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Enea Software Now Powers Over 350 Million Handsets

Momentum and Growth On the Rise as Major RTOS Player Captures Sizeable Market Share

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, and SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 12, 2008 – Enea (Nordic Exchange/Small Cap/ENEA), a world leading provider of network software and services, today announced that its software platforms now power over 350 million mobile devices worldwide, a sharp increase from 2007.

“Handset manufactures are turning to Enea as the foundation of their next generation handset designs because we offer the best business and technical solution,” said Johan Wall, president and CEO of Enea. “Our rapid growth and increased device presence over the past year clearly demonstrates that having scalable software platforms, supported by an extensive portfolio of professional services, is a winning combination for our customers. Our market share growth is a reflection of their success.”

The Enea family of real time operating systems is the only proven solution that scales from the most powerful mobile application and control possessors down to the most resource constrained DSPs in baseband radios. Utilizing this common platform architecture across all nodes on the phone delivers lower software production and bill of materials cost by driving development efficiency, narrowing training and ramp up time, and reducing memory requirements.

OSE is a feature rich RTOS, designed for the highest reliability, security, and availability in distributed communications applications, while Enea’s DSP-optimized RTOS, OSE ck, brings the same key benefits in a compact, blazingly fast package. Both operating systems leverage Enea LINX to provide reliable, high-performance, interprocess communications services that make complex distributed systems easier to conceptualize, model, partition, and scale. The combination of OSE, OSE ck and Enea LINX is ideal for mobile handsets which have seen a strong increase in the number of on device processing nodes, essentially evolving into integrated, distributed systems in the palm of the user’s hand.

The OSE family is widely noted as one of the leading commercial RTOS solutions used worldwide by major handset OEMs and ODMs. Approximately half of the world’s 3G mobile phones and base stations rely on Enea software.