Quiet Tiger Enters into Marketing Agreement with SunnComm Technologies.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2004 -- Quiet Tiger To Market SunnComm's MediaMax(TM)(M4) Music Management System to Record and Entertainment Industry -- SunnComm's Bill Whitmore Appointed President and 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. at Quiet Tiger Quiet Tiger, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :QTIG), an international marketer of digital content security products for the music and entertainment industry, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive marketing agreement with SunnComm Technologies, Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :STEH), a leader in digital content security and enhancement for optical media. Under the terms of the agreement, Quiet Tiger will be the sales and marketing arm for SunnComm's MediaMax M4 suite of products that provide copy management protection for CDs while simultaneously enhancing and expanding the consumer experience. Quiet Tiger will begin marketing MediaMax M4 on February 16, 2004. As part of the agreement, SunnComm's William H. Whitmore Jr. has been appointed to the Quiet Tiger Board of Directors and was named president and CEO of Quiet Tiger effective immediately. He has resigned his positions as president and a member of SunnComm's board of directors and its subsidiaries. Former Quiet Tiger President and CEO Pat Carrigan will remain on the board of directors. In addition, Quiet Tiger has accepted the resignation of William Grafham from its board of directors. Mr. Grafham served on the board for many years and will remain as an advisor to the president and board of directors. "The Quiet Tiger team tiger team - (US military jargon) 1. Originally, a team whose purpose is to penetrate security, and thus test security measures. These people are paid professionals who do hacker-type tricks, e.g. will market the SunnComm MediaMax technology platform and look for unique and profitable ways to propagate prop·a·gate v. 1. To cause an organism to multiply or breed. 2. To breed offspring. 3. To transmit characteristics from one generation to another. 4. solutions," said William H. Whitmore Jr. "We will move quickly and assertively to take advantage of each and every market segment presenting a significant revenue opportunity as we strengthen our position and product line with regard to digital content security and delivery," added Mr. Whitmore. In his new role as president and CEO, Mr. Whitmore will be responsible for all aspects of the international sales and marketing efforts for all technology platforms represented by Quiet Tiger, Inc. While at SunnComm, Mr. Whitmore headed the sales and marketing efforts that led to the deployment of the first copy-protected CD in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. in 2001. He also coordinated worldwide licensing agreements with 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 , Sonopress and Immediatek for SunnComm's copy management technology and was instrumental to the development of a technology partnership with Microsoft. "Our agreement with Quiet Tiger representing the SunnComm technology platform provides us with the flexibility to continue to develop our solutions and to benefit from the consolidation of our team's focus on developing technology," said Peter Jacobs Peter Jacobs (born February 27 1973) is a professional lacrosse player. Jacobs graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD in 1995. In his senior year, he was team captain of the Blue Jays was named first-team All-American in 1995 and lead his team to the Final Four. , chief executive officer at SunnComm Technologies. "Quiet Tiger will pursue client relationships around the world that will enable the content protection of both the manufactured CD products as well as electronic media distributed via the Internet. Already being deployed by some of the world's largest and leading independent recording companies, SunnComm's MediaMax M4 technology offers consumers a legal and licensed structure to transfer music from their audio compact discs to their computers in a user-friendly and managed environment. MediaMax enhanced CDs will play on all standard consumer electronic playback devices including CD players, DVD players, car stereos, boom-boxes, computers, Walkmans (TM) and game consoles. The intention of the Quiet Tiger team is to augment the MediaMax functionality with many additional security competencies brought together through mergers and acquisitions under the Quiet Tiger corporate structure. Quiet Tiger holds the exclusive marketing rights for SunnComm Technology and will become the principal in several other technology platforms as the company builds the products it will represent internationally. At the same time, company officials also announced plans to move forward with the implementation of "SecureBurn(TM)" disc burning architecture into projects under contract and in production at this time. When all the approvals and verifications are in place with the SecureBurn upgrade, the companies expect to realize a significant increase in the per unit royalty as this feature is used. ABOUT MEDIAMAX MediaMax offers artists and labels the ability to include controlled burn Prescribed or controlled burning (back burning) is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement. Fire is a natural part of both forest and grassland ecology and controlled fire can be a tool for foresters. count, artist-related promotions, song lyrics, an artist bio page, a photo gallery, Web links and PromoPlay(TM) functionality. PromoPlay technology allows consumers to share music with friends by providing the recipient with a song that can be downloaded and listened to for a limited number of days, a limited number of plays or until a specific expiration date Expiration Date The day on which an options or futures contract is no longer valid and, therefore, ceases to exist. Notes: The expiration date for all listed stock options in the U.S. arrives. The bonus content and enhancements are accessible via a multimedia user interface which is added as a special session mastered on the disc and integrated as part of the MediaMax product. ABOUT QUIET TIGER Quiet Tiger, Inc., a fully reporting public company that currently trades on the OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board An electronic quotation listing of the bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system. under the symbol "QTIG", is an international sales and marketing group representing the implementation and delivery of digital content security products for the music and entertainment industry. Our team of sales and marketing professionals, with over 50 years of experience in the music, movie and entertainment industry, has established relationships around the world that will enable the penetration of our product lines into each targeted market segment. For additional information or investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. please contact: Company contact: Investor contact: Media contact: Bill Whitmore Aimee Boutcher George Medici Medici, Italian family Medici (mĕ`dĭchē, Ital. mā`dēchē), Italian family that directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th cent. until 1737. 602-267-3800 973-239-2878 646-295-8218 bill@quiettiger.com aboutcher@aol.com gmedici@att.net ABOUT SUNNCOMM SunnComm Technologies Inc. became the first company to commercially release a content-protected audio CD utilizing an early version of the Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. Data Session Toolkit. SunnComm's copy-management technology was commercially released by Music City records in 2001 which became America's first copy-protected audio CD. It has become a leader in digital content enhancement and security technology for optical media with its MediaMax CD-3 suite of products. SunnComm's MediaMax CD3 Suite of Digital Content Enhancement technologies are built using Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Windows Media 9 Series but operate on both Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ) and Windows-based systems. For more detailed information about the company, its vision or philosophy, personnel, partners, and customers, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.sunncomm.com , or call the company directly at 602-267-7500, and ask for shareholder relations. MediaMax Digital Content Cloaking Technology, DC2, PromoPlay and SunnComm are registered and/or trademarks of SunnComm Technologies Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. NOTES ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. 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