Shanghai, China and Foster City, CA — August 10, 2006 — Augmentum™, a leading service provider of value-added software development, has won this year's "Best .Net Consultant Partner" 2006 award, managed by Microsoft's Partner program. The award is part of the Microsoft® Hong Kong Annual Channel Kick-Off, celebrated on August 10th at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Microsoft established their award program to recognize partners who consistently deliver the implementation expertise and experience required in today's enterprise software deployments. Augmentum offers the entire scope of software services, ranging from full cycle software development and business application development, to complex system integration and solution implementation - at actual China cost. Augmentum is committed to becoming the best software services provider in the world. Fortune 500 companies, including Intel, Motorola, Microsoft, Business Objects, and Cadence Design Systems, have relied on Augmentum to develop and test their complex software.

"The Augmentum team is honored to be chosen for this prestigious industry award. It confirms that using the Microsoft technologies and platform, we can deliver superior business value to enterprise customers – faster, with higher quality, and at actual China cost," explained Frank Yu, President and COO. "Augmentum's business continues to grow, with a staff of nearly 1,000 people throughout the world, and one of the region's largest .NET teams. We are currently providing software services to clients in Northern America, China, Japan and Southeast Asia, and attribute our success to our strong track record with world-leading customers."

Chin-Tang Chin, Strategy Architect, of Microsoft, added, "Augmentum has exhibited deep expertise in Microsoft's .NET platform, in parallel with practical and detail-oriented implementation practices."

About Augmentum
Augmentum offers value-added software development services to its customers worldwide. Augmentum engineers augment their clients'teams as an extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. The management team has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum,Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai, China and Foster City, California with additional facilities in Beijing. The company has grown to almost 1,000 people worldwide in three years since its founding in 2003 and won the Red Herring Asia Top 100 award in 2005. For more information, please visit www.augmentum.com or call (650) 578-9221.

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Contacts:
China: Belinda Qin
011.86.21.5131.4277 ext. 431
belinda.qin@augmentum.com

USA: Lisa Carnochan
650.578.9221 ext. 104
lisa.carnochan@augmentum.com