Jamster Appoints Boris Hageney to Lead North American Operations

Jamster Appoints Boris Hageney to Lead North American Operations

Western Europe Manager for Jamba/Jamster Brings Expertise to Expand Jamster Business in the U.S. Market

NEW YORK, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jamster, a worldwide leader in mobile content and entertainment services and a wholly owned subsidiary of VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), today announced the appointment of Boris Hageney as Vice President of North America to reinforce its business development strategy and help bring innovative services to market worldwide.

In this role, Hageney will be based in New York and oversee operations in North America including product, service, business development and marketing. He will direct the company's global efforts to increase adoption of Jamster's mobile entertainment offerings and work closely with U.S. carriers, record labels and other content partners to ensure Jamster distributes the freshest content available. Hageney will report to Jamster's Chief Operating Officer, Martin Ott.

"Much of the music, movies and games enjoyed by consumers everywhere is created in America, so it's even more important that Jamster has someone who can drive a brand and build key relationships in a new market," said Jamster COO, Martin Ott.

Hageney joined the Berlin-based company in April 2004 as Country Manager for Italy, where he launched and established its business operations. One year later, he assumed the Regional Manager role for Spain and Portugal and later took on the responsibility of managing all of Western Europe.

Hageney has previously held various communications and marketing roles at accounting firm KPMG in Berlin, Mundwerk AG, one of the best known service providers in the area of speech recognition based in Berlin, Germany; and Belvedere, a publishing company, in Rome, Italy.

"Boris did an exceptional job helping to bring Jamba to countries in Western Europe and was partially responsible for the success we have achieved to date of having more than 114 operators in 30 countries providing Jamba mobile entertainment to millions of their subscribers," said Markus Berger de-Leon, Managing Director of Jamba. Jamba sells its services in North America under the Jamster brand.

Jamster is one of the world's leading creators, aggregators and distributors of premium off-deck mobile content. The business works with major wireless carriers such as Cingular, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile and Alltel and major content providers, including record labels such as Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.

Jamster's mobile content services are enjoyed by millions of consumers around the world. The company is developing new entertainment applications and services to broaden its digital content catalogue available directly to U.S. wireless customers at www.jamster.com .

About Jamster and VeriSign

Jamster International Sarl (Internet: http://www.jamster.com/ ; mobile phone: http://wap.jamster.com/ ) is one of the world's leading providers of digital entertainment services. Jamster develops, markets and provides digital content and services. The wide range of products includes music, graphics, games and information services, all available directly on mobile devices via SMS text messages, WAP or the Internet. Jamster services are available in more than 30 countries, internationally also from White Label Solutions. Jamster International Sarl is a subsidiary of VeriSign, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for Internet and telecommunications networks. Jamster currently employs more than 520 employees.

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VeriSign, Jamster and other trademarks, service marks and logos are registered or unregistered marks of VeriSign and its subsidiaries in the United States and in foreign countries.

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause VeriSign's actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainty of future revenue and profitability and potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results due to such factors as the inability of VeriSign to successfully develop and market new products and services and customer acceptance of any new products or services, including Jamster services; the possibility that VeriSign's announced new services may not result in additional customers, profits or revenues; and increased competition and pricing pressures. More information about potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results is included in VeriSign's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. VeriSign undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.

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Web site: http://www.jamster.com/

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