News Release

Websoft International Teams Up with Frame Media and VIA Technologies to Offer Best-of-Breed Digital Picture Frame Reference Solution Based on Its Esprit™ 2.1 Embedded Browser Platform

Support of Frame Media's FrameChannel® Web Services Platform on VIA Technologies's VT8430X, VT8500, and VT8500L Application Processors Offers Unmatched Product Differentiation and Uncompromising Hardware Performance

June 17, 2008

Tokyo, Japan － June 17, 2008 － Websoft International Inc. (Tokyo, Chuo-ku, Shintomi － CEO: Chikara Shinomiya) today announced the immediate availability of the Esprit for Digital Picture Frame solution based on version 2.1 of its Esprit source code embedded browser platform, also announced today (see separate announcement), now supporting the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) 0.91, 1.0, and 2.0 web feed formats.

The Esprit for Digital Picture Frame Solution combines the fully customizable, extensible, Esprit source code browser platform with industry-leading web services platform FrameChannel from Frame Media, and the high-performance, cost-effective VT8430X, VT8500, and VT8500L application processor series from VIA Technologies. It allows OEMs and manufacturers of connected digital frames to capitalize on the exploding growth of the market, by making it possible to differentiate with unique and advanced features, while not compromising on the underlying hardware platform. They can offer an enhanced user experience, leveraging the built-in RSS capabilities of the Esprit browser platform to provide immediate access to hundreds of content channels, and to aggregate content from the most popular photo sharing sites and social networks.

"2008 may be the defining year for the digital picture frame market, and we think we have made a significant step forward by adding RSS capabilities to our Esprit platform, and by making it FrameChannel-compliant, thanks to our cooperation with VIA.", said Chikara Shinomiya, President and CEO of Websoft International Inc. "The digital frame market is expected to grow considerably, and, while further consolidating our alliance with VIA and Frame Media, and offering our customers an integrated hardware-to-service solution, we will put all of our energy to gain a significant share of that market."

"With the digital picture frame market exploding the way it is, it is critical to differentiate," said Jon Finegold, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Frame Media. "Frame Media have responded to that need with FrameChannel, a unique content-rich, customizable web services platform, which, when packaged with Websoft's Esprit fully customizable and modular browser platform, and VIA Technologies's chipsets, can help digital frame manufacturers implement unparalleled user experiences on their devices.
Frame Media is delighted to further extend its technological lead, and market reach, in Asia in particular, with its partners Websoft and VIA Technologies"

"We are pleased to see our cooperation with Websoft strenghten with this release, as we believe our VT8430X , VT8500, and VT8500L application processors combined with the Esprit browser now supporting RSS and Frame Media’s FrameChannel provide a best-of-breed platform for digital picture frame and other rich content-driven appliance manufacturers.", said Philip L. Chen, special assistant of VIA MCE business division.

Esprit for Digital Picture Frame solution highlights

• Esprit 2.1 browser platform (source code provided)
• RSS 0.91, 1.0, 2.0 support
• FrameChannel web services platform compliance
• VIA Technologies VT8430X, VT8500, and VT8500L hardware platform compatibility
• Linux®, Windows® CE target environment compatibility

About the FrameChannel web services platform

FrameChannel is a customizable web services platform to manage the intelligent delivery of personalized content to wireless digital picture frames and other information appliances. Free to end users, FrameChannel offers a library of hundreds of channels of content, all optimized for viewing on wireless picture frames. The FrameChannel platform can be customized, branded and localized to work with any number of brands and business opportunities

About the VT8430, VT8500, and VT8500L application processors

The VIA Technologies VT8430X, VT8500, and VT8500L are cost-effective, high-performance, extremely low-power consumption ARM-based scalable applications processors designed for next-generation digital devices able to deliver a rich multimedia and entertainment experience, like wireless digital picture frames.

About the Esprit browser platform

Esprit is a market-proven, high-performance, feature-rich, W3C standards-compliant embedded browser platform used by OEMs, manufacturers, and operators, of mass market connected devices in the mobile, digital home, digital office, and automotive arenas. Typical applications include mobile phones, business-oriented smartphones, portable multimedia players, personal navigation devices, set-top boxes, digital picture frames, office printing and projection devices, and car navigation systems.

About Frame Media Inc.

Frame Media is the leading platform provider for content delivery to wireless digital picture frames and connected gadgets. Its flagship product, FrameChannel, can be branded and tightly integrated to work with any Wi-Fi enabled photo frame or connected gadget, transforming these devices into dynamic information appliances. With FrameChannel, a frame owner can program a unique stream of content that is updated dynamically, marrying their own photos with fresh content from a library of hundreds of channels including news, sports, weather, traffic, stock quotes, horoscopes and imagery from leading photographic collections. For more information please visit www.framemedia.com. Frame Media can be reached at info@framemedia.com or +1-718-235-3006.

About VIA Technologies

VIA Technologies, Inc is the foremost fabless supplier of power efficient x86 processor platforms that are driving system innovation in the PC, client, ultra mobile and embedded markets. Combining energy-saving processors with digital media chipsets and advanced connectivity, multimedia and networking silicon enables a broad spectrum of computing and communication platforms, including its widely acclaimed ultra compact mainboards. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, VIA's global network links the high tech centers of the US, Europe and Asia, and its customer base includes the world's top OEMs and system integrators. www.viatech.com