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Motorola Selects BVRP Software's Mobile PhoneTools for Japanese Market Introduction

Posted on: Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 12:00 CST

DENVER, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- BVRP Software, a leading OEM provider of communications and mobility software, today announced the initial shipments of its Mobile PhoneTools application to the Japanese market. Mobile PhoneTools is bundled with the Motorola 702MO and 702sMO devices recently shipped to Vodafone in Japan.

With the latest expansion of its global supply agreement with Motorola, BVRP will enter a cellular market widely viewed as the world's most technically advanced. Mobile PhoneTools is already available to Motorola customers in North America, Europe, Latin America and other parts of Asia, where it is bundled with phones, USB cables and Bluetooth USB dongles.

With its launch in the Japanese market, BVRP now provides support for Mobile PhoneTools in 20 languages, including Chinese, Korean, Thai, Czech and Russian.

The BVRP Windows-based program enables cellular subscribers to easily connect a computer to the Internet through their mobile phone, as well as move, personalize and synchronize data between the phone and the PC. Either Bluetooth or a USB Cable is used to connect the two devices together.

"Mobile PhoneTools has become an important part of the Motorola global product offering, giving end users the power they need to manage the growing amounts of data stored on their Motorola devices," said Tom Okada, General Manager of Motorola PCS Japan. "Motorola bundles BVRP's software with many phones worldwide, so it was only natural to turn to BVRP to supply the same software for our new phones being supplied to Vodafone."

Mobile PhoneTools allows users to manage contact information, appointments, ringtones, wallpapers and other data on mobile devices. Managing this data on a computer is particularly useful when switching phones, as it eliminates the time-consuming and frustrating process of entering phone numbers and other address book data manually.

Mobile PhoneTools also enables any cellular phone or Web-enabled mobile device to function as a modem for users' laptops, ensuring "anywhere access" to the Internet through their laptop for anyone with a cellular phone.

"Motorola's widespread adoption of Mobile PhoneTools has helped give the product a global footprint and enabled us to offer the most fully featured, reliable and easy-to-use data synchronization tool for today's mobile business and personal lifestyles," said David Wright, executive vice president and director of BVRP's OEM division.

About BVRP Software

Based in France, with OEM sales headquarters in the United States, the BVRP Software Group is a worldwide leading publisher of communications and mobility software and a major provider of personal and professional software designed for utilities, office productivity and multimedia. Founded in 1984, BVRP Software celebrates 20 years of innovation in 2004. BVRP products are marketed in over 100 countries, through e-commerce, OEM partnerships and IT resellers. In June 2003, BVRP Group formed Avanquest Global Software Publishing, a coalition of software publishers offering worldwide publishing resources to software developers everywhere. The group posted revenue of 48.6M euro and a net income of 3.9M euro in 2003, and revenue of 41.0M euro and a net income of 4.9M euro in the first three-quarters of 2004. Since December 1996, BVRP Software has been listed on the Euronext Nouveau Marche (ISIN FR0004026714). Additional information on BVRP is available at http://www.bvrp.com/ .

BVRP Software

CONTACT: Alan Penchansky, alan@thepengroup.com, or Irina Patterson, bothof The Pen Group, +1-305-529-1944, for BVRP Software

Web site: http://www.bvrp.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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