Press Releases by Category Media & Telecommunications
First Swedish carrier secures voice service quality of its IP telephony network …
Hamburg, Germany – 15th February, 2010 - The Swedish telecommunications provider QuickNet AB, the regional market leader from the Swedish town of Västerås (approximately 100 km west of Stockholm) is investing in top-level technology from German company Voipfuture to improve the voice quality of its telephone network. The RTP monitoring solution supplied by the Hamburg based technology provider enables the voice service provider QuickNet AB to precisely monitor and analyze…
Jerasoft announces free VoIP Billing Migration program
Jerasoft Development, the leading VoIP billing solutions developer, announces new free migration program which is developed to help owners of other billing solutions to migrate their data, personalized settings and statistics from the old system to BillBery VoIP billing and keep data consistent.
The migration program will be useful for VoIP service providers in the case when existing billing solution doesn't have the major functionality, isn't comfortable or doesn't handle the…
Risen Interactive Turns An Eye To In-House Sales & Marketing
Risen Interactive, Inc. is proud to announce its inception of an in-house sales and marketing position in an effort to focus on the acquisition and management of commercial A/V accounts.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Press Release) – Feb. 9, 2010 – In an effort to focus on the growing potential in a growing commercial A/V market, Atlanta-based Risen Interactive, Inc. is proud to announce its creation of a sales and marketing position…
Astellia to showcase 360° QoE & network visibility at the Mobile World Congress …
On the occasion of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Astellia will unveil Trending & Aggregation Corporate. The new performance management solution, already used by major operator groups across Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, provides CTOs with a clear picture of mobile service quality over several networks.
Trending & Aggregation is the only OSS/PMS solution on the market converging both OMC and probe-based data. This unique feature enables…
Victoria Production GmbH buys the Russian licence for the successful RTL format …
Berlin, January 25th 2010. Successful German TV series The School Inspectors will soon be on air in Russia. Victoria Production, a production company based in Berlin with operations in Russia and Ukraine, has purchased the show’s licence option. More than 20 episodes are to be produced to start with. The series will be produced to be very close to the successful German original. Just the day-to-day circumstances of individual stars…
Maps.com appoints Bennett Moe as Business Development Director
Santa Barbara, CA [February 11, 2010] — Maps.com today announced the appointment of Bennett Moe as Business Development Director.
Bennett brings more than 23 years of experience to the role which will focus on Business Development in the company’s Custom Mapping Services division.
As Sales Director for GeoNova, Bennett’s responsibilities included managing GeoNova's business-to-business sales team, spanning traditional and new media markets including publishing, content development and licensing, automated mapping…
UK’s largest broadcast technology event, BVE to witness latest edition WASP3D on …
New Delhi, 10th February 2010 - WASP3D the leading real-time, interactive broadcast graphics solution today announced its participation at Broadcast Video Expo, Earls Court II, London. Along with its 2009 edition, the company will demonstrate its innovative touch screen based non linear presentation tool, WASPi Mimosa.
On display will be various modules of WASP3D on-air graphics solution that comes with new inbuilt design effects, enhanced user-friendly…
cVidya Networks to Showcase its Extended Solution Portfolio at Mobile World Cong …
With the acquisition of Ectel, product portfolio is now extended to cover fraud management and marketing analytics solutions
London, UK, February 10, 2010 – cVidya Networks, (cvidya.com) a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for communication media and entertainment service providers, announced today that it will be showcasing their extended product portfolio at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Upon the acquisition of Ectel the company …
Advantech Accelerates Infrastructure Equipment Designs with MicroTCA, ATCA and P …
Advantech, a leading global manufacturer of customizable telecom computing blades and multi-core network platforms, today announced it will be showcasing the latest optimized ATCA, MicroTCA and Packetarium™ solutions at Mobile World Congress 2010. These solutions are aimed at accelerating the successful deployment of next generation infrastructure equipment designs.
Advantech's latest ATCA Processing blades based on single or dual Intel® Xeon® 5500 and Westmere processors with 10GbE connectivity will be…
ENENSYS supply modulators for launch of Terrestrial High Definition TV over DVB- …
In December 2009, the UK launched the first High Definition TV service in the world to use the new DVB-T2 transmission format.
After extensive testing in the laboratory and over air, Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, selected ENENSYS modulators for one of the launch transmitters, and a number of subsequent installations.
Transmissions from the Crystal Palace transmitter site started on 2nd December 2009, broadcasting services to the London area.
Transmitters…
Comarch introduces its latest solution – the M2M Platform for Mobile Operators
To help mobile operators with entering the M2M market Comarch has designed a platform which contains the necessary features for operators to provide services for M2M partners.
The platform supports operators with the most important features in the areas of BSS and OSS and includes a self service portal for M2M partners, provisioning of services, data mediation, rating of events, inventory, mass SIM cards management, business process management and more.…
CeBIT 2010: serVonic Unified Communication – Fax, Unified Messaging and CTI for …
Olching, 8th February 2010: At this year’s CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, serVonic introduces the innovations of its Unified Communication-solutions at the booth of Microsoft in Hall 4 Booth A26. Highlight in the field of unified messaging is the presentation of the IXI-UMS fax server solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. The solution of the fax specialist is fully integrated into the latest Microsoft Exchange-version and adds the features for fax…
Centralized Subscriber View in Real time
Multi-node real-time rating to achieve marketing leadership
Paderborn (Germany), 09 February 2010: Mobile network operators around the world are seeking for systems with real-time convergent capabilities, going far beyond those of traditional billing systems. Especially customer centric marketing capabilities are on top of operators’ wish lists. Meeting those needs, Orga Systems has added further features to its real-time convergent platform OPSC Gold. With its new multi-node real-time rating, Orga…
AIS Media: 2010 Business Website & Interactive Marketing Usage Survey Results An …
AIS Media, Inc., an award winning Interactive marketing and consulting company announced the results of their 2010 Business Website and Interactive Marketing Usage Survey. The survey revealed that the majority of businesses plan to invest in the improvement of their company’s website and interactive marketing strategy in the next year.
The survey confirms that business owners place incredible value on website development, professional website design and high search engine rankings.…
Call Accounting for Mitel PBX Systems
Mitel PBX Systems are installed in thousands of hotels and motels across the nation. In fact, TEL electronics, inc. (TEL), the leading manufacturer of call accounting systems for hotels, reports that over 83% of its call accounting systems are currently interfaced to a Mitel phone system. With more than 50,000 installations since 1980, TEL clearly understands the hotel industry and recognizes Mitel as one of the leading manufacturers…
First time on a Nokia: certgate to port microSD-based smartcard security into Sy …
Nuremberg / Barcelona, 08.02.2010, Prior to the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, the Nuremberg-based IT security company certgate announces that its SmartCard microSD will from now on also support business cell phones with Symbian operating systems. Thus the specialists for mobile security solutions also offer Nokia cell phone users a way to protect their digital identity with hardware certificates.
The world’s largest telecommunication technology exhibition in Barcelona opens its gates from…
CustomCall Data Systems, Inc. and Concretio.com, Inc. Announce the Completion of …
The two companies close on the previously announced merger.
February 3, 2010, Madison, WI and Naperville, IL — CustomCall Data Systems, Inc. and Concretio.com, Inc. announced today that they have closed on their pending merger. The two companies offer complementary software and services to communications service providers in all segments of the telephone, cable, and wireless industries. Operating under the CustomCall name, the combined company will be the only source for…
German telecoms vendor TELES strengthens ties with Du Pont
TELES, the Berlin based Next Generation Network and Access Gateway vendor has strengthened its ties with Johannesburg's voice-based telecommunications solutions company Du Pont Telecoms.
This has led to Du Pont establishing a new division, using the brand TELES Africa, which will provide full customer support and supply the complete TELES product range of mobile and VoIP gateways and Class 4 and Class 5 next generation network solutions throughout Southern Africa. There…
3CX and Beronet announce strategic partnership to provide complete IP PBX soluti …
Certified interoperability between 3CX’s popular PBX for Windows and Beronet’s Berofix VoIP gateways guarantees customers’ piece of mind.
London, UK and Berlin, Germany – 1 February 2010 - 3CX - developer of the popular software PBX for Windows - 3CX Phone System, and Beronet - an industry leader in VoIP gateway equipment - announced today a strategic technology partnership that pairs 3CX’s software-based IP-PBX with Berofix VoIP gateways.
The partnership ensures that…
Lanner Releases Economical Intel Atom based 3.5” Single Board Computer.
(February 3rd, 2010) Today Lanner Electronics Inc. announced the release of the VES-300, a low power and economically priced 3.5” single board computer. Utilizing the 945GSE + ICH7M chipset and powered by an Intel ATOM N270 processor, this SBC is designed to be deployed in a variety of industrial and commercial settings. The VES-300 has SATA support, comes with a CompactFlash socket and holds up to 2GBs of…
Entertainment & Media: a mitigated year for the French market
For the French Entertainment & Media market, 2009 was a very mitigated year so far as some industries have benefited from the recessionnary economic environment while others have deeply suffered from it.
What can account for these contradictory trends?
Historically, there are some industries that seem to benefit disproportionately from the downturn. For instance, Cinema has reached in 2009 its highest record attendance since 1982, crossing the milestone of 200 million…
Simplifying complexity in real time
New dynamic policy management for growth
Paderborn (Germany), 02 February 2010: Mobile network operators’ future revenue will mainly come from mobile broadband services. But as applications are bandwidth-demanding and therefore expensive for operators to provide, CSPs need to find intelligent ways to handle their subscribers’ demands. The only way to generate sustainable growth for operators is to offer new and highly personalized services while at the same time limiting…
Zoner Photo Studio 12 Now Available In Multiple Languages
Zoner Photo Studio is now available in the German, French, Italian and Russian languages. The hugely popular English version was initially launched, alongside a Czech version, in 2009. “This wide availability enables our customers to work natively in their language,” says Managing Director Pavel Minar.
Zoner Photo Studio is designed to satisfy a wide range of users—from amateur photographers to semi-professionals and professionals. Zoner Photo Studio is great for organizations as…
mobivention creates Widget application for Sunrise in Switzerland
Cologne, Germany– 1 February 2010 – mobivention GmbH has produced a widget application for Sunrise Communications AG in Zurich, Switzerland. This widget is offering a direct connection with the Joylife Handy Fun portal for Nokia S60 smartphones.
Sunrise end consumers can discover and download a large range of mobile en-tertainment products like music, ringtones, mobile games and mobile themes for their phones in the Joylife Handy Fun portal. These products can…
VoicetapTM wins the Red Herring Global Top 100 award
February 1, 2010 New Delhi: Voicetap Technologies (voicetap.in) – a startup headquartered out of New Delhi, has won the Red Herring Global 100 award held in California on 13th -15th January. Voicetap is a company that is focused towards bridging the knowledge gap by connecting knowledge seekers to knowledge experts using the medium of Voice.
Voicetap had previously won Red Herring Asia 100. “Choosing the best out of the…
April Nevels Makes Solo Debut With "Krazy Praize" on 7-Places Record Label
TURNERSVILLE, NJ – January 29, 2010 - April Nevels of the sensational contemporary gospel group, the Nevels Sisters, has released the first single from her solo debut album “Krazy Praize.” The high energy, radio-friendly song is the title track from her forthcoming CD and is already going for adds. The “Krazy Praize” full project is set for release Spring 2010 on 7-Places record label.
Produced by…
Excellent year for European box office
In these recessionary times, European movie goers seem to be more and more attracted by theaters, as 2009 appeared to be a very good, if not exceptional, year for Cinema in many European countries.
In Greece, movie admissions recorded a spectacular 30% rise, reaching 13.5 million at the end of 2009 according to Cineuropa.
On the other hand, French movies admissions reached in 2009 their highest level since 3 decades. According to…
Hi-Def TV Ad for AMD
Berlin, Germany, 2010-Jan-28 - The rich media agency Golden Alligator Interactivities developed and produced a television ad in HD for microchip manufacturer AMD. The 3D trailer advertises the newest AMD processors and envelops the viewer in a virtual world of sand and silicon. The spot is being aired worldwide on the Al-Jazeera network in both Arabic and English versions.
Behind the letters AMD is Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. the US-based company…
French VoD market: up 175% in two years
While the French DVD market is declining or stabilizing at best, VoD continues its growth, mainly driven by leading TV operators’ offers. According to preliminary figures from GFK, VoD market grew to over €80 mln in 2009, up from €53mln in 2008.
TV VoD represents from 80% to 90% of VoD revenues in France. In this market, Orange VoD holds the lion’s share in terms of enabled households, revenues and monthly…
Real-time charging and billing to achieve competitive edges
Orga Systems delivers solutions for challenges MNOs will have to cope with
Paderborn (Germany), 26 January 2010: As the Mobile Telecommunications market becomes highly competitive in terms of time-to-market, costs and churn reduction, the industry is looking forward to getting profitable answers to tomorrow’s challenges. Serving millions of subscribers on a single real-time platform, enabling the introduction of new services within a few days and enabling real-time customer interaction,…
Jerasoft Development extends range of support and maintenance services for Billb …
JeraSoft Development, the leading VoIP billing solutions developer, extends range of the offered Billbery billbery.com services and presents new support package and BillBery Health Check technology, that will care about VoIP platform 24/7, checking all the most critical parts. So VoIP companies, customers of Billbery VoIP billing software, can reduce support costs since Jerasoft's experienced engineers will help to find solution of any problem in brief time and make a…
Boom! Magazine 2010 Media Kit Now Available
Boom! Magazine 2010 Media Kit Now Available
Several New Series Introduced
CARY, N.C. (January 21, 2010)—Barbara Petty, publisher of Boom! Magazine (BoomNC.com), a monthly publication dedicated to the active lifestyle of those 45 and older, announces the release of the 2010 media kit. New series on Phase II living, finance and health highlight the new additions for readers this year. The media kit can be downloaded at Tinyurl.com/Boom-2010MediaKit.
The publication’s 2010 lifestyle…
Polystar to supply Roaming and Network Performance Solution to MTN Cyprus
Stockholm, Sweden, January 21, 2010 – Polystar OSIX, a leading supplier of Service Assurance and Network Performance Monitoring solutions announced that it has been selected by MTN Cyprus, one of the largest telecommunications providers in Cyprus, to supply network-wide integrated monitoring system, ensuring end-to-end quality of service across legacy and next generation UMTS technologies.
Polystar solutions will satisfy MTN’s need for sophisticated Roaming Management and provide a comprehensive in-depth view of…
Telstream Telecoms announces successful multinational satellite project implemen …
Telstream Telecoms announced the successful implementation of a point-to-point satellite solution for a leading African financial institution allowing for the reliable transfer on information.
The solution allows for branches throughout Zimbabwe, Botswana and Malawi to connect directly to head office via satellite. The brief required the implementation of a "single-hop" point-to-point satellite solution allowing for latency sensitive applications to operate effectively over the links. Telstream Telecoms achieved this through the use…
Grasshopper and NBS partner to deliver Virtual Phone Systems
Company presents NBS with Service Excellence award for exemplary customer service
Wayne, NJ and Needham, MA - January 19, 2010 - Grasshopper Group, LLC serves tens of thousands of companies and their employees with their easy-to-use virtual phone system. The company focuses on entrepreneurs with a service that efficiently and economically fills an essential need. Grasshopper allows entrepreneurs to start and grow their small businesses anywhere, using any phone. With…
Latin America - favorable region to invest in for operators
3G licenses and rollout of new services
Paderborn (Germany), 19 January 2010: Due to the tough economic climate, operators have to seek new revenue-generating services and have to enter new markets within a shorter time to market than ever. Operators have started to meet these new concerns. As Brazil, for example, is one of the countries promising economic growth, the country has attracted many foreign operators to invest here. New…
Transtelecom JSC implements the Telesens’ Tinterconnect (T-IC) system
18th January 2010
Transtelecom JSC, one of the leading telecommunication operators in Kazakhstan, and Telesens, the leading developer of complex software solutions for telecommunications, have concluded a contract to deliver Tinterconnect (T-IC), a settlement system for telecom operators and content providers.
“Our main aim is to raise the efficiency of our mutual relations with partners and clients and to supply new services to the market quickly and effectively. The complex, reliable…
DNA in Finland selects ENENSYS for their DVB-T2 trial
DNA Oy, Finish’s second largest pay television operator, successfully launches DVB-T2 HDTV test broadcasts in Lahti. The project has reached the test transmission phase thanks to ENENSYS DVB-T2 modulator and T2 Gateway.
DNA Oy, who has been awarded for the 2 Finish VHF DVB-T2 licenses in June 2009, has selected ENENSYS to fulfill their first DVB-T2 trial in Lathi. In this project, ENENSYS provides the DVB-T2 key elements:
- the DVB-T2 Gateway,…
Polystar to deliver LTE/4G Signalling Monitoring to TeliaSonera
Stockholm, Sweden, January 11, 2010 – Polystar OSIX, a leading supplier of OSS/BSS solutions, today announced that TeliaSonera Norway/Netcom will expand their network monitoring system with LTE/4G technology.
Polystar will deploy its pioneering LTE network monitoring solution to support Netcom managing their first-ever launched 4G commercial services. With the monitoring system in place, Netcom will be able to proactively manage the services, which require high transmission speed and capacity, thereby addressing…
SalutHaiti.com Supports Red Cross in Rescue Efforts
KeepCalling.com through one of its dedicated websites - SalutHaiti.com donates today $2000 to the Red Cross in order to help people in need after the massive earthquake that hit Haiti. We are all aware of the huge impact of such a disaster and we are giving a helping hand for those suffering after the Haitian tragedy.
SalutHaiti.com wants to be there together with other organizations that are going the extra mile…
Advantech adds OEM-Ready Intel® Xeon® 3400-based Appliance
Advantech introduced today its first OEM-Ready Network Application Platform based on the latest Intel® Xeon® 3400 series Quad Core processor and Intel® 3420 PCH chipset. The 1U rackmount FWA-4208 targets Network Security OEM's seeking to improve the entry-level cost point of high-performance systems for small-to-medium businesses (SMB's). The FWA-4208 provides the hardware platform for multi-gigabit filtering and intrusion prevention performance across nine GbE ports. The system scales to meet…
Comarch receives high rating in Gartner's BSS Market Report
Comarch's offering for telecoms received a "Strong" rating from a leading analyst company's BSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors (2009).
Comarch, a global IT business solutions provider and systems integrator, employing over 3500 people worldwide, announced today that it has been rated “Strong” in Gartner’s “Business Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2009”, a report published December 22nd 2009, that provides a worldwide BSS vendor comparison…
Ramez Younan appointed as new Chief Executive Officer
Main focus will be on the further internationalization and growth of the Orga Systems Group
Paderborn, January 12, 2010 - Rainer Neumann, CEO of Orga Systems GmbH, has decided to leave the company in order to pursue other interests. The company has appointed Ramez Younan as new Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. Ramez, an ex senior Executive
of Oracle Corporation, comes with a wealth of Telecommunication experience, established
and ran…
mobivention and Mobile Streams ink European Distribution Deal
Cologne, Germany/London, United Kingdom – 11 January 2010 – Two of Europe’s leading mobile content companies have joined forces to provide more choice for mobile subscribers it was announced today. As part of the agreement, Mobile Streams will provide a range of content wallpapers and videos to games and applications for distribution by mobivention to their partners throughout Europe, including: Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Poland and Italy as well as…
Public vote for the Browser Game of the Year 2009 opened
From 5th to 20th January 2010 browser game enthusiasts can choose their favorite browser game 2009 in the Browser Game of the Year Award.
From 5th January 2010 the votes on the Browser Game of the Year Award 2009 are opened on the official website www.browsergameoftheyear.com. Nearly 50 games have qualified this year for the race for the most important award for browser games, as specified by the organizer GalaxyNews.…
Mobile Social Networking Company Mozat Selected as Finalist in Red Herring’s Glo …
Mobile Social Networking Company Mozat Selected as Finalist in Red Herring’s Global 100 Award
January 8th, 2010 - SINGAPORE – Mozat announced today it has been chosen as a finalist for the Red Herring's Global 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world.
The Red Herring editorial team has selected the most innovative companies from a pool of over 1,200. The nominees…
BeroNet Launches Berofix With PCI-Express
Berlin, January 8, 2010 – beroNet GmbH, a leader in Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technologies that accelerate the deployment and enable the management of next generation Line-Interface-Cards, announced its newest berofix PCI-Express cards. With berofix PCI-Express card, the latest addition to the card series of berofix, the VoIP experts from Germany demonstrate their practical experience again.
PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe (or PCIe, as it is commonly called),…
“Inside Business Review” show to feature New Series on "Doing Business In A Glob …
The producers of "Inside Business Review" are pleased to announce a special series, Doing Business In A Global Economy, exploring the latest trends in technology, concepts and strategies for the diverse needs of 21st Century corporate and organizational structure. The show marries an unrivaled host, Fred Thompson, with a team of award-winning producers, and provides viewers new information that will impact their lives.
Complexity has become the somewhat…
Real-time based suite of world-class solutions at Mobile World Congress 2010
Fresh trends, new solutions and proven customer care
Paderborn (Germany), 05 January 2010: Today more than ever, differentiation and customer focus are crucial. The Mobile World Congress will be an opportunity for operators to see what they can do to install an effective communication channel to reach subscribers and ensure long term revenue. Communication service providers can learn about a solution to enhance their real-time communication and customer interaction capabilities…
Leading European MNO has selected Orga Systems’ Virtual Voucher
Innovative prepaid top-up solution chosen
Paderborn (Germany), 29 December 2009: Orga Systems, leading provider of convergent real-time billing, announces that it will deliver its innovative prepaid top-up solution Virtual Voucher to a leading European mobile network operator. Orga Systems’ Virtual Voucher enables mobile network operators to sell prepaid airtime and communication services in real time. The sophisticated sales and distribution system is designed to support a hierarchical network of distributors and…
