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NEWS 2007

[01/29/2007]

HelloSoft Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's 2006 Product of the Year Award

HelloDual-Mode(TM)Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

San Jose, CA, January 29, 2007 - HelloSoft announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMCR)'s INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named HelloDual-Mode?as a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998

"We are very pleased to be selected by the Technology Marketing Corporation (TMCR)'s INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine for the "2006 Product of the Year"award, said Krishna Yarlagadda, HelloSoft's President and CEO. "Winning this award for HelloDual-Mode?led to a great finish for 2006. With the new line of dual-mode handsets coming into the market later this year, this award shows that HelloSoft is truly leading the next generation of mobile handsets."

"INTERNET TELEPHONY is proud to bestow HelloSoft with a 2006 Product of the Year Award. Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine recognizes companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements,"said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. "HelloSoft has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. We're proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future."

A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the February, 2007 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com). For more information about TMC and INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About HelloSoft

HelloSoft is the world's leading provider of VoIP Technologies for wireline and wireless devices. The company enables mass deployment of low-cost, power-efficient, fully-featured multi-mode wireline and wireless devices by providing highly optimized RISC-based VoIP software products with superior voice quality, QoS, and efficient call switching specifically designed for next generation end-points. HelloSoft's IMS/VCC stack enables seamless hand-off between cellular and Wi-Fi networks for multi-mode handsets. This comprehensive portfolio of award winning VoIP products enables OEMs, ODMs and semiconductor manufacturers to deliver VoIP enabled products with a short time to market schedule.

HelloSoft is headquartered in San Jose, California with an R&D facility in Hyderabad. HelloSoft's customers include leading technology firms such as Toshiba, Wistron NeWeb Corp, Panasonic, NeoMagic, Accton and 5V Technologies along with top semiconductor manufacturers Original Device Manufacturers (ODMs) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) globally. HelloSoft's partners include Texas Instruments, Intel, Microsoft and Symbian. Please visit www.hellosoft.

About INTERNET TELEPHONYR magazine

Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY is the only magazine that focuses on providing information in IP communications technologies. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine provides readers with the best information necessary to learn about and purchase the equipment, software, and services. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Miercom. The only BPA-audited publication that's 100% dedicated to providing the highest quality content for the IP communications market, INTERNET TELEPHONY has 55,000 dedicated readers.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,600 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

For More information contact:

HelloSoft, Inc.
Rina McCord
+1 (408) 441-7110 x104
rina@hellosoft.com