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From Mobile World Congress, the Cisco MOVE was introduced — a strategic framework that comprises new solutions to enable service providers to better manage, enhance and take financial advantage of the rapidly growing volume of mobile video and data traffic.

The new Cisco MOVE (Monetization, Optimization, Videoscape Experience) solutions include Cisco Mobile Videoscape, Cisco Service Provider Wi-Fi and Cisco Adaptive Intelligent Routing (AIR). Cisco MOVE solutions represent the next phase of Cisco’s Service Provider Mobility strategy, which enables service providers to better monetize and optimize their networks, while delivering personalized mobile services across wired and wireless networks.

The new Cisco MOVE solutions span the mobile network –from client to network to cloud — and are designed to address the increasing volume of mobile data traffic — particularly video. According to the recently released Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2010 to 2015, two-thirds more

Experienced wireless professionals provide legal and financial expertise to support further company growth

FORT MYERS, FL.—February 10, 2011—Interop Technologies, a provider of core wireless solutions for messaging, device management, and connectivity gateways, has added two new members to its board of directors. Fred Tannenbaum, Managing Partner of the Chicago law firm Gould & Ratner LLP, and Brian Rich, Managing Partner of New York-based Catalyst Investors LLC, will advise Interop Technologies on business strategy and operations.

Drawing on their strong backgrounds in the wireless business, Tannenbaum and Rich will provide additional legal and financial expertise to the Interop board and support the company’s plans for further growth.

Tannenbaum has been a practicing business lawyer for more than 25 years and has been involved in the telecommunications industry since the early days of cellular. He has represented wireless service more

Communology to develop client software for Acision’s enhanced mobile messaging solution

In advance of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Communology (Stand 2B68 in Hall 2) announced that the company has joined the Acision Innovation Network to develop a broad variety of device-specific software clients for Acision Message Plus. Acision Message Plus is an enhanced mobile messaging solution, providing subscribers with a feature-rich, personalised messaging experience with functionality such as copy, divert and auto-reply. It also provides a unified user interface for personalising multiple messaging channels (e.g. SMS, MMS and SIP). In addition to Acision Message Plus, both companies plan to extend their cooperation on further applications, including Visual Voicemail.
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Industry Participants Encouraged to Nominate Outstanding Individuals

AUSTIN, TX—February 9, 2011—Today the Wireless History Foundation (WHF) announced that nominations for the 2011 Wireless Hall of Fame will be due no later than March 31. Nominations will be accepted in four categories: Service Provider, Technology, Industry Associate, and Pioneer. A candidate must be recommended by one nominator and two seconders. Nomination forms and guidelines are available on the WHF website at http://www.wirelesshistoryfoundation.org/NominationForm.html.

Last year the WHF inducted four individuals at the inaugural Wireless Hall of Fame Dinner, bringing the total number of inductees to 28. The Wireless Hall of Fame program began in 2000. Current members contributed to ground-breaking achievements in all areas of technology, business, and public service. Eligibility for the Wireless Hall of Fame is based on an individual’s contributions to the advancement of wireless services, products, and programs.

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In 2010, Company More than Tripled its Customer Base of Fortune 500 Customers and Quadrupled its Healthcare Market Revenue

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Feb. 9, 2011 – PacketMotion™, the leading provider of User Activity Management (UAM) solutions, today announced that it achieved record revenue growth in 2010, posting a 115 percent increase in revenue over 2009. In 2010 PacketMotion more than tripled its customer base of Fortune 500 customers, and achieved record revenue in the healthcare vertical market, with 2010 revenue quadrupling company healthcare revenue in 2009.

In 2010, PacketMotion also released new innovations for the industry’s leading UAM solution, PacketSentry™ 4.0. New in PacketSentry 4.0 was SourceSync for Microsoft SQL Server databases and Unix/Linux systems, extending UAM capabilities over the encrypted activities of privileged administrators without invasive software agents. This provides improved security and compliance without any measurable impact on network performance. In 2010 the company also delivered more

SS7-Based Solution Provides Fast, Accurate Activations for Mobile Handsets

FORT MYERS, FL.—Feb. 8, 2011—Interop Technologies, the premier provider of core wireless solutions for messaging, device management, and gateway connectivity, today announced that Cox Communications, the third largest cable operator in the United States, has selected Interop’s hosted CDMA OTA solution to automate device activation at the point-of-sale.

The Interop hosted CDMA OTA provisioning offering is IS-683 compliant and provides a highly efficient, low-cost way for network operators to provision the Number Assignment Module (NAM), improving customer experience and reducing operating costs.

“Wireless operators will need a highly reliable, accurate, and cost effective OTA solution for OTASP devices for the foreseeable future,” said Fred Farrell, Vice President Sales, North America, Interop Technologies. “Interop’s hosted solution satisfies this need and provides the flexibility to migrate easily to a turnkey solution and next-generation services.”

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vDesk VDI Edition Delivers on Desktop Virtualization Promise of Increased Productivity, Lower Costs and Reduced Complexity for Enterprise VDI Deployments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 7, 2011 – RingCube Technologies, the leading provider of managed virtual workspaces, today introduced vDesk VDI Edition – a new enterprise desktop virtualization solution that expands an organization’s VDI user base, enables faster and more efficient VDI rollouts, reduces VDI infrastructure costs, and lowers a VDI project’s cost per user while increasing its return on investment (ROI). With vDesk VDI Edition, organizations can now realize the promised productivity and cost-saving benefits from their VMWare View and Citrix XenDesktop investments.

One of VDI’s most persistent challenges is the inability to scale across an organization to its various types of employees. Most organizations choose to implement pooled VDI deployments in order to keep storage and infrastructure costs low, thereby forgoing the ability to personalize users’ desktops.
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BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The catchphrase “There’s an app for that” may soon be replaced by “There’s an e-book for that.” In a new report, “2011 E-Book Forecast: Get Set for the Next Best-Seller,” Yankee Group predicts e-book sales will grow from $313 million in 2009 to $2.7 billion by 2013, a CAGR of 72 percent. By contrast, the much noisier mobile app market will grow from $834 million in 2009 to just $1.6 billion in 2013, a CAGR of only 62 percent in the same time frame.

The report also finds:

* E-book unit sales will skyrocket. By 2013, U.S. consumers will purchase 381 million e-books, roughly four times the amount they purchased in 2010.
* Average selling prices of e-books will plummet. By 2013, the average e-book retail price will fall to $7, down from an average of more than $9 in 2009.
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New features that pinpoint and control the use of personal and company-owned smart devices to be unveiled at the RSA 2011 Conference in San Francisco

Santa Clara, Calif. - Feb. 1, 2011 – Avenda Systems, the leading provider of identity-centric network access security, today announced the development of new network presence platform and visibility features that deliver a new level of user, device, topology, and access policy correlation not found in traditional NAC solutions. Today’s shift of users’ preference for tablets versus laptops, and from company-issued phones, to personal smartphones is forcing IT managers to quickly take action to ensure that corporate and personal assets can securely co-exist on an organization’s network.

These new correlation capabilities provide the easiest, most effective and accurate way for organizations to track users and their devices on the network in real-time and on a historical basis. This new approach maintains an inventory more

Cologne, Germany, February 1, 2011: At this year’s Mobile World Congress (14- 17 February, Fira de Barcelona, Stand 2B68 in Hall 2) Communology is putting the emphasis on Visual Voicemail (VVM). The software house specialising in mobile phone applications (apps) will unveil a whole range of new solutions, including Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry. Thanks to its optional voice-to-text function, the app can transcribe voicemail to text — certainly a plus for the average BlackBerry user. In addition, Communology is now throwing a browser-based VVM widget into the mix. Basic VVM functions will be accessible via almost every internet enabled device imaginable, whether a PC or tablet, or even a Smartphone without mobile VVM apps, such as Windows Phone 7, or iPhones of users who did not subscribe to VVM from their service provider.

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Communology thus offers an extensive portfolio of VVM more