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America Online And
Motorola To Bring The AOL® Instant Messenger™ Service To Next
Generation Motorola Wireless Messaging Devices
Built-in Version of AIM Service
Allows Mobile Operators to Offer Consumers Easy, One-Click Access to Instant
Messaging From Motorola Wireless
Devices
Dulles, VA – February 18,
2002 - America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services
company, and Motorola, Inc., a global leader in providing integrated
communications and embedded electronic solutions, announced today that the
companies are working together to integrate a built-in version of the AOL®
Instant Messenger™ service (AIM®) into a wide range of Motorola
wireless handsets. By including the AIM service as an embedded feature on its
wireless devices, Motorola and AOL will make it even easier for mobile operators
to offer consumers a fun, mobile instant messaging solution without requiring
consumers to install or set up any software on their wireless device.
Motorola and AOL will be conducting
demonstrations of the built-in AIM service on Motorola wireless devices in AOL
Time Warner’s stand at this week’s 3GSM World Congress and
exhibition in Cannes, France (Palais des Festivals, Stand L19 in Hall
4).
“With the built-in version of the AIM
service on Motorola wireless devices any consumer with an AOL Screen Name and a
password can be up and running and exchanging instant messages in no
time,” said Lisa Hook, President of AOL Anywhere for America Online.
“Already, AOL audiences send more than one billion instant messages a day
to their friends and loved ones and for carriers, offering the AIM service on
Motorola’s wireless devices presents a great opportunity to increase the
use of text-based services.”
“Messaging is today’s wireless
‘killer app’ and by integrating the AIM service on our wireless
devices, we’re making it even easier for consumers to use this popular
service, on the go,” said Richard Foss, Corporate Vice President and
Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for Motorola. "Together with AOL, we're
able to offer mobile operators great services that provide a new level of
convenience for consumers.”
The AOL
Instant Messenger service is used by millions of Internet users every day to
communicate in real time with friends and family. One of its key features, the
Buddy List® feature, allows users to immediately see when family, friends
and other contacts are online and available to exchange instant messages.
With "mobile" instant messaging, people have a
whole new way to use their phone or wireless device by sending and receiving
private text messages with others in real time. This makes it possible to reach
people wherever they are – on their mobile phone, at home or work on their
computer, or using a mobile device – with the added benefit of seeing when
friends, family and other contacts are online and "chatting without talking"
when discretion during a personal conversation is needed.
The embedded version of the AIM service for
mobile devices was launched last fall and is currently a finalist for the GSM
Association’s Best Consumer Application or Service
award.
About Motorola,
Inc.
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global
leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic
solutions. Sales in 2001 were $30
billion.
About America Online,
Inc.
America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned
subsidiary of AOL Time Warner, Inc. (NYSE: AOL). Based in Dulles, Virginia,
America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands,
Internet technologies and e-commerce services.
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trademarks indicated as such herein are trademarks of Motorola, Inc.
®Reg. U.S. Pat. & T. Off. All
other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
© 2001 Motorola, Inc. All rights
reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
Media
Contacts:
Jaymelina
Esmele
America Online,
Inc.
+703-265-1746
JayEsmele@aol.com
Josephine
Posti
Motorola
+561+739-2089
jo.posti@motorola.com
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