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Novosoft LLC. wins SIMagine 2001 Innovation Award at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes.

March 13, 2001, Novosibirsk

Novosoft, Inc. today announced that it won the SIMagine Innovation Award at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France as a result of the company's participation in the 2001 Worldwide GSM and Java Card Developers Contest.

The 3GSM World Congress was the largest international gathering of leading mobile telephony providers, hardware manufacturers, and software development companies specializing in wireless communication to date. The Congress included the culmination of the SIMagine 2001, Worldwide GSM and Java Card Developers Contest, which was organized to promote a wide range of wireless communication services offered by GSM providers. The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is the international roaming standard for wireless phones and has more than 452 million users in 160 countries accounting for approximately 70 percent of the world market.

The Worldwide GSM and Java Card Developers Contest was organized by industry leaders Bull and Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com). Out of 134 initial candidates representing 30 countries of the world, 60 were chosen to participate in the contest. Only ten finalists were selected to take part in the awards ceremony, which occurred on February 22, 2001 in the Majestic Hotel in Cannes. With most of the ten finalists being from Europe, Novosoft was the only Russian company included among them. "This award demonstrates the quality of our Russian programmers and attests to the potential of the software industry in Novosibirsk, which is rapidly gaining world recognition as the 'Silicon Taiga'" said Novosoft's CEO Sergey Kovalyov.

Novosoft presented two advanced wireless solutions in the contest: Remote Control and Mobile Instant Messenger. Both of the solutions won acclaim from the leading manufacturers of telecom equipment and software represented in the conference.

Remote Control Application allows users of GSM phones to monitor a wide range of network-connected devices, from home appliances to industrial equipment. Since Novosoft's solution operates through wireless phone networks it is works over greater distances than other remote control applications based on Bluetooth, HomeRF, or Jini. In turn, it provides a low-cost, efficient way to control connected devices and to check their status from almost any location.

Mobile Instant Messenger allows owners of regular GSM handsets to access ICQ, AOL, or MSN instant messengers, or any other messaging network without having to directly connect to the Internet. Users can send and receive messages, create and modify contact lists, see the status of online users, access message histories, and do many other tasks as well.

Both of Novosoft's solutions provide competitive, value-added services that will be of use to many GSM operators worldwide. Remote Control opens new horizons for manufacturers of network-controlled equipment to increase the value of their products and services. Mobile Instant Messenger will appeal to the multitude of Internet messaging service users - over 100,000,000 people worldwide - and to the users of GSM Short Message Service (SMS).

For more information on Novosoft's involvement in the SIMagine 2001 event, please contact Vitaly Soukhovsky or Andrey Deriabin via phone +7 (3832) 39-53-68 or 33-37-96 or email sales@novosoft-us.com

Company Information:

Novosoft LLC. (www.novosoft-us.com) is one of the leading, Russian-based offshore programming companies operating in the market of custom software development. The company, founded in 1992, has incorporation in Austin, TX, and a staff of 350+ experienced software engineers residing in Novosibirsk, Siberia. Novosoft has worked with major customers such as Samsung America, Hewlett Packard, and IBM. The company, a certified IBM and Lotus business partner, has a proven track record of more than 450 successfully completed projects ranging from desktop applications to electronic and mobile commerce systems.

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