• Rohde & Schwarz and Qasara announce a joint programme to verify inter-operability between Rohde & Schwarz’s 3GPP LTE Virtual Tester and Qasara’s LTE compliant UE protocol stack. The collaboration between Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) and Qasara provides an independent verification of a complete, end-to-end LTE protocol stack.  Focusing initially on the complex interactions and data flows in the LTE Medium Access Control (MAC) and Radio Link Control (RLC) layers, the ongoing program will implement joint solutions for any interoperability and standardization issues identified. Both Rohde & Schwarz and Qasara plan to make the results of this ongoing verification program available through the 3GPP standardization process.

• ROK Entertainment Group and YuuZoo Corporation have formed a joint venture to market ROK's mobile push e-mail solution. In soft-launch for the last six weeks and available for free online at www.yuurok.com/web or from mobile phones at www.yuurok.com, YuuROK has generated more than 100,000 users. YuuROK push e-mail provides a unique e-mail account and also lets users add their existing e-mail addresses into one place on their mobile. Users receive notifications from any of their e-mail accounts that an e-mail has been received, which they can read and reply to, seamlessly, from their mobile phones. The YuuROK service is compatible with all WAP-enabled handsets.

• Fuel cell provider ReliOn announced changes to its board of directors. Kent Harrison, a 29-year telecommunications industry veteran, will replace Scott Fox as an outside director. Richard H. Wolf, founding partner for Wall Street Technology Partners (WSTP), has replaced Adam Lichtenstein, also of Wall Street Technology Partners. 

• Ad Infuse announced an expansion to its relationship with Swisscom. As part of the enhanced agreement, Swisscom will deploy Ad Infuse’s adInMotion platform to integrate fully with its Vodafone live! portal. The deployment of adInMotion builds on the video advertising pilot that the two companies undertook in 2007 to encompass a broader solution, including WAP and SMS advertising.

• TruePosition, a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, said that this year its emergency call location solution has located an average of more than 5 million 911 calls per month in the United States. The milestone is the equivalent of more than 165,000 calls per day. The TruePosition emergency call location solution, which uses Uplink Time Difference of Arrival (U-TDOA), is deployed nationwide in the AT&T and T-Mobile USA networks, as well as in geographies served by Tier II and III operators.