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READING, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2006--Tao Group announces availability of the intent(R) GamePlayer, a high-performance, portable platform that delivers console-quality gaming to mobile devices. With native-level performance, in a portable format, the intent GamePlayer has the power to unify the fragmented mobile device market and create a compelling revenue opportunity for major developers, content owners and service providers alike.

The opportunity for mobile gaming is enormous, with the total market value predicted to exceed $18 billion by 2009 (BBC Online). However, to date there has been a scarcity of premier 3D content because the economics have not supported its development. The handset market is fragmented with thousands of variations in technology. Java has provided a cross-platform option with which to address the market, but it does not deliver an experience on a par with today's consoles. Developing games for a specific combination of hardware and software offers greater performance, but is time consuming and costly.

With binary portability, the intent GamePlayer offers true 'write once, run anywhere' capabilities across each class of hardware and across any underlying operating system. And it unlocks the native performance capabilities of the smartphone to deliver a compelling 3D experience that for the first time is competitive with dedicated gaming devices.

"Tao has the only credible path to native 3D gaming performance with full portability, ," commented Ray Burgess, chief executive of Tao Group. "Premier games content written in native code can be ported to the player in days, rather than months, and this binary becomes portable across all comparably equipped devices enabled with the intent game player! The opportunity for game developers and network operators is tremendous."

Tao's announcement follows the creation in January of a new open standards working group for mobile gaming, the OpenKODE (Khronos Open Development Environment) initiative, of which Tao is fully supportive.

Tao will be demonstrating the intent GamePlayer at 3GSM Barcelona, 13-16 February. Discover more at the Tao Roadshow, directly outside the main halls, locations AV20-25.

ABOUT TAO GROUP

Tao has created intent(R) a seamlessly integrated, high-performance multimedia software platform for embedded, mobile, consumer electronics and automotive devices. An open platform intended for network operators, manufacturers and content publishers alike, intent's feature-rich multimedia capabilities facilitate the development, interaction and execution of applications in - C, C++, Java(TM), assembler and scripting languages. intent supports dynamic, downloadable content and the execution of services on the most pervasive range of digital appliances, achieving industry-leading benchmark performance through efficient coding. The Company is headquartered in Reading, England with offices in the United States and Japan.

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