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FlyOver Maps Partnership Agreement with
Xypoint; New Location Based Imagery Technology to Integrate with Xypoint's
Platform to Deliver Realistic Experience on Mobile Devices
SEATTLE, Oct. 24, 2000--Xypoint, operating the leading software and
network services platform for wireless location and commerce, today announced a partnership
agreement with FlyOver Technologies, Inc. a provider of unified solutions for geographic referenced
satellite imagery.
Under the agreement, the companies will integrate their platforms to present relevant location
information of aerial or satellite images to mobile users. FlyOver's technology allows the transmission
of a high-resolution, color image of an entire metropolitan area over narrow bandwidth communication
such as a cell phone.
"Xypoint's platform provides a very simple way to tap into location information generated by
wireless carriers. By integrating it with FlyOver technology, one can tap the power of phone location
services by enhancing the experience with real imagery." said Ken Arneson, president and CEO of
Xypoint Corporation.
"FlyOver makes streaming images to wireless devices both realistic and usable," said Isaac
Levanon, chairman and CEO of FlyOver Technologies. "This partnership with Xypoint enables mobile
consumer to enjoy location-relevant satellite or aerial images." Xypoint's platform combines mobile
positioning with SMS, WAP, voice recognition, text-to-speech, privacy and presence technology to
offer wireless carriers a fully integrated platform for mobile commerce and location. The Xypoint
platform intelligently routes commerce, content, and location data from multiple applications through
the wireless network. The platform already leads the nation for commercial location services with
more than 5 million subscribers utilizing the company's wireless E911 location services.
FlyOver technology allows the user to fly over an extremely large, high resolution, true color image
with continuous, smooth panning and zooming capabilities streamed over the Internet and wireless
networks. The technology is an advance over current mapping technologies that require a small, low
resolution map to be refreshed each time the user wants to pan or zoom.
About Xypoint
Xypoint hosts the leading software and network services platform for wireless location and
commerce. Xypoint enables content providers, merchants and corporations to provide their customers
and employees the ability to access and act upon relevant information via any wireless device. Since
its founding in 1996, the company has pioneered the field of "location technology" vital to E911
service and now generates revenues from more than 5 million subscribers. This year, the company
launched Infolink(TM), the first Internet service to work with any digital phone, and Nomad(TM), a
wireless e-mail service that allows subscribers to access and respond to e-mail anytime anywhere, on
their current digital phone. Consumers can register for Infolink and other Xypoint services at
www.webwirelessnow.com. Xypoint serves numerous corporations including Verizon, U.S. Cellular,
Cricket Communications and 12 other carriers. Additionally, Xypoint has partnered with Critical Path,
Nessicom, NextBus, Vicinity, GeoVector and AltaVista, along with Paging Network Inc., Metrocall
Inc., and WebLinkWireless. For more information about Xypoint, please visit www.xypoint.com.
About FlyOver Technologies
Located in San Jose, Calif., with an R&D center in Israel, FlyOver has created the most efficient
large, high resolution color image streaming with 3D fly over capabilities for geo-reference content and
commerce. The company will deliver Application Server platform for providing plug-and-play access
to content and commerce providers over low broadband networks of both dial-up modem Web and
wireless cell phone. The company will partner with the world's leading cell phone service and
equipment providers, wireless terminal manufactures of PDAs, Pocket PCs and Cell Phones, content
publishers, remote sensing data providers and online portal sites to offer realistic reference and
entertainment experiences for mobile users.
CONTACT:
for Xypoint
Matt Gillingham, 206/239-0143
mgilling@apcoassoc.com
or
for FlyOver
Isaac Levanon, 408/615-4811 or 972-54-905-818
isaacl@2flyover.com
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