2009-01-12

171 891 EasyConnect Activations in December

(Oslo, January 12th 2008) Birdstep Technology ASA reported 171 891 EasyConnect activations in December 2008.

EasyConnect reports 171 891 activations in December, compared to 26 783 activations in December 2007.

The December activation figure represents a sequential increase of 21 per cent in comparison to the activations in November 2008.

The activations apply to EasyConnect Go and EasyConnect Advanced products, Birdstep Technology’s solutions for mobile broadband connectivity through USB modems and PC cards. Birdstep Technology’s embedded solution for laptop manufacturers, EasyConnect Inside, is not included in the figures.

See enclosed OSE filing including activation report in this PDF.

For further information, please contact:
Torbjörn Sandberg
CEO of Birdstep Technology ASA
+46 705170964
Torbjorn.Sandberg@birdstep.com

About Birdstep (www.birdstep.com)
Birdstep Technology ASA is a software vendor listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) under the ticker `BIRD`. The company has four business segments, located in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the United States: EasyConnect offers connection and service management clients for network operators and lap top manufacturers, Service Factory offers network operators to rapidly deploy and manage large networks with advanced features, Secgo Software provides seamless and safe connectivity to business data for OEM-providers and corporations, while Database provides enterprises with high-performance embedded databases for in-memory database usage and persistent storage devices. The company has 100 employees and is headquartered in Oslo.  For additional information about Birdstep’s products, services, partners and customers please visit us at: www.birdstep.com.