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Summary: Qosmos empowers network of expert developers to deploy network intelligence features for ISVs and equipment providers, ultimately enabling more intelligent, precise and secure applications and services.

Paris, France – June 10, 2010 – Qosmos (www.qosmos.com), a leading provider of Network Intelligence technology, today announced the unveiling of its Qosmos Expert Developer (QED) Network. Comprising partner companies with expertise in developing solutions based on Qosmos ixEngine, the QED Network will further enable customers to maximize the utilization of network data within applications and services, including communication protocols, metadata handling, multi-core processor technology and programming languages. 

Qosmos technology identifies and extracts information traveling over networks in real time, providing a true picture of its purpose, use and value. Going beyond traditional Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, its software development kits and intelligent IP probes are integrated into third-party solutions where real-time intelligence is critical, such as cyber security, lawful interception, traffic optimization, content more

Red Bend Software Achieves 750 Million Mobile Devices

First Quarter Is Strongest Ever for Mobile Software Management Shipments,
With One in Four Mobile Phones Red Bend-Enabled™

WALTHAM, Mass.—June 8, 2010—Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), today announced that in the first quarter of 2010 its vRapid Mobile® and vDirect Mobile™ software products were embedded in 70 million mobile phones and connected devices, bringing the company’s total shipments to 750 million. In Q1 nearly one in four mobile handsets was Red Bend-Enabled™—making it the company’s strongest quarter for deploying its mobile software management solutions.

In the first quarter, 65 new Red Bend-Enabled device models shipped worldwide, bringing the total to 585. Red Bend announced that 10 percent of Red Bend-Enabled models are now wirelessly more

New product eliminates order fallout by integrating multiple order management

Nice, UK
18-May-2010

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, has announced the launch of the new Progress® Order Management Stability solution accelerator. The Order Management Stability solution accelerator provides telco service providers with the ability to gain end-to-end visibility across multiple order management systems identify order fallout and resolve potential problems across their customer order lifecycle, without needing to change their existing operational support system (OSS) infrastructure. The solution accelerator can be deployed rapidly and can dramatically reduce the cost of order fallout, while leveraging existing order management applications and provisioning systems.

The Progress Order Management Stability solution accelerator, which supports both complex services and high transaction service offerings, is built on the Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite, which brings together comprehensive visibility, detection and response more

Boost Mobile’s launch of SEVEN Push-Enabled Email Service taps into a hunger for Convenient Messaging Services

Prepaid cellular services have been the industry’s fast-growth phenomenon for the last several years, but the recent debut of SEVEN Network’s push messaging services by Boost Mobile has shown that prepaid customers are hungry for the convenience and instant access of push messaging.

Research firm IDC recently reported that 65% of the new wireless subscribers in Q4 2009 used a prepaid cellular service and SEVEN is positioning itself to take hold of this fast growing market. The leading push-enabled mobile email and messaging services provider is the first to offer push-enabled email services for prepaid devices with Boost Mobile’s newly launched $50 Unlimited Plan.

SEVEN provides Boost Mobile with a sophisticated single-touch-access email solution that is simple and intuitive for customers. Boost also selected the system more

FORT MYERS, FL—April 28, 2010—Interop Technologies, a provider of core solutions for messaging, device management, and connectivity gateways, today announced that it will provide Element Mobile with five wireless technology solutions: the world’s fastest SMS Center, massively scalable MMS Center, CDMA OTA (Over-the-Air) Provisioning, SCOPE™ Device Management with a “one-click fix,” and Common Short Code (CSC) Gateway.

Element Mobile, the business entity of Wisconsin RSA #7 Limited Partnership, is building a new network that will serve wireless customers in central Wisconsin. Interop Technologies will work with Element Mobile to deploy its solutions on site at Element Mobile’s headquarters, but Interop Technologies will operate and manage the solutions. Implementing modified hosted solutions will reduce the need for Element Mobile to invest in additional capital and resources and enable the company to rapidly launch new revenue-generating services.

“Element Mobile has a very forward-thinking deployment strategy,” said Fred more

Recently, analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has outlined “10 mobile technologies to watch in 2010 and 2011” that will evolve significantly through 2011 in ways that will impact short-term mobile strategies and policies. Those include Bluetooth (3 and 4), The Mobile Web, Mobile Widgets, Platform-Independent Mobile AD Tools, App Stores, Enhanced Location Awareness, Cellular Broadband, Touchscreens, M2M, and Device-Independent Security.
Thomas Kaehler*, CEO of Communology took a closer look on two of them.

Gartner on Platform-Independent Mobile AD Tools
…”Mobile platforms will become more diverse through 2012 although consolidation will not have started, and, in some markets, five or more platforms may have a significant presence. Therefore, tools that can reduce the burden of delivering installable applications to several platforms will be very attractive. Platform-independent application development (AD) tools cannot deliver a “write once, run anywhere” equivalent to native code; however, they can significantly reduce 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

Focus on Ease of Use and Rapid Time-to-Value are Hallmarks of AppDynamics’ Innovative Approach

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 16, 2010 – AppDynamics, the next-generation Application Performance Management (APM) company, today announced at the Cloud Connect conference that it now offers its APM solution via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery option in addition to its on-premise offering. By providing a choice of deployment options, AppDynamics allows enterprises to manage performance of their mission-critical applications running across cloud, virtual and physical environments with unprecedented ease-of-use, and without compromising their security or integration requirements.

The AppDynamics 2.0 solution will be publicly demonstrated for the first time during this week’s Cloud Connect conference in Santa Clara, Calif., in AppDynamics’ booth No. 409.

AppDynamics distinguishes itself from other APM vendors through its ability to easily and accurately manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments, and has contributed to the success of key more

Today from the NCTC Winter Educational Conference in Long Beach, XCast Labs continued to make its presence known when it announced that it can now automatically provision the full line of Arris EMTAs (Embedded Multi-media Terminal Adapters), which combine a cable modem with up to 12 ports of VoIP capability.

In addition, the Voice and Video-over-IP service provider also reported that Private Network Cable (PNC) Television, a New York City competitive Video, Internet and Digital Satellite provider, has selected it for XCast VoIP for its Digital Phone Service launch.

“The Private Network HFC system passes some 20,000 potential MDU (multi-dwelling unit) subscribers, and we plan to roll out the PNC Digital Voice product across our entire New York City footprint,” said Wayne Gordon, PNC Director of Engineering. “We evaluated a number of solutions during our trials; the ease of customer turn up was a leading factor more

VIERA, FL—February 17, 2010—SkyCross, a global antenna designer and manufacturer, announced today that the GSM Association named iMAT MIMO antennas winner of “Best Network Technology Advance” at the annual Global Mobile Awards 2010 on February 16 in Barcelona. Within this category, the GSMA judges were looking for products or services that deliver demonstrable improvements both for end users and network operators and are applicable to multiple markets on a global scale. SkyCross iMAT antenna technology enables enhanced MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) performance in sleek devices. With its carrier-proven ability to boost capacity, data rates, and reliability of 4G networks, iMAT convinced the judges that SkyCross deserved this prestigious award.

The judges, all highly experienced wireless professionals, had this to say about SkyCross: “Realizing the real need for high speed in the mobile device is vitally important to fully exploit the massive investment in super fast more