Sporever and Bluestreak Join Forces to Offer Advanced Multimedia Sporting Event Platform for Mobile Operators

Sporever and Bluestreak Join Forces to Offer Advanced Multimedia Sporting Event Platform for Mobile Operators

Orange France Selects Joint Solution for Launch of League 1 Soccer Mobile Application

SAINT-CLOUD, France and DALLAS, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Groupe Sporever, a leader in mobile rights management, and Bluestreak Network, developer of the MachBlue(TM) platform for television and mobile, today announced a joint integration that delivers an advanced multimedia sporting event experience for mobile devices. Orange France will be the first mobile operator to launch the joint solution later this month with the introduction of its French League 1 soccer application.

The combination of Sporever's digital rights management with Bluestreak's MachBlue for Mobile platform enables mobile operators across Europe to launch a compelling and easy to navigate mobile sporting experience. The integrated platform will give mobile handset users access to sporting match highlights and reports including mid-match videos and all commentary and information before, during and after the game.

"We are pleased to collaborate with Bluestreak to help operators bring the world's most popular and watched sporting events to mobile devices," said Jacques-Henri Eyraud, Directeur general delegue, Sporever. "The combined application enables a new way for fans to enjoy their favorite teams with compelling features and an easy to navigate user interface."

Sporever "made for mobile" video clips provide near-live coverage of sporting events that enable soccer fans to watch the game highlights of his/her favorite team in a customized format with an original audio commentary. The highlights are available a few minutes after being scored thanks to a proprietary digital content publishing system.

For each Mobile Network Operator, Sporever will take care of rights management, if necessary negotiating rights on a case by case basis.

"We're pleased to partner with Sporever, the leading producer of mobile sports content and rights management, to offer mobile carriers a new and compelling application for their subscribers," said Paul Forostowsky, executive vice president, head of the mobile division, Bluestreak Networks. "The collaboration with Sporever offers mobile operators a combined platform to easily launch new multimedia applications that offers subscribers a new way to interact with their mobile devices."

Bluestreak's MachBlue for Mobile offers robust features while minimizing memory footprint, maximizing execution speed, conserving battery life, and retaining code portability on a large variety of devices. The MachBlue platform delivers a consistent, attractive mobile TV user experience, resulting in faster deployment and lower development costs.

About Groupe Sporever

Founded in 2000 by Patrick Chene, former Head of the Sports' division for France Televisions, and Jacques-Henri Eyraud, Groupe Sporever is a leading new media company dedicated to meeting the needs of the sports' fans, anytime, anywhere. Among its properties, the Company owns and operates high traffic web sites such Football365.fr and Sport365.fr. On a monthly basis the Company's sites generate 2,3 million unique visitors, 12,5 million visits and 60 million pages viewed (source: Wysistat, OJD certified). Groupe Sporever is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (code ALSPO -- Alternext).

About Bluestreak Network, Inc.

Bluestreak Network, Inc. is the provider of MachBlue, a software platform designed for operators, device manufacturers and content providers to deliver a richer, more engaging video experience on televisions and mobile handsets. Bluestreak's flagship product, MachBlue, is an open standards software platform that allows enhanced TV applications to be quickly developed and launched. MachBlue is designed to enhance navigation, graphical display and device functionality on all devices, including thin-resourced mobile devices and digital set-top boxes. www.bluestreaknetwork.com.

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CONTACT: Jacques-Henri Eyraud, Directeur general delegue of Groupe
Sporever, 33 (1) 49 11 64 00, or jh.eyraud@sporever.fr; or Stacy Oaksmith of
JLM Partners, +1-206-381-3600, or stacy@jlmpartners.com, for Bluestreak
Network, Inc.

Web site: http://www.bluestreaknetwork.com/

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