CLEARONE Receives 2007 Product of the Year Award from Communications Solutions

June 12, 2008
CLEARONE Receives 2007 Product of the Year Award from Communications SolutionsSALT LAKE CITY, June 12, 2008 ClearOne (NASDAQ: CLRO), the leading provider of high performance audio conferencing solutions, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) Communications Solutions (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named the CHAT 150 Group Speakerphone as a recipient of a 2007 Product of the Year Award.  

ClearOne has been delivering high-performance audio conferencing solutions for more than 20 years and has a broad range of products, for personal conferencing on PCs and cell phones, office desktop conferencing, and large professional conferencing in venues such as boardrooms, training centers, courtrooms, and auditoriums. The CHAT 150 is a group speakerphone designed for the executive office, small conference room, or home office. It connects to telephones, PCs, and video conferencing systems for superior wide-band audio communications. The CHAT 150 has a sleek design with a large loudspeaker and three microphones for 360° audio pickup. With unmatched full-duplex capability, the CHAT 150 also boasts HDConference audio technologies such as Distributed Echo Cancellation®, Noise Cancellation, First Microphone Priority, and Automatic Level Control. The CHAT 150 can also connect directly to several leading enterprise IP telephones, delivering business-class audio conferencing performance while retaining access to the advanced features of the handset, such as directory lookup, transfer, hold, etc. For more on the CHAT 150, visit http://www.clearone.com/usb-speakerphone.html. 

We have always felt that the CHAT 150 was in a category all by itself, said Mark Child, Director of Product Marketing Telephony, at ClearOne. This award from Communications Solutions confirms what we have known for a long time. As business professionals continue to search for ways to improve the quality of communication while reducing expenses, we know the value of our CHAT products will become more and more evident.

ClearOne has been recognized with a 2007 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in the advancement of voice, data and/or video communications, said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions. ClearOne has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as deliver ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future.

The eighth annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2007 were selected as recipients of this year's Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.  

The 2007 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site. 

About ClearOne

ClearOne Communications Inc. is a communications solutions company that develops and sells audio conferencing systems and related products for audio, video and web conferencing applications. The reliability, flexibility and performance of ClearOne's comprehensive solutions create a natural communications environment that saves organizations time and money by enabling more effective and efficient communication. For additional information, access www.clearone.com. 

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping our clients build communities in print, in-person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by nearly one million US visitors according to Quantcast* and by over three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer Conference.  

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ClearOne Contact:

Mark Child

801-303-3446

mark.child@clearone.com 

TMC Contact:

Jan Pierret

203-852-6800, ext. 228

jpierret@tmcnet.com