SOME ARTICLES ON US THAT YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY SEEN:

March 5, 2004
M2 Presswire ("Smartner expands European operations and brings more experience into sales and management; New offices in Paris, Gothenburg and Madrid ")
Smartner, the European leader in mobile email and office solutions, today announced further expansion into Europe and forming of Smartner offices to Paris France, Gothenburg Sweden and Madrid Spain. Thomas Chauchardhas been appointed as Executive Vice President Business Development to drive Smartner's European operations further.
Tietoviikko ("Smartner laajentaa Euroopassa")

Digitoday.fi ("Smartner kasvaa Ranskaan, Espanjaan ja Ruotsiin")

March, 2004
What to Buy for Business ("CONSTANT E-ACCESS")
Smartner has launched Duality Always-on Mail for the Xda II, Qtec 2020 and other Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 based devices. It provides a real-time link to Outlook and Lotus Notes packages via a PDA or other mobile wireless device, allowing the user to control desktop functions when away from the office.

February 26, 2004
Geekzone ("Handango, Smartner and Openbit launch always on e-mail for Windows Mobile Pocket PC")
Smartner announced the availability of Smartner Duality Professional, an Always-on Mail solution for individual users. Smartner Duality Professional is available by credit card purchase in most countries in the world, and for mobile subscribers of close to 70 operators in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Australia, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

February 12, 2004
msmobiles.com ("Smartner introduces Always-on Mail for Xda II")
While Windows Mobile 2003 already features "email-push" technology, it is however based on sending SMS upon email arrrival, what makes it totally useless in most countries due to prohibitive SMS costs. It looks like Smartner has a solution that is more similar to the one from RIM (SMS-less)

January 27, 2004
Digitoday.fi ("Smartnerilta suora sähköposti mobiililaitteeseen")
M2Presswire ("Smartner introduces Always-on Mail for Xda II, Providing Windows Mobile 2003 users with real-time desktop syncronisation")
Smartner, the European leader in mobile email and office solutions, today announced the availability of Smartner Duality Always-on Mail for the Xda II, Qtek 2020 and other Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 based devices. The software is available from leading operators and certified resellers across the UK and Europe.

January 20, 2004
NewsWireless.net ("News - Control Outlook from your Blackberry, says O2 - without a Blackberry")
Individuals in Europe have ignored the Blackberry (mostly) because it was seen as a totally corporate tool - but phone carrier MMO2 is working on a £12 per month Blackberry messenger service for the non-corporate user. The only difference is - no Blackberry. Instead, you use the XDA2 pocket computer. What will RIM think? The enabling technology is the remarkable (award-winning, even) Duality software, which readers will possibly remember was developed by Commtag - which was taken over by Finnish company Smartner last year.

January 9, 2004
Mobile ("O2 Email")
Software company Smartner has signed a deal with O2 to join its "Accelerator Programme", enabling mobile users to access desktop functions out of the office.

January 8, 2004
New Media Age ("O2 and Smartner provide mobile access to desktop")
O2 has partnered with the Finnish software firm Smartner to offer mobile users access to their desktop functions when on the move. The Smartner Duality Always-on Mail software automatically forwards emails and attachments to a mobile device, on which users can view, edit, forward, file or delete them. All actions are carried out in real time and instantly replicated on the users computer, so that deleted emails won't reappear on the user's desktop. The software is designed for use with the O2-compatible XDA device, which is the operator's first combined PocketPc and GPRS device for the consumer market. The Smartner contract was announced as part of O2's Accelerator Programme in the UK, and will join the O2 incubator process so the software can enter the market. The Smartner service will retail at £12 a month for each user, and will be targeted at mobile office workers.

December 17, 2003
Digitoday.fi ("O2 valitsi Smartnerin kiihdytyskaistalle")
M2 Presswire ("Smartner signs up to O2's Accelerator Programme")
Smartner, the European leader in mobile email and office solutions, is delighted to announce that they have been accepted on to O2's Accelerator Programme in the UK. The agreement with O2 means that Smartner's Duality Always-on Mail will enter the O2 "incubator process", enabling the product to be immediately sold by the O2 sales network.

December 4, 2003
Telecomworldwire ("Smartphone e-mail software available now from Smartner")
Mobile e-mail and office solutions provider Smartner has launched its Smartner Duality mobile e-mail solution for Symbian OS smartphones. The new e-mail product can be installed on a smartphone to give the handset access to Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes. Also, the solution sends new e-mails direct to mobile users without any user interaction and provides them with control of their desktop functions while they are away from their PC.

December 3, 2003
Bios Online ("Award Winning Smartner Duality now Available on Symbian OS")
Smartner, the European leader in mobile email and office solutions, today announced availability of its Smartner Duality mobile email solution for Symbian OS smartphones that are shipping in volume worldwide, and its membership of the Symbian Platinum Program. With this announcement Smartner further demonstrates its strategy of cross-platform support for popular mobile devices.

M2 Presswire ("Smartner enhances smartphones with always-on email")
Tietokone ("Viestit salattuna Symbian-laitteisiin")
Tietoviikko ("Smartner välittää sähköpostit myös Symbianiin")
Digitoday.fi ("Smartner tarttui Symbianin platinaan")

November, 2003
Business Info ("Email on the move")
The first product to give mobile users always-on access to corporate email and personal information management (PIM) systems via any device has been launched by Smartner. Smartner Duality combines Smartner Office Extender technology with Duality email push technology. The combination allows users to view, edit, forward, file or delete email messages and attachments in real time, with all actions mirrored on their desktop.

Communicate
Smartner, a mobile email solution provider has been invited to join Microsoft's Mobility Partner Advisory Council. The Smartner Duality solution - which integrates Exchange server with Windows Mobile based devices - will be now actively promototed by the software giant.

October 24, 2003
The 451.com ("Smartner joins Microsoft council, sets goals")
Smartner has joined Microsoft's Mobility Partner Advisory Council. It applauds the addition of cached MRP in Exchange 2003, and notes that Microsoft lacks the user experience in this market that the council brings it. Smartner says its target European audience is 12 million workers checking email remotely.

October 21, 2003
Computer Weekly ("Is an e-mail in the handheld worth two in the pipeline?")
Clever gadgets are no good for keeping in touch with a mobile workforce unless you have clever software to make sure you can get the best out of them. Liz Warren reports on how a software publishing company got to grips with its handhelds using O2 XDA devices and Smartner Duality Always-On Mail.

August 27, 2003
The 451.com ("Smartner seeks wireless email leadership in Europe")
Smartner's venture backers have given the wireless email company an additional EUR 5m to try and establish a leadership position in the European market. After the acquisiton of Commtag, Smartner has come up with a single solution portfolio package that will take the Duality brand. Its mission now is to build partner channels across Europe with operators and integrators. It believes wireless email can become a significant business.

August 8, 2003
Baskerville Mobile Media ("Smartner gains on BlackBerry in Europe", "Intangible ROI on mobile e-mail causes problems")
There is growing acknowledgement of the value of mobile e-mail, but total cost of ownership might be a problem, rather than ROI. Smartner targets its solutions at SMEs through operators, in order to help reduce the upfront cost for SMEs.

May 22, 2003
PMN ("Smartner gets EUR 5m funding")
Tietoviikko ("Smartner sai viisi miljoonaa ")
MCI / A Week in Wireless ("Smartner gets EUR 5m funding")
Rubbing shoulders with the great and good this week:
Finnish mobile enterprise outfit and onetime MCI Industry Upstart Smartner, which has absorbed another former upstart, Commtag, and secured an extra E5m in VC funding as part of the same deal.

April 30 - May 8, 2003
Unstrung ("Smartner Acquires Commtag")
Business Weekly ("Finnish offer accepted to acquire Cambridge wireless specialist")
The Inquirer ("Brit email firm sells itself to Finns")
Digitoday.fi ("Smartner ostaa brittiläisen mobiiliyrityksen osakevaihdolla")
The Register ("Finns swoop on Commtag")
Commtag, the always-on mobile email start-up, is to have a new owner. Step forward, Smartner Information Systems, of Finland, which is to wrap Commtag's Duality Always-On Mail technology into its mobile office suite, Office Extender.

February 27, 2003
The 451.com ("Smartner at the crossroads - ponders next move")
Smartner and its investors are considering the next move to make. Meanwhile, Smartner has been embraced by IBM as a key partner in offering a turnkey systme for operators on top of IBM hardware and software.

February 2003
eWEEK ("Girding the Mobile Workforce")
eWEEK ("High-Speed Wireless Nets Spawn Applications")
MyTech ("3GSM: Smartner porta l'ufficio sul cellulare")
Digitoday.fi ("Smartnerilta mobiilitoimistoratkaisu operaattoreille - IBM:n teknologiaa")
ITviikko ("Smartner päivitti etätoimistoaan")
Smartner presented Office Extender 3.0 and a hosted offering with IBM at 3GSM World Congress. The solutions make working on the road more closely resemble working at a desk.

January, 2003
Professional Manager ("In Synch")
Smartner's new application enables users working away from their workplace to remain fully synchronised with their server-based applications.

December, 2002
Computer Reseller News ("Fast-moving Finn Client")

November, 2002
Mobile Internet ("Business-solutions vendor mulls expansion outside Europe")
Finnish vendor Smartner has signed up several customers in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe for its Office Extender product. Office Extender is a different kind of product from the BlackBerrys, Palms and Pocket PCs of the mobile world.

October 25, 2002
Digitoday.fi ("Smartnerilta etätoimisto liikematkaajille")
Corporate IT Update, Worldwide Computer Product News, Telecomworldwire ("Smartner enhances Office Extender product")

October 23, 2002 (Issue 45)
Technology Finance ("Smartner seeks expansion funds or partners")
Mobile office solutions provider Smartner is considering raising more funding or forming a partnership to accelerate expansion into the US and Asia. Smartner became profitable last quarter. Co-founder Jussi Raisanen believes the firm’s success is partly due to finding the right focus early on.

September, 2002
Mobile Europe (“Big bucks beckon”)
Enterprises are willing to invest in IT mobility. According to Smartner and IBM, a ‘multi-channel’ approach to enterprise mobility, using different front-end devices to access different back-office systems via ‘smart’ middleware, offers a way around restrictions set by mobile devices.

ComputerScope (“Vodafone teams with IBM for mobile e-mail”)
Vodafone’s Irish customers will be able to view their enterprise e-mail and calendar systems from a mobile phone or handheld device with a new service provided by IBM and Smartner.

August, 2002
Mobile Communications International ("The Company Line")
Corporate customers are willing to spend more than consumers and this could be the foundation of the ARPU boost for which operators are increasingly desperate. However, it will not be a simple market for them to address.

CA Magazine (“Wireless nirvana just a false dawn”)
‘Anytime anywhere’ wireless access to e.g. email creates massive opportunities for taking costs out of many business processes, but are companies really making the most of this? Smartner’s CEO Robert Rasmus says that clients worry about making a wrong decision.

August 13, 2002
Netimperative ("Smartner signs mobile office deal with IBM, Vodafone)
Mobile Commerce World ("IBM for mobile email")
Dow Jones Business News ("Vodafone Completes Three-way Data Service Partnership")

August 12, 2002
Total Telecom ("Vodafone Ireland picks IBM, Smartner for mobile e-mail")
EuropeMedia ("IBM and Smartner to provide Vodafone with mobile e-mail data service")
Unstrung ("Vodafone, IBM Email Eire")
Business Plus("IBM Ireland Wins Vodafone Contract")
Tietoviikko ("Smartnerin mobiilipalvelu Vodafonelle")
digitoday.fi ("Smartnerilta langaton toimistosovellus Vodafonelle Irlantiin")
ITviikko ("Smartner hakee kasvua Vodafone-kaupoilla")
The Smartner/IBM mobile e-mail solution to Vodafone is illustrated in several newsletters and magazines.

August 9, 2002
ElectricNews.net ("Vodafone to launch BlackBerry competitor ")
Vodafone Ireland will launch a device-independent e-mail service for corporate clients, in a move that could make users think twice about buying a BlackBerry. The solution is developed by Smartner.

August 8, 2002
Forbes ("Forbes Focus: Helsinki")
According to Forbes, Smartner founders Jussi Räisänen and Mika Uusitalo are people to watch in Helsinki.

June, 2002
Mobile Europe ("Business market take-off")
The lucrative business user market is now set to take off. The Smartner solution is aimed at addressing the barriers to entry into the mobile data market for both the enterprise and the mobile operator.

June, 2002
Mobile Choice ("Smart Talk")
Good news for business users: Smartner offers a solution that lets mobile workers access vital office applications such as email or calendar anytime and anywhere.

May 16, 2002
New Media Age ("Smartner Information Systems secures European contract")
Smartner has sealed contracts with Swisscom Mobile and Blu Telecomunicazione.

May 9, 2002
The451.com ("Your desk in your pocket - sound familiar?")
Smartner steps up for the second go-around at the mobile office, says operators are now ready to try again - this time with more developed GPRS networks and more robust services.

Billing Alert ("Road Warrior’ solutions for SMEs")
Smartner launches business mobility solutions to operators across Europe. The company has recently announced deals with Swisscom Mobile and BLU Telecomunicazione.

April 18, 2002
ITviikko ("Smartnerilta mobiilisovellus sveitsiläisoperaattorille")
The Swiss operator Swisscom Mobile will offer its enterprise customers a mobile office solution, which is developed by Smartner Information Systems Ltd.

March 1, 2002
Réseaux & Télécoms ("Tout pour le Mobile")
Helsinki could be called the Silicon Valley of mobile communications. One of the Helsinki-based mobile technology companies is Smartner that develops mobile email and calendar solutions.

MikroPC ("Sähköposti matkan varrelle")
Smartner is the provider of Radiolinja Toimistoratkaisu and dna Työpöytä mobile office services.

February 25, 2002
Nordic Wireless Watch ("Smartner's mobile office passes 3G test")
The new edition of Office Extender provides a secure turnkey mobile access to their enterprise systems through an operator-hosted service.

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