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DEVICESCAPE INTRODUCES WI-FI BUDDIES:
EASY AND SECURE HOME WI-FI NETWORK SHARING

Share Home Networks with Friends and Family for Expanded Coverage

SAN BRUNO, CA - July 17, 2007 - Devicescape Software today announced Devicescape Wi-Fi Buddies-a new service that enables consumers to securely share access to home or other personal Wi-Fi networks with friends and family for expanded Wi-Fi coverage.

With the rapidly expanding Wi-Fi marketspace, consumers are looking for an easy and secure solution to connect their devices to the internet. Devicescape makes it easy for consumers to connect their devices to more than 100,000 hotspots worldwide, including commercial, municipal and free networks. However, the most important Wi-Fi network for consumers is in their homes. With Wi-Fi Buddies, Devicescape now makes it effortless to connect all of your devices to your home network and to easily and securely share access with friends and family.

"With more and more Wi-Fi networks and devices coming to market, consumers don't want to think about how they are going to connect, they just want their wireless device to work wherever they are so they can access their email and other services quickly and easily," said Dave Fraser, CEO of Devicescape.

With Devicescape Wi-Fi Buddies, people can now add their home network as a hotspot for their own devices; easily and securely share these networks with selected friends and family; and expand their own Wi-Fi coverage by requesting access to their friends and family members' home networks.

"The home is the epicenter of Wi-Fi for consumers," said Bill McIntosh, VP of Marketing for Devicescape. "We want to bring the easy set up, control, and security of Devicescape to the place where members use Wi-Fi most - their homes."

Using Devicescape frees consumers from the tedious log in processes that most hotspots require and simply connects Wi-Fi devices whenever they are in range of a network. This saves having to launch a browser, land on a log in page, remember and enter user names, passwords, email addresses and even credit card information and allows immediate access. Devicescape Wi-Fi Buddies expands Devicescape's auto-connect service to potentially hundreds of millions of households and other personal networks.

"Sharing a home network is a challenging process that also creates a hole in the network's security," said Avi Greengart, Principal Analyst, Mobile Devices at Current Analysis. "There is a definite need for an intermediary to remove Wi-Fi complexity for consumers, enabling them to easily use new types of devices on their networks and share their connectivity with friends and trusted business partners."

Without Wi-Fi Buddies, to grant access to a secured home network, consumers typically have to directly access their router via its numeric URL, identify the network name (also know as an SSID), find login credentials (like a WEP key), and manually enter these into each device. Once these log-in credentials are handed out, even to the most trusted friend, security for this network is breached.

With Wi-Fi Buddies, people can now securely share access to their home network by simply sending email invitations to their friends. Once a friend accepts the email invite, they can gain instant Wi-Fi access to your network from their device anytime they visit. They can also share their home network as well. All this occurs without compromising the security of the network since the security key is never released to others or installed directly onto their devices. Additionally, Devicescape Wi-Fi Buddies has easy web-based controls allowing Devicescape members to turn sharing access on and off by clicking a button.

Devicescape Wi-Fi Buddies is available for free to consumers at: www.devicescape.com.

Devicescape is available for free via download for laptops that use Mac OS X, Windows XP and Vista PCs, Windows Mobile 5 & 6 Smartphones, the Nokia N800 and 770 web tablets, Nokia Eseries and Nseries phones, and the Linksys WIP 300 VoIP phones.

About Devicescape Devicescape provides software and services that make it easy for consumers to access the content, applications and services of the internet via their wireless devices. Headquartered in San Bruno, Calif., the company is privately held and venture-backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, JAFCO Ventures, August Capital and Applied Materials Ventures. To learn more, please visit www.devicescape.com.
Devicescape is a trademark of Devicescape Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.