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Aplix and VLI Partner to Develop Java-Based SIP and VoIP Technologies

Mountain View, CA – May 25, 2004 – Aplix Corporation, the global leader in deploying Java technology in mobile phones, and VLI, a market leader in Mobile Broadband VoIP Telephony products and services, announced today that they have formed a global strategic alliance to develop Java-based SIP and VoIP technologies. In addition, Aplix Corporation has made an equity investment in VLI and will join the VLI Board of Directors.

Aplix brings to the table their dominant embedded Java platform JBlend, with over 45 million phone shipments and VLI their best-in-class Mobile Broadband VoIP Telephony Products and Services. With this collaboration, Aplix will immediately gain a toehold into the vast Chinese market where VLI currently maintains an engineering staff of over 40 engineers and VLI will gain a valuable partner in mobile handsets whose technology has been adopted by numerous handset manufacturers and wireless operators.

“The combination of Aplix and VLI’s technologies gives us an unprecedented ability to bring groundbreaking products to the SIP and VoIP markets” states Ryu Koriyama, CEO of Aplix.

“We're very excited to be working with a partner like Aplix that already has a proven track record in the mobile handset space with global multinationals as their existing accounts. It is a testament to their confidence in us as the best-in-class mobile broadband VoIP telephony solutions provider,” said Bingwei Yao, CEO of VLI.

About Aplix

Aplix Corporation is the global leader in deploying Java technology in mobile phones. The company’s JBlend technology has been licensed by 13 handset manufacturers and deployed in mobile phones offered by wireless operators around the world. In its domestic market of Japan, JBlend technology is used in all Vodafone K.K. and KDDI Java-enabled handsets and ships in Java-enabled handsets by Sharp and Sony-Ericsson Mobile Communications for NTT DoCoMo.
In the overseas market, JBlend technology is incorporated in handsets from 15 different wireless operators, including Sprint PCS in the US and Vodafone in Europe. In addition, the company has won significant international business, seeing its JBlend technology adopted by Alcatel in Europe and Motorola in the US. Aplix was first established in 1986 and has been a Sun Java licensee since 1996. The company is headquartered in Tokyo with subsidiary operations in San Francisco and Munich.

For more information:

Aplix Corporation: http://www.aplix.co.jp/en/

About VL Inc.

VLI is a world leader in providing Mobile Broadband VoIP Telephony Products and Services to enable Telcos and ISPs to deploy VoIP services leveraging WiFi spectrum. VLI provides a complete server software suite enabling service providers to integrate Mobile Broadband VoIP into current network infrastructure. VLI also offers the broadest suite of clients in the industry, enabling most mobile and residential devices to use VoIP services, including Windows PCs, Handheld Computers, WiFi Phones, and Residential Telephone Gateways. The company is headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley - Mountain View, California with offices in Tokyo, Japan and Shanghai, China. For product and company information please visit: www.vliusa.com and for hosted service information please visit: www.GphoneOnline.com.

VLI, the VLI logo and Gphone are trademarks of VLI (VL Inc.). JBlend and Aplix are trademarks or registered trademarks of Aplix Corporation in Japan and other countries. Sun and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact:

John Schiltz
General Manager, VLI
650-938-8400
john.schiltz@vliusa.com

Aplix Corporation
Akiko Sharp Doi
415-558-8800
pr@aplixcorp.com