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Autobahn Accelerator Speeds Delivery of MySpaceTV Videos

Free tool enables almost instantaneous loading and more reliable streaming of Internet videos

Minneapolis, MN - July 17, 2007

Autobahn Accelerator, the free tool that boosts download speeds for online videos and music, is now available for MySpaceTV. Users can sign up for invitations to download Autobahn Accelerator at www.getautobahn.com.

Autobahn Accelerator gives viewers of MySpaceTV, which features user-generated content from MySpace users and “mini-sodes” of classic TV shows such as “Charlie’s Angels” and “Who’s the Boss”, a much more reliable and consistent viewing experience with videos that load almost instantly. The fast loading also means that viewers can find any point in the video within seconds, allowing them to browse through a video or go easily to a favorite scene. Autobahn also ensures reliable streaming, minimizing the frustration of rebuffering, even over a wireless network. While MySpaceTV does not require users to have a MySpace account to watch videos, videos hosted on MySpaceTV and embedded throughout MySpace will also be accelerated.

Autobahn Accelerator for MySpaceTV was developed by Swarmcast, the provider of multi-source streaming technology for high-quality online video delivery. It is the second in a series of accelerators following the launch of the Autobahn Accelerator for iTunes®, which significantly reduces the download times of music, movies, TV episodes and other videos from the iTunes store. Autobahn Accelerator applications can be installed easily in seconds. Autobahn runs in the background every time music or videos are downloaded from a relevant site and are completely free of adware and spyware. Autobahn Accelerator is currently available for users with Windows 2000, Windows XP, and 32-bit Vista, running Internet Explorer 6 and 7, as well as Firefox. It will soon be OS X compatible.

Limited activation codes will be distributed on a daily basis. Users will also be able to invite friends www.getautobahn.com. Users that download this latest version of Autobahn Accelerator will get both iTunes and MyspaceTV functionality.

MySpace users can also keep up-to-date on news about Autobahn by adding Autobahn Accelerator as a friend on MySpace at www.myspace.com/autobahnaccelerator.

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About Autobahn Accelerator
Autobahn Accelerator optimizes consumers’ broadband connections by creating multiple connections to the requested content and downloads them over those connections in parallel. By creating multiple connections, Autobahn allows downloads to approach the maximum inbound rate of a user’s broadband connection, downloading up to ten times faster.

Executive quote

“MySpaceTV is quickly becoming a popular destination for Internet TV, but that convenience and popularity is diminished if it takes too long for a video to load or if the playback experience is poor,” said Justin Chapweske, founder and CEO of Swarmcast. “Internet TV viewers want broadcast-quality reliability as well as the convenience of on-demand. Autobahn Accelerator is designed to make that easily possible, even with standard broadband and the average home networking set-up.”

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About the company

Swarmcast is the pioneer and provider of multi-source streaming technology for the delivery of full-screen broadcast and High Definition quality video over standard broadband. By removing the quality barrier, Swarmcast is enabling a new era of Internet video where new types of content are available and content providers can at last monetize the online video community. Swarmcast’s multi-source streaming utilizes bandwidth from multiple servers and aggregates packets of information from each of them in real-time. Swarmcast enables service providers to deliver high demand content and live streaming to large-scale global audiences. Swarmcast is privately held and funded by Bridge Capital Fund (BCF) and Nippon Venture Capital. For more information about Swarmcast, please visit www.swarmcast.com.

Contact details

Michelle Homes
LEWIS PR
415 992 4400
Swarmcast@LewisPR.com

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