BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- MessageVine announced today that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for smartphones based on Symbian OS(TM). As a Platinum Partner, MessageVine is extending Mobile IM to the Symbian ecosystem. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global industry standard operating system for smartphones, to the world's leading handset manufacturers, which account for over 85 per cent of annual mobile phone sales worldwide.

"This partnership reflects our commitment to the Instant Messaging market and our intent to build upon our mobile strategy," said Tomer Hertz, CEO of MessageVine. "By becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, we can further expand our Mobile IM and Presence solution and strengthen our relationships with mobile users, application developers, smartphone manufacturers and carriers."

MessageVine's solutions for mobile phones based on Symbian OS enable users to enjoy always-on, secure real-time communications using rich presence information, through a friendly and intuitive user interface. MessageVine's solutions, offered to mobile operators, service providers and enterprises, connect consumers and business users to public IM networks such as MSN, AIM, Yahoo! and ICQ, and enterprise IM systems such as Microsoft Office Live Communication Server (LCS), IBM Sametime, and Jabber.

"We are pleased to have MessageVine join the Symbian Platinum Program and bring its Instant Messaging, Presence and Multimedia technology to the Symbian ecosystem," said Alan Roderick, head of partner marketing, Symbian. "MessageVine's solutions are designed to leverage the advanced functionality of smartphones based on Symbian OS and to provide mobile users with a convenient way to keep in touch while on-the-go."

About the Symbian Platinum Program

The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team. For more information please see http://www.symbian.com/partners/platinum.html

About MessageVine

MessageVine is a leading provider of mobile instant messaging and presence solutions for mobile operators, service providers and enterprises. MessageVine's products include clients for a variety of mobile devices including Windows Mobile, BlackBerry(TM), Palm OS(R), Symbian OS(TM), J2ME and BREW(R) powered devices, as well as IM and presence gateways, servers and hosted services. MessageVine has key partnerships with Microsoft, RIM, PalmSource, Symbian and Qualcomm among others. For more information about MessageVine, please visit the company's web site: http://www.messagevine.com/ or email press@messagevine.com.

Contact details: Ori Carmon Marcom specialist MessageVine Inc. Tel: +972-3-5479996 E-mail: press@messagevine.com

CONTACT: Contact details: Ori Carmon, Marcom specialist, MessageVine
Inc., Tel: +972-3-5479996, E-mail: press@messagevine.com