2007-04-26
Birdstep upgrade KPN mobile broadband client to Microsoft Vista and MAC OS X
~ Birdstep expands existing relationship with KPN Netherlands by receiving orders to upgrade to Microsoft® Vista® as well as MAC OS X. The orders also include laptop software licenses to cover for 2007 growth~
Oslo/Stockholm/Cambridge/San Francisco– April 26, 2007 –Birdstep Technology ASA, the leading provider of seamless connectivity and mobility software for laptop, PDA's and Smartphones, today announced further engagement to deliver laptop software licenses to KPN Netherland including a product upgrade to Birdstep EasyConnect. The order includes both an operating system upgrade to Microsoft® Vista® and MAC OS X as well as additional high speed modems for both operating systems.
The EasyConnect software will be used by KPN to provide their subscribers with leading edge client technology for seamless connectivity and access to KPN's mobile data offering. This upgrade continues to push forward their leading position on the enterprise market.
““We are proud of KPN's trust in Birdstep Technology and our ability to deliver world leading client software for all types of modems and devices across all commercial platforms available on the market “said Petri Markkanen, CEO, Birdstep Technology
Birdstep has, with the solid experience of more than 40 operator deployments and many first to market launches, the expertise needed to provide the best ease-of-connectivity client in the market. For more than 6 years our connection manager have been used and enjoyed by millions of users all over the world. It has given Birdstep the leading technical and commercial experience necessary to guide our customers to successful market launch.
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About Birdstep (www.birdstep.com)
Birdstep Technology ASA is a public company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) under ticker 'BIRD'. The company is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with four wholly-owned subsidiaries: Birdstep AB in Sweden, Birdstep Technology Inc. in Seattle, Birdstep Technology in San Francisco, US and Birdstep Technology Ltd in Cambridge, UK.
Birdstep Technology is a global software development, marketing and sales company offering seamless connectivity and mobility client software for mobile data users on laptops, pocket PC and Smartphones as well as state-of-the-art embedded database technologies.
Birdstep has an installed base at more than 40 operators globally including T-mobile Group, Vodafone Group, Orange, TIM, Turkcell, TMN, KPN, Sprint, Telenor and TeliaSonera. The company also cooperates with global partners such as Nokia, SonyEricsson, Cisco, Intel, Ericsson, Nortel Networks, HP and Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
Microsoft and Vista is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. MAC OS X is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.
For further press information and photography please contact Robert Vangstad at Birdstep
Tel: +46 (0) 730 58 45 00
