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Network Technology PLC
19 March 2008


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Darek Connole           Sally Anderson
PainePR                 Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.
949-809-6734            949-462-6091
dconnole@painepr.com    sally.anderson@tabs.toshiba.com

Susan Vaughan
Marketing Director
Ringdale, Inc.
Direct: 512-279-1490


             TOSHIBA AMERICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. PARTNERS WITH              
            RINGDALE INC. TO OFFER SECURE OUTPUT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION            

 Strategic Alliance Empowers Authorized Toshiba Dealers with Industry Respected 
           FollowMe(R) Solution for the e-STUDIOTM Family of Products           
                                                                                
IRVINE, Calif., (March 18, 2008) - Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.
(TABS) is proud to announce a newly formed strategic alliance with Ringdale(R)
Inc., (the wholly-owned subsidiary of Network Technology PLC) offering the
all-in-one secure document output management solution, FollowMe(R), to Toshiba's
e-STUDIOTM family of products. This partnership provides Toshiba's dealers and
customers with one of the most advanced and easy-to-use secure document output
management solutions on the market today.

"Businesses are focusing on security and confidentiality now more than ever,"
said Joseph Contreras, director, Product and Solutions Marketing, TABS. "By
teaming up with the industry's foremost authority on secure print management,
Toshiba can now offer the highest level of security and confidentiality to our
customers without the need to replace their existing printing fleet."

FollowMe is a standards-based roaming, secure printing and accounting solution
that provides organizations a complete output security and accountability suite
within a single business tool. FollowMe gives companies the ability to restrict
assess to documents by requiring users to authenticate themselves prior to 
retrieving their print jobs, keeping sensitive documents out of public view or 
from being mistakenly taken by non-authorized persons. Users can release 
sensitive print jobs directly at the output device through the largest range of 
identification technologies, including biometric fingerprint, proximity card, 
magnetic swipe card, smart card, PIN codes and barcodes. Additionally, the 
FollowMe solution allows organizations to allocate or recover costs through its
robust accounting and auditing toolset.

"We are very pleased to be working closely with Toshiba in integrating our
FollowMe solution into their award-winning family of e-STUDIO products," said
Klaus Bollmann, CEO, Ringdale. "FollowMe offers TABS' customers an
easily-integrated solution that gives them total control over their output by
utilizing policies and rules while providing accurate accounting of every
printed page."

The Ringdale FollowMe secure document output management solution is currently
available through Toshiba's nationwide network of dealers. To find an authorized
dealer in your area, please call (800)-GO-TOSHIBA or visit the TABS Web site at
www.copiers.toshiba.com.


About Ringdale Inc.

Ringdale Inc. is an innovative technology leader in network enhancing
connectivity solutions. In 1997, Ringdale introduced FollowMe to provide
organizations with secure document output management. Today, FollowMe is used by
thousands of organizations in a wide variety of industries worldwide. The
company's product line also spans area and PC access control and time and
attendance systems, biometric recognition technologies and fax appliances.
Ringdale, part of the Network Technology PLC Group, is based in Georgetown,
Texas, and maintains design, manufacturing and marketing centers in the United
Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

For more information on Ringdale products and solutions, call (888) 288-9080 or
visit the Ringdale Web site at www.ringdale.com.

 
About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.

Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning,
marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles,
multifunction printing products, network controllers and toner products
throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has four divisions: the Electronic Imaging
Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering
Division; and TOPAC U.S.A., Inc., dba Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a
wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of TABS, that operates a network of
wholly-owned office equipment dealers throughout the United States.

Named the most favored manufacturer nine times by the Business Technology
Association (BTA), Toshiba's entire product line, customer support and marketing
distribution policies are markers for the industry. Among the many other awards
garnered in recent years, Toshiba was named the "Manufacturer of the Year" seven
times by Marketing Research Consultants (MRC), and has twice been named to the
CIO 100 for being among the top 100 "bold" (2005) and "agile" (2004) companies
in the world.

TABS is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the seventh
largest electronics/electrical equipment company and the world's 91st largest
company in terms of sales. Ranked by Fortune magazine as the 10th Most Admired
Electronics Company in the World, Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in high
technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates
worldwide. Fiscal year revenue in 2006 was approximately $60 billion.

For more information on Toshiba copier, facsimile, multifunction printing
products, network controllers or toner products, or for a dealer in your area,
call (800)-GO-TOSHIBA or visit the TABS Web site at www.copiers.toshiba.com.
 



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