Digital Fountain Names Marshall Porter Director of Mobile; Industry Veteran Brings Expertise to Further Establish Digital Fountain's Leadership Position in Mobile Multimedia Space.

FREMONT, Calif. -- Digital Fountain, Inc., the leading provider of communications software enabling flawless delivery of content for networked entertainment applications, today announced the appointment of Marshall Porter as director of mobile. Porter brings six years of business development and strategy experience to the company's already significant mobile industry presence. E[acute accent]Prior to Digital Fountain, Porter was the Director of Strategic Development for Handango, where, in addition to leading strategic initiatives and building new lines of business, he managed several of the company's key global partnerships, including Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Verizon Wireless, and many others. E[acute accent]"I'm thrilled to be joining such an innovative and growing company that literally sets the standard for mobile multimedia delivery," said Porter. "Digital Fountain's unique technology is a critical element for the future of the mobile industry, and I'm excited to be a part of that." E[acute accent]Digital Fountain's patented DF Raptor(TM) FEC technology plays a prominent role in protecting streaming media and file download services from packet loss, especially over broadcast and multicast channels. With DF Raptor FEC, streaming services experience no dropouts, distorted audio/video, and no delays in file download or wasted bandwidth in delivering multimedia to the mobile consumer. DF Raptor FEC technology is the global standard for both 3GPP and DVB-H. E[acute accent]"Digital Fountain's technology enables mobile service providers to deliver the highest quality entertainment experience to the consumer," said Charlie Oppenheimer, CEO of Digital Fountain. "The addition of Marshall Porter to the digital Fountain team will further enable us to forge new and deeper partnerships within this important industry."

E[acute accent]About Digital Fountain

E[acute accent]Digital Fountain develops and licenses software enabling flawless delivery by networked entertainment applications and mission critical defense applications. Globally recognized for its innovation and technology leadership, the company's DF Raptor technology has been standardized in leading international standards bodies including 3GPP and DVB-H, with a number of additional decisions pending. The company's growing body of solutions enable home-theater quality television over ordinary IP networks (like the Internet), efficient multimedia broadcasting to mobile devices and life-critical reliability in the extreme conditions of the battlefield. The company has broad-based partnerships with some of the largest and most sophisticated companies including global defense company Northrop Grumman and Sumitomo Electric Networks. Investors in the company include Cisco, Sony, Adobe, TI, Honda Motors, Matrix Partners and Granite Ventures. For more information, visit Digital Fountain's Web site at www.digitalfountain.com.