SEVEN Selected by AlwaysOn as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner

SEVEN Recognized for Mass-Market Mobile Email Leadership

Redwood City, Calif. (June 29, 2005) - SEVEN today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. SEVEN was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria - innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.

The AO 100 was selected from over 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development, from early to late stage.

SEVEN makes it easy for companies of all sizes and consumers to access email on a variety of high-end mobile devices and everyday mobile phones.

SEVEN's strategy is based on a pure software model. The company's mobile email software is tightly integrated into mobile phones and operator networks.

SEVEN's white-label solution is resold by 47 of the world's leading mobile operators across 30 countries in all of the world's largest mobile data markets, including North America, Japan, Asia Pacific and Europe. SEVEN is the only mobile enterprise email vendor with services available in the highly progressive Japanese market. Recently, SEVEN teamed with Yahoo! and Sprint to launch Yahoo! Mail for Mobile, a new mobile e-mail service that gives consumers enhanced access to their Yahoo! Mail accounts on mass-market mobile phones and smartphones. No other mobile email vendor has penetrated the market to this extent.

SEVEN makes it easy for companies and consumers to access email on the mobile device that best suits them - with over 100 smartphone and affordable everyday mobile phones to choose from.

SEVEN additionally has licensing agreements with the top five handset manufacturers - Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Siemens - and others to integrate the company's software onto their devices, creating an 'out-of-the-box' email experience for end users. SEVEN has broad support for all mobile device platforms: BREW, J2ME, Microsoft Pocket PC, Microsoft Smartphone 2003, Palm OS and Symbian-based phones, PDAs or Internet browsers.

"The AO 100 companies are shaping today's web-driven, connected environment," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "We were inundated with nominations from leading companies, many of which I hope will appear on our list next year. My congratulations to each AO 100 winner - these are the companies which we predict will have the greatest market traction, strongest innovation and most game-changing approaches this year."

"We appreciate Always On's recognition. SEVEN is focused on delivering a great mobile email experience for enterprises and consumers," said Bill Nguyen, SEVEN's founder and Chairman. "By working with the top mobile operators, Internet email providers, ISPs and device manufacturers worldwide, SEVEN is extending mobile email to anyone with a mobile phone and an email account."

The AO 100 will be honored at the AO2005: Innovation Summit at a VIP reception at 5.00pm on July 19, 2005 at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California.

About SEVEN
SEVEN is a global provider of software that enables mobile operators, Internet email providers and service providers to offer their subscribers secure, low-cost, real-time access to business and personal email applications. SEVEN is available as Consumer Edition for consumers, Personal Edition for prosumers, Workgroup Edition for groups or departments and Server Edition and Enterprise Edition for businesses. Our software supports all major device platforms, including BREW, J2ME, Microsoft Pocket PC, Microsoft Smartphone 2003, Palm OS and Symbian-based phones, and is currently compatible with over 100 handheld devices manufactured by Hitachi, HTC, Motorola, Nokia, palmOne, Sanyo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba. SEVEN is available today across major international network standards, and is offered by 47 leading service providers and mobile operators worldwide including: Cingular Wireless, KDDI Corp., NTT DoCoMo, Orange, SingTel, TDC Song, Sprint, Telefonica Moviles, Telenor Group, Vodafone Italy and Yahoo!. SEVEN is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, CA, USA, with regional headquarters in Cambridge, UK, Helsinki, Finland, Singapore, and Tokyo, Japan, and local offices around the globe. For additional information, visit www.seven.com.

About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is transforming the communication business with its online blogging network, establishing it as a leader in the Open Media revolution. Borrowing from the underground traditions of blogging and social networking, ALWAYSON www.alwayson-network.com was launched in 2003. Today, AO's annual Summit @ Stanford and OnHollywood events, print "blogozine" and online services encourage direct collaboration between global thought leaders and technology insiders. No other media brand has dared allow such openness amongst its readers and participants. ALWAYSON, LLC, is a privately held and virtually headquartered company born out of the heart of Silicon Valley.

Media Contacts:
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Kate O'Sullivan
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