Moviso and Wildseed Team to Deliver Smart Skins for the Upcoming Kyocera Wireless Phone.Technology & Entertainment Editors CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. Wireless IT & Internet 2002 (Booth #1004) KIRKLAND, Wash. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2002 Moviso's advanced mobile media applications offer digital goods for a broad range of Smart Skin(TM) intelligent faceplates, capturing music, fashion and lifestyle themes for the youth market Wildseed Ltd., a software company pioneering Smart Skin intelligent faceplates, and Moviso LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , the leading provider of mobile media products and services in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA, today announced a strategic alliance to package Moviso's industry leading selection of ringtones, audio recordings, graphics and advanced media management and transaction applications on Wildseed Smart Skins. The Moviso and Wildseed relationship will enhance Smart Skins for the new Kyocera phone, codenamed (DELTA)2 (Delta2), and other Smart Skin capable phones that are scheduled to be introduced during 2003 in Europe and the Americas. The consumer appeal of a Smart Skin capable phone is its ability to morph with each new Smart Skin into a completely different experience. The Smart Skins change the exterior style of the phone and also deliver new assets to the phone such as ringtones, video clips, pictures, games and Web links, all related to the theme of the Smart Skin. Smart Skin intelligent faceplates containing Moviso content will be marketed to teens and young adults who purchase the new Kyocera (DELTA)2 phone in early 2003. Smart Skins will retail for $25 to $40 and be sold through a variety of distribution channels, including traditional and carriers' retail stores. Each Smart Skin captures a fashionable or branded exterior design. The Smart Key embedded inside of each Smart Skin contains digital goods for instant use on the phone without consumers having to install or configure anything. Smart Skins will package Moviso's popular music ringtones, video clips, graphics, icons and audio recordings. "Moviso's list of content is world class and extremely trend sensitive. Packaging relevant, high demand content on Smart Skins is exactly what our target market of young consumers want," said Wildseed CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , G. Eric Engstrom. Moviso has packaged the largest legal catalog of popular ringtones and media for mobile devices, through relationships with leading music publishers such as Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Chapel and BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass , and leading image libraries such as MPTV MPTV Multi-Program Television MPTV Material Provided to Vendor MPTV Mobile, Positional, TV and Voice , Hemera and ePhoto Source. Through the partnership with Wildseed, Moviso will continue to bring forward fresh content built on the latest technologies to the mobile media marketplace. "By supplying content to this compelling and revolutionary wireless product, Moviso is reaching more consumers and playing a valuable role in assisting carriers to drive additional network traffic and retail sales. With support for Smart Skins, Moviso will now reach a key wireless demographic with a new physical purchase model -- in addition to its traditional content download model," said Moviso President, Shawn Conahan. Wildseed will be demonstrating Smart Skins and Smart Screens concepts at the Mobile Entertainment Summit and in Kyocera's booth, #1004, at CTIA Wireless I.T. October 16 to 18 in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . On Wednesday October 16th Wildseed's Eric Engstrom will be presenting a Smart Skins demo at 3:30pm and participating on a panel, "Capturing the Consumer" at 4:30pm during the Mobile Entertainment Summit at the Venetian Hotel on October 16th. Shawn Conahan, Moviso president, is speaking on the panel titled "Hollywood Unwired: Forming Strategic Partnerships and Licensing Deals with Entertainment and Music Content Creators" on Wednesday, October 16 at 2:45 p.m. during the Mobile Entertainment Summit/CTIA I.T. Wireless & Internet Expo at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. About Wildseed Ltd. Wildseed is an innovative software company that is pioneering the world's first intelligent faceplates for wireless phones. Smart Skin(TM) intelligent faceplates stylize styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. both the outside and inside of the phone for an integrated fashion and entertainment experience. Smart Skins package ringtones, video clips, music, pictures, Web links and games. To maximize the experience, the software resident on the phone should support a Dynamic User Interface (DUI). Wildseed's DUI is called Smart Screen(TM) application framework and it provides the software that makes the phone's screen and custom applications morph to match the exterior design of the changeable Smart Skin on the phone. Smart Skins deliver a new source of recurring revenue for wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, media companies and retailers. Wildseed's software is based on Linux and will be available for use in handsets supporting Qualcomm's CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. 1XRTT, GSM GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. and legacy TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). . Smart Screen software is also compatible with Symbian, Microsoft Stinger and Qualcomm's BREW. Wildseed has offices in Kirkland, Washington Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. It is a suburb of Seattle located on the Eastside (of Lake Washington). As of April 1, 2005, the city had an estimated population of 45,740, making Kirkland the eighth largest city in King County and the eighteenth and London, England. Wildseed, the Wildseed logo, Smart Skin, Delta2, the Delta2 logo and Smart Screen are trademarks of Wildseed Ltd. For more information, please visit www.Wildseed.com About Moviso LLC Moviso LLC is a leading provider of mobile media products and services worldwide. Moviso is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA -- the U.S. arm of VUNet, Vivendi Universal's Paris-based Internet and technology unit. The company delivers complete mobile media solutions to wireless carriers, device manufacturers, retailers and entertainment companies worldwide, including Bell Mobility, Cingular Wireless, Microcell, Midwest Wireless Midwest Wireless was a wireless telephone company serving southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and western Wisconsin in the United States. The company served roughly 400,000 customers and used CDMA phone technology. The company's slogan was "We answer to you. , Rogers/AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Alltel, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Yahoo!, Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. In 1988, Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records, Inc. for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label , YM Magazine, Vivendi Universal, and Yamaha. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with representatives in Paris, Sydney and Hong Kong. For more information on Moviso, visit http://www.moviso.com. The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. 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