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2008/05/14

Firehot Solutions launches Mobile Messaging Service in partnership with Amika Mobile.

2008/04/10

Amika Mobile CEO Invited to Silicon Valley Investment Forum.

2007/12/12

Amika Mobile Signs India Partnership with Binary Semantics to sell Enterprise Product.

Analyst Quotes

These are some of the Archived Analyst/Media quotes related to Amika Mobile products. As seen by the early analysis, critical email access is a difficult but well-targeted problem to address for mobile users.

Source: IT Week

Title of Article: Workers Plagued by Message Overload

Author: Matt Chapman

URL: http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2154551/modern-messaging-annoying

"Pranab Mookken, senior industry analyst for ICT markets at Frost & Sullivan, pointed out that the market for email and instant messaging on mobile phones would only grow.

"Applications like the mobile internet, with Yahoo launching services soon and Google hot on its heels, and instant messaging will be huge in the future," he said.

Ferris* concluded: "These electronic communication methods are wonderful. But somehow, we have to find ways of being less disruptive and more considerate of others while using these technologies. We haven't worked out how to do this yet."

*David Ferris of Ferris Research.

Source: Financial Times

Title of Article: At your digital service

Author: Louise Kehoe

“The avalanche of e-mail messages is hardly a new problem but it is getting worse-far worse- Microsoft is among the software developers working on ‘butler’ services that promise to prioritise, screen and forward e-mail…AmikaNow! (www.amikanow.com) goes a step further by automatically extracting the most important information from an e-mail The summary is then forwarded to a cellular phone or hand-held computer.”

Source: The New York Times

Title of Article: Making Wireless Work: Third-Party Facilitators

Author: Ron Gerber

“Wireless e-mail is a great convenience, but it can be cumbersome. Just try reading a 250-word e-mail on a display designed for 16 words at a time. AmikaNow! Corporation is a filtering service based in Kanata, Ontario, that provides a ‘wireless e-mail management’ service that summarizes the gist of wireless e-mails with artificial intelligence.”

John McCormick, Strategic Analyst, IT/Software Group

"Companies need a robust email solution that can easily link to existing customer data and integrate to corporate systems, while enabling their support agents to provide the highest level of service at a reasonable cost.”

Source: Presence & Instant Messaging Report

Title of Article: Intelligent Communications

Author: Laura Jones & Pam Zetterlund-Clark

“I’m sure most of you are having the same problems I am getting through the 100 plus emails I receive every day, especially when I’m traveling. I talked with Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima, CEO of AmikaNow! to see if her company’s technology could help me check my email, and respond quickly to the most important messages when I’m on the road…I logged on to the web-based service to try it out and within minutes I was receiving email highlights…it quickly became apparent that the service works well.”

Source: National Post

Title of Article: Artificial intelligence screens wireless e-mail

Author: Jill Vardy

“Getting your e-mail via your pager or cell phone sounds great—until you find all you’ve got is 100 unwanted e-mails. An Ottawa company (has)A service that screens the flood of messages coming into your handheld…This product is great and I think the market is going to be great,” Naqi Jaffrey, mobile communications analyst at Data Quest, has said about AmikaFreedom.

Source: Canadian Business

Title of Article: Unwired Webmaster

Author: Ian Austen

"...the 'killer app'--email --also has a killer problem. No matter how fancy its display, long emails are not something that anyone wants to read on a handheld device. That's where companies such as... AmikaNow! come in."