BlackBerry® Partners with Miyowa

April 2, 2010

Blackberry

San Francisco, Ca., April 2, 2010 – Miyowa, the leader in aggregating social networks on mobile phones continues the deployment of InTouch 5™--its powerful service for providing integrated social communities and real time presence -- announcing today its availability on BlackBerry® mobile smartphones.

BlackberryThe first InTouch 5™-enabled Blackberry® handsets with Windows Live® Messenger were delivered to Orange France: the Blackberry® 8320 and the BlackBerry® 9000.
Blackberry® chose to deploy InTouch5™ Dashboard, Miyowa’s patented technology, which offers mobile optimized connection and access to social networks, blogging, instant messaging, mail and RSS feeds, providing a unique user experience.

“Miyowa’s partnership with BlackBerry and their selection of our technology underscores Miyowa’s market leadership in rich mobile messaging,” said Pascal Lorne, Miyowa’s CEO. “BlackBerry is certainly one of the world’s most significant mobile providers”.

This new major launch with Blackberry® occurs on the heels of Miyowa’s recent launch of a preloaded client program that embeds InTouch5™ software client onto handsets for all the major mobile brands in the market.

Miyowa has now deployed its rich social networking aggregation and messaging solutions onto hundreds of handsets, with 30 mobile operators worldwide.

About InTouch 5™ Dashboard
InTouch 5™ Dashboard offers all-in-One community services on mobile:
- The interactive Social Dashboard allows simultaneous community access. It stimulates   usage with presence, mood and notification display
- Most popular Social Network communities (Facebook, Twitter...)
- Multi-IM: Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Messenger, Google Talk

- Multi-Mail: Generic Mail from different mail service providers (POP3, IMPA4)
- InTouch 5™ Dashboard is advertising ready:
•    Connected to major mobile advertising agencies and to carrier marketing
•    Unique advertising and CRM features

About Miyowa
Miyowa is the market leader in unifying the social networking experience on mobile phones.  It provides InTouch5™, a platform that combines all forms of messaging with presence, alerts, and social networking communities on mobile phones.  InTouch5™ is in use by 30 major carriers and multiple handset manufacturers worldwide. Miyowa’s partners include major portals and social networking companies including Yahoo, AOL, Twitter, and Facebook. In November 2009, Deloitte named Miyowa in the Top 20 EMEA Technology Fast 500.

About Research In Motion (RIM)
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity. RIM’s portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.
Research In Motion, RIM and BlackBerry are trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. Research In Motion and RIM are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be pending or registered in other countries. All other brands, products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

For further press information, please contact Miyowa
Mike Kaul, CMO, contact North America – T: +1 (530) 798 6221 – mike@miyowa.com

Yann Mondon, Head of PR, contact EMEA – T: +33 (0) 630 512 294 – yann@miyowa.com

For Blackberry, RIM, please contact
RIM – Julie Paillard – T: 33 (0) 6 62 11 38 43 – jpaillard@rim.com

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