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[January 04, 2005]

Zingy Lets Consumers Personalize Their Mobile Phones with New Aaliyah Song While Contributing to a Good Cause

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Zingy (http://www.zingy.com/), the Americas' leading mobile media company, has signed an exclusive agreement with Aaliyah, LLC to distribute previously unreleased Aaliyah mobile content to consumers worldwide. As part of the agreement, a percentage of the proceeds will go to the Aaliyah Memorial Fund, a non-profit organization supporting Alzheimer's, AIDS and Breast Cancer Research. This is one of the first times mobile content has been used to generate revenues for a charitable organization and the first time a new Aaliyah song has been first released as a ringtone.
Specific content being offered by Zingy includes a complete suite of Aaliyah wallpapers and a ringtone of her previously unreleased version of "Ave Maria."
The Aaliyah Memorial Fund was created to support causes Aaliyah, a talented and popular young artist who died tragically in 2001, found important. These include, but are not limited to, Breast Cancer research, AIDS awareness and relief and Alzheimer's research.
"We are honored to be working with the Aaliyah Memorial Fund and contributing to its work on behalf of Breast Cancer and Alzheimer's patients," commented Andy Volanakis, COO of Zingy. "In the short time this content has been available, it has been extremely popular with consumers, demonstrating that mobile phones are an excellent platform not only for sharing Aaliyah's beautiful music but also for generating revenue and support for charitable causes."
"It is extremely important to me, our family, and Aaliyah's fans that we continue to honor her memory," said the Haughton Family in a statement. "Through our work with Zingy, we are able to bring her music and photos to millions of mobile phone users and at the same time, contribute to the causes that meant so much to her."
The Aaliyah "Ave Maria" ringtone and multiple wallpapers will be made available through Zingy's vast distribution network of carriers and media partners including AOL, Boost Mobile, Cingular, Microsoft's MSN, *MTV on Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Sprint PCS and T-Mobile and its own Web site, http://www.zingy.com/.
The retail price of the Aaliyah content will range from $1.49 to $2.99 per download.
About Zingy
Zingy Inc. (http://www.zingyinc.com/) is the leading mobile media company in the Americas. The company develops, aggregates, promotes and distributes mobile content direct to consumers through Zingy.com and through a network of media companies and mobile operator partnerships. Zingy offers ringtones, ringback tones, wallpapers, games, chat, dating, picture services and much more. The company delivers its content to or powers the mobile media offerings of most of the major North American operators including Alltel, Boost Mobile, Cingular, Nextel, Sprint PCS, Telcel and T-Mobile. The company also has distribution partnerships with top media companies and web portals such as AOL, Microsoft's MSN and MTV.
About Aaliyah LLC
Aaliyah LLC d/b/a Aaclypse (http://www.aaliyah.com/) is a media marketing company dedicated to the preserving and continuing the life's work of the singer/actress Aaliyah. Aaliyah LLC also administers the Aaliyah Memorial Fund which supports the causes that were important to Aaliyah and the Haughton Family. The Aaliyah Memorial Fund was created as a vehicle whereby the general public could contribute to and support causes that Aaliyah found important. Since its inception, The Aaliyah Memorial Fund has made and continues to make donations in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to organizations that fund Alzheimer's, AIDS and Breast Cancer research.
Zingy


CONTACT: Jennefer Traeger, Traeger Communications,jtraeger@traegercommunications.com, +1-720-988-6149


Web site: http://www.zingy.com/http://www.zingyinc.com/http://www.aaliyah.com/

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