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	March 29, 2004 DW Partners with HelloSoft DiamondWare Partners with HelloSoft to Enhance its Palantir Offering; Palantir is Showing in Booth #502 at Spring VON Conference and Expo 2004 SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- March 29, 2004 HelloSoft Inc., a leading provider of communication Intellectual Property, and DiamondWare, Ltd., a leading developer of converged VoIP solutions, today announced their partnership. HelloVoice(TM) is embedded in Palantir(TM) to increase robustness and sound quality. Palantir is DiamondWare's collaborative communications product that provides secure instant messaging, presence and availability, voice, conferencing, and unique processing such as 3D positioning and voice colorizing for improved speaker identification and intelligibility. It now scales up to 60 simultaneous users on a 1GHz P3, making it inexpensive to deploy in SOHO and SME markets. Palantir integrates HelloSoft's G.167 Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) to meet customer expectations of audio quality. The AEC can handle echo tails up to 250ms, a typical worst-case for speakerphones, efficiently canceling the acoustic feedback without audible artifacts like clipping. DiamondWare has also committed to integrating HelloSoft's Voice Activity Detection algorithm to improve overall system performance. Future versions of Palantir will migrate to the other world-class technologies in HelloVoice. HelloVoice is suite of voice-processing technologies from HelloSoft, consisting of DSP, packet handling, protocol, and Quality of Service components to implement VoIP on devices ranging from inexpensive IP phones to high-end gateways. It is available in various combinations of DSP and CPU platforms or completely on a single RISC processor--which is ideal for IP phone or Voice over WLAN applications. "We are assembling a converged VoIP solution based on the most advanced technologies available. Where we don't have a piece, we are seeking the best of breed. HelloSoft's voice processing will help us deliver the kind of product that can win in the market," said Keith Weiner, CEO of DiamondWare. "They have a proven track record, and we know they will be here to support us in the future as VoIP becomes a mass market, and as the industry consolidates," he added. "DiamondWare's military-proven collaborative technology has won several industry awards, and this demonstrates the capability of their team and product offerings," stated Krishna Yarlagadda, CEO of HelloSoft. "We are delighted to be able to enhance their unique conferencing product, and look forward to a successful partnership." About HelloSoft HelloSoft licenses customizable Physical Layer and Networking Protocol IP to semiconductor companies and OEMs for Voice-over-Packet, Wireless LAN, and 2.5G/3G Wireless. HelloSoft's solutions are provided as a suite of integrated products that include DSP software, Networking software, RTL, a complete reference design and design services to customize these solutions to customer needs. Through this total solutions approach and strategy of offering Software and Hardware IP and engineering services, HelloSoft allows companies to acquire "off-the-shelf" technology that can accelerate new product development in an industry that is driven by complexity, change and innovation. For more information, visit http://www.hellosoft.com. About DiamondWare DiamondWare is a software developer focused on strategic voice technologies for the telephony, military and game markets. Since 1994, it has delivered firsts and bests including most efficient 16-voice mixer, lowest-latency softphone, PDA software destined to replace the cellular phone, and a complete software-based conference system that runs on commodity hardware. Product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies HelloSoft Arvind Venkateswaran, 408-441-7110 Arvind@hellosoft.com or DiamondWare John Will, 480-380-1122 john@dw.com