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UzoneMedia Partners ComfortDelGro to Launch iCabTV for the First Time in Singapore

June 26th 2008


Singapore, USA, 26 June 2008 – UzoneMedia Inc. celebrated the commencement of its partnership with ComfortDelGro, leading taxi operator in Singapore for the launch of UzoneMedia’s iCabTV network.



UzoneMedia and ComfortDelGro’s taxi company, Comfort Transportation, have signed a definitive agreement which grants UzoneMedia the exclusive rights to operate touch-enabled LCD based infotainment systems in ComfortDelGro taxis in Singapore effective immediately. This marks UzoneMedia’s first direct involvement in Singapore’s media market and its first direct investment in proprietary digital media network.



UzoneMedia’s iCabTV will be installed in ComfortDelGro taxis in stages over the next few months. With at least 1,000 ComfortDelGro taxis expected to carry the system by fourth quarter of 2008, iCabTV will reach more than 30,000 affluent consumers, business professionals, and tourists across Singapore on a daily basis.



Said Mr Jim Chuang, CEO of UzoneMedia: “UzoneMedia’s iMMN platform will revolutionize the way commuters ride taxis. iCabTV, is an infotainment platform that aggregates content, commerce and services. Our platform, has the ability to push contents intelligently based on the location of the taxis and time of day, allows marketing messages to reach our target audience more effectively. In addition, the LCD touchscreens installed in the taxis display interactive contents that engage the passengers, thus making content impression last even longer. Finally, all of our iCabTV screens in the taxis are networked together via 3.5G technology that allows us to deliver media contents to thousands of mobile LCD touch panels efficiently and effectively.“



Mr Chuang added: “ComfortDelGro has always been known for its commitment to providing high level services. It has distinguished itself not only as the leading taxi operator in Singapore, but also as a global leader in public land transport. This assures a consistent, continuous, high quality demographic for the advertisers on iCabTV Network and so we made ComfortDelGro the natural choice for our launch into the Singapore market.”



Said Mr Yang Ban Seng, ComfortDelGro CEO (Taxi Business): “We are delighted to be working with UzoneMedia and their partners. Their experience in digital media and unique understanding of building, managing and maintaining digital media networks allows us to have the confidence that this partnership and iCabTV will further enhance the taxi experience for our commuters."



UzoneMedia’s iCabTV platform supports a wide range of digital formats such as JPEG pictures, Flash animation to full motion DVD quality video, all with stereo sound. Clients can choose spot durations ranging from 15 to 60 seconds or longer, and campaigns between one week to three months.



Commenting on the significance of the launch, Mr Chuang said: “It is an exciting time for outdoor media in Singapore. Through the iCabTV network, our company is poised to take advantage of the rapid changes in wants, needs and expectations of clients, passengers and transport operators to enrich their experience. This marks the first step in UzoneMedia’s strategy to emerge as the dominant operator of digital media networks for out-of-home media in Singapore.”





About the Companies:

UzoneMedia is a privately held corporation founded in 2006, it is shaping the future with its vision and leadership in iCabTV™ – a location- and time-based targeted infotainment platform that allows the aggregation and convergence of media contents, commerce, and services over public wireless infrastructures. iCabTV is a unique platform capable of reaching out to a broad new captive audience.



ComfortDelGro is the world’s second largest land transport company with a total fleet size of more than 41,000 buses, taxis and rental vehicles. It operates in seven countries - Singapore, China, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Vietnam and Malaysia – giving it the broadest footprint amongst its international peers. Currently, overseas ventures account for 44% of Group turnover. The Group aims to derive 70% of its total turnover from overseas within the next five to seven years.





For more information, please contact:

William Hang

VP Marketing & Business Development

UZoneMedia Pte Ltd

DID: 6741-1989 x201

Email: william@uzonemedia.com






DC2Go, Singapore’s # 1 city guide joins iCabTV in the back of taxis

February 24th 2009


Singapore, February 25, 2009. DC2Go, Singapore’s #1 digital city guide is now available in the back of taxis following an agreement with UzoneMedia to put the guide inside its iCabTV service in the back of the newest Comfort and CityCab taxis.



With information on over 1,000 restaurants and shopping outlets, hundreds of pubs and nightlife options and recommendations of what to see and what to do, DC2Go is the most comprehensive multimedia guide ever created.



The partnership between DC2Go and UzoneMedia enables Singaporeans and tourists alike to easily access DC2Go’s digital city guide in the back of 1,000 Comfort and CityCab taxis via a touch screen interface.



Dannie Francis, CEO at Cellcity, creators of the DC2Go service said: “iCabTV round off a perfect 360 degree digital circle for the city guide. From Bluetooth at the airport to access in the taxi, to web and IPTV inside the hotel room and from our web and WAP site to the application on mobile phone, we even make the information available in online and offline modes so mobile users can minimize data and or roaming charges.”



This is another ground-breaking feat for DC2Go following the announcement in December by NTT Docomo Intertouch that DC2Go would be available inside its hotel web portal service at over 20 four and five star hotels in Singapore.



Apart from a comprehensive offline directory for restaurants, bars, shops and tourism outlets, the service also provides next generation street directory services, weather forecasting, news, flights information, and an online search.



UzoneMedia is the leading operator of the largest mobile infotainment media network in Asia. Its iCabTV platform is Singapore’s premier in-taxi digital infotainment network, consisting of high-quality touch-enabled LCD displays with GPS mounted inside the passenger compartments of Comfort and CityCab taxis. UzoneMedia’s iCabTV network is truly a digital OOH media that is captive, interactive, and measurable.



Jim Chuang, President and CEO of UzoneMedia said: “Our partnership with DC2Go resembles our commitment to enhance and deliver richer media contents to our iCabTV viewers as well as provide great media value for our advertisers.”



To celebrate the launch, UzoneMedia and Cellcity are bundling advertising rates offering any businesses in Singapore the most affordable advertising rates in the industry.



There’s never been a more affordable way to reach over 2 million readers each month.



Using the DC2Go service advertising can run promotions and enable customers to download coupons directly to their phone. The perfect way to extend your brand and reach out to customers across a variety of digital media.



With this partnership, DC2Go extends its service portfolio from the hotel IPTVs to a mobile phone WAP application, in-flight system, website, and now iCabTV inside taxis.



Users can download DC2Go for FREE at www.dc2go.net or from the mobi site at http://dc2go.mobi



Those wanting to advertise with DC2Go should call Rajat Bhadani at 96550157 or Dominic Hennessey at 90434531 or Ivan Khoo at 97108561 or email: sales@thecellcity.com.



Those wanting to advertise with UzoneMedia should call +65 67411989 or email:advertisers@uzonemedia.com.



DC2Go Pricing information: The applications and services provided by DC2Go are free to the user. Recommended listings are free to the merchants. Promotional coupons for phones and website banners listing for the hotels and taxi portals are priced from $150 per month. Volume discounts for retail chains and multiple outlets apply.


For more information on prospective platforms please visit www.dc2go.net and www.uzonemedia.com.



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About the Companies:

UzoneMedia is a privately held corporation founded in 2006 and is the leading operator of the largest and most effective mobile infotainment media network in Asia dedicated to out-of-home advertising. Currently we are deploying thousands of touch-enabled digital infotainment systems into major taxi fleets in Singapore. Our digital infotainment media platform- iCabTV is Intelligent, Interactive, and Interlinked via high-speed 3.5G wireless network enabling advertisers to reach new, captive, and high-spending audiences efficiently and effectively.



Cellcity is a digital publishing and visionary software company. We are passionately focused on providing digital solutions for Internet and mobile platforms. The Cellcity platform enables content and service providers to deliver their solutions seamlessly to any digital or mobile platform. Others call it the age of convergence. We call it fun. Cellcity provides the platform and service infrastructure, the content, aggregation of 3rd party content, ad serving and an aggregated ad serving capability both for in house publications and for 3rd party publishers who want to take their traditional publishing services to digital and mobile platforms.






For more information, please contact:

William Hang

VP Marketing & Business Development

UZoneMedia Pte Ltd

DID: 6741-1989 x201

Email: william@uzonemedia.com






Exclusively on iCabTV: GLEN GOEI’S NEW FEATURE FILM THE BLUE MANSION

July 9th 2009


Singapore, 9 July 2009 – Golden Village Pictures is proud to be the Singapore distributor for Glen Goei’s new movie THE BLUE MANSION. The film opens 22 October 2009. THE BLUE MANSION is a quirky murder mystery about a wealthy tycoon who dies under mysterious circumstances. He returns as a ghost to try to uncover the secret of his death with the help of his family and the police. The stellar Singaporean/Malaysian cast includes award-winning theatre actresses Tan Kheng Hua, Neo Swee Lin and Pamela Oei as well as Malaysia's leading dramatists Huzir Sulaiman, Patrick Teoh and Claire Wong. The movie also stars Adrian Pang, Sebastian Tan, Lim Kay Siu and Emma Yong. Fans will remember Adrian Pang, Lim Kay Siu and Pamela Oei in Glen Goei's breakthrough debut film, Forever Fever (1998).


Members of the press had the opportunity to catch the trailer of THE BLUE MANSION at a press screening on 3 July. The trailer will debut exclusively on iCabTV on 9 July; it will also be showing in cinemas and made available to view on the official website www.thebluemansionmovie.com on the same day. iCabTV is a mobile interactive network of screens located inside taxi vehicles. More information on the film will be made available closer to release. Your coverage on this press release is greatly appreciated.


For more information on the iCabTV platform please visit www.uzonemedia.com.



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About the Companies:

UzoneMedia is a privately held corporation founded in 2006 and is the leading operator of the largest and most effective mobile infotainment media network in Asia dedicated to out-of-home advertising. Currently we are deploying thousands of touch-enabled digital infotainment systems into major taxi fleets in Singapore. Our digital infotainment media platform- iCabTV is Intelligent, Interactive, and Interlinked via high-speed 3.5G wireless network enabling advertisers to reach new, captive, and high-spending audiences efficiently and effectively.



For more information, please contact:

William Hang

VP Marketing & Business Development

UZoneMedia Pte Ltd

DID: 6741-1989 x201

Email: william@uzonemedia.com






UzoneMedia’s iCabTV named the Official Outdoor Media for Singapore Food Festival 2009

July 10th 2009


Singapore, July 10th 2009 – UzoneMedia Pte Ltd. today announced that it’s Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) platform iCabTVTM was appointed the Official Outdoor Media for the prestige Singapore Food Festival 2009 event co-organized by the Singapore Tourism Board and SPOC Solutions Pte Ltd. Set for launch between July 17th through July 26th, the Singapore Food Festival will be held at the famous Clarke Quay along the beautiful Singapore River. This year for the very first time, there will be a Peranakan Parade where more than two hundred Peranakans, elaborately dressed in traditional gear, will ronggeng and joget down the Singapore River in celebration for the commencement of the Singapore Food Festival 2009. “We are honoured to be selected by the organisers as the Official Outdoor Media for a prestige event such as The Singapore Food Festival,” said Jim Chuang, CEO for UzoneMedia. “Positioned inside 1,000+ ComforDelGro taxis, our iCabTV digital infotainment platform is perfect for driving the awareness and promotional activities for the event to reach out to the masses, especially the tenth of thousands of tourists who will be traveling in taxis during the event period.”



“We chose to work with iCabTV because their media network is fresh and innovative and it reaches a great mix of the young, professional, and upscale demographic groups that the Singapore Food Festival is targeted to,” commented Mr. Luke Lee, Singapore Food Festival 2009 Co-organiser, SPOC Solutions Pte Ltd , “The Singapore Food Festival 2009 is specially tailored to attract both locals and tourists. We're confident that iCabTV is the ideal platform to reach out to our target audience with maximum reach and effectiveness.” iCabTV will be announced as the Official Outdoor Media for Singapore Food Festival 2009 during the media conference on July 10th 2009 at the Swissotel Merchant Court Hotel.



For more information on the iCabTV platforms please visit www.uzonemedia.com.



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About the Company:

UzoneMedia is a privately held corporation founded in 2006 and is the leading operator of the largest and most effective mobile infotainment media network in Asia dedicated to out-of-home advertising. Currently we are deploying thousands of touch-enabled digital infotainment systems into major taxi fleets in Singapore. Our digital infotainment media platform- iCabTV is Intelligent, Interactive, and Interlinked via high-speed 3.5G wireless network enabling advertisers to reach new, captive, and high-spending audiences efficiently and effectively.





For more information, please contact:

William Hang

VP Marketing & Business Development

UZoneMedia Pte Ltd

DID: 6741-1989 x201

Email: william@uzonemedia.com


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