At La Pizza Restaurant in the Solana development by Chaoyang Park, U-Tron installed two Helios E27 warm white lamps and two Comets MR16 Spotlights in warm white. Vittoria Zhang, the manager of La Pizza says that customers have commented favorably on the new lights and like the idea that the restaurant is helping to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse emissions.

Biteapitta (Beijing Pitta Bakery) in the Tongli Building, in the Sanlitun nightlife district of Beijing is famed for its Middle Eastern style breads and snacks. Here U-Tron installed four Comet MR16 Spotlights in warm white. Avi at Biteapitta said, "The LED spotlights bring us two major advantages over the halogen lights we were using before. Firstly they run a lot cooler, which is an advantage when one is dealing with fresh foods. And secondly we expect them to last a lot longer, which means we will not have the constant hassle of swapping bulbs in awkward places."

At the popular Indian Kitchen restaurant in the north of Sanlitun U-Tron installed three LED Helios E27 warm white lights and two Comet MR16 Spotlights in warm white. General manager Movee D'souza is also very satisfied with the U-Tron LED lights. "When anyone asks about the LED lights I am very happy to recommend that they contact U-Tron." D'souza said.

About U-Tron's LED Helios and Comet Bulbs
The U-Tron LED Helios Series of E27 light bulbs uses high power LEDs to bring energy savings and a healthy light to your home or workplace. They can be easily retrofitted to virtually any lamp that uses E27 lamp holders, use on average a fifth of the power of an incandescent bulb and have a life span of up to 50,000 hours, the equivalent of up to 50 incandescent bulbs through out its life-span. They range in brightness from the equivalent of a 40-watt incandescent bulb to 100-watt equivalent.

U-Tron's MR16 Comet 3 light bulbs can be retrofitted to virtually any light fitting that takes a bulb with an MR16 base. They are ideal for display illumination and general lighting purposes. Unlike halogen bulbs they generate very little heat and no UV light. They are not sensitive to variations in voltage, which can cause early failure to halogen bulbs.

Both LED Helios and MR16 Comet 3 light bulbs are made from 100% recyclable materials, are virtually unbreakable in ordinary use, contain no toxic materials and are fully compliant with CE and RoHS standards.

About U-Tron
U-Tron (Beijing) Electronics Co. Ltd., was established in 1992 as a WOFE in Beijing, China. The company was 100% funded by investments from an American Company, China Business Associates. The main purpose was to bring U.S. developed technology products to China for manufacturing and localization. U-Tron has a 1,800 square meter factory employing 50 + people in the Beijing Development Area (BDA) of Yi Zhuang district. Website: www.u-tron.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Raja Magasweran
  E-mail: raja@u-tron.com
  Toll free number: 400-626-1806 (call 86-10-6568-2990 if you are outside Mainland China)

Singapore (June 18, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Telecoms and IT industry professionals from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Ashnik, ROBI (AXIATA), MTS, Metanoia Partners and Amazon Web Services will be heading down to Singapore this July to make key lectures and workshops on Mobile Cloud Computing ASIA 2010. The three-day event is entirely dedicated to the emerging mobile cloud markets, application service providers, OEMs, ISPs, Mobile Network Operators, Platform as a Service Providers, Mobility as a Service Providers. This event in Singapore, 14-15 July, will bring together CEO's and directors from major operators in the region.

Known as MCCA 2010, the opening-day event will see keynote speakers from the likes of Ashnik, MTS India and Mobilink Pakistan. Today organisers have added two new names to the list – Cloudshield Technologies and vCirrus Australia.

Industry professionals from Orange Scape will come to Singapore on July 13th to lead the Pre-Conference Workshop in collaboration with Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. The workshop's focus is on Cloud Utilisation in Creating Next Generation Mobile Applications. Meanwhile, Google's Radjeep Dua will be in attendance to discuss the Google App Engine.

"MCCA is aimed at a variety of people – telco's view into the Convergence of Mobility and Cloud Computing, infrastructure web services platform provider will present on how to move your Cloud-Based Services Business from Concept to reality, and those interested to know the Global Brands who are already ahead in the Mobile cloud Computing space," said event Director Steven Aung.

To find out more about the comprehensive list of MCCA speakers, visit http://www.mobilecloudcomputingasia.com.

About OrangeScape:
OrangeScape is ideal for building process oriented business applications. With OrangeScape, you will start your application development with OrangeScape Studio. The Studio has 4 perspectives: Model design, Form design, Workflow design, and Action design. For more info: www.orangescape.com.

About Neoedge:
Neoedge is a business media company that aims to serve the corporate world with integrity and excellence by providing cutting edge business intelligences and creating high value networking opportunities.

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Eugene Azucena
  Neoedge
  Tel: +65 6557 9185
  E-mail: eugene@neo-edge.com

Beijing, China (June 08, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — U-Tron (Beijing) Electronics Co. Ltd. will be attending the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2010, which is to be held in the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex in Guangzhou, from June 9 to June 12, 2010 when U-Tron will be on stand No. 3.2 J31 of the exhibition. On display will be U-Tron's Lucus LED street lights, BatLED flood lights, SoLED solar powered lights, UFO down-lighters, and LED Ranger stand-by lights. In addition U-Tron will also be displaying its Venus range of small down-lighters and other exciting products.

To find out more about U-Tron's attendance at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2010 and for an invitation to the exhibition please call David on: toll free number 400-626-1806 (call 86-10-6568-2990 if you are outside Mainland China) or e-mail sales3@u-tron.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

About U-Tron
U-Tron (Beijing) Electronics Co. Ltd., was established in 1992 as a WOFE in Beijing, China. The company was 100% funded by investments from an American Company, China Business Associates. The main purpose was to bring U.S. developed technology products to China for manufacturing and localization. U-Tron has an 1,800 square meter factory employing 50 + people in the Beijing Development Area (BDA) of Yi Zhuang district. Website: www.u-tron.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Raja Magasweran
  E-mail: raja@u-tron.com
  Toll free number: 400-626-1806 (call 86-10-6568-2990 if you are outside Mainland China)

Singapore (May 26, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Neoedge Pte. Ltd (Telecoms and IT) announced this morning that Ashnik's Sachin Dabir and Metanoia Partners' Nigel K J Dye will be co-chairing for the Mobile Cloud Computing ASIA 2010 conference which will be held on 14-15 July at Carlton Hotel Singapore.

Sachin Dabir, the founder of Ashnik, is widely recognized as an authority in the IT industry and has helped solution providers grow businesses in the new territories. He played a major role in establishing Red Hat and open source businesses in India. His 18 years in the industry has benefited enterprises in adopting right technologies to solve the business problems.

He is a great blogger and often extensively quoted by media. His work involved guiding companies leverage social media and mobile marketing. He has a solid background in infrastructure solutions leading to cloud computing and likewise in mobile applications development.

Sachin will open the conference as Chairman and will have an exciting presentation entitled: "Will the Reality of Convergence in the Telecommunications World be on the Clouds?” Nigel K J Dye, however, is opening the 2nd day of this very exciting event by presenting on “The Challenge of the Mobile Cloud" and he is determined to persuade us to turn technology into cash.

Metanoia Partners' Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer Nigel K J Dye is currently focusing on Enterprise 2.0 and Next Generation Network consulting and service development.

His accomplishments include the development of the 1st European Value Added Network (DunsNet), having obtained the 1st commercial license from Oftel in the early 80's.

He was with British Telecom for 10 years as a Director and Vice President. Nigel has also been involved in many successful major Global projects in BT when BT expanded and formed BT Global Services. Additionally, his experience in BT involved Next Generation Networks (21CN), Mobile Services / LTE and Cloud Computing services and strategy.

Nigel then assisted in the setting up of Eunetcom and Global One for Deutsche Telekom and from there he managed Siemens corporate network in over 170 countries. His experience is truly global with a track record of successful projects in China, Asia, Latin America, US and Europe.

With offices in Munich, London and Colombo, Metanoia Partners transforms companies into a revenue generating, cost minimizing and above all, one which maximizes concrete ROI.

Take this opportunity to meet and speak to our experts at the Mobile Cloud Computing ASIA 2010 because no matter how well tuned we think we are to the latest mobile cloud trends and issues, we are sure you will pick up much food for thought with them.

About Metanoia Partners
Metanoia Partners is a knowledge company which provides IT, Telco, Cloud and Enterprise 2.0 consulting, training, coaching and mentoring programs. With a 2-sided business model Metanoia focuses on knowledge transfer to Asia and BPO, KSO and ITO services from Asia to Europe. Metanoia has a global web 2.0 network of over 400 experts and consultants.

About Ashnik
We are the professionals with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry in various fields – business development, sales management and solutions designing. Have worked with the banking, telecom and government industry clients.

About Neoedge
Neoedge is a business media company that aims to serve the corporate world with integrity and excellence by providing cutting edge business intelligences and creating high value networking opportunities.

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Eugene Azucena
  Tel: +65 6557 9185
  E-mail: eugene@neo-edge.com

"We hope to become the Telecom Conference of choice for the telecommunications world by offering the newest products and conference formats with the ample opportunity for learning, discussing and networking," said Paz.

Neoedge has chosen Singapore as its corporate headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region, where it plans to further grow operations in countries like South Africa, Japan and Dubai while maintaining its established presence in China and other parts of the region.

"Neoedge aims to fast track its investments in facilities, technologies and people," said Paz during a brief presentation during the launch.

The new location of the corporate office at Commerce Point Building at Raffles Place, Singapore was chosen because of its goal of expanding the company and likewise be at the central business district of the Lion City.

Notably, the third Telecom Event: Mobile Cloud Computing ASIA 2010 unveiled is one of the company's most comprehensive product, having a line up of unequalled speakers and panelists. It also has a very interesting Pre-Conference Workshop to be led by Orange Scape and in collaboration with Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services. The conference will happen on the 14th-15th July at Carlton Hotel, Singapore and is sponsored by vCirrus Australia. For more information, please visit http://www.mobilecloudcomputingasia.com/

Paz also disclosed details about other future conventions and workshops on SS7 and SIGTRAN in the MENA Region, but assured that Neoedge has been actively researching for other potential locations, including the United Kingdom, and would likely produce a new one before 2011.

Neoedge, which began operations in Singapore in 2008, currently has half a hundred active employees. Already, several slots in its new office are set to be occupied by incoming sales agents, marketing managers and conference producers. Recruitment, however, is still ongoing.

Paz was keen to point out that Neoedge emphasizes a learning culture built around simplicity aimed at fostering the professional growth of its employees. She pointed out that her current position as Project Manager for Telecom events came in only months after she joined as a senior sales executive, adding that such a case was not unusual in the company.

Neoedge Pte. Ltd, TELECOMS & IT, 2010
Neoedge is a business media company that aims to serve the corporate world with integrity and excellence by providing cutting edge business intelligences and creating high value networking opportunities. Neoedge identifies pressing issues that the corporate world is facing. Neoedge events are developed based on careful and original research including extensive and direct interactions with potential participants in the market. Neoedge events are distinguished by delivering premier value to customers in a sustainable means. Neoedge is your long term corporate business partner. For more information about Neoedge www.neo-edge.com.

Headquartered in Singapore with Rep Office in Beijing, Neoedge has been organising premier events all around the world including in Hamburg, Dubai, Accra, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Mumbai, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Perth, Manila, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Shanghai etc.

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Eugene Azucena
  Marketing Manager – Telecoms and Strategic Management
  Neoedge Pte. Ltd
  Tel: +65 6557 9185
  Fax: +65 6557 9188
  E-mail: eugene@neo-edge.com
  

Beijing, China (May 06, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Tim's Texas Barbecue, a popular restaurant and entertainment venue in Beijing's central business district, is benefiting from the recent installation of U-Tron's LED Helios and LED Comet lights, and so is the environment.

Helios bulbs were used to replace the original incandescent lights over the restaurants bar and MR16 LED Comet track lights to illuminate stock behind the bar. One benefit of the new lights became immediately apparent to both the staff at Tim's and their customers. The Helios and Comet lights provide a steady and bright illumination where required, however the light does not spill over to other areas and thus the cozy and intimate ambiance of the restaurant is maintained in the late evening. The low energy consumption of LED lighting is helping to reduce the restaurants power bills and its carbon footprint.

Tim Hilbert, the owner of Tim's Texas Barbecue is enthusiastic about the benefits that LED lighting can bring. "For an operation such as mine that does much of its business at night the energy costs associated with lighting are a significant charge on our business. To be able to reduce these costs and benefit the environment, while maintaining the standard of our service to our customers is a win-win-win situation."

Energy savings are not the only benefit that Tim foresees LED lighting bringing to his business. "Every time we have to change a light bulb there is a labor cost and disruption to our business and inconvenience to our customers. Some lights are in very difficult places to reach, for example over the stairwell. The extremely long life cycle of these LED light bulbs is a significant benefit to us. And, of course, the fact that they contain no mercury and are 100% recyclable is a definite plus."

About U-Tron's LED Helios And Comet Bulbs

The U-Tron LED Helios Series of E27 light bulbs uses high power LEDs to bring energy savings and a healthy light to your home or workplace. They can be easily retrofitted to virtually any lamp that uses E27 lamp holders, use on average a fifth of the power of an incandescent bulb and have a life span of up to 50,000 hours, the equivalent of up to 50 incandescent bulbs through out its life-span. They range in brightness from the equivalent of a 40-watt incandescent bulb to 100-watt equivalent.

U-Tron's MR16 Comet 3 light bulbs can be retrofitted to virtually any light fitting that takes a bulb with an MR16 base. They are ideal for display illumination and general lighting purposes. Unlike halogen bulbs they generate very little heat and no UV light. They are not sensitive to variations in voltage, which can cause early failure to halogen bulbs.

Both LED Helios and MR16 Comet 3 light bulbs are made from 100% recyclable materials, are virtually unbreakable in ordinary use, contain no toxic materials and are fully compliant with CE and RoHS standards.

About U-Tron

U-Tron (Beijing) Electronics Co. Ltd., was established in 1992 as a WOFE in Beijing, China. The company was 100% funded by investments from an American Company, China Business Associates. The main purpose was to bring U.S. developed technology products to China for manufacturing and localization. U-Tron has an 1,800 square meter factory employing 50 + people in the Beijing Development Area (BDA) of Yi Zhuang district. Website: www.u-tron.com

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Raja Magasweran
  E-mail: raja@u-tron.com
  Toll free number: 400-626-1806 (call 86-10-6568-2990 if you are outside Mainland China)
  

Malcolm Logan, CEO of Opraxe International, believes that based on the above statistic there are different market opportunities and challenges faced by operators as well as different approaches they need to take to address these issues: "India is far more competitive and focused on addressing and creating marketable prepaid segments to drive growth. These include the micro markets and balance dollar spend approach on each. Indian operators have almost stopped looking at ARPU as a performance measure. They tend to address the market as organizations that sells "minutes" – so to do that you need to know what the minutes cost and how much you can make (in a competitive market) from these minutes."

The issues facing prepaid mobile in North Asia will be discussed June 22 – 23, 2010, in Radisson Hotel Pudong Century Park, Shanghai, at the Prepaid Mobile North Asia 2010 conference. Participants from around the region will look at the issues facing this mobile sector.

Logan continues: "The challenges for the Telco's then are to focus on specific and yet to be addressed market segments that will return value back to them, while not cannibalizing their existing segments – and on the other hand, improving their already defined market segments with creative and relevant product options and capabilities to maintain and grow their position.

"China on the other hand was a market that developed in a different fashion. Competitive offers and marketing campaigns were not at the forefront of their thinking when they started as they had a captive market where consumers simply wanted a mobile phone – any phone, any product, any service. Demand simply outstripped the need for carefully crafted retention and loyalty mechanisms. To an extent it still does, however, activity in retaining customers is now coming to the forefront – especially with the increasing number of providers that will come into the market over time, so I expect to see some specific agreements, features and network expansion taking place," said Logan.

According to Logan, consumers in both countries will continue to, and expand their use, of prepaid offerings not only for communications, but also bill paying, micro-payments for goods and services and such like. Operators who have the right thinking, information available and understanding of the evolving behavioral aspects of consumers will relish the opportunity.

Gareth Kentish, Director of International Sale, Telecoms, Hansen Group sums it up perfectly. In emerging markets, pre-pay is the norm and churn is generally high with modest ARPU. Competition for 'land-grab' is rife.

"In both mature & emerging markets, pre-pay is essential to build the base and to ultimately cross-sell with VAS. Increasing ARPU by extension of portfolio is effective for an affluent customer base. The objective is to create the "sticky customer". Consider automated top-ups, transparency of call details, family accounts, even combining pre/post-pay services, set-up loyalty and reward schemes. Know your customer-base – introduce dynamic discounting," he said.

For more on addressing the challenges in the pre-paid mobile sector in Asia please visit Prepaid Mobile North Asia 2010.

Maryland, United States (April 20, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ:VOCS), a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations, today announced that it has acquired privately-held BDL Media Ltd., a provider of on-demand public relations software and services in China.

BDL Media was founded in 2004 and has quickly become a well respected brand in the Chinese Public Relations landscape. Today BDL Media has over 100 customers representing Chinese companies of all sizes and industries. The company provides public relations software and services including media relations, news monitoring and news distribution. Through its key services ChinaNewswire.com and Xinwengao.com, the company is quickly becoming one of the largest online news release services in China, and via MyRSS.cn, the company is rapidly building one of the most useful Chinese-language digital news monitoring services.

"China is one of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world with a rapidly emerging PR industry that is estimated to be over $1 billion and growing in excess of 30% annually," said Vocus chairman and CEO Rick Rudman. "This acquisition provides a launching pad for Vocus to introduce our full suite of products into this large, growing and untapped market."

BDL Media's customers in China will continue to have access to many of their existing products and services and continue to work with the same dedicated BDL Media employees. In the near future, we expect that BDL Media customers will also have access to the full suite of products currently offered by Vocus globally, including one of the world's largest media databases, online news and social media monitoring and analysis, and news distribution.

"The combination of BDL Media's local market expertise and Vocus' products and global resources are the perfect platform to create a market leader in China," says BDL Media President Paul Doyle. "We're excited to join the Vocus team and introduce the world's best on-demand PR software to this rapidly growing market."

BDL Media operations and staff will remain based in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.

Conference Call Information
Vocus will discuss the BDL Media acquisition today, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 on our previously scheduled Q1 2010 earnings call which begins at 4:30 p.m. ET, or 1:30 p.m. PT, today. Investors are invited to listen to a live audio web cast of the conference call on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://onlinepressroom.net/vocus/ir/webcast/. A replay of the webcast will be available approximately one hour after the conclusion of the call and will remain available for 30 calendar days following the conference call. An audio replay of the conference call will also be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call. The audio replay will be available until May 4, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. ET and can be accessed by dialing (888) 203-1112 or (719) 457-0820 and entering conference number 4673967.

About Vocus, Inc.
Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management. Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the media and the public, optimizing their public relations and increasing their ability to measure its impact. Our on-demand software addresses the critical functions of public relations including media relations, news distribution and news monitoring. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt our on-demand software. Vocus is used by more than 4,400 organizations worldwide and is available in seven languages. Vocus is based in Lanham, MD with offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.vocus.com or call (800) 345-5572.

Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains "forward-looking" statements that are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These are statements that are predictive in nature, that depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, or that include words such as "may," "will," "expects," "projects," "anticipates," "estimates," "believes," "intends," "plans," "should," "seeks," and similar expressions. This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, Vocus' expectations and assumptions concerning future financial performance. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual future results to differ materially from those projected or contemplated in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may be significantly impacted by certain risks and uncertainties described in Vocus' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The risks and uncertainties referred to above include, but are not limited to, risks associated with possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, our history of operating losses, risks associated with acquisitions, including our ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, risks associated with our foreign operations, the possibility that we will not achieve GAAP profitability, interruptions or delays in our service or our Web hosting, our new business model, breach of our security measures, the emerging market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to hire, retain and motivate our employees and manage our growth, competition, our ability to continue to release and gain customer acceptance of new and improved versions of our service, successful customer deployment and utilization of our services, fluctuations in the number of shares outstanding, foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates.

The conference will be the key platform to gain an update on the progress of the mobile broadband industry on a global scale, to assess the commercial and technological challenges ahead and to give an outlook on upcoming technology developments as well as device and service innovations.

The Industry Conference attracts high attention from the mobile industry as the NGMN Alliance is established as the world-wide premier telecom industry organization for all next generation mobile network related matters and is supported by a membership base of 60 leading operators and vendors.

Throughout two days of keynotes, interactive panels and presentations, an outstanding line-up of industry executives and thought-leaders will explore essential trends and insights including: initial deployment and performance results; migration strategies and how to deal with heterogeneous networks; operational efficiency and the future of O&M; key enablers: IPR royalty rates and patent pools, spectrum needs, certification, roaming; devices, service platforms and mobile broadband for Consumer Electronics.

Top level speakers are already confirmed by key operators and vendors including China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks, NTT DOCOMO, SK Telecom, Vodafone, ZTE, and many others.

After the first commercial next generation mobile network deployments have emerged in 2010, the NGMN Exhibition with leading international NGMN partners will complement the conference with live demonstrations and product showcases of the latest next generation mobile network solutions. Exhibitors include:
Alcatel-Lucent, Anritsu, Cambridge Broadband Networks, China Mobile, Datang Mobile, Ericsson, Huawei, Motorola, NSN, Potevio, Rhode & Schwarz, RWTH Aachen University, Telcordia, Ubidyne, and ZTE.

Beyond the conference programme and the exhibition, participants will enjoy at the Industry Conference an excellent networking platform with evening events, networking breaks and the opportunity for a visit of the Shanghai World Expo.

"The NGMN IC 2010 will bring together international executives across the entire mobile broadband ecosystem" said Yuejia Sha, NGMN Board Member and VP for Business Support, Technology and R&D, China Mobile. "China Mobile is proud to contribute to this milestone event with live-network presentations showing the performance of TD-LTE technology and the achieved synchronization and synergies of FDD/TDD development."

"The NGMN Board is delighted to announce the NGMN IC 2010 & Exhibition in June in Shanghai," commented Vivek Badrinath, Chairman of the Board of the NGMN Alliance and EVP Networks, Carriers, Platforms and Infrastructure, France Telecom SA. "After the success in 2006 and 2008, the event is widely regarded as the unique opportunity to network, to receive a first-hand update on the mobile broadband technology status and to discuss critical industry challenges ahead."

For further information on NGMN IC 2010, visit www.ngmn-ic2010.com or contact Natacha.Schubert@ngmn.org or +49 69/9074998-20

About NGMN Alliance
The NGMN Alliance (www.ngmn.org) is an open group of the world-leading operators, technology vendors and research institutes. The primary objective is to create a virtuous cycle of innovation, investment, and adoption of true mobile broadband services with attractive cost-performance ratios. About 60 partners have committed to this objective and are developing requirements to shape the evolution of the mobile ecosystem. In 2010, the focus will be on operational efficiency, co-ordination of trials and tests, device availability, roaming, and assessment of IMT-Advanced technologies. Achievements and future roadmap will be presented at NGMN's Industry Conference in Shanghai, June 2010.

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Natacha Schubert
  NGMN Ltd. Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 58,
  60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Phone: +49 69/9074998-20
  E-mail: press@ngmn.org

Bath, England (February 11, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — With the recent announcement by China Unicom of femtocell launches in various provinces in China, with Softbank and NTT DoCoMo announcing femtocell deployments and trials in Japan, and Starhub launching their HomeZone service in Singapore, there is growing momentum for other APAC operators, manufacturers and applications developers to quickly enter the femtocell marketplace.

For most mobile operators this technology is now seen as an opportunity to gain market share for their brands, increase their foot print in the home or office and reduce operating costs in their networks. With the prospect of greatly improved home coverage, super high data rates, and a consumer expectation of much cheaper (perhaps free) bundled calls, femtocells are hot property and many see a huge first mover advantage for an operator that gains a foothold and potentially consolidate the families' or corporates' mobile phone allegiance to their brand, network and content.

For the existing network providers, such as Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Huawei, ZTE, Motorola, Alacatel-Lucent etc, femtocells could easily be the highest volume basestation product they will ever manufacture, but at the same time perhaps of lowest value and lowest margin.

The mainstream in-home WiFi router providers, Thompson, Netgear, Cisco, etc are beginning to view femtocells as simply a value add to their own router boxes which already take pride of place in the home and many do not like the idea of the cellular network specialist getting in on the act.

Analysts following this community are working hard to tie down the business case, potential volumes, consumer reactions and timescales but this has not stopped a flurry of reports on femtocells being published to try and give a steer to the industry.

Event Information: http://www.avrenevents.com/femtocellsasia2010.

The Femtocells Asia 2010 conference, in exclusive partnership with the Femto Forum, will bring the latest updates from these deployments together with news of new trials world-wide, the most recent analysis of market size and timeframe from leading analysts, the current state of play with standards, as well as presentations and exhibits from the major femtocell vendors and manufacturers.

Other events in the series include the Femtocells World Summit 2010 in London in June, and Femtocell Americas 2010 in USA in December. The Femtocells World Series in 2009 was attended by over 700 delegates from 35 countries (including 39 global operators).

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Please Contact:
  Avren Events
  Marketing and Sponsorship/Carole Mayhew
  tel: +44 1761 492547
  email: carole@avrenevents.com

  Programme Organiser/Andrew Bateman
  tel: +44 1225 723349
  email: ab@avrenevents.com
  web:www.avrenevents.com
  

At the heart of CodeLab is a set of over 250 unique, fully interactive, hands-on programming exercises that cover an Intro Programming syllabus. CodeLab provides automatic checking of the exercises, instantly returning positive reinforcements or diagnostic feedback to the students. The entire suite is now available in Simplified Chinese.

Instructors who assign CodeLab find that their students make fewer mistakes in their homework programs, perform better on tests and quizzes, and gain confidence in their ability to program. In addition, CodeLab includes instructor management tools that make it very easy to incorporate the exercises into your course.

Through a web-based interface, the instructor can organize the topics, select, name and order the exercises and assign due-dates. Finally, the system tracks all student work, and instructors have easy access to a web-based or email-based record of student performance that can be integrated with an existing grading system. Over 15 universities in China have already had Codelab customized to match their syllabi.

For more information about IPS please visit www.discoverips.com, or call their Corporate Offices in Beijing, China at +86-10-6464-0108.

CONTACT INFORMATION

• This press release was prepared by, Michael Iannini, and he can be reached at michael@nics.com.cn.

Commuters welcomed the news. Black Qin, rides the Shanghai metro to get to work, and also to reach other parts of the city to meet friends. "Having a metro map on my phone is really useful especially with the new lines which have opened up in Shanghai. Now I never miss the last train home!"

The British founder of ExploreMetro, University of Cambridge graduate Matt Mayer predicted: "2010 will see both the rapid growth of smartphones such as Apple's iPhone and Google's Android-powered devices, together with the fast expansion of metro networks for the Shanghai World Expo and Guangzhou Asian Games. Our apps, available in Chinese and English, meet this need."

Interactive maps on mobile phones can be automatically updated, unlike paper maps which quickly become out of date. The apps include a route-planner, allowing subway riders to calculate the time and price of a journey, and even work without an internet connection. ExploreMetro's apps are priced at USD0.99, with the Beijing and Guangzhou apps available for free until February 7th at ExploreMetro's website.

About ExploreMetro
Since 2007 ExploreMetro has made interactive maps for metro and subway systems in Chinese cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, online and for mobile.

Contact

• Name: Matt Mayer
  Email: matt@exploremetro.com
  Tel: +86 13482644407

London, England (February 03, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Today the WiMAX Forum announced details of the third annual WiMAX Forum Congress Asia conference and exhibition to take place in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 13–14, 2010. The first WiMAX Forum Congress event to take place in Taipei, the conference will highlight the unique, local ecosystem as well as feature operators, device manufacturers, regulators and industry thought leaders from across the globe.

The agenda will feature an inspirational line-up of speakers from more than 20 operators, 17 analysts, two regulators and three vendor companies. Sessions featured on the multi-track conference program include WiMAX business models and retail strategies, operational challenges, spectrum and regulation, vertical market opportunities for WiMAX and the prospects for WiMAX in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to the conference each day "WiMAX on a Plate": breakfast briefings with the Analysts will be held. In addition, the WiMAX Forum will be hosting its third annual Analyst Summit on April 12th. On the exhibition floor the Taiwanese Pavilion will be showcasing the Taiwanese WiMAX ecosystem.

Speakers include: Wing K Lee, CEO, YTL Communications (Malaysia); Indar Atmanto, President Director, PT Indosat Mega Media (Indonesia); Don Lin, President, Tatung InfoComm Co Ltd (Taiwan); Dr Fumio Watanabe, CTO, UQ Communications (Japan); Heru Sutadi, Commissioner, Indonesian Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, (Indonesia).

For a full list of speakers, please visit:www.wimaxforumglobalevents.com/asia.

Concurrent with the conference will be a free to attend 2-day exhibition featuring companies such as Alvarion, Greenpacket, Samsung, Seowon, Aptilo, Rhode & Schwarz and many more who will be showcasing their latest revolutionary product offerings. For more information on the conference and exhibition, and to register to attend, please visit www.wimaxforumglobalevents.com/asia.

About the WiMAX Forum
The WiMAX Forum is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16e/ETSI HiperMAN standard. A WiMAX Forum goal is to accelerate the introduction of these systems into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum Certified products are interoperable and support broadband fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile services. Along these lines, the WiMAX Forum works closely with service providers and regulators to ensure that WiMAX Forum Certified systems meet customer and government requirements.

"WiMAX Forum," the WiMAX Forum logo and the WiMAX Forum Certified logo are registered trademarks of the WiMAX Forum. "WiMAX," "Mobile WiMAX," "Fixed WiMAX," "WiMAX Certified," and "WiMAX Forum Certified" are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum. Third-party trademarks contained in this document are the property of their respective owners.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• For more information, contact:
  Margaret Bagan
  Marketing Communications Manager
  Phone: +1-503-924-3067
  margaret.bagan@wimaxforum.org

  Natalie Turner
  Marketing Manager
  Informa Telecoms & Media for WiMAX Forum
  Tel: +44 (0) 20 7017 4309
  natalie.turner@informa.com
  

The theme of this summit is to discuss strategies in developing the best business model and new business partnership in delivering mobile financial services to the mass market.

Highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile operators, banks, mobile transfer networks, mWallets and "interoperability hubs", handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers will share their latest efforts in launching m-commerce services and the key challenges facing them at this summit.

Mr Paolo Baltao, G-Xchange, Inc.'s Product Group and International Remittance & Banking Business Development Head of Globe Telecom, Philippines, Mr Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services of Grameenphone, Bangladesh and Anthony Perkins, Head of Technology of WING, Cambodia will be sharing their success stories in launching Mobile Remittance/Mobile Money Transfer & Microfinance Services at this M-Commerce World Summit 2010.

Companies/organisations representing the M-Commerce Ecosystems will be speaking at this conference: Mohamed A Kazi, Channel Head-Mobile Banking, Absa Bank, South Africa; Paradorn Wichayapinyo, Marketing Manager, Advanced mPAY, Thailand; Nitin Chittal, Vice President, Retail Banking-Alternate Channels, Axis Bank, India; Frédéric Schepens, Executive Vice President, Strategic Business Development, Belgacom ICS, Belgium; Mohammad Jakirul Islam, Project Coordinator mCommerce, Citycell, Bangladesh; Thivanka Rangala, Group Chief Commercial Officer, Dialog Telekom PLC, Sri Lanka; Paolo Baltao, G-Xchange, Inc.'s Product; Group and International Remittance & Banking Business Development Head, Globe Telecom, Philippines; Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services, Grameenphone, Bangladesh; Michael Becker, VP Mobile Strategies, iLoop Mobile, USA; Silvester Prakasam, Director (Fare Systems), Land Transport Authority, Singapore; Andrew Parker, Business Development Manager, M.Com, New Zealand; Anthony Panal Petalcorin, Senior MIS Manager, Microenterprise Access to Banking Services / Regional Manager, Mindanao, Philippines; Kate Zilla-Bâ, COO, Mondato, USA;Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia, Motorola,India; Chakaprani GK, Director – Emerging Markets, Nokia Financial Services, Nokia, India; Matthew Talbot, Vice-President, mCommerce, Sybase 365, Singapore; Louie Stojanovski, Director of Regional Operations, Asia Pacific, Messaging LOB, Syniverse Technologies, Inc., Australia; Dan Armstrong, Managing Consultant, Takashi Mobile / Co-Founder, Rabo Mobiel B.V., The Netherlands; Arief Hamdani Gunawan, Senior Officer-Regulatory Management, Telkom Indonesia, Indonesia; Lalit Sinha, Deputy General Manager, DIT, Union Bank of India, India; Thor Hauge, Vice President, Digital Ventures, Western Union; Anthony Perkins, Head of Technology, WING, Cambodia.

There will be a pre-conference workshop on 16 March 2010 on "Mobile Marketing", Advertising and Commerce Workshop: Tools for Navigating the Industry Ecosystem – A Hands-On and In-Depth Study of Mobile Marketing Best Practices, Industry Ecosystem Structure, Players and Business Models' to be led by: Michael Becker, VP Mobile Strategies, iLoop Mobile, USA and a post-conference workshop on "How to Build and Calculate A Successful Business Case for Mobile Banking?" to be led by: Andrew Parker, Business Development Manager, M.Com, New Zealand.

The summit website is : http://www.symphonyglobal.com/index.php/event/page/m-commerce.

About Symphony Global
Symphony Global is a business media and consulting company that aims to provide the best networking platforms for global business connections.

All our events are research-driven with direct contacts with major industry stakeholders to ensure that they meet their needs and keep up to the industry trends and developments. SG Conferences offer you an unrivalled opportunity to network with your peers within your areas of business and ultimately develop the best business partnership for future business expansion. Our workshops and masterclasses provide an informative and interactive forum for developing latest techniques and skills.

Take advantage of SG services and products to keep up-to-date with the latest developments within your industry.

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• Contact:
  Phyllis Goh, senior conference manager
  Symphony Global Pte Ltd
  65-6221 8119
  Email: Phyllis.goh@symphonyglobal.com
  http://www.symphonyglobal.com

Hanoi, Vietnam (January 18, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Mobile phone usage in Vietnam is big and getting bigger. From pre-teens to over-60s, it seems everyone in Vietnam has a mobile phone, or even two. In fact, mobile phone ownership in Vietnam is far higher than that of developing neighbors; 74 percent of people in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi own a mobile; over half (58 percent) of the urban population and a third (37 percent) in rural areas. That's quite an astonishing figure when compared to China and India, two countries developing at a rapid pace.

Vietnamese consumers are resilient and despite the global economic crisis, they remain relatively positive. Vietnam consumers are ranked the 9th most confident worldwide, according to a recent Global Consumer Confidence study released.

The Vietnam Mobile & Broadband International Summit 2010 will be held March 25-26, 2010, in Hanoi. This is a great opportunity to learn about some of the following areas: Key Development initiatives for Telecommunications sector in Vietnam; Current state of play for foreign partners and qualitative methods; Local specific case studies for Value Added Services;3G optimization strategies; Case Examples from mature markets in Europe & Asia; Pricing Strategies; Technology perspectives & developments : Wimax vs LTE vs SAT; Finance & Investment opportunities explored; Mobile / Carrier Applications stores lifecycle planning.

For further information, please contact:
http://www.unistrategic.com/index.php/component/option,com_eventlist/Itemid,4/did,380/func,details/

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  Email: saint@unistrategic.com
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