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LONDON — Symbian Limited, the market leader in open operating systems for mobile phones, today welcomes the announcement of the Nokia E63 messaging device.

This latest mobile phone is based on Symbian OS? v9.2, which is optimised for convergence with performance and feature enhancements, bringing a high level of power efficiency and platform security to mobile phones. Incorporating the S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 user interface, Nokia E63 users can choose from thousands of applications from the S60 applications library.

The Nokia E63 comes equipped with a range of multimedia features, WiFi connectivity, easy access to Mail for Exchange, and dedicated key access to contacts, calendar and email. It includes Files on Ovi, a service where users can get remote access to their PC files online and offline. The Nokia E63 also comes with 1GB of online file storage for free.

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LONDON — Suinno Oy today announced the sale of Lot 24, comprised of FI 110297; US 7,113,767 and US 7,218,919 patents and international counterpart applications relating to wireless file-based multimedia messaging. The patents will be offered at The IP Investment Summit & Live Auction 2007 (“IPILA 2007″) on 1 June at The Dorchester in London, England.

The technology allows multimedia messages to be sent as files between mobile phones. Currently many high-end mobile phones utilize the technology. The patent protection covers the most important markets in the US, Europe, China and Japan.

“The patents present tremendous licensing potential for any wireless communication or mobile phone company since more than 100 million devices with the technology have already been shipped. The patent term runs until 2020, and we estimate that billions of mobile phones will use the technology during the patent term,” said Mikko Vaananen, Inventor and Read more

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., and WATERLOO, Ontario — Responding to the requests of Nextel Direct Connect customers, Sprint (NYSE: S) today launched the BlackBerry(R) Curve(TM) 8350i smartphone. Developed by Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM), the new BlackBerry Curve 8350i is the most advanced push-to-talk BlackBerry smartphone ever.

The BlackBerry Curve 8350i smartphone utilizes iDEN technology on the Nextel National Network. It offers Nextel Direct Connect, the only national push-to-talk service in the industry to offer sub-second call set up to the world’s largest push-to-talk community with millions of users.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Meru Networks, the global leader in wireless VoIP infrastructure, today announced that its award-winning wireless LAN solution, the Meru Radio Switch, is now shipping in volume. Announced in 2005 and awarded Best of Show, wireless category, at the Interop Show (formerly Networld Interop), the Meru Radio Switch Family is a new category of gigabit-class, wireless LAN infrastructure equipment purpose-built to handle the unique requirements of high-density data and wireless VoIP applications in pervasive, enterprise WLAN deployments.

Meru’s Radio Switch family includes the four-radio RS-4000, the

eight-radio RS-8000, the twelve-radio RS-12000 and a patent-pending, built-in omni-directional antenna. The system delivers up to 648 Mbps of WLAN bandwidth utilizing 802.11 standard radios, and is capable of scaling up to 1.2 Gbps of bandwidth across its coverage zone. The Radio Switch accomplishes this breakthrough performance by layering Read more

DUBLIN — Xiam Technologies, the Ireland-based

pioneer of wireless content targeting solutions, today announced an

agreement to supply QUALCOMM with content discovery and recommendations

technology for use with QUALCOMM’s BREW(r) solution.

Xiam’s My Personal Offers System (MPOS) technology enables licensed

operators to make personalised recommendations to individual customers

tailored to their unique tastes and preferences using advanced profiling

techniques. Xiam’s technology can be used to make highly relevant

personalized offers of new and exciting content over wireless and Web

channels both before and after purchase, as well as enable content

bundling. The system also allows users to rate content and

automatically presents top selling content related to the user’s

interests.

“We are delighted to be working with QUALCOMM, an acknowledged leader Read more

ACTON, Mass. — AutoCell(R) Laboratories (award-winning developer of Radio Frequency (RF) control solutions in enterprises and digital homes) today announced that Extreme Networks(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR) will integrate AutoCell RF technology into its new Summit(R) WM-series switches and Altitude 350 access points, introduced today. In so doing, Extreme Networks is providing enhanced ease-of-use and performance for its customers deploying wireless LAN networks.

“Extreme Networks’ customers require the utmost performance, simplicity, and security,” said Scott Lucas, Director of Wireless Solutions for Extreme Networks. “By integrating AutoCell’s best-of-breed RF control into our Summit WM solution Extreme can mitigate problems related to interference, ensure high quality connections with low jitter and latency, and achieve voice-class availability throughout the network.”

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NAPERVILLE, Ill. — Velocent Systems, Inc. (pronounced Ve-loh-cent) today announced its flagship product, the Velocent Session Engine (VSE) 2000. Targeted for mobile service providers (MSP), the VSE 2000 is a low-cost software-based platform providing real-time visibility into mobile data session quality and application usage across the entire delivery chain, from the core network down to a user’s mobile device. It identifies service delivery components that are affecting or may affect user experience, such as the cell, application, server, device, network or network element. With it, MSPs can better plan and implement new services and proactively address service problems in real time. These first-ever capabilities in a single solution can enable MSPs to realize a dramatic reduction in customer churn while maximizing average revenue per user (ARPU).

The VSE 2000 is the only all-in-one solution delivering end-to-end visibility into the complete data session’s Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Today iPling (http://www.ipling.com) announced the launch of its innovative, location-based social networking service optimized for Apple’s iPhone.

The iPling community can utilize their iPhone to discover and communicate with people who share similar interests, no matter where they happen to be. “Community-building has been hindered in the past few years by worries over security and protection. People have become anxious about opening up to new, real-life relationships and experiences,” says Manuel Monroy, founder and CEO of iPling. “We believe a large number of us are ready for a change, so we created a set of tools that will inspire confidence and encourage folks to open up and get together. iPling,” Monroy adds, “is all about openness.”

Social expansion versus social networking

Social networking has, up to now, relied on invitation systems. iPling changes the status quo by giving Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Air Broadband Communications, Inc. announces a cooperation agreement with Samsung Electronics Corporations, Ltd. regarding WLAN switch development for Samsung’s OfficeServ Series IP PBX product line.

Air Broadband has been developing the Airobatics(R) WLAN switch, PiMAX(TM) Access Control Router and the AWACS advanced wireless network management system for several years. “This is an extremely innovative approach to capture wireless VoIP market for WLAN switch product since IP PBX product already dominates enterprise VoIP market, and we expect it to lead the mass WLAN deployment in 2005 and 2006,” says Kenneth Kang, president of Air Broadband.

Air Broadband’s Airobatics(R) WLAN switch is very strong in wireless VoIP due to its high-speed L2/L3 roaming, scalability and per flow QoS that recognizes & prioritizes most of known audio CODEC formats available today.

Air Broadband Communications Inc.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) and SavaJe Technologies today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire SavaJe’s intellectual property assets. Additional information regarding the acquisition of these assets will be unveiled at the annual JavaOne Conference being held in San Francisco, May 8-11, 2007. For more information about the JavaOne conference, please visit http://java.sun.com/javaone.

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed during the fourth quarter of Sun’s 2007 fiscal year which began on April 2, 2007. The terms of the deal were not disclosed as the transaction is immaterial to Sun’s earnings per share.

Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA)

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