Native 64 bit support tackles vastly bigger challenges

10 December 2008, VIENNA, Austria

Symena is delivering a new version of Capesso™, its market leading automatic cell planning (ACP) tool, to OEM vendor, operator and consulting customers this month.  Capesso™ 4.0.1 is the first ACP to provide native support to 64 bit computing in the Microsoft Windows environment.  The increase in directly addressable memory means that Capesso™ can now find solutions for very much larger planning problems in one run as it breaks the barrier imposed by the 32 bit computing environment.

“Native 64 bit computing means faster solutions to much bigger problems,” said Dr Martin Toeltsch, CTO of Symena.  “32 bit computing limits addressable memory to only 2 GB.  This has either limited the geodata resolution that can be used on big planning problems or severely degraded speed of processing as data is shifted on and off a drive.

Also adds inbound and free iPhone-to-iPhone Truphone calls

Global mobile network operator Truphone today added Truphone Anywhere functionality to its iPhone™ application, enabling users to make international calls across the internet for as little as £0.03/$0.06 [UK/Rest of World] per minute even when they’re not connected to the internet. Inbound Truphone calling on the iPhone is also added for the first time, making it possible to enjoy completely free Truphone calls between two iPhones.

Truphone Anywhere works in 33 countries around the world, saving iPhone users from those countries money on international calls made from their home country when not in Wi-Fi. The easy-to-use service works alongside domestic service providers, but reduces international call costs to as little as £0.03/$0.06 [UK/RoW] per minute.

 Concepts built on Liquavista ColorBright display platform

Cambridge UK, 10 December, 2008 – Liquavista and Seymourpowell today launched a series of new product concepts built on the Liquavista ColorBright display platform. Applied to watches and mobile phone secondary displays, the concepts clearly show how Liquavista’s differentiated display technology can be used to create a more engaging user experience.

The high impact concepts are showcased, along with Liquavista’s own designs for cycle computers, shower displays etc. at www.liquavista.com/downloads. The Seymourpowell watch features a full color, highly legible display that replaces the traditional black on grey LCD for maximum aesthetic, functional and fashion appeal. The mobile phone concept transforms the previously unused phone back into a dynamic graphic display triggered when the phone is used to play music or to take photos.

Combination of Credit Crunch and Capacity Crunch will dramatically slow take-up

London, 10th December 2008: The near-term importance of new embedded-3G and embedded-WiMAX notebooks has been significantly over-estimated, according to a new research report published by Disruptive Analysis. Even in three year’s time, laptops with built-in wireless access will only be used by 30% of total, active mobile broadband subscribers globally. External USB modems (or “dongles”) will account for 58% - almost twice as many.

However, the report, “Mobile Broadband Computing: Device Market Forecasts & Business Model Scenarios” predicts that in the long term, embedded mobile broadband will indeed overtake separate modems, in terms of both shipments and the active user base. By 2014, there will be 150m users of notebooks and the smaller “netbooks” with embedded mobile broadband worldwide. In terms of device shipments, 100m wireless-enabled laptops will be sold annually by then – although not all of them will actually be activated.