Creating a powerful, independent vendor of “Network as a Service” solutions   Belfast, 7th July 2009 - Aepona, a global provider of telecoms software products and services headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, today announced its acquisition of Valista, a Dublin, Ireland-based provider of payment, settlement and service lifecycle management solutions to mobile and broadband operators worldwide. The acquisition, which comes into effect immediately, creates a powerful, independent vendor, operating under the Aepona brand, with a complete solution for the “Network as a Service” (NaaS) business model now being embraced by Telcos globally.   With the NaaS model, mobile and broadband operators treat their network and informational assets as marketable resources that can be made available to third party application developers, upstream service providers and Enterprises.

Read more: Aepona Acquires Valista

Wyless, the leading Global Network Enabler (GNE), and Telefónica O2 UK, one of the UK’s leading integrated operators in the telecommunication sector, have today announced an agreement that will increase the Wyless footprint and enable the company to provide additional global connectivity to existing and potential customers.   With presence in Europe, Latin America and worldwide roaming agreements, Telefónica has one of the most international profiles in the telecoms industry, with more than 60% of its business outside its home market and a reference point in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets.   This deal with Wyless is built on a mutual go-to-market approach and will enable both companies to offer a joint solution, combining the footprint and roaming capabilities of O2 with Wyless’s global Managed Services.

Read more: Wyless partners with Telefónica O2

This application is targeted to mobile operators and broadcasters willing to deliver a full-featured interactive Mobile TV experience to iPhone™ subscribers   Paris, France, July 6th, 2009 – Streamezzo, the leading provider of Rich Application Software platform for mobile, and Atos Worldline, the European expertise of Atos Origin in electronic payments and transactions, announce a partnership to power an interactive Live TV application for iPhone 3G. Effective today, this solution enables mobile operators and broadcasters to offer iPhone™ subscribers the best-in-class Mobile TV experience, combining the power of Streamezzo’s technology and of Atos Worldline in-depth experience in the telecom market with large volume hosting capacity.

Read more: Streamezzo and Atos Origin partner to power a ready-to-deploy Mobile TV application on iPhone™

LONDON, 3rd July 2009 - weComm, the leader in interactive mobile data solutions, designed the downloadable mobile application currently being used in the BBC's “radio visualisation” trial, giving mobile audiences synchronised access to relevant images, “now playing” and artist information, news, entertainment and sports feeds – and the ability to interact directly with the programme whilst on the move.

The mobile application, which is built on weComm’s wave On-Demand Mobile Application Platform™, delivers live radio broadcast for radio shows involved in the trial. The trial includes The Chris Moyles Show, Zane Lowe and Switch on BBC Radio 1, Material World on BBC Radio 4 and a selection of The Hub sessions on BBC 6 Music.

weComm’s wave platform uses a client-server infrastructure to deliver high-quality, interactive mobile data services optimized to all major mobile operating systems. The technology delivers content and applications to handsets on-demand, giving the richness and interactivity of an on-device application combined with the flexibility and freshness of an online service.

Steven Tan, VP Business Solutions, weComm, said: “The ‘radio visualisation’ trial is ideally mapped to weComm’s push technology highlighting our ability to deliver synchronised real-time interactivity in a rich and compelling manner.”   

Read more: weComm provides mobile technology for BBC radio trial

Meru provides 802.11n virtual cell™ wireless network to Kinnarps HQ and branch offices

London – Tuesday 30th June 2009 - Kinnarps, Europe’s third-largest provider of office furniture and interior solutions,  has deployed Meru Networks’ 802.11n wireless LAN infrastructure based on the IEEE 802.11n draft 2.0 standard throughout its UK headquarters and seven new branch offices nationwide. Kinnarps switched to Meru from Trapeze in order to eliminate the dropped connections it had experienced with its previous WLAN infrastructure.

According to Kinnarps UK’s IT Director, Tony Gamble, the previous infrastructure’s performance and connectivity problems were lowering efficiency and impeding the sales process. Sales associates and employees were frequently experiencing dropped connections to the WLAN as they roamed about the building; in some cases, laptops needed rebooting to re-establish network access. 

Read more: Kinnarps, the 'better at work' company, embraces 'better at wireless' from Meru Networks