DeviceAnywhere and Mobile Distillery Team to Optimize the Mobile Application Development...

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Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:01am EDT

DeviceAnywhere and Mobile Distillery Team to Optimize the Mobile Application Development Lifecycle

   Leading Developer of Automatic Porting and Optimizing Mobile
Applications Partners with DeviceAnywhere -- Allowing Its Users to
Benefit From Unprecedent Integrated Workflow, Shrinking Mobile
Application Development Schedules While Simplifying Production Efforts
SAN MATEO, Calif. & MARSEILLE, France--(Business Wire)--
DeviceAnywhere(TM) today announced the addition of Mobile
Distillery to its growing portfolio of DeviceAnywhere Connect(TM)
partners. Mobile Distillery, a European leader in enabling the
optimization and automatic porting of mobile Java and BREW
applications, is also one of the founders of DeviceAnywhere Connect
partner, the PACA Mobile Center, a non-profit phone library dedicated
to the development, testing, and integration of new applications into
phones. France-based Mobile Distillery joins companies worldwide --
including dotMobi, Netbiscuits, and MBlox -- as a DeviceAnywhere
Connect partner and, as such, will receive extended DeviceAnywhere
benefits for its user community.

   DeviceAnywhere and Mobile Distillery's solutions both radically
simplify the mobile application development process for BREW and
Java-based mobile applications, reduce porting and testing cycles
while generating cost savings, and accelerating time-to-market. Mobile
Distillery's in-demand Celsius software solution is a comprehensive
optimization and porting platform for BREW and Java mobile
applications that facilitates application development across a wide
range of mobile handsets, with only one Java source code, as well as
port multiple optimized versions. The market leader in mobile
development, porting, testing and monitoring solutions, DeviceAnywhere
solves one of the biggest challenges facing mobile application and
content developers: access to myriad handsets in target carrier
networks worldwide. Further, DeviceAnywhere reduces the cost and
burden associated with manual testing. The combined efficiency of
Celsius and DeviceAnywhere will provide users with the ultimate
development experience.

   "It is our goal to deliver to our customers the most advanced Java
and BREW mobile application development life cycle software solutions
available," said Vincent Berge, co-founder/general manager for Mobile
Distillery and president of PACA Mobile Center. "Through our
partnership with DeviceAnywhere, Mobile Distillery users will
dramatically shorten cycles between Development/Porting and Testing,
while accessing more than 1000 real devices in a convenient,
cost-efficient manner."

   "We are pleased to continue expanding the DeviceAnywhere Connect
program with mobile technology enablers that complement and extend the
DeviceAnywhere mission to improve mobile application development,"
said Faraz Syed, CEO and co-founder of DeviceAnywhere. "Mobile
Distillery's solutions aim to optimize the whole development cycle of
Java and BREW applications through a unique automatic porting process
and -- with DeviceAnywhere -- developers using Celsius will benefit
from a unique integrated workflow, enabling access to multiple carrier
networks from the convenience of their own desktops."

   "The ability to access real mobile devices though a simple desktop
interface can dramatically improve time-to-market," said Razmig
Sarkissian, integration & test manager for Mobile Distillery.
"DeviceAnywhere, the only solution with the hardware and software
required to build advanced Java and BREW apps in a real development
environment, accomplishes this feat. Moreover this partnership is a
testament to our ongoing mission to ensure that our users can fully
capitalize on the Celsius solution to significantly reduce the cost
and complexity of mobile content development."

   DeviceAnywhere provides thousands of mobile developers worldwide
access to more than 1000 real mobile devices, on live worldwide mobile
networks, remotely over the Internet -- for all development, porting,
testing, and monitoring needs. Unlike emulator/simulator based
solutions, DeviceAnywhere employs real physical handsets. Anything a
user can do with a device in his/her hand, can be done with the
handsets in DeviceAnywhere -- including pressing device buttons,
tapping on touch screens, viewing the LCD, listening to ringers and
speakers and even hardware specific functions such as
connecting/disconnecting the battery or opening/closing a handset.
Cost-effective and efficient, DeviceAnywhere eliminates the high cost
of manual testing and enables developers to bring content to market
faster than ever before.

   For more information about DeviceAnywhere and the DeviceAnywhere
Connect program, please visit www.deviceanywhere.com. For more
information about Mobile Distillery, please visit
www.mobile-distillery.com.

   About Mobile Distillery

   A specialist in mobile technologies, especially Java(TM) Micro
Edition and BREW, Mobile Distillery was founded in 2005 to solve the
platform and handset fragmentation issue that developers face when
developing Mobile content & service. Its software solutions reduce
porting cycles by up to 80%, generate cost savings, and accelerate
time-to-market of Java mobile applications while ensuring their easy
updates to new devices in European, North-American and Asian markets.

   Celsius, Mobile Distillery's award winning Automatic Porting
software solution, radically simplifies and optimizes the Java Mobile
application development life cycle -- from conception, development,
through porting, testing, to deployment and backfilling processes.
Thanks to Celsius, only 1 source code and a few clicks are needed to
allow developers to create individually optimized mobile applications
for more than 800 Java & BREW handsets (to date) and to ensure
backfilling for new devices.

   Mobile Distillery's customers include web specialists (Amadeus,
Mappy, Orange/Voila, Overblog, Sharewire, ...), mobile game publishers
(Exkee, Lexis Mobile, Visiware, ...), mobile marketing agencies
(Anxa/Playfone, CubeX Agency, Ubitouch, ...), IT service companies
(Atos Worldline, Prylos, SII, ...), as well as developers, publishers
and system integrators across the mobile application ecosystem.

   In 2007, more than 200 different mobile applications had been
created using Celsius solutions around the world. Celsius servers have
generated over 250,000 compilations in total.

   About DeviceAnywhere(TM)

   DeviceAnywhere is an award-winning product that provides
convenient and cost-effective end-to-end solutions for mobile content
development, monitoring, testing and deployment -- enabling
application developer to bring better content to market faster than
ever before. Its unique Direct-to-Device(TM) technology provides
access to real handsets in live global networks, from anywhere.
DeviceAnywhere currently supports more than 1000 devices on over 20
different carrier networks worldwide, with locations in the U.S.,
U.K., Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. To learn more about
DeviceAnywhere -- and to sign up for a free, three-hour trial --
please visit www.deviceanywhere.com.

   About DeviceAnywhere Connect(TM)

   The ability to access a live handset on a mobile operator and
perform the functions as if the real device was in your hands has
proven to be an invaluable asset for several disciplines within an
organization including Development, QA, Support, Operations as well as
Sales and Marketing. DeviceAnywhere Connect partners have recognized
this value.

   DeviceAnywhere Connect is DeviceAnywhere's exclusive partner
program and addresses the common goals shared across all aspects of
the mobile ecosystem: Delivery of high quality, compelling and
engaging mobile content and services faster and more efficiently than
ever before.

   This program is designed to extend the value and ROI associated
with the DeviceAnywhere solution as a complement to our partners'
existing product offerings to deliver world-class mobile application
solutions for testing and monitoring. To become a DeviceAnywhere
Connect member simply contact: Partners@deviceanywhere.com.

Mobile Complete
Randi Whitcomb, 650-655-6404
rwhitcomb@mobilecomplete.com
or
Mobile Distillery
Severine Vaselli, 00 33 612 683 806
severine.vaselli@mobile-distillery.com

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