Waltham, MA, September 21, 2010 – Onset Technology, a leading provider of Mobile Messaging Management solutions for business continuity, paging, and mission-critical communication announced today that it secured additional financing from its existing investors. The funding will support the company’s growth as well as the development of additional mobile communication continuity and advanced paging capabilities.

Utilizing patent-protected technology, Onset empowers organizations to leverage their mobile deployment to ensure communication continuity and uninterrupted access to information at all times. Onset’s Priority Mobile Messaging and Smartphone Paging increase the efficiency and value of corporate mobile communication resources and elevate the level of awareness to critical information.

“We are seeing a growing need for business continuity messaging and advanced paging capabilities that leverage mobile phone deployment to ensure uninterrupted communication and access to critical information,” said Judit Sharon, CFO of Onset Technology. “The funding will ensure we can accelerate the development of additional business communication continuity capabilities, enhance our Smartphone paging solution, and support additional mobile platforms.”   

“As one of the early investors in Onset Technology we believe the company can leverage its rich offering and patent-based technology to further expand its footprint,” said Dr. Yoseph Linde, General Partner at Jerusalem Global Venture.

“We are excited to further support the growth of Onset Technology,” said Amnon Shoham, Founder and Managing Partner of Cedar Fund. “With its unique technology, impressive government and corporate customer roster, and its excellent management team, the company is well-positioned to serve this fast growing market.” 

About Onset Technology (www.onsettechnology.com) 
Onset Technology is a provider of Mobile Messaging Management solutions, enabling organizations to leverage their mobile deployment to ensure communication continuity and uninterrupted access to information at all times. Additional Onset solutions include Priority Mobile Messaging and Smartphone Paging, increasing the efficiency and value of corporate mobile communication resources.  Onset’s solutions are used by leading organizations in the financial, legal, and healthcare sectors as well as major federal and local government agencies.

About Cedar Fund (www.cedarfund.com)
Cedar Fund is a venture capital firm investing in early stage, Israel-related high technology companies since 1997. With over $325 million under management and a quality investment track record, Cedar invests in outstanding entrepreneurs pursuing high growth markets with distinguished technologies in telecommunication, networking, Internet-infrastructure, and enterprise software. While investing in all stages, Cedar Fund’s early stage expertise includes Pre-Seed®, seed, and first round investments.

About Jerusalem Global Ventures (www.jgv.com)
Jerusalem Global Ventures is an Israeli venture capital fund that invests in seed and early stage telecommunication, information technology and life sciences companies. JGV has over $120 million in capital for investment in exceptional entrepreneurs. The fund’s limited partners include many of the world’s leading technology companies, financial institutions, and private investors.

Leveraging proven technologies utilized by hundreds of government agencies and companies worldwide, this enhanced partnership delivers a comprehensive, one-stop solution for uninterrupted communication. The combination of PlantCML’s advanced emergency notification capabilities and Onset’s Priority Blackberry^® messaging allows clients to further expand and ensure their communication reach.

“Existing business continuity and disaster recovery plans are highly vulnerable to the availability of conventional communication methods,” said Dan Inbar, VP of business development for Onset Technology. “The blended solution provides an added measure of redundancy and assurance that greatly enhances the viability of existing business continuity and disaster recovery provisions.”

Through the partnership, users of PlantCML’s The Communicator!^® NXT^™ emergency notification solution (version 4.2 or higher) will be able to get information into the hands of people even when email, voice and text messages may fail. This redundant, high-availability communication is possible because Blackberry pin-to-pin messages sent through Onset’s solution are not dependent on carrier infrastructure, like SMS, allowing communication to bypass all conventional means and enabling direct, device to device notification.

“An ever-increasing reliance on mobile communication makes it necessary for PlantCML to support a wide variety of devices to provide our clients the greatest opportunity possible for getting information out to their audiences,” said Mike Adams, product line manager for PlantCML’s Notification Solutions and Services (NSS) business unit. “Our expanded relationship with Onset Technology provides our clients with an extremely flexible and reliable means of communicating critical messages at all times.”

Onset Technology (booth #94) and PlantCML (booth #108) will showcase their solutions at the Disaster Recovery Journal Conference, which takes place September 19-22, in San Diego, Calif.

About Onset Technology (www.onsettechnology.com)
Onset Technology is a provider of Mobile Messaging Management solutions, enabling organizations to leverage their mobile deployment to ensure communication continuity and uninterrupted access to information at all times. Other Onset solutions include Priority Mobile Messaging and Smartphone Paging, increasing the efficiency and value of corporate mobile communication resources.

About PlantCML (www.plantcml-eads.com)
PlantCML, an EADS North America company, is the industry’s leading provider of crisis communications and response technologies for public safety, federal/DoD and business markets globally. The organization’s full-circle security and communications portfolio includes emergency notification solutions and services, IP-enabled call center applications for computer-aided dispatch, mapping and information management, and P25 land mobile radio networks. These PlantCML offerings and others are resident in 14 of the 20 most populous US cities, 250+ military operations, numerous Fortune 500 corporations, and internationally in 15 countries.

About EADS North America (www.eadsnorthamerica.com)
EADS North America is the North American operation of EADS, a global leader in aerospace, defense and related services. As a leader in all sectors of defense and homeland security, EADS North America and its parent company, EADS, contribute over $11 billion to the U.S. economy annually and support more than 200,000 American jobs through its network of suppliers and services. Operating in 17 states, EADS North
America offers a broad array of advanced solutions to its customers in the commercial, homeland security, aerospace and defense markets.

Onset Technology and Citipage Ltd, have teamed up to launch Advanced Paging® solutions targeting Health Care providers and Business Enterprise customers based in Alberta, Canada. The companies announced pager replacement solutions that are tailored for the healthcare [Medipage™] and the business enterprise [Priority Page™] markets.

Citipage customers will now be offered greater flexibility, convenience, and coverage by receiving paging messages on their BlackBerry smartphones.

Citipage is a leading Alberta paging carrier serving thousands of customers in the health care community, government, business, and service industries for over 30 years.

Onset’s METAmessage Advanced Paging® solution combines the simplicity and urgency of paging with the power of smartphones, allowing subscribers to receive pages on their BlackBerry devices and eliminate the need to carry two devices. The METAmessage client can be installed on any BlackBerry smartphone. It provides customized priority alerts for pages to ensure that recipients receive and notice critical messages and then stores them in a separate folder.  METAmessage’s message statistics offers a full audit trail letting senders and administrators know when messages were sent, delivered, and read.

“The Onset Advanced Paging solution offers our customers the option to consolidate to a single device by being able to receive pages on their BlackBerry via their current pager number. The transition is totally seamless for users who continue to retain the benefit of maintaining the privacy of their mobile phone number. There is no change in how a message can be sent to the users BlackBerry [touch tone telephone, encoder, web, email, voicemail, telephone answering service, CAD, nurse call] ” said Joe Kantor, President and CEO, Citipage Ltd. “By partnering with Onset Technology, we can now offer a new paging choice to our customers, allowing them more flexibility, new advanced features and greater coverage”.

The Advanced Paging solution has been tested with key customers, received very positive feedback, and is being launched to the targeted communities. Terry Owen [City of Edmonton, Chief of Emergency Systems, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services] commented “We returned a number of pagers in favor of the new BlackBerry smartphones and sent messages using SMS but found this method did not meet our needs. When we heard about the BlackBerry Paging App we were very interested and started testing that same day. When we completed our testing, we were satisfied that this method would work well for this requirement and now with a “Pager in a BlackBerry”, our priority messages are received immediately and not lost in the clutter of other messages and our senior officers have one less device to carry on their belts.”

“l am very pleased to announce that METAmessage Advanced Paging Solution is now available through Citipage,” said Avi Legmann, CEO of Onset Technology, “METAmessage Advanced Paging provides a simple and easy way for Paging Providers to retain subscribers that wish to migrate to smartphones, and to offer valuable and meaningful services for those who depend on it”.

About Onset Technology

Founded in 1997, Onset Technology has pioneered software development enhancing the functionality of Enterprise Mobility systems and is the leading provider of advanced high-priority messaging systems for smartphones. Flagship METAmessage software solutions include Advanced Paging Solutions, Priority Messaging and Collaboration Tools, and Emergency Communications Solutions. Smartphone users in large scale deployments rely on METAmessage in industries that include Financial and Professional Services, Manufacturing, Education and the Public Sector – federal, state, and local.

About Citipage Ltd.

Citipage is a leading Alberta paging carrier serving thousands of customers in the health care community, government, business, and service industries for over 30 years.

Founded in 1980, Citipage developed and implemented a single platform open architecture wide-area paging system that linking hospitals, community health centers and community based health services.

The benefits of this system were also extended to Business Enterprise customers.

Because the Citipage system is transparent to other paging and wireless networks, paging to a BlackBerry device is available as simply another choice in the pager line-up. Pager choices include voice, numeric, alphanumeric, coaster, two-way and now the BlackBerry Paging App.  For more information, please visit

www.citipage.ab.ca

Onset’s METAmessage Advanced Paging solution combines the simplicity and urgency of paging with the power of smartphones, allowing customers to receive pages on their BlackBerry devices and eliminating the need to carry two devices. The METAmessage client can be installed on any BlackBerry smartphone and offers fully customizable, audible alerts to ensure that paging messages cut throught the clutter and are noticed even when all other communication methods are silenced. METAmessage’s message statistics lets senders and adminstrators know when messages were sent, delivered and read.

“Unlike other virtual paging offerings, Onset METAmessage enables our customers to receive pages on their BlackBerry via their current pager number. This provides a totally seamless transition for users while maintaining the privacy of their mobile phone number. As a result, any person or system, CAD, Nurse Call, Voicemail, Answering Service, etc. sending pages to the recipient does not require any reconfiguration for the message to be sent to the user’s BlackBerry.” said Michael Lyons, COO/CTO Indiana Paging Network. “By partnering with Onset Technology, we can now offer new choices to our customers, allowing them greater flexibility and new advanced features.

“I am very pleased to announce that METAmessage Advanced Paging Solution is now available through Indiana Paging Network.” said Avi Legmann, CEO of Onset Technology. “IPN is known for the breadth of their coverage and the strength of their reliability and customer service. This is a strong foundation for our solutions and the customers that they service. I look forward to the growth of our partners with Indiana Paging Network.”

About Onset Technology

Founded in 1997, Onset Technology has pioneered software development enhancing the functionality of Enterprise Mobility systems and is the leading provider of advanced high-priority messaging systems for smartphones. Flagship METAmessage software solutions include Advanced Paging, High Priority Messaging and Emergency Communications. Smartphone users in large scale deployments rely on METAmessage in industries that include Financial and Professional Services, Manufacturing, Education and the Public Sector – federal, state, and local.

About Indiana Paging Network

With over 45 years experience in the wireless communications industry, Indiana Paging Network (IPN) has the largest and most comprehensive paging system in Indiana and the greater Chicago area. Indiana Paging Network (IPN) offers unparalleled paging coverage, customer service and reliability. Indiana Paging Network (IPN) specializes in delivering mission critical messages to the Healthcare and First Responder markets and serves over 60,000 customers. Indiana Paging Network (IPN) is located near Lake Michigan in LaPorte, Indiana with satellite offices in Indianapolis and Hammond, Indiana.  For more information visit www.indianapaging.com