UNWIRED PLANET AND REUTERS TO PROVIDE INTERNET INFORMATION SERVICES TO WAP-ENABLED WIRELESS HANDSETSJOINT EFFORTS BRING REAL-TIME INFORMATION TO WAP WIRELESS NETWORKS AND DEVICES CANNES, France, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- GSM WORLD CONGRESS -- Reuters(R), the world's leading financial information and news Group, and Unwired Planet, Inc., (UP) a leading supplier of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) software products, today announced that Reuters has developed a wireless version of their wide-ranging information service, which will give users of WML-enabled mobile phones access to a variety of services, including world and financial news, and stock quotes and indices. This partnership will provide the growing worldwide community of wireless subscribers with access to real-time information services. With Unwired Planet(TM) technology, content providers, such as Reuters, can enable popular Web sites with WML (Wireless Markup Language), to optimize content for the constraints of wireless phones. A demonstration of the Reuters service is available at GSM World Congress '99 in the Reuters Exhibit (Booth # I 14). "Unwired Planet is pleased to be working with Reuters to deliver high quality optimized information services," said Alain Rossmann, chairman and chief executive officer of Unwired Planet. "Reuters is the unrivalled source for accurate and unbiased news and information around the globe and this partnership will give WAP-enabled mobile phone users access to the up-to-date information they seek." Reuters WML content was developed using the Unwired Planet Software Development Kit (UP.SDK(TM)), an indispensable tool for content providers wishing to develop applications optimized for mobile phones. "We are very pleased to be working with Unwired Planet to develop and format key Reuters financial information and news for the next generation of microbrowser-equipped mobile phones," said Jonathan Baile, managing director of Reuters Wireless Services. About Reuters Reuters supplies the global financial markets and the news media with the widest range of information and news products including real-time financial data, collective investment data, numerical, textual, historical and graphical databases plus news, graphics, news video, and news pictures, reaching over 485,000 users located in 57,900 organisations. Reuters designs and installs enterprise-wide information management and risk management systems for the financial markets as well as providing equity and foreign exchange transaction systems. It extensively uses Internet technologies for wider distribution of information and news. The Group employed 16,938 staff in 218 cities in 96 countries at 31 December 1998. Reuters is the world's largest news and television agency with 2,072 journalists, photographers and camera operators in 216 bureaus serving 157 countries. News is published in 23 languages. For more details see www.reuters.com/aboutreuters. About Planet Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Unwired Planet, Inc. is a growing pre-IPO company and leading international supplier of open standards-based servers and microbrowsers to the wireless industry. Unwired Planet co-founded the WAP Forum (www.wapforum.org) and delivers a complete WAP-ready product line, including microbrowser, server, phone application suite and software development kit. The UP.Link(TM) Platform enables mass-market mobile phones running UP.Browser(TM) to access Internet- and intranet-based applications and services, quickly and cost efficiently. UP products support multiple airlink protocols, with implementations for GSM, TDMA, CDMA, PDC, PHS and CDPD. The privately held company has offices in London and Tokyo. Visit http://www.uplanet.com(R) or http://www.uplanet.co.uk for more information about Unwired Planet products. Reuters is a house trademark of Reuters Limited. The Unwired Planet name and the family of terms carrying the "UP." prefix are trademarks and the Unwired Planet logo and uplanet.com are registered trademarks of Unwired Planet, Inc.All Rights Reserved. All other company, brand and product names may be marks that are the sole property of their respective owners.SOURCE U-Wired Planet, Inc.CONTACT: Peter Thomas of Reuters, +44-171-542-4890, or [email protected]; or Don Mathias of Bock Communications for UP-North America, 714-540-1030, or [email protected]; or Holly James, [email protected], or Vicky Ryce, [email protected], of Text 100 Ltd. for UP-Europe, +44-0-181-242-4104, or +44-0-181-242-4248; or Kazuhiko Ishii of Nihon Unwired Planet K.K. for UP-Asia Pacific, +81-3-5322-2936, or [email protected] Web site: http://www.uplanet.com http://www.uplanet.co.uk