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WebMessenger Bolsters Management Team



    WebMessenger, a leader in enterprise mobile communications, today
    announced that Joe Naylor has been promoted to President. Mr. Naylor
    had been Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Product
    Development since he joined WebMessenger in 2005. Further solidifying
    the management team, WebMessenger announced that Dan Coole has joined
    the company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and Amir Hudda
    has been appointed to the Board of Directors.

    Mr. Naylor´s focus will be on extending WebMessenger´s leadership
    position in the burgeoning real-time enterprise mobile communications
    market. As President he will oversee the development of new solutions
    for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm mobile devices, and
    drive strategic business relationships with enterprise customers,
    global telecommunications carriers, OEMs and resellers.

    "Enterprise mobile communications is a rapidly expanding market
    that WebMessenger is uniquely positioned to exploit given its 15-year
    track record," said Val Babajov, founder and CEO for WebMessenger.
    "Joe was instrumental in transforming WebMessenger from a professional
    services company into a market-leading real-time collaboration and
    mobile messaging technology provider. Dan is a veteran mobile
    communications sales and marketing executive who generated significant
    revenue securing contracts with device manufacturers and
    telecommunications carriers while overseeing business development for
    OZ Communications. Amir is a world-class entrepreneur who has started,
    run and sold a number of tech companies. We are tremendously excited
    to announce these appointments and we have no doubt that each will
    help to accelerate the company´s growth."

    Mr. Naylor joined WebMessenger in 2005 to help the company
    transition from an engineering to a product company focused on
    enterprise mobile instant messaging. In this role Mr. Naylor launched
    a number of WebMessenger products and was prominent in securing and
    managing strategic partnerships with key players in the mobile
    collaboration and messaging space, including IBM, Nokia, Research In
    Motion, Sprint, Sybase, and Symbian. Prior to WebMessenger, Mr. Naylor
    was Vice President of Corporate Product Development for J2 Global
    Communications (NasdaqGS: JCOM), where he designed, developed,
    launched and managed the eFax Corporate Internet fax services
    targeting the enterprise market. Mr. Naylor received a B.S. in
    Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

    As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for WebMessenger, Mr.
    Coole, a 20-year mobile industry veteran, will lead all WebMessenger
    sales channels, including direct-to-enterprise, OEMs/Resellers and
    on-line sales through webmessenger.com. Previously, Mr. Coole was Vice
    President of Sales and Global Partnering for OZ Communications, the
    leading provider of consumer mobile messaging solutions, where he was
    responsible for the company´s device application business, as well as
    key partnering, product planning, and strategic development
    activities. Prior to OZ, Mr. Coole played key roles in market,
    product, and technology development for Ericsson and Mitsubishi
    Electronics. Mr. Coole earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from
    Penn State and a Master´s in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.

    As a board member, Mr. Hudda will help secure and manage strategic
    partnerships, targeting companies that can leverage WebMessenger´s
    technology assets to advance their own business and product roadmap
    objectives. Most recently, Mr. Hudda served as CEO for Apptix. In two
    and a half years at Apptix, he transformed the company from a $6M
    business focused on selling hosted exchange services exclusively
    through channel partners to a global business with a $40M annual
    recurring run rate that largely sold its comprehensive suite of email,
    collaboration and voice solutions directly over the web to SMBs. In
    the last 13 years Mr. Hudda has raised almost $100M in financings
    through leading venture capitalists as well as U.S. and Norwegian
    investment banks. He has also completed six M&A transactions valued at
    approximately $175M. Mr. Hudda holds a M.S. in Computer Science from
    Georgia Tech and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from PICT, University
    of Pune, India.

    "Our focus will continue to be helping enterprises leverage their
    investments in Microsoft LCS/OCS and Group Chat, IBM Lotus Sametime
    and other enterprise collaboration platforms by extending the
    productivity gains made on the desktop out to mobile devices," said
    Mr. Naylor. "In addition, our new carrier-class presence and mobile
    real-time communications platform enables the deployment of
    large-scale, geographically redundant wireless messaging services, and
    our Message Alerts product now allows enterprises to ensure efficiency
    and control of multiple communications channels for their mobile
    workforce. Through relationships with global carriers, OEMs and
    resellers, we will provide partners with recurring revenue-generating,
    value-added mobile enterprise software and services offerings."

    About WebMessenger

    WebMessenger, an enterprise mobile communications company,
    provides mobile real-time presence, instant messaging, VoIP, and
    collaboration products for enterprises and mobile professionals. The
    company´s enterprise and hosted solutions - compatible with all
    leading IM networks, mobile devices and platforms - has set the
    industry standard for IM connectivity, interoperability, mobility and
    security. WebMessenger´s flagship product, WebMessenger Mobile,
    enables mobile professionals to stay connected while away from their
    desktops from any of the industry leading mobile devices, including
    BlackBerry, Palm, Pocket PC, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. WebMessenger
    is a Microsoft TAP Partner, IBM Advanced Business Partner, Research In
    Motion ISV Partner, Forum Nokia PRO Partner, and Symbian Platinum
    Partner Program member. WebMessenger also offers professional
    services, system integration and support to enterprises, telecom
    carriers and other data delivery companies. WebMessenger is
    headquartered in Los Angeles with offices located throughout North
    America and Europe. For more information about WebMessenger, please
    visit www.webmessenger.com.