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Helio and Yahoo! Partner to Offer Mobile Access to Internet Services

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HELIO LLC, a mobile service built for young, connected consumers, and Yahoo!(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced a relationship to give Helio members access to one of the most extensive suites of Yahoo! services available from any mobile brand. Through this relationship, Helio members will stay connected to their favorite Yahoo! services such as Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports and more on Helio’s 3G services.

“There are millions of people who use Yahoo! as their online hub of connectivity and who align with Helio’s target market,” said Sky Dayton, CEO, HELIO LLC. “By extending Yahoo! services to the Helio platform, we’re giving these people the opportunity to access their information and connect with friends from virtually anywhere nationwide — away from the PC — all through a familiar experience.”

Helio and Yahoo! will also continually work to introduce new Yahoo! services to Helio members. This includes Yahoo! Go for Mobile, a full range of Yahoo!’s leading community, information and content services integrated into a single complete product experience. In addition, Yahoo! and Helio will co-market the services across the Yahoo! network and other Helio marketing channels. The marketing efforts will showcase how easily Yahoo! users can extend their experience into the mobile environment with Helio’s 3G network and high-end devices. [Read more…]

Sri Lanka Telecom Deploys Convergys’ Infinys Software

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Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in customer care, human resources, and billing services, announced today its Infinys [tm] Rating and Billing and Mediation software is now fully operational at Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), supporting SLT’s customer base across all services. Colombo-based Sri Lanka Telecom is Sri Lanka’s premier telecommunication services provider with more than one million business and residential subscribers, providing domestic and international voice, Internet, and data services. [Read more…]

Azure Solutions’ Certo 2 Revenue Assurance Selected by North American MVNO

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Azure Solutions, the revenue-assurance company, today announced that a national, tier-one Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) in North America has selected its Certo 2 revenue-assurance solution to monitor wireless network and revenue performance for a major new service offering it launched in early 2006. Certo 2, recently recognized as a finalist as Best New Product for Telestrategies’ Sixth Annual Excellence Awards, is the latest version of Azure’s automated revenue-assurance solution. After its initial market launch, the MVNO is currently adding high volumes of new customers to its service offering that is highly interactive and data intensive.
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HP Introduces Industry-specific Service-oriented Architectures

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HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) has developed service-oriented architecture (SOA) frameworks targeting four industries that are ripe to adopt the latest trend in software development. Designed for the financial services, manufacturing and distribution, network service provider and public sector industries, HP’s SOA frameworks allow customers to more readily integrate software applications, take advantage of market opportunities and gain competitive advantage. [Read more…]

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Axiom Systems Announces Strategic Alliance with Fastwire

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Axiom Systems, the leading provider of telecommunication software for the design and delivery of broadband and IP services, today announced a strategic partnership with Fastwire, a systems integrator providing advanced technology services for Asia’s Service Providers. This partnership will enable Service Providers in the Australia and the Asia Pacific region to take advantage of the award winning AXIOSS® suite currently used by Tier 1 carriers in around the world. [Read more…]

Partner Communications Selects RADCOM’s UMTS Monitoring Solution

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RADCOM, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RDCM – News), a leading network test and service monitoring solutions provider, today announced that Partner Communications Company Ltd. (“Partner”), (NASDAQ: PTNR – News), a leading Israeli mobile communications operator, selected its UMTS monitoring solution. The Omni-Q system enables Partner to manage 3G service performance across various local sites from a single control center.
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BEA Unveils First Telecommunications Technology Centre

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Reinforcing its commitment to the rapidly growing telecommunications market in China, BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software, has established the first BEA Telecommunications Technology Centre (TTC) in China. Headquartered in Beijing, the BEA TTC is chartered with extending the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform products to help meet the specific requirements of communications service providers in China, and better address the demands of the burgeoning Chinese telecommunications market. [Read more…]

Comverse to Acquire VoIP Application Leader Netcentrex SA

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Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT) today announced that Comverse Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Netcentrex S.A., for approximately $164 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments and a contingent earnout of up to an additional $16 million. The actual amount of the contingent earnout payment, if any, will be determined based upon achievement of certain financial targets by the Netcentrex business during the remainder of fiscal 2006 and for fiscal 2007. [Read more…]

Telcordia to Provide Hosted Solution for Disney Mobile’s New Wireless Service

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Telcordia (www.telcordia.com), a global provider of telecommunications software and services, announced today that it has signed an agreement with WDIG Mobile, LLC (“Disney Mobile”) to provide the Telcordia Hosted MVNO Solution, including Telcordia® Converged Application Server and Telcordia® Converged Real-Time Charging software, to help enable Disney Mobile’s family-friendly usage controls.

“Disney Mobile is providing a high-quality, family-oriented service that gives parents more control of their family’s communications in ways that have not been seen before,” said George Grobar, senior vice president and general manager of Disney Mobile. “We’re working with Telcordia to offer customization options that will allow our customers to personalize their service to meet their lifestyle.”

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Portal Software’s Bhaskar Gorti to be Featured Panelist at the Total Telecom World Telecommunications Congress

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Portal Software, Inc.’s (Pink Sheets:PRSF) Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Alliances, Bhaskar Gorti, is a featured presenter on the “Promise of Triple Play/Quadruple Play” panel at the Total Telecom World Telecommunications Congress. The presentations will focus on IMS Billing Standards and Prepaid/Postpaid Convergence. [Read more…]

Latest Carrier Access Billing Viewer Product has Expanded Database and XML Support

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Lymeware Corporation, an innovative provider of Telecom and security software solutions, announced a new release of its industry standard CABS Viewer billing product. The new release now supports CABS (Carrier Access Billing System) BOS (Billing Output Specifications) Version 45 (V45) and expand the capability and detail of the five supported output formats.

“We at Lymeware are pleased to continue our support of the newest CABS BOS standard, as required by all the major telecom service providers,” said Carl Fox, Director of Sales for Lymeware. “This latest product release gives our customers superior detail in their billing reports using billing data from any CABS-compliant carrier.”

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Samsung Unveils IP-based Multimedia Subsystem – Enables Global Availability of Converged Telecommunications Services via WiMAX Network

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At the annual CTIA Wireless 2006 trade show, Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) unveiled today its IP-based Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution that will enable the global availability of converged telecommunications services via a WiMAX network. The latest product portfolio consists of two elements that support the IMS solution — the Radio Access Station (RAS) and the Access Control Router (ACR).

The IMS network, which is the basis of Samsung’s WiMAX platform, will deliver high-speed services like voice, video conferencing and instant messaging, to rural and suburban locations not accessible by current technology. The solution also will create broadband “hot zones” in more densely populated areas. [Read more…]

Disney Mobile Selects Convergys and Visage Mobile to Provide MVNO Billing and Professional Services

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Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) with its partner, Visage Mobile, announced today a multi-year agreement to provide outsourced billing and professional services to Disney Mobile. Convergys, a global leader in providing customer care, human resources, and billing services, will provide its Infinys [tm] Rating and Billing software as well as professional and consulting services, including Infinys implementation, maintenance and support, and training services. Visage will provide the service delivery platform.

Disney Mobile is the first nationwide wireless carrier specifically designed for families. Its suite of mobile services will include wireless voice service, exclusive handsets, and a package of features and applications tailored to the unique communication needs of families. [Read more…]

Streaming21 Announces Significant Growth in Chunghwa Telecom’s IPTV Services

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Streaming21, Inc., a leader in broadcast-quality media streaming solutions, today announced that the company has achieved significant growth in its Karaoke On Demand initiative for Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT). Chunghwa Telecom is the incumbent carrier in Taiwan that owns 95% access networks and 4 million broadband subscribers. CHT is also one of the world’s largest IPTV service operators with over 120,000 subscribers. In October 2005, Streaming21 deployed the world’s first commercial residential “Karaoke On Demand” service for the IPTV platform at Chunghwa Telecom. This service attracted approximately 50,000 active subscribers and reached over hundreds of thousand monthly average hits in the first 3 month time of deployment. In April 2006, the KOD users jumped to 40 percent of CHT’s total IPTV users. At its recent growth rate, KOD subscriber penetration should break at least 50 percent by the second quarter of 2006. KOD will be the major revenue-generation application for CHT’s IPTV services. [Read more…]

Narus Launches NarusInsight 5, Widens Lead in Carrier-Class IP Security, Intercept and Traffic Classification

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Narus, Inc. today announced the next generation of NarusInsight(TM), the only carrier-class IP traffic processing system that provides the complete, real-time network visibility essential to secure, manage and deliver Services over IP (SoIP). As the foundation for the industry’s most advanced IP security, intercept and traffic classification applications, NarusInsight is unique in its ability to simultaneously provide deep-packet inspection from layer 2 to layer 7 and complete correlation across every link and element on the network — all at core carrier speeds. NarusInsight 5 now processes full-packet layer 7 traffic at speeds up to OC-48 (2.5Gb/sec) and layer 4 traffic at speeds up to OC-192 (10Gb/sec), providing carriers with the flexibility and superior price performance benefits associated with deploying at both the network edge and the high-speed core. In addition, NarusInsight 5’s new security application modules (the NarusInsight Secure Suite) feature the industry’s first entropy-based security algorithms, providing telecom carriers with unprecedented early detection of sophisticated new-breed anomalies such as low-volume and polymorphic worms, layer 7 protocol attacks, and application attacks. [Read more…]

Highdeal Introduces Pricing and Rating for Video

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Highdeal, the world’s leading provider of pricing & rating solutions, is introducing revolutionary pricing & packaging capabilities for IPTV and next-generation video services. Available to incumbent cable and DBS providers as well as new entrants, the licensed software solution enables video providers to profit from service innovation. [Read more…]

Telcordia Drives MVNO Momentum as Flying J Launches Wireless Services

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Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) today announced that Flying J Inc, a leader in the highway hospitality services industry, has selected the Telcordia Hosted Solution for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) to launch its highly targeted prepaid wireless service to the nation’s transportation industry. Telcordia’s first enterprise customer for this solution, Flying J Inc will launch the service nationwide this month. [Read more…]

BEA Systems Unveils Telecommunications Technology Center in China

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Reinforcing its commitment to the rapidly growing telecommunications market in China, BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS – News), a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software, today announced it has established the first BEA Telecommunications Technology Center (TTC) in China. Headquartered in Beijing, the BEA TTC is chartered with extending the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform(TM) products to help meet the specific requirements of communications service providers in China, and better address the demands of the burgeoning Chinese telecommunications market. [Read more…]

Amdocs Acquires Stibo Graphic Software

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Amdocs (NYSE:DOX) , the leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience(TM), today announced that it has acquired Stibo Graphic Software, a leading solutions provider to European directory publishers, from Stibo A/S. The acquisition solidifies Amdocs’ position as a leader in electronic and print directory publishing solutions and positions Amdocs for continued growth in Europe.

“The European advertising and media industry — which includes print and online directory publishers and is the second-largest market after North America — is undergoing accelerated change, and this is an ideal time for Amdocs to capitalize on that change,” said Eli Gelman, executive vice president of Amdocs Management Limited. “Stibo Graphic Software’s solid reputation and proven expertise in the European market, its strong existing customer relationships, significant market share and a great team of people, complement Amdocs’ strong management, deep industry knowledge, financial backing and global resources. This acquisition puts Amdocs in a good position for continued success in the growing European advertising and media market.”

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Telcordia Enhances Real-Time Charging with Openet; Active Mediation Capability Integrated into Telcordia Real-Time Charging Solution

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Telcordia (www.telcordia.com), a global provider of telecommunications software and services, today announces an expanded relationship with Openet Telecom, a global provider of OSS solutions. Building on Telcordia’s ability to offer market-leading real-time charging solutions, Fusionworks(TM) ActiveCharge from Openet enhances the Telcordia(R) Converged Real-Time Charging solution by providing wireline and wireless operators with a unique, pre-integrated combination. This enhanced, deployed solution helps ensure that global operators adopting, or who plan to adopt, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) can stay ahead of the requirement to bill for any service, in any way, at any time. [Read more…]