Regional Ohio Telecom Transcodes HD Programming with VMG
SUNNYVALE, California – MobilityWire® – August 31, 2010
RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, announced today that Horizon Telcom, a telecommunications provider serving rural southern Ohio for the past 115 years, is using RGB’s award-winning Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) to dramatically increase the number of high definition television (HDTV) channels that it offers its IPTV subscribers. Horizon has deployed the VMG in its Chillicothe, Ohio headquarters which serves all of its service areas, including 25,000 subscribers in 13 Southern Ohio counties.
Spendvision, a global provider of total transaction management solutions, today announced that its hosted platform is being deployed globally by leading international mining group, Rio Tinto. The solution will enable more than 20,000 employees to record, track and manage corporate expenses. The platform will be rolled out across more than 10 business units in APAC, US, Canada and EMEA over a 12 month period.
Sentry Recognized for Upgraded Audio Level Monitoring Capabilities
BEAVERTON, Oregon– MobilityWire® – August 18, 2010
Tektronix, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that its Sentry® digital content monitoring solution, part of its Mixed Signals family of products, is one of only 10 products selected as a 2010 IABM Design Awards Candidate in this year’s IABM Awards for Design & Innovation. This esteemed awards program is held annually at the IBC tradeshow to recognize products and solutions that tangibly aid the progression of the broadcast and media technology industries. Sentry was selected as a candidate out of a pool of more than 80 nominated products and winners will be announced at IBC on September 11, 2010.
SINGAPORE and MARLBOROUGH, Massachusetts – MobilityWire® – August 16, 2010
BuzzCity, one of the world’s leading mobile advertising networks with over 2,500 publishers across the globe, and Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced an agreement to deliver mobile advertising via the acclaimed BOLT™ mobile browser. Using the BuzzCity Mobile Advertising Network, Bitstream plans to introduce a new revenue stream via strategically placed, relevant advertising.
PORTLAND, Oregon – MobilityWire® – August 16, 2010
Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), the leaders and pioneers in NFC enabled Memory Cards for mobile financial services announced today that their Managing Director, APAC, Prabhakar Tadepalli, will be presenting on the evolution and vision for mobile contactless payments. Tadepalli will address the current mindset in the industry and how alternative solutions are helping nourish the ecosystem to go beyond trials and for consumer deployments in 2011. Tyfone will be presenting its unique solution at the first forum on alternative NFC mobile payment solutions to be held in Taiwan on September 8-9, 2010.
Sentry Recognized in Top Monitoring or Network Management Solution Category
BEAVERTON, Oregon– MobilityWire® – August 11, 2010
Tektronix, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that its Sentry® digital content monitoring solution, part of its Mixed Signals family of products, is a finalist in this year’s Cable & Satellite International magazine’s Product of the Year Awards. The CSI Awards, which will be presented at the IBC tradeshow in Amsterdam in September, recognize technical excellence and innovation in the cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcasting and IPTV industries.
appbackr described as a “a cross between a book publisher and eBay”
PALO ALTO, California – MobilityWire® – August 5, 2010
MobileTrax, one of the leading independent analyst firms tracking mobile computing and wireless data communications, today released a new white paper, “appbackr: Creating a Wholesale Market for Mobile Apps,” which explains the business model for the first digital wholesale marketplace for iPhone and iPad applications. The white paper provides an in-depth look at how appbackr (www.appbackr.com) is helping developers fund the creation of mobile applications, and helping wholesale buyers profit and expand the market by promoting new applications. The white paper was made available this week to subscribers of Inside Mobile, MobileTrax’s weekly mobile market newsletter.
Bitstream adds GetJar’s branded app store link to BOLT’s “Favorites” in revenue share agreement
SAN MATEO, California and MARLBOROUGH, Massachusetts – MobilityWire® – August 5, 2010
GetJar the world’s second largest app store, today announced that it has partnered with Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS), developers of the acclaimed BOLT™ mobile browser, to offer users of BOLT immediate access to GetJar’s entire library of 70,000+ free mobile applications. Subscribers gain immediate access to GetJar’s massive library of applications via a GetJar branded apps store link on the favorites page.
LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – MobilityWire® – August 2, 2010
Mobility Public Relations, the full-service PR agency founded specifically to support mobility technology businesses, today announced that it has been awarded Outstanding Achievement in Website Development by Interactive Media Awards™ for its work on MobilityWire®, a proprietary social newswire service the agency built for its clients. Mobile technology companies around the globe use MobilityWire to distribute company news to targeted trade media and make the news easily discoverable online. This Interactive Media Award recognizes that MobilityWire met and surpassed the standards of excellence that comprise the Web’s most professional work. The site was honored specifically for excellence in Public Relations.
Designed for families and small- and medium-sized businesses, GadgetTrak 3 uses centralized management to track laptops, netbooks and desktop computers
ActiveTrak™ Inc., a leader in advanced tracking and data protection software for consumer and business devices, today made available GadgetTrak 3 for laptops, the latest version of its acclaimed GadgetTrak software. Powered by ActiveTrak’s industry-leading anti-theft technology, GadgetTrak 3 introduces new functionality that allows people to track multiple computing devices at the same time – including laptops, netbooks and desktop computers – through a centralized Web control panel that can be viewed from any Internet accessible device.
