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SAN DIEGO－March 23, 2009－YAPPA Corporation, a leading company in user interface design, today announced at the Game Developer’s Conference being held in San Francisco (http://www.gdconf.com) it has developed and delivered the user interface (UI) for the Zeebo wireless entertainment platform, a new consumer electronics product that will soon be available to customers in Brazil.

YAPPA provided the user interface design and experience for the platform with design elements including menus, icons, music, sounds and other graphical features.  The user-friendly UI design is powered by YAPPA’s flagship product, SpinUI, a light, portable software library enabling a variety of graphically rich and visually-stimulating set of effects and animations for intuitive and attractive menus and seamless screen transitioning.



“We are extremely excited and pleased to provide the UI design for the Zeebo platform,” said Masahiro Ito, CEO, YAPPA Corporation, Japan.  “This project is in line with our corporate strategy to aggressively go after foreign markets and move beyond mobile phones and across all consumer electronic devices with a screen.”

“The Zeebo system delivers a variety of localized, branded content via a quick and easy home shopping experience directly from their TV screen and the comfort of their living room,” said John Rizzo, CEO, Zeebo.  “We are focused on ensuring this experience is not only fun, but easy to use.  The UI is a critical piece of that experience and YAPPA is providing a compelling and user friendly solution for the Zeebo.”

The Zeebo system provides an affordable 3D game console for emerging global markets and will be marketed and distributed by TecToy S.A., a leading video game and consumer electronics maker in Sao Paulo.

About SpinUI

SpinUI is a light, portable effects library enabling a variety of graphical effects for creating rich user interfaces and applications on embedded platforms. SpinUI enables developers to create dynamic widgets, home screens, games, menu navigations and is designed for icon animation, seamless transitional effects, photo-browsing and other UI animation and graphics. For more information please visit http://www.spinui.com.

About YAPPA Corporation

YAPPA Corporation is a leading company in user interface technology and design. With years of experience in graphics technologies, YAPPA delivers easy-to-use, intuitive interfaces to enrich user experiences in the embedded industries. YAPPA also works closely with content providers to deliver digital content to mobile phones and other consumer electronic products. Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Overseas offices located in the U.S., France, and Israel. For more information, please visit http://www.yappa.co.jp

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About Zeebo
Zeebo is a privately held company based in San Diego, California, developing a new home entertainment offering aimed at entertainment and education for the next billion people.  For more information on Zeebo, please also see http://www.zeeboinc.com