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TextAmerica announce new mobile phone services powered by Alatto

San Diego, California and Dublin, Ireland, 22nd September 2005

Over 200,000 TextAmerica bloggers can now instantly navigate the world of moblogs using Alatto’s Tribes service.

Text America (the largest mobile blogging company in the US)and Alatto Technologies today announce that the newly launched Text America "Quick Surf" service powered by the Alatto Tribes application.

This new service is part of a global commercial partnership between Text America and Alatto Technologies to promote an integrated product set to the market. Alatto and Text America are already at an advanced stage in discussions with a number of European Operators about deploying the integrated solution.

TextAmerica’s new service provides a rich new experience for TextAmerica users. Customers can now easily navigate blog content and discover the best blogs quickly. This adds a complete new dimension to mobile blogging.

"Ease of navigation and usability are essential elements of the TextAmerica experience" according to Chris Hoar Founder and COO of TextAmerica. "We are delighted with the new value that the Tribes service brings, allowing TextAmerica to continue to expand what we offer our customers and maintain our clear lead in the mobile blogging space. Tribes is one of our critical differentiators in the marketplace."

The Tribes service acts as a content guide and navigator, bringing users the best content available for them and enhancing the user experience. "TextAmerica is a valued customer and this project shows how a truly innovative and disruptive service such as Tribes system can turbo-charge mobile content such a blogs and drive usage to the next level." commented Neil Flanagan, CEO Alatto Technologies Ltd.


About Alatto

Alatto Technologies is a leading provider of multi-media products and services solutions for Mobile Network Operators, Brand Owners and Content Portals. With its unmatched expertise in mobile multi-media since 1999, Alatto enables its customers to rapidly generate a return on their investment. Alatto has a proven track record of delivering value for customers such as Vodafone, O2, Orange, 3, Jamba and Lucozade. Renowned for innovation Alatto has a reputation as a world leader in innovative revenue boosting services. Visit www.alatto.com.


About TextAmerica

TextAmerica is the leading provider of mobile blogs worldwide. Headquartered in San Diego, TextAmerica hosts over 200,000 active blog-sites. TextAmerica has pioneered the rapid growth of mobile brogging. The company has developed a proprietary personal and corporate multimedia publishing platform for wireless and wired applications.

This unique approach has driven high traffic volumes, and has helped textamerica quickly become one of the internet’s fastest growing sites and a leader in the evolution of wireless multimedia publishing.