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The BOLT Mobile Browser from Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) has been named a finalist in the Mobile Applications – Entertainment / Social Networking category in the CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. CTIA’s fifth annual E-Tech Awards program recognizes products in 15 categories in the areas of mobile consumer electronics, luxury mobile, applications, enterprise, green solutions and network technology. International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® will take place March 23-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

More than 80 prominent media and industry analysts judged the 300-plus entries submitted for the E-Tech Awards program this year. Products and services were judged on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and the overall “wow” factor.

E-Tech Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA and Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, on Wednesday, March 24 at 2:00 p.m. on the Exhibits Innovation Stage located in the Emerging Technology Zone on the International CTIA WIRELESS exhibit floor, North Hall.

CTIA is offering companies two additional opportunities to win an award. Web visitors may vote for the Best Online Pick at www.ctiashow.com/awards. International CTIA WIRELESS show attendees will also have the chance to vote via text message onsite for products in the E-Tech Awards display to win Best in Show.

Attendees to CTIA can visit Bitstream in booth 122

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About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

About CTIA Shows
Celebrating 25 years as the premier global mobile marketplace, International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® brings together all industries advanced by wireless technology for three days of intense business, learning and networking in Las Vegas, March 23-25. International CTIA WIRELESS IT & ENTERTAINMENT 2010 takes place in San Francisco, October 6-8. Visit www.ctiashow.com.

CTIA-The Wireless Association® is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products. CTIA advocates on behalf of its members at all levels of government. The association also coordinates the industry’s voluntary best practices and initiatives, and produces the industry’s leading tradeshows. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, D.C. Visit www.ctia.org.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a leading developer of software that meets the challenging and ever-changing needs of mobile operators, device manufacturers, mobile application developers and consumers worldwide. The company will be showcasing its mobile technologies at the upcoming CTIA WIRELESS in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 23 to 25 in booth 122. These mobile technologies include:

• BOLT™ – the only WebKit-based cloud-computing browser built for mobile phones of all types. Offering the highest quality page rendering and best over-the-air data compression ratio of any J2ME browser, BOLT provides the most fully featured browsing experience to all levels of mobile devices. With streaming video, widget support, social networking integration, copy and paste and a host of other advanced features, BOLT offers a feature-rich, desktop-style browsing experience even on entry-level mobile phones. It is compatible with virtually any handset that supports Java ME (commonly referred to as J2ME) including the BlackBerry platform; in other words BOLT works on lots of phones, from low-end handsets through high-end smartphones.
• Bitstream Font Fusion® – a font engine optimized for resource-constrained systems such as mobile handsets. It is the core font technology behind the BOLT mobile browser. A highly versatile font subsystem, Font Fusion renders high quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. The subsystem offers the fastest performance and best possible text output currently available.
• Bitstream Panorama™ –a fast, compact line layout engine that provides a single set of high-level APIs to layout, position, substitute, and render text in all of the world’s languages — including complex scripts such as Arabic and Indic. Bitstream Panorama is a comprehensive text composition solution for international developers.
• Global Fonts – Bitstream offers both high-quality off the shelf fonts and custom fonts in all of the world’s languages, as well as the embeddable text rendering technologies for modern OEM products.

Bitstream will have important news at CTIA and is providing the following resources for media:

• A stand at ShowStoppers – held Monday, March 22 from 5:00 to 8:00 P.M. at the Renaissance Hotel, 3400 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. Press registration information for ShowStoppers is available at http://www.wirelessit.com/media/press_events.cfm.
• Online press kit available at http://bitstream.mobilitypr.com.
• Media availability of President and CEO Anna Magliocco-Chagnon and Vice President of Research and Development Sampo Kaasila.

The BOLT Mobile Browser has been named a finalist in Mobile Applications – Entertainment/Social Networking in the CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. CTIA’s fifth annual E-Tech Awards program recognizes products in 15 categories in the areas of mobile consumer electronics, luxury mobile, applications, enterprise, green solutions and network technology.

E-Tech Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA and Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, on Wednesday, March 24 at 2:00 p.m. on the Exhibits Innovation Stage located in the Emerging Technology Zone on the International CTIA WIRELESS exhibit floor, North Hall.

To receive news under embargo or arrange meetings with Bitstream executives at CTIA WIRELESS, contact Bitstream media contacts:

• John Sidline (On site at CTIA): +1 503 989 5474 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Melissa Burns (On site at CTIA): +1 208 946 4849 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• All Bitstream media contacts can be reached by email at bitstream@mobilitypr.com.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

First Data, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing today announced an agreement with
Tyfone, a provider of mobile contactless payment and secure mobility solutions. The collaboration will provide SideTap™ micro secure digital (MicroSD) memory cards equipped with Tyfone’s patented technologies that will transform most mobile phones with a memory slot into a mobile contactless payment device.

Unlike solutions that are tied to specific merchants or financial institutions, the MicroSD card powered by Tyfone technology lets the card work like an actual mobile “wallet.” The card can contain financial information and secure identification from multiple sources, such as specific retailers or financial institutions in both open loop and closed loop scenarios.

SideTap card’s onboard controller that manages over-the-air (OTA) access in conjunction with the u4ia® (pronounced euphoria) mobility platform is fully expandable, allowing consumers to add new payment and identity options, creating a true mobile wallet that is as flexible as the card provider would like it to be. Through this agreement, First Data will provide merchants and financial institutions with Tyfone’s patented SideTap secure memory card and u4ia mobility platform for OTA life cycle management.

The SideTap card can retain memory card functions, so consumers can continue to utilize the card as they normally would, to store photos, videos, music, documents, or other files. An embedded SmartMX security chip from NXP Semiconductors safeguards all transactions operated on the MicroSD card.

“The move to contactless payments is gaining traction and First Data continues to play a pivotal role in the development of this evolving technology. Consumers have a strong preference for such technology and merchants are using contactless payments to reduce waiting times, increase customer loyalty, and boost sales,” said Dom Morea, First Data division manager of Mobile Commerce Solutions. “First Data chose Tyfone’s SideTap Memory Card because it best serves the needs of consumers who want to use contactless payment options with over the air access, but still want to retain the memory card functionality of their MicroSD card. We are excited to partner with Tyfone and bring this technology to consumers in the second half of 2010.”

Over the next two to three years, analysts forecast contactless payment transactions via MicroSD technology will be used by more than 20 million people in North America alone, at thousands of contactless payment terminals already in place. According to a Sept. 2009 forecast by Juniper Research, near-field communications (NFC) contactless payment global gross transaction value is expected to exceed $30 billion by 2012.

“With over 60 percent of the mobile phones being sold today with memory slots, memory cards are widely used in the mobile ecosystem, making it an ideal form factor for issuers to add contactless payment. However, consumers are unlikely to swap between memory card for payment and storage uses in their phones. So our SideTap cards integrate storage and contactless payments in the same memory card to enhance consumer’s experience,” said Dr. Siva Narendra, chief technology officer at Tyfone. “Mobile phone users are familiar with memory cards, many of which are bought directly from their mobile network operators. Tyfone in collaboration with First Data and NXP provides a win-win-win for the consumer, issuer, and the mobile network operator.”

“The promise of MicroSD card-powered technology to drive contactless payments is profound, with the ability to very quickly enable mobile transactions for businesses and their customers,” said Henri Ardevol, general manager, Secure Transactions at NXP. “Our partnership with First Data and Tyfone exhibits the kind of innovative technology that will bring significant benefits for consumers as well as the key stakeholders such as banks, transportation companies, mobile network operators and merchants.”

About Tyfone
Tyfone is a neutral infrastructure enabler for cloud computing based mobile services. Tyfone enables the next wave of secure-element-neutral mobile apps that are secure enough to store your driver’s license, health records, passport, debit, pre-paid and credit cards.

Tyfone’s u4ia® platform and its companion SideTap™ card is the world’s first patented memory card-based mobile payments solution with integrated secure element OTA controller and miniature contactless coil for mobile NFC payments. The technology operates in any standard memory card slot and is rapidly gaining market acceptance as a single-strategy approach to mobile contactless payments for any mobile phone. Tyfone and its partners enable a suite of services including Mobile Banking, Mobile Identity Management, Mobile Remote Payments, Mobile Retail Services and Mobile Contactless Payments. To discover why Tyfone is becoming the partner of choice for secure mobile apps to many of the world’s leading organizations, visit www.tyfone.com.

About NXP
NXP Semiconductors provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions that leverage its leading RF, Analog, Power, Digital Processing and manufacturing expertise. These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, industrial, consumer, lighting, medical, computing and identification applications. Headquartered in Europe, the company has about 28,000 employees working in more than 25 countries and posted sales of USD 3.8 billion in 2009. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.

About First Data
First Data powers the global economy by making it easy, fast and secure for people and businesses to buy goods and services using virtually any form of electronic payment. Whether the choice of payment is a gift card, a credit or debit card or a check, First Data securely processes the transaction and harnesses the power of the data to deliver intelligence and insight for millions of merchant locations and thousands of card issuers in 36 countries. For more information, visit www.firstdata.com.

Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that its Sentry® and Medius™ digital content monitoring solutions are being used by Cablevision du Nord, a Canadian cable television operator based in Québec, to ensure that subscribers enjoy the best possible viewing experience. Cablevision is the largest cable operator in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Québec, providing cable television and high speed Internet to tens of thousands of subscribers in 50 municipalities throughout the province. Cablevision is the latest cable operator to deploy Sentry, joining nine of the top 10 U.S. operators and three of the top five Canadian operators.

Cablevision chose Mixed Signals Sentry for its ability to comprehensively monitor their digital video network and catch any potential service-affecting issues. Sentry’s unique ability to identify and diagnose errors enables Cablevision to quickly repair errors, thus ensuring viewers enjoy an optimal Quality of Experience (QoE) and service uptime.  Sentry utilizes advanced deep packet inspection technologies to continually dive deep into all the video programs flowing through a network to spot problems at the IP and MPEG layers, leaving no error undetected. Sentry’s ability to detect and localize errors quickly, also enables service providers to significantly reduce their operational expenses as technicians can immediately make repairs, rather than spending time tracking down the root cause of errors.

“To deliver the best possible viewing experience for our subscribers, we knew we needed to keep a closer eye on our video network and proactively spot any errors,” said Mr. John Colton, General Manager for Cablevision du Nord.  “Mixed Signals’ monitoring tools enable us to effectively catch and repair errors in our network before they affect our subscribers, allowing us to offer the best quality of experience to our customers.”

Cablevision has installed Sentry in its headend in Val-d’Or, Québec where it monitors their entire digital programming line-up, including all high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) programs.  Cablevision will expand its deployments of Sentry, with the next installation planned for its headend in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec.

In combination with Sentry, Cablevision is also using Mixed Signals’ Medius remote monitoring and management system to communicate with all the Sentrys from a central location.  Sentry and Medius together provide operators with the industry’s most integrated, comprehensive and network-wide solution for ensuring an optimal QoE for their subscribers.

“Cablevision du Nord has proven its dedication to ensuring the highest possible quality of experience to its customers by using Mixed Signals to monitor its video network,” said Mr. Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals.  “Sentry’s ability to proactively detect errors before they affect the subscriber is second to none and provides Cablevision du Nord with the tools they need to keep their subscribers loyal and happy.”

About Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals provides the most comprehensive and scalable digital content monitoring solutions from the source to the edge including digital services, transport streams, ad insertion, switched digital video, video on demand and interactive content. Mixed Signals’ innovative products offer unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services in real time. The Company’s products are known for their ease of use and deliver critical intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior, trending analyses, and actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals monitoring solutions enable cable and satellite television operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and IPTV providers to simplify deployments of new services and applications, and to future-proof and maximize the return on the investment in their digital networks.

For more information visit www.mixedsignals.com or call 310.227.8620.

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Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that it has added significant new reporting and analysis features to its award-winning Sentry® digital content monitoring solution that enable video service providers to track, isolate and repair even the most complex video and audio errors in their programming. Mixed Signals is demonstrating Sentry’s new Reason Codes capability in its booth (714) at this week’s Canadian Summit of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) in Toronto.

Reason Codes are an enhancement to Mixed Signals’ state-of-the-art Audio and Video QoE Scoring System – which accurately gauges the severity of errors – and provide added detail to show the causes of impairment behind a particular quality of experience (QoE) score. The combination of Reason Codes together with Sentry’s unprecedented ability to detect video and audio quality errors gives service providers a more complete picture of particularly complex and recurring QoE issues, which enables more accurate and quicker diagnoses and repairs.

“We continue to listen to our customers to provide the capabilities and tools they need to zero-in on even the most complex video and audio quality errors,” said Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals. “Sentry’s new Reason Codes are the latest example of our commitment to adding new features and functionality to Sentry to keep it the most advanced and comprehensive solution for ensuring that service providers deliver their programming with best possible quality while keeping operational costs low.”

Sentry’s Reason Codes will be available in an upcoming software update that will support already deployed Sentrys and will come standard with new models.

About Sentry

Mixed Signals’ award-winning Sentry is a comprehensive and scalable monitoring solution that uniquely enables video service providers to better manage their networks to deliver services with optimum quality and to reduce their operational expenses. Sentry identifies anomalies in the network at the IP and MPEG layers, as well as in QoE, identifying hundreds of issues, including video freeze, video black and the loss of audio, which represent the bulk of trouble calls from subscribers.  Sentry’s single rack unit (RU) appliance ensures easy deployment in even the smallest hubs and its ability to be remotely managed eliminates the need for technicians to service Sentrys installed in remote locations.

Sentry is in widespread use with top tier video service providers, including the top nine U.S cable operators, three of the top five Canadian cable operators and other providers all over the globe.

Complementing its sales success, Sentry’s advanced capabilities and market-leading performance have been recognized with seven industry awards.

About Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals provides the most comprehensive and scalable digital content monitoring solutions from the source to the edge including digital services, transport streams, ad insertion, switched digital video, video on demand and interactive content. Mixed Signals’ innovative products offer unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services in real time. The Company’s products are known for their ease of use and deliver critical intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior, trending analyses, and actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals monitoring solutions enable cable and satellite television operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and IPTV providers to simplify deployments of new services and applications, and to future-proof and maximize the return on the investment in their digital networks.

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A Vesta Corporation (http://www.trustvesta.com), uma pioneira e líder global em soluções de pagamento eletrônico, anunciou hoje o lançamento do Prepaid.com (http://www.prepaid.com), um portal de recarga que permite aos clientes móveis enviarem airtime (tempo de conexão) para amigos e parentes no mundo todo. O portal oferece recarga imediata e sem taxa para contas telefônicas móveis pré-pagas e permite que expatriados e imigrantes possam manter fortes laços familiares, independente da distância e de fronteiras.

O Prepaid.com fornece aos operadores móveis uma solução plug and play que suporta recarga tanto no próprio país como em países diferentes para os serviços móveis, tais como airtime pré-pago, assinaturas e banda larga móvel. O novo portal ajuda os operadores móveis a capitalizarem nos bilhões de pagamentos feitos para outros países anualmente e inclui uma grande variedade de recursos fáceis de serem usados que mostraram aumentar o valor por toda a vida dos clientes.

“Ao usarem o Prepaid.com, os consumidores agora têm uma maneira conveniente de enviarem airtime para parentes e amigos em outros países”, disse Chris Parsons, diretor de Marketing da Vesta. “Trabalhar com a Vesta aumenta as opções de pagamento para os operadores e garante aos clientes do mundo todo a segurança e privacidade que requerem”.

Tendo processado centenas de milhões de transações, a Vesta Corporation ganhou a reputação de fornecer soluções de pagamento inovadoras e seguras para empresas de telecomunicações do mundo todo e seus clientes. O processo de recarga com a marca do operador do Prepaid.com mantém os mais altos padrões de segurança de pagamento e dados da indústria e pode ser integrado facilmente com a infra-estrutura do operador para maior rapidez de comercialização.

Para adquirir airtime no www.prepaid.com, um visitante simplesmente seleciona o país e operador, coloca o número do telefone que gostaria de fazer a recarga e em seguida os seus detalhes sobre pagamento. O Prepaid.com aceita uma grande variedade de dispositivos de pagamento, incluindo os principais cartões de crédito e débito do mercado, cartões de crédito emitidos internacionalmente e cartões de débito pré-pagos da marca Visa ou MasterCard.

Sem inscrição complicada, senhas ou cartões de refil necessários, o processo de recarga é rápido, confiável e seguro. O Prepaid.com não cobre taxas de serviços ou acréscimos e imediatamente aplica o airtime à conta presenteada. O portal oferece suporte online e ao vivo com agentes atendendo 24×7 e os clientes podem criar uma conta para, com segurança, armazenar detalhes sobre pagamentos e números de telefones receptores, revisar história dos pagamentos e imprimir recibos das transações.

Os consumidores podem realizar recarga apenas uma vez ou agendar pagamentos presentes periódicos para garantir que os seus amigos e parentes possam sempre se comunicar com eles. Segundo disse um consumidor, “Fico mais tranquilo sabendo que a minha mãe pode me chamar a qualquer hora, pois agendo recargas para o telefone dela mensalmente”. Futuros aperfeiçoamentos permitirão aos assinantes enviar pedidos de presentes e recargas através de sites de mídia social e SMS.

O Prepaid.com está lançando com a Telefonica Movistar, Iusacell e Unefon no México, e está também ativamente investigando parcerias com operadores móveis em outras geografias onde o envio de presentes para outros países é comum, incluindo a América Latina, o Caribe, a Europa, Sudeste da Ásia, China e Índia.

Sobre a Vesta Corporation
O Prepaid.com pertence e é operado pela Vesta Corporation, provedora de uma plataforma de pagamento totalmente gerenciada que oferece aos operadores móveis a maneira mais eficiente e econômica de fornecerem uma vasta gama de serviços diretos com a marca do operador (através do telefone, Internet, SMS, USSD, aplicativo de handset e cobrança recorrente). Com a sua matriz localizada em Portland, Oregon, e operações na Europa e China, a Vesta Corporation é uma pioneira e líder mundial em soluções de pagamento eletrônico desde 1995. A Vesta estabeleceu relacionamentos de longo prazo e de sucesso com os maiores operadores internacionais, incluindo a AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Eircom, Sprint, Telia, Tele2, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Verizon e Vodafone, entre outros.

Para informações adicionais sobre a Vesta Corporation, favor acessar http://www.trustvesta.com. Para informações adicionais sobre o portal de pagamento do consumidor da Vesta, favor acessar http://www.prepaid.com.

Vesta Corporation (http://www.trustvesta.com), un pionero y líder mundial en soluciones de pagos electrónicos, anunció hoy el lanzamiento de Prepaid.com (http://www.prepaid.com), un portal de recarga que facilita a los usuarios móviles enviar tiempo aire a sus amigos y familiares en todo el mundo. El portal ofrece recarga inmediata sin cobro para cuentas prepagadas de teléfonos móviles y permite a expatriados e inmigrantes mantener fuertes lazos familiares, independientemente de la distancia y las fronteras.

Prepaid.com ofrece a los operadores móviles una solución plug and play (conectar y lista para operar) que soporta recargas dentro del país y entre fronteras para servicios móviles tales como tiempo aire prepagado, suscripciones y banda ancha móvil. El nuevo portal ayuda a los operadores móviles a capitalizar sobre los miles de millones de pagos transfronterizos enviados anualmente, e incluye una variedad de funciones fáciles de usar que han demostrado incrementar el valor perdurable de los consumidores.

“Gracias a Prepaid.com, los consumidores ahora tienen una medio conveniente para enviar tiempo aire a familiares y amigos en otros países”, dijo Chris Parsons, director de mercadeo de Vesta. “Trabajar con Vesta expande las opciones de pago para los operadores y garantiza a los compradores la seguridad y privacidad que exigen”.

Después de procesar cientos de millones de transacciones, Vesta Corporation ha adquirido una reputación de ofrecer soluciones de pagos innovadoras y seguras para las empresas de telecomunicaciones en todo el mundo y sus clientes. El proceso de recarga de Prepaid.com con la marca del operador mantiene los más altos estándares de seguridad de datos y pagos en la industria y se integra fácilmente con la infraestructura de un operador para lograr un rápido posicionamiento en el mercado.

Para comprar tiempo aire en www.prepaid.com, un visitante simplemente selecciona el país y el operador e ingresa el número de teléfono que desea recargar seguido de los detalles de pago. Prepaid.com acepta una vasta variedad de métodos de pago incluyendo las principales tarjetas de crédito y débito, tarjetas de crédito emitidas internacionalmente y tarjetas de débito prepagadas exclusivas de Visa o MasterCard.

Sin requisitos de registro complicados, PINs o tarjetas de recarga, el proceso es fácil, confiable y seguro. Prepaid.com no cobra cargos por servicios o sobrecargos y aplica el tiempo aire inmediatamente a la cuenta beneficiada. El portal ofrece asistencia para las transacciones online y con agentes en vivo, 24 horas al día, 7 días a la semana, y los compradores pueden crear una cuenta para guardar con seguridad los detalles del pago y los números de teléfono de los beneficiarios, revisar la historia de pagos e imprimir recibos de la transacción.

Los consumidores pueden realizar una recarga una sola vez o programar pagos de regalo recurrentes para asegurar que sus amigos y familiares siempre puedan mantenerse en contacto, como uno de los consumidores dijo, “Tengo la tranquilidad de saber que mi madre me puede llamar en cualquier momento gracias a que pude programar recargas fijas para su teléfono todos los meses”. Futuras mejoras permitirán a los abonados enviar solicitudes de regalo y recarga a través de los sitios de medios sociales y SMS.

Prepaid.com se lanza con Telefónica Movistar, Iusacell y Unefon en México, e investiga activamente asociaciones con operadores móviles en otras regiones donde los regalos entre fronteras son comunes, incluyendo, América Latina, el Caribe, Europa, Asia Sudeste, Asia, China e India.

Acerca de Vesta Corporation
Prepaid.com es un portal de propiedad y operado por Vesta Corporation, proveedor de una plataforma de pagos de gestión completa diseñada para ofrecer a los operadores móviles el medio más eficaz y rentable para ofrecer servicios de recarga directa con la marca del operador (vía teléfono, Web, SMS, USSD, aplicación de auricular y cargo recurrente). Vesta Corporation, con sede en Portland, Oregon, con operaciones en Europa y China, es un pionero y líder mundial en soluciones de pagos desde 1995. Vesta ha establecido asociaciones duraderas y de gran éxito con operadores líderes internacionales incluyendo AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Eircom, Sprint, Telia, Tele2, Telefónica, T-Mobile, Verizon y Vodafone, entre otros.

Para más información acerca de Vesta Corporation, visite http://www.trustvesta.com. Para más información acerca del portal de pagos del consumidor de Vesta, visite, http://www.prepaid.com.

Vesta CorporationVesta Corporation (http://www.trustvesta.com), a global pioneer and leader in electronic payment solutions, today announced the launch of Prepaid.com (http://www.prepaid.com), a recharge portal that allows mobile customers to send airtime to friends and family worldwide. The portal features immediate, no-fee recharging for prepaid mobile phone accounts and allows expatriates and immigrants to maintain strong family ties, regardless of distance and borders.

Prepaid.com provides mobile operators with a plug and play solution that supports in-country and cross-border recharge for mobile services such as prepaid airtime, subscriptions, and mobile broadband. The new portal helps mobile operators capitalize on the billions of cross-border payments sent annually, and includes a variety of consumer-friendly features that have been shown to increase the lifetime value of customers.

“By using Prepaid.com, consumers now have a convenient way to send airtime to family and friends in other countries,” said Chris Parsons, chief marketing officer of Vesta. “Working with Vesta expands payment options for operators and assures purchasers worldwide the security and privacy they demand.”

Having processed hundreds of millions of transactions, Vesta Corporation has earned a reputation for delivering innovative and secure payment solutions to telecom companies worldwide and their customers. Prepaid.com’s operator-branded recharge process maintains the highest payment and data security standards in the industry, and integrates easily with an operator’s infrastructure for fast time to market.

To purchase airtime at www.prepaid.com, a visitor simply selects the country and operator, and enters the phone number they would like to recharge followed by their payment details. Prepaid.com accepts a wide variety of payment devices including major credit and debit cards, internationally issued credit cards, and Visa or MasterCard signature prepaid debit cards.

With no cumbersome registration, PINs or refill cards required, the recharge process is fast, reliable and secure. Prepaid.com does not charge service fees or surcharges, and immediately applies airtime to the gifted account. The portal features 24×7 online and live-agent transaction support, and purchasers can create an account to securely store payment details and recipient phone numbers, review payment history, and print transaction receipts.

Consumers can perform a one-time recharge or schedule recurring gift payments to ensure that their friends and family can always be in touch. As one consumer stated, “I have peace of mind knowing that my mother can call me anytime because I set up recharges for her phone every month.” Future enhancements will allow subscribers to send gift requests and recharges via social media sites and SMS.

Prepaid.com is launching with Telefonica Movistar, Iusacell and Unefon in Mexico, and is actively investigating partnerships with mobile operators in other geographies where cross-border gifting is common, including Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Southeast Asia, China, and India.

About Vesta Corporation
Prepaid.com is owned and operated by Vesta Corporation, provider of a fully managed payment platform that offers mobile operators the most efficient and cost-effective way to provide operator-branded direct top-up services (via phone, Web, SMS, USSD, handset application, and recurring charge). Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with operations in Europe and China, Vesta Corporation, has been a pioneer and worldwide leader in electronic payment solutions since 1995. Vesta has established long-term, successful relationships with leading international operators including AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Eircom, Sprint, Telia, Tele2, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone, among others.

For more information about Vesta Corporation, visit http://www.trustvesta.com. For more information about Vesta’s consumer payment portal, visit http://www.prepaid.com.

Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading information technology research and advisory guide has named Mixed Signals’ Sentry® a winner of the 2010 Product Innovation Awards for the second year in a row.  This annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors, large and small, from all over the world with innovative and groundbreaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

For the second year running Sentry won the ‘Test, Measurement and Monitoring’ category.  This win continues Sentry’s 2009 winning streak in which it received five awards recognizing its advanced capabilities that enable video service providers to detect and diagnose video and audio errors that can ruin viewers’ quality of experience (QoE).

“Innovation is not just about new products alone,” says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief at Network Products Guide. “To succeed companies need to see innovation not as a onetime errand but as something that has to be continuously evolved and improved upon over and over again. This requires putting greater focus on customer needs and making innovation the center of the company’s way of developing better solutions. Innovative products such as Sentry are bringing crucial improvements in the field of digital content monitoring.”

Complementing its awards successes, Mixed Signals achieved a stellar 2009 with a year-over-year revenue increase of 115 percent in a difficult economy.  Mixed Signals’ customer base has grown to include the top 9 U.S cable operators, 3 of the top 5 Canadian operators in addition to key customers all over the globe.

“Our ongoing commitment to product innovation and introducing cutting edge features and capabilities to our products is why they continually receive industry accolades like the Network Products Guide Innovation Award in back-to-back years,” said Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals.  “We continue to build the best products in the space, which adds tremendous value to our customers every day.  Our success is ultimately reflective of our ability to improve the success of our customers.”

Mixed Signals’ products make up the industry’s most comprehensive content monitoring solution, giving video service providers unparalleled visibility into network anomalies at the IP and MPEG layers to quickly identify and repair even the most complex video and audio errors.  Mixed Signals released several new products in 2009, which enable service providers to achieve significant cost reductions and ensure their viewers enjoy an optimal QoE.

About Network Products Guide Awards

As industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide, Network Products Guide from Silicon Valley plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com

About Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals provides the most comprehensive and scalable digital content monitoring solutions from the source to the edge including digital services, transport streams, ad insertion, switched digital video, video on demand and interactive content. Mixed Signals’ innovative products offer unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services in real time. The Company’s products are known for their ease of use and deliver critical intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior, trending analyses, and actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals monitoring solutions enable cable and satellite television operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and IPTV providers to simplify deployments of new services and applications, and to future-proof and maximize the return on the investment in their digital networks.

For more information visit www.mixedsignals.com or call 310.227.8620.

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Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), a provider of secure mobility solutions, today announced that its SideTap™ micro secure digital (MicroSD) memory card versions are completed and will be available via partners to consumers in the second half of 2010. MicroSD memory cards enabled by Tyfone’s patented SideTap contactless payment technology with integrated 13.56MHz coil can be used by hundreds of millions of mobile phones at thousands of existing contactless payment terminals worldwide. These cards will work in phones with MicroSD slot on any side of the phone – top, left, right, bottom or back.

Tyfone’s enabling patent portfolio includes US patent 7,581,678 filed February 22, 2005 for “Electronic Transaction Cards”, issued September 1, 2009, and other patents pending.

The SideTap memory card technology is the world’s first to fully integrate near-field communications (NFC) contactless card payment capabilities with a popular and commonly used mobile phone accessory, a MicroSD memory card. SideTap memory cards enable MIFARE as well as any Global Platform compliant payment applet. The SideTap MicroSD card contains an onboard controller that manages over-the-air (OTA) capabilities allowing consumers to add multiple payment and identification options, creating a true mobile wallet. Because the SideTap MicroSD card also retains all its memory card functions, consumers can also use them to store documents, photos, videos, music or other files.

“Unlike solutions tied to specific retailers or financial institutions, the SideTap memory card works like an actual wallet that contains financial information from multiple sources, either specific retailers or financial institutions in both open loop and closed loop scenarios, said Tom Spitzer, Tyfone’s chief executive officer. “We are very excited to be launching the SideTap MicroSD card. It’s a significant milestone for the company and for the industry.” The SideTap MicroSD card is a fully integrated solution with a built-in contactless coil, without loss of traditional memory card functions.

In addition to the SideTap memory card, a SideTap lite MicroSD card with OTA wallet functions but no storage memory is available for partners. A SideTap ultralite MicroSD card is also available without storage memory or OTA wallet capabilities, for a single-payment provider scenario, much like a contactless plastic card or sticker from a single issuer. SideTap and SideTap lite cards are supported by Tyfone’s u4ia® (pronounced euphoria) mobility platform. The platform transforms the MicroSD memory card into a mobile wallet capable of performing OTA life cycle management and contactless transactions at NFC equipped point-of-sale readers. Tyfone’s u4ia mobility platform, that will be used by Trusted Service Manager (TSM) partners, is necessary for OTA services only and not for payment transaction processing.

Using SideTap memory cards, consumers purchase goods simply by tapping their mobile device at a point of sale reader. The read distance ranges from 1 to 3 cm depending on the reader and transaction speeds are identical to contactless plastic cards.

“If you are like most people, inside your wallet you have a few credit/debit/ID cards, perhaps gift/prepaid cards, money and miscellaneous items like coupons,” said Dr. Siva Narendra, chief technology officer at Tyfone. “With Tyfone’s u4ia platform and our SideTap MicroSD card a consumer can have multiple payment identities with OTA access and won’t be limited to where they can use their mobile phone to make payments and other secure transactions. Not to mention the ability to store contents including coupons, catalogs, and music, some of which can be preloaded by our partners. More important, the Tyfone SideTap MicroSD cards are equipped to work in virtually any mobile phone with a memory card slot. We can now kick start NFC.”

One of the most often cited obstacles for NFC payment models is the lack of availability of NFC-enabled handsets. By contrast, Tyfone’s patented technology enables a more rapid deployment of NFC capabilities by simply inserting the SideTap MicroSD card into commonly available memory card slots, requiring no other changes to consumers’ phones. According to a September 2009 forecast by Strategy Analytics approximately 900+ million phones will be enabled with memory card slots by 2013. Many handset manufacturers already report that memory cards are the most purchased accessory for mobile phones today.

“To address a marketplace that today has hundreds of millions of mobile phones that can use Tyfone’s SideTap MicroSD cards, it was important to ensure the ability to scale,” said Prabhakar Tadepalli, Tyfone’s managing director. “SideTap memory cards can work across all mobile operating systems and all wireless operators. We have also built it to scale quickly and have a team ready to assist our partners in that effort.”

Tyfone’s SideTap SD memory cards have undergone extensive and successful trials with multiple partners over the last 18 months. In the coming months, consumers will be able to purchase SideTap MicroSD memory cards and use them at major retailers. Tyfone will soon announce partnerships that will make the first wave of this important payment technology available for consumers, financial institutions and retailers.

About Tyfone:
Tyfone is a neutral infrastructure enabler for cloud computing based mobile services. Tyfone enables the next wave of secure-element-neutral mobile apps that are secure enough to store your Driver’s License, Health Records, Passport, Debit, Pre-paid and Credit Cards.

Tyfone’s u4ia® platform and its companion SideTap™ card is the world’s first patented memory card-based mobile payments solution with integrated secure element, OTA controller and miniature contactless coil for mobile NFC payments. The technology operates in any standard memory card slot and is rapidly gaining market acceptance as a single-strategy approach to mobile contactless payments for any mobile phone. Tyfone and its partners enable a suite of services including Mobile Banking, Mobile Identity Management, Mobile Remote Payments, Mobile Retail Services and Mobile Contactless Payments. To discover why Tyfone is becoming the partner of choice for secure mobile apps to many of the world’s leading organizations, visit www.tyfone.com.

Some names and brands mentioned may be claimed as the property of others. u4ia, Tyfone, and SideTap are trademarks of Tyfone, Inc.