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September 27, 2025
INTERACTIVE OBJECTS AND RED HAT ALIGN TO CO-DEVELOP NEW DIGITAL AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICE PLATFORM

September 27, 2000--Interactive Objects, Inc., (OTC.BB:OBJX), and Red Hat, Europe (Nasdaq:RHAT) today announced a strategic alliance designed to enable the development of a family of new digital audio playback devices based on the Dadio digital audio OS and platform. The Dadio platform, which is built on Red Hat's eCos kernel OS, is a leading solution for OEMs seeking entry into the rapidly growing market for digital audio playback devices. As part of the alliance, the companies announced plans to co-develop a new system development kit (SDK) for OEMs that simplifies the design, integration and testing processes and accelerates time-to-market.

``Our OEM customers are asking us for a common platform to extend their product line, and need tools and services that simplify their development process,'' said Dennis Tevlin, president of iObjects. ``The Dadio SDK will set a new standard in development efficiency and quality.''

Dadio, which is already used in the digital audio player designs of Iomega's HipZipÔ and I-Jam's WinJam, was released in June of 2000. The new Dadio SDK is expected to be available by the end of this year.

``This alliance is an important part of our strategy to extend Red Hat's systems and engineering services into new vertical markets,'' said Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat. ``Digital audio is one of the fastest growing markets for embedded systems. This partnership will bring together the best of both companies' capabilities.''

In addition to co-developing the Dadio SDK, iObjects and Red Hat will offer OEMs an expanded set of integration, testing and support services. The increased level of collaboration will allow the companies to accelerate new product development activities while also increasing their collective capacity to service new OEM partners.

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About Interactive Objects, Inc.

Interactive Objects (www.iobjects.com) is a leading developer of audio solutions for portable digital appliances and the creator of Dadio, the universal software for digital audio players. iObjects provides custom software engineering, industrial design, and manufacturing services, and offers licenses of its proprietary Dadio digital audio software to leading consumer electronics, PC manufacturers, and computer software companies.

Interactive Objects is headquartered at 12600 SE 38th, Suite 150, Bellevue, WA 98006, USA. Interactive Objects is listed on the OTC.BB under the symbol ``OBJX'' and on the ``Third Segment'' of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol ``IOX'' and German securities code WKN: 913011. The Company can be reached on the Web at www.iobjects.com.

Certain information included in this communication contains statements that are forward-looking, such as statements relating to the future anticipated direction of the high technology industry, plans for future expansion, various business development activities, planned capital expenditures, future funding sources, anticipated sales growth and potential contracts. These forward statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual operations or results to differ materially from those anticipated. These risks include, among others, risks associated with unproven sales of the Company's products, risks associated with the software development process and risks related to the transition to a new management team. Certain of these risks and other risks are described in the Company's Registration Statement on Form SB-2 and Form 10-KSB filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The registration statement is available from the SEC's Web site at www.sec.gov/


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