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Release HP Uses OceanLake’s mScope for HP Canada Wireless
Portal San Jose, CA and Toronto, ON – April 10, 2003–
(TSXV:OLI) OceanLake, Inc. developers of mobility-enabling solutions, is pleased
to announce that it has signed a contract which allows HP the use of mScope for
HP Canada’s wireless portal. The portal is designed to provide HP Canada’s
customers and partners valuable information on HP’s products and
solutions. Choosing OceanLake’s mScope solution allowed HP Canada
several cost saving advantages. HP is able to pull content from the existing
www.hp.ca web site and instantly rewrite and reformat the content into usable
content for any wireless device. With this ability, HP Canada is piloting a
smaller section of the entire hp.ca site and can now learn what their wireless
users and market require of HP as well as adapting to these new means of
communications to customers and partners. HP Canada plans to
entice customers to try "the wireless web" and become familiar with it and at
the same time, let customers understand that HP can provide information
anywhere, on demand. This allows increased freedom for the customer and still
stay connected to HP. "We are extremely excited about our
involvement in HP Canada's wireless portal strategy." Said Steve Koskie, CEO of
OceanLake. "We are even more excited that HP chose OceanLake's solution which
again demonstrates OceanLake's technological advantage over all other
competitors in North America." anywhere, on demand. This allows increased
freedom for the customer and still stay connected to HP. HP Canada
will use mScope for an initial period of one year for use with the HP Canada
wireless portal that can be found at wireless.hp.ca on your desktop or wireless
device. About OceanLake Inc. OceanLake provides mobile
Internet-enabling software for corporate enterprises, financial institutions,
service providers, and telecommunications carriers. OceanLake's flagship
product, mScope, immediately enables any existing Internet infrastructure to be
accessed from any Internet-enabled wireless device in real-time, including the
dynamic content of enterprise-wide applications such as sales force automation
and customer relationship management. The only device- and platform-agnostic
"drop-in" product of its kind, mScope seamlessly integrates into any Web-based
application for fast, easy and cost-effective deployment with no need for
additional application development. Future OceanLake products will include voice
navigation, voice authentication, location-based services and streaming.
OceanLake is dedicated to helping businesses access critical resources through
mobile devices, allowing people to "take the world with them." The company is
headquartered in San Jose, California with offices in Toronto. OceanLake is a
publicly traded company on the TSX Venture Exchange and currently has an
approximate market capitalization of $7.8 Million. More
information about OceanLake is available at http://www.oceanlake.com/index.htm.
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