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May 30, 2007

Find Internet TV Launches

Find Internet TV Launches the First Listings for Live TV on the Internet
Viewers and Broadcasters Can Now Find Live Streaming Content Online from a Single Location

Find Internet TV™, a leading directory and guide of sites broadcasting video online, announces the launch of its program Listings for live Internet TV. The Find Internet TV Listings is the first to provide Internet users a programming grid to find live online video content. The Listings is visible at Find Internet TV and contains schedules for a wide variety of quality programming from around the world, including entertainment television, sporting events, music, and news.

"Online video, whether live or on-demand, is expanding immensely, and it has become increasingly difficult for viewers to locate the content they want to watch online. While a number of companies and sites have made their focus to index video clips on the Web, they've left live streaming video on the sidelines," says Curtis Sund, Founder of Find Internet TV. "With our live Internet TV Listings, users now have the ability to visit one central destination for complete and updated lineup of live online content."

Find Internet TV's program grid provides a high quality user experience through an easy-to-navigate, feature-rich format. Users have the ability to jump hour-by-hour through the grid or to specific dates and times. In addition, users can save their favorite Internet TV channels for easy access.

The Find Internet TV Listings includes sites broadcasting from all over the world, in different languages, and in different time zones. To provide the best end-user experience, the site automatically adjusts all program runtimes to match the viewer's time zone.

"The number of viewers who are looking for live television content on the Internet is tremendous and ever-growing. We have witnessed it through our directory and search engine when live events take place. This first-of-its-kind live Internet TV Listings is a win-win solution for both viewers and content providers," said Birgit Schelzel, Marketing Manager for Find Internet TV.

Content providers will benefit from the Listings through increased visibility of their live programming and a clear representation of their offering throughout the day. Users that click to view the program are sent directly to the content provider's Web site and, in many cases, to the video landing page. The programming schedule can be easily maintained by authorized representatives via a backend application.

Sites with a live programming schedule that wish to be added to the directory or wish to advertise within the program grid, please email info@findinternettv.com.

About Find Internet TV

Find Internet TV is a one-stop shop for locating sites broadcasting video online by providing a feature-rich directory and program Listings for live content. Find Internet TV searches, categorizes, tags, and files sites across all genres and of all sizes, ranging from large media networks to user-generated video blogs. To learn more about Find Internet TV, visit www.findinternettv.com.

Contacts:
Find Internet TV
Curtis Sund, 314-824-0138
curtis@findinternettv.com


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May 15, 2007

Level 3 Enhances its Content Delivery Platform

BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 15, 2007 Level 3 Communications’ Content Markets Group today announced it is launching caching and downloading services as a part of its comprehensive content delivery platform. Level 3 has invested to enhance its content delivery architecture since acquiring key intellectual property and content delivery assets earlier this year. The new architecture enables customers to tap into large-scale server clusters deployed to leverage the scale and reach of the Level 3 backbone, one of the largest in the United States and in Europe.

“Level 3 has been a trusted network partner for AOL for some time,” said Balan Nair, chief technology officer of AOL. “We have relied on Level 3’s network and services to enable the delivery of our content and services to end users. We are very pleased that Level 3 continues to develop its content delivery platform and believe that caching and downloading services are logical extensions of Level 3’s network services portfolio. We believe that Level 3’s content delivery solutions will enable AOL to scale with growing demand and meet the performance expectations of our AOL community of users.”

“We are very pleased to be supporting AOL’s ongoing efforts to provide a superior end-user experience,” said Brady Rafuse, president of Level 3’s Content Markets Group. “The addition of caching and downloading services to Level 3’s comprehensive content delivery platform enhances our ability to address the growing demand from customers who need to deliver high-quality video and digital media to Internet end users. Level 3 now offers the key elements that customers need to deliver content from creation to consumption, and we believe our customers will benefit from the increased performance and improved economics that a single, trusted content delivery platform can provide.”

Erica Lavigne | Account Representative
Lois Paul & Partners | http://www.loispaul.com
P 781.782.5778 | erica_lavigne@lpp.com
Celebrating 20 Years Of Hitting the Mark for Our Clients


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KULABYTE™ ANNOUNCES HD ENCODING SOLUTION

FOR ON2 TECHNOLOGIES VP6™

New Solution Delivers Faster HD Encoding for Streaming Flash Content

NEW YORK, MAY 14, 2007 – Kulabyte™, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, today announced a breakthrough solution for high-definition (HD) video encoding that enables faster HD encoding with significantly higher quality levels. Kulabyte’s TimeSlice™ technology, incorporated into the popular On2 VP6™ for Adobe® Flash® Player content , will enable the growing numbers of HD producers – including daily newscasters, satellite entertainment companies, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) programmers, and streaming video services – to more efficiently complete production of HD files for delivery over a variety of networks while maintaining near source quality levels.

The announcement marks a significant advancement in the efficiency of HD encoding for Flash Player video content, the most widely-installed Internet video Kulabyte will demonstrate the solution during Streaming Media East, May 15-16 (Booth #323 at the Hilton New York conference center).



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May 11, 2007

ROO Completes $25 Million Private Equity Financing

NEW YORK, NY, May 10, 2007 – ROO Group (OTCBB: RGRP), a global leader in online video solutions for content providers, advertisers and Websites, today announced it has completed a private equity financing with gross proceeds of $25 million, in a common stock transaction. The participants in the transaction are accredited institutional investors, the majority of which are existing investors.

ROO will use the net proceeds from the sale of common stock to fund ongoing operations, to pursue previously announced acquisitions, further develop the ROO VX video platform and expand the company’s sales and marketing resources.

The company issued 10 million common shares at $2.50 per share and 3,000,000 warrants exercisable at $4.50 per share and callable at $6.00 per share. The company is expected to file a registration statement pertaining to the transaction within 30 days.

“Our ability to secure this important financing highlights our growth potential and the tremendous progress we have made in strengthening our suite of integrated online video solutions for publishers, content producers and advertisers,” said Robert Petty, Chairman and CEO of ROO Group. “We are well-positioned to continue to expand our business and product offerings globally, while strategically aligning with key players in the rapidly growing online video industry.”


Some ROO powered sites include:

Europe
The Mirror

USA
Verizon Surround
University of Massachusetts

Asia Pacific
Network 10
Big Brother


Brad Edwards
Brainerd Communicators, Inc.
Ph: 212-986-6667
edwards@braincomm.com


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May 7, 2007

Kulabyte at Streaming Media East

Kulabyte (www.kulabyte.com), the developer of the fastest video encoding engine in the industry, will demonstrate its Kulabyte Professional™ solution at Streaming Media East 2007, in Booth #323, from Tuesday, May 15-Wednesday, May 16.

Kulabyte’s revolutionary TimeSlice™ technology, when combined with standard, off-the-shelf hardware in today’s multi-core CPUs, enables a powerful new fifth encoding mode – faster-than-real-time, 2-pass variable bit rate (VBR) recording.

Kulabyte will demonstrate its Kulabyte Professional suite, which offers a 30% improvement in the quality, efficiency, and bandwidth of standards-based video codecs.

Kulabyte recently announced at NAB:

* a personal space encoding deal with On2 Technologies
* a hardware bundling deal with AMD
* the launch of Kulabyte Professional


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VECTORMAX at Streaming Media East

VectorMAX currently delivers 10 business channels for Time Warner Cable business customers over an IPTV network, using its TVAnywhere™ solution.

* TVAnywhere, which uses VectorMAX technology to broadcast live content such as news, training or corporate communications via LAN, WAN or Internet connections. Like all VectorMAX products, TVAnywhere is not dependent upon costly dedicated hardware. Installed on inexpensive desktop, laptop and server computers, TVAnywhere offers robust, reliable and easily scalable low-latency video encoding
* VideoAnywhere™, which provides complete live broadcasting and video-on-demand (VOD) capabilities for the distribution of video over a network or the Internet. Video Anywhere provides complete access control, reporting functionality, and intelligent distribution of video
* MobileAnywhere™, a turnkey service for carrier-grade mobile video services, delivers a superior IP video and 3D delivery platform for the mobile market, incorporating advanced encoding, content management, and delivery technologies. VideoAnywhere supports content management, digital rights management, storage, and real-time delivery capabilities.

VectorMAX will also demonstrate its AniTones™ mobile application platform, which delivers high-quality synthetic video and animation – such as video ringtones and ringbacks – on the mobile device. AniTones™ provides content owners and carriers with an advanced rich media content delivery platform, heralding the next generation of personalized mobile applications.

VectorMAX has recently launched AniTones on Greek mobile carrier Cosmote, using a virtual avatar news reader of famed international model Linda Evangelista. The company has also recently launched the AniTones.net off-deck portal in the U.K., and is in discussions with other global carriers for similar animation offerings.

For more information, contact:

Chris Pfaff Tech/Media LLC
Business Development, Strategic Marketing & Public Relations
973-509-6565 (office)
201-218-0262 (mobile)
c.pfaff@att.net


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May 1, 2007

JOOST™ LAUNCHES COMMERCIALLY

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Existing Beta Testers Now Have Open Invitations to Invite Friends to Joost

Campaigns from 32 Launch Partners Begin to Run on Joost in May

NEW YORK – May 1, 2007 – Joost™ (www.joost.com), the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service, today announced that it has commercially launched. Campaigns from the 32 companies announced as advertising partners last week will begin airing on the platform this month. Additionally, as a part of this launch, all existing Joost beta testers now have an unlimited number of invitations that they can send to their friends, family and colleagues.

“Today marks the beginning of an exciting phase for Joost – we are officially open for business,” said David Clark, executive vice president of global advertising for Joost. “We’re enabling our viewers to share Joost with their friends and family, and we’re working collaboratively with the world’s leading advertisers and agencies to design a new ad model for the next generation of television.”

Last week, Joost announced that it had signed more than 30 blue-chip brands, including The Coca-Cola Company, HP, Intel and Nike, as advertising launch partners. Beginning today, advertisements from some of the ad launch partners will begin to play on the platform. Advertisements from all ad launch partners will be on Joost later this month.

Previously available in an expanded beta, Joost now is available to an unlimited number of friends, family and colleagues of existing beta testers. Starting today, when beta testers visit the “Invite Friends” widget in the “My Joost” area of Joost, they will be able to invite anyone they know to the Joost community. Both new and existing users can download a new version of Joost today.

Brian Baumley | Account Supervisor | Cohn & Wolfe
292 Madison Avenue | 8th Fl. | New York, NY 10017
T. 212.798.9813 | M. 609.638.6584 | F. 212.329.9914
Brian_Baumley@CohnWolfe.com


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