Vlingo for BlackBerry Smartphones Expands to Europe

By Vlingo Corporation, PRNE
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Adds Language Support for Spanish, German, French and Italian

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, January 20, 2011 - Vlingo Corporation, the maker of the Vlingo Virtual Assistant that turns
your words into actions, today announced it has met the demand of its users
by adding French, German, Italian and Spanish language support for its Vlingo
application for BlackBerry(R) smartphones. Users will now be able to speak to
Vlingo in their native language on their BlackBerry smartphones.

(Logo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100715/NE35214LOGO )

"Vlingo combines speech recognition, natural language processing, and
Vlingo's Intent Engine to understand the user's intent and take the
appropriate action," said Ashley Griffiths, Managing Director, EMEA at
Vlingo. "We are excited to bring additional language support to European
users, giving them the ability to quickly and safely connect to the people,
businesses and information that are important to them."

Using Vlingo users can simply speak to their BlackBerry smartphone to….

    - send a text or email message: "Text Sarah; running a few minutes late"
    - search the web using Google or Yahoo!: "Champions league schedule"
    - call a contact: "call Steve's mobile"
    - update their Facebook or Twitter status: "Update Twitter; Great skiing
      today up north!"
    - dictate text into any text box with Vlingo Everywhere including:
      BBM(TM), AIM, Yahoo, Windows Live
    - launch virtually any application: "open calendar"
    - have incoming email and text messages read aloud via SafeReader(TM)
    - (NEW) have calendar reminders read aloud via SafeReader(TM)

Availability, Compatibility and Price

Users worldwide can download Vlingo to their BlackBerry smartphone for a
one-time fee on BlackBerry App World(TM) (www.blackberry.com/appworld)
or directly from Vlingo (www.vlingo.com).

Follow Vlingo on Facebook at facebook.com/vlingopage, on Twitter
at twitter.com/vlingo and on the Vlingo blog at blog.vlingo.com
for regular news and updates. For carriers and OEMS interested in partnering
with Vlingo go to vlingo.com/partners.

About Vlingo

Vlingo is a Virtual Assistant that turns your words into action by
combining speech recognition, natural language processing, and Vlingo's
Intent Engine to understand the user's intent and take the appropriate
action. Simply speak to your phone to connect with the people, businesses and
activities that are important to you. Vlingo is the safest and easiest way to
get things done while on the go. Send text and email messages, search the
web, use Google maps, update Twitter and more. Founded in 2006, Vlingo is
backed by Charles River Ventures, Sigma Partners, Yahoo! and AT&T and
headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, go to
www.vlingo.com.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks are the exclusive
properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

Erin Keleher, Vlingo, +1-617-283-2285, erin at vlingo.com

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