AU-System Signs General Agreement with Comneon

AU-System Signs General Agreement with Comneon Stockholm, Sweden, and Nuremberg, Germany - August 16, 2001 - AU- System, a leading mobile Internet consultancy, and COMNEON, a leading developer of software for mobile terminals, have signed a general agreement. The agreement means that COMNEON will commission AU-System to develop applications for COMNEON's platform for mobile terminals. This will also involve adapting the software's user interface to meet the wishes of COMNEON's customers regarding both graphical appearance of the interface and navigation. "Strategic collaboration is becoming increasingly important in the mobile-terminal market," says Christer Björk, Business Area Manager at AU-System. "I view the fact that COMNEON has chosen to work with us as further proof of both our expertise in the area of mobile terminals and our extensive experience of working internationally." In addition to the general agreement, AU-System will also license software, for example, the AUS WAP Browser, for use with COMNEON's application platform. The collaboration between the two companies has already resulted in several joint customer projects. "With this cooperation between AU-System and COMNEON we strengthen our innovative application platform AXE." says Dr. Christian Mucke, Managing Director of COMNEON. "Our customers will benefit from a whole range of flexible solutions based on the enhanced portfolio of applications". Media Contacts: Christer Björk, Business Area Thomas Lindner, Senior Director Manager Marketing AU-System AB COMNEON Tel: +46 70 638 16 01 Tel: +49 911 3788 226 About AU-System AU-System is a leading Mobile Internet consultancy. Through the subsidiary SandbergTrygg, the company also offers integrated services for marketing communications. Major clients include Ericsson, Telia, Scania, Nordea and Singapore Telecom. AU-System was established in 1974 and currently employs more than 1,000 staff in offices in Sweden, the U.K., Italy, the U.S., Thailand and Singapore. AU-System is listed on Attract40 of the Stockholm Exchange, under the symbol AUS. For more information, please visit www.ausystem.com. About COMNEON COMNEON, a 100% subsidiary of INFINEON Technologies AG, has been developing and marketing GSM software since 1990 and has accumulated more than 500 man-years of experience in the development of GSM, GPRS and UMTS protocol software. The track record of successful projects includes type approvals of GSM phase 1, phase 2 and phase 2+. Those GSM software products are available in high-volume in markets world-wide. With more than 100 software engineers in different locations in Europe and Asia Pacific, COMNEON demonstrates its high competence in all areas of 2G and 3G mobile communications. Committed to excellence, COMNEON has been using state-of-the-art tools for software development and configuration management. All processes are performed in accordance with the principles of Total Quality Management. About COMNEON and AXE COMNEON's Application eXecution Environment AXE is an object oriented framework for development of man machine interface and applications for mobile terminals. It is designed to meet the special requirements of mobile, embedded devices and exposes APIs, which are specific to mobile phones. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/08/16/20010816BIT00360/bit0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/08/16/20010816BIT00360/bit0002.pdf