TAMPA, FLORDA -- October 24, 2002 - We are proud to announce that our product, Pocket Artist, has been declared a winner as the Best Graphic Design/Drawing software at the Pocket PC Awards 2002 ceremony held yesterday, October 23, at Pocket PC Summit in Hollywood, California. You can read more about the Pocket PC award winners at: http://www.pocketpcawards.com/Jan03/winners.asp

Pocket Artist 2.0 provides 24-bit color graphics editing on Windows CE devices. The user interface is optimized for small screens while retaining a full set of features, including support for digital camera users. Pocket Artist supports opening graphics in a variety of formats (PSD, JPG, GIF, and BMP), and work can be saved into PSD, JPG, or BMP formats. The version 2.0 release marks the first PSD-compatible product for Pocket PC. PSD is the file format of the desktop image software, Adobe® Photoshop®. With Pocket Artist 2.0, users can open, edit, and save PSD image documents with their Pocket PC.

"The development of Pocket Artist 2.0 was a massive undertaking from the Conduits development team, and we are honored to be recognized for our achievement of enabling a mobile device with advanced features that those in the creative industry are used to on desktop machines," said Conduits President and CEO Jason Patterson.

The Pocket PC Awards are organized every year by Pocket PC magazine to honor the Best Pocket PC products. This year 436 software titles from 57 categories were nominated for the awards. Out of those, 158 were selected as finalists, and 57 emerged as winners. The finalists and winners were selected by a Board of Experts which comprises some of the most respected and knowledgeable people in the Pocket PC community.

Conduits develops several commercial applications for Pocket PC, including Pocket Slides (a fully-featured presentation solution for Pocket PC) and Peacemaker (for infrared data transfer to other mobile device platforms). Pocket Artist is a trademark of Conduits Technologies, Inc. Adobe®, Photoshop® and/or Adobe®, Photoshop® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.

Pocket Artist 2.0 is available for an introductory price of $49.95. More information, including tutorials, brush packs, gradient packs, an online gallery, and a full list of features, can be found at the Pocket Artist website: http://www.conduits.com/products/artist/

For more information, press only: Carrie Hall - Conduits Technologies, Inc. - 813-907-2562 or email carrie@conduits.com.