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Handango to Offer Windows Mobile and Tablet PC Content Through Windows Marketplace

Posted on: Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 09:00 CDT

HURST, Texas, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Handango, the leading provider of mobile content, announced it will provide Windows Mobile and Tablet PC content on Windows Marketplace, a shopping portal for customers to find and buy software and hardware for the Windows operating system. The mobile catalog will include games, entertainment, productivity content and more from Handango's catalog of more than 190,000 titles and will offer commerce and electronic software download delivery through Handango's robust content provisioning system, Handango AMPP.

Under this new agreement, millions of Windows Marketplace customers will have easy access to tens of thousands of applications for their Windows Mobile devices and Tablet PCs. Handango's rich, premier content catalog offers best sellers such as Microsoft's own Voice Command and Pocket Streets, the latest gaming craze Sudoku, fully-loaded media players like PocketMusic Player, picture contact managers such as Photo Contacts and much more.

"Microsoft is pleased to extend our relationship with Handango into Windows Marketplace. The addition of Handango's catalog will provide a rich community connecting customers to a plethora of software applications designed for their mobile devices and Tablet PCs," said Joe Peterson, corporate vice president of Microsoft. "And, in working together with Handango, we are excited to provide customers with a robust buying and downloading experience that we'll be unveiling soon."

"Continuing our record of being a first-mover, we are proud to be one of the first to offer Windows Mobile and Tablet PC content through Windows Marketplace," said Randy Eisenman, president and chief executive officer of Handango. "Our partnership with Windows Marketplace will provide customers with a convenient, world-class shopping experience. Consumer demand for mobile applications is exploding, and the combination of Microsoft's huge customer base with our leading capabilities at merchandising and delivering mobile content is going to ignite sales. We're going to delight Microsoft users by dramatically enhancing the utility of their Windows devices and delight our content partners by allowing them to tap into this enormous market."

Content providers can showcase their applications on Windows Marketplace by becoming a member of the Handango Content Partner Program. For more information on how to join, please go to http://www.handango.com/partners .

About Handango

Handango is the leading provider of mobile content, bringing more than 190,000 digital titles to market through an extensive global distribution network that reaches millions of mobile customers. Handango's application management and provisioning platform, Handango AMPP, has been chosen as the mobile content delivery platform for RIM, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Orange, Microsoft, HP, Sega Mobile, AOL and more than 200 others. For more information, visit http://corp.handango.com/ .

Handango

CONTACT: Ashley Walker of Handango, +1-817-548-2192, orashley@handango.com

Web site: http://corp.handango.com/http://www.handango.com/partners

Source: PRNewswire

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