• It’s one of the biggest transactions Israel has seen for years: Ilan Ben-Dov has sealed the deal winning him control of Partner Communications, Israel’s largest cellular service provider
• Israeli and French project AppsFire has submitted a new app that will allow anyone to select from the list of apps they have on their phone and send links to those apps to anyone else by email.
• AudioCodes , a leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies and Voice Network products, and MailVision, a leading provider of SIP Mobile Platform for Wireless and NGN Service Providers, announced that iPico, a mobile SIP client solution developed by MailVision, is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch.
• Logia Group  announced the launch of Mo-Tip, a smart personal mobile alert service that matches publishers with end consumers.
• obile content technology vendor, m-Wise announced its consolidated financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2009.

• Volas Entertainment Ltd, part of Logia Group and a provider of mobile video solutions and value added managed services, have recently signed an agreement with leading mobile games developer Redboss Games, part of MLiven, to distribute and resell Redboss mobile games in Israel. The new partnership will create an Israeli presence for MLiven’s Redboss Games via ICQ’s gaming site using a mobile billing solution provided by Volas.
• TuneWiki gave geardiary a peak at their brand new Beta application for BlackBerry devices.   Who is TuneWiki?  Well, they are a music/media/mobile application development team from israel that won top prize at the AT&T Fast-Pitch Mobile Developer Contest held during this year’s CTIA in Las Vegas. TuneWiki is a social media player application that offers song lyrics synchronized to the music playing on select music-enabled mobile devices in real time  (they previously released versions for the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android devices.
• into mobile take a look at AcCells. This Israel-based company, has a solution called AcCells mID which enables contactless payments with ANY mobile phone. The trick is to identify a mobile phone using only near field GSM signaling and authenticate is as unique to the billing servers.
• Gold Line Group has announced the general availability of Gold Lock Enterprise™, a triple layer end-to-end encryption suite that turns Nokia® cell phones, computers, and Windows® mobile devices into encrypted digital fortresses. Now individuals and corporations can easily and affordably keep their data and voice communications safe, secure, and private using the same military-grade encryption software government agencies rely on.
• For the second year in a row, a handful of Israeli high-tech companies staked out territory at the Canadian Telecom Summit, hoping to lay the groundwork for strategic alliances and future business deals.

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