Humanitarian Effort Sidelined for the Holidays and Beyond by Challenge from Apple Inc.

    SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19 /CNW/ - A humanitarian effort to fight world
hunger, protect endangered species and counter global warming has been
sidelined for the holidays - and beyond - because of a legal challenge filed
by Apple Inc.
    The online game Glupod had been scheduled to debut November 29 - in time
for the Christmas season. Instead, Glupod has been put on hold indefinitely
because of Apple's claim that the use of "pod" in the game's name violates a
number of Apple trademark registrations.
    In development for more than two years, Glupod is the first online video
game that would allow players to turn in-game winnings into food for starving
people in developing countries, help for endangered species and to help global
warming.
    "We're extremely disappointed Apple has chosen to take such a hard-line
attitude against an effort that has the potential to do so much good," said
Ioannis Tsiokos, managing director of Something Inc., the company that
developed Glupod. "No one's going to confuse Glupod with an iPod."
    Tsiokos and a small band of colleagues at Something, Inc. who work online
from Greece, India, the United States and the United Kingdom have collaborated
to get Glupod ready for launch. The game would fight poverty and help
environmental causes in the real world by turning game prizes into real-life
help for social and environmental causes.

    About Something Inc.

    Something Inc was founded on January 20, 2006, on the Caribbean island of
Nevis. Today, it is a small company dedicated to making a big difference. Its
main development office is in India, while employees also work from Greece,
the United States and the United Kingdom. For more information or to request
press material, contact Ioannis Tsiokos or visit http://www.glupod.com. To see
a video showing how Glupod works, go to http://youtube.com/glupod or view the
multimedia news release on http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/glupod/31886/.

For further information: Ioannis Tsiokos, Managing Director, Something
Inc., Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone], http://www.glupod.com