acticom GmbH and O&O Software GmbH announce today the taking over of a majority holding in acticom GmbH. In doing so, O&O expands its competence into the "Mobile Networks and Applications" field.

In December, 2006, O&O Software GmbH from Berlin, Germany took a majority holding in acticom GmbH, a company with headquarters also in Berlin. This expands O&O's already comprehensive product portfolio to include essential know-how in the development of applications for mobile networks and end user devices, whilst speeding up advancement of the existing product line specializing in innovative communication. At the same time, acticom will benefit from O&O's involvement in being able to provide much stronger support to its customers and in the development of new products in the System Component market.

"Our two companies have enjoyed very close contact for many years now, and this has borne fruit in the projects we have undertaken together", said Olaf Kehrer, Managing Director of O&O Software GmbH. "As a result of this partnership we had the vision of joining forces in the future in order to become a stronger and better player in the software application market."

As a third party software supplier to the global telecommunication players, acticom GmbH is already ideally placed as a Center of Excellence in wireless telecommunication. System Components and specialist solutions count among acticom GmbH's core products in the acticom mobile networks division.

"Through integration into the O&O Group, we have taken a huge step closer to our ultimate aim of establishing acticom as the wireless Center of Excellence in the field of consumer applications and programs for mobile end user devices, in the form of acticom mobile applications. The broad Telecommunication Know-How of acticom GmbH will be coupled with O&O's vast experience and knowledge of tools and applications for end users. The goal is a broad palette of intelligent and communicative applications for every mobile end user device, which represents a potent and hugely profitable market in the future for both acticom, the O&O Group and our customers," said Gerrit Schulte, Managing Director of acticom GmbH.

acticom GmbH will continue to exist as an independent brand in the "Mobile Networks" and "Mobile Applications" fields, but within the O&O Group. All existing and new customers will continue to be served by acticom GmbH.

About acticom GmbH

acticom GmbH from Berlin, Germany has been offering specialized Know-How in wireless telecommunication, local area network security and multimedia data compression in networks since 1999. Since 2001, acticom has been developing and marketing specialized Protocol Stacks in the aforementioned fields for integration into mobile telephones, core components of mobile telephone networks, software solutions and operating systems. Its customers include manufacturers of products in the wireless communication systems field, for example WLAN Access Points, mobile telephones, mobile telephone networks, Chip Set manufacturers, or software solutions for mobile end user devices. Applications for mobile end user devices are since 2005 a new area of business for acticom GmbH. In this field, solutions are developed for consumers, medium sized businesses and large companies. The Protocol Stacks and solutions of acticom GmbH: RoHC, RoHC_wimax, RoHC_mobile, 8021x_toolkit, 8021x_auth, authFW_wimax, 8021x_mobile. Applications for mobile end user devices: acticom_supp - Safeguarding WLAN Access.

About O&O Software

O&O Software GmbH has been developing "Tools for Windows" since 1997. Customers include home users, SMEs, public institutions and global business groups. These tools are effectually sold directly and by using our partner network and are available in more than 50 countries. The product portfolio includes applications for performance optimization, system administration, data restoration and the secure deletion of data. O&O products have been judged as technologically leading in numerous tests. You can find more information and free trial versions of all products on our website. O&O’s products include O&O BlueCon, O&O CleverCache, O&O Defrag, O&O DiskImage, O&O DiskRecovery, O&O DriveLED, O&O FormatRecovery, O&O MediaRecovery, O&O RescueBox, O&O SafeErase, O&O ToolBox and O&O UnErase.
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O&O Software GmbH, Am Borsigturm 48, 13507 Berlin, Germany
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