Virtual Office Innovation

Avila Business Center presents the 1st worldwide iPhone

application
Lisbon, 20th October 2010 – Avila Business Center (a company that manages Office Centers
and Virtual Offices solutions) developed the first worldwide virtual offices application to the
iPhone.

Known as myOffice, this is the first worldwide application developed exclusively to the
iPhone and oriented, specifically, to the virtual Office activity. The application was developed
in partnership with a technological Portuguese company, SwipeTwice, based in Oporto, free
of charge for all Avila Business Center’s clients, being able to download it through the App
Store.

myOffice application will allow professionals to have real time information of telephone
contacts, correspondence arrival notifications and other functionalities, namely at a location
and contacts from other business centres of the eOffice international network level,
represented in Portugal by Avila Business Center.

Through the application it may be demanded information by email or telephone about the
services paid by the Business Centers, as well as scheduling meetings, offices reservations
and virtual offices hire.

Besides myOffice for the iPhone, Avila Business Center is also developing a Mobile Site, to
allow the access from other smartphones, namely the Blackberry and Nokia.

This project was developed after a study made to 250 Avila Business Center’s clients
companies, among which 82% have a favourable opinion in relation to these applications,
showing the utility these technologies represent nowadays to companies and the opening of
them for the innovation of their work processes.

Avila Business Center wants with this new product, to try to give a more effective answer to
the companies’ needs that are in constant mobility, being an effective solution for
professionals working in a telework regime, for freelancers and for organizations
geographically spread and that have adopted a virtual Office in the centre of Lisbon.

For Carlos Gonçalves, Chief executive officer of the company “this project confirms Avila
Business Center as a reference in Business Centers and Virtual Offices market, betting on the
constant innovation of their products and on the adoption of state of the art technologies in
order to have value close to its clients”.
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About Avila Business Center

Avila Business Center, leader on the virtual offices market, is a Business Center located in Av.
República and in Av. João Crisóstomo (Lisbon), dedicating itself also to the rental of physical
offices based on a philosophy of “ready made” service. Founded in 2004, presents, since
then, several virtual offices modalities (has Virtual Offices’ packages available from 55 Euros
to 85 Euros plus VAT, per month) being leader on the market with more than 200 national
and international clients. Since 2008 it is a partner and representative in Portugal of eOffice
International Network, the major Business Center network in the World, with more than 300
centres and being managed from the United Kingdom.
For more information you may visit the website www.espacoavila.com

About SwipeTwice

SwipeTwice is a small software design and development company focused on creating

distinctive iPhone, iPad and iPod touch applications. The company was founded in the spring
of 2010 and aims to evolve into a fully iOS and MacOS developing studio in the near future.

At the present SwipeTwice is working on several apps to be released soon on the Apple
Store and is also working with companies and institutions developing custom solutions.

For more information you may visit the website www.swipetwice.com

Application Specifications:

1) – The phone calls notifications have full information about the message left, the
name/company that contacted the client, date/hour and level of emergency;

2) - Correspondence notifications have information about the sender, date/hour of

reception and type (normal/registered);

3) Fax notifications have information about the sender date/hour of reception, as well as the
subject. Both the correspondence and the fax can be scanned and sent to the client.

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4) Messages notifications have information about the person who transmitted it, date/hour,
as well as the subject.

5) The client manages the notifications by selecting the “Done subject” or “answered call”
options. The registers can also be deleted.

6) The client can automatically forward the notifications by email so that another person can
be aware of the situation and proceed with the subject.

7) The same way, the client may contact the secretariat directly by email or by phone, asking
for additional information about the notifications or demanding cooperation to give
sequence to the subjects.

8) myOffice also allows you to have information about the several partners of eOffice
international network, being able to demand for information by email or by phone on the
services given, as well as make meeting appointments, offices reservation and virtual offices
hiring.

For more information:

João Damasceno
Communication Director
Tel.: 210 995 054
Telm.: 912593788
joao.damasceno@livecomunicacaoglobal.com