BlackBerry Partners Fund Announces Developer Challenge Grand Prize Winners

The BlackBerry
Partners Fund LP, a $150 million venture capital fund formed to focus on applications and
services for the BlackBerry® and other mobile platforms, announced today that Poynt,
Strands Social Player and Nobex Radio Companion are the Best in Show Grand Prize Winners
of the BlackBerry Partners Fund^TM Developer Challenge.
Poynt is a free local search tool that connects users to businesses, movie theatres, and
retailers, whenever and wherever users need them. Poynt includes such features as target
site browsing, interactive maps, driving directions, GPS compatibility, show times, movie
trailers, and ticket purchase. With Poynt's intuitive interface, users can find what they are
looking for quickly and easily.
Strands Social Player, developed by Strands Inc., is a music player that lets you discover new
music, connect with people, and share your tastes with friends. It automatically shows cover
art, provides artist and song recommendations from over 6 million songs featuring free
previews, and fully integrates with a social network of music enthusiasts.
Nobex Radio Companion, developed by Nobex Technologies, shows you what song is
playing on any of 2700 radio stations and when you hear a song you like click "Get It!" and it
will send you an email with a link to buy the song, so you can keep your music collection
fresh. Over a hundred stations are now playable on your BlackBerry Smartphone.
As winners, the three companies will receive a $150,000 investment from the BlackBerry
Partners Fund and are entered into the BlackBerry Partners Fund "Jump Start" program.
Detailed information on the Jump Start program can be found at:
http://www.blackberrypartnersfund.com/jumpstart.
"The BlackBerry Partners Fund is dedicated to identifying and supporting organizations that
are bringing innovative applications to the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms, and the
creation of the Developer Challenge is evidence of this commitment," said Kevin Talbot, Co-
Managing Partner of the BlackBerry Partners Fund. "We would like to congratulate Strands
Inc., Multiple Media and Nobex Technologies for demonstrating the outstanding
technological vision and superior operational execution worthy of earning the top prize in
the Developer Challenge."

The BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge invited developers to create BlackBerry
applications in five categories: Gaming, Multimedia, Personal Productivity and Lifestyle,
Enterprise and Web. The grand prize winners were selected from 15 finalists. More information
on the challenge and the finalists can be found at:
www.blackberrypartnersfund.com/challenge.
About BlackBerry Partners Fund
The BlackBerry Partners Fund is a $150 million venture capital fund formed to focus on
applications and services for the BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms including
mobile commerce (payments, advertising, retailing and banking), vertical and horizontal
enterprise applications, communications, social networking, location-based applications
and services (navigation and mapping), media and entertainment, and lifestyle and
personal productivity applications. The Fund considers all stages of development and is to
be co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners. For further information visit:
www.blackberrypartnersfund.com.
The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of
Research In Motion Limited.
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