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Hod Hasharon, Israel, and Viera, FL USA, Feb. 2, 2010 — Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company developing the world’s most advanced mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, and SkyCross, a global antenna designer and manufacturer, today announced cooperation on high-performance, LTE product solutions. As part of the cooperation, Altair has integrated the SkyCross iMAT® MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) antenna in Altair’s recently announced FourGee™ LTE USB ExpressCard UE (User Equipment). The card has undergone extensive interoperability testing (IOT) and is currently being used in various field activities throughout the world.

The two companies initially began their cooperation with a focus on mobile WiMAX technology utilizing Altair’s FourGee™-2150/6150 chipset and have been closely working on field testing and optimizations for more than a year.

“The combination of Altair’s comprehensive and power-efficient LTE USB ExpressCard and high-performance iMAT antennas from SkyCross provides the marketplace with one of more

In the legacy era of mobile internet walled-garden offerings, service providers would select from a limited number of applications for their subscribing smartphone users. Looking forward, the emergence of diverse App Stores creates an open market of abundant content.

A new era has emerged. Smartphone users search for the best mobile apps, and select one based upon the apparent merits — relative to both the user’s needs and the availability of alternative apps offered in the global marketplace.

Theoretically, independent app developer supply can now connect directly with the pent-up user demand. According to industry analysts, as smartphone adoption becomes increasingly more mainstream, the resulting widget and gadget app consumption trends will rapidly gain new momentum.

Mobile application stores will exceed 4.5 billion app downloads in 2010, eight out of ten of which will be (ad-supported or otherwise) free to end users of these apps – according more

Vello Systems Appoints Key Worldwide Sales Executives

John Donelan and Bill Jarvis to lead sales for growing optical packet networking innovator

Milpitas, CA, February 3, 2010 – Vello Systems, a leader in high performance optical packet networking systems, today announced that John Donelan and Bill Jarvis have joined the company as Vice Presidents of Sales. Both experienced veterans of telecommunications sales, Donelan is based in Washington, DC, and Jarvis at the company’s headquarters in Milpitas, CA.

John Donelan joins Vello Systems from Genband, where he was VP of North American Sales. He joined Genband following its acquisition of Nextone. Donelan previously served in successively more senior sales positions in sales at Alcatel-Lucent, Telica, Oracle, and Alcatel.

Bill Jarvis has a long and distinguished career in telecommunications sales. He joins Vello Systems from Go Networks following its acquisition by Nextwave. He had served more

Motorola DEVOUR Brings MOTOBLUR to Verizon Wireless’ 3G Data Network

MOTOBLUR Service Gives Customers Home Screen Access to Content and Contacts

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., Feb. 3 — Verizon Wireless and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the availability of Motorola DEVOUR in March. Motorola DEVOUR will be the first Verizon Wireless phone to feature MOTOBLUR, Motorola’s unique Android-powered content delivery service created to make wireless phones more personal and customizable.

MOTOBLUR is the first solution to sync contacts from work and personal e-mail services, including Gmail, with posts, messages, photos and more from popular sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. With MOTOBLUR, content is automatically delivered to the home screen and fed into easy-to-manage streams.

Key features:

Touch-sensitive navigation pad

3.1″ capacitive touch screen

Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Google Talk™, YouTube™, Google Search™ and Google more

New Ovi Maps With Free Navigation Races Past 1 Million Downloads in a Week

ESPOO, Finland, February 3 — Nokia (NOK) has today announced that since the 21 January 2010 launch of the new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been over 1.4 million downloads. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch.

“We’re averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia. “When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it would be a game-changer. The number of people now using their Nokia for navigation, and as a result looking for more location-aware software, is growing faster than even we predicted.”

The success of the new version Ovi Maps is a key part of Nokia’s strategy to lead the market in mobile maps, navigation and location-based services. more

PLANO, Texas, February 3, 2010 — Telmar Network Technology announced that it has achieved NEN EN ISO 9001:2008 quality certification for its facility in Antwerp, Belgium. The certification is part of the ongoing quality commitment emphasized by Telmar, a global company specializing in repair, spare parts management, and extending the life of telecommunications network equipment.

The NEN-EN version of the certification is the Dutch version, applicable in Belgium, which encompasses domestic health and safety laws and regulations. The NEN EN ISO 9001:2008 is differentiated from the ISO 9001:2000 by its focus on control and certification of continuous improvement.

In its Belgian facility, Telmar maintains an inventory of new and legacy telecommunications products, available for immediate delivery to key customers throughout Europe. The 8,500-square-meter (91,493-square-foot) facility has been in operation since 2007.

“This quality certification reflects Telmar’s continuing optimization of our processes and our quality control more

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Net Insight, a leading developer of efficient and scalable optical transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, today announced that Tata Communications, India’s leading global provider of communications services, has selected Net Insight’s Nimbra platform to deliver the solution for an international video contribution network connecting India with major cities in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Tata Communications, who own and operate a comprehensive terrestrial, subsea and satellite network, is deploying a new media transport solution using Net Insight’s Nimbra platform. The Tata Global Network includes one of the world’s largest submarine cable networks and a Tier-1 IP network with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 points of presence.

In order to expand the service offering to include comprehensive support for professional media services, Tata Communications began planning for a new global media network in 2008, which would cover the more