Volantis Continues to Innovate the Mobile Web with New Ubik.com Features

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Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:00am EDT

Expanded capabilities bring Google Docs, Amazon Kindle compatibility and more
social media interactivity to mobile
GUILDFORD, U.K.--(Business Wire)--
Volantis Systems today announced new features and enhancements to its award
winning, easy-to-use mobile website creator, Ubik.com (www.ubik.com). Ubik.com`s
free service allows anyone to build and host a mobile Internet site and the new
functionality announced today takes mobile web capabilities to the cutting edge.


With Ubik.com, small businesses can effectively market to mobile users and
consumers can deliver user-generated social content through the mobile web. The
new features of the service take the next leap in bringing web 2.0 technology to
the mobile world, with online document integration, expanded RSS blog feed
technology and international compatibility. Ubik.com is a complete solution for
designing and hosting a professional mobile website, without the need for mobile
development expertise. 

"Ubik.com provides a venue for Volantis to showcase the most dynamic and
innovative mobile web technologies," said Mark Watson, CEO of Volantis Systems.
"Volantis offers robust, highly scalable solutions for mobile operators and
content providers through the suite of applications in the Volantis Content
Delivery Platform. With Ubik.com, we have the opportunity to provide
cutting-edge mobile web tools to consumers and small businesses at no charge." 

The new features in Ubik.com include:

* International language compatibility: Addressing the mobile web`s
international audience, Ubik.com supports translations for Bahasa, Chinese,
English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese,
Russian and Spanish. 
* Kindle mobile preview: Ubik.com helps users design sites by previewing exactly
what they will look like on certain device types, such as the iPhone. Volantis
now adds the ability to preview on the popular Amazon.com wireless reading
device, the Kindle. 
* Google Docs integration: Users can add Google Docs word processor documents to
their sites, allowing memos, articles, price sheets, contracts and more to be
shared with visitors. 
* Google Picasa integration: With this new functionality, users can easily add
images from Picasa into their Ubik.com mobile sites. Photos are grouped in
albums and tagged for easy retrieval. 
* Yahoo Flickr integration: Users can now quickly include images from Flickr on
their mobile web pages. Ubik.com`s simple interface eases the process of
organizing and adding these photos. 
* Enhanced RSS functionality: Harnessing the power of Volantis` BuzzCast
application, Ubik.com offers more efficient RSS feed handling and improved
appearance on mobile devices.

To see a demo of some of these new features, please visit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680GH1wVIIM. 

Making use of the Volantis device library of more than 6,300 different mobile
devices, Ubik.com websites provide the best user experience on virtually any
grade of handset, from the iPhone and BlackBerry to inexpensive pay-as-you-go
devices. Ubik.com allows users to share blogs, comments and pictures and notify
friends and family about their sites through email and social networks like
Facebook. Ratings and comments raise visibility of sites and build a closer
sense of community, within the user`s network. 

About Volantis

Volantis Systems (www.volantis.com) helps organizations solve the complexity of
selling and delivering digital content to thousands of unique devices, without
compromise, to the highest quality user experience, performance and reliability.


Volantis software is protected by the following granted and pending patent
applications: United Kingdom: 2371896, European Patent EP 1320972 (Ireland,
France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland), pending European Patent
Application EP 1641211 (designating Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom), Hong Kong:
HK1049046, Japan: 2002-531257, Singapore: 95431, 200301776-9, India: 325/DEL/03,
South Korea: 7004318/03, People's Republic of China: ZL01819526, US: 10/381802. 

Google Docs is a trademark of Google, Inc 

Picasa is a registered trademark of Google, Inc 

Flickr is a registered trademark of Yahoo! 

iPhone is a registered trademark of Apple 

Kindle is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc 

Amazon.com is a registered trademark of Amazon.com, Inc 

BlackBerry is a registered trademark of Research In Motion 

Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc 



Volantis
Rachel Borland, +44 (0) 1483 739732
Rachel.Borland@volantis.com
or
Schwartz Communications
Jen Barlow or Joe Palladino
781-684-0770
Volantis@schwartz-pr.com

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