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Torch Mobile Shows Off Its WebKit-Based Web Browser & Wins “A League Of Their Own” Category

TORONTO, ONT. — November 24, 2008 — Torch Mobile Inc., a provider of innovative software applications and services for mobile and embedded devices, today announced that it has won the prestigious “Judges’ Choice” award for the “A League Of Their Own” category at Dealmaker Media’s Under the Radar event held on November 12, 2008 in Mountain View, CA. To win this award, Torch Mobile showcased its WebKit-based web browser, the Iris Browser, which brings the full web experience to mobile and embedded systems. Torch Mobile was named winner over other early stage companies in the “A League of their Own” category based on its technology, market opportunity, and unique value proposition, by a panel of judges comprised of media, corporate development executives from leading mobile/wireless companies, VCs and audience members. A total of 33 companies presented at Under the Radar.

Participants hailed from Verizon, Motorola, QUALCOMM, Microsoft, CBS Interactive, T-Mobile, BlueRun Ventures, KPCB’s iFund, VentureBeat, AT&T and many other leading players in the industry.
“The standard of presentations was extremely high. These are the companies which are truly innovating and getting rapid traction in the enterprise space,” said Debbie Landa, CEO of Dealmaker Media. “These emerging companies are the ones to watch and most likely to enjoy breakout success.”

“We are truly thrilled and honored to have been chosen for this award by the judges, who are prominent figures in the mobility industry,” said George Staikos, President of Torch Mobile. “Our receipt of this award substantiates our belief that our products are responding to people’s desire for a better mobile browsing experience.”

Torch Mobile was handpicked by the Under the Radar editorial team and advisory board based on its review of over 400 companies in this space.

About Torch Mobile

Torch Mobile, a leading developer of WebKit-based solutions, provides cutting-edge software applications and services for mobile and embedded devices. Its customers include international manufacturers of mobile phones, Mobile Internet Devices, set-top boxes and other embedded systems. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has offices in Beijing, China. The Iris Browser is Torch Mobile’s flagship product. To learn more about the company, please visit www.torchmobile.com.

Media Contact:

Christina Grivakis

Torch Mobile Inc.

Phone: (416) 961-2900

Email: christina.grivakis@torchmobile.com

Mincom selects Dexterra mobile platform and applications to power its new mobility solutions enabling organizations to increase productivity, improve safety and lower costs

DENVER, COLO. – November 19, 2008

Mincom, a leading global provider of software solutions and services for asset intensive industries, today announced plans to launch a mobility solution designed to meet the needs of asset intensive organizations across industries including mining, utilities, public infrastructure, defense and transport.

The company has selected the Dexterra mobility platform as the underlying mobility technology to extend and deploy its purpose-built applications for asset management to mobile workers.

This strategic initiative for Mincom is an extension of the current technology platform that will deliver a fully integrated end-to-end solution mobilizing asset management and critical businesses processes.

Asset intensive organizations have much more complex mobile solution needs than most other businesses.  Often the majority of their workforce is deployed to manage assets in environments that can be subject to extreme conditions such as in mines or emergency response situations. Mincom will deliver a solution that provides the communications flexibility, reliability and unique capabilities they require.

Delivering enterprise solutions for asset intensive businesses, Mincom supports a diverse range of customers throughout the world, including, Australian Defence Force, Toronto Hydro, Ergon, Energex, Xstrata Copper, Newmont Mining Corporation, Metronet (London Underground) and Scottish Power.

Mincom’s mobility solution will be based on the new Dexterra Concert Enterprise Edition and Dexterra Field Service Suite which includes schedule and dispatch, work order lifecycle management and location-based asset and resource tracking. Together with Mincom’s industry and domain expertise, the solution delivers purpose-built asset management applications that mobilize best practice processes in asset management and integrates directly to Ellipse, the company’s Enterprise Asset Management platform as well as other leading ERP platforms including SAP and Oracle.

BENEFITS FOR MINCOM CUSTOMERS

• Mincom customers also benefit from the ease in extending this mobility solution to other critical business processes such as sales force automation, customer relationship management, procurement and customer support through the use of pre-built standards-based technology, database and application adapters for mobile integration that facilitate rapid integration with virtually all back-office systems.

• A key advantage is the solution requires minimal integration so time to benefits for customers is significantly reduced.

• This is timely given today’s economic environment and the need to drive quick return on investment while reducing overall costs quickly and measurably.

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Greg Clark, chief executive officer at Mincom:

“Mincom customers are asset intensive businesses, highly reliant on field workers to operate, manage and maintain mission critical assets. Asset failure in a mining organization, for example, can equate to millions of dollars lost in just hours of production downtime.”

“Our new solution extends Mincom’s SOA-based technology platform to mobilize asset management and other critical business processes, helping our global customers reduce downtime, increase productivity and efficiency, improve safety and lower overall capital expense and operating costs.”

“It lays the foundation for us to deliver new applications and services over time and provide a single mobility platform for our customers, while reducing their total cost of ownership.”

Roy W. Schulte, of Gartner Inc. in “Using SOA to Achieve Four Design Goals” September 2008:

“An enterprise must be agile enough to change its business processes quickly if it is to respond to fast-changing business conditions and capitalize on new opportunities. Therefore, the information systems supporting the business processes must be capable of changing quickly. Agility, in this case, means being able to reconfigure and extend application systems without rewriting much code or changing the databases when business requirements change. It also means implementing multichannel applications that support desktop, mobile and back-office work simultaneously.”

Michael Liebow, chief executive officer of Dexterra:

“By providing significant domain expertise and a global presence in more than 40 countries, Mincom extends our ability to deliver industry-specific, process-driven mobile applications that are unique to asset intensive businesses. The jointly developed mobility solution for asset management enables existing and new Mincom customers to fully maximize their investment by empowering their workforce with mobile applications that make them as productive in the field as they are in the office. We look forward to working with Mincom to build long-term customer relationships and to set the bar for the kind of results that can only be achieved through business mobility.”

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Milpitas, Calif. — November 19, 2008 — Vuclip (www.vuclip.com), a leading mobile video search and delivery provider, today announced that it has won Under the Radar’s Judge’s Choice and Audience Choice awards in the Media Delivery category at Dealmaker Media’s Under the Radar event held on November 12, 2008 in Mountain View, Calif. Vuclip was named winner over other early stage companies based on its technology, market opportunity and unique value proposition by a panel of judges comprised of media, corporate development executives from leading mobile/wireless companies, venture capitalists and audience members. A total of 33 companies presented at Under the Radar.

Participants at the conference included representatives from Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Nokia, QUALCOMM, Microsoft, CBS Interactive, Blue Run Ventures, KPCB’s iFund and many other leading players in the mobile industry.

“The standard of presentations was extremely high. These are the companies which are truly innovating and gaining rapid traction in the mobile space,” said Debbie Landa, CEO of Dealmaker Media. “These emerging companies are the ones to watch and most likely to enjoy breakout success.”
“It was an exciting opportunity for us to introduce our company to such an impressive and wide-ranging group of mobile professionals,” said Nickhil Jakatdar, Vuclip’s Chief Executive Officer. “That both the judges and the audience responded so positively to our products and technology was just icing on the cake.”

Vuclip was handpicked to participate as a presenter at the conference by the Under the Radar editorial team and advisory board based on its review of over 400 companies in the mobile space.

About Vuclip
Vuclip is the most widely-used mobile video search portal in the world, and the only true mobile video search and delivery solution that allows users to access any video on the Internet and watch it on any video-enabled phone. Vuclip can find videos, transcode and optimize them “on the fly”, and then deliver them to a user’s mobile phone in real-time. Vuclip also enables online publishers and content owners to mobilize their video content through its Vuclip Video API Program. Vuclip delivers high-quality mobile video streaming with a rich multimedia experience across virtually any wireless network, carrier and mobile phone.

Media Contact:

Craig Gatarz
Vuclip
cgatarz [a]vuclip .com
408-649-2255 (Phone)

Judges and attendees enthusiastically respond to new service that creates more effective communication by adding visual information to voice phone calls.

San Diego, Calif. – November 18, 2008 – DialPlus (www.dialplus.net) today announced the company was named Category Winner at Dealmaker Media’s Under the Radar | Mobility event held November 12, 2008 in Mountain View, Calif. DialPlus won both the Judges Choice and Audience Choice Awards over other early stage companies in the “Content Organization” category. The company also received the Fast Company/Brother Pitch Award for its unique value proposition, technology and market opportunity. Under the Radar’s awards are judged by a panel comprised of members of the media, corporate development executives from leading mobile and wireless companies and venture capitalists. A total of 33 companies presented at Under the Radar | Mobility.

Participants hailed from Verizon, Motorola, QUALCOMM, Microsoft, CBS Interactive, T-Mobile, BlueRun Ventures, KPCB’s iFund, VentureBeat, AT&T and many other leading players in the industry.

“The standard of presentations was extremely high. These are the companies which are truly innovating and getting rapid traction in the enterprise space,” said Debbie Landa, CEO of Dealmaker Media. “These emerging companies are the ones to watch and most likely to enjoy breakout success.”

“It’s a powerful affirmation of our vision by the judges and the audience at such a prestigious event amongst a strong field of startups”, said Lisa LeVasseur, CEO of DialPlus. “In a very short time, DialPlus has gone from concept to product and it’s very exciting to see the big idea we are building be rewarded by industry leaders.”

DialPlus was handpicked by the Under the Radar editorial team and advisory board based on its review of over 400 companies in this space.

DialPlus enriches the standard phone call experience by automatically and simultaneously providing dynamic, contextually relevant visual information about the called or calling party before the call is answered, during the call and after the call is over. DialPlus makes it easy for users to engage in mobile social networking or to get information about a business they’re speaking with, such as directions, menus and reviews. DialPlus creates a better web experience by deconstructing and re-assembling just the right information, right when you want it. DialPlus solves the constrained browsing and content discovery issues of the mobile phone by breaking down the various silos in the mobile ecosystem. For every phone number, DialPlus presents just the right information, mobile applications, web services and mobile search in a clean and intuitive interface to enhance the call.

About DialPlus, Inc.
Founded in 2007 by wireless industry veterans, San Diego, Calif. – based DialPlus enriches and creates more effective communication by adding visual information to voice phone calls. Available for multiple wireless phone makes and models, DialPlus and can be downloaded from www.dialplus.net.

Contact:
Hutch Morton
DialPlus
310.403.1016
hutch@dialplus.net

Dexterra Concert platform now available in separate editions to meet the specialized mobility needs of enterprises and carriers

Bothell, Wash. — November 17, 2008

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Company named “Audience Choice” in the “Enabling Content Providers” category

San Francisco, California—November 13th, 2008—Goodrec, the mobile and online recommendation service, today announced that it has won Under the Radar’s Audience Choice award for the Enabling Content Providers category at Dealmaker Media’s Under the Radar event held on November 12, 2008 in Mountain View, CA. Goodrec was named winner over other early stage companies in the Enabling Content Providers category based on its technology, market opportunity, and unique value proposition, by a panel of judges comprised of media, corporate development executives from leading mobile/wireless companies, VCs, and audience members. A total of 33 companies presented at Under the Radar.

Participants hailed from Verizon, Motorola, QUALCOMM, Microsoft, CBS Interactive, T-Mobile, BlueRun Ventures, KPCB’s iFund, VentureBeat, AT&T and many other leading players in the industry.

“The standard of presentations was extremely high. These are the companies which are truly innovating and getting rapid traction in the enterprise space,” said Debbie Landa, CEO of Dealmaker Media “These emerging companies are the ones to watch and most likely to enjoy breakout success.”

“We’re thrilled to be chosen as an audience favorite,” said Mihir Shah, CEO of Goodrec, “and we’re excited about the response from iPhone users to our app. We’ve been live for two months, and we’re already seeing the majority of our recommendations made by mobile phone, and are getting overwhelmingly positive feedback from users. We’re looking forward to building on that momentum in the months to come.”

Goodrec is a mobile and online recommendation service that provides short, to-the-point recommendations from friends and trusted sources. The service makes it easy to make, find and remember actionable recommendations from anywhere: online, via its iPhone application or from any mobile browser. Goodrec enables fast and informed decision-making with ‘Thumbs Up’/'Thumbs Down’ recommendations and valuable Quick Tips. Its proprietary technology makes intelligent suggestions based on personal taste and friends’ recommendations across categories including restaurants, movies, books and more, and displays “recs” for nearby spots in location-based categories. Users can quickly find exactly what they want by sorting and filtering recs based on personal preferences, location or “Want Lists” of bookmarked recommendations.

Goodrec was handpicked by the Under the Radar editorial team and advisory board based on its review of over 400 companies in this space.

About Goodrec:
Goodrec is a mobile and online recommendation service that offers concise recommendations at the moment of inspiration from the sources and people you know and trust. Goodrec can be accessed online, via its iPhone app, or from any mobile browser. The San Francisco-based company was founded in 2007 and is funded by a group of leading seed stage firms including Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC, Richard Wolpert’s Chance Technologies and Betaworks. For more information or to sign up for Goodrec, please visit: www.goodrec.com