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Personalised messaging and media processing platforms
Integrated Missed Call Notification and SMSC Functionality allows Zain to Handle Higher Volume Transmission
Jinny Software today announced that its Missed Call Notification (MCN) solution is live in Zain Jordan, part of the leading Middle East and African telecoms provider Zain, formerly MTC. Jinny’s successful bid and subsequent MCN implementation displaced an existing and competitive MCN solution, due to the advanced and enhanced features of the Jinny solution.
The key differentiator of Jinny’s offering was that the SMSC functionality could be integrated into the MCN service to allow the product to handle higher volume transmission and to remove the load on the operator's current SMSC nodes.
Jinny’s wealth of expertise in SMSC and SMS routing and filtering technology has made the development of the combined MCN and integrated SMSC functionality a straightforward product extension. This meant that the Jinny MCN implementation could meet the customer’s specific needs and differentiated it from the alternative solutions on offer.
Jinny’s Missed Call Notification solution leads to lower churn and higher ARPU for the operator through increasing call completion by reporting missed calls to the called party using SMS. A call may be missed if the subscriber is in a low coverage area, has the mobile switched off, is busy with another call or does not have voicemail activated. The notification message includes the calling number, the number of missed calls and the date and time of the call, giving the called party all the information required to return the call.
Zain Jordan’s Chief Technology Officer, Samir Abu Zahra, commented, “When we started thinking about and negotiating the Missed Call Notification solution, we knew that time was a big factor and challenge for both Zain Jordan and Jinny Software. I am very pleased that the challenge was met. Zain Jordan could count on the Jinny team and they demonstrated good will and a real partnership approach.
“We are impressed with Jinny’s responsiveness, flexibility and transparency in all dealings we have with them. On behalf of Zain Jordan, I would like to thank the company for the great results and on meeting very tight deadlines,” Abu Zahra concluded.
Jinny Software’s Chief Commercial Officer, Declan O’Mahony, commented, “We are delighted to continue to strengthen our partnership with Zain, Jordan and the Zain Group as a whole. Our continued relationship with the Zain Group is testimony to our ability to deliver best-in-class messaging and media solutions to leading Tier 1 operators, anywhere.”
15-9-08
Jinny Software enables network operators to deliver compelling personalised messaging and media processing platforms to subscribers that add value and increase operator revenues. The Jinny product range, built to open standards, is designed to drive converged messaging revenues. Together our Messaging, Media Processing, Filtering & Routing and Rating & Charging platforms give operators the opportunity to create innovative solutions tailored to the personal needs of their customers.
Jinny Software operates from its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, and regional headquarters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with sales offices in Rome, Rio de Janeiro and Kuala Lumpur. Jinny Software is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Acotel Group S.p.A, headquartered in Rome, Italy and traded on the Milan stock market (ACO.MI).
Zain (formerly MTC) is the pioneer of mobile telecommunications in the Middle East and now a major player on the African continent. Zain is a leading mobile and data services operator with licences in 7 Middle Eastern and 15 sub-Saharan African countries with over 13,500 employees providing a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to over 36 million active individual and business customers. Zain made history as the Middle East’s first mobile operator, and is aiming to make history again as the first Middle Eastern mobile operator to become a global leader.
Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of certain assets and operations of Destinator Technologies Inc. (“DTI”) and certain of its affiliates, a multinational developer of wireless software for global positioning system (“GPS”) devices and navigation software for wireless handsets.
“This acquisition enables Intrinsyc to immediately capture the revenues and business operations of the Destinator wireless software product portfolio which includes navigation software for handsets and personal navigation devices. Customers include tier one Original Equipment Manufacturers Motorola and LG. We have also acquired critical navigation technology, including 17 patents and patents pending, and the engineering expertise that will accelerate Intrinsyc’s growth of its wireless software solutions business,” said Glenda Dorchak, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsyc. “As a result, we expect Intrinsyc software revenues to make up between 32 percent to 37 percent of overall revenues for fiscal 2008, which is a significant improvement over the software to services revenue mix in fiscal 2007 and accelerates Intrinsyc’s transition to a software solutions provider.”
Dorchak continued, “By combining the capabilities and products of Intrinsyc and Destinator, we now have a larger software revenue business, multiple wireless software products and a substantially larger set of customers. Our combined customer base and sales operation will be able to cross-sell the Soleus and Destinator software products, leading to accelerated revenue growth. This acquisition will also accelerate our Soleus software development efforts which will create a new product based on the Destinator navigation technology and will utilize the Destinator experienced low-cost development center in Beijing. Navigation is a critical technology for developing consumer smart phones and enabling next-generation converged devices, and as a result of this acquisition, we are ideally positioned to enable innovation as our existing and future customers deliver compelling products to the marketplace.”
With the closing of this acquisition, Intrinsyc will have approximately 375 employees worldwide, with the majority in engineering and development. The employees and operations acquired from DTI will be integrated under Intrinsyc’s experienced executive team, allowing for a streamlined integration process and achievement of cost synergies. Support for existing DTI customers, suppliers and partners is being transitioned quickly and is expected to continue uninterrupted. Intrinsyc will generate revenues from Destinator products beginning July 10, 2008.
Intrinsyc paid a total of approximately U.S. $16.0 million for DTI’s assets, inclusive of estimated related transaction expenses. The price represents a revenue multiple of approximately 1.4 times based on DTI’s historical net revenue, excluding third-party pass through map data revenue, and the share price of Intrinsyc’s common shares as at July 2, 2008. The purchase price consists of CDN $8.5 million in cash or assumption of liabilities of DTI and the issuance of 11.0 million Intrinsyc common shares from treasury. All common shares issued pursuant to this transaction will be subject to a six-month lock-up agreement. The majority of the purchase price will be allocated to specific identifiable intangible assets consisting of software, customer base, patent portfolio and trademarks resulting in future amortization expense to be incurred by the Company over their remaining estimated useful lives. The financial results of the Destinator software business will be consolidated with the Company commencing on the transaction closing date. Additional financial information pertaining to DTI will be provided in the Company’s business acquisition report to be filed within 75 days following closing.
As a result of this transaction, total annual revenues of Intrinsyc for its fiscal 2008 ending December 31, 2008 are expected to be in a range between U.S. $26 million and U.S. $29 million, including the Destinator product revenue contribution commencing from the transaction closing date with annual gross margin forecast to be in a range between 49 percent and 55 percent. The Company expects to reduce DTI’s operating expenses levels by 50% or more based on restructuring and cost synergies. This does not include one-time integration costs which are expected to be between U.S. $1.5 million to U.S. $2 million over the next 12 months.
Intrinsyc provides wireless software solutions that enable next-generation handheld products, including mobile handsets, smart phones, and converged devices. The company’s software products include the Soleus™ software platform for consumer device development and the recently acquired Destinator® GPS/navigation technologies. Combined with award winning engineering services and years of systems integration expertise, these solutions help device makers, service providers, and silicon vendors deliver compelling wireless products with faster time-to-market and improved development cost. Intrinsyc is a Microsoft® Windows Embedded Gold Partner and a winner of Windows Embedded Excellence Awards in 2007 and 2008, a Symbian Competence Center and Symbian Platinum Partner. Intrinsyc is publicly traded (TSX:ICS) and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices in China, Israel, Taiwan, U.K., and the United States.
Source: Intrynsic (9-7-08) • Related: Soleus 3G
Mobile imaging software solutions
Scalado, the leader in mobile imaging software solutions, has today announced that its CAPS imaging Software Development Kit (SDK) is now being used in more than 150 million mobile phone handsets.
The Swedish company currently has its software embedded in more than 50 different camera phone models, with suppliers such as SonyEricsson and Samsung signing licensing agreements with Scalado to power its imaging applications in new camera phones. LG also became Scalado customers during 2007. Scalado can now list four out of five of the top tier 1 mobile phone manufacturers as its licensees, as well as several handset manufacturers in Taiwan.
End of 2007 figures place worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions at around 3.3 billion - equivalent to half the global population. Global mobile phone sales last year alone were over 900 million, with camera phones sales in 2007 accounting for close to 750 million, approximately 80% of the market with this figure predicted to grow further in 2008.
As manufacturers get smarter with the number of mega pixels that they can offer, with many now providing 5, 6, 7 and even 8 megapixels, the need for powerful and memory efficient image processing software is evident.
With CAPS, Scalado offers an extremely CPU and memory efficient software solution, which drastically decreases image processing times when capturing, viewing, and editing large images.
"As megapixels in camera phones continue to grow, users will be taking many more images with their mobile phones, that are larger and need to be processed, manipulated and then sent quickly, so the need for fast and efficient image processing is even more vital," said Mats Jacobson, CEO Scalado. "Our applications have been specifically designed to bring the ultimate digital photography user experience onto a mobile device. We are working closely with the mobile industry to improve this experience all the time and finding great ways to create, browse and share pictures."
In addition to adding new customers, Scalado also had a successful end to 2007 with an expansion of its global operations. The Company has augmented its worldwide presence by launching operations in Korea, in order to be more responsive and flexible to customers in this region. These new operations will also put Scalado in close proximity to some of the emerging markets' manufacturers, and nearer to the operators who are fast becoming leading players in their respective countries.
"The global presence that we now have in terms of handset penetration, is a fantastic achievement," continued Mats Jacobson, CEO Scalado. "We are very proud to be working with the leading mobile phone manufacturers in the world, and we are looking forward to continuing to improve the camera phone experience even further by partnering up with key mobile platform hardware and software vendors as well as key operators."
Scalado AB is a Swedish imaging software company that focuses on the wireless device industry. It provides mobile imaging software solutions that are powerful, scalable and modular for any camera phone. Its mission is to make imaging on mobile phones more efficient - bringing higher usability for end-users and cutting hardware costs for device manufacturers. With unique and patented software technologies, it is solving critical performance issues with less memory and CPU requirements.
Founded in 2000, Scalado has its head office in IDEON Research Park in Lund, Sweden. The company's principal shareholders are venture capitalists Northcap Partners, Industrifonden, and Teknoseed as well as company's founders.
14-1-08
High-end videoconferencing market
SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of voice and video software engines, announced today that ZTE Corporation ("ZTE"), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has licensed SPIRIT's voice solution to empower ZTE's HD (High Definition) video conferencing systems with outstanding quality voice, giving end-users a rich communication experience.
ZTE is the second largest telecom equipment supplier in China, right after Huawei, another SPIRIT customer. ZTE's product range is the most complete in the world, reaching more than 500 operators across 120 countries and covering virtually every sector of the wireline, wireless, terminal and service markets. In 2007, ZTE topped the global CDMA market at 43 percent of the world's total CDMA shipments. With SPIRIT's solution built inside ZTE's HD conferencing systems, end-users will experience HD quality communication, offering enhanced realism from significantly improved picture and sound quality.
The high-end videoconferencing market is surging very fast. Research firm IDC expects sales to nearly triple this year to $169 million from just $64 million last year, and reach $1 billion by 2011.
"We found SPIRIT's solution to far exceed all known similar software products in terms of quality, scalability and reliability. With SPIRIT's solution, there is no delay, transcoding or noise aggregation on the server side - the quality is magnificent and the software's ability to scale is almost limitless. We're pleased to be working with SPIRIT," said Huang Qiang, Chief Engineer of Multimedia Terminals Network Division at ZTE.
"This relationship with ZTE marks another major milestone in SPIRIT's commitment to continue supplying the world's leading communications equipment providers with the most advanced, high-definition communication technologies," said Alex Kravchenko, VP Sales at SPIRIT. "ZTE is a global telecom equipment supplier, and we're excited to be working with such a global established player to deliver perfect quality voice to the world."
ZTE is a worldwide telecoms equipment supplier, and China's only listed telecoms manufacturer, with shares publicly traded on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. ZTE was the only Chinese IT and telecoms manufacturer listed in BusinessWeek's 2005 Top 100 Information Technology Companies. Founded in 1985, with global headquarters in Shenzhen China, and operations in more than 100 countries, ZTE is a leading global provider of fixed line and mobile telecommunications equipment and network solutions. In 2005, ZTE has sales revenue of RMB 21.5 billion and about 400,000 employees worldwide.
SPIRIT DSP employs 140 professionals, and has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 15 years. For the last 10 years, SPIRIT's focus has been on voice and video communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, Arima, ARM, Atmel, Blizzard Entertainment, BT plc., Cisco, Compal, deltathree, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Huawei, Importek, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG, MediaRing, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel Networks, NXP, Oracle, Paltalk, Polycom, Quanta, Radvision, Reigncom, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Trinity Convergence and Veraz, and among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SeeStorm is a SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.
TeamSpirit is a registered trademark and IP-MR is a trademark of SPIRIT DSP. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are registered to their respective owners.
Source: SPIRIT (21-4-08)
NAVTEQ announced the expansion of NAVTEQ Traffic to Europe. The company has announced plans to introduce both its real-time NAVTEQ Traffic product and NAVTEQ Traffic Patterns, a product featuring historic traffic data that further optimizes routing in navigation systems and on-line mapping, in Europe in 2008.
NAVTEQ Traffic Patterns will initially be available in Germany and the U.K. with further expansion underway. Real-time NAVTEQ Traffic products will launch in multiple countries now that data sourcing has been secured.
“Our customers have been asking NAVTEQ to expand our traffic leadership to Europe,” said Howard Hayes, Vice President Dynamic Content Services for NAVTEQ. “We’re now confident that we will be able to provide the quality of data needed to successfully launch in Europe and meet these requirements.”
NAVTEQ Traffic is a well-established leader in the North American market providing cutting edge traffic services and solutions in a wide variety of formats and business models. NAVTEQ’s experience and leadership in the fast paced US traffic market will allow for the creation of state of the art traffic services for the demanding European market.
At GSMA Mobile World Congress, February 11-14, 2008, NAVTEQ is demonstrating its location content services and solutions on stand # 1G45.
11-2-08
ICE Broadcast System Gives Cable Operators a Powerful Strategic Weapon in the Escalating Battle for Premium Subscribers
Imagine Communications announced its first available product, the ICE Broadcast System. Based on the powerful ICE˙ Video Platform, the ICE Broadcast System gives cable operators the ability to carry up to 50 percent more high definition (HDTV) and standard definition (SDTV) digital broadcast signals within their digital broadcast spectrum, without sacrificing video quality.
Leveraging its breakthrough video processing and multiplexing technology, Imagine's ICE Video Platform delivers the highest video quality at any given bit rate, solving the fundamental and elusive paradox of how to cost-effectively increase bandwidth efficiency without sacrificing video quality. The ICE Video Platform comprises a suite of solutions and products for digital broadcast, Switched Digital Video (SDV) and VOD. In each case, Imagine's core technologies of Interchangeable Compressed Elements (ICE) and video quality measurement (ICE-Q˙) address the video quality and bandwidth efficiency needs of cable operators.
The ICE Broadcast System, available now, is the solution cable operators have been seeking to expand their HD and SD services while maintaining the highest video quality. It is now ready for widespread deployment, having undergone extensive refinement, enhancement and stabilization with major cable operators over the last several months.
Imagine's VP Product Strategy & Management, Lorenzo Bombelli, stated "With competitors announcing plans for over 100 HD channels, and video quality expectations simultaneously rising, due primarily to the mass consumer adoption of large screen HDTV displays and the growing popularity of Blu-ray and HD-DVD, all service providers are now racing to create additional bandwidth to carry dozens of new HDTV services at excellent video quality. It became an urgent cable industry issue to quickly adapt our technology for the digital broadcast market, for both HD and SD applications."
Ron Gutman, Imagine's CTO and co-founder, added, "Our core breakthrough technology has broad applicability to any digital video application. While we've mostly associated ourselves to date with SDV and VOD VBR/StatMux (Variable Bit Rate/Statistical Multiplexing), for enabling the best video quality at any given bit rate, the same benefits apply to digital broadcast, and we're excited to be offering a product that solves such a critical and timely issue for cable operators."
The ICE Broadcast System consists of ICE Broadcast Processors, which accept and re-process compressed MPEG-2 digital signals using Imagine's ICE-Q video quality algorithms. Then, using the ICE Multiplexer, these signals are statistically multiplexed for Multiple Program Transport Stream (MPTS) digital broadcast over cable. In this fashion, for the first time, cable operators are able to broadcast three digital HDTV or 15 digital SDTV signals in a 256 QAM channel while maintaining excellent video quality.
Imagine Communications has launched the industry's most powerful and scalable digital video platform, enabling system operators to cost-effectively increase bandwidth efficiency and video quality of HDTV, Switched Digital, VOD, and other advanced digital video services. The Imagine ICE˙ Video Platform delivers the best video quality at any given bit rate, and also provides Video Layer Quality of Service, offering system operators unprecedented control over video quality.
14-1-08
Cantabria infinita
Cueva de El Soplao • Año Santo Lebaniego • Turismo y gastronomía
Propuestas en Brasil
Cabo Frío: paraíso a 200 km de Río • Niterói: playas, arquitectura y agenda cultural • El camino de Niemeyer: recorrido arquitectónico
Propuestas en Argentina
Ruta Nacional 40: Recorrido de la parte Norte • Recorrido del Centro (Cuyo) • Recorrido de la parte Sur (Patagonia)
Propuestas de turismo
en la Comunidad Valenciana
Ibi, Onil, Foia de Castalla • Belén de Tirisiti - Patrimonio cultural en Alcoi • Los Baños del Almirante (Valencia del s.XIV) • Mundo Naval en el museo Príncipe Felipe • Arte rupestre valenciano (Museo de la Valltorta)
Transporte aéreo
Air Nostrum • Ryanair • Spanair • Vueling
