YubiKey Integrates With VeriSign® Identity Protection Authentication Service From Symantec to Strengthen Secure Online Login Options
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Yubico, a leading provider of easy and secure login solutions, today announced that its YubiKey USB authentication key is now available as one of the strong authentication methods in Symantec's VeriSign® Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service.
The VIP Authentication Service is the leading cloud-based authentication service that enables enterprises to secure online access and transactions to help obtain compliance and reduce fraud risk. A fully hosted strong authentication Security as a Service (SaaS) solution, VIP offers a cost-effective way to give legitimate users access to business resources, enterprise applications and online websites while protecting against identity thieves and cyber criminals. The service supports a range of OATH-compliant One Time Password (OTP) methods, including mobile phone apps, display tokens - and most recently YubiKeys.
The YubiKey simplifies the process of logging in with a One Time Password token as it does not require the user to re-type OTPs from a display device into the login field of the computer. The YubiKey is inserted in the USB-port of any computer and the OTP is generated and automatically entered with a simple touch of a button on the YubiKey, and without the need of any client software or drivers. The ruggedized, ultra-thin, battery-free, crush safe and waterproof design has also been fundamental to the success of the YubiKey, currently used by over 10,000 customers globally.
"By integrating the VIP Authentication Service into the YubiKey, Yubico can now provide its customers with increased levels of security at the touch of a button," said Kerry Loftus, senior director of product management for User Authentication at Symantec.
"We are glad that a growing number of VIP users and customers can now enjoy the YubiKey, with its ease of use and minimal size," said Stina Ehrensvard, CEO & founder of Yubico.
VIP enabled YubiKeys may now be ordered from the Yubico Web store and may be used on all VIP compliant services, including the free Symantec(TM) Personal Identity Portal. To get a VIP enabled YubiKey, go to: http://yubico.com/VIP.
About Yubico
Yubico's core product is the YubiKey®, a unique USB-key for instant and strong authentication to networks and services. For more information, please visit http://www.yubico.com.
SOURCE Yubico
Yubico
CONTACT: Heidi Rosenberg of Nadel Phelan, Inc., +1-831-440-2405, heidi@nadelphelan.com, for Yubico
BOLT Mobile Browser Electrified With New Features Showcased at Mobile World Congress 2011
On the second anniversary of its debut, BOLT 2.5 adds Facebook video support, increased HTML 5 compliance and geolocation support
BARCELONA, Spain and MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq: BITS), creators of the award winning BOLT(TM) mobile browser, announced today the release of BOLT 2.5, with new features sure to please the more than 18 million users who have already downloaded the popular app and OEMs who have made BOLT the default browser on their handsets. BOLT 2.5 brings Facebook video support, new sharing capabilities and a host of user interface enhancements to the popular mobile browser, making BOLT's browsing experience even more enjoyable and easier to navigate on mobile phones of all types. OEMs globally will appreciate BOLT 2.5's WebKit-based cloud computing infrastructure that integrates easily with carriers' billing and OSS systems, and significantly reduces infrastructure costs with its best-in-class data compression.
Bitstream is showcasing its mobile browsing technologies, including the BOLT mobile browser and the BOLT SDK, in booth 2D23 at Mobile World Congress 2011 global conference and exposition held this week in Barcelona, February 14 to 17. To arrange a meeting with Bitstream at the show, contact boltsales@bitstream.com.
"Exactly 24 months ago we released BOLT to the public to show the mobile industry that every mobile phone has the potential to be a powerful and utilitarian Internet device," said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. "Today handset manufacturers and wireless operators around the world are preloading BOLT as the default browser on their mobile phones in an effort to deliver the best possible mobile Internet experience to their customers and subscribers. BOLT's progression over the past 2 years not only validates Bitstream's objective to engineer a best-in-class cloud computing browser that enables any type of handset, even entry level devices, to deliver a powerful Internet experience that far exceeds any phone's native browsing and resource potential, but also illustrates our success in offering OEMs a mobile browser with a WebKit based cloud computing infrastructure that is easy to integrate and significantly reduces cost."
World's Most Fully Featured Mobile Browser, Gets Even Better
BOLT has earned a reputation as the most fully featured mobile browser available, and with the 2.5 release BOLT enhances its already robust mobile browsing capabilities:
-- Geolocation Support - BOLT 2.5's geolocation feature allows a user with
a GPS enabled device to pass latitude and longitude information to
location enabled websites through the browser.
-- Facebook Videos Support - BOLT, which offers the broadest support for
streaming video in a mobile browser, now supports Facebook videos in
addition to its support for the most popular Flash based video sites and
all HTML5 video sites.
-- Widget Availability on Home page - BOLT widgets are now available on the
BOLT browser home page making it easier for people using any type of
mobile phone to take part in the mobile app revolution. BOLT 2.5's
widget gallery includes weather, Wikipedia, and dictionary widgets,
along with a Twitter widget and a Facebook widget.
-- New Advanced Desktop Features - Along with the ability to perfectly
render Web pages as they were meant to be seen from a PC, BOLT also
offers easily switchable tabbed browsing, password manager, advanced
inline text entry and editing, and now copy and paste improvements and a
better address and search dialog on all pages.
-- Download manager upgrades - BOLT 2.5 also features an improved download
manager, allowing users to maintain download history even after exiting
the browser and resume last download after browser re-launch.
-- Polished User Interface - BOLT 2.5 includes many improvements to the
design and layout of the browser including changes to the masthead,
improvements to favorites, history and feeds selection, character entry
enhancements, clickable icons, improved menu structure and displaying of
RSS lists.
Webkit 5 Enhances BOLT's HTML5 Compliance
Already the only WebKit-based cloud computing browser, the 2.5 release of BOLT is upgraded to Webkit 5, giving it the best HTML5 compliance of any browser in its class. Some of the largest online content providers and Web technology companies such as Google and Apple are embracing the use of the HTML5 standard, eliminating the need for third party add-ons, plug-ins and separate media players that have created obstacles for viewing and listening to streaming media via the mobile Web. BOLT's increased compliance with HTML5 allows handset manufacturers and mobile network operators to offer streaming media on the growing number of website designed for new mobile computing platforms such as the Apple iPad and Google Android tablets on the widest range of mobile devices.
Licensed by handset manufacturers and wireless operators around the world, the BOLT mobile browser delivers PC-style browsing with advanced features such as tabbed browsing, streaming audio and video, and integrated social networking in a relatively small application that is also the industry's most feature rich mobile browser. BOLT is available for Java ME, BREW and BlackBerry devices and has already been installed on thousands of different handset models. BOLT's WebKit based cloud computing infrastructure integrates easily with carriers' billing and OSS systems, and significantly reduces infrastructure costs with its best-in-class data compression. The BOLT SDK allows any service provider the ability to create custom Web-enabled applications that run on the widest possible number of mobile phones. Wireless operators, handset OEMs and service providers should contact boltsales@bitstream.com to learn more about BOLT.
About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream's award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company's MyFonts brand is the world's leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream's Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company's latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit http://www.bitstream.com.
Ruckus Wireless Unveils Smart Mobile Wi-Fi Portfolio Enabling Operators to Strategically Integrate 802.11 with Cellular Networks
BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- Extensive Radio, Backhaul and Core Gateway Technologies Help Operators
Deliver Higher Traffic Density at a Lower Total Cost of Ownership While
Paving the Way for 4G Heterogeneous Networks
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- Ruckus Wireless(TM)
(http://www.ruckuswireless.com/) today unveiled a comprehensive product and
technology roadmap, including a new category of mobile Wi-Fi gateways, aimed
at helping mobile operators cleanly integrate carrier-purposed Smart Wi-Fi
(http://www.ruckuswireless.com/carriers) technology into 3G and 4G cellular
infrastructures.
With these new Ruckus products and technologies, mobile operators will
now be able to deliver Wi-Fi services more economically by leveraging their
existing mobile core networks to realize immediate capacity relief and
enhance the subscriber experience - giving them a head start in the broadband
race to create a next generation heterogeneous network footprint.
"What the Internet did to transform how we access content and services,
the mobile Internet is now doing to liberate when and where we can get
access," said Selina Lo
(http://www.ruckuswireless.com/company/management/selina-lo), president and
CEO of Ruckus Wireless. "Wi-Fi is becoming an integral part of the mobile
network fabric that enables this revolution. Its role in the mobile Internet
ecosystem will endure as long as the appetite for access continues unabated,
even with LTE becoming a reality," said Lo.
With Wi-Fi embedded in virtually every mobile Internet device, common
hotspot services have quickly become a required offering among competitive
carriers. Wi-Fi hotspots (http://www.ruckuswireless.com/carriers/3g-offload)
are also a quick and cost-effective way for mobile operators to inject
wireless capacity in areas of high usage, thereby alleviating the pressures
on 3G (http://www.ruckuswireless.com/carriers/3g-offload) infrastructures
caused by the explosion of mobile Internet data traffic.
However, the lack of integration between Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular
networks is hampering operators from delivering a seamless and consistent
subscriber experience to the exploding population of smartphone and tablet
users. Having to maintain separate management and back-end systems over the
long term increases operational overhead and limits operators' flexibility in
creating new services.
"Ruckus has again innovated new products and technologies that not only
streamline Wi-Fi deployment and operations for carriers but will ultimately
make it easy for mobile users to move from Wi-Fi to cellular and back without
fumbling with network selection and passwords, losing sessions or having to
be aware of which wireless technology their devices are using," said Lo. The
Ruckus Mobile Wi-Fi portfolio features a new Wireless Services Gateway (WSG),
the industry's first mobile Wi-Fi gateway that acts as a central point of
control for Smart Wi-Fi access points while enabling seamless service
integration with the mobile core. Ruckus has also extended its patented
BeamFlex smart antenna and Smart Mesh
(http://www.ruckuswireless.com/technology/smartmesh) backhaul
(http://www.ruckuswireless.com/carriers/backhaul) technologies to enable
broad deployment of multi-access, small cell base stations in the future. The
Ruckus Mobile Wi-Fi solution is the ideal foundation for operators looking
to:
- increase the reliability of unlicensed spectrum Wi-Fi services;
- add coverage and capacity at the lowest possible cost;
- integrate Wi-Fi with cellular core services over standard 3GPP
interfaces;
- simplify the subscriber experience with auto-provisioning of Wi-Fi
client devices;
- leverage Smart Wi-Fi to supply cost effective backhaul for future
microcell services; and
- enable transparent roaming between Wi-Fi and 3G/4G networks in the
future.
Introducing the Ruckus Wireless Services Gateway for Seamless Cellular
Integration
The new Ruckus WSG is the industry's first Mobile Wi-Fi gateway combining
3GPP WLAN access gateway (WAG) functions and advanced WLAN controller
capabilities on a scalable, carrier-purposed platform.
Situated between the Wi-Fi network and the mobile core, the Ruckus WSG
interfaces with core AAA systems for client authentication and policy
setting. Supporting a variety of client authentication methods including
802.1x EAP-SIM/AKA, MAC address, and WISPr-based captive portal, the WSG
enables a myriad of hotspot business models such as free, usage-based,
ad-based, premium and wholesale services.
The WSG also enables seamless mobility across Wi-Fi APs for both
SIM-based and non-SIM devices by keeping a local mobility cache, obviating
the need to burden expensive core resources with every Wi-Fi mobility event.
This is crucial as mobility events may occur within small cell topologies
much more frequently than current core systems, designed for macro cellular
networks, are able to handle.
Patented automatic client provisioning technology on the WSG allows
popular client devices to be automatically configured for access upon service
activation. Subscribers no longer need to sign on explicitly every time they
access hotspot services. This further enhances the experience of the user
while maximizing traffic offload for the operator. Giving operators maximum
architecture flexibility, the Ruckus WSG supports the following traffic
forwarding options:
- local breakout at the AP to offload the entire Wi-Fi data path from the
WSG;
- secure tunnel from the AP to the WSG with local breakout at the WSG, to
offload Wi-Fi traffic from the backhaul and the core network; and/or
- various tunneling options to direct traffic from the WSG to forwarding
gateways in the mobile core.
The Ruckus WSG also incorporates advanced WLAN controller services
critical for the deployment and optimization of large-scale Wi-Fi networks.
Smart Mesh management provides auto-formation, auto-optimization and
auto-healing of mesh topologies allowing operators to install APs at
locations where wired backhaul isn't available. Dynamic RF management on the
WSG continuously optimizes power and channel settings across downstream APs
to mitigate interference and maximize overall network capacity. In
high-density locations, automatic load balancing of clients across adjacent
APs increases network performance and enhances user experience.
Integrating a carrier-grade Wi-Fi element management system (EMS), the
WSG is capable of managing tens of thousands of Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi APs and
hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi clients. The advanced EMS provides tools for
AP auto-discovery and provisioning, capacity planning and management, SLA
visibility, advanced Wi-Fi troubleshooting, and trending reports and
customized graphs. It also provides an API for integration with existing
carrier NMS/OSS systems.
Built on a distributed architecture, Ruckus WSGs can be clustered to
provide unmatched linear scalability and resiliency. Available in the second
half of 2011, the Ruckus WSG can process up to 20Gbps of throughput per 2U of
rack space and manage up to 10,000 Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi access points.
Reliable Wi-Fi Coverage Now, Add Small Cellular Radios Where and When
Needed
The demand for capacity and speed is driving mobile operators towards a
heterogeneous network strategy - augmenting macro cellular networks with many
smaller radios in high-density locations. While the technologies for
large-scale heterogeneous networks are still in development, operators can
now put in motion a deployment process with Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi.
One of the practical challenges in small cell deployments is site
acquisition, a costly and time-consuming process, and literally a
battleground for land grab. By deploying Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi APs today,
operators can quickly establish their small cell site footprint. Future radio
deployments can make use of the same mounting positions, leasing arrangement,
power and backhaul systems already in place.
The Ruckus Mobile Wi-Fi portfolio brings together the complete collection
of indoor and outdoor Ruckus ZoneFlex(TM) APs that can be fully managed by
the Ruckus WSG. All ZoneFlex APs are equipped with patented BeamFlex smart
antenna technology for automatic interference avoidance, critical in assuring
performance, range and reliability in unlicensed spectrum operations.
ZoneFlex outdoor access points are delivered in form factors that are
aesthetically suitable for street-level deployment and packaged for single
pole-climber installation.
Cost Effective Backhaul for Small Cells with Smart Meshing
A missing piece of the puzzle in realizing massive outdoor small cell
implementations is the backhaul. Fiber may not be readily available at all
the small cell sites. Microwave backhaul requires line-of-sight which cannot
be guaranteed at the street level. Other backhaul methods, such as WiMAX and
proprietary wireless, can add significant CAPEX and OPEX when deployed on a
large scale. And self-backhaul, using already scarce licensed spectrum
resources, will impact access performance.
Ruckus Smart Mesh offers cost advantages and deployment flexibility that
are unmatched by other backhaul alternatives. While it defies conventional
wisdom to use inherently unreliable Wi-Fi technology for a part of the
network that must be ultra reliable, Ruckus Smart Mesh is unlike any other
conventional Wi-Fi backhaul technology, leveraging the following innovations
to increase diversity and maximize resilience:
- advanced BeamFlex smart antenna technology that enables each
radio to autonomously steer Wi-Fi signals away from interference and
physical obstructions to achieve the highest possible data rate while
preventing packet loss;
- intelligent Smart Channels technology that allows the APs on a
mesh link to continually monitor and fast-switch to the channel with
the highest capacity in real time to maximize throughput; and
- an adaptive Smart Mesh topology system that self-organizes,
self-optimizes and self-heals to maximize system-level resilience and
network performance without manual antenna aiming and topology tuning.
Already proven in many carrier Wi-Fi deployments across the globe, Smart
Mesh is a basic feature on all Ruckus ZoneFlex indoor and outdoor APs. A
software upgrade to add support for cellular backhaul services will be
available in the second half of 2011.
Media Contacts
David Callisch
Ruckus Wireless
david@ruckuswireless.com
+1-408-504-5487
Source: Ruckus Wireless
David Callisch, david@ruckuswireless.com, +1-408-504-5487
ALK Technologies Announces CoPilot Live 9 Mobile Navigation Platform
BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- Next generation GPS navigation apps for smartphones and tablets will
feature an interactive user interface, cutting-edge routing technology and
seamless access to hyperlocal online content
Mobile World Congress -- ALK Technologies, one of the world's leading
providers of mobile navigation solutions, today announced CoPilot(R) Live(TM)
9, the company's next generation GPS navigation platform for smartphones and
tablet devices.
Featuring an all-new interactive user interface, cutting-edge routing
technology and seamless access to useful local online content, CoPilot Live 9
provides intuitive and precise GPS navigation in-car or on foot.
"CoPilot Live 9 combines sophisticated navigation technology with
breakthrough design simplicity" says Michael Kornhauser, Managing Director of
ALK Technologies. "It makes all the features you need available, when you
need them, to get you to your destination by the best possible route."
Key innovations available with the CoPilot Live 9 navigation platform
include:
Optimal Routes(TM): CoPilot Live 9 finds the best way to any destination
with a choice of up to 3 routes including journey time and mileage details.
It's easy to manipulate your route by simply dragging the route or a
destination flag to a preferred street or location.
Intuitive and Interactive User Interface: CoPilot Live 9 puts advanced
navigation features right at your finger tips. You can tap anywhere on any
map within the app to navigate there, discover more information or share it
with friends. Context-sensitive menus provide access to the features you
need, when you need them.
Enhanced Live Services: CoPilot Live 9 combines the reliability of
on-board maps, stored locally on the mobile, with seamless access to useful
real-time online content. ActiveTraffic(TM) uses live traffic flow
information to intelligently calculate the fastest route available and
automatically avoid delays. Fully integrated Bing(TM) local internet search
makes it easy to find all the nearby businesses and services you need.
Social navigation: CoPilot Live 9 makes it easy to share journey details
with friends through Facebook Places check-ins and in-app Twitter updates. It
can also provide access to location-specific information from Wikipedia and
NAVTEQ LocationPoint(TM) hyperlocal retailer offers.
Superior guidance: On the road, CoPilot Live 9's sleek dashboard-style
map display provides clear, non-distracting directions. There's a choice of
3D, 2D and Directions-only guidance views, while Lane Assist arrows and
realistic ClearTurn(TM) display make navigating complex junctions effortless.
An all-new walking mode makes it easy to find the way around a city on-foot.
Additional features
- Park my Car: to save the exact location of your car and
easily find it later
- Trip Statistics: an in-app view of mileage, fuel consumption
and other useful information about your previous journeys
- Door to door trip planning: Enter up to 50 stops and
optimise the itinerary
- Photo Navigation: drive to a geotagged picture taken by your
smartphone
- Copy/paste a destination into the address entry screen
- Enhanced map features with clearly labelled parks, rivers
and lakes as well as country-specific road colours
- Detour feature: immediately find the best way around
unexpected delay
- Millions of points of interest (POI) pre-loaded
- Live Weather information
- Live Fuel Prices (premium option)
- In-app news and updates to keep you informed about
improvements
- Hints and tips: Context sensitive help is available
throughout the app
Availability
Visitors to Mobile World Congress 2011 can experience CoPilot Live 9
running on a variety of Android smartphones, tablets and iOS devices at App
Planet in Hall 7, Stand 7C80
GPS Navigation apps based on CoPilot Live 9 platform will be available in
Q2 2011 through Android Market and iTunes App Store.
The CoPilot Live 9 navigation platform is also available as a white label
solution that allows brands to launch fully-customised GPS navigation apps.
ALK Technologies has been developing innovative mobile navigation and
transportation technology solutions since 1979. ALK's award-winning
CoPilot(R) Live(TM) GPS navigation apps are among the most award-winning in
the industry and among the best-selling on app stores worldwide including
iTunes and Android Market. CoPilot Live is the navigation platform of choice
for mobile operators, hardware OEMs and enterprise systems integrators
globally.
A new app designed to offer a major productivity boost to typing on
tablet devices, SwiftKey Tablet(TM), will be on show at the Android(TM) stand
at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
The app, created by the award-winning team at TouchType, was designed to
coincide with the launch of the world's first Android Honeycomb tablet, the
Motorola Xoom(TM). It solves the challenge of typing on a tablet by offering
intelligent next-word predictions that are personalized to your writing
style.
TouchType CEO Jon Reynolds said, "We're really excited about giving the
mobile industry a glimpse of this groundbreaking new way to type on Android
Honeycomb devices at MWC. Tablets are really exploding this year and we see
Honeycomb at the core of this incredible growth."
The app is powered by TouchType's patent-pending Fluency(TM) 2.0
Prediction Engine, which uses Artificial Intelligence techniques such as
machine learning to offer an unparalleled, personal text entry experience. It
also employs a holographic thumb-optimized keyboard skin, designed
specifically for Honeycomb, which gels with the look and feel of the new
platform. This marriage of elegant design with incredible back-end power
gives users a novel, exciting and fast way to type on a tablet.
TouchType CTO, Dr Ben Medlock, said: "SwiftKey Tablet has all the power
of our next generation Fluency 2.0 prediction engine, integrated with a
completely redesigned interface, optimized for Honeycomb.
"To look at, this is a really exciting product - and once you try it,
you'll be blown away. We've worked to make sure SwiftKey Tablet(TM) utilizes
the power and flexibility of the new Honeycomb platform, and we believe that
it really enhances the experience."
The new Honeycomb app builds on a very successful launch of SwiftKey(TM),
originally designed for smartphones. SwiftKey quickly became the top keyboard
on Android Market(TM) after launch in summer 2010, with over 700,000
downloads in its first six months, and a very positive reaction from both
users and the technology press. The app is currently available for a limited
sale price of $1.99 on Android Market.
SwiftKey Tablet will be on show at the Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona, February 14-18, on Google's Android stand in Hall 8, stand AC25.
TouchType will also be exhibiting other exciting breakthroughs in Hall 1,
stand E65. For more information or to arrange a press briefing, please
contact press@touchtype-online.com.
Android and Android Market are trademarks of Google Inc. Xoom is a
trademark of Motorola Mobility Inc.
TouchType's world exclusive prototype version of SwiftKey Tablet(TM),
optimized for Android(TM) Honeycomb devices, contains brand new features in
the follow areas:
Honeycomb-optimized skins and key layouts
SwiftKey Tablet(TM) will ship with keyboard layouts specifically designed
to enhance the text entry experience within Honeycomb on a Motorola Xoom(TM),
with a holographic theme, custom skinning and a 10.1 inch 'thumb layout' to
make two-handed typing easy.
Truly personal predictions
The new version of SwiftKey will offer the ability to analyze online
profiles - Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, blog etc. - using advanced cloud-based
technology to learn how a user writes, and quickly tailor the typing
experience to make it deeply personal and accurate.
Typing modes to suit you
SwiftKey Tablet will have a new framework that allows users to customize
their text entry experience with "typing styles." This means users who like
to carefully select SwiftKey's next-word predictions to minimize character
entry will be able to, but those who prefer superfast typing and like to rely
on automatic correction will have this choice.
Multi-lingual prediction and language detection
SwiftKey Tablet(TM) exploits the Xoom(TM)'s powerful chipset and memory
to facilitate predictions in several different languages at once. The
keyboard interprets what you've written to automatically offer predictions in
the relevant language without the need for manual language selection. This
offers a truly revolutionary productivity experience for busy, multi-lingual
users.
Fluency 2.0 Prediction Engine
A radically redesigned and improved version of SwiftKey's core Fluency
prediction engine is integrated into our Honeycomb app. This uses a brand new
probabilistic modeling technique that integrates each aspect of the typing
inference process (from initial key press to prediction choice).
The result will be greater robustness, prediction accuracy and writing
efficiency, to a degree of sophistication never before seen on any tablet or
mobile device. This demanding probabilistic computation will be handled
effortlessly by devices such as the Motorola Xoom(TM).
Game-changing spelling and typo correction
Fluency 2.0's novel probabilistic framework allows for a new breed of
multi-lingual spelling and mistyping correction on Honeycomb tablets. The
system will not rely on predefined rules or lists of common mistakes; rather
Fluency uses context-sensitive machine learning to infer likely mistakes
directly from a real-time analysis of user-adapted probability distributions.
-- Unique next-word prediction engine based on word context
-- Rapid and comprehensive learning of individual writing style
-- Up to 50% greater text entry efficiency than other market solutions
-- A third of next words predicted without any character input
-- Relevant, personalized predictions
-- 14 languages supported, with ability to predict in two languages
simultaneously: English (US), English (UK), Czech, Danish, Dutch,
French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (PT),
Portuguese (BR), Spanish, Swedish
-- Multiple keyboard layouts supported: QWERTY English, QWERTY
International, QWERTY Danish, QWERTY Norwegian, QWERTY Swedish,
AZERTY, QZERTY and QWERTZ
-- HD skin with sharp graphics and font on all screen sizes
-- Advanced error correction designed for small mobile keyboards
-- Inline spelling and grammar correction
-- Automatic accent insertion (for non-English character entry)
-- Voice dictation support for English, Spanish, French, German and
Italian
-- Multi-touch support
Quotes about SwiftKey
"SwiftKey is, quite simply, one of the most innovative and useful apps we
have ever seen ... Genius - there's no other word for it." - Mobile Marketing
Magazine
"SwiftKey... not only offers the usual spell-correction and auto-complete
of words, it goes so far as to offer the most likely word you will type next.
It's like a psychic, only for less money." - MobileCrunch.com
"The app works by offering to complete words as the user types them ...
but is also context sensitive, throwing up three suggested words in a space
above the virtual keyboard which the user can then insert into a message with
one tap." - Richard Wordsworth, T3.com
About TouchType
TouchType was founded in August 2008 by Reynolds and Medlock around the
concept that computer science breakthroughs could improve the experience of
typing on a touchscreen phone.
After a September investment round that included funds from Octopus
Ventures and the Cambridge Capital Group, TouchType has received over $1.5
million.
TouchType works alongside leading technology manufacturers, mobile
operators and software developers to bring customers the highest standards in
language technology. It offers consumer solutions such as SwiftKey as well
the backend Fluency engine for developer partners.
Source: TouchType
John Reynolds, +4407817712546, john@touchtype-online.com
Fingerprint Cards and SMIC Work in Collaboration to Bring the World's Smallest and Most Power-Efficient Fingerprint Sensor to China
GOTHENBURG, Sweden and SHANGHAI, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ --
Fingerprint Cards (hereinafter referred to as "FPC"), a leading provider of fingerprint sensors, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC", NYSE: SMI and SEHK: 0981.HK), the largest and most advanced foundry in China, today jointly announced that the companies will work in collaboration to bring FPC1080A, the world's smallest and most power-efficient fingerprint swipe sensor optimized for mobile phones and tablets, to the China market.
FPC1080A, is extremely small, has uniquely low power consumption and offers world-leading image quality with a resolution of 508 dpi. The chip combines FPC's well-known quality with ease of integration, making it the ideal sensor for high-volume devices such as mobile phones, laptops, smart cards and USB keys. The FPC1080A has integrated hardware support for finger navigation, which enables the sensor to be used as navigation device to replace joysticks or other similar navigation systems.
"Quality assurance and product recognition go hand in hand, and in working with SMIC we are able to provide our customers with products of the highest possible quality at a competitive price," said Johan Carlstrom, CEO of Fingerprint Cards. "We are very pleased that SMIC and Fingerprints are working together on the new swipe-sensor product in addition to our other products in commercial production at SMIC. With FPC's innovative design and patented technology combined with SMIC's outstanding manufacturing capabilities and excellent yield performance, we are confident that FPC will keep its promise to continue to deliver fingerprint sensors with superior performance, quality and value for our customers."
Fingerprint Cards and SMIC have agreed to work together in China to promote the swipe sensor and FPC's existing area sensor products, as well as to further penetrate the fingerprint-sensor market. The two companies and HST, FPC's distributor in China, will work closely together to bring the next-generation swipe sensor products to the China market.
"It is a great opportunity to work with Fingerprint Cards to strengthen our strategic and synergistic relationship," said Joseph Xie, Vice President and General Manager of Eurasia Business Unit of SMIC. "We have confidence that with SMIC's mature technologies and our strong local network, we will be able to bring a true next-generation product to better serve China's rapid growing consumer electronics market and to enhance the market penetration of swipe sensors."
About SMIC
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981) is one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in Mainland China, providing integrated circuit (IC) foundry and technology services at 0.35-micron to 45/40-nanometer. Headquartered in Shanghai, China, SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) and three 200mm wafer fabs in its Shanghai mega-fab, two 300mm wafer fabs in its Beijing mega-fab, a 200mm wafer fab in Tianjin, a 200mm fab under construction in Shenzhen, and an in-house assembly and testing facility in Chengdu. SMIC also has customer service and marketing offices in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and a representative office in Hong Kong. In addition, SMIC manages and operates a 300mm wafer fab in Wuhan owned by Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation.
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Investors should consider the information contained in SMIC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including its annual report on 20-F filed with the SEC on June 29, 2010, especially in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections, and such other documents that SMIC may file with the SEC or The Hong Kong Stock Exchange Limited ("SEHK") from time to time, including on Form 6-K. Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have material adverse effects on SMIC's future results, performance or achievements. In light of these risks, uncertainties, assumptions and factors, the forward-looking events discussed in this press release may not occur. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date stated, or if no date is stated, as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, SMIC undertakes no obligation and does not intend to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Peter Lin
Public Relations
Tel: +86-21-3861-0000 x12349
Email: Peter_LHH@smics.com
Ms. Angela Miao
Public Relations
Tel: +86-21-3861-0000 x10088
Email: Angela_Miao@smics.com
About Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC)
Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) develops, produces and markets biometric components that through analysis and matching of an individual's unique fingerprint verify the person's identity. The technology consists of biometric sensors, processors, algorithms and modules that can be used separately or in combination with each other. The competitive advantages offered by FPC's technology include unique image quality, extreme robustness, low power consumption and complete biometric systems. With these advantages and the ability to achieve extremely low manufacturing costs, the technology can be implemented in volume products, such as smart cards and mobile telephones, where extremely rigorous demands are placed on such characteristics. FPC's technology can also be used in IT and Internet products for security and access control. Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) is listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm (FING B) and has its head office in Gothenburg, Sweden.
For further information, please contact:
Johan Carlstrom, VD Fingerprint Cards AB (publ), 031-607820,
investrel@fingerprints.com
Fingerprint Cards AB (publ), Box 2412, 403 16 Goteborg,
www.fingerprints.com
Fingerprint Cards AB (publ) discloses this information in accordance
with the Securities Market Act (2007:528) and/or the Financial
Instruments Trading Act (1991:980).
SOURCE Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
CONTACT: Mr. Peter Lin, Public Relations at +86-21-3861-0000 x12349 or Peter_LHH@smics.com; Ms. Angela Miao, Public Relations at +86-21-3861-0000 x10088 or Angela_Miao@smics.com; Johan Carlstrom, VD Fingerprint Cards AB at +31-607820 or investrel@fingerprints.com
LitePoint Partners With setcom to Deliver Advanced Signaling Capabilities on the LitePoint IQxstream
Companies to show LTE-based Applications through a Physical Layer and fully configurable radio access and IMS implementation at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LitePoint Corporation, a leader in wireless test solutions, today announced a collaboration agreement with setcom wireless products GmbH. The alliance enables the combination of LitePoint's software and instrument expertise with setcom's signaling, IMS, multi-media and application layer expertise, providing customers with complete test solutions from the physical interface and modem signaling through to IMS-based services and the applications layer interface. This will enable product designers to fully verify all aspects of their products ensuring the best user experience for their customers. Additionally, the two companies will share intellectual property and jointly develop software solutions specific to the needs of research and development, UE certification and operator acceptance teams within telecommunication vendors and operators. Mobile World Congress 2011 attendees are invited to stop by the LitePoint booth (2E14) to experience the powerful validation techniques that the LitePoint-setcom collaboration delivers.
"Today, our customers are challenged to validate advanced smartphones and tablets in use cases that were previously non-existent. Today's devices challenge performance in ways that only a combined application layer through physical layer validation can verify," said Ashley Johnston, president, setcom wireless products. "The strength of LitePoint in manufacturing and chipset and device design, combined with the strength of setcom in signaling, IMS, multi-media and application layer testing offers the complete solution our customers need. Our customers can now leverage a test solution that will take them from R&D, UE Certification and Tier 1 Operator acceptance test plans through to the manufacturing phase without missing a beat, enabling them to achieve much faster time to market and reap significant cost savings."
Niels Vinggaard, senior vice president of engineering, at LitePoint added, "LitePoint is committed to providing consumer electronics companies with optimized test solutions for high-growth wireless device markets such as smartphones and tablets. The setcom partnership extends our solutions so that we can fully verify these very complex systems. Coupling the IQxstream with setcom's S-CORE advanced cellular signaling capabilities creates an innovative powerhouse test platform that is able to handle even the most forward-looking manufacturing designs and R&D challenges--something very few, if any, other test solution companies can claim."
LitePoint at Mobile World Congress 2011--Barcelona, Spain
February 14-17, 2011 - Booth #2E14
Demonstrations will include an LTE-Advanced demonstration on the new LitePoint IQxstream cellular testing solution and WiMAX testing on the LitePoint IQ2010 solution.
setcom will demonstrate UE Performance & IMS based services over LTE using the new S-CORE Multi-RAT test platform.
About LitePoint Corporation
LitePoint Corporation designs, develops, and supports advanced wireless test solutions for developers of wireless consumer electronic devices, contract manufacturers, and wireless integrated circuit designers. LitePoint solutions have optimized and verified the operation of more than one billion wireless devices worldwide. LitePoint products are used in development environments and high-volume manufacturing and provide its customers with superior ROI, faster time-to-market, improved manufacturing yields, higher product quality, and increased profitability. LitePoint's headquarters are in Sunnyvale California. For more, go to http://www.litepoint.com.
About setcom wireless
setcom started its business operations in Munich in 1989, and has evolved into a global company in the field of wireless protocol and mobile multimedia testing. The company is now one of the leading R&D and conformance test solution suppliers with a portfolio of over 1,300 GCF/PTCRB-compliant test cases. setcom's goal is to assist customers in minimizing development costs and shorten their time to market while offering a seamless service. setcom's client base includes leading mobile handset manufacturers, global network operators, and test houses. For more, go to http://www.setcom.eu.
Artificial Life Rolls Out Investments Section and Official Blog on Company Website
HONG KONG and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Artificial Life, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: ALIF) (http://www.artificial-life.com), a leading full service provider of award-winning smartphone and tablet technology and applications, has today celebrated the official launch of its new Alife Blog and Investments Section. While the former is to embrace the tech blogging trend and to give customers and fans regular updates about the Company and its products, the latter is to give companies looking for investments from Artificial Life the investment criteria and to provide an uploading platform for business plans and investment proposals to the Company.
Alife Blog
The new Alife Blog, which is co-authored by Artificial Life (ALIF)'s Chairman and CEO, Eberhard Schoneburg, and his staff, provides a wide range of personal and technical sector view points about the mobile industry for gaming and software. The blog will provide constantly updated posts offering the latest technology insights, gaming industry's trends, and Company news. The blog will also feature regular video posts about Artificial Life's products to explain their functionalities. The postings are casual in style and tone and shall invite customers to interact more closely with the Company and its key representatives.
Investments Section
The addition of an Investments section to the Artificial Life corporate website will facilitate the business development of the Company's newly established subsidiary, Artificial Life Investments Ltd. Interested companies who are looking for expansion and growth capital from Artificial Life, and who would like to collaborate with a strong, global partner, may upload financial and contact information in the Investments section for Artificial Life to evaluate.
"Sharing information and being transparent to the public are very important aspects of business today. Artificial Life has launched the Alife Blog as well as the Investments section so that we may more readily communicate our insights and better connect with our peers and partners," said Eberhard Schoneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc.
About Artificial Life, Inc.
Artificial Life, Inc. has been a pioneer in artificial intelligence and mobile technology since its inception in Boston in 1994. We are a public US corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ALIF) with listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurt: AIF.F; Xetra: AIF.DE) and headquarters and production center in Hong Kong. We have additional offices in Berlin, Germany (EMEA headquarters), Tokyo, Japan, and Santa Monica, USA. Currently our main business areas are: high quality (3D) interactive (massive multiplayer) mobile games, mobile participation television, mobile business applications, our powerful mobile commerce technology platform OPUS-M(TM) and our green IT solutions provided by Green Cortex, Inc. We have won many industry awards for our outstanding technology and products.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding our future results of operations, financial condition and business prospects. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "expect", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "predict", "potential", "continue" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Although such statements are based on our own information and information from other sources we believe to be reliable, you should not place undue reliance on them. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual market trends or our actual results of operations, financial condition or business prospects may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward looking statements for a variety of reasons. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our ability to obtain additional funding to operate and grow our business; the unproven potential of our mobile gaming business model; changing consumer preferences and uncertainty of market acceptance of our products; timely adoption and availability of 3G mobile technology; market acceptance for use of mobile handheld devices to play the interactive games; unpredictable mobile game development schedules; our reliance on a relatively small number of brands; our ability to license brands from others; our dependence upon resellers and telecommunication carriers and operators to distribute our products; our ability to successfully develop, introduce, and sell new or enhanced products in a timely manner; and the timing of new product announcements or introductions by us or by our competitors. For additional discussion of these risks and uncertainties and other factors, please see the documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB filed on March 16, 2010. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release.
For more information on ARTIFICIAL LIFE, INC., please contact:
Artificial Life IR and PR
Adeline Law
Tel: +852-3102-2800
ir@artificial-life.com
SOURCE Artificial Life, Inc.
Artificial Life, Inc.
CONTACT: At Artificial Life IR and PR, Adeline Law, +852-3102-2800, ir@artificial-life.com
Sidebar Partners with Takenet & UTV Indiagames to Help Operators Deliver Personalized Consumer Experiences Worldwide
Sidebar's Smart Menu(TM) Personalization Platform to Power Content Recommendations; Provide Better Choice for Consumers, Increased Revenue for Operators
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- Sidebar, Inc., a leading provider of multi-platform content personalization solutions, today announced strategic partnerships with Takenet and UTV Indiagames to deliver personalized content discovery solutions to mobile operators and telcos worldwide.
-- For more than a decade, Takenet has been enabling Brazilian and Chilean
Telcos, Enterprises, media companies, service providers and digital
communities to deploy their mobile presence. As a Value Added Service
enabler, Takenet provides technology integration services, content
distribution and licenses platforms such as Collect SMS.
-- UTV Indiagames is India's benchmark mobile and online games company and
leading global mobile game publisher. Indiagames powers mobile game
storefronts for leading Indian carriers including Idea Cellular.
With each partner, Sidebar will leverage its Smart Menu(TM) platform to make mobile content - including music, games, videos, news & information - more discoverable and targeted. The Smart Menu platform is a cloud based, SaaS solution that uses machine learning to "learn" consumer preferences and behaviors over time, providing valuable insight for mobile operators looking to optimize their sales and service operations.
"By combining Sidebar's technology with mobile content from Takenet and UTV Indiagames, we will be able to give mobile operators new tools to better differentiate themselves and regain mobile content marketshare," said Patrick Kennedy, CEO of Sidebar. "Together, our goal is to deliver a highly customized, personalized experience for consumers, which leads to increased engagement, loyalty and ARPU. And with Gartner estimating worldwide mobile application store revenue to surpass $15 Billion this year, the business opportunity is bigger than ever before."
Sidebar and partners will unveil program details as their solutions roll out with mobile operators worldwide later this year.
About Sidebar, Inc.
Sidebar, Inc. is a leading personalization technology provider that is focused on enabling content discovery across any platform. Sidebar's enterprise, cloud based Smart Menu(TM) solution allows carriers, publishers, platforms and content owners to measurably increase their business metrics by presenting each user the content they most likely want to consume in an easy and discoverable manner. The company is funded by Mobile Media Ventures and is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif. For more information, visit http://www.sidebar.com.
SOURCE Sidebar, Inc.
Sidebar, Inc.
CONTACT: Sharen Santoski of Signal Rock Communications, +1-847-312-0806, sharen@signalrockcomm.com, for Sidebar, Inc.
Lockheed Martin Integrates MONAX System With Aerostat Platform
New 3G Communications System Demonstrates Ability to Stream Video to Ground
VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently demonstrated the integration of the MONAX 3G wireless communications system with an aerostat platform demonstrating the ability to deliver real-time video and data directly to soldiers on the ground.
The MONAX communications system connects a commercial off the shelf (COTS) smartphone to a ground or airborne MONAX XG Base Station through a small, portable, battery powered MONAX Lynx user device, enabling the warfighter's use of a single, convenient, touch screen COTS smartphone for mission success at "the first tactical mile." The system is frequency flexible, connects hundreds of users to a single base station, and delivers superior range and link performance in voice, video and data transmission. The network uses a secure RF link, protected through exportable encryption for joint and coalition operations.
The integration demonstrated MONAX's ability to provide coverage over a substantial network area of more than 3,000 square kilometers with just one base station. During the testing, MONAX streamed real time video from the aerostat camera to COTS smartphones in the coverage area.
"The successful integration of these systems is a major step in the field readiness of MONAX to begin providing essential mission information and situational awareness to warfighters," said Macy Summers, Vice President of Advanced Programs and Ventures, for Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions-Defense. "Dismounted solders at the platoon and squad levels can now have access to an affordable private network that delivers the wide capabilities of smartphone technology."
"We were able to keep the system footprint small in terms of size, weight and power," Summers said. "The MONAX equipment aboard the aerostat, which includes an antennae and radio frequency to fiber converter, weighs approximately 90 pounds and is connected to the base station on the ground through fiber optic cable embedded in the aerostat's tether."
MONAX products are available on the General Services Administration schedule purchasing vehicle and directly from Lockheed Martin.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 132,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation's 2010 sales from continuing operations were $45.8 billion.
Orange Launches Data Roaming Safeguard and expands Travel Data Daily Range for High Usage Customers
BARCELONA, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
- New 'opt-out' Approach Launched for All New Smartphone Consumer
Customers at Point of Sale to Keep Costs Down. Ensures That all Customers
Benefit From a EUR2 for 2MB Roaming Bundle as a Maximum Price - Across
Orange's European Operations[1] by Summer 2011
- Orange to Offer a New Daily Data Roaming Bundle Across the European
Union (EU) for Heavier Data Users - EUR15 for 50 MB, Bringing Down the Cost
of Roaming Further
Orange today announced a new 'opt-out' approach for all new
smartphone consumer customers. This 'opt-out' is a safetyguard for all new
smartphone consumer adopters and will be available across the Orange European
footprint - by summer 2011. New customers will be given default data roaming
packages at the point of purchase - ensuring that customers will never pay
more than EUR2 for 2MB in Europe. This is already in place in Spain and
Switzerland.
In addition, the successful Travel Data Daily bundles from its Orange
Travel portfolio of roaming services will be extended with a new bundle for
consumer customers with greater data demand - EUR15 for 50 MB per day -
available across the majority of Orange's European markets[2], by summer
2011, for smartphone, tablet and laptop users.
The 'opt-out' and new offer builds on the successful roll-out
of its EUR2 for 2MB Travel Daily Data bundle, launched at last year's Mobile
World Congress, now available in 11 countries[3] and with a following of over
one million customers in its first year. Orange also confirms the
availability of another Travel Data Daily bundle - EUR5 for 10MB in five
countries[4], originally launched in 2010 specifically for iPhone and tablet
consumer customers in France. The inclusion of three daily data roaming
bundles to the Orange Travel portfolio, allows Orange customers to roam
across the European Union using smartphones, tablets and laptops more freely
than ever before.
Anne Bouverot, Vice President for Orange's global mobile
business, commented: "delivering affordable data roaming services so that all
can enjoy the benefits, is a key focus for Orange. The extension of existing
daily data bundles to more countries and the launch of a new competitive
offer for those with greater data demand is indicative of our commitment to
follow this through. We are delighted that the Travel Data Daily offer of
EUR2 for 2MB has been taken up by over a million customers in its first year
of launch - it indicates that our competitive and easy to understand offers
are resonating with customers.
"We also believe that our new 'opt-out' approach that we are
offering all new smartphone consumer customers is the best way to ensure that
all will benefit from the best bundles on offer. In the context of the
explosion in smartphones that we have experienced in our consumer customer
base, the 'opt-out' approach has demonstrated an improved customer experience
and greater data roaming take-up. In our efforts to deliver absolute
transparency, it is critical to us that our customers' experience is a
positive one, right from the start."
The Travel Data Daily roaming bundles are part of the Orange
Travel portfolio of roaming services, providing a broad range of attractive
roaming offers to respond to the varying needs of customers from consumer
customers to big business. Orange's segmented approach ensures that customers
get the best solution for their needs. Orange has nearly 25 million Orange
Travel customers at the end of 2010. For more information on Orange Travel
offers, go to http://www.orange.com/travel.
[1] Excludes UK
[2] The EUR15 for 50 MB offer is currently available in France and
Switzerland
[3] The EUR2 for 2 MB offer is now available in France, Spain, Poland,
Belgium, Switzerland, Romania, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Austria
(offer is 1EUR /MB) and Egypt. Excludes UK
[4] The EUR5 for 10 MB offer is available in France, Switzerland,
Romania, Luxembourg (8MB), Moldova (8MB). And Belgium (Mobistar) by
end of Q1 2011
Source: Orange
Contacts: Nicole Clarke: +44(0)7811128457, nicole.clarke@orange-ftgroup.com; Tom Wright: +33678913511, tom.wright@orange-ftgroup.com
GameMill to Develop and Publish Video Games Based on Moxie Girlz(TM)
All-New Moxie Girlz(TM) Dolls Debut this Spring
NEW YORK, Feb 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MGA Entertainment and GameMill Publishing, Inc. today announced an agreement to develop and publish video games based on MGA's hit fashion dolls, Moxie Girlz(TM). The first Moxie Girlz(TM) game will be released on the Nintendo DS in the fall of 2011.
"We are thrilled to have the Moxie Girlz(TM) brand and feel this is a perfect fit for the video game market," said Mark Meadows, Vice President of Marketing at GameMill Entertainment. "One only needs to walk through any major retailer and see the overall Moxie Girlz(TM) support for the dolls and we think this will carry over to the video game space as well!"
The award winning Moxie Girlz(TM) doll line is back in 2011 with fun and stylish new fashions and creative new doll themes including the very popular Art-Titude(TM) line, now in 3D, and the all-new Summer Swim Magic line! Moxie Girlz(TM) encourages girls to reach for their dreams and fearlessly embrace their individuality through self-expression, friendships and fashion.
Moxie Girlz(TM) Art-Titude(TM) 3D - Moxie Girlz(TM) love to show their Art-Titude(TM) by giving everything they wear a personalized twist and this season it's 3D. Your Moxie Girlz(TM) can wear their newest creations. Features include a fun outfit you can color yourself; a pair of 3D glasses you can also decorate; two washable markers. (SRP: $16.99)
Moxie Girlz(TM) Summer Swim Magic(TM)-Grab your bikini, cuz you and the Moxie Girlz(TM) are headed to the beach for a full-day adventure with sun, fun, and friends! Features include: One Moxie Girlz(TM) doll with 2 fashions - a bathing suit for swimming and a cool fashion for after sun fun; Moxie Girlz(TM)'s hair changes color when she goes swimming; Feet kick for swimming fun! (SRP: $19.99).
MGA Entertainment, a consumer entertainment products company headquartered in Van Nuys, California, manufactures innovative lines of proprietary and licensed products including toys and games, dolls, consumer electronics, home decor, stationery and sporting goods. The MGA family includes award-winning brands such as Little Tikes®, Lalaloopsy(TM), Bratz®, Moxie Girlz(TM), BFC, Ink.(TM), Rescue Pets® and Zapf Creation®. The Company is continuing its tradition of creating imaginative doll brands for girls. For more information please visit: http://www.mgae.com, http://www.littletikes.com, http://www.lalaloopsy.com, http://www.bratz.com, http://www.moxiegirlz.com, http://www.moxieteenz.com, and http://www.bfcink.com.
About GameMill Entertainment
GameMill Entertainment is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. GameMill is a third party publisher of various Children's and Casual games for the PC, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo Wii. With development across the globe, GameMill is a source of entertaining and fun games for all ages. http://www.game-mill.com.
SOURCE MGA Entertainment
MGA Entertainment
CONTACT: Susan Hale, +1-818-221-4326, shale@mgae.com
Marvell Announces First 'World Phone' Single Chip Solution: 3G TD-SCDMA Baseband Combining High Performance 1.2 GHz Application Processor with Advanced 3D Graphics and 1080p Multimedia
Marvell's new single chip solution runs on the Kinoma Platform combining unprecedented hardware and software capabilities aimed at billions of smartphone and tablet users around the globe
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, continues to build on its heritage of mobile communications innovations with the announcement of its world phone platform based on the Marvell® PXA978 communications processor with Marvell HSPA modem. Marvell's PXA978 is the industry's first single-chip solution to feature 3G UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) and China's TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) standard with HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) support and is intended to enable mobile developers to design 3G cellular devices and tablets that can be used and supported globally.
"The quest to deliver seamless connectivity on a global scale requires fundamental breakthroughs in mobile telephony. I'm very proud of our engineering teams for continuously delivering some of the most innovative technologies in our industry. It's truly amazing that a tiny chip like the PXA978 integrates both 3G and TD-SCDMA basebands, a powerful application processor, all advanced 3D graphics capability, with a very low-power profile and affordable cost structure ideal for mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets," said Weili Dai, Marvell's Co-Founder. "With the addition of Kinoma's elegant and intuitive software experience and integration of cutting-edge mobile technologies, Marvell has enabled the entire ecosystem - in both its depth and breadth - to convert conventional cell phones into multi-functional mobile gadgets ideal for gaming, video chatting, live news, and more. This small device has the potential to make a huge impact on our world. I envision that a true world phone will transform the global economy by lowering the cost and barriers to entry for billions more consumers and innovators."
Unlike current technology on the market, the Marvell world phone development platform is the world's first and only available solution of its kind featuring R7 3G UMTS and TD-SCDMA with HSPA. Additionally, the platform will feature the industry's first Mobile MIMO, Avastar(TM) 88W8797, an 802.11n 2x2 dual-band Wi-Fi SoC designed to support high data rates for next-generation mobile devices. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) no longer need to design separate development platforms to accommodate different wireless standards and target markets around the world, saving months of design time and cost. Instead, they can focus on creating a wide portfolio of 3G UMTS supported phones that can be used globally with other UMTS carriers worldwide - all based on a single development platform.
China Mobile, the world's largest carrier with more than 500 million subscribers, recently reported that there are currently more than 18 million TD-SCDMA users in China. With that number expected to grow exponentially, Marvell's world phone platform based handsets will provide wireless handset OEMs with a wireless phone platform designed to deliver unmatched performance and addresses the rapidly expanding requirements of one of the world's largest populations.
Marvell's PXA978 single chip solution uses advanced 40nm process technology and is designed to deliver 3G TD-SCDMA baseband combining high performance 1.2 GHz application processor with advanced 3D graphics and 1080p multimedia, ensuring a feature-rich, fast and exceptionally smooth user experience. Additionally, the processor's extremely high power efficiency and true multitasking capabilities is intended to enable OEMs to design mobile devices that represent a significant leap beyond today's most advanced smartphone and tablet devices. The platform will support all leading OS platforms.
Marvell will demonstrate the newest version of Kinoma Play in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress (Courtyard CY15). For those unable to see Kinoma Play in person, a video showing the speed, elegance, and simplicity of Kinoma Play is available on the Marvell web site.
About Marvell
Marvell is a world leader in the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.
Marvell and the M logo are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Avastar is a trademark of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
For Further Information Contact:
Marvell Media Relations
Daniel Yoo
Tel: (408) 222-2187
yoo@marvell.com
SOURCE Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
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Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
CONTACT: Daniel Yoo, Marvell Media Relations, +1-408-222-2187, yoo@marvell.com
Marvell Introduces Kinoma - Revolutionary Open Software Platform to Unify Applications
Simple, elegant, intuitive and lightening fast user experience will debut at Mobile World Congress
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced Kinoma®, a software platform that will dramatically transform the way consumers interact with the devices that fuel their digital lives. Kinoma is a new foundation for creating and delivering fast, simple user experiences for an unprecedented range of devices. Through its recent acquisition of Kinoma Inc., a visionary creator of mobile media software, Marvell now offers an experience and solution that is fully integrated from silicon to applications, creating new opportunities for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and manufacturers while freeing developers from traditional restraints.
"We are living in an exciting world of proliferating electronic devices. They are becoming a key part of our lives. More than ever consumers demand great ease-of-use and seamless connectivity across all these devices," said Weili Dai, Marvell's Co-Founder. "I am very excited to bring the talented Kinoma team to Marvell - it is our mission to coherently integrate our industry-leading hardware solutions with beautiful software experiences to enable the entire ecosystem to address this emerging demand. The addition of Kinoma - a simple, intuitive, easy to use software experience optimized for Marvell's total silicon solutions - provides a unified look and feel across an array of products from handheld devices to smart appliances and smart furnishings. It gives designers and developers the freedom to dream up more innovative, personalized, and intelligent products and applications that I believe will change the world by making consumers' lives easier and more convenient. That's our passion."
The newest version of Kinoma Play is the first product built on Kinoma. Featuring an elegant, touch-friendly design coupled with lightning fast speed, Kinoma Play shows how Kinoma delivers a seamlessly integrated user experience. Combining 40 applications, ranging from social networking to digital media to location to search, Kinoma Play offers consumers a simple, consistent user experience for work and play.
To encourage broad industry adoption, Marvell will offer Kinoma under an open source license. Developers will be able to adapt Kinoma for any device they can imagine. Marvell will also provide two software development kits (SDKs). The first SDK is for application developers to fully integrate their content and services into Kinoma powered devices. The second SDK is for OEMs and manufacturers to port and customize Kinoma for their products.
"As digital devices have become more powerful, creating the software to power them has become increasingly difficult," said Peter Hoddie, vice president of the Kinoma Platform at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "Kinoma makes it easier for developers to bring their ideas to life. Kinoma lets developers focus on creating great applications with thoughtfully refined user experiences that taps into the full power of the underlying hardware. We want to make life better for developers, so they can craft the products that make life better for our users."
"Kinoma delivers on the promise so many companies are chasing - a thoughtfully designed, beautiful user interface that enhances user experience," said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies. "The capabilities of this platform are crucial for creating a new class of connected devices with a simple, consistent user experience and access to the content they need, no matter where they are."
Marvell will demonstrate the newest version of Kinoma Play in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress (Courtyard CY15). For those unable to see Kinoma Play in person, a video showing the speed, elegance, and simplicity of Kinoma Play is available on the Marvell web site.
Marvell will announce further information on developing with Kinoma and licensing in the coming weeks.
About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking. As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit Marvell.com.
Marvell, the M logo and Kinoma are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
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LiveShare by Cooliris Delivers New Hyper-Personal Group Sharing for Photos
Cooliris raises $9.6M from investors including Kleiner Perkins and T-Venture
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooliris (http://www.cooliris.com) today announced the launch of LiveShare 1.2, a new and hyper-personal way to communicate with friends across mobile and web through live, shared group photo streams. LiveShare lets you create streams on the fly, make them as private or public as you want, and see the stream update in real time with the photos from all the people in the group. Whether it's seeing what your best friends are doing right now, capturing a day at the park with the kids, or a bachelor party that needs to stay in Vegas, LiveShare gives you one photo stream for each event, rather than multiple albums in different places for different people. LiveShare is now available free on iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7, as well as at http://www.liveshare.com.
Cooliris also announced that it has raised $9.6 million in Series C funding from existing investors, which include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Deutsche Telekom's T-Venture, DAG Ventures, and The Westly Group. The company will use these new funds, and strategic partnerships, to further scale its monetizable user base and revenues.
"With over 35 million downloads of our iconic Cooliris 3D Wall, we've established a good beachhead in media browsing, and now with our newest release of LiveShare we are transforming the group media sharing experience," commented Soujanya Bhumkar, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "The Cooliris team, which includes our investing partners, is poised to deliver the next-generation communication service for content discovery."
"With the market for multi-touch devices exploding, consumers are now expecting rich and immersive experiences in applications beyond games. Cooliris is positioned to leverage its immersive media platform with LiveShare to enable awesome media sharing across devices and the web," said Frank Gibeau, Cooliris Board member and President, EA Games Label, Electronic Arts Inc.
LiveShare 1.2 is the simple solution to the frustrating and time consuming problem of trying to find and share photos from an event that was attended with family and friends, eliminating the need for emailing and messaging people and trying to pull their photos from various sites. With LiveShare, users can create a new group stream anytime, anywhere, and invite friends who would be interested in sharing or viewing the photos with them. Only people invited to that stream can co-create by adding photos, which can be viewed and saved by everyone who is part of the stream. LiveShare does this by layering a contextual element on top of the social graph, increasing relevancy by allowing users to share in flexible combinations of location, time, tags and relationships.
LiveShare also brings new capability to the Android Gallery. Originally developed by Cooliris for Android 2.1, the Gallery can now take advantage of LiveShare's service to enable simple, relevant sharing. Users can easily get the photos from their Android phone out to selected groups of friends, share them seamlessly by creating new streams, or add their photos into existing streams.
Cooliris turns digital content into immersive visual experiences.
With over 35 million downloads of its popular Cooliris 3D Wall, to creating the Gallery application for Android with over 100K daily activations, Cooliris is pioneering visual browsing. Extending this innovation further, Cooliris has transformed Wikipedia into a coffee-table magazine with its award-winning Discoverfor iPad, and is now making real-time group sharing hyper-personal with LiveShare.
Cooliris is a venture-backed company with investors that include: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, The Westly Group, and Deutsche Telekom's T-Venture. Cooliris is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Tokyo and Singapore.
Magic Software and Oracle Platinum Partner CD Group Announce Mutual Partnership and First Joint Business Win
CD Group, an Oracle Platinum Partner and leading JD Edwards reseller and consulting firm, installs Magic Software's iBOLT business integration suite for a leading automotive aftermarket retailer
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Feb. 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Magic Software Enterprises (Nasdaq: MGIC), a global provider of cloud and on-premise application platforms and business integration solutions, today announced a partnership with CD Group, an award-winning Oracle Platinum Partner headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, USA. In its first iBOLT deal, CD Group has sold Magic Software's iBOLT for Oracle JD Edwards to a leading supplier of automotive products and services.
"Magic Software provides the kind of excellent solutions for business process integration and interfaces that our consultants and customers can use to solve urgent business and IT priorities," said Larry Campbell, President of CD Group. "Our first joint win clearly demonstrates that Magic Software's solutions are a perfect fit for many of our clients."
With Magic Software's solutions, CD Group plans to enhance and extend JD Edwards applications by providing software and services for integration and consolidated interfaces that span an enterprise and its trading partners. Using Magic Software's iBOLT Integration Suite, a JD Edwards ERP system can be integrated with a wide variety of third-party software including SharePoint, eCommerce systems and logistics systems.
"We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial business relationship in which CD Group can apply our software solutions to the needs of JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne ERP customers requiring enhanced business process integration and application interfaces," said Regev Yativ, CEO of Magic Software Enterprises Americas. "CD Group has already demonstrated its ability to win new business for Magic Software by closing its first deal in the automotive aftermarket industry."
About CD Group
CD Group is a leading provider of enterprise application and technology solutions to emerging, mid-size and large companies. Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, they are the winners of two Oracle Titan awards for ERP and Systems Integration as well as being an Oracle Platinum Partner. They provide a full range of solutions and services including: Business Consulting, Business Intelligence, JD Edwards consulting services, integration consulting services, technology consulting services, and hardware products. For additional information, visit http://www.cdgroup.com.
About Magic Software
Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. (NASDAQ: MGIC) is a global provider of cloud and on-premise application platforms and business integration solutions. For more information, visit http://www.magicsoftware.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that may involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary significantly based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, risks in product and technology development, market acceptance of new products and continuing product conditions, both here and abroad, release and sales of new products by strategic resellers and customers, the integration of the newly acquired IT services assets and other risk factors detailed in the Company's most recent annual report and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Ethernet Backhaul Management Barrier Cleared by Creanord
BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
MWC 2011 -- Creanord Ltd., a premier enabler of Mobile Backhaul with
Ethernet Performance Monitoring and Reporting for leading Carriers and
Service Providers clears the Ethernet Backhaul management barrier.
Base Station backhaul plays a significant role when analyzing Mobile
Operator's operational expenditure. At the same time the backhaul is becoming
increasingly important to manage. New base station and carrier technologies
increase the number of possible backhaul scenarios. Managed Ethernet Backhaul
with solid Service Level Guarantees is the one that stands out when
considering the options.
The need for speed is materializing
Most of the Service Providers are geared towards increasing network
capacity while reducing backhaul expenditure. But with poorly managed
environment both end user experience and return of investment are far from
ideal. By implementing Managed Ethernet Backhaul with ITU Y.1731 standard
Performance Management and automated Service Level Agreement (SLA) assurance
these concerns are under control.
Most Ethernet Backhaul vendors claim that they have a solution that
complies with ITU Y.1731 standard for Performance Management, but not all are
ready for end-to-end SLA and OAM scalable to 10,000's tower sites. For
example it's possible that Windows-based management software just isn't
capable of heavy lifting that is required when receiving important telemetry
data from a large network. Or solution simply falls short already in the
turn-up phase as manually created measurement configurations that worked fine
in the lab environment are operationally impossible to be executed in
real-world dimensions.
Creanord EchoVault MAX - Delivering scalable Ethernet Backhaul assurance
with SLA
The EchoVault MAX is designed to provide superior performance and
scalability. For example the solution leverages On-chip cryptographic
acceleration, Oracle VM virtualization, Oracle Real Application Clusters and
Oracle Partitioning. To meet the real-time SLA requirements of large Mobile
Service Providers, the EchoVault MAX is built to produce raw but intelligent
performance for real-world networks.
"Together with our key Technology Partner Oracle, we deliver completely
optimized hardware and software solution for Mobile Service Providers. We are
now empowered to take the responsibility of SLA and OAM for very large
networks without breaking the Service Provider's bank." says Antti Pappila,
CTO of Creanord, and continues "with EchoVault MAX we are stronger than ever
before, thanks to our solid development effort maximizing benefits of Oracle
Stack and our unique value proposition".
The EchoVault MAX is available now with pricing that provides savings in
both initial installations and network-wide deployments. Contact us for
getting in touch with our partner near you.
About Creanord
Creanord enables lightning fast Mobile Backhaul with Ethernet Performance
Monitoring and Reporting for leading Carriers and Service Providers.
Creanord's Managed Ethernet Access solution comprises innovative Ethernet
Access hardware and carrier-grade EchoVault(TM) Service and Service Level
Agreement (SLA) delivery software. With the Creanord solution, service
providers are empowered to roll out and manage high-performance Ethernet
Mobile Backhaul and services that surpass the customer expectations.
Samsung SDS Launches Mobile BI Dashboard, Announces SAP Co-Innovation Partnership at 2011 Mobile World Congress
Co-Innovation Leads to Rapid and Cost-Effective Deployment of Enterprise Mobility Services
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung SDS today announced the launch of the Samsung Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboard, the latest in the company's portfolio of enterprise mobility services. A joint development with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) leveraging SAP® Business Objects(TM) software, the Samsung Mobile BI Dashboard enables mobile workers to easily access BI reports, including revenue, customer and inventory data from their Samsung mobile devices. The solution is commercially available in the U.S., European, and Asian markets and is supported on the latest Android hardware, including Samsung's Galaxy S smart phones and Galaxy Tab smart media devices. Today's announcement was made at the 2011 Mobile World Congress, taking place in Barcelona, Spain, from Feb. 14 - 17.
In addition, Samsung SDS announced a new mobile co-innovation partnership with SAP designed to further extend the power of the SAP Business Suite software through mobile applications for the enterprise. Through co-innovation, SAP and Samsung SDS plan to scale their complementary portfolios of enterprise mobility services by leveraging their core competencies and strengths in enterprise business processes.
"We feel there is tremendous synergy between SAP's core competency in enterprise business applications and global install base, and Samsung SDS' expertise in mobilizing these applications," said Nick Brown, Senior Vice President, Mobile Applications Group, SAP AG. "We are pleased to name Samsung SDS a member of our co-innovation Partner Program, which will allow our customers even more flexibility in how they empower their mobile workforce. Today's Samsung Mobile BI Dashboard launch is another proof point demonstrating the value our partner ecosystem brings to the market."
The Samsung Mobile BI Dashboard solutions are complementary to SAP software partner offerings, are developed in accordance with SAP development guidelines, and provide additional choices and flexibility for businesses running SAP applications.
"Enterprise customers today want the ability to leverage the power of their existing business software and deliver it to more members of their mobile workforces to realize the promise of 'anywhere, anytime access' to information," said Sean Kae, Executive Vice President, Mobile Communications Division, Samsung SDS. "Our partnership with SAP, the global leader in business software, reinforces our commitment to the enterprise and represents how co-innovation efficiently and effectively brings mobile innovation to market."
"Immense value is delivered to the market when we collaborate with industry leaders such as SAP and Samsung SDS to provide comprehensive, fully-integrated enterprise mobility offerings on Samsung devices," said Jong Shin Kim, vice president, Enterprise Solutions, Samsung Electronics. "Powerful SAP enterprise applications are already running on our devices, including Samsung Galaxy S smart phones and the Galaxy Tab. We are working closely with SAP and SDS to develop additional mobile applications that are tightly integrated with our devices' native capabilities."
Delivered through SDS' secure, robust Network Operations Center, Samsung Enterprise Mobility Services enables rapid and cost-effective mobilization of critical back-end applications with the following tangible benefits:
-- Intuitive user experience that requires minimal training and enhances
productivity;
-- Single point of access that improves reliability and security, and
lowers administration and maintenance costs;
-- Quick and easy customization through client-server-side APIs.
Samsung SDS also is currently collaborating with SAP to launch additional enterprise mobility services, including Samsung Mobile Sales Force Automation (SFA), which enables sales professionals in the field to access a variety of data, including customer information, sales orders , and product specifications. Also planned for future availability is SAP Mobile Electronic Medical Record (EMR) by Samsung, which enables doctors and nurses in hospitals to easily access and update patient records.
Additional solutions provided by SAP for use on the latest Samsung devices include SAP BusinessObjects Explorer software, which provides users an intuitive path to quickly search and explore data for instant business insight, and SAP StreamWork, a software as a service (SaaS) collaborative decision-making solution that brings together the people, information, and methods to drive fast, meaningful results. These are offered as stand-alone solutions or may be bundled with other Samsung services including Mobile Push Mail and Mobile Device Management.
About Samsung SDS
Samsung SDS was established in 1985, through consolidation of ICT (Information & Communication Technology) systems of all Samsung affiliates. Since its foundation, Samsung SDS has provided comprehensive ICT services and contributed to the growth of Samsung Group as a global company. Samsung has established 14 overseas offices in 13 countries starting with SDS America in 1997, and has set up 9 data centers in 6 countries. Samsung SDS is a world class ICT company with 11,700 employees, generating USD 3.2 Billion (revenues) in 2009. Current businesses of Samsung SDS are comprised of Consulting, ICT Solution/ Infrastructure/ Outsourcing, Smart Infrastructure Engineering, Business Process Outsourcing and NW & System Integration services. Samsung SDS has achieved best in class ICT capabilities, acquiring the "Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises" award 9 times in a row, and the "ISO-9001" for the first time in the Korean ICT industry. More information is available at http://www.sds.samsung.com.
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Doro Releases 5th Generation of Easy-to-use Mobiles
LUND, Sweden, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Doro continues to break new ground in the niche segment for easy-to-use
mobile phones. Several new models will be on display at the Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona this week.
"We are releasing the fifth generation of our easy-to-use mobile phones,
inspired by our hit phone the Doro PhoneEasy(R) 410gsm. We have made a lot of
big and small changes, all of which together have resulted in an even better,
more suitable product range," says Jerome Arnaud, President and CEO of Doro.
The hottest new Doro product in Barcelona is the Doro PhoneEasy(R) 615 -
the company's first 3G mobile with a 3.2 Megapixel camera.
"It feels incredibly exciting to be able to offer a mobile phone with a
camera and 3G. Our latest customer surveys show an increased demand for this.
To quickly and easily take a picture and to receive photos when you are far
apart is a perfect function. This widens our appeal to a larger proportion of
seniors," continues Jerome Arnaud.
"In the development phase, we always start from the needs deriving from
the challenges of ageing and have the ambition that our designs will make a
difference by making their users' everyday lives easier," says Ulrika Ewerman
of Ergonomidesign, the design company behind the new range.
Product information and highlights:
- Extra loud, clear sounds
- Large, easy-to-read displays
- Clear contrast and adjustable fonts
- Direct text keys
- 3 quick dial keys
- Integrated hearing loops (HAC M3/T4)
- Spaced concave keys
Doro PhoneEasy(R) 615 -3G camera phone
- 3.2 megapixel camera with flash
- Alarm key
- Black and red
Doro PhoneEasy(R) 610 - with direct SMS key
- Integrated hearing loop (HAC M3/T4)
- Alarm key
- Black, white, red and silver
Doro PhoneEasy(R) 680 and Doro PhoneEasy(R) 682
- Alarm key linked to GPS positioning
- Noise reducing function
- Separate alarm (Doro PhoneEasy(R) 682)
- Black
RADWIN Broadband Wireless Solutions Were Deployed to Swiftly Address On-Site Communication Needs During the Rescue of Trapped Chilean Miners
TEL-AVIV, Israel, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- RADWIN (http://www.radwin.com), the global provider of Backhaul and
Broadband Wireless Solutions, today announced that its wireless broadband
solutions were used to swiftly establish on-site communications to assist
Chilean rescue and media teams during the world captivating and heroic rescue
of 33 Codelco miners, trapped in a San Jose copper mine in August 2010.
RADWIN's Broadband Wireless Solutions were used to ensure reliable, real
time voice, video and data communications between all parties involved in the
rescue. RADWIN's solution was donated by RADWIN and its partner Transworld,
following a request from CODELCO, one of the leading mining companies in
Chile.
"When CODELCO, turned to us for help in creating a communications link
for the rescue operation we knew we had to have something up and running
within a day. We knew that RADWIN's solutions were the right choice for this
task," said Alejandro Melipillan A., Wireless and Video Surveillance Product
Manager at Transworld. "Thanks to RADWIN's solutions it was possible to
swiftly communicate and coordinate in real time between all parties dealing
with this crisis including rescue forces, hospitals, doctors, the media and
more."
A Codelco representative confirmed that they were committed to ensuring
the safety of their miners and that they saw Transworld as a natural partners
to handle the intensive communications needs for the rescue mission through
the use of RADWIN broadband wireless solutions.
Roni Weinberg, RADWIN's Executive VP & COO, said: "First and foremost we
are very happy that the miners were rescued, and are honored to have played a
role in such a momentous rescue mission. RADWIN's solutions have been used
many times to rapidly establish reliable, multi-service communications, in
the most challenging outdoor conditions where traditional communications
infrastructure is lacking. During emergency or routine situations, our
customers quickly discover that RADWIN's broadband wireless products are the
ideal for their communication needs."
About RADWIN
RADWIN provides sub-6GHz wireless broadband systems that empower carriers
and service providers to connect subscribers everywhere. Whether voice, data,
or video streaming, the company provides wireless broadband solutions of
unrivaled performance, capacity, range, and quality at the most competitive
prices. Established in 1997, RADWIN has installations in over 120 countries
around the world.
Introducing Motorola PRO in Europe; Finally a Work Phone Worth Taking Home
Device offers greater choice to consumers and IT departments
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 14, 2011 -- Mobile World Congress 2011 -- Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced Motorola PRO, the Android(TM)-powered smartphone optimized for business use, is set to come to Europe. Delivering the speed, convenience, security and productivity tools that consumers and businesses alike require, Motorola PRO is showcased at Motorola's booth at MWC: Hall 8, Booth No. 8A51.
"Consumers above all need choice to meet the needs of work and play and Motorola PRO strengthens Motorola Mobility's position as the leading provider of Android devices. We don't take a one-size-fits-all approach," said Andrew Morley, vice president of marketing, international markets, Motorola Mobility. "In addition, employees and IT departments have made it clear that they want other options and solutions and Motorola PRO meets this need."
The Motorola PRO smartphone powered by Android 2.2 features a 1 GHz processor with 2 GB internal memory and expandable external memory with SD card up to another 32 GB, as well as 3G mobile hotspot support for up to five other Wi-Fi-enabled devices/laptops and a QWERTY keyboard designed for speed and convenience. The business smartphone also includes QuickOffice pre-loaded and email support (Corporate Sync, Gmail(TM), POP3/IMAP embedded, Push Email, Yahoo Mail).
Other features of Motorola PRO
-- Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 support on a full multi-touch 3.1-inch
(7.87-cm) brilliant display as well as the ability to capture and share
content with the device's 5-megapixel camera featuring auto focus and
dual LED flash
-- Motorola security additions such as AuthenTec IPSec multi-headed VPN
integration, remote wipe of device and SD card, and complex password
support as well as device and SD card encryption
Accessories
Completing the package is the Motorola PRO desktop dock (sold separately), which provides a convenient charging station on your office desktop or kitchen counter and allows access to additional handset features while docked, including a clock (with alarm), a local weather reading, and the ability to play music or a slide show.
Availability
To learn more about the Motorola PRO visit YouTube(TM).
About Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE:MMI) fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices. For more information, visit motorola.com/mobility.
Media Contact:
Gemma Priscott
Motorola Mobility, Inc.
+44 (0)7970 882994
gemma.priscott@motorola.com
Certain features, services and applications are network dependent and may not be available in all areas; additional terms, conditions and/or charges may apply. Contact your service provider for details. All features, functionality and other product specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.
Texas Instruments and Azcom Technology Develop New 3G/4G Small Cell Base Station Platform, Offering Developers a Boost in Performance and Product Development Time
Joint platform delivers macro-class performance in a pico-class form factor
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- Solidifying its commitment to the small cell market, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) in collaboration with Azcom Technology, a leading provider of services and solutions in the wireless communications domain, today announced the availability of a new small cell base station platform focused on 3G and 4G high speed data systems. Based on TI's KeyStone multicore architecture and industry leading TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) core, the TMDXSCBP6616X supports multi-carrier HSPA+ systems as well as full-rate, 20MHz LTE systems using multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) and advanced receiver algorithms.
Leveraging technology used in hundreds of carrier networks worldwide, TI and Azcom are delivering a platform capable of achieving macro-class performance in a pico-class form factor for small cell deployments. The new base station platform consists of the following technology from TI:
-- TCI6616 System-on-Chip (SoC) for PHY and Layer 2 processing that affords
OEMs the ability to develop state-of-the-art base station solutions for
all air interfaces from GSM to LTE;
-- C6A8167 Integra(TM) DSP+ARM® processor for Layer 3 processing;
-- GC5330 transmit/receive processor for digital radio front-end
processing;
-- NaviLink(TM) 6.0 (NL5550) solution GPS for clock synchronization.
For RF development, the platform connects directly to TI's upcoming TSW3725 analog/RF platform, which is available separately.
"With the small cell market now poised to transform the wireless network topology, our new base station platform with Azcom serves as a great stepping stone for designers to stay ahead of the cost, time and performance curve," said Kathy Brown, manager of TI's wireless base station infrastructure business. "Leveraging our decade-long experience in the wireless infrastructure market, we know what it takes for developers to succeed, and there is no doubt that they will now be able to quickly ramp up to field trials for any and all small cell base station configurations."
"Small cells can go a long way in addressing critical issues facing operators, which is, how to satisfy ever increasing bandwidth demand while maintaining an adequate return on their investment," said Ajit Singh, managing director, Azcom Technology." The platform provides everything a vendor needs for a small cell solution."
Robust third-party ecosystem
Developers can leverage TI's extensive third party network for complete software products and services that support TI DSPs. Companies with supporting software to TI's small cell base station platform include:
-- Software Partners: Azcom Technology, Continuous Computing, mimoOn, Nash
Technologies and Tata Elxsi;
-- Hardware Partners: Azcom Technology and Global Navigation Systems.
Availability
Available in 2Q11 from TI or Azcom Technology, the TMDXSCBP6616X is priced at $4,495. For further information or to pre-order, please contact wasson@ti.com or sales@azcom.it. Additionally, the small cell base station platform will soon be available with TI's recently announced TCI6618 SoC.
TI @ Mobile World Congress
While at MWC, visit TI at Booth 8A84 (Hall 8) to learn more about the latest communications infrastructure, analog, wireless and DLP news, and to check out a broad range of TI-based demos. For more information please visit http://www.ti.com/mwc2011.
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through design, sales and manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries. For more information, go to http://www.ti.com.
About Azcom Technology
Azcom Technology provides a wide range of services and solutions for the LTE, UMTS, TD-SCDMA, GSM/GPRS/EDGE cellular systems. Azcom has very strong experience in baseband platform development, RF system design, testing and integration. These competences are highly complemented by our design service which provides hardware development together with related software stack, from low level firmware up to application layers. For more information, go to http://www.azcom.it.
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Breaking Constraints and Leaping Forward: Texas Instruments' New Multistandard Wireless Base Station SoC Drives Performance and Efficiency to Record Levels
- TCI6618 SoC breaks the constraints of Moore's Law - doubling LTE performance less than six months after achieving breakthrough performance levels that remain the benchmark
- Operators benefit from 'spectral efficiency' optimization of up to 40 percent, resulting in cost effective increases to 3G and 4G network capacity
- Efficiently meets user data demands in 3G/4G networks, enabling consumers to experience mobility at its best
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today unveiled a new multistandard wireless base station System-on-Chip (SoC) delivering double the LTE performance and a 2x power/performance improvement over existing macro and compact base station SoC solutions developed in 40-nm process technology. Based on TI's new TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) generation, the TMS320TCI6618 utilizes a strategic design approach that accelerates the well-defined standard aspects of LTE. In addition, the programmable DSP cores allow customer differentiation in advanced techniques such as scheduling and multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) antenna processing.
"This advanced SoC brings the unmatched performance and flexibility that enables Nokia Siemens Networks to extend our leadership position in commercial radio products," said Tommi Uitto, head of LTE business line, Nokia Siemens Networks. "We have truly software-defined radio in the baseband as well as in the radio frequency (RF) parts. With our LTE-ready products shipping to over 200 operators worldwide, we value the innovation and high quality that Texas Instruments technology and our deep co-operation continue to deliver."
As wireless data rates increase with high-speed 3G and 4G services, the ability to efficiently handle the high numbers of bits flowing through base stations becomes critically important in SoC design. With the TCI6618, TI is introducing new hardware accelerationfocused on this bit-rate processing which increases the SoC system performance and enables advanced receiver algorithms, achieving higher spectral efficiencies than competitive solutions. For the first time in an integrated base station SoC, TI's innovative architecture enables iterative decoding techniques, such as turbo interference cancellation, which can yield up to 40 percent or more spectral efficiency over conventional decoding techniques. These techniques, coupled with the powerful MIMO processing capabilities of TI's new fixed/floating point C66x DSP core, yield a SoC that delivers on the promise of 4G.
"TI is effectively breaking the constraints of Moore's Law with their new base station SoC, by doubling performance in less than six months and not changing any process nodes to achieve it," said Jagdish Rebello, Senior Director and Principal Analyst, IHS-iSuppli. "Wireless infrastructure developers stand to benefit from these advancements in performance, features and time to market, all suited for the demands of 4G networks."
The TCI6618 complements TI's recently announced TCI6616 wireless base station SoC. Both solutions are pin and software compatible, offering customers complete flexibility in designing multistandard base stations supporting all 2G, 3G and 4G standards. This flexibility simplifies operators' migration to 4G and allows base station manufacturers to develop a wider portfolio of solutions at a lower cost, lower power, and in less time than with competing solutions.
Key features and benefits:
-- Developed on TI's KeyStone multicore architecture and powerful new C66x
DSP cores, TCI6618 enables scalability and portability from macro to
small cells while reducing product development expenses;
-- Advanced C66x cores with integrated floating point capability provide
full programmability and 5x performance improvement in critical
algorithms such as MIMO and scheduling - both key areas of
differentiation for customers;
-- New multistandard Bit Rate Coprocessor (BCP) accelerates bit rate
processing for LTE, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX, substantially increasing
system capacity and performance with lowest latency;
-- Scalable KeyStone architecture provides a non blocking 2 Tbps switch
fabric, featuring high throughput system interconnect and zero copy
multicore infrastructure;
-- Industry leading power reduction technologies, including TI's
SmartReflex(TM) power management, memory retention and dynamic power
management, deliver lowest power levels for base stations;
-- High-performance 40-nm process technology ensures robust performance and
unmatched value for base station developers;
-- Balanced programmable CPU cores and configurable accelerators enable
software defined radio with a simplified programming model.
TI @ Mobile World Congress
While at MWC, visit TI at Booth 8A84 (Hall 8) to learn more about the latest communications infrastructure, analog, wireless and DLP news, and to check out a broad range of TI-based demos. For more information please visit http://www.ti.com/mwc2011.
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through design, sales and manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries. For more information, go to http://www.ti.com.
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Motorola Mobility to Bring Motorola XOOM(TM) to Europe
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile World Congress 2011 -- Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced Motorola XOOM(TM) 3G/WiFi®-enabled version as well as a WiFi-only version will be available in Europe beginning in Q2 2011. Motorola XOOM runs on Google's Android(TM) 3.0 Honeycomb - the only Android operating system designed specifically for tablets - and was named "Best of Show" by CNET at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The tablet will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress this week at the Motorola booth in Hall 8, Booth No. 8A51.
"Motorola XOOM re-defines what the tablet experience should be. Designed from the ground up with the consumer in mind, it provides more ways to have fun, connect with friends and stay productive while on the go," said Alain Mutricy, senior vice president of Portfolio and Device Product Management, Motorola Mobility. "Whether surfing the Web, watching the latest hit movie, or video-chatting with friends, Motorola XOOM will delight consumers with its ease of use, speed and vivid graphics, as well as its Motorola Smart Accessories."
In today's fast-paced mobile device market, Motorola XOOM isn't the next generation tablet; it's the one after that. Thanks to its dual cameras, true multi-tasking functionality, latest Google Mobile innovations, 1GHz dual-core processor and 10.1-inch (25.65 cm) widescreen HD display, the Motorola XOOM provides users with diverse content-consumption capabilities.
Motorola XOOM Features
Motorola XOOM delivers a new type of mobile computing experience, including: a widescreen HD display with 1280x800 resolution to support HD video and with HDMI out; a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera for 720p video capture and 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video chats; and a built-in gyroscope, barometer, e-compass, accelerometer and adaptive lighting.
A dual-core processor with each core running at 1GHz offers an optimal experience for Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The Honeycomb user experience improves on Android favorites such as widgets, multi-tasking, browsing, notifications and customization, and also features the latest Google Mobile innovations such as Google Maps 5.0 with 3D interaction. Video and other rich web content plays seamlessly with Adobe® Flash® Player.
Motorola XOOM supports up to 10 hours of video playback, and charges in half the time of competitive tablets on the market.
Motorola Smart Accessories
-- A Standard Dock for watching video content or listening to music through
external speakers as the device charges
-- A Speaker HD Dock for sending HD content directly to a TV or clearly
listening to music through two built-in speakers - eliminating the need
to attach external speakers
-- A custom keyboard with Bluetooth® wireless technology and special
Android shortcut keys
Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE:MMI) fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices. For more information, visit motorola.com/mobility.
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Stephanie Forrest
Motorola Mobility, Inc.
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Certain features, services and applications are network dependent and may not be available in all areas; additional terms, conditions and/or charges may apply. Contact your service provider for details. All features, functionality and other product specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.
Tektronix Communications Partners with Groundhog Technologies to Solve Radio Access Network Challenges
New Application Provides Increased Levels of Accuracy on Geolocation Platform
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tektronix Communications, a leading worldwide leader in Network Intelligence and communications test solutions, today announced an innovative geolocation monitoring application as part of its OptiMon suite. With this addition, Tektronix Communications provides operators with unprecedented deep-dive analysis that correlates all related radio and subscriber-level information into a single geo-located view in just a few mouse-clicks. This unique combination of expertise and ease-of-use will drastically improve Operator's approach to fault isolation for RAN Optimization.
With ongoing pressures to maintain Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), operators must avoid the guesswork involved in isolating issues in order to reduce their mean time to repair (MTTR). As a result, a more accurate understanding of the radio network's performance allows operators to react more quickly and eliminate any lengthy trial and error troubleshooting procedures. For example, having the accuracy to delineate between indoor or outdoor signal qualities can be the difference between proactively solving an issue BEFORE the subscriber is impacted vs. receiving a subscriber complaint that can lead to customer churn.
"There are many reasons for subscribers to experience poor service quality," said Richard Kenedi, Vice President, Test & Optimization, Tektronix Communications. "But with accurate data, issues can be quickly resolved. This innovative geolocation solution accurately pinpoints poor user experience with high geographical resolution through the patented technology from Groundhog Technologies. This not only gives operators quicker resolution time, but will contribute to improving subscriber satisfaction."
Developed by Groundhog Technologies, the geolocation application incorporates Google Earth 3D visualization, which enhances operators' analytical capability on the geographical map. Integrated with OptiMon analysis capability, this combined, innovative application provides operators with the detailed information of dropped calls as well as the location and cell site in which the call was dropped.
A solution built for Network Performance & Optimization teams, the OptiMon solution's rich set of parameters are essential in all critical service stages from network roll out to network upgrades. This includes future-proofing LTE centralized optimization SON use cases.
Other application examples and features include:
-- Drop Call Visualization: Provides visualization of drop call severity on
map and filtering by selecting the required regions to be displayed for
analysis.
-- Cell Statistics: Allows engineers to determine quality of the network
based on actual traffic and drop call rates.
-- Cause of Drop Call: Helps engineers identify root cause of network
issues for troubleshooting.
-- Cell Level Drop Call Analysis: Facilitates classification of cell
coverage quality by analyzing drop call types and prioritizing sites for
optimization.
"Tektronix Communications and Groundhog Technologies have combined strength with revolutionary technology for solving radio access network challenges," said David Chiou, CEO, Groundhog Technologies. "With this collaboration, we developed a solution that provides over 90 percent accuracy for indoor coverage analysis - the highest available - for immediate deployment, which will exceed operator's demands for network test and optimization and ultimately assure a reduction in subscriber churn."
The OptiMon Suite and CovMo, the new Coverage Optimization application, will be available for demonstrations at the Tektronix Communications booth (1D59) from February 14-17 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
About Tektronix Communications
Tektronix Communications provides service providers and equipment manufacturers around the world an unparalleled suite of network diagnostics and service assurance solutions for fixed, mobile, IP and converged multi-service networks. This comprehensive set of solutions support a range of architectures and applications such as LTE, fixed mobile convergence, IMS, broadband wireless access, WiMAX, VoIP and triple play. Tektronix Communications is headquartered in Plano, Texas. Learn more about the company's test, measurement and service assurance solutions by visiting http://www.tektronixcommunications.com
About Groundhog Technologies
Groundhog Technologies is a spin-off from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and offers advanced solutions for geolocation, capacity planning and network optimization. We invented a series of mathematical modeling technology that calculates subscribers' mobility and usage behavior as the basis for analyzing network bottlenecks and providing solutions in different stages of network growth. With the technology, Groundhog Technologies helps operators significantly reduce network risk and improve ROI, by knowing when, where, how, and what network elements to optimize and expand. http://www.ghtinc.com
Tektronix is a registered trademark of Tektronix, Inc. All other trade names referenced are the service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- OnRelay today introduced its Mobile Cloud Exchange (MCX)
product designed for telecom operators. OnRelay's Mobile Cloud Exchange is
already deployed at 10 leading operators across 4 continents, including at
Swisscom as recently announced.
"Our software has continuously evolved and gradually centred
on enabling the enormous Cloud Telephony opportunity for operators," says
OnRelay's CEO, Ivar Plahte. "We no longer feel existing PBX or Centrex
terminology accurately represent a cloud based mobile office phone system,
and it is time to introduce a new term - Mobile Cloud Exchange - for this
distinct and disruptive communications system architecture."
Mobile operators now face the immediate threat from "Over the
Top" Mobile VoIP services from the likes of Skype and Google taking foothold
in the business communications market. To date, operators' fixed-mobile
convergence products have been little more than creative billing options,
which will not suffice to meet this threat. Given the speed of market
evolution, operators do not have time to wait for service delivery platforms,
such as IMS, before they start introducing competitive solutions.
With its Mobile Cloud Exchange software, OnRelay enables the
mobile operator to immediately fight back with a bundled Communications as a
Service offering, which, unlike consumer oriented Mobile VoIP services, is
far more feature rich and delivers the appropriate 3G / GSM quality of
service required by business customers. Mobile operators can leverage their
unique position by bundling OnRelay's software with smartphones, mobile apps,
cloud services and 3G / GSM / femto-cell connectivity.
Viable alternatives are scarce. Coming out of the financial
recession, operators are faced with a new, harsher economic reality. CIOs and
end-customers are no longer willing to fund expensive and high-risk 'white
elephant' service platform projects such as IMS, WAP, ATM and IN. Plahte
observes, "One such 'white elephant' based service, Centrex, has suffered
from lack of flexibility, customisation, application integration and
self-management." He continues, "Business customers are also concerned about
locking in to the monolithic Centrex model with very limited ownership,
control, and system administration rights."
"Further, our data is showing that CIOs are growing weary of
IP PBX rollout projects with poor mobile telephony integration and
substantial hardware, integration and support costs," Plahte commented.
"According to a report from Forrester Consulting out this year, a majority of
business customers are looking to operators to provide a more cost efficient,
hosted telephony model - something they have not found in Centrex."
With its Mobile Cloud Exchange, OnRelay offers operators a
pre-validated, commercially available and cost efficient solution. Benefiting
from the efficiency of cloud computing, OnRelay is offering proof of concept
trials based on Amazon EC2 to market leading mobile operators globally.
zBoost Provides an End to Dropped Calls and Slow Data
BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Wi-Ex, a leading provider of consumer and commercial mobile phone signal
boosters for the home and office, is showcasing its zBoost International
product line at the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Hall 2-0 booth 2J29. With
zBoost, the digital workforce can take full advantage of voice, data and
Internet services on their iPhone, Blackberry, DROID, smartphone, iPad and
other tablets including 3G high speed data, video, instant messaging,
pictures and more at home and in the office.
The rapid adoption of smartphones including iPhones and BlackBerry,
tablets and other connected devices by the enterprise has caused a shift in
the workforce. Employees now have the flexibility to take their office with
them; however having a strong signal is key to actually working and using the
mobile phone in today's digital workforce.
According to IDC Technology Spotlight From Consumer-Centric to Business
Essential: Extending Smartphone and Mobile Broadband Device Service into the
Workplace, IDC #1073, January, 2011, "Used for years to improve sub-par
mobile phone service in homes, signal-boosting technology has come of age to
provide increased signal strength throughout a business facility."
The Spotlight adds, "As more workers 'cut the cord' and rely on mobile
service for business critical operations, dropped calls no longer become an
inconvenience, but a hindrance to business performance."
To download a full copy of the IDC Technology Spotlight From
Consumer-Centric to Business Essential: Extending Smartphone and Mobile
Broadband Device Service into the Workplace, IDC #1073, January, 2011 visit http://www.wi-ex.com/IDCSpotlight.aspx.
About Wi-Ex
Wi-Ex (http://www.wi-ex.com), a leading provider of consumer and
commercial mobile phone signal boosters, developed zBoost, the first
consumer-priced signal booster for the small office/home office (SOHO) mobile
market.
Orange Launches Orange Gestures and 'smart' Live Wallpapers for Orange Android Homescreen
BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
- Unique Orange designs enable customisable and instant access
to applications and services
- Developed by the Orange Group Devices, Design and R&D team, Orange
Gestures lets users draw natural and intuitive gestures on their homescreen
to give one-stroke access to their favourite applications or services
- Exclusive to Orange Android Signature smartphones, new Orange Live
Wallpapers redefine 'live' wallpapers by integrating application
functionality into the homescreen experience itself - six new 'smart'
wallpapers will be launched in 2011
- Orange Gestures and Live Wallpapers will be available on all new Orange
Android Signature smartphones across the Orange footprint from Q2 2011
Orange is today launching two new and exclusive Orange Homescreen
developments, Orange Gestures and Orange Live Wallpapers, for Android
smartphones[1]. Orange Gestures provides 27 designs which users can assign to
an action or application, such as speed dialling, sending a text to a
specific contact or launching a weather widget or a game. There is no need to
scroll, search or click through multiple steps in order to launch an
application or more importantly, an action within an application.
For example, if Rachel texts her best friend Alison frequently, once a
gesture is assigned to this action Rachel can draw a square, which launches a
text to Alison; alternatively, drawing a heart will automatically enable Bob
to phone his wife, without having to access his phone screen or address book.
For the first time, Orange Live Wallpapers have taken the concept of
'live' wallpapers one step further by integrating the actual functionality of
a specific application into the dynamic aesthetic of the wallpaper design
itself, making them much smarter than standard designs. The first of these
'smart' wallpapers to launch in Q2 2011 is Orange Candles, a photorealistic
candle that burns down in six stages, giving a true indication of battery
life[2]. The design is also reactive; the flame flickers as a user scrolls
from left to right. Five more designs will be rolled out across Orange
Android Signature smartphones in 2011, allowing customers to choose a
homescreen experience that matches their style and needs.
Yves Maitre, senior vice president, Orange Group Devices and Mobile
Multimedia, said, "We are continually looking at ways to bring added value
to our customers through the Orange Homescreen, offering simple,
differentiating services and improved functionality. The homescreen plays a
fundamental role in our Signature strategy, introducing both new and relevant
Orange and third party services to our customers. Orange Gestures and Orange
Live Wallpapers are our latest offerings to harness the innovation
capabilities of the Android platform on our Signature phones. We make sure
every pixel counts in order to deliver Orange customers with a sophisticated,
stylish and simple experience."
Yves Christol, Head of the Advanced Software Center for Devices, Orange
Labs, added, "Ultimately this experience must be totally useful as well -
whether that's quickly being able to tell how much battery you have, or using
a familiar gesture to call your closest friend. Our latest customer-centric
innovation demonstrates perfectly how Orange has a role as a digital coach,
helping our customers get the most from their devices and services."
Orange Gestures and Live Wallpapers will be available on all new Orange
Android Signature smartphones across the Orange footprint from Q2 2011.
Orange will showcase both these innovations at Mobile World Congress 2011.
Visit the Orange Mobile World Congress stand at CY07.
ControlCircle Wins Data Centre Services Contract With the GSMA
LONDON, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- ControlCircle to Provide Virtualisation Services to
Revolutionise the GSMA's Disaster Recovery Strategy
- Hall 2.1 Stand A73
ControlCircle, the leading mobile platform provider, announced that it
has won a contract to provide Datacentre Services to the GSMA, which
represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry.
The GSMA has already been a client of ControlCircle for a number of years
and has now signed up for the company to provide them with a fully
virtualised back office infrastructure which is active/passive across two
sites.
"For this project, we needed a partner who had both the technical ability
and the professionalism to work with us and understand exactly what we wanted
to achieve," said Trevor McLachlan, IT Manager, the GSMA.
"Having worked with ControlCircle before, it made sense to choose them
for this contract as they have displayed great creativity and an ability to
deliver a high quality solution perfectly suited to our needs," McLachlan
continued.
"We are delighted to have been chosen for this project and hope to
continue this partnership well into the future. Winning new clients is always
great news for us, but strengthening the relationship with an existing client
is special and shows how well we work together," commented Damian Milkins,
ControlCircle CEO.
Milkins continued: "We expect this partnership to be long lasting and are
especially proud as it demonstrates the quality of customer service given to
our clients."
About ControlCircle
ControlCircle is a privately owned company, founded in 2001 to provide
solutions ranging from secure hosting and global connectivity to managing all
security, networking, server and database technologies covering a full range
of market sectors.
The company offers highly skilled and vastly experienced data specialists
who design and support resilient enterprise hosting solutions, built on
highly available platforms backed by ultra reliable support.
Customers include many of the World's largest online businesses and blue
chip companies in the banking, legal, accounting and commercial sectors. They
rely on our industry knowledge, technical expertise, innovation, accuracy and
skillful team management.
The GSMA represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications
industry. Spanning 219 countries, the GSMA unites more than 750 of the
world's mobile operators, as well as 200 companies in the broader mobile
ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers,
Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations. The GSMA is
focused on innovating, incubating and creating new opportunities for its
membership, all with the end goal of driving the growth of the mobile
communications industry.
Gameloft Actively Supports the Launch of the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY by Releasing 10 of its Bestsellers
Over 20 Games Available in the First 6 Months
BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of downloadable
video games, has confirmed its support for the launch of the Sony Ericsson
Xperia PLAY with a catalogue of 10 of its market-leading titles available on
the smartphone's March 29 release date. Two of the ten titles, Asphalt 6:
Adrenaline and Star Battalion, will come pre-loaded on the phone. The other
games available upon release include Assassin's Creed, UNO(TM), Let's Golf!
2, Spider-Man: Total Mayhem, Modern Combat: Black Pegasus, Real Football
2011, Brothers in Arms 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction.
"I created Gameloft 10 years ago with the goal of bringing
video games to all audiences," said Michel Guillemot, President of Gameloft.
"The launch of the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY, certified by PlayStation, the
first full-featured smartphone to include an exclusive gaming interface,
means my initial goal can now become a reality. The controls on the Xperia
PLAY enhance the gaming experience beautifully."
Steve Walker, Head of Marketing at Sony Ericsson remarked,
"Gameloft is one of Sony Ericsson's long-standing partners and we're
delighted to have their support for the launch of Xperia PLAY. Gameloft has
enjoyed enormous success in the downloadable video game market and we're
thrilled to have them bring their unmatched knowledge and unique skills to
creating fantastic games for Xperia PLAY."
A leading international publisher and developer of
downloadable video games, Gameloft has established itself as one of the top
innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital
platforms, including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets (Apple(R) iOS et
Android(R)), triple play boxes, connected sets and consoles. Partnerships
with leading licensors such as UNO(TM), Spider-Man(R), James Cameron's
Avatar(TM), Ferrari(R) and Sonic Unleashed(R) allow Gameloft to form strong
relationships with international brands. Gameloft also operates its own
established franchises, such as Real Football, Asphalt(TM), Modern Combat 2:
Black Pegasus et N.O.V.A Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance(R). Gameloft is present
in all continents, distributes its games in 100 countries and employs over
4,000 developers. Gameloft is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN:
FR0000079600, Bloomberg: GFT FP, Reuters: GLFT.PA).