DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, May 9 /PRNewswire/ --

dotMobi -- the company behind the .mobi internet domain name for mobile
phones and the dev.mobi developer forum -- today announced it has acquired
the intellectual property assets of Mowser, a San Mateo, Calif.-based mobile
browsing company.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

dotMobi's acquisition of Mowser's technology, developed by Bay Area
mobile pioneers Russell Beattie and Michael Rowehl, is another way for
dotMobi to provide a complete range of mobile content creation solutions for
businesses of all sizes.

James Pearce, dotMobi Vice President of Technology, said, "When Mowser's
founders decided to make the assets available, dotMobi was first in line to
acquire them. The work Russell and Mike put into making Mowser a 'best of
breed' product is well-known throughout the industry. Being able to add that
technology into dotMobi's product line is exciting because it will
exponentially stimulate mobile content growth."

dotMobi plans to integrate Mowser technology into new business-grade and
consumer-grade mobile development tools as well as include aspects of it into
dotMobi's popular content creation tools like http://find.mobi, DeviceAtlas
and http://ready.mobi, all of which help businesses more easily create
device-aware mobile content.

"At its heart, Mowser is a PC website-to-mobile website content
adaptation engine," said Trey Harvin, CEO of dotMobi. "dotMobi has been vocal
against 'blind' content adaptation because it doesn't allow site owners to
have control over their content. dotMobi believes that brands and businesses
should always have the final say over how their material is presented, and
that the content should uniquely take advantage of the capabilities of a
mobile device. This has been one of our core philosophies all along, and
something dotMobi is looking forward to addressing with the integration of
the Mowser assets into the dotMobi product line."

About dotMobi

dotMobi (the informal name of mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd.), a consortium
headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is leading the growth of internet use from
mobile phones with the .mobi domain name. Unique among domain name providers,
dotMobi ensures that services and sites developed around .mobi are optimized
for use by mobile devices. On-the-go consumers can have confidence that a web
site will work on their mobile phones when using a .mobi address.

dotMobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network & device
manufacturers, and internet content providers, including Ericsson, GSM
Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung
Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM, Visa and Vodafone.

For more information on dotMobi domains and registration information,
visit http://dotmobi.mobi. Visit the dotMobi blog at http://blog.mobi.

For more information, please contact:
    Vance Hedderel
    dotMobi
    +1-703-485-5563
    vhedderel@dotmobi.mobi

    Danielle Siemon
    A&R Edelman for dotMobi (US)
    +1-650-762-2947
    danielle.siemon@edelman.com

    Gareth Davies
    Edelman for dotMobi (Europe)
    +44-20-7344-1216
    gareth.davies@edelman.com



Web site: http://www.dotmobi.mobi