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PICSEL TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES PICSEL CONTENT PLATFORM FOR NOKIA SERIES 60 AND SERIES 80 PLATFORMS

Picsel's Photo Viewer, File Viewer and Browser applications enables smart phone owners to access pictures, email attachments and the Internet

GLASGOW, UK and CTIA Wireless, New Orleans - 14th March 2005 - Picsel technologies, a leading provider of solutions that enable intuitive interaction with rich content on small screen devices, today launched Picsel Content Platform for Nokia Series 60 and Series 80-based devices.  Series 60 and Series 80 Platform devices from Nokia utilise Symbian OS™, the world's leading smartphone operating system, with over 25 million devices already in the market.

Picsel's Content Platform, including its Photo Viewer, File Viewer and Browser applications, is now available for Series 60 and Series 80 smartphones. The Series 60 and Series 80 smartphone architecture provides users with all the basic and advanced cellular phone functions in a compact device characterised by a large colour screen, rich communications and enhanced applications.

Picsel Photo Viewer, File Viewer and Browser applications will deliver a rich user experience to owners of Nokia smart phones, allowing them to manipulate pictures, read full email attachments and surf the Internet intuitively through a single user interface. These industry leading applications from Picsel will be delivered through various distribution channels and partnerships, with further details to be announced later this year.

Imran Khand, Picsel CEO, said: "We are delighted with the market opportunity that the Nokia Series 60 and Series 80 Platforms present for the Picsel Content Platform. The two architectures are ideally suited and we look forward to this to be the first step towards a successful relationship for Picsel and our customers."

Brad Brockhaug, Senior Director, Business Development & Channels, said: "Picsel's Content Platform with Picsel Browser, File Viewer and Photo Viewer is a great example of how an innovative developer can enhance the product offering of a mobile phone manufacturer or operator. The exciting product announcement today by Picsel underscores the value of deploying applications on Nokia's platforms."

The Nokia-developed Series 60 Platform, based on Symbian OS, brings open standards and multi-vendor support to the smartphone market. Series 60 devices offer users powerful features such as Internet browsing, multimedia communications and audio and video streaming, plus the ability to play graphics-intensive games and tap into corporate servers to expand the presence and capabilities of enterprise applications.

Nokia's Series 80 platform devices are typified by a rich and intuitive user interface. Series 80-based products feature large screens, a full QWERTY keyboard and multi-way scroll for easy user interface navigation. With the Series 80 device, professionals can easily access internet content, as well as read, view and edit attachments, reply, and effectively manage their email. Series 80 is a standards-based development platform providing an excellent open programming environment for top-performance enterprise applications.

ABOUT PICSEL

Picsel brings mobile content to life through a unique suite of patented User Interface functions, which delivers a superbly rich and intuitive user experience on small screen devices. The company has offices in Europe, Asia and the US which serve customers that include Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Sony, and BenQ. For more information visit www.picsel.com

ABOUT PICSEL PHOTO VIEWER

Picsel Photo Viewer, a new addition to the Picsel Content Platform, offers mobile users a fun, and intuitive way to display and manipulate their photographs on phones. Delivering a uniquely rich graphical experience, users can exploit the software to pan and zoom photos, edit and change colours, add clip art objects or even create mini presentations.

ABOUT PICSEL FILE VIEWER

Picsel File Viewer is a lead application from Picsel's range of content enabling solutions which can enable any kind of rich content experience to be delivered on any device. Picsel File Viewer enables users to view and intuitively navigate Microsoft Office documents and Adobe PDF documents in high resolution and easily magnify content to any desired level while maintaining high definition for high quality detail. This is all done without the need for content re-engineering or device syncing.  Reinforcing the company's position as the leading content platform of choice for mobile, Picsel's technology allows high-end multi-media functionality to be delivered across all phones and operating systems.

ABOUT PICSEL BROWSER

Picsel Browser lets users interact with every kind of digital content - websites, documents, presentations, spreadsheets etc - whilst they're on the move. Picsel Browser runs on a wide range of mobile handsets and integrates seamlessly with any application, to display attached or locally stored documents by taking responsibility for known file-types.