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WIB 1.2e Certification on Emosyn TT80

Stockholm, Sweden
November 3, 2005

Bantry Technologies today announces that the company has received the SmartTrust WIB 1.2e on the Emosyn SST Theseus Titanium 80 integrated circuit. Bantry Technologies' SIM phase 2+ WIB 1.2e offered with a set of plug-ins has been designed with an optimised footprint which enables our partners to benefit from as much as 32k for GSM profile and personalisation. This achievement shows Bantry Technologies' commitment to constantly deliver the most up-to-date solutions.

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Bantry Technologies - First Theseus Titanium GSM Project World-Wide Award

Dublin, Ireland
October, 2005

Bantry Technologies proudly announces that the company has received an award by SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., NASDAQ: SSTI), a leader in flash memory technology, for accomplishing the first Theseus® Titanium GSM project worldwide.

Bantry Technologies has developed, in cooperation with SST, a range of flexible products running on various versions of the SST Theseus Titanium series - such as the Deimos 16k SIM software on the TT30, the Deimos 32K SIM WIB 1.2e on the TT80, which are now being deployed in millions of units worldwide. Currently, Bantry Technologies is planning to release shortly its Deimos 32k SIM S@T software on the TT120.

“This great achievement is a positive signal to the smart card industry and represents a further step in strengthening our presence in the low-end SIM market,” said Patrick Biget, Chief Technology Officer at Bantry Technologies. Both Deimos SIM WIB 1.2e and S@T requires high-level of flexibility. The Flash technology is well-adapted to respond to the constant changes of profiles requested by Bantry Technologies’ customers.

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Bantry Technologies Adds Extra Security on the SIM Operating Systems Products Range

Dublin, Ireland
July 1, 2005

Bantry Technologies has now added a new Anti-Cloning mechanism to their GSM SIM products range as an extra optional features on all low-end as well as high-end products, this feature enhances the security of the SIM to protect against the publicly known brute force attacks. The mechanism makes it significantly more difficult to gain access to authentication keys in a SIM card, thus preventing access to the crucial information required for cloning. The mechanism detects attacks by monitoring authentication commands sent to the SIM card. After a certain number of attacks the card is partially blocked, thus terminating the attempted cloning.

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Very Low End Product Release Announcement

Dublin, Ireland
June 15, 2005

As part of Bantry Technologies’ commitments to all our customers, the company ensures continuous SIM operating systems evolutions. Besides the tremendous market share taken by the Java based SIM, many telecom operators remain today solely focused on using the SIM card for authenticating to the network and as a memory storage to safeguard phonebooks and SMS data. For these customers price considerations remain a very important issue. While chip manufacturers respond to this pricing challenge, Bantry Technologies constantly ensures the porting the SIM software solution on the most recent technology. Today, the company is delighted to announce the release of a 16k SIM software on a 30k pure flash-based component. Test cards are now available and the product is ready for commercial deployment.

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Bantry Technologies Ltd - Board Appointment

Dublin, Ireland
March 3, 2005

Bantry Technologies, the SIM software supplier announces that Philippe Maes, cofounder of Gemplus where he was Vice President until 2000, was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director. Philippe Maes initially worked in the semiconductor industry at international level at National Semiconductor and ST Microelectronics. In 1988 he cofounded Gemplus where he held several positions: R&D business development, director of Gemplus Germany, founder and chairman of the Chinese JV, and finally General Manager of Gemplus Software. Commenting on the appointment, Philippe Maes, said: “The successful growth of Bantry Technologies shows definitely the efficiency of advanced software techniques applied to smart card technology. This is the confirmation of a vision we were sharing 10 years ago. I am very pleased to join Bantry Technologies' board of directors. I hope I shall be able to help the company continue its steady growth”. “The choice of appointing Philippe Maes was quite a natural move, considering his background and the long term relationships the management have with him. With this in mind and based on the company's positionining in the industry, we unanimously felt that, it was a logical step to benefit from Philippe's unrivalled experience and success in the smart card business. I am pleased to welcome him on board”, added Patrick Trane, Chief Executive Officer, Bantry Technologies.

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Bantry Technologies' Interoperable S@T Applet Launch

Paris, France
March 1, 2005

After many years of experience in Java Card™ SIM Toolkit applets development and deployment, Bantry Technologies announces the commercial availability of the Java Card™ SIM Toolkit S@T applet. Respecting the SIMAlliance S@T implementation and test specifications, Bantry Technologies’ S@T solution supports the comprehensive list of functions – mandatory functionalities, SPS, Push, Multi-Session, Bookmark, UCS2 support – tested on the most common live S@T gateways to respect interoperability. For the very first time, SIM card manufacturers can benefit from a fully interoperable S@T applet solution, implementing in full the most recent SIMAlliance version (v2.0.0 Release 2004). Based on an unrivalled in-house expertise, Bantry Technologies’ technical team successfully responded to the challenge and is delighted to offer to the market a unique, efficient, complete and interoperable S@T applet solution, which can be loaded on any Java SIM card as any other SIM Toolkit applets. The applet can be licensed as a stand-alone solution, or integrated into the maXim product, which is the Java Card™ 2.2 SIM Toolkit joint product based upon Trusted Logic’s jTOP™ platform and Bantry Technologies’ SIM and USIM platform. Future developments will include the upgrade to Release 2005, which will soon be publicly available.

At the same time Bantry Technologies releases the related development and test tools for creating and loading S@T scenarios into a S@T-enabled SIM card. Users can benefit from a user-friendly interface to write S@TML files. The tool then converts the files into S@T byte code and loads the resident decks onto the S@T SIM card. This functionality can be used for native as well as for Java SIM S@T cards. This tool is publicly available since Cartes 2004.

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Proprietary SIM Toolkit Applets Geode™ Development Tool

Dublin, Ireland
March 1, 2005

Bantry Technologies is proud to announce the general release of its Geode™ product, immediately available on the full range of native SIM operating systems. This new software offers card manufacturers and mobile telecom operators an innovative but yet simple tool to develop SIM Toolkit applications in an efficient manner.

The system has been designed to enable people with no software development background to build value-added applications, load them onto a card and test them straight away. The application is created on a step-by-step basis using a very intuitive and user-friendly graphical user interface making it as easy as possible to deploy a new service based on the SIM card. The targeted applications are the traditional information-on-demand applications allowing mobile subscribers to get every kind of information he/she may need (weather, traffic, sport results, etc.). The final touch of this product lies in the fact that the generated code is optimised. Consequenly, users do not suffer any loss of precious memory by using a high-level tool.

“It has always been our objective at Bantry Technologies to make the SIM technology affordable and easy-to-use. With Geode™ we are making one more step to help our customers benefit from this technology”, said Patrick Biget, Chief Technology Officer at Bantry Technologies. “We know how vital it is for the telecom operators to provide differentiation through value-added services. Geode™ will them help reduce time-to-market in the development of these key applications”.

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Bantry Laboratories’ Opening

Dublin, Ireland
January 2005

Bantry Laboratories is the division of Bantry Technologies dedicated to SIM card and applet – including the S@T applet - testing. It is acting as an objective test division, for every internal and external test.

This division was set-up to respond to the growing demand from our customers to have a dedicated vehicle to conduct various types of tests. Among the most common ones, we have: SIM Card Testing: File System & Security Management, SIM Toolkit Applet Management and Remote Card Management S@T Testing: S@T 01.30 Test Scope aiming at ensuring interoperability of browsers and gateways of the different manufacturers Java SIM Applet Interoperability Testing: Having been involved in the SIMalliance events on interoperability issues, Bantry Laboratories has developed a peak knowledge and set of tools to verify: Interoperable loading and interoperable applet execution Independence, strict confidentiality rules, uncontested expertise on the field, dedicated engineers and testers on this scope, methodology adapted to the smart card world and huge investment made in hardware and software pieces account among the best reasons why your company should work with Bantry Laboratories. To learn more about this professional service, simply contact us and we will be delighted to forward you our detailed testing scope in confidence and discuss your needs.

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Personal Identity Module

Dublin, Ireland
April 2005

The Japanese Personal Handyphone System (PHS) technology is reaching 65.2 million subscribers at the end of December in China. From March or April 2005, China Netcom Beijing plans to begin offering Personal Identity Module (PIM) cards and PIM-enabled PHS handsets while China Telecom will introduce PIM-enabled PHS handsets nationwide on 'World Telecom Day' on May 17th. PIM cards will give PHS a substitute for full roaming service which is still not allowed by the Ministry of Information Industry. The cards will also allow PHS users to retain their phone numbers, helping to drive the PHS handset replacement market. Bantry Technologies is now also offering PIM operating system solution for the Chinese market supporting both authentication algorithms. The solution was released after intensive testing on PHS UTstarcom and Zhongxin handset and is now ready for live deployment. This will confirm Bantry Technologies’ presence in China.

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WIB 1.2e Certification on Emosyn TT80

Stockholm, Sweden November 3, 2005

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Bantry Technologies - First Theseus Titanium GSM Project World-Wide Award

Dublin, Ireland October, 2005

Bantry Technologies Adds Extra Security on the SIM Operating Systems Products Range

Dublin, Ireland July 1, 2005