TelstraOne Experience Leverages SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform to Enable Users to Discover, Launch and Customize Services on the Device Home Screen   Reading, UK – May 5th, 2009 – SurfKitchen today announced that Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, has deployed the SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform to support the launch of TelstraOne Experience. This innovative, new mobile user interface gives subscribers 1-click access to the applications and services they regularly use on their mobile phone. Telstra selected SurfKitchen’s mobile Internet platform technology to deliver integration to the idle screen on feature phones, allowing users to easily discover and launch mobile widgets, Internet applications, native applications and Web links.   “We know mobile users want a navigation experience that is intuitive and allows them to get to their favourite features quickly without having to hunt through endless submenus,” said Mr Ross Fielding, Executive Director, Telstra Product Management.

The latest version of TextMagic Messenger for Mac OS X platforms enables Mac users to send text messages to mobile phones and devices, including iPhones, from their desktop and laptop computers.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – May 5, 2009 -- TextMagic, Ltd. (www.textmagic.com), a provider of online text messaging software for businesses, developers and consumers, is pleased to officially announce the immediate availability of its latest downloadable version of TextMagic Messenger for Mac OS X platforms. TextMagic Messenger is quickly becoming the premiere online text message software for PC users and now provides reliable text by computer services to Mac users who want to communicate with customers, colleagues across the globe or friends and family.

Mobile Text Banking Drives Adoption and Offers Compelling Banking Services to Underbanked Population

Banking & Payment Technologies Conference, Muson Centre, Lagos, Nigeria, May 5, 2009 – Clickatell, messaging provider for financial services, has been selected by Fortis Microfinance Bank to provide SMS Receipts™ to thousands of retail banking customers throughout Nigeria. Currently sending ~10,000 text messages per month, the bank sees tremendous growth potential as existing customers sign up and new customers look for compelling text banking services via mobile. As customers opt-in, the bank automatically sends text messages to registered mobile phone numbers immediately when transactions occur.

Two Way Text Messaging Helps Stop Fraud in its Tracks

  Banking & Payment Technologies Conference; Muson Centre, Lagos, Nigeria, May 5, 2009 – As banks around the world continue to benefit from interactive text alerts to reduce fraud, reduce call center costs, and ultimately increase revenue, Infotechnology Solutions has chosen Clickatell to offer interactive text alerts to banking customers in Nigeria – one of the fastest growing African economies. Banks can offer customers real time SMS alerts with every transaction, giving customers immediate knowledge of account movement on their cards. Using Infotechnology’s new solution, named MoneyGuard, customers have the ability to immediately respond to alerts on transactions considered fraudulent.   It takes an average of two weeks after a “stop” request is made before a card is blocked – and it only takes a few hours to empty an account.