Press Release March 15, 2007

CeBIT 2007: ubitexx winner of the European Technology Prize ‚ICT'

Paris / Munich. The European commission has announced the software house ubitexx for its central user rights management for mobile end devices "ubiControl and ubiManager" winner of the "European ICT Prize". Thus ubitexx is among the best 20 companies for information and communication technology in Europe and competes as one of 20 finalists for the three Grand Prizes of €200,000 each. On suggestion of an expert jury from 19 countries, the European commission will select the three Grand Prize winners at CeBIT 2007. The awards ceremony will take place on the 16th of March at the world largest computer trade fair. European Commissioner Mrs Viviane Reding and Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster, Chairman of the Executive Jury Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI, will hold the solemn ceremony.

The European ICT Prize is the most distinguished prize for innovative products and services in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. Since 1995 the European Council of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering (EURO-CASE) presents the awards on behalf of the European commission.

For the first time secure Smartphones control

450 innovative companies and organisations from 30 countries have applied for this year's "European ICT Prize" - an all-time record for the 13 years of the Prize. International experts evaluated all the represented solutions according to certain criteria such as technical excellence, innovative content, and potential for improving competitiveness. The innovative Mobile Security Solution of ubitexx positioned itself directly into the Top 20. With ubiControl administrators can fix and control user rights and company specific security information for the first time for Smartphones.

ubiControl controls on the device, which functions and applications the employee may run. The employee cannot bypass the specific security settings on his device, e.g. download games and music, surf over an uncertain HotSpot at the airport or setup private mail accounts. Companies can administrate security settings and device configurations cost-efficiency with ubiManager. Interesting for Application Service Provider (ASP): Services and applications can be implemented with ubiManager companywide on mobile end devices.

Thus mobile devices are protected against maloperation. They run more stable - without performance loss. Support costs fall. Employees can access on the way securely and trouble-free to messages and company's data.

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