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Proprietary and Exclusive Programming By Cable Is Not the Next Generation of Home Entertainment

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., April 2 — What started at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in January as a frenzy over 3D TVs and manufacturer commitments to start selling them, has become a rush to “wow” consumers. Meanwhile, some TV service providers that also create content are generating and hoarding their 3D programming.

The following Verizon view of the 3D TV market and the company’s commitment to it should be attributed to Shawn Strickland, vice president of FiOS product management for Verizon:

“Verizon believes that new technology – especially entertainment opportunities as great as 3D TV promises to be – must be accommodated and delivered rationally and superbly, just as we have done with our HD TV offering. As the industry transitions to stereoscopic 3D, we are developing a broad 3D offering focused more

Turns Apple’s new tablet into a Phone

LONDON, April 5 — Truphone, the global mobile operator, today announced the availability of its application that offers thousands of Apple iPad customers the ability to make voice calls. The company’s award-winning VoIP application turns the tablet-sized device into a mobile phone that offers free or low-cost international calls, as well as advanced Instant Messaging features that integrate a user’s contacts from across multiple IM networks.

Truphone was the first to officially launch a mobile VoIP calling application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, and the company continues to lead the way with the launch of Truphone for iPad.

The Truphone iPad application offers customers free calling to other Truphone and Google Talk users when connected over Wi-Fi, and international calling to mobile phones and landlines for as low as 5 cents a minute. Truphone also offers an unlimited more

Device-Centric Forum Bringing Together Leading OEMs, Retailers/e-Tailers, Cable Operators and Communication Service Providers to Discuss Best Practices

All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher and Accel Partners’ Rich Wong to Keynote

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCR), the leading global provider of on-demand transaction management software platforms, today announced that it will host the Connected Devices Summit – “The Connected User Experience” in May at the Calistoga Ranch in Napa Valley, California. This three-day event is a device-centric forum, bringing together a diverse group of companies that are part of a unique ecosystem, such as OEMs, retailers/e-tailers, cable operators and communication service providers (CSP).

Invited executive-level participants – all whom represent a unique cross-section of the connected devices market as well as some very interesting business models and go-to-market strategies – include Acer, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Cablevision, Dell, Google, HP, Intel, Nokia, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Sony, more

MILPITAS, Calif., April 5 — JDSU today announced J-Profiler, the latest addition to the J-Complete suite of test applications that simplify the installation and maintenance of carrier Ethernet networks. J-Profiler saves hours of troubleshooting time for expert and novice network technicians as a monitoring application or traffic explorer for live, in-service links. J-Profiler is currently available for the T-BERD®/MTS-6000A Multi Services Application Module (MSAM).

In one feature set, J-Profiler enhances the troubleshooting capability for technicians who must identify network problems in circuits with up to thousands of active sessions, including Ethernet Mobile Backhaul networks where thousands of streams may exist across hundreds of cell sites. J-Profiler helps isolate problems by providing automatic and non-intrusive discovery of Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), Q-in-Q, Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol/User Datagram Protocol (TCP/UDP) streams. The tester also displays the bandwidth utilization and VLAN user priority set for each stream, more

Vendors Selected for the “Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management” Report are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing

SAN FRANCISCO – April 5, 2010 – AppDynamics, Inc., the next-generation Application Performance Management (APM) company, today announced that it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the “Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management” report (Will Cappelli, April 1, 2010) by Gartner, Inc.

According to the Gartner, Inc., report, “User-defined transaction profiling, application component deep-dive monitoring, and application component discovery and modeling are three distinct dimensions of APM. Using technologies supporting the first dimension, one can quickly determine the space/time coordinates of an application performance problem’s source. Using the second dimension, one can look deeply into that source and diagnose the problem that is actually occurring.” 1

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things more