Avvenu Wins 2006 Mobility Award; The 2006 Mobility Awards Honor the Best Mobile Computing and Wireless Data Communications Products and Services

Business Wire, Jan 16, 2006

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Avvenu, Inc. was honored by MobileTrax LLC, a leading source of information on the mobile computing and wireless data communications industry, with a 2006 Mobility Award for Avvenu, a new remote access and sharing service. The Avvenu service lets business users and consumers securely access their office and home computers directly from their web-enabled mobile device. Launched this past September, Avvenu has also been honored recently with a 2006 PC World Innovations Award and the MobileTrax Best of Mobile Technology Award.

In addition to accessing their own content, Avvenu users can quickly and securely share access to their content with colleagues, friends and family. Avvenu users can securely access important documents when traveling, share pictures while still on vacation or distribute large files to colleagues -- in seconds. Avvenu also recently released a powerful new feature that lets users search their desktop computer from any web-enabled mobile device using Google Desktop Search.

"There's a need to honor the best and finest mobile computing and wireless data communications products and services," said J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., Chief Analyst with MobileTrax LLC. "Avvenu earned this year's recognition with remote access technology that provides links to files rather than pushing attachments and objects -- providing a much more efficient and effective use of bandwidth and modality of the device."

While Avvenu offers its service directly to consumers, the company is also working with major corporations to enable them to deliver this capability to their customers. At last week's Consumer Electronics Show, Motorola announced Motorola Share, a free service based on Avvenu technology that provides mobile users with on-the-go image access and sharing capabilities from a wide range of Motorola mobile devices -- including the popular RAZR, ROKR, and V557 models. Recently, Avvenu announced that the service is optimized for Palm devices, including the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 650 smartphone, the LifeDrive(TM) mobile manager, and the new Palm TX handheld with affordable Wi-Fi connectivity. The service gives Palm customers fast access to their files, folders and photos directly from their Palm devices. Avvenu also provides integrated support for Adobe's Photoshop(R) Album Starter Edition 3.0 and Photoshop Elements 4.0.

Avvenu is available free at www.avvenu.com.

About MobileTrax

MobileTrax, LLC is a Silicon Valley-based, professional services firm that focuses on the mobile computing and wireless data communications markets. MobileTrax provides market research, executive conferences and consulting services regarding enterprise and consumer markets. MobileTrax is headed by J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., a globally recognized authority on mobile computing and wireless data communications. More information can be found at www.mobiletrax.com.

About Avvenu

Avvenu's unique remote access and sharing technology gives users unobstructed access to their most important content from a web-enabled mobile device anytime and anywhere they have wireless access. The Avvenu service is based on the company's patent-pending technology in media routing and managed peer-to-peer content access and distribution. Avvenu, based in Palo Alto, California, is a privately held company with venture funding provided by Charles River Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners, and Motorola Ventures. For more information visit www.avvenu.com.

Avvenu is a trademark of Avvenu, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.