Avvenu Powers New Maxthon Access Service; The Free Service Lets Users Securely Access Their Documents and Photos From Anywhere They Have Access to the Maxthon Browser

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2006--Avvenu today announced that Maxthon has chosen Avvenu technology to power its new Maxthon Access remote access and sharing service. Developed in collaboration with Avvenu, Maxthon Access works with the award-winning Maxthon Internet Browser to provide remote access and sharing capabilities to Maxthon's users. Since its release, the Maxthon browser has been downloaded over 50 million times, and is rapidly becoming one of the world's leading internet browsers.

The free service lets business users and consumers securely access their office and home computers from wherever they have access to the Maxthon Browser. In addition to accessing their own content, Maxthon Access users can quickly and securely share access to their content with colleagues, friends and family. Users enjoy the security of knowing they have safe, password-protected access to their files and folders when using Maxthon Access. All data transfers are encrypted and transmitted using 128-bit SSL, the web standard for secure transactions.

“Adding remote access and sharing capabilities directly to the browser is brilliant. Now the millions of faithful Maxthon Browser users have their files, folders and photos available at their fingertips -- wherever they are.”

"We're thrilled Maxthon chose us to power their new remote access and sharing service," said Keith Barraclough, Avvenu founder and CEO. "Adding remote access and sharing capabilities directly to the browser is brilliant. Now the millions of faithful Maxthon Browser users have their files, folders and photos available at their fingertips -- wherever they are."

"We selected the Avvenu remote access and sharing technology for the foundation of Maxthon Access because it's an elegant solution for allowing fast, secure access and sharing of documents and media files," said Netanel Jacobsson, senior vice president & partner at Maxthon. "Avvenu allows us to easily extend the powerful and efficient Maxthon Browser experience to provide users with access to their own content from anywhere in the world."

The Maxthon Access service is free and available now at www.maxthon.com.

About Maxthon

Maxthon Internet Browser is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine, which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon browser, but with many additional efficient features, such as Tabbed Browsing, Mouse Gestures, Super Drag&Drop, Privacy Protection, AD Hunter, RSS Reader, IE Extensions Support and External Utility Bar. During 2005, Maxthon received the Red Herring Asia 100 award and named one of the best 100 products by PC World magazine. Since its inception in 2003, Maxthon has reached 50 million download. Publicly endorsed by Microsoft (co-exhibited with Microsoft as CES this year) and leading Wall Street Internet analysts, Maxthon is rapidly gaining popularity all over the world. For more information visit www.maxthon.com.

Maxthon, based in Hong Kong, is a privately held company with venture funding provided by WI Harper Group and Morten Lund (early Skype seed investor).

About Avvenu

Avvenu's unique remote access and sharing technology gives users unobstructed access to their most important content from a web-enabled mobile device or computer anytime, anywhere. Avvenu users can access important documents when traveling, share pictures while still on vacation or distribute large files to colleagues -- in seconds. The Avvenu service is based on the company's patent-pending technology in media routing and managed peer-to-peer content access and distribution.

While Avvenu offers its service directly to consumers, the company also works with major corporations to enable them to deliver this capability to their customers. Recently, Motorola announced Motorola Share, a free service based on Avvenu technology that provides mobile users with on-the-go image access and sharing capabilities from a wide range of Motorola mobile devices -- including the popular RAZR, ROKR, and V557 models. Avvenu also announced that the service is optimized for Palm devices, including the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 650 smartphone, the LifeDrive(TM) mobile manager, and the new Palm TX handheld with affordable Wi-Fi connectivity. The service gives Palm customers fast access to their files, folders and photos directly from their Palm devices. Additionally, Avvenu provides integrated support for Adobe's Photoshop(R) Album Starter Edition 3.0 and Photoshop Elements 4.0.

Avvenu, based in Palo Alto, California, is a privately held company with venture funding provided by Charles River Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners, and Motorola Ventures. For more information visit www.avvenu.com.

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