Viigo Selected as First Third-Party Application in the BlackBerry Application Centre for Vodafone Australia

Viigo leads the market in supporting the BlackBerry Storm

TORONTO - Viigo Inc., developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, announced today that its award-winning application is the first third party application to be included in the BlackBerry Application Center for Vodafone.

Viigo is a free application that delivers a rich array of news, weather, sports, market data, personalised stock portfolios, shopping, social networks, movie listings, flight schedules, flight status and more, all customised by the user to suit their needs and delivered to them with unrivalled speed and simplicity.

"With the wide range of features it offers, it is believed that Viigo is not only an application that adds tremendous value to the BlackBerry Storm platform, it will likely also become a resource Storm owners use each and every day for a wide variety of purposes," said, Dany Bolduc, Regional Director, Asia Pacific Research In Motion (RIM). "RIM is pleased to have Viigo available within the BlackBerry Application Center for Vodafone in order to enhance the customer experience on the latest BlackBerry device."

Viigo, which is immediately available to all Vodafone Australia BlackBerry Storm customers, can be downloaded easily from the Application Center (which is found on the BlackBerry home screen), or by visiting http://www.viigo.com/en-au/vodafone.

"People often call Viigo the most highly used application on their BlackBerry after email," said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. "We're excited by this initiative, and look forward to helping Vodafone deliver a truly differentiated BlackBerry smartphone experience, right out of the box."