OnePIN^® and Gemplus Announce Strategic Partnership

WESTBOROUGH, MA, May 6, 2005 – OnePIN, Inc., provider of wireless collaboration applications, and Gemplus International S.A., the worldwide leader of smart card solutions, announced a partnership that will put OnePIN’s contact management tools in the hands of wireless operators using Gemplus smart card technology.

The GemXplore technology development and global sales and marketing partnership works with content and service providers to offer Subscriber Identify Module (SIM)-based solutions to operator networks.

"OnePIN’s innovative contact information exchange applications and our established SIM infrastructure will provide value-added solutions via mobile network operators," said Jean-François Gros, Gemplus business partnerships manager. "Our combined efforts will streamline how subscribers update their wireless phonebooks."

"OnePIN’s partnership with Gemplus fortifies our place in the wireless marketplace. Through our collaboration, we can accelerate our global market penetration, which will benefit both operators and subscribers," said Jeff Schiebe, OnePIN vice president of sales and marketing.

About Gemplus
Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP) leads the smart card industry worldwide in both revenue and total shipments, having sold more than 5 billion smart cards (source: Gartner-Dataquest 2004, Frost & Sullivan, Datamonitor). With security at its core and 2,400 patents produced by its innovative research and development team, Gemplus delivers a wide range of portable, personalized solutions in such areas as Identity, Mobile Telecommunications, Public Telephony, Banking, Retail, Transport, Healthcare, WLAN, Pay-TV, E-government and Access Control.

About OnePIN, Inc.
OnePIN Wireless applications enable subscribers to automatically manage contact information across mobile networks and devices. With its patented technology and permission-based applications, OnePIN Wireless enables people to keep contact information accurate, up-to-date and accessible anytime, anywhere. OnePIN is a privately held company headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, USA. 

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