Independent research shows operators are keen to drive direct top-up to improve performance metrics, reduce costs and accelerate mobile payment take up

Monday 22nd June, Mobile Money Summit, Barcelona, Spain — Vesta Corporation, a global pioneer and leader in electronic payment solutions, today announced results of an independent research study, indicating how an effective prepaid top-up strategy can deliver significant value to the prepaid mobile market. The study, based on operator interviews, shows that the implementation of a direct operator top-up strategy can bring double digit revenue gains and reduced costs. Given the size of the prepaid market in Western Europe, this can equate to hundreds of millions of Euros annually. Direct operator top-up channels include all operator-managed top-up channels that rely on electronic transactions outside a retail environment, such as the operator’s website, IVR and handset applications.

..Revised methodology to reflect changes in today’s project management needs...

Monday 22nd June 2009, ILX Group plc (ILX), the blended training company has launched a new series of courses to reflect the recent PRINCE2® 2009 Refresh. In addition to the classroom environment, the ILX PRINCE2® 2009 courses are available in various multimedia formats – including On-line and CD Rom.  They are also supported by mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.  The courses can be purchased by visiting http://www.ilxgroup.com/prince2-training.asp ILX is recognised for the quality of its PRINCE2® training and the new courses have been developed to ensure ILX’s clients have the appropriate level of knowledge to either attain or renew their accreditation.

Adds new English Java Capability Updates Blackberry and iPhone versions Launches in Nokia’s Ovi store

22 June, 2009 - Salo Finland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands - GeoSentric Oyj (NASDAQ OMX: GEO1V), developers of the award-winning GyPSii mobile social networking application (www.gypsii.com), today announced new availability, as well as number of updates, to enhance the application based on feedback from its member community.  The company is adding Java capability in English, updating its iPhone and Blackberry applications and is also going live on Nokia’s Ovi store.

Nokia Siemens Networks reports on strategies to approach the cost-per-bit and power-per-bit complex at WDM 2009 in Nice, France

Munich, Germany – June 19, 2009 - The tremendous bandwidth growth in the next five years will impact fixed networks in access, aggregation and core, initiating disruptive changes in network architectures. As the average revenue per user will grow insignificantly, the requested efficiency increase in cost-per-bit will be close to the forecasted traffic growth of 50% per year. There are, however, major differences in the scaling of access and aggregation/core networks: the total cost is proportional to the number of users in access, whereas in aggregation/core the total cost scales with the number of processed packets.