• Zenprise introduced its MobileManager 4.1 software for troubleshooting end user issues in enterprise iPhone and BlackBerry environments. It also checks wireless network availability, Active Directory health, Microsoft Exchange server health, BlackBerry Enterprise Server and SRP availability, carrier availability, and WAN/LAN network performance.
• Ditech Networks has introduced VQABlue, the company’s first voice quality solution for Bluetooth headsets and hands-free car kits. VQABlue’s suite of DSP-based algorithms includes technologies that improve voice quality for the caller as well as the person called.
• Ceragon Networks has opened two new local offices – one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company also announced a new, $1.5 million order for its high-capacity trunk solutions, FibeAir 3200, to be deployed in Africa by a leading international carrier.
• Viacom’s VH1, MTV Networks and MobUI have launched VH1 Watch and Discuss Live Chat application in the AT&T Media Mall. The downloadable mobile instant messaging application lets VH1 viewers use their phones to chat in real time with friends and other VH1 fans while watching VH1.
• Movial joined the GSMA Rich Communications Suite (RCS) work program as the PC client provider for the initiative. More than 30 companies are collaborating in the RCS project including Ericsson, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and TeliaSonera. Movial will contribute its Communicator PC software to the initiative which lets operators extend network-based enhanced services to the PC environment, creating viral revenue generation – from increased group SMS and MMS messaging to group IP video telephony.
• XOX Sdn Bhd, Asia’s first next-generation regional integrated telecommunications service provider, has deployed the Computaris Convergent Charging System (CCS) as its convergent billing platform with Highdeal’s Transactive full-suite managing the prepaid, postpaid, and hybrid accounts. With the Computaris and Highdeal converged billing platform, XOX has become the first telecommunication provider in the region to offer mobile payments and access convergence.
• AT&T launched LG’s Incite smartphone, which includes a choice of user-friendly virtual keyboards, one QWERTY and the other a traditional 20-key keypad, that provide vibration feedback when touched. The Incite has domestic and global 3G capabilities, the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, built-in aGPS, Wi-Fi and AT&T Video Share. Incite is available to new customers for $199.99 with a 2-year contract and mail-in rebate.