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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Artificial Life, Inc. Enters Taiwan Mobile Market with Sanrio Hello Kitty Games
HONG KONG, April 18 -- Hong Kong based
Artificial Life, Inc. (OTC: ALIF) a leading provider of intelligent agent
based mobile and Internet technology and applications today announced that it
has signed a license agreement with Sanrio Taiwan Co, Ltd, a local
representative of Sanrio Co, Ltd, of Japan to develop and distribute games and
e-learning applications for mobile phones based on the famous Sanrio branded
characters: Hello Kitty(R), My Melody(R), Pochacco(R), Bad Batz Maru(R),
Chococat(R), Cinamoroll(R) and Little Twin Stars(R) and to launch them in the
Taiwan market.
The license contract enables Artificial Life to launch mobile applications
now also in Taiwan, in addition to the already signed-up territories Hong Kong,
Macau, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New
Zealand and India. It covers the usage, downloads and deployment of Sanrio
characters in mobile content, Java games, WAP games as well as SMS and MMS
applications on all mobile phones operating on 2G type networks.
"Hello Kitty and the other Sanrio characters are very popular in Taiwan
and many Asian countries. We will launch a series of mobile games and
applications based on these famous characters with a focus on e-learning
applications, especially entertaining and easy to use English training mobile
games for younger non native English speakers in Asia. Taiwan is after Hong
Kong, Malaysia and Singapore the fourth major Asian mobile market in which we
now operate," said Eberhard Schoeneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc.
About Sanrio
Sanrio is a world-wide designer and distributor of character branded
stationery, school supplies, gifts and accessories. They are best known for
Hello Kitty which is their star character and also their corporate symbol.
Sanrio Co., Ltd., is based in Tokyo with distribution channel throughout Japan
and Asia, Americas, and Europe. Sanrio character merchandise is sold in over
4000 locations in America today.
For more information, please visit http://www.sanrio.co.jp .
About Artificial Life, Inc.
Founded in Boston in 1994 and registered in Delaware, Artificial Life, Inc.
(OTC: ALIF - news) is a public US corporation headquartered in Hong Kong and a
leading global provider of intelligent agent Internet and mobile computing
technology, content and applications ( http://www.artificial-life.com ).
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