Acision Provides Vodafone UK with Innovating Next Generation Messaging

Acision announced that Vodafone UK has commenced migrating its UK customers to Acision’s next generation IP voice messaging platform. The fully scalable open architecture will mean Vodafone customers will continue to enjoy easy to use, fast voicemail services.

Next generation messaging revenues are predicted by Ovum to be worth $12.7 billion dollars annually in Western Europe by 2010. To reach these levels, operators need to integrate newer messaging formats such as mobile instant messaging with those that are already high volume such as SMS and voicemail. As well as providing advanced voice messaging services, Acision’s IP messaging platform is equipped to support complementary services.

Rory Buckley, CEO, Acision said: “Our work with Vodafone emphasises Acision’s continued commitment to innovating next generation messaging. Working with customers like Vodafone we support the services that matter to them today while helping them build towards their vision for the future. Our open platforms provide opportunities for operators to continuously integrate new and improved messaging, enabling them to differentiate their services and compete within their market.”

Source:http://www.3g.co.uk

Two own-brand phones from Vodafone

Vodafone has unveiled two new own branded mobile phones to grow its range of own branded phones launched over the last year.
The Vodafone 227 and Vodafone 228 will launch this month across both Europe and emerging markets as Contract mobile phones. Both mobile phones will be aimed at users after low cost, simple to use handsets. Vodafone introduced seven own branded handsets by Vodafone last year. Own-label devices make up one in six of the mobile devices shipped by Vodafone annually.

Coming soon ? the waterproof mobile

Coming soon the waterproof mobile Military scientists based at Porton Down, Wilts are hoping to clean up the mobile market with a handset you can safely use in the shower.

Technology, initially developed to protect soldiers from chemical attack, has been cunningly adapted to come up with a coating which its inventors have dubbed Ion-Mask.

Once this is applied to mobile phones it can make them resistant to moisture, rain and events like accidental immersion in nightclub toilets.

"Mobile phones and MP3 players are too small to be fitted with seals to make them waterproof, so water inevitably can creep in," Ian Robins, a development director at P2, the spin-off company hoping to cash in on the high-tech breakthrough, told the Telegraph.

"By making the surface repel water, we have been able to take devices that fail the normal… shower tests, and make them pass," he added.

Clumsy, forgetful and stupid mobile owners could soon see Ion-Mask as a God-send. More than 1.2 million mobiles were plopped in lavatories, dropped in drinks or wrecked during a washing machine spin cycle last year.

With P2i in advanced discussions with three leading phone makers about using the coating, the prospect of underwater texting is no longer just the stuff of schoolboy science fiction.
Source:http://www.mobilemarketingnews.co.uk