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Thursday, February 12, 2009

IKIVO and NUNET Team Up to Enrich Mobile TV Experience

IKIVO and NUNET Team Up to Enrich Mobile TV Experience

BARCELONA, Spain, February 12/PRNewswire/ -- NUNET AG, the world leader in delivery of mobile TV channels and
video-on-demand services, has signed a global partnership agreement with
IKIVO, the number one European provider of mobile rich media technology.

NUNET are specialists in video management for broadband, mobile and IPTV
and run more than 300 mobile TV channels across 20 countries, for providers
such as Vodafone, Telenor and Vodacom plus the first fully converged and
fully-managed video-on-demand platform supported by targeted video
advertisement.

IKIVO's Enrich product family ensures, that NUNET users, experience
vastly improved and enriched TV services. IKIVO Enrich technology also
ensures that NUNET's content is consistently reproduced across all types of
devices, including mobile phones and set-top boxes. The IKIVO solution will
work across multiple platforms and devices.

More functionality for the user interfaces is to be added during 2009,
including interactive widgets, advertisements and performance boosted through
hardware acceleration. In addition, proprietary solutions by the various
operators working with NUNET will be developed.

"We are very excited about working with NUNET, the world's leading mobile
TV provider, on improving and streamlining the visual consistency of its
services. Our Enrich products allow NUNET to concentrate on content, while we
take care of the user experience across multiple devices. This partnership
re-affirms our technology leadership, enabling us to expand into new market
segments," says Huw W. Hampson-Jones, CEO of IKIVO.

"We are delighted to strengthen our relationship with IKIVO, who are
renowned for its fantastic work in bringing a unique and converged user
experience to mobile devices and setup boxes. Together with our long
experience of content delivery towards all screens the partnership enables us
to even further provide a constant renewal of innovative services to our
customers," says Arnd Froehlich, CEO of NUNET.

The first IKIVO-powered NUNET mobile TV services will air in 2009.

Visit IKIVO and NUNET at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 16-19
February:



IKIVO: booth 2F13 in hall 2

NUNET: booth 2H47 in hall 2


About IKIVO

IKIVO is the leading supplier of rich media application enabling
solutions based on open standards, with a deployed base of more than 350
million mass-market and open OS mobile phones. These solutions empower mobile
operators, mobile device manufacturers and media companies to deliver rich
compelling services such as interactive user interfaces, mobile TV, mobile
advertising and on-device portals. The IKIVO product portfolio includes
modular sophisticated technology for embedding and over-the-air delivery, in
addition to industry standard tools for the development and deployment of
rich media mobile applications and solutions. For more information, please
visit http://www.ikivo.com

About NUNET

NUNET's core competence lies within the area of content
aggregation, enrichment and distribution for audio and video content. NUNET
is known for its advanced mobile TV streaming and its latest video-on-demand
service development. These services are completed by sophisticated customer
management tools, a business intelligence solution as well as a 3-screen
advertising environment. NUNET has very strong relationships with various
content owners and mobile network operators as well as internet service
providers. For more information please visit http://www.nunet.de.


Source: IKIVO AB

For further information please contact:, PR enquiries: Anna Lagerkvist, Cloudberry Communications, Tel. +46(0)70-240-88-25, anna@cloudberry.se; Sales enquiries:, Huw W. Hampson-Jones, CEO, IKIVO, Tel. +44(0)7836-208-725, huw@ikivo.com; Jonas Adolfsson, Partner manager, IKIVO, Tel. +46(0)70-305-25-20, jonas.adolfsson@ikivo.com; Frank Weiler, Head of business development, NUNET, Tel. +49(0)163-260-3333, frank.weiler@nunet.de; Leonie von Gadow, Director, international services, NUNET, Tel. +49(0)174-939-4002, leonie.gadow@nunet.de


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