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Xift: Wireless Web Comes out of Beta

"All the Web broken down into phone sized pieces" Xift brings the Web to
WAP.

Palo Alto -- 27th April 2000 -- Xift is coming out of its month long Beta
where industry partners evaluated Xift's revolutionary technology that
re-purposes the Web onto phones by understanding what pages are about. You
can find this service at wap.xift.com.

Wireless is the future of the Internet. There are 400 Million cell phone
users today, projected to be 1 Billion by 2003. Many think that in 2003 the
number of wireless clicks will surpass the number of net clicks. With this
shift to the wireless internet, there is a need for a better user
experience. Xift delivers.

Benefits

There are only a handful of WML sites to see with your phone. With Xift you
can look at any page on the Web, or perform any Web search from your phone.
We bring you the other billion HTML pages -- in a usable way. We summarize
search results into a hierarchy automatically telling you the range of
topics covered by your search. When you ask for a page, we summarize the
page live - on the fly. Summarization is necessary for wireless devices
because they have such a limited screen size. We are language independent -
important for foreign markets where wireless has taken off.

"The Web is a messy place, finally someone is tidying it up" says Anna
Patterson, CEO of Xift. We tidy the Web, and summarize it to make it usable
on a small screen.


Key Features

We extract concepts and a hierarchy automatically from the Web to summarize
the Web related to a search, When you choose a page, we automatically
summarize the page on-the-fly, and gives links to each part. This patent
pending "Jump Page" means you can get to the right spot in a page and bypass
the chaff. We even tailor the "Jump Page" to your search.

Our search is tailored to phones. Xift returns pages with content, not good
starting places to surf with lots of links but no facts. We only return
pages that look good on the phone, so you don't get error messages about a
page not being viewable.

We fetch pages live and re-render forms, frames, image maps, even without
alt tags. Did you know that 12% of all web traffic is based around forms?
Much of the information needed by wireless users will use forms. With Xift,
phone users are now first class citizens on the Web.


With Xift, the Web is just as usable on the phone as it is on your desktop.


About Xift: Xift was founded by a group of Stanford PhD's doing Artificial
Intelligence and Learning, Systems and Networking.
Contact: Messages@xift.com, Xift, 123 Emerson, Palo Alto CA 94301 +1 650
323-7825