NEWARK, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/24/2006 -- Socket Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT), an innovative provider of mobile productivity products, today announced the continued expansion of its OS Development Partner program, underscoring the demand for both general purpose and market specific implementations. Corporate customers and general-purpose platform developers are leveraging the company's WLAN expertise to deliver innovative design-wins.

By leveraging WLAN plug-in CompactFlash (CF) and Secure Digital Input/Output (SDIO) Cards and embedded modules with value added software features from Socket, corporate customers are delivering highly integrated WLAN solutions for market specific products in the healthcare and industrial automation industries. In addition, Socket is expanding its embedded WLAN efforts across various Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) platforms to meet the needs of general-purpose platform developers in order to offer enhanced WLAN solutions to a broader developer community.

"The number of Socket OS Development Partners has more than tripled over the past quarter," said Mike Gifford, founder and executive vice president for Socket. "We are seeing development trends that are building our embedded WLAN efforts across various RTOS platforms, as well as addressing the needs of corporate customers seeking highly integrated solutions for market specific products."

Market Specific:

--  Compumedics is developing and marketing proprietary products based on
    an in-house RTOS operating system for the sleep medicine and neurology
    markets.
    
--  Athena GTX is developing and marketing a Wireless Vital Signs Monitor
    based on the dsPic 30F6014 microcontroller from Microchip for the military,
    commercial medical, and first responder markets. This is a custom
    motherboard and does not use any OS.
    

General Purpose:

--  Jinvani SysTech, Inc. is building a complete IEEE 802.11g standards-
    based device driver for multiple RTOS including the high performance
    Quadros RTCX RTOS environment. Jinvani solution contains Jinvani SD / SDIO
    Bus stack and custom host drivers for a wide range of IP, SoC (system on
    chip), MIPS and ARM based platforms used by a wide variety of industries
    and third party developers.
    
--  RFNet Technologies is developing device drivers for Linux and other
    RTOS platforms to leverage their expertise in three core technologies:
    radio frequency circuits, networking protocol stack and embedded
    programming on RTOS. RFNet Technologies will offer the final solutions to
    end customers and third party developers across numerous markets.
    

The Socket Communications OS Development Partner Program offers Socket WLAN CF and SDIO Cards, embedded modules and value added software to third party developers who produce drivers and other low-level software for a variety of operating systems. This program allows Socket products, such as the Socket Go Wi-Fi! P300, the Go Wi-Fi! P500 and the 802.11b/g WLAN Module, to be supported on diverse platforms such as Linux, ThreadX and VxWorks.

Socket Communications works with third party partners to expand non-Windows operating system support for its WLAN product line. The OS Development Partner Program is open to qualified developers; if you would like to participate in this program, please visit: http://www.socketcom.com/oem/

About Socket Communications

Socket Communications (NASDAQ: SCKT) develops and distributes a broad range of data collection and network connectivity products for mobile devices such as PDAs, Smartphones and tablet PCs. Working collaboratively with mobile solutions from leading Strategic Vertical Integrators, world-class 3rd party software developers and OEMs, Socket Mobility Friendly® products are proven to drive operational efficiencies, increase mobile workforce productivity, boost corporate performance and improve customer satisfaction. Socket is headquartered in Newark, California and can be reached at 510-744-2700 or http://www.socketcom.com/pr223

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