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Mobile Productivity, Inc.'s Advanced Repair Guidance Information System (ARGIS(TM)) Qualifies for GM Goodwrench Multipoint Vehicle Inspection

LAS VEGAS--Feb. 6, 2006--Mobile Productivity, Inc. (MPi) is pleased to announce that General Motors (GM) has reviewed MPi's Advanced Repair Guidance Information System (ARGIS(TM)) and determined that dealerships which perform inspections using ARGIS will be qualified for the Goodwrench Multipoint Vehicle Inspection portion of the Customer Focused Incentives, provided the other qualification criteria are met.

ARGIS is strongly endorsed by many leading GM dealers including Paul Rubin, Co-Chair of the National General Motors Dealer Council and owner of White Bear Lake Pontiac, GMC in St. Paul-Minneapolis. One of the key qualifications for the Incentives Program is that dealers reach 75% inspection penetration. According to Rubin, within just 5 weeks of installing ARGIS, his dealership's inspection rate went from 8% to over 85%.

"Our dealership was one of the early adopters of ARGIS. It has greatly increased technician efficiency and radically changed our inspection process, enabling us to capture every customer pay upsell opportunity. The dramatic increase we have seen in inspections naturally translates into increased sale opportunities; our dollar per RO has increased substantially," said Rubin.

Mobile Productivity, Inc.'s Advanced Repair Guidance Information System (ARGIS(TM)) is a proprietary diagnostic, repair information and service merchandising solution. It enables service departments to increase efficiency and profits by streamlining vehicle diagnostics using a customized repair information system. The system easily walks a technician and service advisor through the diagnosis using OEM data, all supportive wiring diagrams and service information.

ARGIS also provides service departments the ability to effectively increase customer pay sales using a customized inspection process, Know Your Vehicle(TM). These detailed inspection processes are proven to deliver a significant return on investment giving service departments the ability to maximize all the revenue that's available to them.

"We are proud to be recognized by General Motors as a tool to help dealers qualify for the Goodwrench Multipoint Vehicle Inspection portion of the Customer Focused Incentives. Dealers using ARGIS are seeing superior vehicle inspection penetration rates and realizing benefits that average $100 to $125 in additional needed repairs per vehicle inspection, a substantial increase in revenue per RO," said Les Silver, MPi President and CEO.

About Mobile Productivity, Inc.:

Mobile Productivity, Inc. (MPi) provides a highly innovative and proprietary diagnostic, repair information and service merchandising solution to the automotive industry. MPi's solution addresses two of the largest challenges facing the automotive industry: the ability to reliably service increasingly complicated vehicles in a cost effective, profitable, and high quality manner and the ability to increase customer pay profits through non-warranty vehicle inspections and repairs.

Mobile Productivity, Inc.'s Advanced Repair Guidance Information System (ARGIS(TM)) is a proprietary diagnostic, repair information and service merchandising solution that enables service departments to increase efficiency and profits by streamlining vehicle diagnostics using a customized repair information system that easily walks a technician and service advisor through the diagnosis using OEM data, all supportive wiring diagrams and service information. ARGIS also provides service departments the ability to effectively increase customer pay sales using a customized inspection process, Know Your Vehicle(TM). These detailed inspection processes are proven to deliver a significant return on investment giving service departments the ability to maximize all the revenue that's available to them.

MPi is backed by Warburg Pincus, a global leader among the top private equity and venture capital firms. Since 1971, Warburg Pincus has invested more than $21.5 billion in 525 companies in 30 countries. Throughout its 35-year history in private equity, the firm has invested at all stages of a company's life cycle, from founding start-ups and providing growth capital to leading restructurings, recapitalizations and buy-outs.