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Los Wireless Leadership Awards son unos premios dirigidos a los clientes que han desarrollado aplicaciones innovadoras para la solución BlackBerry mediante el uso de la tecnología inalámbrica para lograr grandes mejoras- ya sea ayudar a sus clientes, dirigir el social networking de sus empleados o crear un impacto en sus resultados finales.

Aquí te presentamos a los ganadores y finalistas de cada categoría, junto a un breve resumen con la información y los resultados obtenidos por cada participante. El premio se falla en 3 categorías: Innovación en el Sector Privado, Innovación en el Sector Público e impacto de Negocio.

Innovación en el Sector Privado: Este premio reconoce a las organizaciones que han desarrollado soluciones inalámbricas novedosas para mejorar la productividad de negocio.

Ganador: RIDGID, división de Emerson– RIDGID es una compañía líder en producción de herramientas mecánicas y herramientas manuales en más de 140 países. En RIDGID, sólo el 10% de la fuerza de ventas solía introducir sus datos de venta en el sistema de CRM de la compañía, porque era complicado trabajar desde sus portátiles mientras estaban viajando. Ahora, gracias a la aplicación que han desarrollado de forma interna, para la movilización del sistema de CRM en los smartphones BlackBerry, 360 empleados de RIDGID, más del 90% de la fuerza de venta introducen sus datos de ventas en el sistema de forma inmediata.

Finalistas:

Lenel Systems International, Inc, division UTC Fire & Security.Pikolin

Innovación en el Sector Público: Este premio reconoce a las organizaciones que utilizan soluciones inalámbricas de forma innovadora en salud, seguridad pública y gobierno.

Ganador: El Departamento de Niños y Familia del Estado de Florida – El Estado de Florida está revolucionando la forma en que sus trabajadores recogen y actualizan información crítica sobre niños al promover la atención con una aplicación desarrollada internamente por el Departamento de de Niños y Familia de Florida. La solución Remote Data Capture (RDC) se diseñó para ofrecer la capacidad de utilizar la cámara y el GPS del smartphone BlackBerry para indicar la fecha en las fotos y registrar notas directamente en el sistema de protección de menores del estado. La solución ayuda a incrementar la seguridad y bienestar de los niños que están bajo protección del estado, mientras mejora la integridad de los datos que introducen los trabajadores. Los resultados preliminares muestran que los empleados pasan menos de 1,5 horas haciendo el papeleo y comunicándoselo a la oficina, lo que les permite dedicar más tiempo a ayudar a los niños.

Finalistas:

• Baltimore Police Department

• HealthSouth

Impacto en el negocio: Este premio reconoce a las organizaciones que emplean una solución inalámbrica que han tenido un impacto significativo en sus negocios.
Ganador: Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHT) – PHT utiliza Digital Pens de DevelopIQ y smartphones BlackBerry para completar un folleto sobre maternidad de 80 páginas para atención pre y post natal para eliminar datos duplicados de la información de pacientes en los sistemas de la clínica. La solución permite a las comadronas del PHT ahorrar tiempo de administración, de 98 a 48 minutos por sesión, así como permitirles mejorar la experiencia de los pacientes durante y después del embarazo.
Finalistas:

• Dell

• Xerox Corporation

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LAS VEGAS, Jan 07, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ — Today at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, Verizon Wireless and Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) announced the Jan. 25 availability of Palm® Pre™ Plus and Palm Pixi™ Plus, bringing the Palm webOS™ experience to customers on the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless 3G network.

Palm Pre Plus has a large, vivid touch screen; high-performance processor; and slide-out keyboard. The Pre Plus keyboard makes for quick and easy typing, while the unique gesture area provides a sleek look and intuitive navigation. Pre Plus also comes with the Palm Touchstone™ Back Cover, making the phone compatible with the revolutionary inductive Touchstone Charging Dock (sold separately). Verizon Wireless Pre Plus customers will also get 16 GB of storage (approximately 15 GB user available) for applications and media.

Feature-rich, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus offer Verizon Wireless customers greater flexibility for access to the Internet with Wi-Fi. In addition, the all-new Palm mobile hotspot, a webOS app that can be downloaded from the Palm App Catalog, gives customers the option of creating a personal Wi-Fi cloud capable of sharing the reliability and high-speed Internet connectivity of the Verizon Wireless 3G network with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as notebooks, netbooks, cameras, gaming devices or portable media/MP3 players.

Social communicators and first-time smartphone buyers who want an affordable and customizable phone and instant access to messaging and Web content will love Pixi Plus. Customers have a host of options for personalizing their phones with the separately-sold Palm Pixi Artist Series Back Covers (www.palm.com/artistseries) and new color Pixi Touchstone Back Covers, which will be available in pink, blue, green, orange and black.

"The Palm experience is all about helping our customers stay connected so they never miss a thing," said Jon Rubinstein, Palm chairman and chief executive officer. "We’re constantly enriching this experience with new features and innovations. The Verizon Wireless launch of Pre Plus and Pixi Plus is the next phase in delivering this unique Palm experience to more people."

"The Palm webOS family is a great addition to Verizon Wireless’ robust line-up of smartphones," said John Stratton, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless. "The outstanding capabilities and functionalities on both Pre Plus and Pixi Plus give customers a wealth of customization options to help them manage their lives. Customers get the latest technology from Palm along with the nation’s largest and most reliable 3G network for an unsurpassed mobile experience."

Following are key features and specifications available on both Pre Plus and Pixi Plus:

-webOS – Allows customers to run multiple applications simultaneously and provides over-the-air software updates delivered automatically to their devices
-Palm Synergy™ – Brings customers’ information from the many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view
-Unobtrusive notifications and universal search
-Palm App Catalog – Currently offers more than 1,000 webOS applications for download
-High-speed connectivity
-Gesture area – Enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation
-Full QWERTY keyboard
-High-performance, desktop-class Web browser
-Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
-Integrated GPS
-Robust messaging support (combining IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)
E-mail, including EAS (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers) and personal e-mail support (Google Gmail™ push, Yahoo!®, POP3, IMAP)
-VZ Navigator(SM) – Allows customers to get audible turn-by-turn directions to more than 15 million points of interest and share the directions with others
-USB mass storage mode
-Proximity sensor – Automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the display when consumers put their phones to their ears
-Light sensor – Reduces power usage by dimming the display if the ambient light is dark
-Accelerometer – Automatically orients Web pages and photos
-Ringer switch – Easily silences the device with one touch
Removable, rechargeable battery
-Multimedia options, including pictures, video playback and music as well as a camera with LED flash and a standard 3.5 mm headset jack
-Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
-Charger/microUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed

Additional Palm Pre Plus Specs

-3.0 megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field
-Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
-Dimensions: 2.35" x 3.96" x 0.67"
Weight: 4.89 ounces

Additional Palm Pixi Plus Specs

-2.0 megapixel camera with LED flash
-Fixed QWERTY keyboard
-Dimensions: 2.17" x 4.37" x 0.43"
-Weight: 3.26 ounces

Availability:

-Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores beginning Jan. 25. Pricing will be announced closer to launch.
-3G mobile hotspot is a separately-purchased feature added to a voice and data plan.
-For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have today announced a mutual commitment to a framework for establishing predictable and more transparent maximum aggregate costs for licensing intellectual property rights (IPR) that relate to 3GPP Long Term Evolution and Service Architecture Evolution standards (LTE/SAE). The companies invite all interested parties to join this initiative which is intended to stimulate early adoption of mobile broadband technology across the communications and consumer electronic industries.

The framework is based on the prevalent industry principle of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms for essential patents. This means that the companies agree, subject to reciprocity, to reasonable, maximum aggregate royalty rates based on the value added by the technology in the end product and to flexible licensing arrangements according to the licensors’ proportional share of all standard essential IPR for the relevant product category.

Specifically, the companies support that a reasonable maximum aggregate royalty level for LTE essential IPR in handsets is a single-digit percentage of the sales price. For notebooks, with embedded LTE capabilities, the companies support a single-digit dollar amount as the maximum aggregate royalty level. The parties believe the market will drive the LTE licensing regime to be in accordance with these principles and aggregate royalty levels.

This framework balances the prevailing business conditions relevant for the successful widespread adoption of the LTE standard, which continues its progress toward definitive adoption by the industry in the applicable standards forums and organizations.

Company Quotes
"As our respective companies have now launched R&D efforts and trials for LTE technology, we hope that this initiative will help for a wide adoption of this technology across devices and applications, enabling a wireless lifestyle for consumers and enterprises and creating value for technology providers," said Olivier Baujard, Chief Technology Officer, Alcatel-Lucent.

“The adoption of this initiative will reassure operators of the early widespread adoption of LTE technology throughout the consumer electronics industry,” Ericsson’s Senior Vice President, General Manager and Chief Technology Officer Håkan Eriksson said. “It also confirms Ericsson’s longstanding commitment to the FRAND principles as fundamental to the industry.”

“NEC is excited about this initiative. LTE is a key technology in the transformation of voice-oriented telecom services into data-oriented communication services. In partnership with other LTE technology leaders and vendors, NEC, as both an infrastructure and handset provider, must play a crucial role in establishing a better environment in which to explore the LTE market, and we believe this initiative is an important first step. “ said Dr. Katsumi Emura, Executive General Manager, Intellectual Asset Management Unit, NEC Corporation.

“Today’s devices contain a multitude of different technologies. To ensure all patent holders are treated fairly without stifling the market, it would be preferable for patent holders to offer reasonable terms.” said Ken Stanwood, Executive Vice President Technology and Standards, NextWave Wireless “We are enthusiastic about this effort and hope the concepts will spread to other technologies.”

“The patent licensing market requires basic rules in order to properly develop and function“, said Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President, Intellectual Property Rights, Nokia. “Today’s announcement is a step towards establishing more predictable and transparent licensing costs in a manner that enables faster adoption of new technologies. “

“In order to connect 5 billion people and deal with 100-fold traffic at lowest cost of ownership we need to create economies of scale, “ said Stephan Scholz, CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks, “Mobile broadband implementation using technologies with a predictable, transparent maximum aggregate costs for licensing intellectual property rights will drive global adoption and foster social and economical growth.“

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Ericssonwww.ericsson.com
NEC http://www.nec.com
NextWave Wireless http://www.nextwave.com
Nokia www.nokia.com
Nokia Siemens Networks www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com
Sony Ericsson www.sonyericsson.com

AdStar to leverage Trolice relationships in pursuit of advertising initiatives with major wireless players

MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AdStar, Inc. , a leading provider of e-commerce transaction software and services for the advertising and publishing industries, today announced that it has engaged James Trolice of Trolice Consulting Services to work with AdStar in the strategic positioning of its mobile product offering in the marketplace, while advancing sales and partnership opportunities in the wireless industry.

Earlier this year, AdStar announced an example of the types of opportunities available for its mobile solutions when it signed an agreement with Relevantis. The companies are currently collaborating on an end-to-end solution that will deliver relevant mobile advertisements to end users, while helping content publishers to monetize their mobile properties through advertising.

“James Trolice comes highly recommended to AdStar, and has extensive experience and success working with the major players in the wireless industry,” said Leslie Bernhard, president and chief executive officer of AdStar, Inc. “Our mobile solutions have been developed with the cooperation of a large international mobile phone manufacturer, and we believe it is ready for the broader mobile marketplace. We look forward to leveraging Trolice Consulting’s relationships with major wireless companies to help foster business development opportunities for our mobile solutions.”

AdStar’s mobile technology allows advertisers to create, schedule and submit their mobile ads through a Web-based interface directly to publishers in the required mobile device format. AdStar also provides advertisers the ability to closely track their mobile advertising campaigns and to better understand how well or how poorly individual ads are performing, thereby delivering clear evidence of return on investment.

“The domestic mobile advertising space is still young, and many companies are evaluating and/or using solutions that don’t incorporate the history, understanding and technology that AdStar has developed within the publishing community during the past 20 years,” added Trolice. “My experience tells me that there is tremendous opportunity in the mobile space for AdStar’s technology, and I am excited to be working with Leslie and her team to increase market penetration and drive revenues.”

AdStar http://www.adstar.com/.

Sonus mobilEdge Expands Wireless and Wireline Service Convergence and Enables New Revenue Generating Services

WESTFORD, Mass. and BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of service provider IP-voice infrastructure solutions, today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona unveiled its latest wireless technology that will allow mobile operators to rapidly increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) and leverage their existing high-speed data networks. Sonus’ new mobilEdge Wireless Access Node, integrates seamlessly with the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) enabling operators to deliver never before seen services over existing high-speed data networks cost-effectively and securely.

The new carrier-class product provides consumers with improved access to 2.5G and 3G mobile multimedia services, while enabling network operators to effectively deliver quadruple-play services (voice, video, data and mobility) and expand their wireless network coverage. Sonus will be demonstrating its mobilEdge technology at its booths at Mobile World Congress.

“Macro mobile phone networks were built primarily with outdoor usage in mind and to deliver a separate set of services from wireline networks. For today’s consumers, however, the mobile phone is a hub for communication and entertainment, regardless of location, and users want their portfolio of services available on both their mobile and fixed line phones. The Sonus mobilEdge Wireless Access Node not only expands network coverage in a cost- effective manner, it also streamlines the delivery of media-rich services improving the value mobile network operators can offer to their customers,” said Hassan Ahmed, president, chairman and CEO, Sonus Networks. “This is a really exciting turning point for mobile networks.”

Sonus’ mobilEdge lets network operators combine their high-speed data networks with picocell or femtocell technology to maximize the investment they have previously made in their wireless broadband networks. Further, the mobilEdge allows operators to generate increasing minutes and improve the average revenue per user with broader wireless access and additional services.

With Sonus’ mobilEdge, subscribers enjoy seamless mobile coverage and a rich array of new IP-based multimedia services, while network operators can realize increased revenue, reduced churn, and lower costs.

Technology Overview
The Sonus MobilEdge Wireless Access Node serves as an anchor node bridging femtocell and picocell access networks, high-speed wireless data networks and IP-based core wireless networks. The mobilEdge supports today’s need for 2G GSM and 3G UMTS femtocell and picocell access points for residential and enterprise use, including both in-building coverage and outdoor in-fill applications. In addition, it is fully compliant with the ongoing development of the LTE and SAE efforts within the 3GPP and provides an ideal integration node for 4G radios as they are introduced into the network.

Through standard SIP signaling, the mobilEdge makes centralized IP-based services available to both wireline and wireless subscribers. And by handling mobility-related procedures at the edge of the IP core, the mobilEdge allows IP core and access networks to evolve independently.

The mobilEdge platform leverages the mobile switching technology developed by Zynetix, a company Sonus acquired in April 2007, and Sonus’ own field- proven GSX switching platform that drives over 36 billion VoIP minutes a month. With over 100 systems installed on five continents, the Zynetix mobile switching technology is a proven, field-deployed product. It supports common mobile phone call models, provides tightly integrated mobility management, and works with a range of pico/femtocell products.

The industry-leading Sonus GSX is a globally deployed platform. Other GSX- based products provide call routing, TDM-to-IP gateway functions, and secure IP-to-IP border switching. Integrated with the feature-rich Sonus product line, the GSX delivers proven SIP call control and carrier-grade availability on a hardened, highly scalable platform. By integrating the Zynetix mobile switching technology with Sonus’ GSX platform, Sonus has created an innovative solution for connecting broadband-attached picocells and femtocells to an IP/SIP core.

The Sonus mobilEdge platform is available in two versions:
-MobilEdge9000 is a modular carrier-class platform that is highly scalable, and fully redundant. It can support up to 640,000 mobile subscribers in a single chassis, which is 16U high and fits in a standard 19-inch (600 mms) wide telecom rack.
-MobilEdge4010 is a fixed-configuration carrier-class platform that is fully redundant, but targeted at smaller central offices. It can support up to 25,000 mobile subscribers in a single chassis, which is 3U high and fits in a standard 19-inch (600 mms) wide telecom rack.

Sonus Networks http://www.sonusnet.com/