Harris & Harris Group Inc.

NEWS RELEASE

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.	JULY 11, 2006
111 WEST 57TH STREET
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019
NASDAQ/NMS SYMBOL: TINY
CONTACT: CHARLES E. HARRIS
TEL. NO. (212) 582-0900

CSWITCH CORPORATION EMERGES FROM STEALTH MODE

Shareholders of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., may be interested to note that Cswitch Corporation has emerged from stealth mode to reveal that it has a novel configurable-logic chip architecture, an EDA tools partner, Magma Design Automation, and foundry partner, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing. Cswitch has launched a website (www.cswitch.com) and conducted several press interviews which include EETimes (http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190301114), San Jose Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/15004604.htm), and EDN (http://www.edn.com/article/CA6350901.html?spacedesc=newProducts). Cswitch will preview its configurable-logic chip technology at the 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) held from July 24-28 in San Francisco, CA. For additional details, please see www.cswitch.com.

Harris & Harris Group is an investor in privately-held Cswitch Corporation.

Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that now makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The Company's last 30 initial private equity investments have been in tiny technology-enabled companies. The Company has 20,756,345 common shares outstanding.

Detailed information about Harris & Harris Group and its holdings can be found on its website at www.TinyTechVC.com.

This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. These statements reflect the Company's current beliefs, and a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in this news release. Please see the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, including but not limited to the risks and uncertainties associated with venture capital investing and other significant factors that could affect the Company's actual results. Except as otherwise required by Federal securities laws, Harris & Harris Group, Inc., undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events or uncertainties. The reference to the website www.TinyTechVC.com and www.CSwitch.com have been provided as a convenience, and the information contained on such websites is not incorporated by reference into this news release.