Groove Mobile Receives Top App Award From FierceMobileContent

Groove Mobile Receives Top App Award From FierceMobileContent

Sprint Music Store Powered by Groove Mobile Honored as One of the Best Wireless Applications for 2006

LOS ANGELES, CTIA, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Groove Mobile, the world's leading mobile music commerce platform, announced today it received the Top App Award from FierceMobileContent for its Sprint Music Store application. The award recognizes Groove Mobile's music platform as one of the best wireless applications for 2006. Powered by Groove Mobile, the Sprint Music Store was the first wireless song-download service in the United States, launching in October 2005.

"The Sprint Music Store, powered by Groove Mobile, is the leader in the U.S. market," said Brian Dolan, editor at FierceMobileContent. "In July, Sprint crossed the 4.5 million mark for downloads, a clear sign that this service is a hit with consumers."

The Sprint Music Store powered by Groove Mobile has received awards and recognition for its innovative features including dual downloading of tunes to the handset as well as the PC. The latest innovation on the Sprint Music Store -- and a first for US mobile music services -- is a music discovery feature that uses a customer's real purchasing history to recommend new tunes via push technology.

"The FierceMobileContent Top App Award for the Sprint Music Store validates our strategy that focuses on providing the most innovative features and quality services for music fans everywhere," stated Adam Sexton, VP Marketing and Product Management, Groove Mobile. "The demand for innovative mobile music services continues to drive our expansion in the US and with international markets."

In addition to powering the award-winning Sprint Music Store, last year in the UK, Groove Mobile-powered music services received awards and top ratings from mobile music customers in What Now magazine and from independent analysts at Strategy Analytics, an industry research firm. FierceMobileContent is an internationally recognized email newsletter for the wireless industry, providing more than 14,000 executives with a daily briefing on the industry's top applications, stories and analysis.

The FierceMobileContent Top App awards represent best practices by established and time-tested players in the wireless content industry that are making inroads in offering mobile content to users around the world. The complete list of winning companies is available in today's issue of FierceMobileContent and on the FierceMobileContent Web site at http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/.

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ABOUT GROOVE MOBILE

Groove Mobile is the world's leading mobile music service. Groove Mobile's Complete Music Gateway includes Full Track Mobile Downloads, Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Personalized Music Recommendations, in addition to providing Personalized and Programmed Streaming Radio, Music Subscriptions, and more. Last year, Groove Mobile powered the #1 rated mobile music service in the UK, and the first mobile music service in the US, Sprint's Music Store. Groove Mobile launched the world's first secure peer-to-peer distribution in the mobile space, with its pioneering TELL-A-FRIEND feature. Groove Mobile's direct download service is available in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australasia and provides access to music from EMI, Warner Music International, V2, and Beggars Group, Digital Rights Management and the Orchard libraries. www.groovemobile.com.

Source: Groove Mobile

CONTACT: Bennet Ratcliff of Ratcliff Strategies, +1-310-261-0408,
bennet@ratcliffstrategies.com, for Groove Mobile; or Valerie Christopherson,
valeriec@globalresultspr.com, or Kirsten Woodard,
kwoodard@globalresultspr.com, both of GRC, +1-949-608-0276, for FierceMarkets;
or Heather Cox of FierceMarkets, Inc., +1-202-628-8778, ext. 13,
heather@fiercemarkets.com

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

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

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