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Opera and Motorola Global Software Group
Sign Joint Product Offering and Distribution
Agreement
OSLO, Norway and SCHAUMBURG,
Ill. – 6 February 2004 – Opera Software ASA and Motorola,
Inc.’s (NYSE:MOT) Global Software Group (GSG) today announced that they
have entered into an agreement to deliver a joint product offering consisting of
Opera’s “full” HTML browser software and the WAP stack from
GSG’s browser software, creating one-stop shopping for cellular phone
browsers.
Opera’s full HTML browser
provides desktop functionality on a cellular phone. The combination with
GSG’s WAP stack allows the Opera browser to work in the WAP environment.
This joint product offering gives operators the benefit of their existing
investment in current WAP infrastructure, and at the same time the benefit of an
HTML browser. The product offering is designed to work on operators’
existing WAP infrastructure while enabling the revenue-driving HTML content that
is now basic to the embedded devices marketplace. Opera and GSG will each
license the combined product offering to operators. Opera will also license
Motorola’s WAP Browser and MMS device client to customers as individual
products.
“We are set to propel mobile
browsing into the full Internet,” says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera
Software ASA. “Today’s agreement allows Opera to let operators and
handset manufacturers gain revenue from past investments in WAP technology while
embracing the numerous possibilities in what is new to mobile
browsing.”
“We are pleased that
together we can bring to market a cellular phone browser product that provides
full HTML Internet access in a WAP environment,” says Amreesh Modi, vice
president, systems solutions and products division, at Motorola GSG. “Now
we can meet the needs of high-end, high-functionality, smart phone users, as
well as voice-centric phones
users.”
About Motorola Global Software
Group
The Motorola Global Software Group
designs and delivers leading edge software products and services for wireless
infrastructure, wireless subscriber, embedded solutions, private wireless
networks, automotive and broadband communications industries. GSG has over
3,000 engineers in 15 countries worldwide. For more information about the
Motorola Global Software Group device software products, visit www.motorola.com/microbrowser.
About
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is a global
leader in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies that
help make life smarter, safer, simpler, synchronized and fun. Sales in
2003 were U.S. $27.1 billion. Motorola creates innovative technological
solutions that benefit people at home, at work and on the move. The
company also is a progressive corporate citizen dedicated to operating
ethically, protecting the environment and supporting the communities in which it
does business. For more information: www.motorola.com.
About
Opera Software ASA
Opera Software ASA is an
industry leader in the development of Web browser technology, partnering with
companies such as IBM, Nokia, Sony, Motorola, Macromedia, Adobe, Symbian, Canal+
Technologies, Sony Ericsson, Kyocera, Sharp, Motorola Metroworks, MontaVista
Software, BenQ, Sendo and AMD. The Opera browser has received international
recognition from users, industry experts and media for being faster, smaller and
more standards-compliant than other browsers. Opera’s browser technology
is cross-platform and modular, targeting the desktop, smartphone, PDA, iTV and
vertical markets.
Opera Software ASA is a
privately held company headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with development centers
in Linköping and Gothenburg, Sweden, and a sales representative in Austin,
TX. Learn more about Opera at www.opera.com.
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Media
Contacts:
Opera
Software
Pal A.
Hvistendahl
Marcom
Director
Tel: +47 997 24
331
Fax: +47 24 16 40
01
US Toll Free: 1.888.624.4846 (Press only,
please)
press@opera.com
Margot
Brown
Motorola,
Inc.
+1 847.576.5245
Margot.Brown@motorola.com
MOTOROLA
and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.
All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
© Motorola, Inc. 2004.
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