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Friday, August 3, 2007

Widevine Wins Global Excellence Award for Content Protection and Digital Rights Management

Frost & Sullivan recognizes Widevine’s industry leadership for best in class technology solutions & market traction in telco, internet, cable & mobile security

SEATTLE, WA, August 3, 2007 –Frost & Sullivan has named Widevine Technologies the winner of the 2007 Global Excellence Award for Content Protection and Digital Rights Management for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in market leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development.

The Frost & Sullivan award is bestowed each year on the company which has demonstrated excellence in implementing and sustaining growth through unique growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan, through an exhaustive selection process, identified Widevine as the company that has exhibited excellence in all its functional areas, resulting in profitable financial growth.

“Widevine is the company of choice not only amongst telcos and cable operators but also Internet and satellite service providers who deploy Widevine’s solutions—not only as a tool to protect content but also to enhance their revenue generation capabilities,” according to Frost & Sullivan Analyst Zippy Aima. “Widevine has truly emerged as a leader in the content security market, exhibiting exponential growth, which can largely be attributed to the company’s ability to provide innovative and technologically advanced solutions to telco, cable, internet, satellite and mobile networks. This has further enabled the company to expand its customer base beyond IPTV and cement its position across all forms of digital entertainment delivery.”

Widevine excelled in the diversity of client base, support of all major consumer platforms and video formats, technology advancements and research and development. Frost & Sullivan cited Widevine Cypher® for its breakthrough multiplatform, multiformat capability that enables operators to deploy a single solution to protect video delivery to any device, over any network.

“We are pleased that Frost & Sullivan has recognized Widevine as a global market leader for content security of all forms of digital entertainment delivery,” said Widevine’s CEO Brian Baker. “This award, in addition to the global leadership recognition from ABI Research, further proves Widevine has outperformed the market in terms of operators, subscribers and patented technology innovations. We will continue to aggressively expand our efforts to service our customers with sustainable and openly licensable solutions.”

Frost & Sullivan recognizes companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.

About Frost & Sullivan
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About Widevine Technologies, Inc.
Widevine is the leading provider of downloadable content protection and forensic solutions for video operators worldwide. Widevine enables telco, internet, mobile, cable and satellite service operators to generate new revenue opportunities through the secure distribution, identification and tracking of multimedia content.

Utilizing a combination of downloadable conditional access, digital rights management and digital copy protection techniques, Widevine enables operators to acquire and distribute premium studio content and, through unique patented technologies, reduce video related capital and operational expenditures. An innovator in the industry and holder of eight patents, Widevine invented renewable client security with the Cypher Virtual SmartCard™—which today protects more IP video set top boxes, personal video recorders, PCs, portable media players and mobile devices in the industry than any other vendor.

Widevine’s intellectual property portfolio now comprises eight issued patents, with approximately 281 claims. Widevine has more than 45 other patents pending in the USPTO and international pipelines. Widevine’s patents cover content security for video delivery to multiple devices, in multiple formats on multiple platforms.

Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, WA, funded by Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Charter Ventures, Constellation Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP), PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Partners, TELUS (NYSE: TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners.

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

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