On2 Technologies Joins Symbian Platinum Partner Program

Partner Program Elevates Accessibility, Visibility of On2 VP7 Video Innovations for World's Most Extensive Mobile OS Platform

NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2006 -- On2 Technologies, Inc. (Amex: ONT) today announced it has joined the Symbian Platinum Partner Program to elevate the visibility of, and accessibility to, On2 Technologies' industry-leading VP7 video compression technology for development within the Symbian OS(TM) platform. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the operating system that powers today's most popular smart phones, with almost 48 million phones based on Symbian OS having shipped worldwide.

Symbian OS phones are growing in popularity. As of Q3 2005, Symbian OS phone shipments grew more than 131% compared to the same quarter last year. According to technology analyst firm Canalys, overall global shipments of smartphones are up 183% year on year in Q3 2005 with Symbian emerging as the market leader.

As part of the Platinum Partner Program, partner's benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities, as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code. These benefits are key to the rapid development and adoption of high quality VP7-enabled video streaming solutions and the delivery to smart phones via the ubiquitous Symbian OS.

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"As the worldwide leader in the mobile OS market, Symbian is well positioned to fuel rapid adoption of high quality mobile video created by the On2 VP7 codec," said Daniel Scherer, Senior Vice President -- Device and Service Provider Markets, at On2 Technologies . "As we've contended, mobile video is a quickly emerging hot spot in consumer technology, and we're proud to be partnering with Symbian to make this trend a reality for smart phone users worldwide."

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"On2 Technologies' video compression products present hand set manufacturers, carriers and service providers, a unique platform for video-based value added services, like Mobile TV and two-way video messaging," said Simon Garth, Vice president of marketing, Symbian LTD . "The addition of On2 Technologies to the Symbian Platinum Partner Program underscores our joint commitment to bringing high quality mobile video to the ever expanding and increasingly sophisticated Symbian OS ecosystem."

About On2 Technologies, Inc., The Duck Corporation

On2 Technologies (Amex: ONT) is a leading technology firm at the forefront of video compression. The company revolutionized digital media delivery with the creation of its advanced full-motion, full-screen, On2 Video compression and streaming technologies. On2 Video codecs are used extensively in the video-on-demand, videoconferencing, Internet media, surveillance, and store- and-play markets. They operate with On2's own TrueCast Server and Player software, as well as third-party player and server products. On2's software is used by such leading companies as Sony, XM Satellite Radio, NTT, AOL, Skype, Nullsoft, and Macromedia. The On2 Video decoder has an installation base of millions through its inclusion in AOL 9 Media Player, Winamp 5, Viewpoint Media Player, and others. On2 licenses its software for use in set-top boxes, consumer electronics devices and wireless applications and offers high-level video encoding, customized technical support, and consulting/integration services. Located in New York City, the company has an office in Clifton Park, NY, and operations in Cambridge, UK.

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About Symbian Ltd.

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS(TM), the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. In the first three quarters of 2005, more than 23 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 200 network operators, taking the installed base of Symbian OS phones to almost 48 million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe (Cambridge, UK and Ronneby, Sweden (UIQ Technology AB), Israel and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo).

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