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FirstHand Technologies Receives 2006 Product of the Year Award From Communications Solutions

FirstHand Enterprise Mobility Solution Honored for
Outstanding Innovation

OTTAWA, May 2, 2007 — FirstHand Technologies today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC) Communications Solutions (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named the FirstHand Enterprise Mobility Solution (EMS) as a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award.

The FirstHand EMS delivers simultaneous ring, common voice mailbox and single-number reachability with full call screening to any smart phone and dual-mode device for actual calls – even 4/5/6 digit internal enterprise calls. It provides this functionality with an intuitive unified communications user interface that includes corporate directory, presence, voice messaging, instant messaging and more. Using such devices as Windows Mobile, Nokia E-series and RIM Blackberry, mobile users can—from within the enterprise campus (VoWiFi ) or outside (GSM/CDMA)—seamlessly access the same features used at their desktops. The fixed-mobile integration solution is enterprise-centric, mobile-operator agnostic and independent of cellular network technologies (GSM/CDMA).

“We are excited to receive this award," said David Hattey, president and CEO FirstHand Technologies. “This announcement validates the hard work and dedication our team has in successfully delivering Enterprise Communications Everywhere to our partners. This award closely follows our NEC Unified Solutions and Sylantro Systems partnership announcements, where FirstHand Technologies will enable Mobile Unified Communications for their customers.”

“FirstHand Technologies has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year Award for its excellence in technological advancement and application refinement,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC president and group editor-in-chief of Communications Solutions. “FirstHand Technologies has proven that it is committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for companies that use its solutions. I am pleased to honor FirstHand’s hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from it in the future.”

The seventh-annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2006 have been selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

The 2006 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site.

About FirstHand Technologies (www.firsthandtech.com)
FirstHand Technologies mobilizes enterprise unified communications by extending the functionality of IP PBXs and related servers to a variety of smart phones and dual-mode devices over WiFi/cellular networks. Mobile devices are effectively transformed into business telephones and are fully integrated into enterprise communications and business processes.

The FirstHand Technologies enterprise-centric, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution delivers enterprise telephony features and “single number” seamless connectivity over cellular and/or WiFi networks enabling organizations to achieve “enterprise communications everywhere.” As an OEM supplier, FirstHand Technologies packages the solution with leading enterprise IP PBX vendors.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

Company Contact:

FirstHand Technologies Contact:
George Cohen
GCC, Inc.
617.325.0011
george@gccpr.com

TMC Contact:                                                                       
Jan Pierret
203.852.6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com