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Wave to Present at Needham & Company's 12th Annual Growth Stock Conference on Thursday, Jan. 14th at 11:20 a.m. ET

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^{Published in Science and Technology on Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 5:40 GMT by Market Wire}  

LEE, MA--(Marketwire - January 7, 2010) - Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: [ WAVX ]) today announced that Steven K. Sprague, President and CEO, and Gerard T. Feeney, Chief Financial Officer, will present at the 12th Annual Needham Growth Stock Conference at 11:20 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, January 14, 2010. The conference is being held at the Palace Hotel in New York City, and Wave's presentation will be webcast.

Live Audio Webcast & Replay:

Please visit [ http://www.wsw.com/webcast/needham35/wavx/ ] or the company's website [ www.wave.com/about/investors/webcasts.asp ] where the live and archived webcast will be available for thirty days.

About Wave Systems Corp.

Wave provides software to help solve critical enterprise PC security challenges such as strong authentication, data protection, network access control and the management of these enterprise functions. Wave is a pioneer in hardware-based PC security and a founding member of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a consortium of more than 100 companies that forged open standards for hardware security. Wave's EMBASSY® line of client- and server-side software leverages and manages the security functions of the TCG's industry standard hardware security chip, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and supports the TCG's "Opal" self-encrypting drive standard. Self-encrypting drives are a growing segment of the data protection market, offering increased security and better performance than many existing software-based encryption solutions. TPMs are included on an estimated 300 million PCs and are standard equipment on many enterprise-class PCs shipping today. Using TPMs and Wave software, enterprises can substantially and cost-effectively strengthen their current security solutions. For more information about Wave and its solutions, visit [ http://www.wave.com ].

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