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Frank Yacano, Director of Business Development, SYWARE, Inc. at +1 617.497.1300 | email

International Board of Industry Experts Honor SYWARE, Inc.’s Visual CE 9 Software With Pocket PC Magazine’s “Best Software Award 2005”

Visual CE 9 Professional Edition Wins Award Second Year in a Row in Database Category

CAMBRIDGE, MA, U.S.A. – November 16, 2005 – SYWARE, Inc., announced a diverse, international panel of industry experts has awarded SYWARE with Pocket PC magazine’s “Best Software Award 2005” in the database category. With over 100,000 installations, SYWARE’s Visual CE 9 software enables individuals and companies of all sizes in all industries to develop and deploy mobile Pocket Access applications. SYWARE’s Visual CE 9 Pocket PC Database and PDA development software product, and its integrated products for wireless synchronization and remote printing, allow complete and robust mobile applications to be implemented. SYWARE requires no programming to develop robust applications on Windows Mobile PDAs.

Over 80 Pocket PC magazine experts from around the world judged almost 600 Windows Mobile products in 100 Pocket PC and Developer categories to determine finalists and winners. The annual Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards helps users select software that best suits their Windows Mobile Pocket PC needs by honoring companies that produce outstanding software.

“Industry-leading judges at MobileVillage recently recognized the value of SYWARE’s Visual CE 9 software when they honored it with the prestigious international annual Bright Star Award, Enterprise Software, Database Category, 2005,” said Sy Danberg, President, SYWARE, Inc. “Today, Pocket PC Magazine’s independent panel of international judges concurred with our 100,000-plus loyal customers in all industries that Visual CE 9 remains in good standing as the best software product in the marketplace, further validating our leadership position,” Danberg added.

This news follows a previous item where SYWARE, Inc. announced the availability of its businessMobile 360 Suite for the small-to-medium businesses (SMB) marketplace. SYWARE’s businessMobile 360 Suite allows customer and sales information, previously trapped on corporate or regional computers, to be instantly delivered to workers in the field. Orders or customer inquiries can be taken at any time, anywhere, and other user-specific data can be downloaded, collected, displayed, modified and automatically synchronized. To learn more about the businessMobile 360 Suite visit http://www.syware.com/products/businessmobile360.php

Mobile workers can opt-out of using dated, inefficient processes for easy-to-implement solutions that enable people to: collect data remotely and view critical information locked in back-end servers; have better communication between the office and representatives in the field; and print reports directly to paper from Pocket PC devices in the field, wherever the user needs to work, without having to go back to the office or print from a device located in the vehicle. All of this can be accomplished, with no programming, using the businessMobile 360 Suite.

About SYWARE, Inc.

SYWARE empowers over 100,000 mobile users to collect data and create feature-rich database applications that can be deployed on any Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Windows CE device- wherever they need to work. Industry or user-specific data can be downloaded, collected, displayed, modified and synchronized, without programming. SYWARE provides low cost of ownership, rapid deployment and return-on-investment without requiring users to expand IT departments to manage software and data between desktops and servers to devices. SYWARE removes obstacles to commerce and enables users to share data seamlessly over wireless, LAN, WAN or Internet connections in a wide variety of market sectors, including municipalities, healthcare, transportation, government, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, energy, aerospace and other markets.

To learn more about SYWARE, visit http://www.syware.com or contact Frank Yacano, Director of Business Development, SYWARE, Inc. at 1+ 617-497-1300 or email

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