SEVEN Push Email Wins Award for Best New Innovative Product of 2006

Helsinki, Finland , 2006-12-04

SEVEN, the global leader in push email software, was awarded for its products at Norway's largest telecom event, Mobilgalla 2006, on the 29th of November in Oslo, Norway. This annual event is where Norway's telecom industry members award the best achievements of the year.

SEVEN, together with its Norwegian operator partner Mobyson was selected as finalist in two out of eleven categories. In "Best New Innovative Product 2006" SEVEN won in competition with Blackberry and Nokia/Intellisync. In the category "Best Operator Service 2006" Mobyson Push Email, powered by SEVEN, became runner-up after Netcom's Wireless Family.

"The winner of the award Best New Innovative Product 2006 goes to a company that has succeeded making mobile email as simple and fast as using SMS. The solution works on mobile devices with different operating systems, also on none so called smartphones", said the jury of Mobilgalla. "The award for best new innovative product goes to SEVEN and Mobyson who is using SEVEN's products for their push email services in the Norwegian market"

"This award clearly indicates that we are on the right track with our strategy which is making mobile email available for everyone," says Paul Hedman, COO at SEVEN. "Our technological efforts focus on end-user experience and cost efficiency. We partner with all major device manufacturers and have made our software capable on over 200 mobile device models supporting every major device operating system - not only smartphones but also the increasingly popular music and camera mobiles using Java/J2ME operating systems. At the same time, we work in conjunction with over 100 mobile operators - some of the largest and most innovative mobile operators in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East - making the mobile email available on just about everybody's mobile network."

Example of other categories at Mobilgalla 2006, was "Best Camera Mobile" and "People's Choice" (Sony Ericsson K800 won both) and "Best Music Mobile" (Sony Ericsson W850), both devices have support for SEVEN push email.

About SEVEN

SEVEN is a global provider of software that enables mobile operators, Internet email providers and service providers to offer their subscribers secure, low-cost, real-time access to business and personal email applications. SEVEN's software is specialized to meet the unique needs and requirements of the Fortune 500 enterprise, the small-to-medium organization, workgroups, individual professionals and consumers.

The SEVEN software supports all major device platforms, including BREW, J2ME, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm OS and Symbian-based phones, and currently ships on over 200 mobile phone models manufactured by Hitachi, HTC, HP, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Sanyo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba. SEVEN is available today across major international network standards, and has been chosen by 100 leading mobile operators and service providers worldwide including: including Alltel, Bharti, Cingular Wireless, Etisalat, Globe Telecom, Hutchison, KDDI Corp., Mobyson, NTT DoCoMo, O2, Optus, Orange, Sprint Nextel, Starhub, Telefonica Moviles, Telenor Group, Telkom Indonesia, Vimpelcom and Yahoo!. SEVEN is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, USA, with local offices around the globe. For additional information, visit www.seven.com.

SEVEN is a registered trademark of Seven Networks, Inc. Always-On Mail, Out of the Office, System SEVEN, SEVEN Personal Edition, SEVEN Enterprise Edition, and SEVEN Server Edition are also trademarks or service marks of Seven Networks, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks or trade names are those of their respective owners.
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