Edinburgh, Scotland 5th August 2009
HSL, the mobile network operator and provider of mobile infrastructure, today announced the introduction of the HSL 2.75G Picocell.

The picocell delivers excellent in-building and outdoor voice quality, messaging and high speed EDGE data rates. Inexpensive IP over LAN, wireless, satellite or DSL backhaul is used by mobile operators to easily connect the picocell with the core network. 

The HSL 2.75G Picocell is targeted to include all markets currently dominated by the nanoBTS from ip.access. Furthermore, new markets will become accessible and existing markets more addressable through now being economic to service with the HSL 2.75G Picocell.

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Developers Can Now Easily Integrate Text Messaging into Their Java, Ruby, Python, PHP and Perl Applications with TextMagic’s New SMS Gateway API

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. -- TextMagic, Ltd. (www.textmagic.com), a provider of online text messaging solutions for businesses, developers and consumers, announced today the release of its new Bulk SMS Gateway API. TextMagic’s new API will facilitate innovation by developers to integrate text messaging services into new and existing web and back-office custom applications, potentially reaching more than three billion active SMS text message service users.

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4th August 2009, Hemel Hempstead, UK – Following on from the successful events held in April this year, Telephonetics VIP, the speech automation specialist, is pleased to announce the next phase of its renowned Health and Public Sector technology days and User Group forum taking place 13-15 October 2009.  These events will be held at The Belfry, Birmingham.

The Health technology day takes place on Tuesday 13th October 2009. Delegates will discover about innovation and quality of care at the heart of the NHS.  Delegates looking to improve patient and staff communications will participate in discussions about transforming communications, meeting targets and patient service goals, achieving cost savings and process efficiencies.  The day will showcase solutions deployed to enable Trusts to cope with developments such as the ‘Swine Flu’ pandemic. 

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London / Vienna 3rd August 2009: International payment provider paysafecard has teamed up with BT, to give 70 million mobile users the chance to buy online by charging the purchase to their mobile phone. The scheme launches with all of the UK’s major mobile operators which include Vodafone, O2, Orange, T-Mobile and 3. Mobile users will be able to spend at any of paysafecard’s 2,700 integrated websites, without ever having to disclose their financial details.

BT’s agilemedia team and service provider Dialogue Communications have been working with paysafecard to deliver the service to address this rapidly developing market. From the outset, the design brief was to make the user journey simple and convenient, while conforming to the UK mobile industry standard Payforit.

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- Vodafone Portugal steps up customer care service with multi-dimensional per customer analytics -

July 31, 2009 Lisbon, Portugal and Mountain View, CA, – Vodafone Portugal has successfully completed a Mobile Broadband Experience Management pilot based on Carrier IQ’s architecture and is moving it into operation. The new technology will enable Vodafone Portugal to offer a highly optimized and personalized Customer Care experience by allowing an accelerated problem identification and resolution. It also gives Vodafone Portugal the ability to make pinpoint accurate network planning and investment decisions based on the true end-customer experience.

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