Artificial Life, Inc. Announces the World's First Virtual 3G Disco; New Way to Deliver Music to Phones

Artificial Life, Inc. Announces the World's First Virtual 3G Disco; New Way to Deliver Music to Phones HONG KONG, Jan. 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hong Kong based Artificial Life, Inc. a leading provider of award winning mobile technology and applications today announced that it will release the world's first virtual disco for 3G phones as a new mobile product line. The 3G virtual disco is presented to the users as a 3-D animated virtual building with several floors representing different music clubs and styles of music according to the selection and tastes of the listeners. In the intro sequence the user can select an animated 3-D character (avatar) as his or her virtual persona and visit the different music rooms in the virtual disco. Music is offered for download or streaming in combination with high quality 3-D animation clips showing synchronized dancing avatars. Music formats supported are: MP3 and AAC, the video format supported are: MP4 and 3GPP. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is handled by Artificial Life's SEMP(TM) middleware which provisions media based on authenticated and authorized devices and users. The new product line is scheduled for release in April, 2005. A first showcase of the 3G disco will be presented at the 3GSM conference in Cannes, France at the SUN(R) Microsystems booth: Cannes, Palais des Festival et des Congres, Exhibition Hall 1, Booth 6, Station 4: Java Platform for Rich Mobile Data Services. ''We are very excited about this new product line. The virtual disco is a spin-off from our V-girl product. We are using the same high quality graphic elements and avatars and combine them with sound clips and songs of different genres for the 3G phones. This is a very new and innovative way to sell and deliver music downloads and streams to end users with 3G phones,'' said E.Schoneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc. About Artificial Life, Inc. Artificial Life, Inc. ( http://www.artificial-life.com/ ) is a public US corporation headquartered in Hong Kong and a leading global provider of award winning mobile computing technology, content and applications. See also: http://www.v-girl.com/ and http://www.botme.com/ . ''Safe Harbor'' Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Artificial Life, Inc.'s business which are not historical facts are ''forward-looking statements'' that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the "Risk Factors" described in the Company's Annual Report or Forms 10-K, 10-K(SB) or 10-Q(SB) for the recent fiscal years. All information set forth in this press release is as of January 27, 2005 and Artificial Life, Inc. undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law. Contact: CEO E. Schoeneburg, Tel: +852-3102-2800 Email: es@artificial-life.com Website: http://www.artificial-life.com http://www.v-girl.com http://www.botme.com Source: Artificial Life, Inc. CONTACT: E. Schoeneburg of Artificial Life, Inc., +852-3102-2800 or, es@artificial-life.com ------- Profile: International Entertainment