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2007

::06.27.07::
Spherix Signs Definitive Agreement For Sale Of Information Subsidiary
Provides Update On Becoming A Biotech Company
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) has signed the definitive agreement to sell the stock of its subsidiary, InfoSpherix Incorporated, to The Active Network Inc.
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::04.26.07::
Spherix Signs Letter Of Intent For The Sale Of Its Information Subsidiary
Will Become Exclusively a Biotech Company
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) has signed a letter of intent to sell the stock of its subsidiary, InfoSpherix Incorporated, to The Active Network Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. InfoSpherix contracts with government agencies to design, host, and operate park reservation services and public service contact centers.
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::02.22.07::
InfoSpherix Adds Golf Package To Its ReserveWorld Business Line
Partnership with The Active Network Allows Integrated Solution for Parks
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) is adding an integrated golf course management module to the suite of business solutions it offers to public parks agencies through its ReserveWorld business line, thanks to a technology partnership the Company has struck with The Active Network, Inc.
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2006

::05.31.06::
InfoSpherix Wins Indiana State Parks Reservations Contract
Company operates contract in new Indiana facility
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX). InfoSpherix Incorporated has won a 4-year contract worth about $4.4 million to continue operating the central reservation system for Indiana State Parks.
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::02.14.06::
InfoSpherix To Open Indiana Contact Center
New Facility Near Indianapolis Could Employ 200 Residents
CLARKSBURG, MD. InfoSpherix Incorporated will open a new contact center facility in Carmel, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis.
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::02.07.06::
Smooth Launch For InfoSpherix In Pennsylvania's State Parks
PA Official: "The Best Reservation System in the Country"
CLARKSBURG, MD. InfoSpherix Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX), today announced that the January launch of Pennsylvania’s central reservation system was a complete success.
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2005

::11.29.05::
Spherix Wins Michigan State Park Reservations Contract
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that the Michigan Department of Management and Budget has awarded the Company a contract to continue operating Michigan’s central reservation system for state parks.
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::10.25.05::
Spherix Wins Second Protest Of Reservation Service Award
GAO Sustains Spherix's Challenge for Second Time in Less Than One Year
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has sustained Spherix’s challenge to the USDA Forest Service’s recent award of the National Recreation Reservation Service (NRRS) contract to ReserveAmerica, a Ticketmaster subsidiary.
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::09.07.05::
Spherix Expands Call Center For Hurricane Relief Effort
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that Spherix’s call center in Cumberland, Maryland, has been expanded to perform disaster recovery services for the Thrift Savings Plan call center in New Orleans, which has been shut down because of Hurricane Katrina.
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::07.13.05::
Spherix Protests National Recreation Reservation System Award
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that it has filed an official protest of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s award of the National Recreation Reservation System (NRRS) contract to ReserveAmerica, a Ticketmaster subsidiary.
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::07.12.05::
Spherix Wins Pennsylvania State Park Reservations Contract
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has awarded the Firm a 5-year contract worth approximately $8 million to operate a central reservation system for that state’s parks.
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::06.22.05::
USDA Forest Service Awards NRRS Contract To Higher Bidder
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that it is considering all available administrative and legal options to fight back in the wake of last Friday's decision by the USDA Forest Service to award its National Recreation Reservation Service contract to the Agency's own, long-term, higher priced incumbent contractor.
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::01.14.05::
Spherix Wins Orange County Parks Reservations Contract County Market Adds to Company’s State and National Business
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that Orange County, California, has awarded the Company a 5-year contract worth approximately $1 million to operate its reservations and retail sales system to support the County’s harbors, beaches and parks.
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::01.11.05::
Spherix Protest Win Prompts U.S.D.A. Forest Service To Reopen Camping Reservation Procurement
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) Following a GAO decision that the Forest Service had unfairly favored its own incumbent contractor over a much lower priced competitor, the agency will reopen the competition for its National Recreation Reservation Service contract, also known as the “Recreation 1-Stop” program. The decision (http://www.gao.gov/decisions/bidpro/294572.htm) by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will cause the Forest Service to move the startup of this new reservation service, one of the Bush administration’s e-government initiatives, to November 2005.
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2004

::12.07.04::
Spherix Wins Protest Of Forest Service Contract Award
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that its protest of a contract award to a competitor for the National Recreation Reservation Service has been sustained by the Government Accountability Office. The U.S. Forest Service (Department of Agriculture) had awarded the contract to its incumbent contractor, whose bid was more than $32 million higher than Spherix's bid. GAO identified numerous flaws in the agency's handling of the procurement and its recommended corrective action included reopening the competition.
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::10.21.04::
Spherix Wins Maryland Call Center Contracts
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) has been awarded contracts worth approximately $3.2 million per year to operate call centers for Maryland State agencies. Approved October 20 by the Board of Public Works, the contracts have a three-year base period plus two option years, for a possible five-year duration. Under the contracts, Spherix will serve a variety of agencies, including the Department of Human Resources and the Department of Natural Resources, by providing contact center solutions; and the State parks, in processing reservations.
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::08.25.04::
Spherix Protests National Park Service Award:Winning Bid $32.6 Million Higher
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) announced today that it has filed an official protest of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) award of a contract for the operation of a consolidated National Recreation Reservation System to ReserveAmerica. The new system will provide reservation services for all Federal recreation facilities, including the National Park sites currently serviced by Spherix. In a debriefing recently held by the USDA, the agency was unable to provide Spherix with any convincing rationale for its decision to forego more than the $30 million in cost savings offered by Spherix's proposal. This, combined with other serious flaws in their evaluation, has prompted Spherix to formally protest the award.
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::08.18.04::
National Geographic Explorer Boyd Matson Supports ReserveWorld As The Premiere Online Camping Resource
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that Boyd Matson, writer and former host of National Geographic Explorer, supports ReserveWorld as the premier online camping resource. In partnership with ReserveWorld, Matson has produced two Public Service Announcements that are being broadcasted nationally this summer. He also appears on ReserveWorld's website www.reserveworld.com
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::08.11.04::
Consolidated Reservations Procurement Awarded To Spherix Competitor
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX) today announced that the USDA Forest Service did not accept its proposal to provide one-stop reservation services for National Parks and Recreation Areas, instead awarding the contract to a competitor. This new contract consolidates two contracts, one of which is currently being performed by Spherix. As a result, Spherix's current National Park Service contract will expire by year-end unless an extension is granted.
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::03.23.04::
Spherix Launches New ReserveWorld Website
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX), announced today that it has launched its new ReserveWorld.com website to serve customers of the Company's rapidly growing parks reservation business.
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::03.12.04::
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board Selects Spherix To Provide Parallel Call Center
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX), today announced that the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) has selected Spherix to provide parallel call center support services to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for Federal employees. The new call center will complement current services provided by the Department of Agriculture's National Finance Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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::03.02.04::
Spherix Acquires Daksoft's Reservation Business
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX), announced today that it has purchased the reservation business of Daksoft, a wholly owned subsidiary of Black Hills Corporation located in Rapid City, South Dakota. The acquisition includes all rights to Daksoft’s ReserveIt software, continuing contracts with four states and two counties in the U.S., and an additional call center operation located in the mid-west.
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::02.20.04::
Spherix Awarded Georgia State Park Reservations
CLARKSBURG, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX), today announced that, having selected ReserveWorld as its new reservation system, the State of Georgia's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will soon have arguably the most sophisticated online reservation and sales system in the nation.
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::01.09.04::
Spherix Expands Cumberland Facilities To Accomodate Rapid Growth
CUMBERLAND, MD. Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX), having won several major Federal and State contact center contracts in 2003, found itself bursting at the seams of the old "cinder block and bare pipes" building it had occupied for 14 years in this Western Maryland city.
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2003

::10.10.03::
Spherix Wins Ohio State Parks Contract
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX), today announced that it has added Ohio State Parks to its fast-growing list of state and Federal agency clients that contract with the Company to use its ReserveWorld central reservation system.
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::07.22.03::
Spherix Challenges OMB Attempt To Sole-Source Park Service Contract To Ticketmaster's Canadian Subsidiary
CLARKSBURG, MD, Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ/SPEX), today revealed progress in its "David versus Goliath" battle against the Government's plan to make a sole-source award of the Firm's Park Service reservations contract to ReserveAmerica, the Canadian arm of TicketMaster, Inc.
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2001

::05.15.01::
Spherix Announces New ReserveWorld Contracts

1999

::06.03.99::
FTC Awards Response Center Contract to Biospherics

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