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SPIRIT Receives 2006 Product of the Year Award from Communications Solutions

Moscow, May, 8, 2007 - SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of embedded voice, audio and video software products, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) Communications Solutions Magazine has named TeamSpiritŪ Mobile Voice&Video Engine as the Product of the Year 2006.

TeamSpiritŪ Mobile Voice&Video Engine is the world's most compact, robust and comprehensive solution immediately available for mobile devices today. SPIRIT voice and video engine delivers unprecedented voice quality and industry-standard video performance. SPIRIT products are being used by HTC, Compal, Quanta, Arima and other mobile OEMs in Asia, Europe and US, whose smart-phone unit shipments total for more than 70% of the global market.

"We are honored to be top ranked by Communications Solutions," said Alex Kravchenko, VP Sales & Marketing of SPIRIT DSP. "Yet another Product of the Year Award acknowledges the superiority of SPIRIT's embedded voice and video solutions over competitors' products, and reaffirms SPIRIT's leadership in the mobile market."

"SPIRIT DSP has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in cutting-edge voice and video technology development and application refinement," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions, "Once again, SPIRIT has proven that they are fully committed to be the first on the market to supply end-user application vendors and service providers with high quality solutions which shorten application development cycle, time-to-market and ROI while securing perfect end user experience. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments, and look forward to even more innovative and fabulous solutions by SPIRIT in the future."

About SPIRIT

SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 14 years. For the last 10 years SPIRIT's focus has been voice, audio, video and data communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, ARM, Atmel, Compal, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Kyocera, LG, MediaRing, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, NEC, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Paltalk, Panasonic, Philips Semiconductor, Polycom, Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Trinity Convergence, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SPIRIT DSP is a member of major voice-related developer communities, including IntelŪ Developer Network, ARMŪ Connected Community, Philips Nexperia Partnership, TI Third Party Network, TI OMAP Developer Network for Wireless handsets and PDAs. SeeStorm is SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs.