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Atrua Broadens Portfolio of Intelligent Touch Control Products
with Acquisition of Varatouch Technology

Patent-Protected VsenseTM Technology Provides Product Line Expansions
Compatible with Existing Fingerprint Touch Controls

CAMPBELL, Calif., February 14, 2006 – Atrua Technologies, Inc. (www.atrua.com), the pioneer and foremost innovator of Intelligent Touch ControlsTM for mobile devices, today announced the broadening of its product portfolio with a family of analog input devices through the acquisition of Varatouch Technology, Inc. The addition of the Varatouch analog navigation and control products to the Atrua product line makes Atrua the world’s only company to address the need for a comprehensive and compatible product line focused on the challenging input needs of mobile devices.

Analog input is quickly becoming a key requirement for navigation in mobile phones – driven by the need for better control of advanced applications and features. Simultaneously, there is a strong need for convenient security for applications such as mobile payments and mobile e-mail as network operators roll-out new services. Atrua addresses both needs by enabling device makers to enhance user input capabilities across their entire product line with a unified API that supports advanced analog input for a broad range of applications, including mobile commerce, MP3 and media players, secure e-mail and messaging, web browsing, location-based services and gaming.

Atrua’s newly extended product line provides device makers with flexibility and compatibility never before available. With a wide range of affordable analog devices including joysticks, navigation disks, touch pads and fingerprint touch controls, device makers have available to them a common software platform capable of supporting a wide variety of devices targeting different market segments.

“Varatouch has developed the most cost-effective, advanced analog controls for mobile devices,” said Anthony Gioeli, President and CEO of Atrua. “Combined with our fingerprint touch controls, Atrua is now able to respond to customer needs for a broad set of input solutions with compatible product lines that have different features, industrial design attributes and price points. I am very excited having the Varatouch employees joining Atrua.”

“The addition of the Varatouch products and team solidifies Atrua’s position as the world leader in intelligent touch control,” said Peter Buhl, Chairman of Atrua and Partner at BlueRun Ventures. “No one else comes close to the capabilities, quality and breadth of Atrua’s product line and its ability to improve the usability of the upcoming generation of mobile devices.”

The Atrua WingsTM product line of fingerprint touch control solutions, embraced by customers as the premier platform for authentication and navigation, continues forward as the company’s most feature-rich product line. With unprecedented capabilities not available from any other user input device, Atrua Wings provides fast and easy access to secure mobile data services like corporate e-mail and payments services and also enables easy mastery of games and other multimedia applications. Providing the best fingerprint recognition accuracy and the most efficient use of battery, CPU cycles and memory, when compared with competing fingerprint sensors, and combined with groundbreaking analog navigation and control capabilities, the Atrua Wings products continue to be recognized as best-in-class for mobile devices.

The entire Varatouch team is joining Atrua with the executive team taking on the following roles: Craig Vachon becomes Vice President of Corporate Development, Tim Martin becomes Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Mike Rogers becomes Vice President of Technology Transfer.

Atrua is now demonstrating its full line of Intelligent Touch Control solutions at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. Schedule a meeting with Atrua by sending e-mail to info@atrua.com.

About Atrua Technologies, Inc.

Atrua Technologies, Inc. is the industry’s leading provider of intelligent touch controls, a new class of user input device that improves ease of use, security and personalization for advanced applications and services on today’s mobile phones, handheld games and other personal electronic devices. Supported by world-class strategic partners and blue chip investors, the company provides a broad range of innovative input products that utilize Atrua’s touch processing technology to deliver market leading fingerprint recognition and advanced analog control. Designed for mobile devices, Atrua’s solutions help users glide through and access their mobile e-mail and music, increase gaming excitement and enable one-touch commands that accelerate access to mobile data services and secure financial transactions through fingerprint recognition. The company’s backers include Blue Run Ventures, (formerly Nokia Venture Partners), Ericsson Venture Partners, Acer Technology Ventures, NeoCarta Ventures and Intel Capital. For more information please visit www.atrua.com.