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Newport International Group Subsidiary Spare Backup Partners With Chumbo.Com to Market Spare Software Online

Posted on: Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 12:00 CDT

Newport International Group (OTCBB:NWPO) announced today that its Spare Backup Inc. subsidiary has reached an agreement with Chumbo.com, an online retailer of consumer electronics, computer hardware & software, DVDs and video games featuring more than 75,000 technology products.

Chumbo features nationwide distribution and automated order processing. Their customer base consists of consumers, government, academic, and small business.

Founded in 1997, Chumbo.com has hundreds of thousands of registered customers and was awarded back-to-back PC Magazine Editors' Choice Awards in 1998 and 1999. Chumbo.com is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Chumbo.com will begin offering its online customers the Spare Backup software, the prepaid Spare Solution and Spare Switch.

Commenting on this agreement, Andy Shevak, Vice President of Sales at Spare Backup Inc., stated, "We are excited to add Chumbo.com as yet another distribution partner for our Spare software solutions. They are among the elite e-retailers and we believe they will be a valuable partner in driving our sales growth in online distribution."

The Spare Backup Solution

Spare is a fully automated remote backup solution. It starts by scanning a user's hard drive, including the desktop and e-mail programs, for files and the application components necessary to produce an exact replica of the original. Then it transports the data, including new and revised files, daily to twin data centers on both U.S. coasts. Files are triple-encrypted and users can access them from any broadband, Web-connected computer anywhere. For more information and a free fourteen day trial, visit http://www.sparebackup.com.

About Spare Backup Inc.

Spare Backup Inc., a subsidiary of Newport International Group, is the developer of Spare Backup service, the first online backup service specifically designed for small business and home business users. Visit us at http://www.sparebackup.com.

About Newport International Group Inc.

Newport International Group (OTCBB:NWPO) is dedicated to leveling the digital playing field for small- and medium-sized companies. Its two subsidiaries provide digital tools and services that are as powerful as those available to large enterprises, but are designed and developed so that technical skills aren't needed to use or manage them. The company has headquarters in Palm Desert, CA, with technology development in Phoenix, AZ. More information is available at http://www.nwpo.biz.

Safe Harbor Statement: The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking information made on the Company's behalf. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, which address the Company's expectations of sources of capital or which express the Company's expectation for the future with respect to financial performance or operating strategies can be identified as forward-looking statements. Such statements made by the company are based on knowledge of the environment in which it operates, but because of the factors previously listed, as well as other factors beyond the control of the Company, actual results may differ materially from the expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements.

Source: Business Wire

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