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TABLETmedia ANNOUNCES NEW ENTERPRISE P2P WALKIE-TALKIE FOR MOBILE DEVICES

SAN FRANCISCO - September 16, 2006: TABLETmedia, Inc. announces today that it has introduced iTalkie™, a new solution to greatly ease the integration of paging and voice calling into enterprises.

"In 2001 we introduced the world's first voice and video soft phone for PDAs. Today we are pleased to provide yet another significant contribution into mobile communications" says Alessandro Gatti, President and CEO of TABLETmedia, Inc. "Push-to-Talk (PTT) is one of the most requested features in many vertical markets which require the integration of traditional walkie-talkie functionality into powerful mobile data devices. iTalkie™ is ideal for organizations with one or more small to medium size sites where the primary voice requirement is one-to-many paging and one-to-one direct local calling. The peer-to-peer (P2P) nature of iTalkie™ eliminates any setup, thus minimizing deployment and maintenance costs.".

iTalkie™ is a software application for WiFi-enabled PDAs and PDA/phones based on the Microsoft Windows Mobile devices. Once installed, it requires no servers and it is immediately operational: users can just press a button to send a page. Through TABLETmedia's P2P self-detecting and configuring technology, they can also see the presence of other users and call them directly. iTalkie™ supports up to 999 channels, including an emergency channel that is heard by all users irrespective of what channel they have selected and whether they are sending a page. Based on the feedback from several field customer trials, it incorporates many features to make it easy to use and transparently integrate into the devices with other applications. In addition, it has some of the unique capabilities of TABLETmedia's other voice/video phone clients for improving the battery life of the device as well as managing and compensating the limitations of wireless networks.

"iTalkie™ was created with businesses in mind that require simple to use, yet advanced, communications tools to enhance and transparently integrate into their day-to-day operations. It is the first solution of its kind that enables PDAs with reliable and expandable paging, full duplex voice and presence capabilities" says Gatti, "This announcement allows TABLETmedia to maintain its leadership position and track record as an innovator of the way people communicate in real-time with their mobile devices.".

TABLETmedia is also introducing an optional server application to bridge the local area network with traditional public address (PA) systems. User can send pages from their mobile device through this PA gateway directly to the site's overhead paging system connected to the sound output of the server. Future products will also provide businesses better integration of the iTalkie™ solution into their existing workflow.


About TABLETmedia, Inc.

TABLETmedia, Inc. is the leader of next-generation IP-based communication solutions for mobile platforms distributed to service providers, manufacturers and integrators. Using advanced integration, communication and compression technologies, TABLETmedia was the first company in the world to turn PDAs into ITU-T H.323 and IETF SIP standards-based wireless telephones and videoconferencing devices operating on any type of wireless packet data networks. On dual-mode devices iFonT users benefit from a single interface to place voice calls or send text messages, while the software automatically chooses the most appropriate wireless network. TABLETmedia iTalkie™ enables businesses to transparently add zero-setup paging and direct voice into their workflow, by replacing traditional walkie-talkie functionality while adding more capabilities. TABLETmedia's products enable service providers and enterprises to deploy previously unfeasible converged mobile voice, video and messaging services. Wireless VoIP (or VoWLAN) greatly improves employee productivity and efficiency, while reducing costs by simply extending the existing corporate telephony infrastructure to mobile devices such as PDA-based phones. More information on TABLETmedia is available at http://www.tabletmedia.com.

Contact for Press and Analysts:

Alessandro Gatti
TABLETmedia, Inc.
+1 (415) 567-8100 x202
alexg@tabletmedia.com

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