Founded in 1997, Onset Technology is the developer of METAmessage® for Wireless - a suite of unique software solutions that give business users access to virtually any data on their enterprise network using just a wireless email device such as RIM's BlackBerry handheld. The software is broadly compatible with virtually all wireless devices and servers including those from strategic partners Comverse, Microsoft, and RIM. Since its introduction in 2001, METAmessage has been widely adopted by a diverse group of Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and a range of large service organizations.

Onset's headquarters are located in Santa Cruz, California with an R&D center in Israel. Sales offices are located in Atlanta, Georgia, Washington DC, and Allentown, New Jersey.

Products - Flexible, scalable, and economical METAmessage for Wireless solutions offer administrator-configurable features that are appropriate for any enterprise - from a law firm requiring access to a time-and-billing database to a government office requiring handheld document storage with the strictest security and reliability. Enterprises can purchase various license packages to let users:

• Interact with information systems such as document management systems, enterprise applications, and databases
• Spell check outgoing messages
• Store Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans, emergency docs directly on BlackBerry handhelds
• Get network documents to read, print, or send
• Access the Web for driving directions, flight info, Google searches, and more

Customers - Onset's customers - more than 1,200 with over 130,000 users, 70+ of the Fortune 500 and 40+ of the AmLaw 100 - represent a broad range of industries. In the financial sector, METAmessage is used by firms such as Salomon Smith Barney, Lehman Brothers, the NYSE, UBS Paine Weber, NASDAQ, AIG, MetLife, and the SEC. Government customers include the FDA, the IRS, both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, the US Postal Service, NASA, and all branches of the US Dept. of Defense. Legal customers include many of the country’s best-known law firms such as Dewey Ballantine, Mintz Levin, Ropes & Gray, Palmer & Dodge, and Womble, Carlysle. Other industry categories include communications (NBC, CBS, USA), energy (Shell Oil, Hunt Oil), and healthcare (Pfizer, Cigna).

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