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Toshiba Receives Planet PDA Magazine's ``Product of the Year Award'' for 2004

Posted on: Tuesday, 28 June 2005, 12:00 CDT

Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Digital Solutions Division (TAIS DSD) announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R))'s Planet PDA(TM) Magazine (www.planetpdamag.com) has named the Toshiba SoftIPT(TM) SoftPhone a recipient of a 2004 Product of the Year Award. It was the only softphone to be honored with an award.

The Toshiba SoftIPT SoftPhone wirelessly extends the features and functionality of Toshiba desktop telephones to suitably equipped PDAs running PocketPC 2003 and laptops, tablet PCs, and PCs running Windows XP(R). The SoftIPT SoftPhone allows users to access their telephone features from virtually any location by connecting to the enterprise's Toshiba Strata CIX(TM) native IP business communication systems or Strata CTX(R) digital business communication systems through 802.11 wireless networks.

"We are proud to be honored with Planet PDA's Product of the Year Award for the Toshiba SoftIPT SoftPhone," said Larry Meyer, vice president, sales and marketing, of TAIS DSD. "The SoftIPT can be used anywhere users have access to wired or wireless connectivity, empowering them to extend their desktop telephones to their PDAs, laptops, and/or PCs, increasing productivity and mobility as well as reducing overall communication costs."

"Planet PDA Magazine is pleased to bestow its Product of the Year Award on Toshiba for its SoftIPT SoftPhone, honoring its excellence in technological advancement and application refinements in the handheld computer industry," said Rich Tehrani, president and group publisher of Planet PDA. "Toshiba has demonstrated to the editors of Planet PDA that it has gone the extra mile in creating the SoftIPT SoftPhone, a truly innovative handheld computing product."

The Product of the Year Award winners for 2004 were published in the April 2005 issue of Planet PDA Magazine (www.planetpdamag.com).

About TMC(R)

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, and Internet Telephony; five digital publications, SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFI Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, WiMAX Magazine; and the online publications TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC also produces The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com.

About Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. (TAIS)

Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TAIS is comprised of three divisions: Digital Products Division, Digital Solutions Division and the Storage Device Division. Together, the three divisions provide mobile products and solutions, communications, storage and imaging products and services. Products include industry leading portable computers, PDAs, projectors, DVD/CD recordable products and hard disk drives for computers, telephony products, digital imaging systems, cable modems, servers, wireless solutions and services. TAIS provides sales, marketing and services for its wide range of information products in the United States and Latin America. TAIS is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, which is a world leader in high technology and integrated manufacturing of electrical and electronic components, products and systems. Toshiba has global sales of over $47 billion and more than 300 subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.toshiba.com.

Source: Business Wire

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