FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 7, 2001

New Strategic Alliance Speeds Access to Widevine Cypher™ for Infrastructure, Telecommunications and Enterprise Customers in Hong Kong and Mainland China

GTI Partners with Widevine Technologies to Provide the Powerful "Encryption on the Fly"™ Technology for Customers Utilizing and Integrating Streaming Media

Hong Kong & Seattle, WA, August 7, 2001 – Large IT infrastructure, telecommunications and enterprise customers in Hong Kong and Mainland China now have access to the powerful "Encryption on the Fly"™ technology of Widevine Cypher™; thanks to a new strategic alliance between Global Technology Integrator Limited (GTI) and Widevine Technologies Inc.™.

GTI provides professional consultations and complete solutions on Internet and intranet infrastructures for some of the largest financial services, education institutes, manufacturing companies, media companies, telecommunications companies and government agencies in Hong Kong and Mainland China. As a leading integrator of IT infrastructures, GTI fully understands that streaming security is an enabler for streaming applications such as visual conferencing, e-learning and pay-per-view services.

"No security solution for streaming media is complete without the powerful 'Encryption on the Fly' technology of Widevine Cypher," said John Beyer, chief executive officer of Widevine Technologies. "Our new partnership with GTI promises to provide truly secure and speedy access to Technologies. "Our new partnership with GTI promises to provide truly secure and speedy access to spark a broader adoption of streaming technology, as large IT infrastructure, telecommunications and enterprise customers recognize that their high standard for security can now be met by "Widevine Cypher."

"GTI takes pride in providing our customers with technologies available," said Mr. Ben Che, Executive Director of GTI. "As the exclusive reseller of Widevine Cypher for our region, we see great opportunity among our existing and prospective customer base to better help them utilize secure streaming technology to cut costs and improve their communication services."

The GTI-Widevine strategic alliance will combine the resources of the two companies, empowering GTI to market Widevine Cypher and collaborate with Widevine to provide security and customer support services. The two companies are poised to help customers currently utilizing streaming technology to integrate this new, higher standard for securing streaming media into their existing services and infrastructure. In addition, customers reluctant to utilize streaming technology due to security concerns now have this powerful new technology that promises to help speed up the use of both streaming media and of Widevine Cypher.

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About Widevine Cypher
Widevine Cypher is a patent-pending communications security product that enables shared encryption for streaming media on the Internet and private networks. Among its current and planned capabilities are:

• Complete transparency on both the server and client end, allowing customers to continue using the hardware and software they already own.
• Full compatibility with all current standards-based streaming media technologies, including RealMedia (NASDAQ: RNWK), Windows Media (NASDAQ: MSFT), QuickTime (NASDAQ: AAPL), and MPEG.
• Client-side security and monitoring prevents streams from being captured by network stack hacking, screen-scraping, and other common techniques by shutting down streams automatically when such attacks are detected.
• Modular client shim design allows easy development and instant deployment of new encryption algorithms, enhanced client side security technology, custom back-channel data communication and much more.

About Widevine Technologies, Inc.
A communications security and network technologies leader, Widevine Technologies is an emerging power in the development of Internet infrastructure security products and technologies. The company's products are platform-and format-independent and provide value-added services and technologies for Internet streaming media and copyright protection. Founded in 1999, Widevine Technologies is based in Seattle, Washington. The core of the company is a world-class team of streaming media and encryption technology developers. For more information about Widevine Technologies, please visit www.widevine.com.

About Global Technology Integrator
GTI (www.gti.com.hk/) was founded in 1989 as an innovative value added reseller. Over the last decade the company has experienced significant growth; today GTI has 100 staff in Hong Kong and 50 in China and operates from offices in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. GTI specializes in broadband network, system integration and e-application consulting. As a leading reseller of technologies provided by dozens of partners, including Hewlett-Packard, Foundry Networks, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Network Appliance and Checkpoint, GTI's information technology services are in high demand within this rapidly growing region of the world.

By developing in-house skills and partnering with industry-leading vendors, GTI provides high quality solutions and consultancy in a variety of industry sectors which include banking and finance, insurance, data centres, internet services providers and internet content providers, education, public utilities, manufacturing, media, telecommunications as well as government agencies.

Media Contact:
Eric Moser
Ruder Finn Chicago (for Widevine Technologies)
Tel: +1 312 329 3908
mosere@ruderfinn.com

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