Summus, Snapfish Offer Snapfish Mobile for WAP-Based Phones

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Summus, Snapfish Offer Snapfish Mobile for WAP-Based Phones

Deal Significantly Increases Potential Customer Base

RALEIGH, N.C. and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Summus, Inc. (USA) (OTC Bulletin Board: SUMU), a leading provider of solutions
that change the way information is communicated and processed through mobile
devices and networks, and Snapfish, the nation's leading online photo service,
today announced the availability of Snapfish Mobile to wireless carriers who
support Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
Snapfish Mobile, powered by BlueFuel(TM), is a new mobile personal photo-
sharing application that gives users the ability to view, store, manage, and
print all of their photos right from their mobile phone. Users also have the
ability to share their photo albums and email their photos to family and
friends.
"By developing the Snapfish Mobile application for WAP, we are extending
the reach of the application to new wireless carriers and subscribers who use
WAP for their wireless applications and data solutions," said Dr. Bjorn
Jawerth, CEO at Summus. "This announcement represents another step in our
quest to establish Summus' BlueFuel as the premier global mobile and wireless
platform."
"Bringing to market a WAP-based version of Snapfish Mobile increases our
lead even further in the growing wireless imaging industry," said Raj Kapoor,
president and co-founder of Snapfish. "Summus' BlueFuel gives us the power to
deliver high quality images faster and more efficiently over wireless
networks, and it gives us the flexibility to do it on virtually any mobile
platform."
WAP technology is widely used for integrating Web services in a cellular
phone and it is impacting how people use the Web. International Data
Corporation (IDC) predicts that more than 61.5 million people will be using
wireless Internet services by 2003 and that the vast majority of these users
will be using WAP-enabled phones.
Snapfish Mobile is powered by BlueFuel, Summus' "Superfast, Superthin(TM)"
platform tailored for efficient and easy interaction with information in the
mobile environment. Application developers and content providers partner with
Summus to build BlueFuel-powered wireless applications for distribution on
carrier networks.

About Snapfish
With over 3 million members and more than 75 million photos online,
Snapfish is the leading online photo service. Snapfish targets the majority of
the population owning film cameras, in addition to the growing base of digital
camera users, with a value proposition that cannot be equaled. When customers
send film to Snapfish, they get a full set of prints on Kodak paper and a
password-protected online album they can use to edit, share and store their
photos -- all for $2.99 per roll. Digital camera users can also take advantage
of online services for free and order film-quality prints, on Kodak paper, for
as low as 25 cents each. Snapfish has been rated the #1 online photo service
in surveys from PC Data and received top quality ratings from Popular
Photography and Yahoo! Internet Life. Additional information is available at
http://www.snapfish.com .
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