HelloSoft, Inc. has been adjudged the recipient of the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation of the Year in the VoIP market segment. HelloSoft will be presented with this Award at the 2006 Excellence in Industrial Technologies Awards Banquet, tonight at 7pm, at the Disney's BoardWalk Inn in Orlando, Florida.

"HelloSoft's VoIP product delivers more functionality in a small package than any other VoIP solution. They also offer very high performance in Voice quality coupled with lower power consumption when compared to any other VoIP product in the market", said Aravind T Seshagiri, Analyst for Frost & Sullivan. "HelloSoft is unmatched when it comes to feature integration, size, and market acceptance", said Deepa Doraiswamy, Manager for Frost & Sullivan.

Key determinants that made HelloSoft the recipient of the Award include:

• Gaining number 1 position in the VoIP market.
• Best Voice Quality when compared to the competitors
• DSP-less solution, thus enabling substantial power and cost reductions

HelloSoft complements its VoIP product with world-class design tools that allow customers to easily adopt and integrate with their products. The company offers its customers reference designs, application notes and other documentation to enable customers to use HelloSoft solutions easily.

The significant feature of HelloSoft's VoIP is that its enhanced performance has helped them gain widespread market acceptance and critical acclaims. The unique features of the product such as its small form factor, low-cost, enhanced performance, and market acceptance, coupled with the fact that it is the first and only company with such unique value enhancing products, makes HelloSoft a worthy recipient of the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation of the Year in the VoIP market segment.

"We are honored to have been selected by Frost & Sullivan to receive this Award for our outstanding achievements in product innovation for our VoIP products" said Krishna Yarlagadda, HelloSoft's President and CEO. "This Award reflects the incredible efforts made by our entire VoIP team to ensure we become market leaders in this segment."

Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.