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InnoMedia Incorporated
Amine Haoui (408) 432-5433
ahaoui@innomedia.com



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INFOTALK™ NAMED PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

Internet Telephony Magazine Describes InnoMedia's Innovative Internet Telephony Product as
"One of the Most Forward Thinking and Useful Products in the Field"

SANTA CLARA, CA -- December 28, 1998 -- InnoMedia today announced that its innovative InfoTalk
Internet telephony device, which seamlessly and transparently routes long distance calls over the Internet,
was named Product of the Year by Internet Telephony magazine. In making the award, in the category
of Internet Telephony Appliance, Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher, described InfoTalk as "one of the most
forward thinking and useful products announced in this field of voice/data convergence."

InfoTalk is InnoMedia's revolutionary stand-alone Internet telephony device. Connected between a
standard telephone and the wall jack, the self-contained InfoTalk seamlessly and transparently routes
long distance calls over the Internet.

"Internet Telephony magazine is proud to offer the most in-depth and objective product reviews of any
telecom or datacom publication," stated Tehrani. "Leveraging our relationship with the widely respected
TMC Labs, and Internet Telephony magazine editors TMC Labs engineers put a tremendous amount of
effort into picking the most important and influential products of 1998."

Tehrani continues, "The Internet Telephony magazine Product of the Year Award is designed to draw
attention to those vendors whose products have helped redefine a fledgling technological anomaly into
an unimagined telecommunications revolution. InnoMedia's InfoTalk distinguishes itself as one of the
most forward thinking and useful products announced in the field of voice/data convergence."

Internet Telephony also acknowledged InnoMedia as among "the pioneers who had the vision and the
energy to move the industry from rudimentary PC-to-PC software phones to large-scale carrier
deployment." InnoMedia Inc. has also brought to market the InfoGate™ Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) Gateway solution, which allows businesses to intelligently route their voice calls over their virtual
private networks, or even the Internet. Through the deployment of both InfoTalk and InfoGate, InnoMedia
has provided Internet Telephony solutions for both the end user point-to-point application, as well as the
network application for businesses.

About InfoTalk

Connected between a standard telephone and the wall jack, the self-contained InfoTalk seamlessly and
transparently routes long distance calls over the Internet. Incorporating two separate patent-pending
technologies, InfoTalk achieves optimum voice quality as Internet traffic conditions and bandwidth
constraints change. When the Internet gets busy, InfoTalk's unique multiple compression algorithms and
automatic quick packet recovery ensure the best possible Internet voice quality and the lowest delay
possible. InfoTalk includes a host of time and money saving conveniences, including SaveDial, which
eliminates the need to prearrange calling times.


About InnoMedia

Founded in 1995, InnoMedia is a privately held multinational organization with operations in the United
States, Singapore, Taiwan and China. InnoMedia is leading the IP telephony revolution by developing,
manufacturing, and marketing next generation Internet enabled communication devices and providing a
global IP telephony service through the InnoSphere network. These products and services incorporate
InnoMedia's expertise in IP telephony, videoconferencing, and wireless networking technologies and
are targeted for consumers, enterprises, service providers, and OEM customers. Visit InnoMedia on
the Web at www.innomedia.com.


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InnoMedia, InfoGate, InnoSphere and the InnoMedia logo are trademarks of InnoMedia Incorporated.


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