Arkados President and CEO Oleg Logvinov to Participate in HomePlug Alliance Panel Discussion at Annual Connections™ Conference

Business Wire, May 1, 2007

Arkados To Demonstrate Whole-House Music From iPod [R] as Part of Homeplug Exhibition

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Arkados (OTC BB: AKDS), "the HomePlug([R]) Applications Company," announced today that its President and CEO, Oleg Logvinov, will participate in a panel discussion at Connections[TM]: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase. The panel, "Enabling Connected Digital Lifestyles," will convene at 10:30 A.M., Thursday, May 3, 2007 in the Grand Ballroom CD of the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. This is a Special Session of the Conference hosted by the HomePlug Powerline Alliance.

"This panel will discuss the evolution of powerline technology, its current use by major blue-chip companies in a variety of consumer applications, and what the future has in store for this exciting technology," said Logvinov, who also serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the HomePlug Powerline Alliance. Joining Logvinov on the panel will be executives from Texas Instruments, Inc., Intel Corp., Current Technologies, and Intellon Corporation. The session will be moderated by Kurt Scherf, VP and Principal Analyst at Park Associates, who tracks home networks, residential gateways, digital entertainment, technology development in the housing market and residential and building management and controls.

The event will offer a HomePlug Alliance "State of the Industry" update and forecast and a review of recent milestones, including impressive membership growth and global technology adoption. It will also provide insight regarding Intel's plans to integrate HomePlug technology into their mainstream platform in 2008. Also, individual member companies of the HomePlug Alliance will provide company specific news about their growth and their new products.

Arkados will also join with other HomePlug members to display current solutions that incorporate HomePlug technology. The Arkados demonstration of how whole-house music can be created from a single iPod dock is evidence of how Arkados solutions broaden the applications of HomePlug technology from simple networking and web-surfing into the realm of multimedia consumer electronics.

About Arkados, Inc.

Arkados, Inc., "the HomePlug Applications Company," delivers a universal platform that enables the effortless networking of home entertainment and computer devices using standard electricity lines. The company's system-on-chip solutions are uniquely designed to drive a wide variety of powerline-enabled consumer electronics and home computing products, including stereos, radios, speakers, MP3 players, computers, televisions, gaming consoles, security cameras and cable and DSL modems. Arkados customers can bring numerous sophisticated, full-featured products to market faster at a lower overall development cost with a single platform, the Arkados ArkTIC[TM] platform. Arkados solutions leverage the benefits of HomePlug Powerline Alliance specifications, and can also be used for in-building and to-the-home (BPL) applications. Arkados[TM], ArkTIC[TM] and Direct to Speaker[TM] are trademarks of Arkados Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Arkados Group, Inc. HomePlug([R]) is a registered trademark of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, of which Arkados is a member. iPod([R]) is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. More information is available at www.arkados.com.

This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are based upon assumptions that in the future may prove not to have been accurate and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including statements as to the future performance of the company and the risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in reports filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. Factors that could cause results to differ include, but are not limited to, successful performance of internal plans, product development acceptance, and the impact of competitive services and pricing and general economic risks and uncertainties.