Drutt Corporation powers Vodafone live! presented by A1

Stockholm, Sweden, 2004-05-25
mobilkom austria, the leading Austrian mobile operator, today announced the launch of Vodafone live! presented by A1, the highly acclaimed consumer service bringing customers a world of color, sound and pictures. Vodafone live! enables customers to use picture messaging, download polyphonic ring tones and color games and browse branded infotainment from integrated camera phones, through an easy to use icon-driven menu.

The service offering of Vodafone live! presented by A1 is based on a range of local and global content partners. The partner services have been seamlessly integrated into the offering, guaranteeing that services are up to date and provide high quality and optimal user experience.

Drutt Corporation, the market leading provider of device management and content integration products for mobile data services, has implemented its technology to ensure optimal end-to-end distribution of mobilkom austria’s service portfolio to end users.

Drutt provides mobilkom austria with:

• The best of breed mobile user interfaces and service presentation. Drutt Rendering offers mobilkom austria dynamic handling of images, icons, audio and video; device adaptation and service optimization for any mobile device type.
• A complete solution for seamless integration and management of partner content and applications. Drutt 3PI - a real time integration solution - enables rapid and cost effective population of partner services into mobilkom austria’s portal offerings.

In addition to the Austrian implementation, Drutt’s products and solutions are deployed with mobile operators VIPnet, Croatia, and Si.mobil, Slovenia – both mobilkom austria subsidiaries.

We are proud to be a part of mobilkom austria’s continued success in the mobile data services arena”, said Jonas Wilhelmsson, VP Marketing at Drutt Corporation. “mobilkom austria has a history of being at the very edge in this market; - for example, mobilkom austria launched the world’s first GPRS network and Europe’s first nation-wide UMTS network- and we are very excited to add value to the next wave of advanced mobile data services.”

“Drutt Corporation has demonstrated significant value in the preparation and launch of Vodafone live! presented by A1”, said Walter Goldenits, Head of IT, mobilkom austria. “Drutt’s international experience in working with other Vodafone countries has been very useful and allowed us to develop a powerful portfolio of premium services in a short period of time. Furthermore we achieved higher effectiveness and availability in the mobile application development.”

For further information, contact:
Jonas Wilhelmsson, VP Marketing
GSM: +46-70-655 1321 E-mail: jonas.wilhelmsson@drutt.com

mobilkom austria: With nearly 3.2 million customers and the network with the best speech quality, mobilkom austria AG & Co KG is Austria’s leading mobile communications operator. The company is a 100% subsidiary of Telekom Austria AG that is listed on the Vienna and New York stock exchanges. For more information on mobilkom austria, see www.mobilkomaustria.com

Drutt Corporation is a leading software company and solutions provider for mobile services infrastructure. Drutt offers a complete product portfolio for mobile service delivery. We have grown under profitability and currently have more than 300 installations in over 20 countries on 3 continents, including all Vodafone live! portals worldwide.

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