Frost & Sullivan Honors CoreMedia's Exceptional CMS & DRM products with Product Line Strategy Award

London, UK – 27 September 2005 – For its ability to successfully integrate new products into its portfolio and therefore extend its product line to offer a more complete suite of content management solutions, CoreMedia AG has been selected to receive the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Product Line Strategy Award for the European Mobile Video and DVB-H TV markets.

“The company is lauded for effectively expanding its product line with CoreMedia Digital Rights Management (DRM),” notes Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Pranab Mookken. “In doing so, CoreMedia has further strengthened its product portfolio of content management solutions, providing enhanced and flexible options for the market.”

CoreMedia DRM, implements and combines the interoperable DRM standard defined by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) with Microsoft’s Windows Media DRM. Its multi-DRM technology enables an array of digital content services for both the media and telecommunication industries. Among the key characteristics of CoreMedia is that it was the first in the DRM industry to be OMA DRMv1.0 and OMA DRMv2.0 compliant while also offering a host of additional benefits.

Covering the entire 3G premium content value chain from the content owner (that designs the multimedia product) to the consumer, CoreMedia DRM enables operators and service providers to offer secure content distribution channels while also facilitating innovative peer-to-peer business models such as gifting and viral marketing through Superdistribution. Preparing for active involvement in the Broadcast Mobile Televisions market, the CoreMedia DRM on launch, will use a special broadcast edition of the OMA DRMv2.0.

Scaleable for different market segments, with home-domain delivery and multiple-device options in addition to three different levels of security, CoreMedia’s solutions offer unmatched flexibility. Other advantages of CoreMedia’s solutions include sharing capabilities, convergence and its built-in presence in almost 400 handsets in the market, which reach is unmatched by others in the market.

A strong proponent of digital intellectual property rights, CoreMedia has leveraged its expertise in multi-channel content delivery and its understanding of the media and telecommunications markets to design and carve out a distinctive position for its DRM offering.

In conclusion, the introduction of CoreMedia DRM has enhanced its CMS portfolio, thereby improving its offerings to varied market segments ranging from large and mid-sized network operators and content aggregators to service providers, OEM service delivery platforms and terminal vendors.

As a testimony to its DRM solution, CoreMedia’s content technology is currently being used by over 20 operators on all continents including companies such as Deutsche Telekom and the Vodafone Group for applications such as phone personalisation (ring tones, screensavers), full-track music over the air delivery, sports clips or video-on-demand.

“For demonstrating a lucid insight into customer needs and product demands as well as for optimising its product line to accommodate dynamic market requirements, CoreMedia AG is a worthy recipient of this award,” concludes Mr. Mookken.

“Winning this Product Line Strategy Award is a great honor for us and it proves our strong dedication to our innovation strategy”, states Willms Buhse, Director Products & Marketing of CoreMedia. “This award also goes to our customers and partners given their close collaboration and trust”.

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About Core Media - Strategic Content Technology

CoreMedia AG (www.coremedia.com) is a leading provider of state-of-the-art standard software for content management systems (CMS), digital rights management (DRM) and multi-channel delivery. CoreMedia is specialized on the high-end market for demanding content technology and mobile service delivery.

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, CoreMedia has over 130 employees and maintains a global network of implementation partners that includes 500 professional consultants.

With over 1,000 licenses sold, CoreMedia is a global innovation and technology leader for content technology. After winning the A.T. Kearney "Best Innovator" award, CoreMedia was recognized by Deloitte as the fastest-growing software company in Germany. In 2005 the Red Herring Magazine ranked CoreMedia in their Top 100 European companies for its leading role in innovation and technology.

Leading portal operators and enterprises in all industries trust CoreMedia for high-quality service and integrated information management. Over 100 companies in 20 countries within the telecommunications, media, industrial and financial sectors have successfully employed CoreMedia’s technology, among them industry leaders such as Bertelsmann, Continental, Deutsche Telekom, debitel, GMX, O2, EPCOS, NEC-Mitsubishi, MLP, Nokia, SEAT, T-Mobile, T-Online, Vodafone, Wincor Nixdorf, plus more than forty public-sector organizations. For more information, please visit www.coremedia.com.