IMG announces HelloSoft Social Communicator

Imagination Technologies Group plc

Imagination announces HelloSoft Social Communicator for Social Networking Platforms at MWC

MWC, Barcelona. 27 February 2012: Imagination Technologies (LSE: IMG, "Imagination", "the Group"), a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces HelloSoft Social Communicator, an integrated HelloSoft V.VoIP (Voice and Video over IP) SDK for Social Networking Platforms at MWC, 2012 in Barcelona (Hall 1 stand 1D45).

HelloSoft Social Communicator enables true two-way real-time voice and video communications on a social networking platform.

HelloSoft Social Communicator is available for licensing on multiple platforms and operating systems - iOS, Android and Windows and enables the integration of HelloSoft V.VoIP technologies on PCs, mobile computing devices, tablets, mobile media devices and smartphones.

Tony King-Smith, VP marketing, Imagination:

"Social networking has revolutionized the way people communicate with each other. Regular users and business executives are online all the time and want to share information real-time. We have made this a reality with HelloSoft Social Communicator, an easy to use and secured application for any mobile device, any access network and any geographic location.

"Our goal is to provide rich communications experiences with our superior quality voice and video to the large audience of social networking users. Our HelloSoft Social Communicator supports comprehensive high performance multi-platform consumer and enterprise features that accelerate the development and rapid deployment of consumer and professional V.VoIP apps."

HelloSoft Social Communicator is based upon the HelloSoft V.VoIP SDK which provides: complete Video and VoIP functionality; interfaces to basic and enterprise call features; a user interface that can be customized and easily enhanced; full standards compliance; and support for multiple platforms, extensively interoperated and field-deployed.

Besides video and VoIP functionality, HelloSoft Social Communicator also inherits the available features of the social networking platform such as the friends list, their online status, and the posting of messages on the wall, thus providing a complete, integrated application. It also integrates a phone dialer for calling mobile and land-line phone numbers.

Imagination's HelloSoft Social Communicator solution is also available as a complete turn-key client.

About HelloSoft V.VoIP

Imagination's HelloSoft range of licensable IP includes comprehensive platforms for high quality, power-efficient VoLTE, VoIP, Video over IP and rich communications for multi-mode wireless and wireline. devices.

HelloSoft technologies are 'carrier-grade' and deployed in millions of devices, built on years of engineering experience to ensure that they are ready for the most extensive of commercial network deployments, and are available for Android, iPhone, Windows and Linux platforms.

About Imagination Technologies

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG) - a global leader in multimedia and communication technologies - creates and licenses market-leading multimedia IP cores for graphics, video, and display processing, multi-threaded embedded processing/DSP cores and multi-standard communications and connectivity processors. These silicon intellectual property (IP) solutions for systems-on-chip (SoC) are complemented by platform level IP and services, a strong array of software tools and drivers and extensive developer and middleware ecosystems. Target markets include mobile phone, handheld multimedia, home consumer entertainment, mobile and low-power computing, and in-car electronics. Its licensees include many of the leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Imagination has corporate headquarters in the United Kingdom, with sales and R&D offices worldwide. See: www.imgtec.com.

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