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Middleware, OS & Service Partners

Opera works with partners to integrate its browser on a wide range of technology. In order to extend mututal distribution and presence, Opera and its middleware, RTOS, silicon and key systems integrator partners are constantly innovating to deliver state-of-the-art products and technology.

Accedo Broadband

Accedo is a leading aggregator of interactive content and applications for IPTV and broadband enabled consumer electronics. Accedo provides the largest available multi- platform portfolio of IPTV applications, Accedo Application PortfolioT, containing e.g. IPTV games, quizzes, puzzles, video art, comics, karaoke, weather and communication. Accedo offers a turnkey solution compatible with most IPTV platforms including a provisioning solution managed and run by Accedo which saves resources, increases deployment speed and reduces investment needs for the service provider.

Accedo is a privately held company founded by telecom and media entrepreneurs Michael Lantz and Fredrik Andersson. Accedo has offices in Stockholm, Sweden and London, UK.

To learn more about Accedo Broadband please visit www.accedobroadband.com.

Amino Communications

Amino Communications supplies the AmiNET™ series of set-top boxes renown for their low-cost and reliability. The AmiNET range materially reduces service operators' capital expenditure, whilst offering the full range of specification required; MPEG2 and MPEG4 encoding standards, standard and high definition TV, personal video recording and home networking. The high performance coupled with the innovative design of Amino's set-top boxes, have brought the series industry accolades and the company a leading position within the IPTV market.

Approximately 700,000 AmiNET IPTV set-top boxes have been used in over 50 countries worldwide by more than 400 customers in commercial deployments and trials. The set-top boxes have also been sampled by another additional 700 customers. Amino Communications' principal customers are telecommunications, broadcast and hospitality service operators. Generally, AmiNET products are supplied with the IntAct™ IPTV software stack pre-loaded.

Amino Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amino Technologies plc. listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM, symbol AMO. Amino is based near Cambridge, UK, and has offices in Atlanta Georgia and Hong Kong.

Find more information at www.aminocom.com/.

Dreampark

Dreampark is a Swedish company with major Scandinavian TV-operators as largest customers. Their main product is the IPTV Middleware "Dreamgallery" which provides an attractive and user friendly GUI. The competent back office system gives operators large freedom when it comes to setting up a portal to implement IPTV and broadband strategies. Dreampark has integrated the Dreamgallery product with Opera for highest possible performance on Set Top Boxes.

Orca Interactive

Orca Interactive develops and markets highly scalable solutions for commercial iTV services. Orca's software products address the needs of movie-on-demand providers, broadcasters, cable operators, FTTH, xDSL operators, content providers and broadband ISP operators who wish to generate additional revenues by offering rich media content to their subscribers. Orca Interactive supports the Opera browser with its HTML user interface (called SUI) for IPTV applications - called RiGHTv.

IBM

IBM (NYSE:IBM) is the world's largest information technology company and creates, develops and manufactures advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics.

IBM has ported Opera for Devices browser software to its "system on a chip" solutions power PC 405 family (Vulcan & Redwood) based on Montavista Linux and QNX.

Opera has worked with IBM on the Multimodal browser implementation to produce the worlds first browser controlled by speech recognition, the functionality is to appear in Opera enabled set top boxes in 2005.

Find more information at www.ibm.com.

MontaVista Software

Opera and MontaVista form a strong alliance to offer solutions for embedded device manufacturers. The combination of MontaVista's Linux operating systems for embedded products and Opera's speed, modularity and small size results in minimal demand on system resources, thereby reducing hardware requirements for device manufacturers.

Find more information at www.mvista.com.

NDS

NDS is the leading international provider of digital and interactive TV software solutions, offering a range of flexible open standard solutions to broadcasters and digital operators around the world.

NDS powers more than 14 million set-top boxes which are deployed on every continent on cable, satellite and digital terrestrial networks. Over 30 digital operators and broadcasters worldwide have deployed its interactive TV middleware - MEDIAHIGHWAY, and conditional access system - MEDIAGUARD. Today, more than 50 applications are being used by WINfirst in the USA, CANALSATELLITE in France, Astro Measat and ZeeTV in Asia and Orbit in the Middle-east, to deliver value-added entertainment to subscribers via interactive applications.

Opera Software has integrated it's innovative Internet browsing technology into NDS's MEDIAHIGHWAY Java-based middleware, for the next generation of advanced digital set-top boxes.

Find more information at www.nds.com.

Tranzas

Tranzas Inc., Japan, is a pioneering company involved in almost all phases of software and hardware development for IP digital equipment. With a highly skilled software development team located in Yokohama, Japan, and in Europe (its subsidiary, Echovision Ltd, Greece), Tranzas offers a one-stop solution in the field of Video on Demand streaming and other IP technologies for devices.

The Opera browser will power Tranzas set-top box, the TRZ-8300, delivering Web content and a unique user interface for its users.

Find more information at www.tranzas.co.jp.

IntAct

IntAct is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amino Technologies plc, and was established as a spin-off company in early 2006. IntAct licenses hardware designs and the IntAct(tm) IPTV software stack to operators, OEMs and semiconductor manufacturers, enabling them to supply IPTV set-top boxes and gateways for large scale deployments.

IntAct is one of the most widely deployed client software and management solutions for IPTV present in over 50 countries worldwide, with approximately 700,000 IntAct-enabled set-top boxes used by more than 400 companies in commercial deployments and trials.

For more information about IntAct visit www.intactos.com.

Tilgin

Tilgin and Opera are working on creating attractive user interfaces in various applications for digital TV, in solutions where Tilgin provides the technology needed for realizing value-added services like content-on-demand and Internet browsing on a regular TV-set.

Tilgin chose Opera for iTV for its Mood Box, a next-generation set-top box, designed to fit into any residential home, hotel room or commercial setting -- providing users with IP-based real-time TV, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, music-on-demand, Internet browsing, e-mail and more. The Mood box is part of the Mood product family, which consists of set-top boxes, various streaming servers and a management system.

Find Tilgin on the Web at www.tilgin.com.

NXTV Inc.

Opera is included on NXTV's digital set-top boxes. Opera provides full Internet access to users of the digital broadband interactive television services in American luxury hotels.

News and information are available at www.nxtv.com.

Telsey

Telsey is a worldwide leader in the design and production of access gateway and IP video station solutions for the distribution of broadband interactive triple play services on both FTTx and DSL networks. Telsey's Access Gateways and IP Set Top Boxes deliver innovative voice, video and data services to homes and offices over high speed, always-on broadband connection. Telsey has delivered more than 410.000 Access Gateways and 140,000 IP Video Stations.

Utilizing Opera's unique solution, Telsey's WAVES Product Family can offer both IP Video Streaming and IP Video Telephony applications integrated in the same modular IP set-top box (STB) platform. Opera 7 provides WAVES with a complete set of new browsing features to enable the customers to enjoy the most appealing and powerful user interfaces for interactive IP TV applications.

Find more information at www.telsey.com.

SONY

Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its music, motion picture, television, computer entertainment, and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world.

Find more information at www.sony.com.

KREATEL Comunications

Kreatel Communications AB is a world-leading company within development and marketing of IP set-top box systems for interactive TV services in broadband networks. The Kreatel portfolio consists of set-top box hardware, software, and configuration server - all components focusing on openness, flexibility and stability.

Find more information at www.kreatel.com.

CorAccess Systems

CorAccess touchcontrol products are designed specifically for simplifying integration and control of complex home networks, including whole-home audio/video, theater control, security and lighting/appliance control, Internet, and communications. The CorAccess suite of Companion interface products includes the popular Companion 6, Companion 10, Mobile Companion and Amego touchcontrollers.

Opera provides the rendering technology for Companion 10 and Mobile Companion products developed by CorAccess Systems

Find more information at www.coraccess.com.

ARCHOS

ARCHOS is the technology leader in pocket audio/video products. The company's "AV" line of pocket-sized audio/video recorders and players has revolutionized how today's consumers enjoy their music, photos and videos.

ARCHOS's AV line of Video Recorder are powered by Opera's internet browing and rendering technology.

Find more information at www.archos.com.

MiniGUI

Beijing Feynman Software Technology Co., Ltd. are the creators of MiniGUI, a cross-operating-system graphics user interface support system for embedded devices, and also an embedded graphics middleware. MiniGUI has been the choice of many leading enterprises, more and more of whom use it to develop their embedded products such as Media Players, STBs, Video telephones, Mobile Phones, Iatrical machines, Industrial controllers & Query terminals. The Opera for Devices SDK offers full support for the MiniGUI toolkit.

Trolltech™

Trolltech™ is a world leader in delivering tools, components, and libraries for C++ developers across all major operating systems. Trolltech products constitute a leading open source application development framework and are an integral part of the Linux desktop. Trolltech also develops innovative UI platforms that enable key players to adopt Linux for mobile devices.

Opera Software has collaborated with Trolltech in providing customers with multiple options in their choice of graphical libraries for technology deployment.