Colibria

Colibria provides MSN Live Messenger solution to connect PC and mobile subscribers; Service goes live in Estonia and Finland with additional roll-out to Denmark, Norway and Sweden during 2007

Colibria, a Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) leader, is providing a hosted solution for the first MIM service from TeliaSonera. MSN Live Messenger will allow subscribers to chat instantly with friends and colleagues via mobile handsets and PCs. The service will reach more than 11m subscribers across Estonia, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden by the end of 2007.

The new service combines the feature-rich experience of internet IM with the personal nature of mobile. Colibria’s MSN Live Messenger solution supports and intuitive, engaging consumer experience built on Colibria’s leading server and client technology, including the award winning mobile clients from Thumbspeed. The immediate and expressive nature of MIM with dialogue history and emoticons gives more engaging messaging than current legacy messaging services.

Leading Portuguese operator selects LogicaCMG to offer subscribers advanced mobile instant messaging and presence

LogicaCMG is announcing a deal to enable Portugal’s leading mobile operator, TMN, to launch its ‘Super SMS’ service. The Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) and presence platform elements of the service will be powered by Colibria’s IMPS based Mobile IM solution.

‘Super SMS’ will evolve TMN’s existing SMS services, allowing subscribers to take advantage of richer and immediate group communications with their friends. In addition to MIM, the service is presence enabled, providing information on the user’s mood, location and availability. This new-generation of mobile messaging is the first step towards fully converged IP-based messaging for the operator.

Colibria’s technology was chosen in partnership as part of LogicaCMG’s intuitive messaging portfolio as it supports an increasingly rich multimedia user experience as well as integrating with successful legacy messaging services such as SMS. Colibria’s solution will also allow mobile IM to interwork with PC IM clients.

Mobile Instant Messaging player follows rapid growth with place in the elite ‘Top 100’ list

Colibria, a global leader in new generation Mobile Instant Messaging solutions, today announced its success in the Red Herring ‘Top 100’ Europe awards.

The elite ‘Top 100’ list is built from the highest achieving private companies in Europe which are setting the standards in technological innovation. Previous companies receiving the accolade from Red Herring include Google, e-Bay and Skype. The annual list is hotly contested with over 700 companies entering.

The award follows a period of substantial progress for Colibria having won 17 new mobile operators customers and company growth of over 200% in 2006. With its market share increasing exponentially over the last three years, the award recognises Colibria as one of the top three MIM vendors globally.