GIPS Media Processing Technology Enables Movial to Deliver Highest-Quality Mobile VoIP Experience to Users of New Social Networking Application

BARCELONA, Spain — February 13, 2008 — Global IP Solutions (GIPS) the leading provider of high-quality VoIP media processing, today announced that Movial, the company that inspires rich, intuitive Internet experiences, has launched its Social Communicator software application utilizing GIPS’ VoiceEngine technology.

Social Communicator makes social networking truly social on mobile and PC devices by bringing voice and video calling, social media content (e.g. YouTube, RSS feeds, Flickr, etc.), unified messaging, online information delivery, and video feeds together for effortless content sharing and real-time communication. Using GIPS media processing, Social Communicator ensures that its VoIP functionality, both on mobile phones and PCs, is the highest-quality experience available.

“With GIPS media processing technology Movial is able to provide consistent, high-quality VoIP communication to users,” said Victor Donselaar, president of Movial. “More than 15 operators around the world rely on Movial’s unified communications solutions today. Social Communicator is the bridge that unites mobile operators with Internet companies to encourage more communication, and helps carriers increase average revenues per user.”

VoiceEngine Mobile allows developers of VoIP applications for mobile environments to overcome unique obstacles, such as network degradation, device limitations acoustic echoing, and background noise via a single, high-level API on Symbian, OSE and Windows platforms supporting both narrowband and HD voice.

“Movial’s Social Communicator delivers a truly new way to unite the carriers’ core business of communication with social communities,” said Steve Rust, vice president of business development at Global IP Solutions. “Movial’s offering provides high-quality mobile VoIP functionality, which can be a boost for carriers worldwide in attracting new subscribers, new communication, content and advertising revenue.”

Offered by service providers, Movial’s Social Communicator empowers subscribers with new ways to enjoy social networking with anyone – using any device or combination of devices, all in real time.

Movial inspires rich, intuitive Internet experiences for companies embracing transformational technologies. Leveraging its deep expertise in Internet, Linux and mobile devices, Movial seamlessly enables its customers to deliver richer user experiences to millions of people on PCs and on mobile devices. Movial's device creation, Internet communications applications and design for digital services are generating revenue for industry leaders like ARM, Nokia, Orange, Telefónica, and TMN. By delivering highly intuitive and compelling user experiences, Movial has become the trusted source for enriching the way people interact everyday. For more information, please visit http://www.movial.com.

 
About Global IP Solutions

GIPS provides best-in-class voice and video in end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss for service providers, enterprises, applications developers, network equipment, gateway and chip manufacturers. GIPS’ customer list includes Nortel, Samsung, WebEx, Yahoo!, AOL, EarthLink and other key players in the VoIP market. GIPS is a member of the Intel® PCA Developer Network, Motorola Design Alliance, Symbian Platinum Partner Program and Texas Instruments’ third-party developer network. GIPS is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Stockholm, Boston and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit http://gipscorp.com.

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