• Demand for mobile services set to rise across all sectors

Potsdam, Germany, 26 November, 2008: Derdack (www.derdack.com), provider of mobile messaging platforms and notification workflow software today announced that competition and industry deregulation is driving greater demand for mobile messaging platforms in the Middle East.  Evidence from the UAE and Qatar to Oman and Bahrain indicates that many different industry sectors and business applications are looking to exploit the power and flexibility of mobile messaging platforms as a means of increasing revenue, improving efficiency and expanding communication capabilities.

The economic and financial climate in the Middle East has proven fairly resistant to the effects of the credit crunch.  Feedback from Derdack’s customers indicates that demand for new services continues to grow.  There are a number of factors influencing this, including regulatory demands for mobile confirmations and mobile payments in the banking industry and increasing competition in the telecoms industry forcing operators to innovate and offer new services.

TynTec to provide high-quality international SMS for GoMobi product distribution

November 25th, 2008 – London, UK: Mobile messaging operator TynTec (www.tyntec.com) has been selected by new mobile newspaper distribution platform GoMobi! to provide international SMS sending capabilities.  Under the deal, GoMobi! will use TynTec’s high-quality SMS to send ‘WAP push’ links to its new subscribers.

GoMobi! is a new international mobile newspaper platform based in Poland.  The company has a handset application that enables its newspaper publisher partners to distribute a mobile version of their title to consumers. 

In order to receive the GoMobi! newspaper reader application users simply submit their mobile phone number to receive an link to download the product.  These SMS WAP push links will be sent via TynTec’s SMS infrastructure.

Telmap recognised as the most valuable consumer application in the Life on BlackBerry category at the first EMEA Alliance Program Innovation Awards

LONDON – 24 November, 2008 - Telmap, the global leader in innovative mobile mapping and navigation solutions, today announced that it has won the ‘Life on BlackBerry’ award at the EMEA Alliance Program Innovation Awards in Monaco. The award recognises Telmap for its contribution to the overall experience when using a BlackBerry device, and ultimately the product differentiation it has brought to the BlackBerry platform.

Oren Nissim, CEO of Telmap said: “This accolade is testament to Telmap’s continuing success and commitment to innovation and will see the company continue to develop progressive mobile search, mapping and navigation solutions tailored to the needs of the mobile user.”

Makers of the World’s “toughest” phone introduce an even more rugged – and now completely waterproof -- phone for people who work and play in demanding environments.

London, UK, 24th November 2008: Sonim Technologies, makers of the award-winning Sonim XP1 today announces the latest addition to their Xtreme Performance Series, the Xtreme Performance 3, the world’s only rugged “all weather” GSM mobile phone.

The XP3 has a more rugged specification than the XP1 and can withstand more shocks and drops than its predecessor. Most importantly, the phone can be fully submersed for 30 minutes within one meter of water. In addition, the XP3 boasts an IP-57 rating and is designated with a Mil-Spec rating of 810F against salt, fog humidity, transport and thermal shock.  The phone is rugged in every detail – the keyboard touch buttons are tested to function beyond 500,000 pushes.