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Kyocera Wireless Corp. Chooses Roxio's PhotoSuite For Smartphone

With Roxio's PhotoSuite, consumers can view images, slideshows and video clips on the new Kyocera 7135 smartphone

San Diego and Santa Clara, California - (December 18, 2002) - Roxio Inc. (Nasdaq: ROXI) The Digital Media Company®, provider of the best-selling digital media software in the world, and Kyocera Wireless Corp., North America's leading manufacturer of CDMA mobile phones, announced today that Roxio's PhotoSuite® Mobile Edition is the imaging software to be included with the soon-to-be-released Kyocera 7135 smartphone. The Kyocera 7135 smartphone is an integrated wireless phone, Palm Powered™ handheld, portable computer and entertainment center.

PhotoSuite Mobile Edition allows consumers to do light editing to images on their personal computer desktops. They can then HotSync® images, slideshows and video clips to the Kyocera 7135 smartphone via Kyocera's USB synchronization cradle and view them through PhotoSuite.

"With its large, 65,000-color display, the Kyocera 7135 smartphone is an ideal platform for image viewing," said Dave Whalen, corporate vice president of sales and marketing at Kyocera Wireless Corp. "From digital snapshots to full-motion video, the multimedia capabilities of Roxio's PhotoSuite and our Kyocera 7135 Smartphone combine to create a rich user experience."

"Kyocera shares our mission of making personal media and communications accessible, anywhere and anytime," said Roxio's Brad Duea, vice president of worldwide OEM sales. "By providing our PhotoSuite technology to Kyocera, we can introduce the Roxio brand to new customers and demonstrate the flexibility of our multimedia software. We are very pleased to work with a proven innovator like Kyocera."

Information on the Kyocera 7135 smartphone and its full line of accessories is available at www.kyocerasmartphone.com. Those interested may join the list of more than 50,000 people who have registered for email notification when the device reaches retail availability. Customers who want additional editing and advanced project capabilities can also purchase Roxio's full-featured PhotoSuite 4 Platinum, available direct from Roxio at www.roxio.com or at their local retailer.

About Roxio

Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, develops and markets the best-selling digital media software in the world. Roxio offers award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing and has an installed base of over 150 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, through leading retailers, through Internet partnerships and through direct sales at www.roxio.com. Roxio's parent company, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com) is the leader in digital media software and provides a broad range of software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users and technology partners. Sonic's products range from professional DVD authoring systems and interactive content delivery technologies that are used to produce the majority of Hollywood movies released on DVD, to the award-winning Roxio- and Sonic-branded CD and DVD creation, playback and backup applications that have become the premiere solutions for consumers and business users worldwide. Sonic's AuthorScript® is the de facto standard for CD and DVD burning and formatting and has been licensed by major software and hardware manufacturers, including Adobe, Broadcom, Microsoft, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony, and many others. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.

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