HiQ and GTECH extend Joint Development Agreement

HiQ and GTECH extend Joint Development Agreement

GTECH Corporation, a leading global provider of IT solutions and services to the
gaming and lottery industry, has extended its cooperation agreement with HiQ.
The new agreement will run for three years and is worth SEK 43 million (4.7
MEUR). GTECH and HiQ have been working together for a number of years on joint
development projects of integrated gaming platforms for several of GTECH's
existing lottery customers.

“Our collaboration with GTECH has worked very well, and the new extended
agreement is an acknowledgement of this. The agreement extends our existing
three-year contract. Demand for our combined services is good, and we naturally
hope to be able to continue working together for many years to come,” says Pekka
Neva, MD of HiQ Softplan Oy in Finland responsible for the collaboration on
HiQ's side. 

Working within the framework of the new cooperation agreement, HiQ and GTECH
will continue to develop gaming platforms for several of GTECH's existing
customers 
“HiQ is a strategic partner that aligns well with our products and services.
HiQ's expertise has been of value to us in developing interactive gaming
systems. ” says Lionel Turine, Senior Director, Software Engineering, EMEA at
GTECH.

In 1996, Finish Veikkaus became the first national lottery and sports betting
company in the world to launch Internet gaming. Today, www.veikkaus.fi is
Finland's largest e-commerce site for consumers, enabling them to play a variety
of games of chance and skill, such as Lotto, Keno and various forms of sports
betting. HiQ has been working closely with Veikkaus on the development of theirInteractive Gaming Platform since 1996.

For further information, please contact:
Lars Stugemo, President and CEO HiQ, tel +46 8 588 90 000
Pekka Neva, Managing Director, HiQ Softplan Oy, tel: +358 9 4355 8634
Anna Jennehov, Head of Corporate Communications, HiQ International, tel: +46 704
20 00 49
Lionel Turine, Senior Director, Software Engineering, EMEA, GTECH Global
Services, tel: +32 2 678 13 24

GTECH is a leading gaming technology and services company, providing innovative
technology, creative content, and superior service delivery.  Lottomatica is one
of the world's largest commercial lottery operators and a market leader in the
Italian gaming industry.  GTECH and Lottomatica together create a fully
integrated lottery operator and gaming technology solutions provider - a
combined company with worldwide scale, considerable financial strength, and
industry-leading customer solutions.  Lottomatica is majority owned by De
Agostini, which belongs to a century-old publishing, media, and financial
services group. Lottomatica is publicly traded on the Italian Stock Exchange
(LTO), and in 2006, had more than €1.7 billion in revenues and 5,900 employees
in over 45 countries when combined with GTECH. 

HiQ is an IT and management consultancy that focuses on high-tech solutions in
the fields of communication, software development and simulation. The company is
a leader in these fields and the Nordic region is its domestic market. HiQ
employs close to 1 000 people at offices in the Nordic Region and Eastern
Europe. HiQ is listed on the Nordic Stock Exchange midcap list. For more
information, please visit www.hiq.se.