Red Bend Software's Mobile Software Management Solutions Are Selected by NTT DOCOMO

Red Bend Software's Mobile Software Management Solutions Are Selected by NTT
DOCOMO

Red Bend will enable DOCOMO to deliver innovative, personalized mobile
communications services

TOKYO, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Bend Software (Japan headquarters:
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Kazuhiro Abe), the market leader in Mobile
Software Management (MSM), today announced that NTT DOCOMO, INC.
(Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Ryuji Yamada), the
world's leading mobile operator and provider of advanced mobile services, has
signed a multi-year agreement to license Red Bend's full portfolio of mobile
software management solutions.

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The agreement with DOCOMO marks a major milestone for Red Bend in licensing
its full portfolio of MSM solutions directly to a tier one operator, and
signals the acceleration of market adoption of mobile software management. Red
Bend will provide DOCOMO with Red Bend's vCurrent(R) Mobile solution for
updating firmware over-the-air (FOTA), vRapid Mobile(TM) solution for managing
software components over-the-air (SCOTA) and vDirect Mobile(TM) device
management (DM) client.

DOCOMO is a global leader in the mobile telecommunications industry, known for
pioneering mobile communications networks and services including voice, data
and credit card business. It serves more than 54 million customers and is the
leading operator in Japan with 51.3% market share as of December 2008. The
success of i-mode(TM), DOCOMO's mobile data service in Japan, has been
expanded globally by operators seeking to leverage advanced technologies to
provide highly practical and convenient mobile data services. Red Bend will
have the ability to reach i-mode alliance partners as well.

"Japan's mobile consumers are the most demanding in the world and look for
personalized mobile devices that have the latest technology before they are
available elsewhere," said Kazuhiro Abe, President of Red Bend Software Japan
KK. "With this comprehensive agreement, DOCOMO once again will lead the mobile
industry in adopting innovative solutions like mobile software management. Red
Bend will work closely to support DOCOMO, its manufacturers and alliance
partners in adopting our MSM solutions to ensure their success."

In Japan, Red Bend is the leading provider of FOTA and DM software to mobile
phone manufacturers, including Sharp, NEC, Kyocera and others. Red Bend first
began providing FOTA software to DOCOMO subscribers in 2007. Red Bend is known
in Japan and worldwide for its proven technology performance, experience
supporting any mobile platform, dedicated local customer service and
innovative approach to mobile software management. Its MSM solutions enable
customers to increase revenues, reduce support costs and achieve faster time
to market of new mobile devices, applications and services.

Red Bend's MSM solutions have shipped in more than 300 mobile device models
reaching more than 500 million consumers worldwide. The company is the global
market leader in FOTA software, with 60% share of new FOTA-enabled mobile
phones, according to market research firm, Ovum. Red Bend offers the leading
independent DM client adopted by more than 30 manufacturers. Its SCOTA
solution is the first to manage any kind of software anywhere in the device
architecture on any type of mobile device. Red Bend's MSM solutions can be
integrated across mobile platforms, including Symbian OS, Android and
real-time operating systems, and are interoperable with servers supporting
Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA DM) standards.

For more information about Red Bend's mobile software management solutions,
please visit:
English: http://www.redbend.com/solutions/index.asp
Japanese: http://www.redbend.com/japanese/solutions/index.asp

NOTE: Red Bend recently combined its vCurrent(R) Mobile and vRapid Mobile(TM)
products together into a single solution for mobile software management; read
the press release at
http://www.redbend.com/news/view_article.asp?ID=741&TypeID=1.

About NTT DOCOMO
NTT DOCOMO is the world's leading mobile operator and provider of advanced
mobile services. The company serves over 54 million customers in Japan,
including 48 million using i-mode(TM), the world's most popular mobile
e-mail/Internet platform, and 49 million using FOMA(TM), the world's original
3G mobile service based on W-CDMA. As a leader in the development of
cutting-edge mobile technologies, DOCOMO is continually expanding the role of
mobile phones as versatile and highly personalized "lifestyle tools" for
everyday life, including with a wide range of innovative services for mobile
payments, GPS, mobile TV, multimedia content and much more. NTT DOCOMO is
listed on the Tokyo (9437), London (NDCM) and New York (DCM) stock exchanges.
For more information, visit www.nttdocomo.com.

FOMA and i-mode are trademarks or registered trademarks of NTT DOCOMO, INC. in
Japan and other countries. FOMA service is only available in Japan.

About Red Bend Software
Red Bend Software, the leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), provides
software solutions for managing firmware, applications and devices over the
air. The company's award-winning MSM products enable device manufacturers,
mobile operators and software developers to increase revenues, reduce support
costs and achieve faster time to market by remotely managing their software
assets on mobile devices. Red Bend's software has been deployed in more than
500 million mobile devices by seven of the top 10 handset manufacturers,
including Kyocera, LG Electronics, Motorola, Sharp, Sony Ericsson and ZTE, as
well as more than 30 other leading companies in the mobile, M2M and WiMAX
markets. Unlike device management vendors with proprietary end-to-end systems
and manufacturers' internally developed solutions that are platform specific,
Red Bend is the only company offering independent client software that is
interoperable with any standards-based server and that works with any platform
on any type of mobile device. Founded in 1999, Red Bend is a privately held,
venture capital-financed company with offices in China, Israel, Japan, Korea,
the U.K. and the U.S. To learn how Red Bend is bending rules and breaking
boundaries with mobile software management, visit www.redbend.com.

SOURCE Red Bend Software

Christopher Leary of Red Bend Software, +1-781-890-2090 ext. 227,
christopher.leary@redbend.com, or Kayoko Sato of Red Bend Software Japan,
+81-3-6860-4550, kayoko.sato@redbend.com