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Bluegiga Releases New Version of iWRAP Software

New Bluetooth 1.2 Certified Version of the WRAP THOR Module Software Significantly Extends the Functionality of the Market�s Simplest Bluetooth Command Interface

Espoo Finland � April 19, 2005 - Bluegiga Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Bluetooth platforms to system integrators and original equipment manufacturers, today announced the next version of its iWRAP software, the market�s simplest Bluetooth command interface.  Previously called ASCII Interface, the new version of iWRAP provides WRAP THOR Bluetooth Module customers with advanced new features further raising the bar for versatility, performance and interoperability.

Certified to conform to Bluetooth Special Interest Group�s Bluetooth 1.2 specification, and being fully backwards compatible with the previous ASCII Interface version 2.0.0, the new iWRAP 2.0.2 provides its users with significantly shortened connection establishment times for faster Bluetooth networking, easier end user installations by improved tolerance for radio frequency interference caused by other Bluetooth and WiFi devices through utilization of adaptive frequency hopping, increased throughput to improve the performance of data heavy applications, and lower power consumption to enable longer usage time between charges in battery powered handheld devices.  iWRAP 2.0.2 also supports several new simplified commands to manage and control WRAP THOR modules through the interface.

�Bluegiga has always been the fore runner in providing easy-to-use and easy-to-integrate Bluetooth solutions and services for original equipment manufacturers and system integrators.  With this latest version of iWRAP, we provide our customers with advanced new features and functionality that very well meet their needs for faster, more versatile, but yet less power consuming wireless technology�, comments Sami Ahvenniemi, the CEO of Bluegiga.

More information and technical details is available at Bluegiga�s Tech Forum web site at and through [email protected].

About Bluegiga Technologies, Inc.

Bluegiga Technologies, Inc. is a provider of cutting-edge Bluetooth-based wireless communication platforms.  Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Finland, the European hotbed of wireless technology, Bluegiga is strategically positioned to deliver its products and services globally through the extensive network of qualified distributors and value added resellers to original equipment manufacturers and system integrator.  Bluegiga is the innovator of Bluetooth multi-radio access server products having seamless co-existence with other wired and wireless technologies, BluRoamTM, the unique roaming technology for Bluetooth devices and iWRAPTM, the easy-to-use Bluetooth control interface.  Bluegiga, with its expertise in the Bluetooth technology, has been a contributing member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group since the company inception.  For more information, please visihttps://www.bluegiga.comw.bluegiga.com.

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