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Infinite Convergence (www.infinite-convergence.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Infinite Computer Solutions (India) Limited (BSE: 533154, NSE: INFINITE) today announced the appointment of Chee Leng Loy as its regional vice president for Asia Pacific and Middle East (APME). Loy joins Infinite Convergence to direct all sales, business development and channel partner engagements for both carrier and enterprise clients across the region. Based in Singapore, Loy will also influence product portfolio direction to meet the needs of emerging markets.

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A white paper commissioned by Vesta Corporation, a global pioneer and leader in electronic payments, highlights the significant opportunity that remote payments present to mobile operators.  The white paper, compiled by Informa Telecoms & Media, reveals that end-user revenues from m-commerce services, delivered over cellular networks, are expected to grow to more than US $22.5 billion by 2014.  These m-commerce services will include mobile banking, remote mobile payments, local mobile payments and mobile money transfers.

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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. (more…)

RGB Networks, the leading provider of scalable multiscreen IP video delivery solutions, today announces the addition of a new member to its award-winning Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG™) product family, as well as increased transcoding capacity for its TCM module. The unique VMG line of modular, chassis-based products enables video service providers (VSP) to cost-effectively deliver and monetize video services to TVs, PCs, tablets and other mobile devices in any size deployment.

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Cablemás, the second largest cable television operator in Mexico with more than one million subscribers, is undertaking a comprehensive digital simulcast upgrade of its networks using products from RGB Networks, the leader in high-capacity multi-screen video delivery solutions.
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ZuluTime, LLC (www.zulutimecorp.com) announced today issuance of US Patent #7,876,266, “Harmonic Block Technique for Computing Space-Time Solutions for Communication Networks,” covering a new architecture that enables wireless networks to become “location aware” through normal communications traffic on those networks. Simply by their involvement in a ZuluTime software-enabled wireless network, smartphones and other networked devices can be immediately located and positioned with greater accuracy, particularly in distortion-rich environments.

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General Communication, Inc. (GCI) (NASDAQ:GNCMA), Alaska’s largest telecommunications company serving more than 130,000 cable television subscribers throughout the state, will use the TransAct Transcoder from RGB Networks to stream live coverage of the annual Iditarod race to its subscribers’ PCs with the same quality it delivers to TVs. The Iditarod is Alaska’s most popular sporting event and this year’s race begins on Saturday, March 5.

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PCCW will showcase the Next Generation Hotspot technology during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next week. More than 50,000 senior mobile industry leaders from 200 countries who attend the Congress may witness the power of the technology which enables seamless roaming between 3G and Wi-Fi networks.

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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (“WBA”), a pioneer in global wireless broadband roaming for public Wi-Fi networks, has announced that its membership numbers are swelling as 10 more influential organisations join the Alliance.

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RGB Networks,  the leader in network video processing, today announced that its award-winning Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) has received a coveted 4 Diamond rating in Broadband Gear Report’s esteemed 2010 Diamond Technology Reviews. The VMG was recognized for its advanced “three screen” capabilities which enable cable television operators and other video service providers deliver live programming to TVs, PCs and mobile devices.

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