TMS Mobile Debuts Worldwide Direct-to-Consumer Mobile Content
Service with Michael Mepham's Sudoku Puzzle
Mobile Service is one of the First to Use Numeric Domain
Names to Streamline Access to Content
CHICAGO, July 12, 2006 - TMS Mobile today announced the launch
of its mobile content service with the worldwide availability
of the hit logic puzzle Michael Mepham's Sudoku. TMS Mobile is
a project by U.S.-based Tribune Media Services, Inc. (TMS) and
Canadian company AcrNum, Inc. to develop off-deck mobile
content services for consumers and businesses. Tribune Media
Services (TMS), a subsidiary of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB), is
a global distributor of syndicated content and services to the
media industry and is headquartered in Chicago. "We believe
that our first off-deck product is the best mobile Sudoku
available and an excellent indicator of the quality of mobile
content we plan to feature as we expand," said Stephen Tippie,
TMS vice president, marketing and licensing. "Our
direct-to-consumer service is also one of the first to offer
direct access to mobile content by using a numeric domain name,
783658.com, which dramatically shortens the process of keying
in a mobile Web address." TMS Mobile's Sudoku will be joined
this summer by Michael Mepham's Kakuro, another popular logic
puzzle based on numbers. The company is also in discussions
with a leading international mobile content developer to add
several dozen puzzles, action games and arcade games to the TMS
Mobile lineup before the end of the summer. Consumers can
download Sudoku GamePaks of 10 puzzles for US$4.99 directly
from the Sudoku mobile Website by keying 783658.com into their
mobile Web browser and following directions. These numbers
correspond to the word "SUDOKU" on the mobile phone's keypad.
The mobile version of Michael Mepham's Sudoku was developed by
Breakpoint Ltd., a leading mobile game developer and publisher,
based in Warsaw Poland ( www.breakpointgames.com). About
Tribune Media Services ( www.tms.tribune.com) Tribune Media
Services (TMS) is a leading provider of information and
entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media
in the United States and abroad. It distributes TV and movie
listings and related editorial content under the TMS and Zap2it
brands; syndicates comics, features and opinion columns;
creates and syndicates a variety of online information
products; licenses editorial content from national periodicals;
and manages national advertising networks. Through its
McClatchy/Tribune partnership, TMS also markets news, features,
information graphics and multimedia content to media clients
around the world. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New
York, Glens Falls, N.Y., Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee, Amsterdam,
London and Hong Kong, TMS is a subsidiary of Tribune Company
(NYSE:TRB). About AcrNum ( www.acrnum.com) AcrNum, Inc., a
division of Aboriginal Assets Group, Inc., has been
concentrating on developing best-in-class technology for the
deployment of mobile Internet access for the past five years.
The company has amassed a collection of over 1,700 generic and
brand-specific Numeric Domain Names to enhance its technology
deployment. AcrNum is based in Toronto, Canada. Contact:
Stephen Tippie Tribune Media Services 312-222-4455
stippie@tribune.com Scott Smith AcrNum Inc. 647-242-1758
scott@acrnum.com
