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Date: April 28, 2011

Source: SDM

Title of Article: IMS Research Publishes First Mass Notification Systems Study

Mass Notification Systems (MNS) have emerged as a significant source of revenue for the world's leading suppliers of fire and security equipment. According to its inaugural research report on this topic, IMS Research (www.imsresearch.com) estimates that in North America alone, MNS sales in 2010 exceeded $1.2 billion.

Date: January 29, 2010

Source: Gartner

Title of Article: Gartner MarketScope for Emergency and Mass Notification Services

Author: Roberta J. Witty, John Girard, Jeff Vining

The emergency/mass notification market is growing fast: 2009 revenue is estimated at $570 million, with median revenue growth of 37% and 29% for 2008 and 2009, respectively. Our first emergency/mass notification MarketScope focuses on enterprise-level offerings and has an overall Positive rating.

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...AmikaMobile.net 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. AmikaMobile.net.....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."

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 ...AmikaMobile... 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 service ...AmikaMobile.net...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, said.

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... AmikaMobile come in."

Source: Fortune Magazine

Title of Article: The Emergence of the Wireless Web

Author: Richard A. Shaffer

" .... service that will provide travelers with fast connections to the Internet, both wired and wireless, in hotels, conference centers, and airports. Several Canadian firms are active in the area...To help you determine which messages you want to read on the road and which to save for your return to the office, a service... AmikaMobile.net ...of Kanata, Ontario, will review your email and transmit to a cell phone or organizer the keywords and phrases from messages that appear important...."