A cumulative audience of nearly 400,000 visiting soccer fans from all over the world came to South Africa in June to watch 32 countries compete in the 19th FIFA World Cup tournament. As they attended games and enjoyed the festivities they sent home pictures, videos and messages using email and messaging services, all over wireless data networks. As one of the largest eXchange service providers to enable inter-network roaming, Aicent, Inc. (www.aicent.com), recorded huge surges in network traffic during the competition, as much as 300 percent over the weeks just prior.

“As the data from our network shows, the World Cup is truly a social event where fans want to share the revelry with friends and family,” said Lynn Liu, president & CEO at Aicent. “Wireless data networks made sharing the action better than ever before as fans sent back millions of pictures, videos, tweets, emails and text messages from games in South Africa to their friends back home. Subscribers from a great number of international wireless networks were all able to use their mobile phones from South Africa due to roaming eXchanges like Aicent.”

Aicent is a leading provider of data network, messaging and roaming solutions for mobile operators globally serving more than 2.5 billion mobile subscribers around the world. Aicent operates one of the world’s largest GPRS and 3G network eXchanges, directly connecting to over 100 operators, including nine of the world’s ten largest. Aicent’s MMS and SMS eXchanges is one of industry’s largest, interconnecting with over 150 mobile operators around the world.

Aicent observed that traffic correlated directly with the number of matches taking place on a specific day; the more matches in a day, the higher traffic would spike. The day with the highest volume of data traffic was Wednesday, June 23, the day that Nigeria and South Korea played to a tie, Argentina defeated Greece, England defeated Slovenia, and the United States defeated Algeria. The day with the next highest volume was Tuesday, June 15, when three matches between Italy and Paraguay, New Zealand and Slovakia, and Cote d’Ivoire and Portugal all ended in ties.

Aicent’s data shows that Americans were among the largest group of people visiting South Africa, with more than 60 percent of Aicent’s data traffic coming from customers of GSM operators in the United States. On days when the US National Team played, these operators experienced their largest spikes in traffic, with traffic leaving South Africa far and away exceeding traffic coming to South Africa by a ratio exceeding 4:1.

Soccer fans in South Africa relied on their mobile phones to share pictures, videos, live game updates and other messages with friends back home. In fact, according to Mayan Mathen, CTO of Dimension Data, during the World Cup, South Africa became one of the highest “tweet” sources in the world, referring to the Twitter social network phenomenon. World Cup fans in South Africa averaged 750 tweets per second, with some 3,500 going out every second during World Cup matches.

About Aicent, Inc.
Serving more than 2.5 billion mobile users around the world, Aicent Inc. is a leading provider of data network, messaging and roaming solutions for mobile operators globally. Aicent operates one of the world’s largest GPRS and 3G network eXchanges, directly connecting to over 100 operators, including nine of the world’s ten largest. Aicent operates one of world’s largest MMS and SMS eXchanges interconnecting with over 150 mobile operators around the world. On any given day, Aicent’s network facilitates over 100 million roaming transactions generated on 150 mobile networks in 114 countries. For more information visit www.aicent.com.

Spendvision, a global provider of total transaction management solutions, today announced that its transaction management platform has earned a Distinguished Honoree medal for the Best New Product or Service of the Year for Financial Services in the 2010 International Business Awards.

The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards programme honouring great performances in business. With more than 1,700 entries received from organisations and individuals in more than 40 countries, honourees were determined through two rounds of judging by professionals worldwide. Nicknamed the Stevie® for the Greek word “crowned,” the awards will be presented to honourees at a gala dinner on Monday, 27 September in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey.

In March 2010, Spendvision enhanced its proven transaction management platform – used by Visa, De Beers, National Australia Bank and other leading corporations – with the introduction of a new Multi-Program Reporting capability that gives CFOs a single currency view of all spend across the entire organisation, regardless of the type of transaction or where it occurred. Designed primarily for multinationals, government agencies and organisations with separate business units, Multi-Program Reporting provides a true corporate level summary of spend across divisions, currencies, languages and territories.

“Spendvision’s Multi-Program Reporting meets the demands of today’s corporations that are increasingly looking to take centralised control of expenditure to minimise waste and maximise efficiencies,” said Robert Kirby, CEO of Spendvision. “Being recognised by this esteemed international awards programme not only validates our success, but is further proof of our commitment to our customers’ success, especially as we continue to establish cutting edge transaction management solutions.”

Organisations all over the world are eligible to compete in The International Business Awards, and can enter any of more than 40 categories from Multinational Company of the Year and Best New Product of the Year to Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year and Executive of the Year.

“Despite the harsh economic climate, entries to the International Business Awards actually grew this year, and that illustrates the increasing importance of The International Business Awards worldwide,” said Michael Gallagher, president of The Stevie Awards, presenters of the International Business Awards. “We congratulate all of the honourees, and we look forward to recognising them for their achievements at our gala awards dinner in Istanbul on 27 September.”

For further information, including a complete list of honourees, please visit www.stevieawards.com/iba.

About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com

Premier Sponsor of The 2010 International Business Awards is Infogroup. National Sponsors include the Korea Business Communicators Association and the Public Relations Society of India. Supporting sponsor is McCann PR Romania. Localisation Partner for the 2010 IBAs is Lionbridge.

About Spendvision
Spendvision is a leading innovator of transaction management solutions. Through just one technology platform Spendvision delivers more effective purchasing that increases business profitability, improves decision making and delivers greater control and compliance. All this across the broadest range of transactions from simple cash, card, online travel bookings and telecoms right through to interactive coding, requisitions and dynamically funded accounts.

Spendvision is headquartered in the UK with offices in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore and works with leading customers and partners around the world. The Spendvision solution is available direct to businesses and through partners across the banking, telecoms and travel sectors that provide the solution to their customers in their own brand. www.spendvision.com

Six months after launching a mobile banking service based on Tyfone’s financial services infrastructure, OnPoint Community Credit Union reports that usage among its members of the new mobile payments capabilities have exceeded expectations and continue to grow at a rapid pace. Each month more OnPoint credit union members are discovering the convenience of performing secure banking transactions via their mobile phones, while the number of monthly mobile banking transactions continues to soar at an average of 33 percent per month.

OnPoint Community Credit Union is Oregon’s largest credit union with more than $2.8 billion in assets. Founded in Portland, Oregon in 1932 by 16 school teachers, OnPoint has grown and evolved into a full-service institution serving close to 200,000 members. In support of its mission to provide unsurpassed member access to services, OnPoint has consistently expanded its reach through new branch openings, online banking and bill payment and growth in its ATM network. OnPoint made a commitment to further increase accessibility through an aggressive mobile banking strategy. As the cornerstone of this strategy, OnPoint announced in September 2009 it had selected Tyfone’s u4ia® platform as the infrastructure behind its mobile banking service.

OnPoint routes all SMS, APP, and WAP mobile transaction requests through Tyfone’s mode-neutral mobility platform, conveniently and securely delivering many of the services OnPoint’s members seek at branches to mobile phones that can be used anywhere in the world at any time. Tyfone’s mobility platform is integrated to XP Core Banking platform to enable this service for OnPoint.

OnPoint analyzed usage during the initial 22 weeks of its mobile banking service, covering tens of thousands of transactions. The credit union found that members were eager to try all three facets of the service including WAP/mobile Web, text message (SMS) and mobile application, with mobile Web representing approximately 50 percent of all mobile transactions, while SMS and the mobile banking application each contributed 25 percent. Checking account balances was the most popular feature, representing 69 percent of all transactions. Viewing statements came in second at 28 percent, though as members became more comfortable with mobile banking they appeared more apt to making payment transactions.

“Nothing can compete with the convenience of banking through your mobile phone,” said Jim Armstrong, OnPoint’s senior vice president of technology. “OnPoint is very careful about the technology we offer our members, making certain that we never sacrifice security for enhanced functionality or convenience. Not only does Tyfone’s financial services infrastructure meet all of our technology requirements easily, it also allows us to extend our mobile reach to NFC using their FI centric SideTap Memory Card. For the moment with the Tyfone mobile banking platform in place, we are turning mobile phones into OnPoint branches for a great number of transactions. ”

OnPoint launched the first phase of its mobile banking service at the end of 2009 enabling members to use their mobile phones to check account balances, view account history, transfer funds between accounts, and locate branches and ATMs. During this first phase, OnPoint elected not to market the service and see how members using online banking reacted to a mobile banking tab on the www.onpointcu.com website. After the first week OnPoint was already measuring the number of weekly transactions in the thousands.

Tyfone’s mobile banking platform was designed to increase bank profitability in part to bring banking customers and their financial institutions closer together by making banking possible from any place, any time. This added convenience grows the number of transactions and other activities made by each customer, and makes it easier for financial institutions to keep customers and stem attrition.

“One key finding in our data analysis is that members who adopt mobile banking appear more tied to the credit union,” adds Armstrong. “We see that members who use mobile banking are more entrenched customers and have an increased number of transactions.”

OnPoint intends to evolve its mobile banking service to give its members even more control of their finances in an anywhere, anytime environment. Stay tuned for more mobile service innovations from OnPoint, a key reason the credit union selected Tyfone to provide its mobile banking and payment platform.

OnPoint members can sign up for the credit union’s free mobile banking service by visiting: https://www.onpointcu.com/personal/convenience_services/mobile_banking.html.

Banks and credit unions interested in the Tyfone mobile banking platform can get more information by visiting: http://www.tyfone.com/product-mobile-banking.html.

About Tyfone
Tyfone connects money and mobility via a highly secure, scalable and flexible Mobile Financial Services (MFS) infrastructure that is tailored to meet the evolving needs of mobile network operators, transportation agencies, retailers and financial institutions. With its complete MFS platform and global alliance partners, Tyfone is uniquely qualified to deliver issuer-centric turnkey solutions with fully-integrated contactless payments capabilities. To discover why Tyfone is becoming the partner of choice for MFS technologies to many of the world’s leading organizations, please visit www.tyfone.com.

About OnPoint Community Credit Union
OnPoint Community Credit Union is the largest credit union in Oregon, serving more than 199,000 members and with assets of $2.8 billion. Founded in 1932, OnPoint Community Credit Union’s membership is available to anyone who lives or works in one of 10 Oregon counties (Benton, Clackamas, Columbia, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Washington and Yamhill) and two Washington counties (Skamania and Clark). For more information visit www.onpointcu.com or call 800-527-3932.

Trustive, Europe’s number one Wi-Fi internet access provider and a leading provider of international mobile broadband internet services, is very pleased to be able to announce a new partnership with Aicent Inc, a leading provider of data network services and solutions for global mobile operators. In a first instance, this bilateral partnership will give Trustive customers access to a number of important Wi-Fi networks, including a network of 70,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in China and Narita International Airport (Japan).

Narita Airport is Japan’s second largest airport, with an average of 84,000 international passengers per day in 2009 and this year it comes in at number 28 in the list of busiest airports in the world. Christian VanGhelder, managing director of Trustive said “Trustive is very pleased to be able to offer its customers, most of whom are frequent travellers, seamless, low-cost Wi-Fi access at this premium location. Narita Airport is an important addition to Trustive’s Asian footprint, which along with this significant addition to our Chinese coverage and our recent network expansion in Australasia last month, all combine to reinforce Trustive’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region and our role as a truly global Wi-Fi access provider.”

“As a leading provider of mobile data solutions and interworking solutions for over 150 mobile operator customers globally, Wi-Fi roaming is a very important component of Aicent’s mobile solution set. Wi-Fi has become especially critical to mobile operators as a data offloading and affordable roaming strategy. ”, said Lynn Liu, President & CEO Aicent Inc. “We are pleased to welcome Trustive into our carrier class Wi-Fi network, spanning the Asia-Pacific region including tier 1 operators in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Macau and USA .”

Trustive customers can access these new premium locations effective immediately. For more information regarding Trustive’s entire network of 140,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in 110+ countries, please consult Trustive’s online Wi-Fi hotspot directory: www.trustive.com/hotspots/

About Trustive
Trustive is Europe’s No1 Wi-Fi access provider, giving travellers extensive Wi-Fi coverage by combining the hotspot locations of 70+ leading Wi-Fi operators into one unified, global network of more than 140,000 hotspots and allowing Trustive customers access to these locations through a single click (single username and password plus a range of Wi-Fi clients for both computers and smartphones that automate the log in process). From May 2010, Trustive also offers travellers the flexibility of a mobile broadband internet service that combines the benefits of Wi-Fi with international 3G data roaming coverage. Please visit www.trustive.com for more information.

About Aicent, Inc.
Serving more than 2.5 billion mobile users around the world, Aicent, Inc. is a leading provider of data network services and solutions for global mobile operators. To enable interoperability between Aicent customers and other networks, Aicent operates one of the world’s largest GPRS and 3G network eXchanges, connecting to over 150 operators, including nine of the world’s ten largest. Through extensive peering arrangements, the Aicent network reaches nearly all GPRS/3G operators around the world. Aicent also operates integrated mobile messaging services, including one of the world’s first and largest multimedia messaging eXchanges, and offers other value-added services to help carriers maximize revenue opportunities. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Aicent has regional offices in the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe. For more information, visit www.aicent.net.

Prepaid.com, an online service for recharging the airtime of prepaid mobile phones, now allows anyone, anywhere in the world, to purchase minutes and other prepaid services for any of the more than 70 million Mexican prepaid mobile phone users. With the addition of Telcel, Mexico’s largest mobile service provider, Prepaid.com now supports every prepaid cellular phone in the nation. For people living outside of Mexico, the service, found at www.prepaid.com, gives them the peace of mind that they can stay in contact by gifting prepaid minutes to their family and friends in Mexico.

Prepaid.com is extremely straightforward and fast. People go to www.prepaid.com and make a purchase with any major credit or debit card in a few simple and secure steps. Airtime is added to the mobile phone immediately and an SMS text message is sent alerting the recipient to the new minutes. No PINs or refill cards are required, there are no enrollment costs, surcharges or hidden fees, and Prepaid.com eliminates the hassle of having to visit stores during business hours.

As one customer explained, “Recharging my wife’s phone in Mexico is easy and quick. It took only a few minutes to send her minutes from Los Angeles! I use the service regularly since it makes adding time to my wife’s phone so much easier and I tell other people about it.”

Prepaid.com can currently benefit all of Mexico’s prepaid mobile phone users thanks to Prepaid.com’s direct connection to the country’s four largest mobile brands: Telcel, Movistar, Iusacell and Unefón. According to recent data from the research firm Wireless Intelligence, close to 90 percent of mobile phone users in Mexico are on prepaid plans, and the number is growing. With over 73 percent of mobile customers worldwide using prepaid for their mobile service, Prepaid.com recognizes the potential for gifting mobile airtime between countries and is actively working to expand its online prepaid refill service to other mobile providers worldwide.

“Reliable and ongoing communication is vital for maintaining connections with family and friends,” states Chris Parsons, chief marketing officer of Prepaid.com’s parent company, Vesta Corporation. “The goal of Prepaid.com is to ensure that prepaid phone subscribers can stay connected, regardless of where they live.”

In celebration of its launch, Prepaid.com will return a portion of proceeds from each purchase made at www.prepaid.com to the Latino community through the Hispanic College Fund, a nonprofit organization helping Hispanic high school and college students achieve higher education, pursue professional careers, and give back to the community. Prepaid.com invites all purchasers of prepaid mobile phone minutes for Mexican cell phones to help them reach their goal of providing two scholarships for US Hispanic citizens of Mexican origin in their pursuit of higher education this fall. Visit www.prepaid.com and purchase mobile airtime today.

Follow Prepaid.com on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PREPAIDcom, and on Facebook at http://prepago.prepaid.com/facebook.

About Prepaid.com and Vesta Corporation
Prepaid.com is owned and operated by Vesta Corporation, a pioneer and worldwide leader in electronic payment solutions since 1995. Vesta has established long-term, successful relationships with leading international companies including AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Eircom, Sprint, Telia, Tele2, Telefonica O2, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone, among others. For more information about Vesta Corporation, visit www.trustvesta.com. For more information about Vesta’s consumer payment portal, visit www.prepaid.com.

Com o Prepaid.com, um serviço online para recarga de telefone celular pré-pago, qualquer pessoa de qualquer lugar do mundo pode comprar minutos e outros serviços pré-pagos para qualquer um dos mais de 70 milhões de usuários de telefones celulares do México. Com a inclusão da Telcel, a maior provedora de serviço celular do México, o Prepaid.com agora suporta todo telefone celular pré-pago da nação. Para quem vive fora do México, o serviço, encontrado no www.prepaid.com, proporciona paz de espírito por permitir o contato com o presente de minutos pré-pagos para parentes e amigos do México.

O Prepaid.com é extremamente direto e rápido. É só acessar www.prepaid.com e fazer a compra com qualquer principal cartão de crédito ou de débito com algumas etapas simples e seguras. Os minutos são adicionados ao celular imediatamente e uma mensagem SMS é enviada alertando a pessoa sobre os novos minutos. Não é necessário PIN nem cartão de recarga, não há custo de inscrição, sobretaxas ou taxas ocultas e o Prepaid.com elimina o trabalho de ter que visitar as lojas durante o horário comercial.

Como explicou um cliente: “A recarga do telefone da minha esposa no México é fácil e rápido. Não demorou nada enviar minutos para ela daqui de Los Angeles! Eu uso o serviço regularmente por ser muito fácil enviar minutos para o telefone da minha esposa e eu falo para todos a respeito disso”.

O Prepaid.com pode beneficiar os usuários de telefones celulares do México graças à conexão direta do Prepaid.com com quatro das maiores marcas de celular do país: Telcel, Movistar, Iusacell e Unefón. De acordo com dados recentes da firma de pesquisa Wireless Intelligence, quase 90 porcento dos usuários de telefone celular do México têm plano pré-pago, e este número esta cada vez maior. Com mais de 73 porcento de clientes de celular em todo o mundo usando serviço de celular pré-pago, o Prepaid.com reconhece o potencial do presente de minutos para telefones celulares de outros país e está ampliando seu serviço de recarga pré-paga online para outros provedores de serviço celular de todo o mundo.

“Uma comunicação confiável e constante é vital para manter a conexão dos parentes e amigos”, disse Chris Parsons, Diretor de Marketing da empresa controladora do Prepaid.com, a Vesta Corporation. “O objetivo do Prepaid.com é garantir que os assinantes de telefone pré-pago permaneçam conectados, não importa o local onde vivem”.

Para comemorar o lançamento, o Prepaid.com doará uma parte dos rendimentos de cada compra feita no www.prepaid.com para a comunidade latina através do Hispanic College Fund, uma organização sem fins lucrativos que ajuda os alunos latinos de escolas secundárias e de faculdades a obter educação superior e carreira profissional em negócios, ciências, tecnologia, engenharia e matemática. O Prepaid.com convida a todos os compradores de minutos pré-pagos para celulares mexicanos para ajudá-los a atingir seu objetivo de oferecer duas bolsas de estudo para os hispanos de origem mexicana dos EUA em sua busca de ensino superior neste outono. Acesse www.prepaid.com e compre minutos para celular ainda hoje.

Acompanhe o Prepaid.com no Twitter no http://twitter.com/PREPAIDcom, e no Facebook no http://prepago.prepaid.com/facebook.

Prepaid.com e Vesta Corporation
O Prepaid.com é uma empresa de propriedade e operada pela Vesta Corporation, uma pioneira e líder mundial de soluções de pagamentos eletrônicos desde 1995. A Vesta estabeleceu um relacionamento de longo prazo de sucesso com as principais empresas internacionais, incluindo AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Eircom, Sprint, Telia, Tele2, Telefonica O2, T-Mobile, Verizon e Vodafone, dentre outras. Para maiores informações sobre a Vesta Corporation, acesse www.trustvesta.com. Para maiores informações sobre o portal de pagamento de consumidor da Vesta, acesse www.prepaid.com.

Prepaid.com, un servicio online de recarga de tiempo de aire para teléfonos móviles prepagados, hoy permite que cualquier persona, en cualquier lugar del mundo, compre minutos y otros servicios prepagados disponibles para los más de 70 millones usuarios de teléfonos móviles prepagados en México. Con la adición de Telcel, el mayor proveedor de servicios móviles en México, Prepaid.com hoy da soporte a todos los teléfonos celulares prepagados en la nación. Para quienes viven fuera de México, el servicio, accesible en, www.prepaid.com, les da la tranquilidad de que pueden mantenerse en contacto regalando minutos prepagados a sus familiares y amigos en México.

Prepaid.com es extremamente sencillo y rápido. Las personas pueden acceder www.prepaid.com y comprar con cualquier tarjeta de crédito o débito siguiendo unos pocos pasos simples y seguros. El tiempo aire se añade al teléfono móvil de inmediato y se envía un mensaje de texto SMS de alertando beneficiario acerca de los nuevos minutos. No se necesitan PINs (códigos de identificación personal) o tarjetas de recarga, no hay costos de inscripción, sobrecargos o cargos escondidos y Prepaid.com elimina la molestia de tener que visitar las tiendas en horas de atención al público.

Como un cliente explicó, “¡Recargar el teléfono de mi esposa en México es fácil y rápido, me tomó apenas unos pocos minutos enviarle minutos desde Los Ángeles! Yo utilizo el servicio regularmente pues me permite añadir tiempo aire al teléfono de mi esposa con mucho más facilidad y comparto esta información con otra gente.”

Prepaid.com actualmente puede beneficiar a todos los usuarios de teléfonos móviles en México gracias a su conexión directa con las cuatro marcas líderes de telefonía móvil: Telcel, Movistar, Iusacell y Unefón. Según datos recientes de la firma de investigación Wireless Intelligence, cerca del 90 por ciento de los usuarios de teléfonos móviles en México tienen planes prepagados, y esta cifra es cada vez mayor. Con más del 73 por ciento de los clientes móviles en todo el mundo utilizando servicios prepagados, Prepaid.com reconoce el potencial de regalar tiempo aire entre países y trabaja activamente en la expansión de su servicio de recarga online a otros proveedores móviles en todo el mundo.

“La comunicación confiable y continua es vital para mantener conexiones con familiares y amigos,” dice Chris Parsons, director de marketing de la compañía matriz de Prepaid.com, Vesta Corporation. “El objetivo de Prepaid.com es garantizar que los usuarios de teléfonos prepagados puedan mantenerse conectados, independientemente de en donde vivan.”

En celebración de su lanzamiento, Prepaid.com contribuirá una parte de las ganancias de cada compra realizada en www.prepaid.com a la comunidad latina a través del Hispanic College Fund, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a ayudar a los estudiantes hispanos de escuela secundaria y de la universidad a recibir una educación a nivel alta, seguir carreras profesionales, y contribuir a la comunidad. Prepaid.com invita a todos los compradores de minutos para teléfonos móviles en México a ayudarle a lograr su objetivo de conceder dos becas a ciudadanos hispanos estadounidenses de origen mexicano que buscan educación superior este otoño. Visite www.prepaid.com y compre tiempo aire móvil hoy.

Siga a Prepaid.com en Twitter en http://twitter.com/PREPAIDcom y en Facebook http://prepago.prepaid.com/facebook.

Acerca de Prepaid.com y Vesta Corporation
Prepaid.com es un portal de propiedad y operado por Corporación Vesta, un pionero y líder mundial en soluciones de pagos electrónicos desde 1995. Vesta ha establecido asociaciones duraderas de gran éxito con empresas líderes internacionales incluyendo, AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Eircom, Sprint, Telia, Tele2, Telefónica O2, T-Mobile, Verizon y Vodafone. Para más información acerca de Corporación Vesta, visite www.trustvesta.com. Para más información acerca del portal de pago del consumidor de Vesta, visite, www.prepaid.com.

RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, has taken three screen delivery to the next level with today’s acquisition of RipCode, Inc., a privately held developer of solutions for mobile IP video. RGB will incorporate RipCode’s technology into its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) enabling video service providers to cost-effectively deliver services to their subscribers on TVs, PCs and mobile devices.

“As video service providers consolidate their headends and build converged delivery networks, they require highly reliable IP video solutions that scale efficiently across all subscriber devices,” said Jef Graham, CEO of RGB Networks. “With the integration of RipCode’s mobile delivery technology into our modular, high-density Video Multiprocessing Gateway, RGB can offer a unified content delivery solution for TV, PCs and mobile in a scalable, carrier-class platform. We are already seeing tremendous interest in our multi-function VMG and this bold move quickly takes our capabilities to the next level, providing a unique solution that directly satisfies our customers’ requirements for three screen delivery.”

RipCode’s technology for converting live and on-demand video content to formats required for the mobile environment, complemented by RGB’s field-proven transcoding and ad insertion capabilities for TV and PCs, offers a solution that has never before been available to operators. RGB’s chassis-based VMG already delivers industry-leading MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/H.264 stream processing quality and capacity for advanced video processing functions, including transcoding, ad insertion, transrating and grooming, with exceptional scalability and reliability. With the addition of mobile video delivery capabilities to this modular chassis, network operators will have the ability to perform any-to-any live and file video transcoding, adaptive delivery with Apple Live Streaming, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe HTTP Streaming, and seamless multi-device ad insertion – all within a single carrier-class platform. This integration of leading technologies completes a one-of-a-kind solution that simplifies network architectures, streamlines operations and minimizes costs.

“Video service providers will require a new generation of high performance, highly reliable video processing solutions to implement ‘three screen’ service in which high quality video is delivered to TVs, PCs and mobile devices on a large scale,” said Gerry Kaufhold, Principal Analyst with In-Stat, based in Scottsdale, Arizona. “Today’s announcement between RGB and RipCode demonstrates that they understand the requirements for these new solutions and that they have the necessary software and hardware components for this new generation of products.”

“Joining forces with RGB makes a lot of sense—not only does our flexible transcoding and delivery technology round out the second and third screen solution needs of RGB’s strategy, but it also strengthens RipCode’s solution scalability for many of our existing customers and opportunities,” said Brendon Mills, CEO of RipCode. “In addition to providing a very compelling solution for three screen delivery, we can also now add high-density, carrier-class transcoding, delivery, monetization and optimization into our existing solutions for web video service providers, mobile network operators and government live and on-demand applications. So this is a win-win not only for RGB and RipCode, but RipCode’s existing customers and partners as well.”

“We examined several options before concluding that integrating RipCode’s technology into our VMG would be the most effective way to complete a three screen solution that would meet the challenges faced by cable, telco and mobile operators,” said Yuval Fisher, RGB’s Chief Technology Officer. “We have built the VMG specifically to enable video service providers to seamlessly implement three screen delivery, serving as the heart of a new generation of IP-centric headends.”

In addition to tightly integrating RipCode’s technology into RGB’s product line, RipCode will continue serving its existing customers and markets with its transcoder hardware and software products. Nearly all of RipCode’s employees are being retained, including the engineering team, and will continue to operate out of RipCode’s office in Austin, Texas.

About RGB Networks
RGB Networks enables video service providers to migrate to a three screen environment for the delivery of linear and on-demand video over managed and unmanaged IP networks. The company’s success is based on core strengths in transcoding, advertising and overlay insertion, ultra-dense modulation and statistical multiplexing. RGB’s solutions for video delivery to TVs, desktop and mobile devices are built to deliver the highest video quality at the best price-performance on the market—they uniquely offer the density and scalability required to support the growing demands of consumers with integrated functionality that simplifies operators’ network architectures and minimizes operational costs. RGB’s products are deployed by over 200 cable, telco, satellite, OTT and mobile operators in 30+ countries. Backed by principal investors Accel Partners, Kleiner Perkins Kaufield and Byers, and Comcast Interactive, RGB is a private, profitable company based in Sunnyvale, California with offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.rgbnetworks.com.

The BOLT™ Mobile Browser from Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) has been named Runner Up in the 2010 Mobile Merit Awards in two categories: Best Overall Consumer Mobile Application and Best Service Delivery Platform. Recognizing companies, individuals and technologies that have shaped the way in which the world communicates, the 2010 Mobile Merit Awards program notes the excellence achieved in the global mobile industry.

Through nominations judged by an impressive list of mobile industry executives and members of the media, the Mobile Merit Awards are presented to outstanding companies for technologies within the mobile arena that will have the greatest impact on the market. The 2010 Mobile Merit Awards judges honored products, individuals, and technologies based on their industry impact, innovation, social importance, implementation and overall success factor. The Mobile Merit Award submission categories covered all aspects of mobility including: devices, infrastructure, applications, social/digital medium, 4G technologies, mobile marketing, and media.

“These Mobile Merit Awards for BOLT are further recognition of the hard work and commitment of the Bitstream development and engineering team,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “2010 has already been a year of many important milestones for BOLT as we are surpassing 35,000 downloads a day on average, totaling over 7.8 million downloads to date. The latest version, BOLT 2.1, which we released late last month, is the most fully-featured release yet, and we look forward to feedback from our active user base as we are constantly making improvements to truly make BOLT the crowd favorite.”

The BOLT mobile browser was named runner up in the Best Overall Consumer Application category, a tribute to the popular cross platform app with millions of users across BlackBerry Smartphones , and all levels of Java-based mobile phones. The industry’s most fully featured mobile browser for phones of all types, BOLT is downloaded by more than 30,000 people around the world each day.

BOLT earned a second runner up award for Best Service Delivery Platform. BOLT’s server middleware provides carriers with the ability to better manage data consumption on their networks by compressing data up to 24:1 and using as little as 4 percent what a standard mobile browser would use, while at the same time delivering a superior Web browsing experience for handset manufacturers and their users.

“B2 Group is pleased to judge and participate in this year’s Mobile Merit Awards showcasing our thought leadership in the mobile industry by selecting companies, like Bitstream, that we feel represent the innovation taking place in the mobile market today,” said judge Bob Bilbruck, Managing Director B2 Group/ Mobiletain. “We congratulate all participants in the Mobile Merit Awards this year and look forward to seeing more great entries next year.”

Other notable 2010 Mobile Merit Award winners include GoTV Networks, Research in Motion, Nokia, Sybase 365, Sprint-Nextel, DeviceAnywhere, and Telepicture/TMZ.

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 Mobile Merit Awards
The Mobile Merit Awards recognizes companies, individuals and technologies that have shaped the way in which the world communicates today. Through nominations the Mobile Merit Awards notes the excellence achieved in the global mobile industry. These bi-annual awards are presented to outstanding companies, individuals and technologies from each sector within the mobile arena for work of the greatest likely impact on the market. For more information please visit: http://www.mobilemeritawards.com

Tektronix, Inc., 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, has been named a finalist in the Measurement and Control Instruments category for the American Technology Awards, which bestows the only “Best Of” awards that recognize all technology products and services for the technology industry.

Nominations for The American Technology Awards “The Termans” are vetted by industry experts and technology companies. These awards have been named after Frederick Terman, who is widely credited as being the father of Silicon Valley. The winners will be announced on June 16 at TechAmerica Foundation’s Eighth Annual Technology and Government Dinner which has been a premier Washington, D.C. networking event bringing hundreds of industry, congressional and government leaders together at one venue to celebrate the partnership between industry and government.

“We had a lot of nominations for these prestigious awards, and we congratulate Tektronix for rising to the finalist ranks,” said David C. Thomas, TechAmerica’s executive vice president, commercial development. “TechAmerica Foundation is excited to highlight Tektronix, as it continues to influence technology development throughout the rest of the world.”

Sentry has earned multiple industry awards since 2009, due in large part to its advanced capabilities that enable video service providers to detect and diagnose video and audio errors that can ruin viewers’ Quality of Experience (QoE). Sentry utilizes advanced deep packet inspection (DPI) technologies to continually dive deep into all the video programs flowing through a network to spot problems at the IP and MPEG layers, enabling video service providers to identify and repair errors before they ever affect the subscribers’ viewing experience.

“We are committed to driving innovation across our product offerings to ensure we meet our customers’ evolving needs, and having Sentry named as a finalist for an American Technology Award shows that the industry recognizes our commitment,” said Eric Conley, Vice President, Video Network Monitoring, Tektronix. “Our customers also recognize that we are keeping Sentry on the cutting edge, with nine of the nation’s 10 largest cable television operators using Sentry to ensure the picture and sound quality of their video services.”

The American Technology Awards will be presented for each of the inclusive segments of the technology industry: Aerospace and Defense; Clean Tech/Green Tech/Smart Grid; Cloud Computing/Software as a Service; Computers and Peripherals; Consumer Electronics; Cyber Security and Authentication; Electronic Components; Internet Services; Measurement and Control Instruments; Medical Devices; Server & Storage Technology; Software; Technology Consulting; Technology Services; and Telecommunications.

For more information, please visit www.techamericafoundation.org/thetermans.

About Sentry Monitoring Solution

Sentry is a comprehensive content monitoring solution for cable, telecom, IPTV and other video service providers. Sentry enables the early detection, diagnosis and repair of video and audio errors (i.e., video freeze, macro-blocking, loss of audio, etc.) whenever or wherever they occur in the network, so service providers can deliver services with excellent quality, thus ensuring an optimal quality of experience (QoE) for subscribers. Sentry accomplishes this through its unique combination of unprecedented visibility into network anomalies at the IP and MPEG layers, scalability to monitor every program in the network and its real-time, 24/7 operation. Sentry is proven in deployments with service providers worldwide, including nine of the top 10 U.S. cable operators.

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

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About TechAmerica Foundation

TechAmerica Foundation educates industry executives, policy makers and opinion leaders on the promise of technological innovation to advance prosperity, security and the general welfare. Launched in 2009, the foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit, non-partisan affiliate of TechAmerica, the leading voice and resource for the U.S. technology industry. It disseminates award-winning industry, policy and market research covering topics such as U.S. competitiveness in a global economy, innovation in government, and other areas of national interest. The foundation also organizes conferences and seminars to explore pertinent issues with government and industry representatives and to share the foundation’s findings. Learn more about TechAmerica Foundation at www.techamericafoundation.org.

About Tektronix

Mixed Signals was acquired by Tektronix in May 2010. As an industry-leading innovator of digital content monitoring solutions, Tektronix enables video service providers to proactively identify, diagnose and repair picture and audio quality errors that degrade the television viewing experience. For more than sixty years, engineers have turned to Tektronix for test, measurement and monitoring solutions to solve design challenges, improve productivity and dramatically reduce time to market. Tektronix is a leading supplier of test instrumentation for engineers focused on electronic design, manufacturing, and advanced technology development. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix serves customers worldwide and offers award-winning service and support. Stay on the leading edge at www.tektronix.com.

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