Personalised Mobile Experience Increases Frequency and Volume of Mobile Content and Data Service Usage on Feature Phones

Reading, UK - Dec 1st, 2009 - SurfKitchen announced that Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, has increased mobile content and data revenues by more than 11 percent on SurfKitchen powered TelstraOne Experience handsets. Launched in May 2009, the TelstraOne Experience is an innovative mobile user interface that leverages the SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform to give subscribers quick and easy personalised access to applications and services they regularly use on their mobile phone.

Analysis of results since launch revealed that customers using TelstraOne Experience were 60 percent more likely to use their phone on a weekly basis to access the mobile web when compared to Telstra's regular 3G mobile customers. In reviewing how the new user interface impacted mobile data use by volume, Telstra found that mobile data use was almost 7 percent higher when comparing results on two identical handsets - one with TelstraOne Experience and one without.

Read more: Telstra Increases Content and Mobile Data Revenues with SurfKitchen Powered Mobile User Interface

Users of Android mobiles can now use the Accumulate mobile security solutions for identification, authentication, and signing on the internet and to make secure payments with mobile phones in stores and online.   Stockholm, Sweden, December 1, 2009 – Accumulate announce support for Android on its mobile payment and security platform Mobile Everywhere. Using the platform mobile phones can replace security solutions as hardware security tokens, one-time codes or certificates on your computer. In addition to reduced administration, logistics and cost of special security devices and the like, Accumulates solutions make the everyday life easier for the user when information can be accessed anywhere and anytime. In addition, Android mobiles can now use the Accumulate payment solutions, for example, pay with phone in the store, pay online, person-to-person money transfers and to pay goods in vending machines. 

Read more: Accumulate launch support for Android

Vodafone mobile data solution increases time on the beat by up to 10 per cent

Vodafone has provided Northamptonshire Police with a mobile data solution that now means up to 900 officers can spend less time at the station and more time in the community. Northamptonshire Police is providing frontline officers with BlackBerry® smartphones, giving them on-the-spot access to internal computer systems and records. 

Initial trials of the solution show that officers increased time on the beat by as much as 10 per cent, with BlackBerry smartphones being used more than 20 times a day.  This equates to one hour of a ten-hour shift they would otherwise have needed to spend at the station.

Read more: Northamptonshire Police to spend more time out on the beat, and less time at the station

Telmap brings rich search, mapping and navigation service to Android to provide a true location experience across a wider market

LONDON, 26th November, 2009 – Telmap, the pioneers in mobile location solutions, today announced the availability of a special edition of Telmap Navigator for Android, allowing Telmap’s award-winning location-based services solution to be accessed on the “fastest growing smart-phone operating system in 2009”, according to Current Analysis.

As part of Telmap’s strategy to optimise its solution on the major operating systems, the Android edition follows successful launches on iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, BREW, and Windows Mobile and will help users take advantage of Android’s popular user interface and capabilities.

Read more: Telmap releases Telmap Navigator for Android

 Unified Communications platform provides flexible, feature-rich access and connectivity for new Innovation Centre’s tenants and users

[Lichfield] – 25th November, 2009. NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has delivered an innovative communications solution for Lincoln’s flagship Innovation Centre which opened this summer. The network combines high speed voice, video and data services and applications and was designed by NextiraOne to provide “agile” communications in a Green IT environment.

City of Lincoln Council’s Innovation Centre opened in June 2009and is a state-of-the-art building designed to provide office accommodation and facilities for new and innovative businesses across the County.   

Read more: NextiraOne Helps Lincoln Think Tank Deliver Innovative Agile Communications