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Matthew Feldman
Versaly Games, Inc.
425.427.1295
mfeldman@versaly.com
Karen Strickholm
The Strickholm Company
For Viacom Consumer Products
310.820.1079
VERSALY DIALS UP AN ALL-NEW STAR TREK™
GLOBAL MOBILE PHONE DEAL!
Paramount Pictures’ Star Trek images, ringtones and other content beaming soon to a phone near you
Seattle, WA — December 19, 2001 — Versaly Games, Inc., a mobile entertainment company that publishes and distributes interactive games, digital pictures, audio and video clips, and other fun-to-use content to mobile phones, today announced it has obtained a license from Viacom Consumer Products to distribute Paramount Pictures Star Trek™ ringtones, images, sounds, audio and video clips and other entertainment content to mobile phones.
Included in the deal are the television series Star Trek™ the original series, Star Trek: The Next Generation™, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine™ and Star Trek: Voyager™. Also included are the first nine Star Trek™ films.
Commenting on the deal, Matthew Feldman, president and chief executive officer, said, "Versaly has built its reputation around having some of the most popular, interesting wireless entertainment in the marketplace today. With a brand like Star Trek in our family of entertainment licenses, we are confident we will continue on our course of stellar growth in the global wireless marketplace."
"Star Trek has always celebrated the possibilities that cutting edge technology represents. We are delighted to be teamed with a technologically sophisticated partner such as Versaly, a specialist in next-generation mobile technology, to bring this new form of Star Trek entertainment to our many fans around the world." said Andrea Hein, president, Viacom Consumer Products. "Versaly was chosen for the Star Trek license in great part for their forward-thinking strategy in the wireless arena."
Many companies are developing games on existing wireless application protocols (WAP) and mobile phones with small black and white screens and low-quality audio. Versaly is publishing games, high quality digital pictures, audio and video clips, and other content for next-generation mobile phones.
About Versaly Games, Inc.
Providing "Big Entertainment on Small Screens," Versaly is a mobile entertainment company that publishes and distributes interactive games and entertainment-oriented content to subscribers using next-generation mobile phones. These new phones have full color screens, high-quality audio players, an operating system, file storage memory and a high-speed, "always-on" Internet connection. Featuring its patent-pending middleware and its exclusive distribution agreements for premium content, Versaly unites content, carriers and smartphones for next-generation mobile entertainment. Subscribers can now play games, find opponents, watch videos, listen to music, view digital pictures and personal photographs, enjoy political cartoons and read eBooks from their smartphone. For more information, please visit http://www.versaly.com.
About Viacom Consumer Products
Viacom Consumer Products merchandises properties on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television, Viacom Productions, and Spelling Television, as well as third-party properties. Viacom Consumer Products, a unit of Viacom Entertainment Group, is a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. To learn more about Viacom Consumer Products and its properties, please visit http://www.viacomcp.com.
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