Artificial Life: D2C

Via MocoNews, from Chron.com:

"The new portal will be launched in March 2006. The new m-commerce portal will offer a great variety of proprietary and popular Artificial Life mobile games and content (such as game related wallpapers, screensaver, ring-tones, true-tones, video mails, etc.). Customers can purchase all content and games directly from the website and download the games and content to their phones independent of their location or mobile operator.

"The launch of our new m-commerce portal is a big step forward for us. It will provide us with a new global sales channel directly to end users and an additional revenue stream. It will also make us more independent of the mobile operators and therefore will further strengthen our position in many of the global mobile markets," said Eberhard Schoeneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc."

Artifical Life makes several products including V-Girl, virtual girlfriend.