Shazam Entertainment Chooses Redbus Interhouse to House Mobile Music

June 28, 2005; 04:25 AM

London, 27 June, 2005 - Redbus Interhouse (UK) Ltd, the UK division of Europe's most advanced, independent colocation and managed services provider, today announced that it has signed a major contract with Shazam Entertainment Ltd, the UK-based pioneering audio technology company.  Under the terms of the agreement, Redbus Interhouse will house Shazam's hosted service platform and its music information database, Europe's largest, with over 2.6 million music tracks, metadata and cover art.  Shazam's equipment will be housed within an interSuite, a dedicated private and secure caged area built to Shazam's own specifications in one of Redbus Interhouse's five star facilities in London's Docklands.

Shazam's music recognition software enables users to identify the title, artist and album of music playing from an external source with any mobile 'phone.  Users 'tag' the music by pointing the phone at the music source and dialling a short code and once the music 'tag' is matched to information stored in the Shazam database, the user receives an SMS 'tag' within seconds, giving details of title and artist.  Users can save identification results for future reference and depending on network, subscription and service provider features, they may use the information to purchase ringtones, CDs and downloads via their mobile handset.

Shazam selected Redbus Interhouse for the quality and resiliency of its colocation facilities, combined with 24/7 technical support and the excellent scalability on offer, which ensures that Shazam can continue to grow at the pace it has achieved to date - more than 3 million users and 10 million calls to the service have been made since the company's launch in August 2002.

Tony Miller, Technical Operations Manager, Shazam Entertainment Ltd. commented, "Our customers want access, to our service any time, any where, so it's vital that our servers are always available and that there are no bottlenecks to reduce the speed of our service. Having evaluated the options, we felt that the environment and services Redbus Interhouse offer are second to none and will satisfy not only our existing needs, but also the future demands of the company on its current growth curve."

Simon Neal, UK Country Manager, Redbus Interhouse, said, "Growth in online business of the magnitude that Shazam has achieved often brings with it issues of scalability and availability in ensuring that the company maintains the service levels its customers expect. Redbus Interhouse's infrastructure, with our multiple levels of 24/7 security, stable high-capacity power supplies, fire protection, in-house support and environmental controls, has been specifically created to deal with such issues, so we're confident that we can support Shazam in its growth, at
whatever level it continues."

About Redbus Interhouse
Redbus Interhouse (www.interhouse.net) is Europe's most advanced independent
colocation company.  For business-critical online, data or telecom applications, Redbus Interhouse offers versatile, cost-effective and secure housing facilities backed-up by state-of-the-art infrastructure and 24/7 engineering and facilities support. Redbus Interhouse offers business resilience services within its own independent colocation facilities in Europe's key business centres allowing its customers to rapidly access markets across Europe without losing focus on their core businesses.  The enterprise has data centres in London, Paris, Milan, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.  Its independence gives customer's freedom of choice from a wide range of telecommunication providers, Internet Service Providers and Content Providers. Its continued sales success combined with a strong balance sheet, means that Redbus Interhouse enjoys a leading position in this marketplace.
In June 04, Redbus Interhouse plc demonstrated its high level of competence
in information security management by having the first collocation independent data centre in Europe to be awarded with the BS7799 accreditation, the ultimate benchmark for information security. 

Shazam Entertainment Ltd
Shazam Entertainment has developed a breakthrough real-time song identification service for mobile phone users. The service is based on a patent-pending technology in audio pattern recognition. Shazam Entertainment´s technology is able to match a noisy audio sample captured on a mobile phone against a database of over a million tracks in less than one second. All we need is 30 seconds of sound. The search works even with background noise such as people talking or street noise, as long as the music is dominant.

Shazam offers its service to mobile operators, enabling them to drive premium service revenues with a killer music application.

Shazam's service works on any mobile phone without any upgrade to the handset or network. Shazam Entertainment can also provide business-to-business services such as monitoring music and advertising on radio and television, ensuring that artists are paid royalties for public performances of their music.

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