Tyfone (www.tyfone.com) announced today the availability of iCashé™, a new mobile wallet and eCommerce engine that for the first time delivers purchasing power through any mobile banking application. Built entirely on top of Tyfone’s award-winning u4ia® mobile financial services platform, iCashé is the industry’s only service to blend comprehensive mobile banking features with convenient consumer purchasing, gifting and loyalty programs. With the option of adding Tyfone’s SideTap™ microSD secure element technology, iCashé also provides contactless NFC payments and the highest level of secure identity management.

“While financial institutions recognize the need to provide mobile banking, the watch and wait approach many have taken towards mobile wallet services sets the stage for disintermediation by others including Google and ISIS,” said Andy Schmidt, research director at TowerGroup, a Corporate Executive Board company. “Combining mobile wallet with mobile banking gives banks – and merchants – the opportunity to avoid this disintermediation.”

The first iCashé feature to debut is a highly convenient commerce service available through a mobile banking application that allows people to purchase, send and redeem merchant gift cards from over 100 different name brand merchants including: Barnes & Noble, Fandango and Zappos.com. With iCashé, gift cards can be purchased and stored on a person’s mobile phone for personal use, or sent to anyone in the United States via email or text message. iCashé requires a person to be logged into a trusted mobile banking app, making purchasing highly efficient, secure and as easy as checking an account balance.

“iCashé is the first wallet service that allows people to use mobile banking for commerce,” said Siva Narendra, Tyfone’s president of North America. “A bank ATM card has limited value if a person can only use it to check balances or transfer funds; the same is true for a mobile banking application. By providing consumers a mobile application that combines banking with commerce capabilities, we’re not only putting the value and utility of a real wallet into a mobile app, we’re strengthening the bond between consumers and financial institutions. If banks give their customers something of value, it’s fair for them to make money from it. iCashé is the first service giving financial institutions revenue generating opportunities from mobile banking.”

Though Tyfone has built an award-winning and fully-featured mobile banking solution, there is no requirement for banks and other financial institutions to use Tyfone Mobile Banking in order to offer iCashé to their customers. Any financial institution can offer customers using electronic and mobile banking convenient commerce services built on top of iCashé, and all financial institutions using iCashé will immediately enjoy a new revenue stream based on incremental transaction fees from iCashé purchases.

“OnPoint Community Credit Union members who use Tyfone’s leading edge mobile banking service find great utility from it and have a greater volume of banking transactions,” said Jim Armstrong, OnPoint’s senior vice president of technology. “Giving people the ability to make purchases through OnPoint’s mobile banking app is a logical technology evolution.  Once the retail NFC infrastructure is in place, our mobile banking members using Tyfone’s iCashé will likewise be ready to make contactless payments through our banking app.”

Tyfone’s patented contactless payments technology lets people customize a secure digital wallet, just as they do with the wallet in their purse or pocket today. Tyfone’s SideTap microSD memory cards allow most phones on the market today to be enabled with contactless NFC payments. Tyfone’s secure ID management meets or exceeds the security and authentication requirements for corporate mobile banking and high value transactions; and for consumers, financial institutions can extend superior security technology engineered for mobile handsets to also include tablets and personal computers through the use of Tyfone’s SideTap or SideSafe™ microSD cards.

More information about Tyfone’s iCashé solution can be found at: www.iCashe.com.

About Tyfone
Founded in 2004, Tyfone’s corporate headquarters are in Portland, Oregon, and its Asia-Pacific headquarters are in Bangalore, India. Tyfone connects money and mobility via a highly secure, scalable and flexible mobile financial services solution tailored to meet the evolving needs of consumers, financial institutions, mobile network operators, transportation companies and retailers. Operating in any standard memory card slot, Tyfone’s u4ia® platform and its companion SideTap™ memory card comprise the world’s first patented, neutral, and comprehensive memory card-based payments solution for mobile contactless payments. 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. For more information visit www.tyfone.com.

Tyfone, iCashé, SideSafe, SideTap and u4ia are trademarks of Tyfone, Inc. All others names are the property of their respective owners.

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mobeam, inc. (www.mobeam.com) announced today that it has closed a $4.9 million Series A venture round, receiving funding from yet2Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Mitsui, together with other independent investors. mobeam’s patented technology overcomes the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with the laser scanners used at retail locations around the world. Funds from this multimillion dollar funding round will be used to establish mobeam’s light based communications (LBC) technology as a new industry standard allowing mobile phones to interact with point of sale (POS) technology. mobeam is also using these new funds to accelerate business development efforts with major consumer and retail brands for mobile couponing and other broad mobile commerce initiatives.

mobeam Inc. is transforming mobile commerce with its unique and patented light based communications technology. mobeam technology takes barcodes, like those used on every item sold in retail stores and on billions of coupons each year, and converts them to a beam of light able to be read by every red laser barcode scanner already found at checkout in stores around the world. mobeam’s technology powers new capabilities for existing mobile phone designs, and requires no changes to retailer POS infrastructure.

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

• A table at Pepcom’s MobileFocus® media event – held Tuesday, October 11 from 7:00 to 10:00 P.M. at the Marriott Marquis and Marina, 333 West Harbor Drive, near the San Diego Convention Center. Press registration information for MobileFocus is available at http://www.pepcom.com.
• Online press kit available at http://mobeam.mobilitypr.com.
• Media availability of Chief Executive Officer, Chris Sellers, and Chief Operating Officer, Marcia Donner.

To receive news under embargo or arrange meetings with mobeam executives at CTIA Enterprise & Applications, contact mobeam media contacts who will also be on site at CTIA:

• All mobeam media contacts can be reached by email at mobeam@mobilitypr.com
• John Sidline: +1-503-989-5474 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Holly Woolard: +1-503-360-7144 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Melissa Burns : +1-208-850-5939 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Jessi McKain: +1-503-475-5277 (mobile, can receive text messages)

About mobeam

mobeam, inc. is transforming mobile commerce with its unique and patented light based communications technology. Overcoming the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with laser scanners at checkout, mobeam’s technology provides universal access at point of sale (POS), enabling the transmission of coupons, gift cards, tickets and other barcode data at retailers worldwide. mobeam’s technology powers new capabilities for existing mobile phone designs, and requires no changes to retailer POS infrastructure. mobeam is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information visit www.mobeam.com.

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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 BOLT™ Browser for Android™ phones and tablets at the upcoming CTIA Enterprise & Applications event in San Diego, California, October 11 to 13 in the Cloud Pavilion, booth #923.

These technologies include:

• A cloud powered Webkit architecture that offloads all the heavy lifting of Web content to the cloud, making it a fast and economical browser for wireless networks. The cloud computing architecture brings an accelerated Internet experience to the device for today’s complex Web content including HTML5 and AJAX. Over 20 million consumers using Android, Java, Blackberry and BREW devices have been taking advantage of BOLT’s cloud computing architecture for a rich, superior Web experience on their mobile devices.
• BOLT 3.0 for Android – Bitstream’s BOLT 3.0 for Android, currently in private beta, is built from the ground up with tight social networking integration, lightning fast surfing speed, streaming video and perfect rendering of Web-based content, among other advanced features. The company will showcase exciting enhancements for the Android platform at CTIA.

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

• A table at Pepcom’s MobileFocus® media event – held Tuesday, October 12 from 7:00 to 10:00 P.M. at the Marriott Marquis and Marina, 333 West Harbor Drive, near the San Diego Convention Center. Press registration information for MobileFocus is available at http://www.pepcom.com.
• Online press kit available at http://bitstream.mobilitypr.com.
• Media availability of Vice President of Research and Development Sampo Kaasila, Director of Product Management Ritu Varma, plus senior members of Bitstream’s BOLT Browser team.

The award-winning BOLT Mobile Browser with over 20 million installations in over 200 countries worldwide. Setting the industry standard, BOLT is the most advanced feature-rich mobile browser available for phones of all types.

• Melissa Burns (On site at CTIA): +1-208-850-5939 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Holly Woolard (On site at CTIA): +1-503-360-7144 (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.

Android is a trademark of Google Inc.

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Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), a mobile financial solutions provider, will be showcasing its mobile financial services technologies at the upcoming Pepcom MobileFocus® event in San Diego, California, October 11. 

Tyfone technologies are based on the u4ia® (pronounced “euphoria”) platform that represents the 4 U´s of the mobile channel – universal, ubiquitous, unique and unison. The u4ia Mobile Transaction software platform is a neutral infrastructure for cloud computing based mobile services. It enables consumers to access information via the access mode of their choice (SMS, mobile Web and App) in one platform and has the flexibility to securely mobilize any existing data source.

The mobile financial services technologies that run on u4ia include:

• iCashe: Tyfone’s patent-pending mobile wallet that generates 3% transaction revenue for banks and credit unions.
• SideTap™: Tyfone’s patented SideTap microSD product can be added to mobile devices to enable secure element functionality and contactless payments via NFC.
• Secure ID Management/SideSafe™: Tyfone’s u4ia platform along with SideSafe allows for true multi-factor authentication, making possible an unlimited number of applications that necessitate Secure ID and Authentication.
• Tyfone Mobile Banking: Tyfone´s highly-secure, multi-access mobile banking service solution (SMS, WAP, App).

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

• A table at Pepcom’s MobileFocus® media event – held Tuesday, October 11 from 7:00 to 10:00 P.M. at the San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina, 333 West Harbor Drive, near the San Diego Convention Center. Press registration information for MobileFocus is available at http://www.pepcom.com.
• Online press kit available at http://tyfone.mobilitypr.com.
• Media availability of Co-founder and President North America, Dr. Siva G. Narendra, and CFO, Don Bloodworth.

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

• John Sidline (On site at CTIA):  +1-503-989-5474 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Holly Woolard (On site at CTIA): +1-503-360-7144 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Melissa Burns (On site at CTIA): +1-208-850-5939 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• All Tyfone media contacts can be reached by email at tyfone@mobilitypr.com.

About Tyfone

Founded in 2004, Tyfone’s corporate headquarters are in Portland, Oregon, and its Asia-Pacific headquarters are in Bangalore, India. Tyfone connects money and mobility via a highly secure, scalable and flexible mobile financial services solution tailored to meet the evolving needs of consumers, financial institutions, mobile network operators, transportation companies and retailers. Operating in any standard memory card slot, Tyfone’s u4ia® platform and its companion SideTap™ memory card comprise the world’s first patented, neutral, and comprehensive memory card-based payments solution for mobile contactless payments. 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. For more information visit www.tyfone.com.

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RGB Networks, the leading provider of scalable multiscreen IP video delivery solutions, will be demonstrating how its solutions can facilitate the next step in the delivery of content to multiple screens at IBC 2011 in Amsterdam (stand 4.C78). Utilizing its award-winning solutions and leveraging key relationships, RGB will highlight how Video Service Providers (VSPs) can advance their multiscreen deployments and implement effective monetization strategies to capitalize on new market opportunities.

Highlighting RGB’s recent successes in multiscreen deployments around the globe, a European customer will give live demonstrations of its RGB-based multiscreen service. RGB will also detail how its new products enable VSPs to realize new avenues of revenue generation across an integrated multiscreen environment.

Swisscom Broadcast, the leading Swiss provider of fully managed multiscreen TV services, will be demonstrating its IP-based video service live on RGB’s stand using RGB’s Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG™) and TransAct Packager delivery video to multiple devices, including a TV, laptop, iPhone and iPad. Visitors will be provided with unique insight into the robust capabilities of multiscreen deployments with RGB’s solution.

RGB will also showcase its new Enhanced Video Intelligence Architecture (eVIA), a multiscreen IP video delivery and ad insertion ecosystem, which utilizes adaptive bitrate streaming to facilitate hyper-targeted advertising down to the neighborhood, device or even individual subscriber. This standards-based architecture gives VSPs a simpler, cost-effective and more scalable solution for integrated delivery and monetization of video to multiple screens compared to traditional methods.

The company will also be demonstrating its latest addition to the award-winning VMG product line – the recently launched VMG-8. The product inherits all the field-proven advanced video processing capabilities of the VMG family, and packages them in a new seven rack unit high carrier-grade chassis, with enhanced transcoding capabilities, providing VSPs with the capacity and scalability required to meet their growing TV Everywhere requirements.

“Over the past year we’ve seen a great progression in multiscreen, going from trials on a single device to deployments across multiple screens,” said Ramin Farassat, Vice President, Product Marketing and Business Development for RGB Networks. “At IBC 2011, RGB Networks will show video service providers how to advance their multiscreen strategies to the next level, and see a real return on their investments. Our solutions ensure that our customers have both the tools and the expertise to make these changes happen, while also providing a real competitive differentiator.”

Executives from RGB Networks will be available on stand 4.C78 throughout IBC 2011, taking place from September 9th – 13th September in Amsterdam, to answer questions and provide a hands-on demonstration of the unique advantages of RGB’s delivery and monetization solutions for TV Everywhere.

About RGB Networks’ TV Everywhere Solutions
RGB’s TV Everywhere solutions includes its award-winning VMG, the industry’s highest capacity transcoder, capable of simultaneously transcoding 500+ MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/H.264 video streams into the growing number of formats required to serve an ever-expanding array of end user devices. The VMG utilizes a truly carrier-class chassis with extensive redundancy features to ensure reliable operation at all times.

Complementing the VMG is RGB’s TransAct Packager, an advanced adaptive streaming solution that ingests MPEG-4/H.264 video programs and outputs multiple versions of each program encoded at different bit rates which are then packaged in the Apple HTTP Live Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming and Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming formats.

Working together, the TransAct Packager and the VMG comprise the industry’s most complete, flexible and highly scalable solution for delivering live and on-demand video to PCs, tablets, mobile devices and set-top boxes.

About RGB Networks’ Enhanced Video Intelligence Architecture (eVIA)
eVIA from RGB Networks provides a suite of standards-based products that provides advanced HTTP streaming video services for the delivery and monetization of video to multiple screens. Designed to be highly flexible, the eVIA ecosystem provides the scalability necessitated by the accelerating growth of multiscreen services, with industry-leading density and reliability designed into every component.

Leveraging RGB’s years of ad insertion expertise, eVIA enables service providers to monetize HTTP streaming services, whether on managed or unmanaged networks, finally providing true targeted advertising capabilities, leading to a new revenue source for operators.

This first-of-its-kind architecture will take HTTP streaming services well past today’s capabilities with shorter adoption time than ever seen with new technologies.

A white paper providing more details on RGB’s eVIA can be downloaded at www.rgbnetworks.com/resources.

About RGB Networks

RGB Networks enables video service providers to migrate to a multiscreen environment for the delivery of linear and on-demand video over managed and unmanaged IP networks. Wide adoption of the company’s solutions is based on core strengths in transcoding, advertising and overlay insertion, 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. Venture capital firms Accel Partners, Comcast Interactive, Focus Ventures, Granite Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners have invested $63 million in the company. RGB is a private, profitable company based in Sunnyvale, California with offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.rgbnetworks.com.

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Tektronix, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that its award-winning Sentry® digital content monitoring solution is a finalist in this year’s Cable & Satellite International magazine’s Product of the Year Awards. The CSI Awards, which are presented at the IBC tradeshow in Amsterdam in September, recognize technical excellence and innovation in the cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcasting and IPTV industries.

Sentry was selected as a finalist in the “Best Monitoring or Network Management Solution” category in recognition of its new Perceptual Video Quality (PVQ) monitoring feature. Sentry’s new PVQ capability helps video service providers (VSP) tackle content errors when the program suffers artifacts due to over-compression which is common in motion intensive programs like sports.

“Reaching the finals of the prestigious CSI Product of the Year Awards is the latest accolade for Sentry and a further acknowledgement that Sentry remains a state-of-the-art solution for the detection and diagnosis of video and audio errors that impact viewers’ quality of experience (QoE),” said Eben Jenkins, general manager, Video Product Line, Tektronix. “Sentry has been proven in deployments with the top U.S. cable operators and many other VSPs who use Sentry to ensure they deliver programming with the best possible picture and sound quality.”

Cable & Satellite International launched the Product of the Year awards back in 2003 and have attracted over 150 entries every year, gaining the endorsement of the industry’s leading technology suppliers.  This year’s winners will be announced at the award ceremony held at IBC on Friday, September 9 at 6 p.m.

About the Sentry Monitoring Solution

Sentry is a comprehensive content monitoring solution for cable, telecom, IPTV and other video service providers. Sentry enables the early detection and diagnosis 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 correct these issues, 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.tektronix.com or call 310.227.8620.

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About Cable & Satellite International

Cable & Satellite International (CSI) is a technology publication targeting the global video market, including cable, satellite, IPTV, mobile and terrestrial broadcast platforms. CSI assesses technology trends and provides detailed product analysis relevant to the core video delivery functions – namely content contribution/backhaul, distribution/transport, playout/transmission and home networking. CSI also analyzes the wider triple and quadruple play landscape.

About Tektronix

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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RGB Networks, the leading provider of scalable multiscreen IP video delivery solutions, today announced the launch of its Enhanced Video Intelligence Architecture (eVIA), a suite of products and technologies including RGB’s award-winning Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMGTM) and TransAct Packager, that provides hyper-targeted ad insertion capabilities for the integrated delivery and monetization of video to multiple screens over adaptive streaming delivery protocols.

Online and mobile viewing of premium video content is increasingly complementing and augmenting the traditional TV experience. In order to monetize premium video services over new adaptive streaming protocols, a new video ad insertion infrastructure, based on open-standards, is required. To meet this need, RGB Networks, leveraging years of industry-leading ad insertion expertise, is bringing a first-of-its-kind product suite to the market with eVIA based on adaptive bitrate ad insertion technology.

RGB’s eVIA multiscreen IP video delivery and ad insertion ecosystem utilizes advanced adaptive bitrate streaming to facilitate targeted advertising down to the neighborhood, device or even specific individual subscriber demographics. The key benefits of delivering ad insertion in this manner is that video service providers have a simpler, cost-effective and more scalable solution than offered by traditional ad insertion methods while allowing hyper-targeting down to the most granular level. With increased revenues from targeted advertising, video service providers will be able to offer subscribers enhanced multiscreen services, such as OTT video delivery, nPVR, and Catch-up TV. The eVIA framework also gives providers the added benefits of cost-effective and seamless program substitution, blackouts and channel switching utilizing the same infrastructure.

“With end-users expecting personalized video services to be accessible on any network connection and on any device, providers are searching for options to increase revenues and lower the cost of delivering TV Everywhere services,” said Yuval Fisher, Chief Technology Officer for RGB Networks. “With eVIA’s hyper-targeted ad insertion capabilities, providers can increase revenue while simultaneously upgrading their networks to support large scale deployments of both on-demand and linear content to multiple devices.”

According to a Digital TV Research study, the average revenue per user for TV services will fall over the next five years. Two trends contributing to this decrease are consumers going to sources other than traditional video providers for video content, and at the same time video service providers being unable to increase their ad revenues. Adaptive bitrate ad insertion combined with OTT delivery opens the door to the possibility for operators to deliver advertising content to specific interest-based segments in a network, raising their revenues.

“With eVIA’s adaptive streaming ad insertion capabilities, providers can take charge of and monetize content in a way they were unable to before,” continued Fisher. “As providers accelerate the rollout of their TV Everywhere services, the investment in new IP infrastructure means they must look beyond the traditional ad insertion methods. Utilizing this new hyper-targeting adaptive streaming architecture, eVIA ensures providers around the world can truly monetize their content, off-set costs and successfully future-proof their business models.”

About RGB Networks’ Enhanced Video Intelligence Architecture (eVIA)
eVIA from RGB Networks provides a suite of standards-based products that provides advanced HTTP streaming video services for the delivery and monetization of video to multiple screens. Designed to be highly flexible, the eVIA ecosystem provides the scalability necessitated by the accelerating growth of multiscreen services, with industry-leading density and reliability designed into every component.

Leveraging RGB’s years of ad insertion expertise, eVIA enables service providers to monetize HTTP streaming services, whether on managed or unmanaged networks, finally providing true targeted advertising capabilities, leading to a new revenue source for operators.

This first-of-its-kind architecture will take HTTP streaming services well past today’s capabilities with shorter adoption time than usually seen with new technologies.

At IBC 2011, stand 4.C78, RGB Networks will demonstrate for the first time adaptive bitrate streaming in Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) format utilizing its eVIA product suite. A white paper providing more details on RGB’s eVIA can be downloaded at www.rgbnetworks.com/resources.

About RGB Networks

RGB Networks enables video service providers to migrate to a multiscreen environment for the delivery of linear and on-demand video over managed and unmanaged IP networks. Wide adoption of the company’s solutions is based on core strengths in transcoding, advertising and overlay insertion, 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. Venture capital firms Accel Partners, Comcast Interactive, Focus Ventures, Granite Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners have invested $63 million in the company. RGB is a private, profitable company based in Sunnyvale, California with offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.rgbnetworks.com.

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Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), a mobile financial solutions provider, will be exhibiting at the Symitar Educational Conference (SEC) held in San Diego, Calif., September 20-22, 2011. Tyfone’s mobile banking solutions integrate seamlessly with the Symitar Episys core. Tyfone will be showcasing its secure mobile banking technology, its unique revenue generation Mobile Wallet Service called iCashé and introducing SideSafe – its Secure Mobile Authentication solution at the event.

Symitar hosts annual education conference and technology expos with the ultimate goal of providing credit union professionals with a forum to learn about how Symitar’s products and services can help them reach their distinct service, operational, performance and growth goals.

Tyfone’s u4ia® platform, in addition to comprehensive mobile banking, enables an average 3% transaction fee revenue generation through iCashé mobile wallet services. u4ia platform also provides enhanced strong ID authentication with SideSafe microSD with a seamless migration path to secure NFC contactless payments with SideTap. Only Tyfone’s solution provides a single platform to provide end-to-end secure digital wallet and payment services by the credit union to its members.

“Tyfone’s mobile wallet services provide direct Symitar Episys core integrated mobile banking, commerce services, enhanced strong ID authentication mobile security and NFC contactless payment technology,” said Mark Miyamoto, Tyfone’s director of mobile banking. “Not only does Tyfone provide mobile banking solutions that are able to be deployed quickly by credit unions but also gives revenue through iCashé and a roadmap to the future of mobile commerce. As the lines between mobile banking and digital wallet services begin to blur, Tyfone is well positioned to bridge the gap with an extremely secure and integrated service offering that can help credit unions serve their members’ needs.”

Tyfone’s multimode mobile banking solution (SMS, mobile Web, App) already offers a complete range of features delivered to credit union members. In addition to the standard mobile banking features such as account balance, account history, fund transfers, branch / ATM location lookup and bill pay, Tyfone offers financial institutions the ability to offer mobile banking to 100% of its membership,  mobile enrollment and management, account aggregation, mobile remote deposit capture (mRDC), and more. With the implementation of Tyfone’s iCashé Mobile Wallet Services, credit unions can now generate, on average, 3% transaction revenue that provides an enhanced member experience with lower overall cost of deployment.

For more information about Tyfone’s integration with the Symitar Episys core and Tyfone’s mobile banking solutions, please visit www.tyfone.com or Booth 626 the SEC.

Tyfone will be holding a special promotion for Symitar conference goers and has extended the promotion to those unable to attend the event. Visit www.tyfone.com/win100 for more information.

About Symitar

Symitar, a Jack Henry Company, is the leading provider of core processing solutions for credit unions of all sizes, now supporting more than 650 credit unions – including six corporate credit unions and approximately 30 percent of the credit unions with assets exceeding $1 billion – with enterprise-wide automation.

Symitar’s credit union solutions encompass two functionally distinct core systems; approximately 50 integrated complementary products and services; in-house and outsourced operating alternatives; contemporary technology; and the infrastructure necessary to support each client as a single point of contact, support, and accountability.

About Tyfone

Founded in 2004, Tyfone’s corporate headquarters are in Portland, Oregon, and its Asia-Pacific headquarters are in Bangalore, India. Tyfone connects money and mobility via a highly secure, scalable and flexible mobile financial services solution tailored to meet the evolving needs of consumers, financial institutions, mobile network operators, transportation companies and retailers. Operating in any standard memory card slot, Tyfone’s u4ia® platform and its companion SideTap™ memory card comprise the world’s first patented, neutral, and comprehensive memory card-based payments solution for mobile contactless payments. 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. For more information visit www.tyfone.com.

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RGB Networks, the leading provider of scalable multiscreen IP video delivery solutions, today announced that at IBC 2011 Swisscom Broadcast, a leading Swiss provider of fully managed multiscreen TV services to the European B2B customer segments, will be demonstrating the transmission of its IP-based multiscreen TV services utilizing RGB’s Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG™) and TransAct Packager. The RGB multi-device delivery solution forms a key component in Swisscom Broadcast’s technology blueprint to support streamed media over private and public Internet to televisions, PCs and mobile devices, and will be showcased at RGB’s stand (4.C78) delivering live video over the Internet from Swisscom Broadcast’s headend to multiple devices on the stand.

Operating one of the major headends in Switzerland with approximately 400 TV channels, Swisscom Broadcast is quickly developing into a key supplier of fully managed IP-based video and audio services. Using the latest IP video distribution techniques, Swisscom Broadcast is building standards-based architectures to supply complete IPTV and OTT services to new and existing operators looking to update their legacy technology deployments.

To be demonstrated at RGB’s IBC 2011 stand will be live streams from Swisscom Broadcast’s headend utilizing RGB’s VMG to transcode program streams. These streams are formatted for a large number of different end user devices of varying resolutions and decoding capabilities for delivery via both adaptive streaming and traditional single bitrate environments. Working in conjunction with RGB’s TransAct Packager, this integrated solution provides streams in Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) standard delivery format, Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming and Microsoft Smooth Streaming outputs, enabling them to fully address adaptive streaming for HLS-compatible devices, and the new Flash/Silverlight-powered platforms such as Android and Windows-based devices.

“Swisscom Broadcast is truly changing the face of the IP video market with its innovative solutions,” said Simone Sassoli, Vice President, International at RGB Networks. “Swisscom Broadcast has identified a growing market opportunity and is strategically adapting its infrastructure to scale to meet this and future industry needs. We are delighted that RGB was one of the key technology providers selected to help facilitate this change.”

At IBC 2011Swisscom Broadcast’s live IP-based video service will be demonstrated using RGB’s VMG and TransAct Packager on multiple devices including a TV, laptop, iPhone and iPad on RGB’s stand (4.C78).

About Swisscom Broadcast

Swisscom Broadcast Ltd. has been an independent subsidiary of the Swisscom Group since 2002. With around 240 employees and over 500 transmitter sites, Swisscom Broadcast is the leading Swiss transmitter of terrestrial radio and television signals throughout Switzerland. Swisscom Broadcast’s service offering ranges from the transmission of audio and video signals and the aggregation, preparation and broadcast of TV programs and video content to complete, multi-screen IPTV solutions. A broad spectrum of forward-looking, temporary communication, information and IT services for event organizers and media enterprises completes its service portfolio. For more information, visit: www.swisscom.ch/broadcast

About RGB Networks’ TV Everywhere Solutions

RGB’s TV Everywhere solutions include its award-winning Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG), the industry’s highest capacity transcoder, capable of simultaneously transcoding 500+ MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/H.264 video streams into the growing number of formats required to serve an ever-expanding array of end user devices. The VMG utilizes a truly carrier-class chassis with extensive redundancy features to ensure reliable operation at all times.

Complementing the VMG is RGB’s TransAct Packager, an advanced adaptive streaming solution that ingests MPEG-4/H.264 video programs and outputs multiple versions of each program encoded at different bit rates which are then packaged in the Apple HTTP Live Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming and Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming formats.

Working together, the TransAct Packager and the VMG comprise the industry’s most complete, flexible and highly scalable solution for delivering live and on-demand video to PCs, tablets, mobile devices and set-top boxes.

About RGB Networks

RGB Networks enables video service providers to migrate to a multiscreen environment for the delivery of linear and on-demand video over managed and unmanaged IP networks. Wide adoption of the company’s solutions is based on core strengths in transcoding, advertising and overlay insertion, 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. Venture capital firms Accel Partners, Comcast Interactive, Focus Ventures, Granite Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners have invested $63 million in the company. RGB is a private, profitable company based in Sunnyvale, California with offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.rgbnetworks.com.

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Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced it will be demonstrating the Indic version of its BOLT mobile browser and previewing its forthcoming BOLT Android version at CommunicAsia (www.communicasia.com) exhibition and conference, being held 21-24 June in Singapore. Carriers can arrange for a meeting and private demonstration by contacting the BOLT team at boltsales@bitstream.com.

The BOLT Android version, currently in private beta, leverages the powerful BOLT Cloud Computing architecture to provide a modern, visual Web experience, better network management and new revenue opportunities to carriers.

Bitstream will also showcase the Indic language version of its BOLT browser at CommunicAsia. The Indic language browser provides perfect rendering of complex Indic characters on web pages for the following Indic languages: Hindi, Bengali, Gurumukhi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam and Oriya.

Carriers who offer the mobile Internet on low to mid-tier mobile phones face several common issues, including slow and unreliable page load times, the inability to support video, and inaccurate page rendering. Often these capabilities not only drain device batteries but also use too much data, making them too slow and expensive for end users.

”BOLT offers carriers a solution that not only allows for perfect page rendering with a fully-featured browser no matter what type of phone is being used, but also provides significant bandwidth savings over the competition with unmatched data compression,” said Sampo Kaasila, vice president of research & development for Bitstream. “For example, twenty mobile devices browsing with BOLT use the same bandwidth as one device browsing with competing browsers. That’s an impressive bandwidth savings for carriers, but even more importantly the new use cases that BOLT enables, combined with BOLT’s cloud architecture with carrier billing integration, helps carriers increase data revenues.”

With the BOLT cloud, Bitstream can provide an easy way for consumers to control their data plans and data usage directly from BOLT, without needing to call customer service, use SMS or take any other additional steps. With BOLT’s ability to easily and directly integrate with a carrier’s existing billing system, the application enables carriers to sell trial or introductory data plans to end-users and then upsell them to full data plans from within the BOLT browser app.

“BOLT can be addictive to users who enjoy the perfect, lightning fast page rendering of the Internet as it was intended to be seen,” adds Ritu Varma, Bitstream director of product management. “The ability to quickly and easily upgrade data plans as usage increases means that end users can better control and manage their budgets, reducing the customer service strain on carriers.”

BOLT’s cloud also provides increased support for optimized video streaming, an important feature to end users and another differentiator for carriers who implement BOLT into their offerings. BOLT offers users the widest variety of streaming audio and video available in a mobile browser, supporting both Flash and HTML5 video. In addition to advanced video support, BOLT’s social networking integration capabilities with Facebook and Twitter is another attractive differentiator from other available browsing solutions on the market today.

BOLT has already been selected as the default browser by wireless operators who use BOLT’s cloud computing architecture to drive data revenues, create new use cases for end users, and also to reduce infrastructure costs through industry leading, over-the-air 20:1 data compression. BOLT’s superior data compression offers the additional benefit of speedy performance on congested networks across a wide range of devices.

About BOLT®
Licensed by handset manufacturers and wireless operators around the world, the BOLT mobile browser delivers PC-style browsing with advanced features such as tabbed browsing, streaming audio and video, and integrated social networking in a relatively small application that is also the industry’s most feature rich mobile browser. BOLT is available for Java ME, BREW and BlackBerry devices and has already been installed on thousands of different handset models. BOLT’s WebKit based cloud computing infrastructure integrates easily with carriers’ billing and OSS systems, and significantly reduces infrastructure costs with its best-in-class data compression. The BOLT SDK allows any service provider the ability to create custom Web-enabled applications that run on the widest possible number of mobile phones. Wireless operators, handset OEMs and service providers should contact boltsales@bitstream.com to learn more about BOLT.

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.

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