Cibenix provides dynamic mobile “home screens” in Volantis GetBuzz ™ Partner Program

Dublin, Ireland - 29th November 2006 - Cibenix, a leading provider of On-Device Portal solutions for mobile operators, and Volantis, the world’s leading supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation™ solutions for the Mobile Information Age, today announced the addition of Cibenix to the Volantis GetBuzz Partner Program.

The partnership between the two companies combines the Volantis BuzzCast™ and Cibenix On-Device Portal (ODP) solutions, together providing consumers with dynamic mobile “home screens” for greater context, immediacy, and personalization. 

GetBuzz leverages Volantis partner user interface (UI) solutions to enhance the delivery of its BuzzCast™ personalized news and entertainment application. BuzzCast pushes compelling information, such as financial news, sports and entertainment headlines, to any device - regardless of network or device type - personalized according to the unique preferences of each subscriber.

The Cibenix ODP solution supports data service search and discovery on the mobile device itself, and has already delivered in excess of 400% increase in data services usage, with associated ARPU increases, for their mobile operator customers worldwide. The Cibenix ODP solution provides a seamless offline component to the Buzzcast solution, allowing the operator to target content and services directly to the device itself.

“We are delighted to be part of the GetBuzz Partner Program,” said Michael Brady, Chief Operating Officer of Cibenix. “The powerful combination of the Cibenix On-Device Portal (ODP) solution and Volantis’ Buzzcast enables carriers to create a very compelling subscriber experience on the mobile device, and in so doing dramatically improves the process of content discovery and consumption for wireless subscribers.”

For more information, please contact

Andrew Robertson
VP Product Management, Cibenix
Tel: +353-1-488-5881
Mail: press@cibenix.com

About Cibenix

Cibenix is a leading provider of On-Device Portal solutions for mobile operators, supporting data service search and discovery across the full range of platforms including Symbian, Microsoft and Java. Their award-winning products are installed on hundreds of thousands of mobile devices across the globe in multiple languages.

Cibenix, which is privately held, was founded in 2001, and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

About Volantis

Volantis (www.volantis.com) is the world's leading supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation™ solutions for the mobile Information Age, providing applications, tools and platforms that solve the complexity of delivering optimized services to any mobile device.

Volantis extensive experience of serving content providers, mobile network operators, and enterprises, along with its standards leadership, enable a unique position for Volantis to create innovative technology for the Mobile Information Age that is more useful and more useable than the PC Internet of today.

Volantis is used around the world by organizations such as 3, CBS, Channel 4, Cingular, CSC, Discovery, eBay.co.uk, FT.com, Hearst, HP, IBM, lastminute.com, MobileOne, Orange Poland, Reuters, Telefonica Moviles, Telecom Italia Mobile and Telenor Mobil and World Wrestling Entertainment. Volantis also Chairs the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Device Independence Working Group and is a Founding Member of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.

Volantis global headquarters are in Seattle, USA, with international offices in Guildford, UK; Hong Kong, China; Madrid, Spain and Krakow, Poland. Volantis is privately held with investors Accel Partners, Kennet Partners, and SOFTBANK Europe Ventures.