BARCELONA, Mobile World Congress, 16 February 2009 – NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) today announced that it has worked with Telecom Italia to launch TIM I’M, a new service that enables Telecom Italia’s 35.3 million customers to communicate in more innovative and efficient ways through a presence-enabled communications contact list. NeuStar delivers mobile IM services to [...]

LiMo Foundation’s 11 Global Operator Members Represent Nearly One Billion Mobile Subscribers
LiMo FoundationTM today announced commitment from six major operator members to specify and deliver handsets using LiMo PlatformTM implementations in 2009. The LiMo Platform represents the vision, inputs and best-in-breed contributions of major stakeholders from across the mobile industry, enabling operators worldwide to [...]

Telecom Italia is accelerating the evolution of its mobile network in Italy to be ready to deliver Ultra Broadband Services and has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks as one of its main suppliers in the development of its new network architecture. The modernization plan will provide Telecom Italia significant power-consumption savings, of up to 65 per [...]

29th September, 2008 – At this week’s Broadband World Forum Europe 2008, the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) will advise the telecom industry that the Intelligent Home Gateway is the critical device for delivering service assurance in the home network.
Based on service provider-led use cases, Duncan Bees – Chief Technology Officer for the HGI – will [...]

More companies join the push to deploy Interactive Personalised TV
Efforts to accelerate the deployment of IPTV by combining the expertise of key telecom operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and network infrastructure providers in the Open IPTV Forum are gathering further momentum, and the first release of the specifications that will allow IPTV to develop into [...]

SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 8 — UbiEst SpA, leading Italian developer of location-based mobile services, today announced at the DEMOfall 08 conference a mobile application for personal security, contact locating and emergency needs. UbiSafe can be used for monitoring elder or invalid persons in need of attendance, for personal safety (at night, in walking risk [...]

LiMo’s Unique Combination of Openness and IP Protection Resonates Throughout the Expanding Mobile Ecosystem
LiMo FoundationTM, the global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, announced today 11 new member companies. The addition of Cellon, Esmertec, Freescale Semiconductor, Longcheer Holdings, MIZI Research, Movial Corporation, PacketVideo Corporation (PV), SK [...]

Opera Software today announced that it has joined the Open IPTV Forum. This global organization is comprised of key IPTV and TV stakeholders working to produce end-to-end specifications to take the next generation of IPTV services into the mass market.
As a part of the Forum, Opera will team up with other members, such as Samsung, [...]

July 2, 2008 – The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) has today announced the appointment of Duncan Bees, formerly Technical Advisor at PMC-Sierra, to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the industry forum representing operators and vendors in the home networking space. Duncan, who is based in Vancouver, succeeds Paolo Pastorino, who will [...]

IPTV is coming…
Efforts to accelerate the deployment of IPTV by combining the expertise of key telecom operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and network infrastructure providers in the Open IPTV Forum are gathering further momentum, and the first release of the specifications that will allow IPTV to develop into a mass market service is close to completion.
At [...]