adding key personnel, as they did in 1999?

e.Digital Corp. Adding Intel Veteran to Board of Directors.

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1999--

e.Digital Corp. (OTCBB OTCBB

See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :EDIG EDIG European Defence Industries Group ) announced today that Skip Matthews, Ph.D., will join its Board of Directors effective August 1.

Dr. Matthews joins e.Digital's Board upon retirement from a distinguished 25-year career with Intel Corp. with his last position being senior project development manager.

Initially in charge of development of equipment for manufacturing at Intel, Matthews has worked the last eight years marketing Intel's flash memory products. He has focused on innovative audio and photographic applications for flash memory during the last four years.

Matthews stated, "I was attracted to e.Digital because they were the first to adopt flash memory in an audio recorder. There is great potential for further application of e.Digital's technology in Internet music players and even more advanced audio applications such as speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems."

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Matthews is a graduate of Duke University, and received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Southern Illinois UniversitySouthern Illinois University, main campus at Carbondale; state supported; coeducational; est. 1869, opened 1874 as a normal school, renamed 1947. It has a center for archaeological investigation and a fisheries research laboratory. There is also a campus at Edwardsville.
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"We are very pleased to have Skip Matthews serve on our Board," said Fred Falk, president and chief executive officer of e.Digital. "He shares our vision of a world connected by interactive portable products. Skip's high-level industry contacts and experience in cultivating strategic relationships with major technology companies will greatly benefit e.Digital. He brings a wealth of knowledge that will prove invaluable in extending e.Digital's leadership in providing engineering services and embedding our patented MicroOS(TM) file management system into PC and Internet-compatible handheld devices."

e.Digital Corp. offers an engineering partnership for the world's leading electronics companies to link portable digital devices to PCs and the Internet. Engineering services range from the licensing of e.Digital's multi-patented MicroOS(TM) file management system to custom software and hardware development, design and manufacturing services. For more information on the company, visit www.edig.com.