Two key executives of TrustSphere, a pioneer in the Messaging Intelligence space, were honored at the annual Online Trust Forum, the annual event of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA).

Manish Goel, TrustSphere’s co-founder and chief executive officer and also chairman of the OTA’s board of directors, received the organization’s Online Trust Leadership Award. Roland Turner, director of TrustSphere’s Professional Services Group, received the OTA’s International Ambassador’s award for his pioneering work across the Asian region.

“Manish and Roland have been outstanding assets to the OTA, contributing substantial time and energy that have been tremendously helpful in our expansion of the organization,” said Craig Spiezle, executive director and president of OTA. “Manish’s insights and objectivity have been invaluable not only for OTA members, but also for the trust community at large.”

“It’s a both an honor and a surprise for Roland and me to be recognized by the OTA in this way. However the real credit should go to the many members of the OTA who contribute their time and expertise to advancing the cause of online trust,” said Goel. “Trust is fragile and online trust is complicated by anonymity over the Internet and the number of vulnerabilities which exist today. The OTA is the ideal forum for securing our cyber infrastructure today and tomorrow as it enables leaders throughout the industry to collaborate freely on solutions to spear-phishing and other critical threats.”

About The Online Trust Alliance (OTA)
OTA’s mission is to develop and advocate best practices, training and public policy which mitigate emerging privacy, identity and security threats to online services, brands, government, organizations and consumers. OTA’s goal is to increase consumer protection, transparency and control of their data and online activities, thereby enhancing online trust and confidence and the long-term vitality and innovation of Internet-based services. For more information about OTA, visit: https://otalliance.org.

About TrustSphere
TrustSphere is a pioneer in ‘Messaging Intelligence” a next-generation approach to ensuring the security, integrity and reliability of the messaging systems that organizations rely upon. The company has been recognized as a “Cool Vendor” for 2011 by Gartner and its award-winning solutions have been successfully deployed by both large corporations and major government organizations, proving their industry-leading capabilities. TrustSphere’s solutions are available directly from the company and a growing number of value-added resellers and systems integrators. The company has offices throughout the world, including New York City, Australia, Japan, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

For more information on TrustSphere and its solutions visit the company’s website at www.trustsphere.com

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Spendvision, a global provider of total transaction management solutions, today announced the availability of its new eMoney module, which allows businesses to capture, manage and report on purchases made using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.  The module will enable eMoney transactions to be integrated with all other types of spend, making it easier for staff to record all expenses, irrespective of the payment method used, ultimately affording businesses greater insight into what employees are spending.

Momentum is growing for services that enable consumers to purchase low value items by tapping their mobile phone or a pre-paid card against a reader at the checkout.  Indeed, Juniper Research recently predicted that global NFC mobile contactless payment transactions will reach nearly $50 billion worldwide by 2014.  However, as more employees start buying goods and services in this way, enterprises are faced with significant challenges as they attempt to incorporate digital cash into the overall picture of corporate spend.

“NFC is hugely topical at the moment, and our new eMoney module allows these transactions to be dealt with in exactly the same way as any other business expense that may traditionally have been made with credit card or cash,” said Shane Bruhns, COO of Spendvision.  “Employees can simply manage transactions from their pre-paid card or device alongside other expenses on a single platform that can be accessed anywhere and anytime.  This eliminates the need to manually enter details of the transaction, improving accuracy and making the process much quicker and easier for employees and finance teams.”

Spendvision’s new module is available worldwide, with the company expecting initial uptake to be most significant in Japan, where the use of NFC is more advanced.

“In Japan, eWallets and digital cash have been around for years and take up is high as a result of the integration with the travel network,” continued Bruhns.  “The convenience of simply tapping a device against a reader to make a payment is ideal, which is why a third of the population use emoney and transactions account for more than 1.25 trillion yen. Payments made with digital cash are commonly expensed by employees, and we believe this will soon be the case in other areas of the world.  As the only global provider of a solution capable of managing eMoney expenses across any currency, language and territory, we are well positioned to capitalise on our knowledge in managing these kinds of transactions and apply it elsewhere.”

The new eMoney module will also help businesses to manage the split between private and business spending.  With the line between work and personal spend blurring, having a single mobile device or eMoney card is becoming the norm and it is vital that businesses are able to easily identify who needs to pay for what.  Spendvision facilitates this by enabling employees to select which transactions are business-related on their card or device.

“As employees increasingly begin to use ‘wave and pay’ technology to pay for anything from transport fares to newspapers, from refreshments to stationary supplies, businesses will need to find a way of incorporating these payments into the expenses mix,” continued Bruhns.  “With so many low value transactions to be accounted for, the key to integrating them with other types of expense is to provide employees with a simple, quick way to log and manage all their payments, including eMoney. That’s exactly what our new module does.”

The eMoney module is available as an ‘opt-in’ upgrade to the Spendvision platform, a secure Software as a Service (SaaS) application, meaning that companies do not have to invest in, install or maintain any hardware or software.  The module can be configured to work with any processor of eMoney.

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

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MobileTrax (www.mobiletrax.com), an industry research firm covering the mobile and wireless market, announced today a call for nominations for the 2011 Mobility Awards.  Nominations are being accepted in 13 technology categories plus three special award categories – Rookie of the Year, Most Important M&A Transaction, and Product of the year.

“Over the past 15 years, the Mobility Awards have recognized the finest mobile and wireless products and services that have shaped the way we work and live,” said Dr. J. Gerry Purdy, principal analyst with MobileTrax. “With the incredible growth and innovation the mobile and wireless space enjoyed in 2010, the award selection committee faces quite a challenge in deciding this year’s winners from a growing pool of highly qualified companies.”

Winners of the 2011 Mobility Awards will be announced at the Wireless Innovators Dinner, co-located this spring with CTIA Wireless 2011 in Orlando, Florida.  Emceed by Dr. Purdy, the dinner will be held Tuesday, March 22 at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando.  The dinner will be attended by senior executives representing wireless operators, handset makers, wireless device manufacturers, software and service providers, venture capitalists, investment bankers, industry analysts, and select members of the press.

Nominations for the 2011 Mobility Awards are currently being accepted via email in the following 16 categories: Tablets, Smartphones, eBook Readers, Technology Innovation, Voice Processing, Wireless Communications, Software, Enterprise Mobility, Messaging & Alerts, Security, Services, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Commerce, Rookie of the Year, Most Important M&A Transaction of the year, and Product of the year.

Companies interested in nominating a technology product or service for a Mobility Award should contact Gerry Purdy at gerry.purdy@mobiletrax.com. Please use the subject line “2011 Mobility Award Nomination,” followed by the company name, and include the following information in the body of the email:

• Award category
• Company name
• Nominated product /Service name
• Brief (300 words or less) product/service description
• Company contact for more information

The Mobility Award selection committee, made up of mobile and wireless industry analysts, editors and bloggers, will judge nominated companies to determine a winner in each of the categories.  There is no charge to be nominated or selected, and all winners will be included in a press release issued after the Wireless Innovators Dinner on March 22.  Winning companies also have the option to purchase a leaded crystal 2011 Mobility Award vase and/or license the use of the 2011 Mobility Awards logo and brand for their use online and in marketing programs.

Dr. Purdy will be evaluating companies at the ShowStoppers CES press event on Wednesday, January 6 at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.   He will also evaluate companies at the  ShowStoppers press event held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress press event on February 13^th in Barcelona.

MobileTrax has forged a strategic alliance with ShowStoppers, the global leader in producing press-only events. Through this alliance companies participating in ShowStoppers at CTIA are given special consideration and pricing for participating in the Wireless Innovators Dinner. Companies exhibiting at ShowStoppers CTIA will enjoy a single point of contact for their vendor exhibits at both ShowStoppers and Wireless Innovators, resulting in maximum exposure with minimal cost.  For more information on ShowStoppers please contact Dave Leon, 845-638-3527 or dave@showstoppers.com.

All those interested in demonstrating, speaking, sponsoring or attending the Wireless Innovators Dinner should contact Alana Berlin at alana.berlin@mobiletrax.com or call at 404-667-9453.

About MobileTrax

MobileTrax is a leading market research firm that focuses on the mobile and wireless market. Dr. Purdy writes and publishes Inside Mobile weekly that is read by over 130,000 people. MobileTrax also produces Strategic Insights, a quarterly market research service that surveys 500+ mobile users and determines paradigm shifts, speed bumps and inflection points in the mobile and wireless market. MobileTrax conducts proprietary consulting services such as writing white papers, making strategic introductions and assisting clients with strategic planning. Finally, MobileTrax produces Wireless Innovators Dinner twice a year for leaders in the mobile and wireless market. More information can be found at www.mobiletrax.com.

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Spendvision, a global provider of total transaction management solutions, announced today that its transaction management platform is a winner in the ninth annual Mobile Star Awards program, hosted by mobile technology news portal MobileVillage.com.

The Spendvision platform won the ‘Enterprise Software: Expense Management’ category in recognition of its new Multi-Program Reporting (MPR) capability. MPR was added to enhance the proven transaction management platform – used by Visa, DeBeers, National Australia Bank and other leading international corporations – to give CFOs a single currency view of all spend across an entire organisation, regardless of the type of transaction or where it occurred. Designed primarily for multinationals, government agencies and organisations with separate business units, MPR provides a true corporate level summary of spend across divisions, currencies, languages and territories.

“Spendvision’s Multi-Program Reporting helps corporations achieve their ambitious goal of taking centralised control of expenditure to minimise waste and maximise efficiencies,” said Robert Kirby, CEO of Spendvision. “Winning this coveted award is yet another validation of our success and it also highlights our ongoing commitment to helping our customers meet their business goals with our transaction management solutions.”

As in past years, the Mobile Star Awards program showcases ‘best of’ entries in dozens of categories covering including mobile apps, wireless network solutions, enterprise mobile software, enterprise success stories, technology visionaries and more.

“Because ‘Go Mobile’ readers are the industry’s most savvy mobile business users, Mobile Star Awards winners can claim they are the users’ choice,” says Jon Covington, MobileVillage founder and president. “Winners are chosen by real users based on real results, not hype. Brand new mobile services competed on equal footing with well-established solutions. Both nominees and winners are respected in the mobile industry as the new leaders to watch.”

For more information about the annual Mobile Star Awards, visit MobileVillage.com.

About MobileVillage / PDA
Founded in 1993, MobileVillage is a market and solution development company dedicated to advancing mobile and wireless technology in a wide range of industries. MobileVillage accomplishes this by fostering education and alliances through “Best of Breed” solution identification, event partnerships, an online industry directory, industry job postings, daily online news, its widely respected Go Mobile newsletter, a Mobile Mentors program, and popular annual Mobile Star Awards program. Visit MobileVillage online at www.MobileVillage.com.

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

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Seregon Solutions Inc., a provider of Mobile Enterprise Application Platform software, today announced the widespread availability of DragonRAD™, a cross-platform mobile development tool that accelerates mobile application development and simplifies integration with back-office systems to deliver enterprise applications across any BlackBerry®, Android, or Windows Mobile™ device.

DragonRAD 4.0 is an evolution of SeregonMAP that allows enterprise application developers to connect to any database or Web service, build mobile applications quickly and easily in a visual drag and drop development environment, and deploy them to a wide array of mobile devices and operating systems. With DragonRAD, enterprise application developers build complex mobile applications in a fraction of the time of traditional development, and deploy them — royalty free — to an unlimited number of users.

CellTrak Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of integrated mobile solutions for home healthcare, turned to Seregon when a time-constrained opportunity arose to develop a complex application for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices. “CellTrak has more than 10,000 users of our industry leading mobile Home Heathcare solution”, said Steve Wegner, chief technology officer at CellTrak. “Using Seregon’s Mobile Application Platform (now called DragonRAD), we were able to rapidly create a prototype, and iteratively incorporate customer feedback until the application was complete. The Seregon Platform truly allows you to decrease cost, development time and risk in mobilizing enterprise applications.”

DragonRAD’s support for BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Mobile devices allows organizations to build and deliver their enterprise applications on multiple platforms with no added cost or effort, currently one of the largest obstacles preventing businesses from going mobile.

A Frost & Sullivan survey of 300 North American companies revealed that issues surrounding upfront costs continue to be cited as the key barrier to adoption for mobile enterprise applications. The cost to build custom mobile applications that integrate with current back-office systems has traditionally been unaffordable for most companies. DragonRAD helps to reduce this upfront cost with its rapid application development environment, ease of integration and synchronization of backend systems, and cross-platform support. Other features of the DragonRAD mobile development platform include:

• Cross-platform support for BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Mobile devices
• Easy-to-use drag and drop design environment
• Seamless integration with all SQL databases and Web Services (using custom data connectors)
• Native rapid application development
• One-button publish for over-the-air application delivery
• Powerful data triggers, event handlers, and push notification

DragonRAD is available as a free download from http://www.dragonrad.com/download. The Free version is fully featured and allows the development and testing of an unlimited number of applications but is limited to deployment to only two users. The unrestricted Enterprise version is available on an annual subscription at $4,900 per developer and allows the development of an unlimited number of applications and deployment to an unlimited number of users. More pricing information can be found at http://www.dragonrad.com/pricing.

Seregon is exhibiting at CTIA Enterprise & Applications™ being held in San Francisco October 5 to 8, and will be at booth #146.

About Seregon Solutions Inc.
Seregon delivers enterprise software development solutions that dramatically reduces the time and cost of mobile application creation, deployment, maintenance and administration. Seregon-powered applications run on multiple smartphones and a variety of other mobile devices and synchronize with all backend systems and databases. Seregon has helped leading Independent Software Vendors and a growing number of corporate customers develop their mobile business applications. For more information, visit http://www.seregon.com/.

BlackBerry® is a registered trademark of Research in Motion Limited. Windows Mobile™ is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. Seregon and DragonRAD™ are trademarks of Seregon Solutions Inc.

Seregon Solutions Inc. is a provider of mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) software used to enable the rapid development of enterprise applications for BlackBerry® smartphones. The company will be showcasing its new rapid application development software at the upcoming BLACKBERRY DEVELOPER CONFERENCE (DEVCON) in San Francisco, California, September 27 to 30 in booth 302.

Seregon will have important news at DEVCON and is providing the following resources for media:

• Online press kit available at http://seregon.mobilitypr.com.
• Media availability of Founder and CEO Julian White, CTO Ian Bowles, and COO Brian Greenleaf.

To receive news under embargo or arrange meetings with Seregon executives at DEVCON, contact Seregon media contacts:

• John Sidline: +1 503 989 5474 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Tamara Parker: +1 503 989 2015 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Colin Best: +1 613 769 1152 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• All Seregon media contacts can be reached by email at seregon@mobilitypr.com.

About Seregon
Seregon delivers enterprise software development solutions that dramatically reduces the time and cost of mobile application creation, deployment, maintenance and administration. Seregon-powered applications run on BlackBerry® smartphones and a variety of other mobile devices and synchronize with all backend systems and databases. Seregon has helped leading Independent Software Vendors and a growing number of corporate customers develop their mobile business applications. For more information, visit www.seregon.com.

BlackBerry® is a trademark of Research in Motion Limited. Seregon is a trademark of Seregon Solutions Inc.

Dexterra®, a leading provider of software to automate and manage mobile workforces, today announced the panel participants for “Achieving Mobile Success in Challenging Times,” the first of three webinars in the Field Service Survival webinar series from Mobile Enterprise magazine. Joining Dexterra to cosponsor this webinar series are AT&T, Microsoft and Motorola.

When: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 2:00p.m. ET (19:00 GMT)

Where: To register for the webinar visit: www.dexterra.com/cmpgs/0812-fssurvival-webseries.php

Who: Editor in Chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine Susan Nunziata will moderate a panel which includes Doug Karlson, vice president and general manager of field engineering at ADP Dealer Services, and William McNeill, senior research associate, AMR Research.

What: How ADP Dealer Services improved customer service and boosted their bottom line through automating and optimizing the entire work order lifecycle with an enterprise mobility solution. ADP’s mobility solution built using Dexterra’s mobile service applications and the Dexterra Concert™ mobile development platform runs on the AT&T network and uses Motorola devices running the Windows Mobile operating system.

Why: With the increased demand from customers interested in extending the lives of their capital investments, service organizations are feeling the pressure to manage their maintenance and service programs more efficiently so that they can make the most of the potential increase in revenue. In order to do this, service organizations must maintain a high level of service while keeping costs low. Mobilizing their field service workers plays a large part in increasing the efficiency of operations, maximizing productivity, improving customer satisfaction and lowering overall costs.

• Dexterra, Inc. is a leading provider of software to automate and manage mobile workforces.
• Dexterra announced two new editions of its proven Dexterra Concert mobile development platform: the Dexterra Concert Enterprise Edition and Carrier Edition.
• Both editions support the new fully integrated Dexterra Field Service Suite also announced today.
• Dexterra Concert provides customers a single platform for mobile application development that integrates with enterprise back-office and legacy systems either behind corporate firewalls or as a hosted service from their wireless carrier.
• Dexterra Concert supports all market-leading devices and mobile operating systems, including Windows Mobile®, RIM BlackBerry®, and Symbian OS.

Dexterra Concert Enterprise Edition
The new Dexterra Concert Enterprise Edition offers businesses optimized performance, reliability and security for their mobile applications, along with new benefits in provisioning and administration.

• Dexterra Concernt now comes packaged in a streamlined version that simplifies deployment, provisioning and administration.
• The enhanced capabilities of the new Concert Enterprise Edition combine optimized performance and reliability with patent-pending two-factor security features to verify both mobile users and their devices.
• With the new enterprise edition, IT departments can use their existing infrastructure to deploy the Dexterra Concert Server securely behind their corporate firewalls to easily manage the communication between distributed mobile applications and backend data sources.

New Dexterra Concert Enterprise Edition features include:

• A development environment that accelerates the creation of flexible, process-driven mobile applications
• Prebuilt standards-based technology, database and application adapters for mobile integration with virtually all back-office systems
• Support for multiple mobile devices, including RIM BlackBerry, Symbian OS and Windows Mobile devices
• Internationalization and localization controls letting enterprises simultaneously operate mobile applications in multiple languages
• Patented data management mechanism streamlining workflow and protecting enterprise information
• Packaged training and enablement programs for accelerating mobile deployments
• Access to the Dexterra DevNetwork partner ecosystem’s rapidly expanding catalog of off-the-shelf and customizable mobile applications

Dexterra Concert Carrier Edition
The new Dexterra Concert Carrier Edition delivers the full capabilities and benefits of the new enterprise edition with the added ability to scale to support millions of mobile subscribers while integrating seamlessly with service providers’ billing systems.

• The carrier edition lets wireless service providers offer the Dexterra Concert Server and associated mobile applications in a hosted model to thousands of business customers, supporting millions of mobile workers.
• The carrier edition also enables wireless service providers to facilitate access to customers’ business data without having to store it, making it easy to package mobile applications as a service. By using the new carrier edition service providers can now experience the many benefits of the enterprise edition, plus:
• Support for mobile applications packaged and sold as billable services
• Multi-tenant support with carrier-grade scalability to millions of subscribers
• Customer care portal designed specifically for wireless carriers to comprehensively manage both services and subscribers
• Connection management controls and a customizable reporting engine to bill at the application or service level
• All mobile applications developed using Dexterra Concert will operate the same on any of the platform editions, allowing applications to be developed once and then made globally available through multiple distribution channels.
• The Vodafone Application Service offers both a pre-packaged and a fully customized mobile application capability to business customers.

Availability
The new Dexterra Concert Enterprise and Carrier Editions are immediately available. For more information, please visit
www.dexterra.com.