Archive for July, 2009

AT&T chooses Amdocs over Motricity

Written by admin on July 30, 2009 – 1:21 am

  • AT&T to replace Motricity with Amdocs as operator prepares to launch AppCenter. ME has seen documents advising content providers they will be transitioned to the Amdocs/QPass system in August. The move will be a huge blow to Motricity, as AT&T is its flagship account. Motricity also lost its Bell Canada contract to Live Wire Mobile in May.
  • Amdocs has declared third quarter of fiscal 2009 financial results, well above estimates. The company continues to benefit from the telecom carrier industry’s long-term trend towards network consolidation & convergence. Third quarter revenue of $690.3 million was down 15.9% from the year-ago quarter and down 2.9% sequentially. But this was above our expectation of $680 million and at the high-end of the company’s guidance.
  • ECtel Ltd, a leading provider of Integrated Revenue Management(TM) (IRM(R)) solutions for communications service providers, announced that Vivo, a top mobile telecom provider in Brazil, has upgraded to FraudView 8.2, ECtel’s latest most innovative fraud-management system.
  • 3GVision has announced that more than 120 million mobile users worldwide are using its 2D barcode reader to instantly launch to the mobile web on their mobile devices.
  • Mo’Minis, builder of a unique platform for the fast production of mobile games, allows developers to earn money from creating original mobile games. The winners of the GameCast #1 contest have already earned significant revenue with a minimal amount of development effort, thanks to Mo’Minis technology.
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Modu - Cellcom sold the first supply of handsets

Written by admin on July 27, 2009 – 12:34 am

  • Israeli newspaper calcalist reports that Cellcom has sold a few hundred handsest from modu - in the first 4 days of the launch - and is now waiting fr more handstet from the company. the price tag ia 120$.
  • There’s a new contestant in the race to buy the controlling interest in Israeli mobile services company Partner Communications: the pan-European investment fund Permira.
  • Scailex Corp said it was in talks with a third party to issue securities to fund a possible purchase of a controlling stake in mobile phone operator Partner Communications.
  • Sources inform ”Globes” that Hutchison Telecommunications chairman Canning Fok was in Israel to push forward the sale of the company’s stake in partner.
  • AudioCodes has teamed up with MailVision to offer a mobile soft client (Pico) and a versatile mobile clients’ Distribution Platform to Israel’s leading mobile service provider, Cellcom.
  • Australian telecoms operator Telstra Corporation Limited has launched Comverse HUB Converged Messaging, locally branded MyConnect, the supplier of software said.
  • Amdocs Ltd (Amdocs) reported weak 3Q 09 results with a y-o-y decline in revenues in line with Management guidance on account of the weak demand environment.
  • Nokia Siemens Networks expanded its OEM agreement with dominant WiMAX vendor Alvarion, effectively ushering in the vendor’s exit from the WiMAX infrastructure business.
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A study from israel shows a sharp rise in salivary gland cancer that may be linked to mobile phones

Written by admin on July 17, 2009 – 2:24 am

  • A recent study documents a sharp rise in the incidence of salivary gland cancer in Israel that researchers believe may be linked to the use of mobile phones. The study was commissioned by the Israel Dental Association and directed by Avi Zini of the community dentistry department at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine. The study included examination of the incidence of oral cavity cancers in Israel from 1970 to 2006.
  • Amdocs , the leading provider of customer experience systems,  announced that Telenor Sweden, one of the largest mobile operators in Sweden and a subsidiary of the Telenor Group, has selected Amdocs’ Operational Support System (OSS) suite of products to manage and automate its network inventory across its wireline operations.
  • Ceragon Networks Ltd, a leading provider of high-capacity wireless backhaul solutions,  announced that it has signed a multi-year global supply agreement with the Hutchison 3 Group, a leading global player in the 3G telecommunications.
  • emoze Now renowned for its messaging solutions will offer services to the Nokia Series 40 devices. The Series 40 mobile phones are now being offered with an Emoze push messaging software link in the OVI download fold.
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tunewiki is number one on the blackberry app store

Written by admin on July 15, 2009 – 3:51 am

  • Tunewiki is Currently the most-downloaded app in the BlackBerry App World, users can listen to streaming radio or their own music collections, get track lyrics, search through videos, and even see what other people are listening to in the local area. Cnet took a look at it.
  • MK Ahmed Tibi has joined the chorus of voices calling for cell phone company Cellcom to pull its latest commercial, in which Israel Defense Forces soldiers are seen playing soccer next to the West Bank separation fence.
  • Partner, a leading Israeli mobile communications operator, announces that Standard & Poor’s Maalot (”S&P Maalot”) has revised the CreditWatch implications of the Company’s ‘ilAA-’ bond rating from “positive” to “developing” due to the announcement by the parent company that it has been approached by various parties regarding the possible sale of its indirect equity interest in the Company.
  • Cellcom will also be selling iPhones in Israel, and recently signed a contract with the device’s manufacturer, Apple.
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Modu will be launched next week

Written by admin on July 14, 2009 – 4:40 am

  • Modu first handset will be soft launched in cellcom israel next week. no details yet on price. the company raised about 80 mullion$ hoping to become a major hanstet maker. the launched was delayed by almost a year due to technological and financial problems.
  • Mobile advertising start-up Pudding Media recently completed a $3 million second round of financing.
  • Comverse today announced completion of a project with Cellcom Israel that upgrades the mobile operator’s own legacy ringback tone service to the Comverse Ringback Tone solution, which will boost sound quality and also add new features.
  • Israel-based WiMAX equipment and broadband solutions developer Alvarion Ltd today announced a WiMAX pilot with French operator Bollore Telecom in Marina Port Vauban in the south of France.
  • Mo’minis announced it’s first contest in the GimmiCast contests series. Mo’Minis is giving you the opportunity to create content which has never been seen before on the mobile platform! This contest is all about gimmicks.
  • Despite a lack of an apparent overlap between their technologies, Intel Corporation  and Amdocs Ltd have decided to cooperate, and have set up a joint performance lab, financed by the two companies, to test new technologies.
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Will Cvidya by ECtel?

Written by admin on July 13, 2009 – 5:24 am

  • Cvidya, which decelops revenue assyrance solutions for the telecom industrty, is in talks to buy ECtel.
  • Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced that it has been selected by T-Mobile UK for a four-year managed services managnent.
  • Another story about trixcell and its spoon magic app.
  • Researchers from Tel Aviv University say that they can use mobile phone towers to predict the intensity of  weather derived flooding, before it arrives. They said that such a technique could have acted as an early-warning for New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit the US city.
  • Alvarion and MLL Telecom have concluded that the U.K. is ready for widespread rollouts of mobile WiMAX technology following a network trial in Maidstone in July 2008 that saw a variety of applications ranging from public-safety applications to mobile data, VoIP and video streaming successfully tested on the system.
  • meet the burpometer, an iphone app by logiamobile.
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fring is no suck really :)

Written by admin on July 7, 2009 – 11:49 pm

  • Here is a really funny video about fring.
  • modu completed the production on the first line of the “modu” mobile phone. “calcalist” news paper reports that the 200 employees have started using the device.
  • N-trig, an Israeli technology start-up that has designed a touch computer device, may go public next year in New York and could command a market value of $1 billion, according to CEO Amihai Ben David.
  • A major change in Israel’s telecommunications infrastructure could be in the works. Sources inform “Globes” that Israel Electric Corporation and Partner Communications Ltd. are in talks to set up a venture which will use the IEC’s fiber optic cable network as a telecommunications network.
  • An interesting interview with Emoze, an email and messaging solution for the mass market.
  • Comverse Technology Inc. said that it has settled the options backdating case brought against it by the US Securities and Exchange Commissio.
  • Comverse Inc. is the latest company to end litigation with Klausner Technologies Inc. in an infringement suit over visual voice-messaging technology, leaving Embarq Communications Inc. as the last of nine defendants named in the suit.
  • WeFi, the company behind the global WiFi network, has launched WeFiApps, what they say is the first WiFi powered launch pad for mobile applications.
  • Funambol and JAJAH, the global IP communications company, announced the world premiere of the new Go JAJAH service, to be launched exclusively in Italy
  • irael’s parliament is considering whether to allow a fifth mobile operator. The Economic Arrangements Bill which accompanies the state budget calls for the addition of a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).
  • Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoahas asked potential buyers to submit bids for its majority stake in Israel’s Partner Communications by Wednesday.
  • In 1Q09, Alvarion consolidated its overall WiMAX equipment revenue share lead by migrating existing customers to 802.16e networks and winning new business.
  • Comverse today announced that GTEL Mobile, a new mobile operator in Vietnam, has deployed the Comverse® ONE? Billing & Active Customer Management? solution, a converged billing system that will help differentiate the operator from other telecom providers by offering flexible billing models and a 360-degree view of the customer, regardless of touch point.
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