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MWC: Communology takes smart Java apps to the mass market

It doesn’t always have to be a smart phone: Sophisticated applications for common mobiles running Java ME

Cologne, Germany, February 9, 2010: At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Communology, a Cologne, Germany-based software house specializing in mobile applications, aims to dispel the myth that sophisticated applications can only run on smart phones. The company will be showing LiveMedia C³ Cubical and LiveMedia Visual Voicemail, new software clients that also support feature phones and Java ME, the dominant platform in the medium-priced mobile segment. With its smart Java apps, Communology is targeting the needs of mobile operators that want to present richer offerings to the mass market. Demonstrations of these apps can be viewed here on YouTube:

LiveMedia C³ Cubical for Java unites a range of different web services and mobile communication applications on its Connected Home Screen. Cubical offers users easy access to telephony, e-mail, more

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MWC: Communology is exhibiting sophisticated communication applications for Android, Java ME, Symbian and Windows Mobile

Communology’s carrier-grade apps for visual voicemail, instant messaging and mobile social networking meet mobile carriers’ and device makers’ stringent requirements

Cologne, Germany, January 26, 2010: Communology, a Cologne, Germany-based software house specializing in mobile applications, is showcasing sophisticated solutions for personal mobile communications at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona (Hall 2, Stand 2B68). Communology’s successful LiveMedia portfolio includes visual voicemail, mobile instant messaging and social networking applications for common platforms like Android, Java ME, Symbian and Windows Mobile. The LiveMedia clients are carrier grade apps – mobile software meeting the high standards that mobile carriers require in terms of quality and integrability with backend systems like IM gateways or voicemail servers.

Communology offers ready-made white-label client software for the various platforms that can simply be branded to customers’ requirements and ported to specific models of mobile devices. Communology also conducts the requisite software tests. Customers more

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Communology Introduces Centralized Communications Application for Hyperconnected Smartphone Users

Communology, a German software and solutions vendor specializing in client software for mobile communications, introduced LiveMedia C³ Cubical, a centralized personal mobile communications application that provides access to the most popular mobile communication channels on the home screen. Integrating user interfaces and contact management sources, the client software unifies Internet services like Instant Messaging and social networks as well as cell-phone functions such as SMS/MMS, Email or Visual Voicemail. LiveMedia C³ Cubical is a pre-packaged, highly adaptable mobile application. Software clients will soon be available for Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android phones. C³ Cubical enables mobile network operators to offer personal mobile communications dedicated to the requirements of hyperconnected users. Members more

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Communology and Klausner Technologies Sign Patent License Agreement on Visual Voicemail

“One-Stop VVM”: License for the European VVM patent and technical implementation from a single source

Cologne, Germany, September 08, 2009: Communology, a specialist in mobile communications client software, recently signed a patent license agreement with US patent and technology company Klausner Technologies. The agreement allows Communology to provide European wireless operators not only with Visual Voicemail software clients and technical implementation, but also with an inclusive patent license under the Klausner EU Visual Voicemail patents.

Visual Voicemail from Communology provides ease-of-use

Thanks to its easy-to-use user interface, Visual Voicemail has revolutionized the way people handle their voicemail. With Communology’s new “One-Stop VVM”, mobile communications companies will now be able to quickly and efficiently enhance their voicemail offerings for the premium-customer segment as well as across the entire product line. More information on the new offer is available at www.one-stop-vvm.com.

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Cycos Defends Top Position in Unified Messaging Market

Alsdorf, Germany – German enterprise communications software vendor Cycos AG leads the Western European market for Unified Messaging solutions. That is the result of a study by market research company MZA Ltd, which specializes in the IT and tele¬communications industry (The Western European UC Applications Market Competitive Environment – 2009 Edition). For the fourth time in succession, the British analysts have ranked Cycos No. 1, ahead of Cisco and Avaya. With a market share 21 percent of total user licenses in 2008, Cycos even could extend its advance (2007: 17 percent). more

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Communology develops solution for mobile micro services and context-based mobile advertising

nullCologne, Germany: Communology, a German software vendor that specializes in mobile communications applications, will develop a solution for user-generated mobile services and context-based mobile advertising as a part of uService, a pan-European development project. The project envisions a new type of global-spanning, user-driven network of dynamic services and contents. It plans to enable private and business users to easily offer mobile micro services and contents for their community (their own contacts or members of a social network).

Examples of such services might include organizing a jogging group for like-minded athletes or a soccer fan club. Other applications could be an exchange where travelers offer and look for rides and private accommodations, or mobile multimedia services such as the creation of a virtual DJ’s playlist using the pooled music content on the cell phones of people at a party.

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