WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse has introduced InSight, a value-added services environment that integrates voice and data with a multimodal interface and also disparate messaging and communications platforms.The Comverse Technology unit said InSight is undergoing trials with wireline and wireless telecommunications operators in Europe and North America.
WOODBURY, New York, United States-Messaging supplier Comverse said Israeli cable television provider Matav Digital selected its e-mail server to expand its unified communications services offerings. The cable operator can now provide users with short message service, along with picture, e-mail and multimedia messaging over...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse said Israel's Matav Digital has chosen its e-mail server to replace and expand its current unified communication services offering.Matav Digital's users with messaging services supported by the interactive TV platform, iTVGate, including SMS messaging, picture, e-mail and multimedia messaging over digital TV...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging company Comverse said Portugal operator Telecomunicacoes Moveis Nacionais S.A. will use its VoiCD product to offer music and entertainment services to its wireless subscribers.Using the technology, subscribers will be able to listen to music and dedicate and send songs and jokes to...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Reliance Infocom selected Comverse to enable prepaid and voice mail services for its cdma2000 wireless local loop wireless communications network in India.The system initially will support 900,000 subscribers.
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. released a new wireline SMS product, which the company said will allow wireline telephone subscribers to exchange short text messages with one another and with mobile subscribers.Separately, the company released version 2.0 of its Multimedia Messaging Service Center, which includes...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging company Comverse Technology Inc. posted a net loss of $25 million for its third quarter, compared with a net income of $20 million for the same quarter last year.The company's stock was up along with the rest of the market to about...
Wireless technology, from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to GSM and CDMA, served a major role during the Comdex show, with attendees getting a peek at some of the latest initiatives in the industry.But while product releases and new announcements made up the majority of news...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its corporate credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Comverse Technology Inc. from a BB to a BB-minus.At the same time, the S&P removed the ratings from CreditWatch. S&P said its moves reflect deteriorating profitability, especially in...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., announced it will demonstrate its Multimedia Mobile E-mail on a mobile device based on Texas Instruments' OMAP wireless processing platform.Comverse said its MME handles the full spectrum of e-mail messages and attachments, including correspondence, Microsoft Word...
NEW YORK-Comverse Technology Inc. reported its second quarter fiscal year results, which include a net loss of almost $12.7 million, far below the year-ago quarter's net income of $50 million. Including non-recurring gains and charges, relating to the write-down of investments and work force...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-The Intelligent Network-based "Prepaid Solution" of Comverse has secured approval for interoperability with Nortel Networks' IS-41P, a proprietary IN signaling protocol for CDMA and TDMA mobile switches.Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, said in its August 19 announcement that it is the first...
As the battle for the multimedia messaging service (MMS) market in Europe begins to heat up among the region's wireless carriers, the fight for the MMS infrastructure market has largely drawn to a close-and the undisputed winner is Ericsson."The leader in the MMSC (multimedia...
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands-Messaging company Comverse Technology Inc. released a new developer took kit for multimedia messaging services, which the company said would help developers build, test and bring MMS-compatible applications to market.
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Stocks in messaging company Comverse Technology Inc. were up slightly after the company released a sluggish first-quarter report, but several analyst firms downgraded the company.Comverse reported a net loss of about $8 million and a net income of about $79 million for the...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse Technology Inc. announced market research results of its Voice Controlled Voice Mail (VCVM) service deployed by Italy's Blu S.p.A. mobile operator.Satisfaction level for Comverse's VCVM, which allows users to control voice mail with spoken commands, was rated "very good" by more than...
NEW YORK—LocatioNet Systems announced it opened a new office in Germany that it said will focus on sales and serve as a local base for customer support."We have seen significant growth in our activities in Europe which called for a local European front office,"...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—France's Bouygues Telecom said it has chosen Comverse's Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC) to run on its GPRS network.The MMSC platform allows multimedia messages to be sent and received on wireless devices. "This platform is quickly operational and represents the first step towards...
CANNES, France—Qualcomm Inc. and Comverse Technology have signed an agreement to develop BREW-enabled services for all types of third-generation networks."Our joint efforts and resulting synergy will lead to the introduction of a vast array of attractive multimodal solutions for BREW applications," said Zeev Bregman,...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse Technology announced its enhanced messaging services will operate on Texas Instruments' OMAP platform for 2.5- (2.5G) and third-generation (3G) wireless devices, a combination the companies believe will allow for more rapid deployment of applications, including mobile e-mail, multimedia messaging,...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse and Texas Instruments Inc. announced Comverse's enhanced messaging services will operate on TI's OMAP platform for 2.5 and 3G wireless devices.By combining Comverse's platform with TI's OMAP processors, device manufacturers and operators can reduce deployment time of applications including mobile e-mail, multimedia...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Dutch wireless carrier Dutchtone, a subsidiary of Orange Group, continued to flesh out its wireless music service by purchasing Comverse's VoiCD music portal product.Comverse said its portal allows users to listen to music tracks, download ring tones and send music...
BOSTON—Comverse announced it is integrating SpeechWorks International Inc.'s technology into its platform.The Comverse platform combines a voice user interface with messaging, content applications and user personalization. SpeechWorks will add large vocabulary recognition with its OpenSpeech Recognizer engine, the OpenSpeech Server software and Speechify and...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Dutch wireless carrier Dutchtone, a subsidiary of Orange Group, continued to flesh out its wireless music service by purchasing Comverse's VoiCD music portal product.Comverse said its portal allows users to listen to music tracks, download ring tones and send music tracks to friends."Today's...
