Symbol Technologies Announces Third Annual Enterprise Mobility Solutions Award Winners

Symbol Technologies Announces Third Annual Enterprise Mobility Solutions Award Winners

November 13, 2006

Partners Provide Innovative Enterprise Mobility Solutions that Simplify Customer Business Processes to Deliver Significant ROI

    HOLTSVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Symbol
Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: SBL), The Enterprise Mobility
Company(TM), today announced the winners of its third
annual Enterprise Mobility Solutions Awards.  The award
recognizes PartnerSelect members -- in each geographical
region -- on their ability to provide customers with the
most innovative, end-to-end enterprise mobility systems to
help accelerate growth, productivity and operational
efficiencies. New for 2006, Symbol also introduced the
Partner Ecosystem Award for the most innovative enterprise
mobility solution developed collaboratively by two
PartnerSelect members. 

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    "The Symbol Enterprise Mobility Solutions Award
recognizes PartnerSelect members that provide customers
with unique solutions that simplify their business
processes, cut costs and save time," said Sanford
Preizler, vice president of worldwide channels. "Each
of the more than one hundred award submissions we received
were worthy of recognition, which clearly illustrates that
Symbol's partners across the globe are providing customers
with innovative enterprise mobility solutions that help
solve business needs." 

    A select panel of judges from Microsoft, AMI Partners,
Questex Asia, and editors from leading industry
publications including Business Solutions, Channel
Business, Data Collection, eWeek and MicroScope Magazine
selected the winners from the United States and Americas
International (Canada and Latin America), Europe, Middle
East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC). 

    Symbol Enterprise Mobility Award Winners

    TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. was awarded the U.S.
Enterprise Mobility Award for their deployment of Symbol
MC9060 rugged mobile computers with its 20/20 Delivery(TM)
solution to 550 staff members at a large national
healthcare company.  The solution provides real-time status
for deliveries and information on the location and delivery
receipt of healthcare products, allowing the healthcare
company to adopt a paperless system -- reducing costs, and
eliminating the need for storage of printed proof of
delivery.

    The winner of the Symbol Americas International
Enterprise Mobility Award, Allegro Mobile Solutions,
deployed Symbol MC70 Enterprise Digital Assistants (EDA)
with its application for a modular and scalable solution to
enable 800 field nurses and staff, starting with the
Community Care Access Centre Simcoe County. The first
module enables nurses to order medical supplies directly
with real-time estimated time of arrival feedback. The
second module is used to assess and track changes in
patients' wounds, reducing the time to heal.  The project
has resulted in an annual cost savings of $8,000 per nurse
through elimination of duplicate orders, reduced paper and
printing costs.  Nurses now spend less time on paperwork
and more time on patient care.

    By working with Aker Yards, the world's leading
designer and builder of cruise vessels and ferries to
simultaneously keep track of more than 5,000 craftsmen
working on a cruise ship, Vilant Systems Oy Finland earned
the Symbol EMEA Enterprise Mobility Award. Leveraging a
radio frequency identification (RFID) system, Vilant
Systems affixed tags to workers' helmets to track their
movement using a wireless LAN (WLAN) in the event of an
evacuation. 

    AirData Pty Ltd. integrated Symbol's Wi-Fi network
infrastructure at Star Track Express' transport and
logistics tracking depots and was awarded the Symbol APAC
Enterprise Mobility Award.  By creating a centralized
management platform for wireless networks and mobile
computers, AirData's sorted tracking data is now collected
in real-time for all depots, and processes have been
improved, resulting in greater efficiencies, lower costs
and improved customer service quality.

    Symbol Partner Ecosystem Award Winners

    Enfotrust Networks and Stratix Corporation won the
Symbol U.S. Partner Ecosystem Award for their work in
providing The Home Depot with a solution based on
Enfotrust's PACE Mobile Technology installed on Symbol MC50
EDAs with integrated cameras.  The application manages the
store-level tasks of more than 14,000 employees, and ties
together all U.S. in-store service activities to a
centrally-administered Web-based platform, which resulted
in a 35 percent increase in hourly output per
representative and a 25 percent increase in store
efficiencies.

    The Symbol Americas International Partner Ecosystem
Award was awarded to RFX Tecnologia e Comercio Ltda. and
CMW Automacao Ltda., who partnered to reduce the time spent
on cycle counting at Brazilian supermarket chain Angeloni's
distribution center. The partners deployed MC3090 and
MC9060 mobile computers, MC50 EDAs, VC5090 vehicle mounted
mobile computer, bar code scanners and Wi-Fi network
infrastructure to help ensure the accuracy of inventory
levels.

    PEAK Technologies UK Ltd. and Syclo, LLC USA partnered
to provide Tube Lines, a tube maintenance company that
works in partnership with the London Underground, with a
solution to efficiently track and monitor assets and earned
the Symbol EMEA Partner Ecosystem Award. Leveraging Symbol's
partner ecosystem, independent software vendor (ISV) partner
Syclo, was able to meet the stringent timeframe requirements
Tube Lines set, effectively delivering enterprise mobility
in less than three months with the help of PEAK
Technologies.

    The winners of the Symbol APAC Partner Ecosystem Award
are SkyWire Pty Ltd. and Manhattan Associates, an ISV who
jointly deployed a warehouse management system with new
processes for Magna Pacific, the largest independent DVD
distributor in Australia and New Zealand, using Symbol's
MC3090-G mobile computers, WS5100 Wireless Switch and AP300
Access Ports. The solution doubled Magna Pacific's capacity
to ship orders -- from 400 per day to 900 per day. Magna
Pacific expects a return on its investment within 18 months
and an approximately $600,000 return over three years due to
efficiency, stock management improvements and labor
savings.

    Symbol's PartnerSelect Program is designed to help
channel partners increase both revenue and profitability by
offering benefits that recognize each partner's unique
value-add and business model. The program facilitates
teamwork between Symbol's internal sales force and its
partners in order to identify and create more sales
opportunities. 

    To learn more about the Symbol Enterprise Mobility
Solutions Awards and Symbol's PartnerSelect channel
program, visit http://www.symbol.com/partner . 

    About Symbol Technologies 

    Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise Mobility
Company(TM), is a recognized worldwide leader in enterprise
mobility, delivering products and solutions that capture,
move and manage information in real time to and from the
point of business activity. Symbol enterprise mobility
solutions integrate advanced data capture products, radio
frequency identification technology, mobile computing
platforms, wireless infrastructure, mobility software and
world-class services programs. Symbol enterprise mobility
products and solutions are proven to increase workforce
productivity, reduce operating costs, drive operational
efficiencies and realize competitive advantages for the
world's leading companies. More information is available at
http://www.symbol.com .

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