Tuesday, October 21, 2003
mPortal Announces Availability of mForce on QUALCOMM’s BREW™ Platform

Workforce Mobility Solution Available for Operators’ BREW-Enabled Devices

LAS VEGAS – mPortal, a leading provider of wireless enterprise applications, today announced the availability of mForce, a wireless workforce productivity solution, developed for QUALCOMM’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™ (BREW) platform. The company also announced that mForce has been launched by ALLTEL and will be available through other wireless operators shortly.

mForce is designed to meet the needs of today’s mobile workers by allowing them to send and receive critical up-to-date information securely and in real-time via BREW-enabled handsets. Key features of the mForce productivity application include:

Ability to view and update data anytime/anywhere, including work order, customer, product and sales order information

One-touch dialing to contacts/customer/dispatcher from within the application

Ability to send alerts to one user or broadcast message to multiple users

Ability to create history and logs of activities

Ability for dispatcher or any web user to see real-time updates of activity/progress

“QUALCOMM commends mPortal’s pioneering efforts in the development of valuable business applications that are essential to the success and productivity of today’s mobile workforce,” said Gina Lombardi, senior vice president of marketing and product management, QUALCOMM Internet Services. “Operators offering BREW-based products and services will also benefit from the introduction of applications such as mForce, as we anticipate high demand for this type of BREW-based business productivity application by a wide range of companies.”

“mPortal is committed to serving the needs of the growing pool of mobile business workers,” said D.P. Venkatesh, CEO of mPortal, Inc. “The BREW system provides the secure, flexible environment needed to deploy complex enterprise mobility solutions such as mForce with minimal time and relative ease.”

Consisting of a Web-based interface and a phone-based application, mForce is an easy to use, all-in-one packaged solution that allow businesses to be up and running within 24 hours. mForce will be available in three deployment models designed to work with its customers’ existing infrastructure, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership of going wireless, while increasing efficiency and enhancing customer service.

QUALCOMM’s BREW system provides products and services that connect the mobile marketplace value chain, which includes application developers, publishers, content providers, device manufacturers, operators and consumers.

Publishers and developers worldwide are generating revenue from BREW-based applications and content, and 19 manufacturers have offered more than 90 BREW-enabled device models to consumers. BREW is successfully enabling the commercial Wireless Data Services of many very successful operators, including Verizon Wireless, ALLTEL, Midwest Wireless and U.S. Cellular in the United States, China Unicom, KDDI in Japan, KTF in South Korea, Telstra in Australia, VIVO in Brazil and BellSouth International in Colombia.

About mPortal Inc.
mPortal is a premier provider of turnkey wireless data applications and infrastructure software solutions for mobile operators and enterprises. mPortal’s solutions enable mobile operators to increase revenue per user and maximize ROI from mobile data networks by rapidly introducing revenue-generating applications to their end-users. Enterprises can leverage the ubiquity of mobile devices and data networks to lower operational costs while enhancing productivity, service and support through their mobile workforce. mPortal is based in Vienna, VA, with global operations, customers and partners including Alltel, Reliance Infocomm, Xerox Corporation, Motorola, HP, SUN and BEA Systems.

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