ATLANTA, March 17, 2006 -- AppForge, Inc., a leader in mobile application technology and creator of the award-winning mobile application platform Crossfire, today announced that it has won the Software Development Magazine's 16th annual Jolt Product Excellence Award in the Mobile Development Tools category. The award was presented to AppForge, Inc. on March 15th at the Santa Clara Convention Center during the SD West 2006 conference. The award was accepted by Chris Tyburski, chief technology officer, AppForge.

"We are honored that Software Development Magazine has not only recognized Crossfire for the third year in a row as a leading mobile application platform, but this year has selected Crossfire for the Product Excellence Award," said Tyburski. "With our unique ability to bring the world of Microsoft developers to the millions of users of Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola, Palm, and Sony Ericsson devices, our customers have long recognized AppForge as the easiest way to take their data services mobile. We allow them to use their existing skill sets and infrastructure to deploy rich applications to the devices their customers want to use."

For the past 15 years, Software Development Magazine's Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards have been presented annually to companies with products, books and Web sites that have "jolted" the industry by helping to create faster, easier and more efficient software.

The Crossfire mobile application platform provides a simple way to build and deploy mobile internal business and customer-facing data services applications using Microsoft Visual Studio, while not requiring a Microsoft operating system on the mobile device. Crossfire now supports more than 500 device and OS combinations, and is used by thousands of enterprise developers who have deployed applications running on all major smartphones, PDAs, and mobile industrial devices. Additionally, Crossfire has been extended and interoperates with the leading mobile middleware companies.

"Our product helps organizations easily move mobile development projects into the mass-deployment phase," said Tyburski. "We believe we have the enabling technology to realize the vision many companies have for mobility."

The Jolt Product Excellence Award was given to Crossfire 5.6. For more information on the Jolt Awards and for a list of all winners, go to http://www.sdmagazine.com/jolts/.

About AppForge

AppForge, Inc. is a leader in mobile application technology solutions. AppForge Crossfire enables developers to write advanced mobile enterprise applications once that can be deployed on hundreds of major mobile and wireless PDAs, smartphones and industrial devices using familiar development environments. For more information on AppForge, visit the Web site at http://www.appforge.com.