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32 mobility startups to be selected to present to an expert panel and audience of industry influencers

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — July 23, 2008

• Dealmaker Media is announcing a CALL FOR COMPANIES for Under the Radar: Mobility
• Under the Radar: Mobility is a one-day event featuring 32 emerging mobility technology startups held on November 12, 2008, at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, CA.
• Companies that submit by July 30, 2008 will receive priority consideration for early acceptance.
• Under the Radar: Mobility will uncover 32 vetted, test-driven startups that have launched within the year in hot sectors such as iPhone apps, location-based services, mobile gaming, mobile social networking, enabling technologies and mobile marketing/advertising.
• Selected companies will receive expert advice and guidance on messaging and positioning along with assistance in preparing their presentations from Mobility Public Relations.
• A panel of industry experts as well as audience members will vote to award companies believed to stand the best chance of success.  Awards will be given in each conference category as well as a best of show award, and presented at the end of the conference.

Who’s in the Audience

•  Now in its 12th series, Under the Radar features an audience of media, business executives, venture capitalists and industry influencers seeking to discover tomorrow’s leading tech companies.
• Presenting companies will also be in front executives from major carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint.

Who Presents

• Presenting companies have come from all over the globe.
• Past Under the Radar successes include Flickr, Loopt, LinkedIn, MobiTV, Photobucket, Blinkx, Glu Mobile, Sling Media, Userplane, Zimbra and more.
• Past mobile presenters have gone on to raise $430 million in financing, while others have been acquired or inked strategic partnerships.
• To nominate a company to present, complete the online form at http://www.undertheradarblog.com/utr_nomination_form.html.

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Debbie Landa
CEO of Dealmaker Media

“While the perception may be that Under the Radar is a conduit to venture capital, the conference is really a conduit to making business deals.  When we put together the Under the Radar conference, we work to ensure that all of the pieces needed to make and close a deal are not only present in one room, but are also ready to make deals happen. So whether a company is trying to get a meeting to present your technology to carriers, is trying to raise money or find other business development partners, the right people are attending Under the Radar and looking to make deals happen.  After all, we are Dealmaker Media.”

Vipul Sawhney
CEO of Hovr, 2007 winner of the Under the Radar Judges Choice Award for Mobile Advertising

“The Judges Choice honor that Hovr was awarded validates the growing scope of ad-supported content, along with the value that the social networking elements of our site bring to users. Hovr aims to continue to innovate within the social gaming arena and bring to market new value added services to enhance our customers’ mobile gaming experiences. Participating in UTR allowed us to share that mission with the mobile community.”

About Dealmaker Media
Dealmaker Media operates at the intersection of business, technology, venture capital, and the future. Our conferences, roundtables, blogs, and research are designed to inter-connect CEOs, technology executives, investors, analysts and press. Dealmaker Media brings dealmakers together with one ultimate goal: to get the deal done.  For more information visit www.undertheradarblog.com.

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Dealmaker Media

Register for Under the Radar: Mobility

Nominate a company to present at Under the Radar

CONTACT INFORMATION

• John Sidline (Agency)
  Mobility Public Relations
  503-946-3311 (office)
  Email: utr@mobilitypr.com
  Web site: http://www.undertheradarblog.com/

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Talkster’s iPhone-optimized service is now even easier to use with recent enhancements that let callers place the Talkster service icon on the main screen of their phones.

TORONTO, ONT — JANUARY 24, 2007

Now iPhone users have an even easier way to make free international, long-distance and group conference calls. With just a single click of an icon from the iPhone’s main screen, you can launch the Talkster service and begin making free calls to friends and family around the world. As always, once you’ve created a Talkster number for a friend or group of friends and saved it in your address book, you need only select them directly from your phone book to place the call.

Follow these easy steps to place the Talkster icon on your iPhone’s main screen:

Step One:
Connect your iPhone to iTunes and update the phone’s firmware to version 1.1.3 (or later).

Step Two:
Open the Safari web browser and surf to http://i.talkster.com.

Step Three:
Click on the new “+” symbol at the bottom of the screen. Once you do, you’ll be presented with three options:

• Add Bookmark
• Add to Home Screen
• Mail Link to this Page

Step Four:
Click on “Add to Home Screen.” You’ll be shown the new Talkster iPhone icon and be able to give it a title (such as “Talkster”) to add to your iPhone’s main screen.

The new 1.1.3 firmware also lets you move the icon around the screen to place it in an order you like. You can find instructions on how to rearrange icons and use more of the new features now available for the iPhone by clicking here and here.

Step Five:
You can repeat steps two and three, but this time select “Mail Link to this Page” to share Talkster with your friends!

iPhone conference calls with Talkster
With traditional iPhone conference calling, the process can be tedious, increasing minute usage and frustration. Conference calls also require iPhone users to pay even higher costs for an international and long-distance connection. With Talkster, users can create a group of up to 5 people, generating a local number each participant in the call. This process is one-time only, and with the new Talkster icon for the iPhone, an easy way to keep in touch.

Ads foot the bill for free calls
Calls with Talkster are free because the service is ad-supported, meaning all calls are subsidized by advertising, much like television and radio. In order to access free long-distance, international, and group conference calling, users listen to a 10-second ad and then are free to talk as long as they like with no talk time limits.

Sign up now

Talkster has several sign-up options for users:

1. Visit www.Talkster.com from your computer
2. Visit http://free.talkster.com from any mobile phone browser, or
3. Visit Talkster’s iPhone optimized site at http://i.talkster.com
4. Add Talkster’s Free World Dialing Application on social networking site, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=5439812969&ref=s

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QUOTES

Talkster COO James Wanless

“It doesn’t get any easier than click and talk. Placing the Talkster icon on your phone’s main screen gives you an even faster way to setup cost-free and hassle-free long distance, international and group conference calls.”

About Talkster
Talkster’s award winning voice technologies are changing international and long distance calling with a fully sustainable mobile advertising supported business model which benefits both callers and advertisers. Talkster’s Free World Dialing™ is the only service for making completely free long distance, international, and conference calls from any phone, on any network. With FREE international, long distance, and conference calling, who will you call? For more information on Talkster please visit www.Talkster.com.

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Talkster
Home Page

Talkster Free World Dialing
Call Initiation Page

Talkster iPhone Site
iPhone optimized site for setting up Talkster calls

Press Kit
Talkster Social Media Press Kit

The Talkster Blog

Del.icio.us Bookmarks for Talkster

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Melissa Burns (Agency)
  Mobility Public Relations
  208-946-4849 (office)
  melissakburns (skype)
  Email: talkster@mobilitypr.com
  Press kit: http://talkster.mobilitypr.com
  Web site: http://www.talkster.com
  Blog: http://talkster.wordpress.com

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Ad-supported mobile gaming and social networking features are a winning combination

NEW YORK, NY & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Under the Radar Conference judges announced mobile gaming company Hovr won the “Judges Choice” award in the advertising category of the mobility-focused event organized by Dealmaker Media. The Under the Radar Conference took place on November 15 in Mountain View, California; showcasing applications and business practices at the forefront of the growing mobile technology market.

• Hovr was selected as one of 40 hot emerging mobile companies to participate in the Under the Radar conference.
• Each presenting company at the conference was given six minutes to sell their company’s value statement to the over 400 venture capitalists, media, executives, content developers and other industry leaders in attendance.
• Awards were distributed in eight categories, including social networking, infrastructure and Hovr’s winning sector, advertising.
• The sole criterion on which companies were evaluated by the panel of judges is which of the presenting companies in each sector stood the best chance of succeeding.
• The three conference judges for the advertising category were:
  • Daniel Rosen, Head of AKQA Mobile, AKQA
  • Erik de Kroon, Head of Internet Business Development, Vodafone Group
  • Eric Ver Ploeg, Managing Director, VantagePoint Venture Partners
• To win the “Judges Choice” award, Hovr showcased its free mobile gaming service which offers millions of users from over 190 countries access to hundreds of ad-supported games for mobile phones; along with its MobileSpace social network.
• Judges had positive feedback on the Hovr ad-supported model, and specifically liked the way the Hovr service is leveraging compelling content with social networking elements to keep game players returning to the Website again and again.
• Hovr launched a new white label service earlier this month, allowing Web sites, portals and carriers worldwide to offer their users direct access to hundreds of free, ad-supported mobile games, all under their own brand.

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Vipul Sawhney, CEO of Hovr

“The Judges Choice honor that Hovr was awarded validates the growing scope of ad-supported content, along with the value that the social networking elements of our site bring to users. Hovr aims to continue to innovate within the social gaming arena and bring to market new value added services to enhance our customers’ mobile gaming experiences. Participating in UTR allowed us to share that mission with the mobile community.”

About Hovr Inc.
Hovr is a mobile media company that marries the needs of advertisers seeking to reach the important and growing mobile demographic with the desires of mobile users wanting entertaining content and applications on their mobile phones. Hovr provides users with free ad-supported mobile content such as high-quality, fun-to-play mobile games. The Hovr MobileSpace social network lets users connect, compete and interact with their friends and other players in a compelling community environment. For more information visit www.hovr.com.

RELATED LINKS

Hovr Inc.
Hovr Home Page

Hovr Press Kit
Hovr Online Press Kit

MobileSpace
Hovr’s Social Network

Under the Radar Blog

Dealmaker Media

Del.icio.us Bookmarks for Hovr

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Melissa Burns (Agency)
  Mobility Public Relations
  +1-208-946-4849 (office)
  melissakburns (Skype)
  Email: hovr@mobilitypr.com
  Web site: http://www.hovr.com

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Increase brand loyalty and grow revenue with free ad-supported mobile games and social networking features

NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 14, 2007

• Hovr Inc. today announced the launch of Powered by Hovr, a white label mobile gaming service for mobile operators and online communities.
• Through this service, consumer-oriented web sites, mobile portals and carriers worldwide can offer their users direct access to hundreds of free, highly entertaining, engaging, ad-supported mobile games, all under their own brand.
• The Powered by Hovr service creates significant new revenue opportunities through enhanced entertainment choices for end users.
• The Powered by Hovr white label service also offers cutting edge online and mobile social networking features.
• Hovr’s social networking tools provide a whole new way for community members to connect and interact around mobile game play and the sharing of mobile content.
• The value proposition is simple – users enjoy free mobile games that generate advertising revenue each time they are played.
• Several Powered by Hovr communities have already begun service with excellent results.
• Tanzanian-based Push Mobile and Indonesian-based mobile firm BuzzCity are providing Hovr’s free mobile games to their customers.
• Push Mobile, the leading provider of mobile content in Africa, previously only offered ringtones and wallpapers to its user base but now offers customers free access to Hovr’s entire mobile games catalog, resulting in an order of magnitude increase in traffic and users.
• Mobile community provider Buzzcity is also using the Powered by Hovr service for its myGamma mobile portal.
• Both Hovr.com and Hovr’s MobileSpace community enjoy active participation by millions of gamers from more than 190 different countries as they download, play and enjoy Hovr’s fun, high quality, free mobile games.

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QUOTES

Vipul Sawhney, CEO of Hovr

“It’s a win-win solution for brands, portals, carriers and online communities of all sizes. With Powered by Hovr, our partners not only maintain control of their customer base, they protect, extend and even strengthen their brand through an expanded offering that includes free mobile games that drive new customers to their site and keep their existing customers even more engaged.”

Brian Waluchio, Marketing Manager of Push Mobile

“Offering mobile games on our own was just too complicated and cost prohibitive. We chose Hovr to provide us with its Powered by Hovr service based on the high quality gaming catalog as well as the excellent user experience gained by the use of the social networking features built around the games. The ability to grow and engage more effectively with our user base as well as generate an additional revenue stream really sets the Powered by Hovr service apart from other offerings in the mobile space.”

About Hovr Inc.
Hovr is a mobile media company that marries the needs of advertisers seeking to reach the important and growing mobile demographic with the desires of mobile users wanting entertaining content and applications on their mobile phones. Hovr provides users with free ad-supported mobile content such as high-quality, fun-to-play mobile games. The Hovr MobileSpace social network lets users connect, compete and interact with their friends and other players in a compelling community environment. For more information visit www.hovr.com.

RELATED LINKS

Hovr Inc.
Hovr Home Page

Hovr Press Kit
Hovr Online Press Kit

MobileSpace
Hovr’s Social Network

Del.icio.us Bookmarks for Hovr

CONTACT INFORMATION

• John Chilson ([Select A Contact Type])
  Mobility Public Relations
  +1-503-343-4133 (office)
  jmchilson (Skype)
  Email: hovr@mobilitypr.com
  Web site: http://www.hovr.com

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Answers to consumers’ burning questions about Talkster’s Free World Dialing™

TORONTO, ONT — NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Talkster’s Free World Dialing, the only service offering free long distance, international and group conference calls from any phone on any network, launched at CTIA last Monday where it won Laptop Magazine’s Best Overall Service Award amidst a lot of positive buzz. With many so-called “free” calling offers out there that actually cost money to use, the overwhelming first reaction from people who have tried Talkster’s Free World Dialing is that really free long distance, international and group calls without talk time limits are just too good to be true. Is it too good to be true? In the Q&A below Talkster directly addresses the most common questions being asked about its new service.

Is there a limit to the number of minutes I can talk?

No, there are no limits to the time you can talk for free using Talkster’s Free World Dialing. Listen to a single 10-second audio ad and talk as long as you like — to one friend or up to five people in a Talkster Groups™ call.

Will I ever pay to use Talkster?

All Talkster Free World Dialing calls are supported by advertising offers, so you never have to pay to talk to your friends around the world. We don’t take your credit card number or ask you to deposit money in any way. At Talkster, free actually means free. Completely free.

Is Talkster like “cheap” calling services such as Rebtel?

• With Talkster there are no limits to the free talk time we offer – Talk as long as you like – for free. Free is a lot less expensive than “cheap.”
• Talkster doesn’t require that you create an account, ask you for your credit card nor require you to share any personal information to use Free World Dialing, no matter how long you talk – other services do.
• Talkster Groups lets you arrange conference calls so you can talk to groups of friends around the world for free, too! Your friends can be local or far away, and you will always have one number to reach this group of friends.
• The Talkster service is ad-supported which means you not only get free calling but you also get the opportunity to opt-in for valuable offers and promotions you won’t find elsewhere
• There is no bait and switch with Talkster. The same registration-free, no-cost service that we offer you the first time you use Talkster will be the service you can expect every time you place a call. We don’t entice you with a free trial offer then ask you to switch over to a paid service because with Talkster our service is always free.
• You’ll be impressed with the quality of the calls, too. The networks on some “cheap” calling services make the calls sound like cheap calls. We’ve heard time and again how crystal clear our network is and how good the call quality is. If you don’t believe us, try it – after all, it won’t cost a thing to try Talkster.

Talkster’s Free World Dialing was created for people who have friends or family all over the world but are reluctant to call them because of the expense. Talkster has been in the business of cheap calling offers before, and we learned from our beta tests that people aren’t looking for just cheap calls. Based on the feedback we received in our beta test and from the international calling community, we designed Talkster’s Free World Dialing with a commitment to a fully sustainable ad-supported free calling business model.

Our competitors may offer some stuff for free, but in order to sustain their business model they