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Flutter.com Selects Covigo to Power Mobile Betting8 March 2001BELMONT, California--(Press Release)--March 8, 2001-- Covigo, Inc., a software company that helps enterprises adapt to the changing wireless world, has wireless-enabled flutter.com, the UK's leading person-to-person betting site. Covigo's highly scalable wireless applications platform enables flutter.com to provide its customers with the ability to check odds using wireless devices such as PDAs and mobile phones. flutter.com turned to Covigo for help because of its proven ability to provide a rapid development and deployment environment for extending existing applications wirelessly and enabling secure transactions from any wireless device over any network. flutter.com's wireless site was built in a matter of days and deployed with full transactional capabilities within a matter of weeks. ``There is increasing demand from our members to be able to bet whilst on the move. As the leading player in the person to person betting market, flutter.com is committed to innovation and this is the next step in increasing our competitive advantage,'' said Jason O'Leary, business development manager, flutter.com. ``Covigo was able to supply us with an application platform that supports the full range of wireless networks to offer our services to any mobile device without worrying about compatibility issues. With the deployment of the Covigo Platform, we are able to concentrate on creating the best service for our members while safely knowing that we can also take new applications to market in a matter of weeks.'' ``flutter.com is a good example of a successful business generating high transaction volumes with sharp peaks in traffic at key event times. The wireless extension of flutter.com's high performance service is under pinned by Covigo's secure, scalable platform,'' said Ken Morton, general manager, EMEA, Covigo. The Covigo Platform modular design enables extra features such as the ability to generate automatic SMS messages to notify members when other members have accepted their bets. |