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KDDI Launches Gracenote Discover in Its LISMO Music Search



    Gracenote(R), a global leader in technology and services that are
    an integral part of the digital media economy, today announced that
    KDDI Corporation, Japan's most advanced mobile service provider, has
    launched Gracenote Discover(TM) to help users explore for music within
    the mobile handset environment. KDDI will offer Discover through its
    new LISMO Music Search service, which ships with most of its new
    handsets that are released starting this month. The first KDDI
    handsets with Discover were released this week.

    "We chose Gracenote's Discover because of the flexibility and easy
    integration within our LISMO platform," said Tatsu Yagi, media
    business department, media soft section manager, KDDI. "Gracenote's
    integrated solution and unique approach to music discovery simply
    offers the best way for consumers to uncover a deep catalogue of new
    music using either a mobile phone interface."

    "Without a doubt, Gracenote's Discover function has opened a new
    door for our unprecedented network-optimized mobile music service. A
    main goal for both Media Socket and KDDI was to create more
    opportunities to connect people with music, and Discover allows us to
    do that in a revolutionary way," said Kuni Kawashima, media business
    team leader, Media Socket, the company that developed the service
    application for KDDI. "We are looking forward to working with
    Gracenote in the future as we both continue to enrich the Japanese
    mobile music market."

    "We are excited to deploy Gracenote Discover through KDDI as we
    can now offer users of their handsets a whole new world of new music
    and extremely precise and reliable ways to explore for this music,
    while at the same time, providing new revenue opportunities for KDDI,"
    said Jim Hollingsworth, Gracenote SVP of sales and marketing."

    Powered by Gracenote's Media Database, the world's largest
    database of music information accessed by more than 200 million people
    annually, Discover is the only solution that optimally combines the
    best of the three most powerful methods of generating music
    recommendations: starting with music expert editorial, and to be
    followed soon by audio attributes derived from digital signal
    processing (DSP) such as tempo, mood, and instrumentation, and
    community-based preferences. In conjunction with Gracenote
    MusicID(TM), the world's most advanced music identification service, a
    customer can build a personal taste profile to drive recommendations
    based on a full picture of a consumer's preferences - not just recent
    purchase history from a single store.

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    About Gracenote

    Gracenote is a global leader in embedded technology, enriched
    content, and data services for digital entertainment solutions within
    the Internet, consumer electronics, mobile, and automotive markets.
    Formerly known as CDDB(R), Gracenote delivers a substantially improved
    consumer experience in digital media devices and applications, plus
    media monitoring and other data services to the recording industry,
    making it an integral part of the digital media economy. Gracenote
    powers leading services including Apple iTunes, Yahoo! Music Jukebox,
    AOL Winamp; home and automotive products from Alpine, Panasonic,
    Philips and Sony; and mobile music applications from Samsung, Sony
    Ericsson, KDDI (Japan), KTF (Korea), Musiwave (Europe), and others.
    Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Gracenote has offices in New
    York, Tokyo, Berlin and Seoul. For more information about Gracenote,
    please refer to www.gracenote.com/corporate/.

    Gracenote and CDDB are registered trademarks of Gracenote, Inc.