Singapore - 25 April, 2006 - www.hardwarezone.com® has proven to be a strong player in Singapore's Internet arena. With the number of unique browsers reaching up to 330 thousand per month, www.hardwarezone.com® ranked as the number one Technology site in Nielsen//NetRatings Market Intelligence between November 2005 and March 2006.

Equally successful, www.hardwarezone.com® Forums topped the charts in the Market Intelligence Entertainment category since November 2005, reaching close to 200 thousand Singaporean unique browsers in March 2006. And heading up the Directories category between January and March 2006 is www.hardwarezone.com® Marketplace, visited by over 165,000 unique browsers in the past month.

"We are extremely delighted to achieve top spots in these three categories. This endorses www.hardwarezone.com®'s position as the leading technology portal in Singapore. Furthermore, these results confirm that our extensive member services and comprehensive content offerings have been attracting both new and recurring readers as well as attaining a high 'stickiness' within our sites, with an amazing average stay of 12 minutes per session." said Lim Chuan Jer, Product Manager, www.hardwarezone.com®.

"Online media tracking bears accountability. Media agencies appreciate knowing the returns of their advertisement placements as well as insightful viewer demographics such as gender, education level and average session durations. With Market Intelligence in Singapore, media agencies are now able to discern top-notch websites such as www.hardwarezone.com® with that accountability, instead of relying on self-proclaimed viewership reach."

Commenting on www.hardwarezone.com®'s success Mark Long, Nielsen//NetRatings's Executive Director Media Research - Asia Pacific Latin America, said: "www.hardwarezone.com® is not only successful in attracting traffic to its sites. In order to achieve business growth and return on investment, quality of traffic -e.g. demographic profiling of a website's visitors- is what really counts. In March 2006, www.hardwarezone.com® reached a high-quality audience of 18 to 34-year-old, highly educated and relatively high income earning professionals." (Please refer to chart below)

Mr. Long continued: "The other key aspect in achieving ROI is 'stickiness' or average session duration. www.hardwarezone.com® achieved average session duration values for its websites which reached above Market Intelligence's average session duration of around 6 minutes. Outstanding visitor retention was recorded in the first quarter of 2006 for www.hardwarezone.com® and www.hardwarezone.com® Forums, reaching average session durations of respectively 12.10 and 13.21 minutes."

Mr. Lim added: "We have already proven www.hardwarezone.com®'s reach locally. Our next milestones are to replicate the same kind of reach and success in our regional Asia Pacific sites."

Till date, www.hardwarezone.com® has a total of 5 localized I.T. portals in markets, namely, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Australia.

Age	18 - 34	71%
Education	Post-graduate degree, University or Polytechnic	66%
Occupation	Manager, Professional, Executive or Technical	43%
Annual income	>S$50,000	33%