Arkados Announces Dr. J. C. Stoffel Named IEEE Fellow & Recipient of Management Award.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Arkados (OTCBB:AKDS), known as "the HomePlug([R]) Applications Company," announced today that the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) named Dr. J. C. Stoffel a Fellow of the Society. The IEEE Fellow is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, and is bestowed upon a very limited number of Senior Members who have made outstanding contributions to the electrical and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession. In February, the IEEE also honored Stoffel with their Management Award for leadership.

Stoffel is recognized "for technical leadership in the development of imaging systems" with a number of technologies in multiple application areas. He holds over 28 US patents, numerous foreign patents, and is the author/editor of a graduate reference text, Binary Image Processing and Applications. The IEEE Management Award recognizes his management of multiple very large organizations and significant digital technology transitions at Xerox and Kodak.

Stoffel retired from Eastman Kodak in 2005 where he was "Kodak's first Digital CTO" and served as Sr. Vice President, Director of R&D worldwide, and Chief Technical Officer during his approximately eight years with the company. In addition, Jim spent over 20 years with Xerox Corporation serving in numerous leadership roles, including VP Corporate Research & Technology and VP and General Manager Advanced Imaging Business Unit.

Most recently, he served as Chairman and Acting CEO of ASTER Wireless, Inc., which was acquired last week by Arkados. With the completion of the acquisition, Stoffel has joined Arkados Group's Technical and Business Advisory Panel. In addition, he serves on the boards of Harris Corporation, Melbourne FL; HSTX Networks, Raleigh Durham, NC; and the Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), Hong Kong's lead technology and IP development institution. He is also on the Research and Graduate Studies Advisory Council of the University of Notre Dame and served as Chairman of the Board of the Information Technology Industry Council, Washington DC, until December 2006.

About Arkados, Inc.

Arkados, "the HomePlug Applications Company," delivers a universal platform that enables the effortless networking of home entertainment and computer devices using standard electricity lines. The company's system-on-chip solutions are uniquely designed to drive a wide variety of powerline-enabled consumer electronics and home computing products, such as stereos, radios, speakers, MP3 players, computers, televisions, gaming consoles, security cameras and cable and DSL modems. Arkados customers can bring numerous sophisticated, full-featured products to market faster at a lower overall development cost using a single platform: the company's versatile and programmable ArkTIC[TM] platform. Arkados solutions leverage the benefits of HomePlug Powerline Alliance specifications and can also be used for in-building and to-the-home (BPL) applications. Arkados[TM], ArkTIC[TM] and Direct to Speaker[TM] are trademarks of Arkados Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Arkados Group, Inc. HomePlug is a registered trademark of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, of which Arkados is a member. More information can be found at www.arkados.com.

This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are based upon assumptions that in the future may prove not to have been accurate and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including statements as to the future performance of the company and the risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in reports filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. Factors that could cause results to differ include, but are not limited to, successful performance of internal plans, product development acceptance, and the impact of competitive services and pricing and general economic risks and uncertainties.