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Jim O'Neill — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:26:43 -0400

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - June 16, 2008) - maniaTV, the first online television network and birthplace of original web television hits "Dave Navarro's Spread TV" and "Tom Green Live," today announced the launch of maniaTV Mobile. The service, powered by Transpera's comprehensive mobile video delivery and monetization platform, allows viewers to access online television content from any video-enabled mobile device, and creates additional advertising inventory and enhanced interactive programming options for maniaTV. Select maniaTV Mobile content can now be viewed by going to http://maniatv.com from mobile browsers.

maniaTV Mobile will offer more personal ways for mobile users to experience their favorite programming on the go with features such as "Send-to-Friend" for mobile-to-mobile sharing and forthcoming "Send to Mobile" for online to mobile device interaction. The Transpera platform, optimized for all video capable phones including the newly announced 3G iPhone, also gives users the ability to search for videos, save their favorites, and receive mobile alerts when new shows appear through integration with top social networking services such as Twitter.

"Mobile content is an important part of engaging viewers in a way that suits their lifestyle while delivering timely and highly engaging brand experiences for advertisers," said Peter Hoskins, maniaTV CEO. "maniaTV Mobile will change the way we conceive and create segments and can add a new level of interactivity down the road."

"With more and more mobile phones, like the iPhone, out there with powerful video capabilities, having a mobile video channel is a no-brainer. But the complexity and cost of developing, deploying and monetizing these channels is a barrier for many content providers," said Frank Barbieri, founder and CEO of Transpera. "Transpera's platform eliminates that complexity, adds incremental revenue though targeted advertising integration and allows video publishers to focus on their core competencies -- creating and delivering the most exciting video possible to their audiences."

About maniaTV

The maniaTV Network launched in 2004 as the world's first Internet TV network. The company produces, sells and distributes made for internet programming targeting the 18 to 34 year old audience while delivering innovative branded entertainment opportunities to leading brands and advertisers. With a state-of-the-art production studio in Hollywood, maniaTV produces groundbreaking, award-winning programming for 8+ million viewers each month. maniaTV's programming slate ranges from music and comedy, to drama, video gaming, and action sports. Leading shows include "Dave Navarro's Spread Entertainment," "Tom Green Live," "National Lampoon's Lemmings," "Arcade," and "All Access." maniaTV delivers unique brand experiences within each show and has served over 50 of Advertising Age's Top 100. Through its visionary market leadership and focus on premium content and distribution partnerships, maniaTV is redefining television for the 21st Century. We like to call it "Television 2.0."

About Transpera

Transpera provides the industry's first comprehensive platform for monetizing Web videos on mobile phones. Powering mobile video channels for such powerful internet video brands as CBS News, Associated Press, Revision3, Break.com, maniaTV, eBaumsworld and Putfile, Transpera provides online content owners, network operators and advertisers the tools to capitalize on the exploding mobile video market. Through the company's patent-pending platform and bridging technology, Transpera is the only company to connect all the necessary pieces for optimizing the monetization of mobile video content. Transpera provides video content and brand owners with the ability to instantly mobilize and distribute video to mobile phone users based on their interests and communities, enhance on-deck video offerings for network operators and provide brand owners and advertisers with a direct and targeted route for marketing to their target audiences. Transpera is based in Santa Monica, Calif. and is funded by top venture firms Intel Capital, Flybridge Capital (formerly IDG Ventures) and First Round Capital Ventures. For more information, visit www.transpera.com.

TI'S NEWEST VOIP GATEWAY SOLUTIONS OFFER INCREASED PERFORMANCE, SCALABILITY AND SUPPORT FOR VIDEO CAPABILITIES

Jim O'Neill — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:08:02 -0400

DALLAS (May 13, 2008) -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) [NYSE:TXN]
today announced the newest members of its Voice over IP (VoIP) gateway
silicon and software solutions that will enable equipment manufacturers
to achieve higher channel densities with improved voice quality. TI's
newest gateway solutions are powered by its TMS320C64x+^TM digital signal processor (DSP) that significantly increases performance
for VoIP and video encode, decode and transcode applications. The
flexible architecture of TI's new solutions allows equipment
manufacturers to transition to a common hardware and software
architecture that scales from eight to several hundreds of channels
while supporting advanced voice and video features. For more
information, go to: www.ti.com/voip.

The
TNETV2664, TNETV2666, TNETV2686 and TNETV2689 are the newest additions
to TI's field-proven medium density VoIP gateway product family. These
solutions support an Ethernet interface and full IP encapsulation that
allows the DSPs to put voice media directly on the network. This
integration enables manufacturers to choose a smaller, more
cost-effective host processor thereby simplifying their hardware design
and reducing overall bill of material (BOM) costs. TI's gateway
solutions include pin compatible options with different channel
densities, which gives equipment manufacturers the ability to design a
common hardware architecture that can scale across a range of product
configurations and applications.

"The
power and performance of TI's C64x DSP enables our newest family of
enterprise gateway solutions to deliver improved voice transmission and
high quality video," said Fred Zimmerman, director of CPE solutions for
TI's voice solutions business unit. "We are listening to our enterprise
and service provider customers' needs and equipping them with the most
sophisticated voice gateway solutions that will allow them to expand
their application offerings and meet the growing demands of service
providers."

As
the first of TI's medium density gateway solutions to operate on the
C64x+ DSP core, manufacturers will now be able to integrate video
capabilities to their products and still support voice and fax
communications between TDM and packet telephony networks. The improved
processing power enabled by the C64x+ architecture combined with
increased on-chip memory significantly improves voice gateway
performance while enabling higher channel densities.

The
number of enterprise VoIP deployments continues to increase globally as
businesses increasingly invest in IP-based systems, demanding more
cost-effective telecommunications services that can transmit
high-quality voice and video data, as well as advanced voice
applications. According to Infonetics Research, the enterprise
telephony market rose to $9.6 billion for 2007, up six percent over
2006, with hybrid IP-PBX systems accounting for two thirds of all lines
shipped last year.

"End
users are clearly sold on the idea of VoIP, with sales of enterprise
VoIP systems far outpacing those of legacy systems," said Matthias
Machowinski, Infonetics Research, directing analyst, Enterprise Voice
& Data. "But to stay ahead and meet the next wave of customer
demand, manufacturers will need to continue enhancing their products.
TI's latest gateway solution is a great example of a system that has
many of the features necessary to allow OEMs to strengthen their
offerings, such as echo cancellation, conference bridging, and video
transcoding, while at the same time keeping development costs in
check."

With
over 750 million VoIP ports shipped to date, TI supplies the industry's
widest portfolio of voice silicon and software products deployed
worldwide, including solutions for IP phones, enterprise VoIP gateways
and carrier class equipment.

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