Press Releases by Category Media & Telecommunications
NII Holdings, Inc. selects Astellia to monitor its networks
New York, October 5th, 2009 – Astellia, leading provider of monitoring solutions to maximize Quality of Service (QoS) management and performance of mobile networks, has signed a contract with NII Holdings, Inc., one of the leading providers of fully integrated mobile communication services designed to meet the needs of businesses and individual customers in selected Latin American markets, to monitor its 2G and 3G networks.
As a result of this…
CLIFFORD CHANCE ANNOUNCED AS GOLD SPONSOR OF TMT FINANCE ASIA CONFERENCE
Singapore and London, 5 October 2009 – Clifford Chance LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, has been announced as Gold Sponsor of the TMT Finance and Investment Asia conference - telecom strategies for growth in emerging and mature markets.
The inaugural event, which takes place at the Grand Hyatt Singapore, November 5-6, 2009 is the premier networking event for telecom, media and technology executives, investment bankers and advisers in…
More than 500 members in the Mein Schreibservice .de group on XING
Cape Town, 2 October 2009 – By now, the number of members in the XING group of Mein Schreibservice .de has risen above 500. Numerous freelancers, translators and typists as well as other interested persons from all over the world have joined the group since April this year when the group was founded. The members not only contribute to an active exchange of thoughts, but also make many new contacts…
SkillPod Media concludes deal with leading European entertainment network
RTL Nederland, part of the leading European entertainment network RTL Group, has launched a new online gaming platform Spelsalon.nl. The new site offers a wide choice of casual games, supplied by SkillPod Media and supplemented with games from a selection of third-party games developers. The number and variety of games is set to grow in the near future. “This deal increases SkillPod’s reach into Europe and opens up opportunities…
Virtualtech Website Design Promotion Receives 2009 Best of Appleton Award
Virtualtech Website Design Promotion Receives 2009 Best of Appleton Award
U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement
WASHINGTON D.C., June 8, 2009 -- Virtualtech Website Design Promotion has been selected for the 2009 Best of Appleton Award in the Online Service Providers category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they…
InfoCom says Indian mobile market growing at last
India’s mobile subscriptions to reach 662m in 2014 -Prepaid subscriptions to remain plan-of-choice for most subscribers - Mobile operators looking at mobile TV, mobile payment and mobile shopping.
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Manila, Philippines — With its mobile penetration rate at around 30%, the Indian mobile industry has still a great potential thanks to its vast geographic extension and its huge population. Mobile operators are thus focusing first on network expansion…
Telecom sector achieved record result
Orga Systems Brasil supplies key technology
Paderborn (Germany), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 29 September 2009 – Revenues of more than 60 billion Euros were generated by the Brazilian telecommunications sector in 2008. With this record-achieving result and a share of more than 6 percent of the GDP, the industry underlines its key importance for the continuing economic upswing in the fifth largest country in the world. This development does not…
DEN Networks Limited Launches TV Blogging Application and Music Service with NDS …
- Den Networks Limited (DEN) has launched an interactive TV micro blogging application, Blog.telly, and a 24 X 7 music service for the digital cable TV market
- Both applications run on NDS MediaHighway® set-top box software
- This further demonstrates NDS’ commitment to the local development of innovative, world-class solutions for the Indian digital pay-TV market
Mumbai, India, 24.09.2009 - NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced…
Archway beats the clock with TELES solution
TELES, the Berlin based Next Generation Networks and Access Gateway vendor, has completed a major contract for Italian satellite and integrated solutions provider Archway for redundant softswitch architecture.
Thomas Grillmeier, Archway's CTO, was impressed with TELES flexibility in adapting to the increasingly complex situation: "First of all, we selected TELES because of the robustness and reliability of their products and also because they matched our technical and government requirements. Their solution…
Real-time inventor strengthens position
Industry experts attest Orga Systems in its role as business enabler
Paderborn (Headquarters / Germany), 22. September 2009 – The need to quickly deploy and successfully market NG telecommunication services increases in all regions. To achieve the goals communication service providers continue to put software vendors with real-time rating, charging and billing capabilities to test. Since Orga Systems revolutionized the telecommunications sector with its first GSM prepaid billing system in 1994…
Comfone welcomes TeliaSonera as the newest member of its WeRoam open roaming ser …
TeliaSonera, leading provider of telecommunications solutions in the Nordic and Baltic region, has joined WeRoam, Comfone’s award winning WiFi roaming service.
Bern, Switzerland, 17 September, 2009 – Comfone, provider of roaming services to more than 300 operators in over 130 countries, is proud to welcome TeliaSonera as the newest member of its WeRoam Wireless IP roaming platform with an aggregated footprint of over 60’000 hotspots all over the world. As…
EvoLogics sold underwater modems for the Atlantis ABS project
EvoLogics GmbH has supplied underwater equipment and technical support to Offshore Manpower SA (OMSA) for the positioning, remote acoustic control and landing in the Atlantis Artificial Buoyant Seabed (ABS) unit trials.
The ABS unit was submerged, tied back to wellhead and BOP landed successfully Apr 09, as part of the offshore phase trials on-board the vessel Nan Hai 5 in China.
EvoLogics has provided the acoustic positioning and communication equipment and offshore…
Customers design their own mobile services
Orga Systems provides technology for Internet-based services
Paderborn, September 15, 2009 – Mobile subscribers have long since had the possibility of generating their own services. However, the number of users has remained small. The mobile network operators incur large costs, calling economic efficiency into question. Together with other European science and business partners Orga Systems is working in the research project 'uService' to prove the user and…
ENENSYS and Arqiva collaborate to broadcast live DVB-T2 signal across IBC
Once again, ENENSYS Technologies and Arqiva partner to showcase the significant DVB-T2 technology advantages that allow more TV services over digital terrestrial networks while improving the user experience. Since April, Arqiva has been transmitting a live DVB-T2 signal for the Ofcom pilot from Crystal Palace in south London utilizing the ENENSYS DVB-T2 modulator. At the IBC, the DVB-T2 signal is broadcast by Arqiva from the Amsterdam Tower and covers the…
Enhanced Data Compression for Live Video Data Streaming
The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin presents a software-based system for scalable video coding (SVC) in real-time at IBC 2009 in Amsterdam.
At IBC 2009 in Amsterdam, the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin presents a software-based system for scalable video coding (SVC) in real-time. The solution simultaneously provides for numerous resolutions, different frame frequencies and variable picture quality within a single bit stream. This enables…
Versatility in Action – Stereo Film Material for Auto-Stereoscopic 3D Displays
At IBC 2009 in Amsterdam, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin presents a technology for the conversion of stereo-quality film material for auto-stereoscopic 3D displays.
At IBC 2009 in Amsterdam, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin presents a technology that prepares conventional stereo film material – of the kind now used in 3D cinemas – for auto-stereoscopic 3D displays. This means that such…
Psytechnics CTO and Founder to speak at VON
Portsmouth, NH - September 9, 2009: Psytechnics, a leader in voice and video performance management for managed service providers and enterprises, today announced its sponsorship at the VON Conference & Expo, September 21-23, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in South Beach, Florida.
Psytechnics CTO and Founder, Dr. Mike Hollier, will also be participating in the following three panel discussions:
• Tuesday, September 22nd:
o 10:00am EST - Real World UC:…
Clever top-up to stimulate ARPU and to reduce operating costs
Orga Systems showcases business results at this year’s Prepaid Mobile
Paderborn (Germany), Lisbon (Portugal), 8 September 2009 – The current economic situation presents unique challenges for the mobile prepaid community. As mobile operators reconsider business models and processes, optimized top-up strategies to stimulate ARPU are gaining importance. At IIR’s Prepaid Mobile 2009, Orga Systems, inventor of GSM prepaid billing, will showcase strategies and business results, achieved by its top-up solution Virtual…
IFA 2009 Replicators Committee of European Optical Disc Producers Proposes Impro …
Berlin, September 4, 2009: Within the MEDIA-TECH Association the Replicators Committee of optical disc producers was founded in May. The members of this group met for the second time in Berlin to discuss goals and problems and to come up with solutions.
The primary goal of the committee is to promote the interests of the Blu-ray Disc producers. Amongst others, uncertain licensing issues and high additional costs are currently distorting competition.…
InfoCom: Mobile TV users continue to grow but there is still no proven business …
Stuttgart, Germany - According to InfoCom’s latest study release on mobile broadband services and innovative applications, the number of mobile TV users continues to grow but there is still no proven business model so far. Japan, South Korea and Italy are the leading markets for broadcast-based mobile TV services but mobile TV subscriber growth in these markets is driven mainly by free or partly-free access and rather large handset availability.…
amiando benefits despite the crisis and revolutionizes the event industry in Eur …
Munich, September 3, 2009. An excellent track record for amiando AG: three years after its foundation as a web2.0 start-up in 2006, amiando is revolutionizing the event business in Europe with a rapid quarterly growth of over 65%, over 70,000 successfully organized events and seven digit revenues.
The first two quarters of 2009 have been the most successful in the history of the company. The founders have been delighted by…
PURE4C provides repair and maintenance services for new digital cinema lenses fr …
PURE4C - pure for cameras GmbH has been named uniQoptics service partner for Germany and will be providing repair and maintenance services for uniQoptics brand new Signature series of digital cinema lenses. PURE4C’s Managing Director Oliver Reil has been trained at uniQoptics headquarters in California and is impressed with the new range of lenses: „The Signature series is the first range of digital cinema lenses on the market providing a…
15% Reduction of Physical Vouchers
At TIM Brazil, Orga Systems’ Virtual Voucher underlines cost-benefit ratio
Paderborn (Germany), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1 September 2009 – The use of its internationally awarded online recharge system TIM PDV (Ponto de Venda), shows significant business results at tier 1 operator TIM Brazil. It facilitates the subscriber life-cycle management and also helps to preserve the environment, since consumption of plastic and paper is reduced.
More than 100 thousand POS within…
Uncompressed, ideal for 3-D and Steadycam: the ultimate answer for Digital Cinem …
Munich, Germany, August 28, 2009 ---- The HD-Specialist Band Pro has once more enhanced his product portfolio. The compact, lightweight, and attractively-priced high-performance recorder S.two OB.1™ brings unprecedented flexibility for filmmakers. Filmmakers can now focus on just making their movie. The OB-1 supports the feature sets of virtually all digital film cameras including Sony F23 and F35.
The OB-1 truly represents a new standard of digital film recording.…
Jeremy Amelin, finalist singer from French Star Academy, hits back at Britney Sp …
PARIS, FRANCE, August 27, 2009 /X-CitePressRelease/ -- Jeremy Amelin, aged 23 and finalist singer from French Star Academy, is giving final touches to his upcoming new electro album, due out November 2nd, 2009. Working with top-notch electro music producers such as James Rendon, Pink Noisy, R&D Corporation, Wesfield, among others, Jeremy Amelin has confirmed he has just recorded a new sexy electro-track all about the one and only Britney Spears.…
WASP3D to showcase WASPi Mimosa at IBC, Amsterdam
New Delhi, 25th August 2009 - WASP3D after starting its European operations recently announced its participation at IBC Amsterdam, 2009 in a big way. The company will showcase WASP3D 2009 edition, the futuristic on-air graphics solution equipped with interactive tools & features for enhanced presentation of television content.
Key highlight of the product is its easy-to-use, touch screen based non-linear broadcast presentation tool, WASPi Mimosa. The module offers touch…
CONFERTIS AG and Celstream Technologies Ltd. agree on strategic cooperation
The two companies aim to focus on solutions and development services for the media and entertainment industry
CONFERTIS AG and Celstream Technologies, a world‐class provider of engineering services, have entered into an agreement aimed at providing technical solutions for customers in the media and entertainment industry. Domain segments span television, broadcast, telco and publishing.
Consulting and implementation services will play a significant role in future for customers focusing on their business models…
Unified Messaging for Windows Essential Business Server 2008
serVonic IXI-UMS for Medium-Sized Businesses
serVonic’s unified messaging solution IXI-UMS is ready for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and – besides Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS) – now also supports Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008. Both Microsoft’s products SBS and EBS are particularly designed for the operation at small and medium-sized companies and offer SMB the same server technologies as provided to large enterprises.
With IXI-UMS, serVonic provides a unified messaging-…
Operators in MENA region ready for convergence
Orga Systems supports growth strategies
Istanbul (Turkey) / Paderborn (Germany), 25th August 2009 - The Middle East region represents one of the world's fastest growing mobile subscription markets, even as the world economy struggles and slows, according to figures from Informa Telecoms & Media. As a consequence of its strategic business development activities in this region, Orga Systems continues to introduce its convergent product portfolio to leading operators.
Operators need to position…
Comarch organizes BSS/OSS Workshops in DACH countries and discusses the key busi …
Frankfurt, Tuesday 25th of August, 2009 - Comarch organizes BSS/OSS Workshops in DACH countries and discusses the key business challenges currently faced by telecom operators
This year’s edition of the Comarch BSS/OSS Workshops will be held in Düsseldorf on the 6th of October, in Bonn on the 7th of October, in Vienna on the 13th of October and in Bern on the 15th of October and is dedicated to current customers…
Cuesport TV Trial HD Streaming Snooker Videos
Web TV channel Cuesport TV have this week released two demo videos in 720p High Definition.
The videos are believed to be the first snooker videos to be streamed in High Definition online. The HD content shows the true capabilities of the platform that the company adopted in April 2009.
The HD videos that have been made available were recorded at the recent TCC Snooker Pro-am in Wales. The tournament is a…
euNetworks Reports 32% Growth in 1H09 Revenue
London, United Kingdom, 14 August 2009 - euNetworks Group Limited, (SGX: H23.SI), a foremost provider of mission-critical, high-performance networking solutions in Europe, has reported a 32% improvement in revenue to €14.3 million for the six months ended 30 June 2009 (“1H09”), compared to €10.8 million achieved in the same period a year ago (“1H08”). Driving this growth in revenue was the signing of 93 new recurring revenue contracts worth…
Low-Cost Handsets to Account for over Half of all Mobile phones by 2014, as Cons …
Hampshire, UK: Tuesday, 11th August 2009 – New research has shown how the mobile handset market is becoming increasingly polarised between low cost handsets for emerging markets and high-end smartphones for developed regions – with the mid-range handset market being squeezed.
Low-cost handsets and Smartphones will together account for almost 79% of all new mobile phones by 2014, or just over 1 billion units in all. Operators and vendors are preparing…
Cross-industry solutions for future-proof networking
Orga Systems founding member of initiative “Connected Living”
Paderborn (Germany), 12. August 2009 – The initiative Connected Living, recently founded in Berlin, Germany, claims to develop and establish cross-industry solutions and interoperability standards for future-proof networking among electrical equipment in the home. Relevant areas are consumer electronics, telecommunication, IT equipment, building service engineering and white goods.
Interdisciplinary co-operation is key
Prof. Dr. Sahin Albayrak, Scientific Director of DAI-Labor at the Technische Universität…
Professional support for a route free of traffic jam
The GNS TrafficBoxplus FM9BT-C Receiver is the optimum extension for portable navigation systems with TMC function, so that time-consuming and annoying traffic obstructions soon belong to the past
Würselen, the 10th August 2009. With the GNS TrafficBoxplus FM9BT-C Receiver the company Global Navigation Systems GNS – GmbH presents its latest RDS/TMC- Receiver. Thanks to the supporting Bluetooth-technology navigation solutions for PDA’s, Smart phones or mobile phones capable of TMC can now…
txtNation reports growth in Premium SMS for Micro-Billing
With the many options available to merchants for non-credit card processing on the market today, txtNation are leading the way in the dynamic, SMS billing market. Picking up the best mobile billing provider award last month in London, England and recently nominated for the Mobile Entertainment awards this October, txtNation are continuing their fast growth with the most recent of updates to their Premium SMS billing solution. On the back…
Creation of an Intercultural Film Festival in France
International intercultural film festival in France
CCiff - September 5th – 19th
Mission and objective
To be an international intercultural film festival; a place where films, documentary and fiction propel us to reflect on sameness and differences and, as such, help us to gain a perspective on the essential nature of conflict.
Intercultural dialogue
Encourages an identification of the boundaries that define individuals, and asks them to relate across those boundaries, even…
euNetworks announces new executive appointments
London, United Kingdom – August 4, 2009 – euNetworks (SGX: H23.SI), provider of Pan-European, mission-critical, high-performance networking solutions, today announced a number of executive appointments to further support the company’s growth and drive the next phase of euNetworks’ development.
Uwe Nickl joined euNetworks as Chief Marketing Officer, based in Frankfurt, Germany. He will be responsible for Business Development, Products, Marketing and all Direct and Indirect Sales activities of…
Enabling Profitable Recharge Strategies
Enhanced voucher service center sets security benchmarks
Paderborn (Germany), 4. August 2009 – As prepaid remains to be the main driver behind GSM subscriber growth, profitable recharge strategies are crucial for success. Orga Systems, inventor of GSM prepaid, therefore launches a new release of its well recognized voucher service system OVSC. The new release again sets benchmarks for the industry. The certified secret code generation algorithm in combination with a…
Faxing Comfortably from the Workstation - serVonic IXI-UMS Client Tools ready fo …
Olching, 27th July 2009: The Client Tools of serVonic’s unified messaging solution IXI-UMS have been tested for Windows 7 successfully. The IXI-UMS user has comfortable enhancements for fax sending and unified messaging at his disposal for the new Microsoft Windows operating system as well.
The unified messaging solution IXI-UMS as client/server software basically can be used by all the users also without installation on the workstation clients.
The IXI-UMS Client Tools offer…
Mobile Community QEEP grows even faster than online communities Facebook and Mys …
• Nielsen Study estimates a yearly growth rate of 5.7% for online communities
• Today qeep breaks through 2,000,000 users with a growth rate of 100% since February 2009
Cologne, July 28 2009 – With a growth rate of more than 100% in the last 6 months, today the mobile community qeep reaches the 2,000,000 user mark. Having only been released internationally in March 2008, qeep reached its first 1 million…
The time is now ripe for true convergence
New Multiple Rating Node Technology thrills industry experts
Paderborn (Germany), 23. July 2009 - Regular improvements of legacy billing systems are unsuitable to reach business goals in the long-run. Therefore even small and medium sized operators are seeking for attractive convergence solutions. Orga Systems, leading vendor of convergent billing systems, already installed its modular solution OPSC®Gold successfully at several operators. Despite its outstanding real-time capabilities and scalability the new OPSC®Gold release…
The Four Ways to Save Video Conferencing
It’s a killer app, but if any organization fails to take four key factors into account, video communication could be dead on arrival.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – July 27, 2009 – Appia Communications has released a new guide stressing four critical factors that companies and organizations must consider before implementing video communication.
The benefits of video communication are well documented. If the price is right, users enjoy a rapid return on…
52 FALCON searchlights from A&O provide spectacular support for world championsh …
On the 20th June, FALCON searchlights were deployed at one of the biggest boxing events of the last year, the triumph by TKO of IBF, WBO and IBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko over WBA ‘world champion in waiting’ Ruslan Chagaev. The fight was broadcast live and exclusively by RTL from the Veltins Arena of Bundesliga club Schalke 04. With 61,000 spectators in the stadium and a further ten million following…
Number of online radios grows rapidly: currently about 2,000 in Germany
* New online radio report published by Goldmedia
* Five-fold increase in online radio offerings since 2006
* 4/5 broadcast exclusively online, 1/5 are live streams by FM radio stations
* Forecast for 2013: about 21m German online radio users per day
* Average daily use of online radio at the end of 2008: 73 minutes
* High marketing potential despite absence of uniform “currency” for advertising
Berlin, Munich, 23. July 2009. The number of German…
First xenon searchlight with integrated LED-video-panels
The FALCON® CMY LED-VIDEO is the logical further development of the FALCON® 6000 CMY, the well established 4.000W high-powered xenon searchlight with pan, tilt, CMY, colour changer, scroller for frost effects, dimmer, shutter and zoom. The now novel colour changer “CMY REALCOLOUR”, exclusively developed by alpha one together with ROSCO, is the first device in the world capable of achieving with colour gels the true colour mixing of 1.000 different…
snom technology nomina nuovo Channel Manager per l’Italia
Fabio Albanini affianca Federico Musto nello sviluppo del mercato italiano.
snom technology AG, produttore di telefoni VoIP per l’uso professionale, annuncia la nomina di Fabio Albanini come Sales Channel Manager per l’Italia. Fabio è responsabile dello sviluppo del canale commerciale indiretto attraverso una stretta collaborazione con distributori e VAR e riporta direttamente a Federico Musto, Country Manager di snom per l’Italia.
“Con la sua esperienza decennale nell’ambito informatico e della telefonia…
PrintersLounge - inauguration of new on-line network for global printing and med …
PrintersLounge starts public beta version
Dillingen/Saar, Germany, July 20 2009 – For a few days now, in the form of the PrintersLounge, a new, comprehensive, globally oriented on-line portal for the printing and media sector has been under way. The PrintersLounge was developed by D&S – Dort und Schmitt – of Dillingen in the Federal German state of Saarland. Alexander Dort of D&S on the PrintersLounge: "The idea of providing…
2wcom RDS Encoder now even more flexible with multiple IP ports
With programmable Automation Interface and multiple IP ports the 2wcom RDS Encoder is now even more flexible.
The programmable Automation Interface allows broadcasters to feed in song title / artist information directly – serial or alternatively via TCP/IP. The advantage of the 2wcom Automation Interface is that it can be configured to adapt to the standard studiosoftware.
The 2wcom RDS Encoder achieves further flexibility by the upgrade to five IP ports. One…
2wcom DSR01 - Digital Satellite Receiver for professional audio and RDS decoding
The Northern German DVB specialist 2wcom GmbH presents its professional DSR01 Digital Satellite Receiver with upgraded functionality.
DVB-S and DVB-S2 – the DSR01 meets the current DVB standards. In addition to these standards the DSR01 supports low symbol rates of down to 128 Ksym/s. The reduction of bandwidth, minimal booting times of 2-4 seconds and an adjustable and stable audio delay time of 10 ms to 1000 ms are only some…
