems such as Symbian OS(TM), J2ME®, BREW®, and Smartphone.

METAmessage "beyond email" solutions are being shown at the Onset booth (#151) at Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2006 ( www.wirelessenterprisesymposium.com ) May 16th - 18th.

"This acquisition reflects Onset's strategy of incorporating top industry talent and IP to lead the expansion of handheld functionality," said Gadi Mazor, CEO of Onset. "By adding MessageVine's cross-platform expertise to its METAmessage Emergency Communications solution, Onset will provide an even more powerful way for enterprises and government agencies to quickly meet Continuity-of-Operations/Risk Management/Disaster Recovery mandates using BlackBerry."

METAmessage is implemented by over 1,400 enterprise customers with over 150,000 users as a complete, out-of-the-box solution for BlackBerry. Emergency Communications is a suite of capabilities for BlackBerry that ensures effective messaging in the event of a catastrophic loss of enterprise network, email, or back-end infrastructure. Legal, Accounting, and Professional solutions provide fast access to time-and-billing, CRM, and document-management applications, spell checking, printing anywhere, custom message alerts, and much more.

About MessageVine

MessageVine is the leading provider of mobile instant messaging and presence solutions for mobile operators, service providers and enterprises. MessageVine's products include clients for all mobile devices including Windows Mobile®, BlackBerry, Palm OS®, Symbian OS, J2ME and BREW powered devices, as well as IM and presence gateways, servers and hosted services. MessageVine is a privately held, VC-backed company. Investors include Cedar Fund, Technorov Holdings, CSK Ventures, and T-Online Ventures.

About Onset Technology

Founded in 1997, Onset Technology is the developer of METAmessage® for Wireless -- a unique software solution that gives business users access to virtually any data on their enterprise network using wireless devices such as the BlackBerry Wireless Handheld(TM) from Research In Motion (RIM). The software is broadly compatible with virtually all wireless devices and servers including those from strategic partners such as Microsoft and RIM, and is sold through a variety of channels including major carriers worldwide. Since its introduction, METAmessage has been widely adopted by Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and a range of large service organizations. For more information, visit www.METAmessage.com .

METAmessage® is a registered trademark of Onset Technology. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. Other marks are the properties of their respective owners.

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