Broadcom and BVRP Partner to Dramatically Simplify Bluetooth®
Ease-of-Use between Computers and Mobile Devices
BVRP’s Market Leading Mobile PhoneTools® Mobility Suite to be Combined
with Broadcom’s Industry-Leading BTW Bluetooth Software Stack
Levallois-Perret, France - January 5, 2005
Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor
solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced it will combine BVRP’s
Mobile PhoneTools® with its BTW (Bluetooth for Windows) Bluetooth® software. BVRP is the
world leader in PC Telephony management software, and BTW is the most popular Bluetooth
software in the industry today. The marriage of the two industry leaders is the most powerful
and easy to use Bluetooth integrated solution for PCs and mobile phones.
With a single “click” customers can now connect to the Internet, send SMS, or they can
transfer pictures, music, video, calendar, and contact list to and from their PC and their mobile
phones – all without cables.
The new software package, which is available only
to Broadcom® Bluetooth partners, will also
streamline the process of configuring and
managing wireless personal area networks, and is
expected to significantly reduce customer support
costs.
« Simplifying the Bluetooth user experience has
become vitally important to ensure the
hundreds of millions of Bluetooth devices are
being used to their full potential, » said Scott
Bibaud, Senior Director of Marketing for
Broadcom’s
Bluetooth
products.
« Our
development with BVRP’s Mobile PhoneTools
software unifies all the leading synchronization
activities in a simple interface that perfectly
compliments our Widcomm BTW Bluetooth
software and addresses all the challenges that
end-users face. This is a natural and very
exciting partnership of two industry leaders. »
« BVRP is very pleased to partner with
Broadcom and package our Mobile PhoneTools
software with the most widely deployed
Bluetooth software in the industry, » said David
Wright, Executive vice president and director of
BVRP’s OEM division. « Combined with
Broadcom’s Bluetooth software and silicon
platform, our software takes any remaining
mystery out of the process of connecting to
and managing mobile devices from Windows®
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Broadcom’s customer testimonies
“ Belkin is always looking for ways to
expand our product offering, enhance the
ease of use, and reduce our support cost,”
said Eric Tong, Vice President –
Marketing and Product Development at
Belkin. “ We are excited about the
possibilities that this new product offers to
us, and congratulate Broadcom and BVRP
for their efforts in making Bluetooth
products more popular and compelling for
our customers”.
“Acer is always committed to deliver the
most advanced and easy to use
communication solutions to our customers,
and we are planning to offer the new
Broadcom/BVRP solution in early 2005,”
said Jerry Kao, Director of Product
Management,
Mobile
Computing
Business Unit, Acer Inc. “Broadcom is
our selected Bluetooth partner, and we are
very pleased with their progress and focus
on making their solution more feature rich,
robust, and easier to use. Broadcom’s
partnership with BVRP will undoubtedly
increase our Bluetooth attach rate, offer
new and exciting features, and reduce our
support cost”.
based computers. BVRP’s ongoing commitment to deliver the world’s leading solution
for PC Telephony software will continue to result in superior customer value and the
partnership with Broadcom will grow the popularity of our software to new levels ».
Broadcom has been granted exclusive rights to integrate BVRP’s specific designed Bluetooth
version of Mobile PhoneTools® software with its BTW software. The new software package will
be available only to Broadcom’s Bluetooth partners.
Software Simplifies Bluetooth Synchronization
The BVRP Mobile PhoneTools® software provides the user with a graphical representation of a
cellular phone that appears on the screen of their desktop or notebook computer. Once
connected via a wireless Bluetooth link, the user can operate all the primary phone functions –
much easier, directly from the computer. With the new software package the over 100,000,000
users of Bluetooth equipped mobile phones now can:
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Access and surf the internet via any GPRS/EDGE/CDMA cellular data links
Transfer pictures, music and video to and from their camera phones and their PC
Send and receive SMS messages directly from the PC
Exchange phone numbers and contact information between the PC and mobile phone
Synchronize calendars between the PC and mobile phone
Send and receive e-mail, faxes directly from the PC
Download and manage multimedia files, such as ring-tones, images, and other files.
Broadcom's WIDCOMM BTW 4.0 Bluetooth software incorporates the latest software "profiles"
to ensure a common set of features between two Bluetooth devices. Bluetooth profiles are
developed and standardized through the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). The
WIDCOMM BTW 4.0 software features many of the latest profiles which provide advanced
multimedia capabilities including Generic Audio Video Distribution Profile (GAVDP), Advanced
Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and Audio Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP).
WIDCOMM BTW 4.0 also supports the Basic Imaging Profile, which provides the ability to
"push" and "pull" images wirelessly between a mobile phone or digital camera and a PC.
Availability
The Widcomm BTW 4.0 software, which includes the BVRP Mobile PhoneTools® software, is
currently available to Broadcom’s strategic partners.
USB dongles and embedded modules with the new software package will be available in early
2005 from all of Broadcom partners, including Tecom, USI, Microlink/Foxlink, Billionton, WNC
(Wistron NeWeb Corporation), Foxconn, CC&C, Air2U, Formosa, and J3 among others.
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About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions that enable
broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. We design, develop and supply
complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions incorporating digital, analog, radio frequency (RF), microprocessor
and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies, as well as related hardware and software system-level
applications. Our diverse product portfolio addresses every major broadband communications market and
includes solutions for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes; high definition television (HDTV); cable and
digital subscriber line (DSL) modems and residential gateways; high-speed transmission and switching for
local, metropolitan, wide area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and terrestrial
wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband
network and security processors; and SystemI/O™ server solutions. These technologies and products
support our core mission: Connecting everything®. Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be
contacted at 1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.
About BVRP Software
Based in France, with subsidiaries in Germany, Great Britain, Spain and the United States, the BVRP
Software Group is a worldwide leading publisher of communications and mobility software and a major
provider of personal and professional software designed for utilities, office productivity and multimedia.
Founded in 1984, BVRP Software celebrates 20 years of innovation in 2004. BVRP products are marketed in
over 100 countries, through e-commerce, OEM partnerships and IT resellers. In June 2003, BVRP Group
formed Avanquest Global Software Publishing, a coalition of software publishers offering worldwide publishing
resources to software developers everywhere. The group posted revenue of €48.6M and a net income of
€3.9M in 2003, and revenue of €27.4M and a net income of €3.2M in the first half-year of 2004. Listed on
Euronext (ISIN FR0004026714) since December 1996, BVRP Software is part of the NextEconomy segment
and the SBF 250 index. Additional information on BVRP is available at http://www.bvrp.com
ISIN: FR0004026714
Reuters: BVRP.LN
Bloomberg: BVRP NM
BVRP’s contacts
Thierry Bonnefoi, Chief Financial Officer:
Analysts/Investors Relations
Tel.: +33 (0)1 41 27 19 74
E-mail: tbonnefoi@bvrp.com
Broadcom’s contacts
Trade Press
Henry Rael, Sr. Communications Specialist
Tel.: 949-926-5734
E-mail: hrael@broadcom.com
Lucie Rivaud
Press Relations
Tel. : +33 (0)1 41 27 19 96
E-mail: lrivaud@bvrp.com
Business Press
Bill Blanning, Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
Tel.: 949-926-5555
E-mail: blanning@broadcom.com
Christine Sauvaget
Communications
Tel. : +33 (0)1 41 27 19 82
E-mail: csauvaget@bvrp.com
Technical
Scott Bibaud, Sr. Director of Marketing, Bluetooth Products
Tel.: 949-926-5868
E-mail: sbibaud@broadcom.com
Investor Relations
T. Peter Andrew, Sr. Director, Investor Relations
Tel.: 949-926-5663
E-mail: andrewtp@broadcom.com
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