Renowned Asian Technology Company Scores Big Win Over Nokia, Ericsson and Phone.com to WAP-Enable PRC's Financial Sector HONG KONG, Aug. 30 /HK PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- EdgeMatrix, a leading Asian technology company specializing in multi-channel enablement, has clinched a deal with Brighton Technologies, a leading IT and communications systems integrator in China, to WAP-enable a pioneering mobile shares trading service in China. When launched this week, it will be China's first WAP implementation for China's booming financial industry. China now has Asia's largest wireless services market. EdgeMatrix will provide WAPgate, a WAP server product, to Easi-Link.com, a Hong Kong-registered company associated with Brighton. Just recently, Easi-Link.com inked an agreement with Goutai J&A Securities and Southern China Security, two of the biggest security firms in China with over 130 trading houses, to provide wireless shares trading to Easi-Link.com's customers. The deal also included WAP systems integration and testing. EdgeMatrix edged out Nokia, Ericsson and Phone.com in the competitive bidding for the project - rther securing the renowned Asian technology company as a world-class multi-channel expert. Mr Jon Lee, General Manager of EdgeMatrix HK, explained Edgematrix's competitive edge: "Brighton chose to go with our product because of WAPgate's extensive feature-set. It is simply in a class of its own. We designed the product to be more than just a WAP gateway. It supports SMS, RAS, GPRS and 3G. As for the international market, its support for the Chinese language and other international languages is highly-evolved and stable. It also has a highly scalable architecture that supports Linux OS." According to Mr Kit Kung, President of Brighton, there would be more than four million Chinese mobile phone users using Easi-Link.com's mobile stock trading in three years' time. This figure was just a conservative 5% of total mobile phone users in China. EdgeMatrix launched WAPgate worldwide earlier this year. It was endorsed by Sun Microsystems in June with a MOU to distribute WAPgate with its servers throughout South Asia. On 15 August 2000, EdgeMatrix launched WAPman Color, which was the world's first color WAP microbrowser for PalmOS, with multilingual and location-based support. EdgeMatrix also simultaneously launched Xgo, a mobile content personalization infrastructure. EdgeMatrix, headquartered in Singapore, has offices in Australia, HK, Taiwan and Malaysia. It aims to open an office in China by next year to support the dynamic mobile services industry in China, as well as other points of presence globally. About EdgeMatrix Founded in 1996, EdgeMatrix is a pioneer and innovator in technology products to facilitate multi-channel communication. By incorporating the best practices from years of research and development experience, EdgeMatrix offers multi-channel expertise and best-of-breed partner solutions to businesses. Its products include browsers, gateway servers, and portal enablers, in addition to various hardware industry innovations. Visit EdgeMatrix at www.edgematrix.com For more information: Priscilla Goh Manager, Marcom EdgeMatrix Tel: +65-226-0788 Ext 112 Email: [email protected] Jon Lee General Manager EdgeMatrix HK Tel: +852-2506-2800 Email: [email protected] Celene Lim Managing Consultant Asia PR.Comz Tel: +65-536-6881 Email: [email protected] SOURCE EdgeMatrix