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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

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

Award Recognizes the Country’s Most Promising and Innovative Technology Companies

MONT-TREMBLANT, QUEBEC and TORONTO, ONTARIO – September 23, 2008

• Cascada Mobile (www.cascadamobile.com) announced it has won the Red Herring Canada Top 50 Award
• The Red Herring Canada Top 50 Award honors the fifty most innovative and promising private technology companies in the country.
• Cascada Mobile was recognized for their innovation and development of the Breeze mobile application development platform, the simplest way to create, test and distribute mobile applications.
• With Cascada Mobile’s Breeze platform, developers can create mobile apps in as little as 15-minutes that can take full advantage of the functions and features of mobile phones and smartphones - from the address book and camera to the BlackBerry’s scroll ball.
• Breeze-built mobile applications are tested and ported to operate on hundreds of different device makes and models as well as hundreds of networks around the globe, making Breeze-created applications available and ready to run on well over a billion phones worldwide.
• Red Herring’s editorial staff rigorously evaluated the nominees on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem.
• This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

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Alex Vieux, CEO of Red Herring

“Cascada Mobile’s innovation is its development platform which levels the playing field for content owners and developers with web skills to harness the enormous market potential for mobile applications that serve the 2 billion plus Java-based mobile phones already in use today around the world. The business opportunity for Cascada Mobile’s development platform, Breeze, and its mobile application portal, BreezeApps.com, coupled with the company’s management and execution of strategy impressed our panel of judges and made Cascada Mobile a clear choice for the Red Herring Top 50 award.”

Alan Lysne, CEO of Cascada Mobile

“As we’ve seen with Apple’s App Store for the iPhone, consumers worldwide want useful and engaging off-deck mobile applications for their phones, as long as there is a clear way to get the application on the device. Cascada Mobile enables developers with the most basic Web development skills to create, test, and distribute feature-rich mobile applications that work on the more than 2 billion Java enabled mobile phones in the market today. Breeze bridges the extensive gap between web and mobile application development and is delivering to consumers the fun and practical mobile apps they are seeking for the mobile phones they already own.”

About Cascada Mobile
Cascada Mobile offers the simplest method for creating and distributing mobile applications for the more than 2 billion mobile phones in use around the world. Cascada Mobile’s Breeze platform eliminates the enormous complexities of writing and distributing mobile applications to run on hundreds of different handset models and across more than 100 wireless operators worldwide. For more information on Cascada Mobile, the Breeze Platform, and the BreezeApps Store, please visit www.cascadamobile.com.

About Red Herring Canada
Red Herring Canada 2008 is an exclusive event, welcoming hundreds of technology leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, senior corporate executives, businesses, industry analysts, and