TIE Technologies Unveils New Website and Joint Venture with PHXX

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TIE Technologies, Inc. (OTCBulletinBoard: TIET) today launched its new website www.tietechnologies.com as the first element of its joint venture with PHXX, a leading business technology solutions provider. The announcement was made by TIE Technologies CEO Edward C. Andercheck, who said, "The PHXX team brings remarkable innovation and experience to help TIE develop e-commerce capabilities for both our mobile and interactive entertainment portal consumer platforms."

Through this joint venture, TIE will integrate e-commerce wallet technology into the family of integrated systems and capabilities for interactive entertainment portals offered by TIE interactive services. This technology is designed to enhance a portal's ability to effectively monetize and maintain community membership. The e-commerce element applied within TIE mobile technologies suite of services will be a foundation block which the international switching and content delivery functionality will revolve around.

PHXX, LLC. WWW.PHXX.COM is a technology services company specializing in web development, search engine optimized solutions and database driven web applications based out of Longwood, Florida.

ABOUT TIE TECHNOLOGIES INC.

TIE Technologies is a systems integration and telecommunications company focused on engineering and delivering innovative solutions for user's needs and challenges within the competitive global voice, video and data communications markets. The company offers managed IT and telecommunication services to support clients looking to outsource business services. Services and solutions include application and database hosting, disaster recovery, redundancy, data transport, desktop management, customer service, billing, etc. TIE Technologies (TIE) is a development stage public company introducing new products to the marketplace in 2008, and traded on the Pink Sheets under the symbol "TIET".

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