Yugma Announces New Product and Service Offerings

In addition to offering the A Series through Yugma's international operations, the Yugma A Series products will now be available through Yugma South Africa. Yugma is the first conferencing service to provide services exactly targeted for the Southern African regional market. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service available in the Yugma A Series products are seen as invaluable to the business communications problems faced by Southern African businesses.

The announcement of the Yugma A Series offerings and the new presence of Yugma in South Africa represent a turning point for Yugma and its International Operations. Yugma underwent a strategic restructuring last July, and over the past few months has worked diligently to refocus business operations on providing high-quality, low-cost web collaboration to retail and channel-based communities worldwide. "Yugma is now poised to offer unique services globally. While the at once six months, investors, partners and clients will see an amazing array of new products to collaborate across all platforms in small, medium businesses and the enterprise anywhere in the world", said Yugma's CEO ahead of this release.

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The LX Group Announces Ignite Commerce SuiteApp

SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --The LX Group Inc., specialists in customer experience for shopping and commerce search, today announced Ignite Commerce SuiteApp for the NetSuite SuiteCloud Computing Platform as so then as customer deployments with Humble Abode and SportStop.com. The new Ignite Commerce SuiteApp offers unmatched shopping performance also as an iPhone commerce application on NetSuite. Built using NetSuite's SuiteCloud development platform, the new SuiteApp can help NetSuite Ecommerce clients significantly increase conversation rates, sales, and revenue by enhancing online and mobile shopping experiences. Because all channels integrate into NetSuite's business management suite, merchants do not have to add additional operational overhead or maintain system updates in-house, allowing them to cut costs during improving efficiency and productivity.

NetSuite's SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools and services designed to help clients and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. The complete SuiteCloud offering includes NetSuite's multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure; the NetSuite Business Suite of applications for Accounting/ERP, CRM and Ecommerce; and comprehensive development tools to create cloud computing business applications on top of NetSuite.

The Ignite Commerce SuiteApp enhances Web shopping with AJAX innovation by providing faster product browsing, enhanced keyword and parametric search and a more flexible front end with industry leading HTML, CSS and JavaScript customization. Just in case, Ignite Commerce Mobile enables NetSuite merchants to easily deploy shopping apps for Apple iOS devices just as the iPhone without requiring knowledge of iPhone development. The shopping apps are fully branded and customized to a merchant's individual look-and-feel, and can offer a faster shopping experience to iOS users worldwide.

The SuiteApp pulls enterprise information from NetSuite's database and is managed from within NetSuite with no additional systems to manage. The system offers a page-less shopping flow that eliminates most of the redundant data download of traditional HTML shopping experiences, enhanced keyword search with parametric filtering, guided navigation and interactive shopping features just as quick view, zoom and mini-cart. Using the SuiteApp can help Ecommerce merchants can increase conversion rates and earnings through an experience tailored to the needs of their clients.

Born in 1998 as NetLedger, cloud software maker NetSuite is ancient in Internet years. So it seemed strange that its user conference in San Francisco last week felt much like a coming-out party. Nevertheless it was the first user conference hosted by the maker of small-business software accessed via the ...

Web-based cloud computing is transforming how tech resources are bought and used. Cloud-based software makers should grow three to five times faster than traditional firms over the at once several years, analysts say. Channel checks show demand is ramping up for cloud-based software players, including ...

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Consolidated Communications Announces Completion of Amendment and Extension of Its Senior Secured Credit Facility

Consolidated Communications today announced the successful completion of an amendment and extension of its secured and revolving credit facility.

Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. is an established rural local exchange company providing voice, data and video services to residential and business clients in Illinois, Texas and Pennsylvania. Each of the operating companies has been operating in its local market for over 100 years. As of March 31, 2011 the Company had 234,928 ILEC access lines, 81,631 Competitive Local Exchange Carrier access line equivalents, 107,634 DSL subscribers, 30,380 IPTV subscribers and 8,665 ILEC VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) lines. The Company offers a wide range of telecommunications services, including local and long distance service, custom calling features, private line services, high-speed Internet access, digital TV, carrier access services and directory publishing.

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MTS Announces First Quarter 2011 Financial Results

RA'ANANA, Israel, May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MTS - MerTelemanagement Solutions Ltd., a globalprovider of business support systems for comprehensivetelecommunication management, telecommunications expense managementsolutions and customer care & billing solutions, today announced itsfinancial results for the first quarter of 2011.

Revenues for the first quarter of 2011 were $2.8 million, compared with$2.9 million in revenues while the same quarter last year. The Company'soperating profit was $4,000 in the first quarter of 2011 compared tooperating profit of $33,000 for the first quarter of 2010. Net income for thefirst quarter was $133,000 or $0.03 per diluted share, compared with a netloss of $2,000 or $(0.00) per diluted share in the first quarter of 2010. Thenet profit in the first quarter of 2011 is including to a capital gain ofapproximately $77,000 that resulted from the Company's sale of its ownershipinterest in Silverbyte Systems Ltd.

The Company as well announced the appointment of Josef Brikman as presidentof its US operations. A seasoned executive with over 20 years of experiencein the telecommunications and research industries, Mr. Brikman bringsextensive and diverse business knowledge. "We are pleased to welcome Josef tothe MTS team," said Eytan Bar, Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Brikman served as President of MERSecurity Inc. where he expanded the company from a services company to aprovider of a full portfolio of security products and services. He alsopreviously held positions of CFO, COO and General Manager of the Companywhere he was a key player in the acquisition of MTS IntegraTRAK and thedevelopment and growth of the Company in Europe and the Pacific Rim. Mr.Brikman holds a B.Sc. in Engineering and a degree in Business Administration.

Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. is a worldwide provider ofinnovative solutions for comprehensive telecommunications expense management(TEM) used by enterprises, and for business support systems used byinformation and telecommunication service providers.

Since 1984, MTS Telecommunications' expense management solutions havebeen used by thousands of enterprises and organizations to ensure that theirtelecommunication services are acquired, provisioned, and invoiced correctly.To boot, the MTS's Application Suite has provided clients with aunified view of telecommunication usage, proactive budget control, personalcall management, employee cost awareness and more.

AnchorPoint TEM solutions enable enterprises to gain visibility andcontrol of strategic assets that drive key business processes and crucialcompetitive advantage. The AnchorPoint's software, consulting and managedservices solutions -- including integrated Invoice, Asset, and UsageManagement and Business Analytics tools -- provide professionals at everylevel of the organization with rapid access to concise, actionable data.

MTS's solutions for Information and Telecommunication Service Providersare used worldwide by wireless and wireline service providers forinterconnect billing, partner revenue management and for charging andinvoicing their clients. MTS has pre-configured solutions to supportemerging carriers of focused solutions torapidly install a full-featured and scaleable solution.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS U.S. dollars in thousands March 31, December 31, 2011 2010 ASSETS CURRENT ASSETS: Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,518 $ 2,124 Restricted marketable securities 151 147 Trade receivables, net 708 1,251 Other accounts receivable and prepaid expenses 250 174 Inventories 11 17 Total current assets 3,638 3,713 LONG-TERM ASSETS: Severance pay fund 860 798 Other investments 6 4 Deferred income taxes 33 33 Total long-term assets 899 835 PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET 184 165 OTHER ASSETS: Goodwill 3,479 3,479 Other intangible assets, net 1,323 1,415 Total other assets 4,802 4,894 Total assets $ 9,523 $ 9,607 CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS U.S. dollars in thousands March 31, December 31, 2011 2010 LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY CURRENT LIABILITIES: Trade payables $ 278 $ 305 Accrued expenses and other liabilities 1,964 2,085 Deferred earnings 2,253 2,452 Liabilities of discontinued operations 351 351 Total current liabilities 4,846 5,193 LONG-TERM LIABILITIES - Accrued severance pay 1,133 1,051 COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY: Share capital 13 13 Additional paid-in capital 19,716 19,676 Treasury shares Accumulated other comprehensive income 4 23 Accumulated deficit Total shareholders' equity 3,544 3,363 Total liabilities and shareholders' equity $ 9,523 $ 9,607 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS U.S. dollars in thousands Three months ended March 31, 2011 2010 Earnings: Product sales $ 1,013 $ 1,117 Services 1,784 1,761 Total earnings 2,797 2,878 Cost of revenues: Product sales 313 404 Services 601 648 Total cost of revenues 914 1,052 Gross profit 1,883 1,826 Operating expenses: Technology and development, net of grants from the OCS 475 325 Selling and marketing 508 633 General and administrative 896 835 Total operating expenses 1,879 1,793 Operating income 4 33 Financial income, net 59 Other income, net 77 - Income previously taxes on income 140 - Tax on income, net Net income $ 133 $ Net loss per share: Basic and diluted net income per Ordinary share $ 0.03 $ Weighted average number of Ordinary shares used in computing basic and diluted net loss per share 4,458,976 4,458,976 reclassified Contacts: Company: Alon Mualem CFO Tel: +972-9-7777-540 Email: Alon.Mualem@mtsint.com

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Contactual Announces Its Co-Sponsorship of NetSuite's SuiteWorld 2011 Event

On-demand contact center solutions provider Contactual has announced it is a Silver Plus sponsor for NetSuite’s first-ever global conference for clients, partners and developers – SuiteWorld 2011. San Mateo, California-based NetSuite is a provider of cloud-based business management solutions. The event, which runs from May 8 to 12 in San Francisco, will offer attendees the insight, inspiration and training they need to run their business faster and smarter "in the cloud."

SuiteWorld 2011 is offering attendees more than 75 sessions in eight different breakout tracks, high-quality, targeted keynotes that explore trends in cloud computing, and a variety of important networking opportunities.

NetSuite enables companies to manage core key business operations in a single system, including which includes enterprise resource planning, accounting, customer relationship management, and e-commerce. NetSuite's "real-time dashboard" research provides an easy-to-use view into up-to-date, role-specific business information.

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PrivacyStar Announces SMS ID and Directory Assistance

PrivacyStar, a smartphone application for Android and BlackBerry that provides users with complete control of their smartphones, today announces the addition of SMS ID and Directory Assistance in direct response to customer requests. PrivacyStar users have blocked over 120 million numbers and filed over 150,000 complaints directly to the Federal Trade Commission. PrivacyStar and its new features are available to download on the Android Market.

From the home page of the PrivacyStar Android app, simply select SMS look-up and at the time the text message that needs the sender information. PrivacyStar next returns the name associated with the anonymous number and users have the ability to add it to their Privacy List or to contacts for future use.  Additionally, users can block furthermore text messages by using the PrivacyStar settings option to block phone calls and text messages from that number.

Subscribers as well now have access to a voice activated Directory Assistance feature that provides business and individual phone numbers along with a mapping functionality. Users simply speak or type the number they are trying to find and PrivacyStar will display the name associated and map the location of the business or individual.

In addition to SMS ID and Directory Assistance, PrivacyStar offers the following capabilities focused on allowing users to take control of their smartphone:

PrivacyStar delivers the only network-based privacy and preference service to wireline, wireless, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) users and smartphones. First Orion Corp., makers of PrivacyStar, has patented numerous privacy and preference solutions and is based in Conway, Arkansas. The company provides consumers the best in phone privacy solutions.

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GL Announces LTE (Long Term Evolution) Protocol Simulator

GL Communications Inc. announced today the release of its latest product LTE Protocol Simulator- a software application for emulating LTE interfaces. Disclosing the news to media, Mr. Vijay Kulkarni, CEO of the company said," Long Term Evolution is about a mobile innovation that can change the way you work and play. It can improve or destroy your productivity. In the diagram below, some of the internals of a LTE network are shown. The user has very high speed RF connection to the nearest local tower. This high speed connection is always ON, as long as the mobile is powered up."

He added, "LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) is an all IP infrastructure with service priority built in - audio and video are given priority. All necessities like IP address, authentication, and security are validated. Instant resources over RF and IP are made available depending on what the user is attempting to do. As well, LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) is designed for compatibility with older 2G and 3G mobile systems."

-Simulate up to 500 Smartphones powering up and down -Authenticate and confirm security procedures -QoS requests for greater or lesser bandwidth -Temporary addressing management for mobility and security

-Simulates eNodeB and MME -Supports LTE control plane -Generates hundreds of UE Signaling -Handles Retransmissions -Generates and process S1/NAS valid and invalid messages -Supports message templates for both S1-AP and NAS message and customization of the field values -Allows defining variables for various fields of the selected message type -Ready-to-use scripts for quick testing -Supports customization of call flow and messages -Supports scripted call generation and automated call reception -Script based & protocol independent software architecture -Supported on Windows® XP or higher version operating systems

Founded in 1986, GL Communications Inc. is a leading supplier of test, monitoring, and analysis equipment for TDM, Wireless, IP and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) networks. Unlike conventional test equipment, GL's test platforms provide visualization, capture, storage, and convenient features like portability, remotability, and scripting.

GL's VoIP and IP products generate / analyze thousands of calls and traffic simultaneously with traffic types just as frames, packets, voice files, digits, video, tones, noise, and fax. Nearly all codecs are supported including G.711, G.729, AMR, EVRC-A,B,C, GSM, iSAC, and many more. Additional features include visual analysis, real-time listening, and recording. The product line as well includes Ethernet / IP Testing capability that simulates and checks frame transport and throughput parameters of Ethernet and IP networks, including delay, errors and other impairments.

GL's Voice Quality Testing product line complements all of GL's products. Using ITU-standard algorithms, GL's VQT provides a widely accepted solution for assessing voice quality in the telecom industry. Voice Quality Testing across multiple networks are all available.

GL's Wireless Products perform protocol analysis and voice quality assessment on GSM, CDMA, UMTS, and LTE networks. Connections can be made to any wireless phone with automated call control, GPS mapping and real-time signal measurements.

GL's Echo Canceller testing solutions provide the broadest range of simulation and analysis, including line and acoustic echo. GL's compliance testing per G.168. G.167, and P.340 across TDM, IP, VoIP and Wireless networks is widely accepted in the industry.

GL's wireless VQT solutions help assessing impairments to voice quality just as poor mobile phone quality, voice compression and decompression algorithms, delay, loss and gain in speech levels, noise, acoustic and landline echo, and other distortions are easily assessed and accurately measured.

GL's Handheld data testers can test a wide variety of communications facilities and equipment including T1, fractional T1, E1, fractional E1, T3 and E3 modems, multiplexers, CSU, DSUs, T1 CSUs, DTUs, NTUs and TIUs and more. The testers provide convenience, economy, and portability for nearly any interface, including RS232, RS-422, RS-530, X.21, T1, E1, T3, E3, and many others.

GL's Network Surveillance and Monitoring products include Probes for TDM, IP, VoIP, ATM, and Wireless networks. An open standards based approach provides a scalable, feature rich, real-time access to network characteristics. Centralized or distributed access, efficient transport and database loading allow compatibility with 3rd party and standards based monitoring systems.

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CoroWare Announces Freeswitch Interface for Billing Integration Framework

CoroWare Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of CoroWare, Inc., today announced availability of CoroWare Billing Integration Frameworkâ?¢ for Metanga and Freeswitch, a software solution that integrates Metanga, a subscription-based billing from MetraTech Corp, and Freeswitch, a scalable open source telephony platform designed interconnect audio, video, text or any other form of communications media.

Service providers that want to launch a Freeswitch communications service with a choice to offer usage based billing require a billing integration solution that can be customized to interoperate with existing infrastructure components, easily modified to meet their dynamically changing business needs, and rapidly deployed in an efficient and cost effective manner.

The CoroWare Billing Integration Framework for Metanga and Freeswitch combines MetraTech's highly scalable usage-based billing system with Freeswitch's communications platform. This powerful solution is an affordable and effective way for service providers to effectively monetize their voice over IP communications services as they evolve to meet the demands of rapidly changing business models, pricing plans, and customer requirements.

Built upon Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 platform, CoroWare Billing Integration Framework for Metanga and Freeswitch processes call detail records -- including the number of inbound and outbound calls, and session minutes -- and conveys the processed usage data to the Metanga billing platform. Service providers may at that time customize billing rules, reports and payment details, effectively lowering operational costs when compared to traditional, billing systems.

CoroWare's approach provides cross platform interoperability that allows service providers to utilize "best in class" Business Support Systems components throughout their infrastructure architecture. Service providers can take advantage of many open approaches to solving their BSS needs without being limited by their billing system.

"Combined with Freeswitch and Metanga, CoroWare's billing mediation solution can help service provider deploy an affordable, flexible and powerful solution for generating profitable VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service earnings," said Rob Raymond, business unit manager of CoroWare. "This solution offering furthermore expands CoroWare's range of products and services for enterprise and service provider clients worldwide."

CoroWare Billing Integration Framework for MetraTech and Freeswitch is available today on the Microsoft Windows and SQL Server platform.

About FreeswitchFreeswitch is a scalable open source cross-platform telephony platform designed to route and interconnect popular communication protocols using audio, video, text or any other form of media. It was created in 2006 to fill the void left by proprietary commercial solutions. Freeswitch as well provides a stable telephony platform on which many telephony applications can be developed using a wide range of free tools.

About CoroWareHeadquartered in Kirkland, Washington, CoroWare is a solutions integrator with expertise in affordable telepresence, service oriented business applications, and mobile robotics. Since 2009, CoroWare has delivered HD videoconferencing solutions and services to clients worldwide in Europe, Asia, and North America. For more information on CoroWare's products and services, please visit www.coroware.com.

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