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7/25/2008

Atigeo Secures Voice Compression Licensing Arrangement with Vianix®

MASC® (Managed Audio Sound Compression) technology to be utilized by Atigeo's consumer, enterprise and research applications Atigeo, an innovative provider of platforms that deliver relevant information across a broad spectrum of communities, announced today that it has executed an OEM License Agreement with Vianix. Under this agreement, Vianix's MASC technology will become the voice standard at the core of Atigeo's mobility platform which will be made available to the companies' joint customers.

Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) July 25, 2008 -- Atigeo, an innovative provider of platforms that deliver relevant information across a broad spectrum of communities, announced today that it has executed an OEM License Agreement with Vianix. Under this agreement, Vianix's MASC technology will become the voice standard at the core of Atigeo's mobility platform which will be made available to the companies' joint customers.

"We are committed to integrating only the best partners and technologies in our platform," said Michael Sandoval, CEO of Atigeo. "MASC is clearly the best of breed in speech processing when it comes to voice recognition and compression. Our relationship with Vianix expresses our continued commitment to associating ourselves, and our clients, with the best in the business. I have tremendous admiration for the quality of Vianix's MASC technology, and I'm very proud to be partnering with a company that shares our vision for providing customers truly revolutionary advanced social mobile solutions."

Atigeo plans to use the MASC technology for transcription, biometrics and automated call directory, to name a few.

Reza Hashampour, Vianix's President and CEO said, "It is extremely rewarding to work with a professional and visionary organization with which we share so many common values. I am a confirmed believer in Mr. Sandoval's vision for community and mobility, and I am very pleased to be able to contribute to Atigeo's success."

Founded in June, 2005 by CEO Michael Sandoval, Atigeo's mission is to reveal relevance in personal connections, information, and entertainment. Adding value in political, charitable, and faith-based organizations, and in the areas of sports and entertainment, retail, and education, Atigeo's platform and technology replace intuition with statistical analysis to predict human behavior across the entire spectrum of electronic devices, from cell phones to computers, in real time. Voice applications are a key driver for these solutions. MASC further enhances the value to both users and service providers with management of bandwidth and storage requirements, while also maintaining the high intelligibility and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) accuracy which has made MASC an industry-proven choice.

Notably, the voice search component of the Mobile Voice Services market alone is valued at $11B.

About Atigeo
Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Atigeo's technologists and scientists have created a powerful software platform upon which multiple businesses can be created, launched, and spun off. As an incubator to offshoot organizations, Atigeo is now researching and developing intellectual property in four dominant and ultimately interrelated sectors: Care (facilitating medical and biotech applications); Contribute (facilitating donations and charitable applications); Conserve (facilitating conservation efforts, i.e. "green tech), and Connect (facilitating enterprise and consumer experiences in the areas of data mining, search, predictive data behavior analysis, and community). The Atigeo subsidiary Lifepass was born out of development efforts in the Connect line of business. More information on Atigeo is available at www.atigeo.com.

About Vianix®
Vianix is a fast paced technology company with corporate headquarters located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Created in April 2000 by its parent company iMPAQ™ Corporation, one of the region's leading computer network and IT integrators, Vianix has developed MASC® technology (Managed Audio Sound Compression), a speech compression algorithm suite, which provides users with the most memory-efficient and high-quality voice compression available. Through strategic partnerships with domestic and international designers, manufacturers and distributors, Vianix is supplying customers with the most innovative consumer electronic technology available.

Guided by the visionary leadership of Reza Hashampour, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vianix has created a unique and innovative business model. Hashampour has assembled a team of seasoned industry professionals and has established strong strategic partnerships with many industry leaders. It is through this kind of forward thinking that Vianix is able to focus its attention on developing unique, innovative, enterprise, industrial and consumer electronic technology. More information on Vianix is available at www.vianix.com.

Vianix® and MASC® are registered trademarks of Vianix, LLC. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

For more information contact:

Bernard Brafman   
Vianix, LLC
bb @ vianix.com
(757) 321-9971

Mark Dyce   
For Atigeo
mdyce @ 206inc.com
(206) 388-1443

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