one_mobile Service Enables Users to Automatically Sync Emails, Contacts and Calendar Data Between Desktop and Mobile Devices

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwire – 02/03/10) – Everyone.net, a leading provider of cloud-based business email and messaging solutions, today announced the availability of one_mobile, a new service that enables real-time synchronization of emails, contacts and calendar data between the desktop and mobile devices including RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone and Windows Mobile powered devices. one_mobile is the newest addition to Everyone.net’s one_business email and collaboration service, which offers a low-cost, scalable, hosted alternative to traditional on-premises email systems.

With one_mobile, when users add a contact to the address book, send an email or update a calendar invitation, that information is automatically synced over-the-air to their mobile device, as well as from the mobile device back to the desktop.

one_mobile ensures secure data transfer and complete information backup in the cloud. Enterprise-class security features include a “remote wipe” capability that allows a user or administrator to remotely erase data from a lost or stolen mobile device. The service supports popular smart phones such as Apple iPhones, Windows Mobile devices and BlackBerry devices via AstraSync, a partner solution.

“Enterprises of all sizes are moving email to the cloud to maximize the reliability and scalability of email while greatly reducing total cost of ownership,” said Brian Nakamoto, product manager for Everyone.net. “Mobile workers in those companies need the ability to keep all of their critical business information in sync, automatically, between the desktop, cloud and mobile devices. one_mobile adds that capability to the one_business suite, enabling employees to access all of that information, in real time, wherever they may be working.”

In addition to one_mobile synchronization, the one_business messaging solution provides enterprise users with hosted email archiving, secure online file storage and file sharing capabilities and email- and phone-based customer support from a team of email experts. Two one_business email packages are currently available, a basic and a complete messaging solution, priced at $2.75 and $4.50 per user/per month. For a comparison of both plans, please visit http://www.everyone.net/one-business/overview.html.

“Because of today’s dynamic business environment, we place high value in immediate response to business communications,” said Madeline Benito-Banaszak, Director of Development at Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group. “one_mobile serves this need well, providing workers access to their critical business information anywhere they go. It’s not hard to see the value of Everyone.net’s new service, especially when looking at the low total cost of ownership and effectiveness of the one_business email solution as a whole.”

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About Everyone.net

Everyone.net (http://www.everyone.net) transforms how businesses communicate, share and protect their data while increasing their agility, security and performance. The company delivers reliable, secure, hosted messaging and collaboration solutions for service providers and businesses. Since 1998, Everyone.net has been a leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) email and messaging, managing more than 6 billion message connections each month and over 300,000 domains worldwide. Everyone.net provides the advantages of carrier-class email without the expense or complexity, enabling customers to focus on what they do best.

Industry Leaders Collaborate to Develop Next-Generation Products for Growing Home Networking Demands

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Building on the growing deployment of MoCA enabled devices into the home, Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR – News), a leading provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment, and BroadLight, the leading supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, today announced they are joining forces to deliver best-of-breed home networking solutions for service provider markets. Leveraging Entropics demonstrated leadership with MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) technology combined with BroadLights leadership and expertise in GPON and Network Processor technology, the two companies are aligning silicon and software solution roadmaps to develop and deliver optimized MoCA enabled Optical Network terminals (ONTs) that will be capable of delivering next-generation performance requirements.

This relationship exemplifies both companies commitment to technological innovation and sustaining industry leadership positions in the growing home networking and fiber access marketplaces. By synchronizing their shared vision for powerful, ubiquitous connected home entertainment, these two companies are leading the way to bring to market cost-effective, reliable solutions that will fully leverage the advantages of next-generation MoCA connectivity. In addition, service operators can enable architectures and features such as ever higher levels of broadband access, all IP video gateways, remote user interfaces and 3D HDTV programming, by providing abundant bandwidth to and around the home. Consumers can benefit from MoCA technology to retrieve and share broadcast and personal content such as video, photos, music and experience the ultimate in online gaming using the existing coax cable infrastructure within the home.

BroadLight and Entropic have been working together to ensure our products are optimized to bring out the best performance of GPON and MoCA technologies, said Doron Tal, vice president business development and product management, BroadLight. The winning combination has already proven itself with operator deployments using current generation technology from each company. This partnership will help to ensure that operators and consumers alike continue to enjoy all the benefits, power and smooth migration to next-generation GPON and MoCA products and all that future home networks have to offer.

By collaborating with BroadLight, the leader in innovative GPON and Network Processor solutions, we continue to build on momentum for MoCA enabled technology, said Vinay Gokhale, senior vice president marketing and business development, Entropic Communications. This joint cooperation will yield the next-generation products that will be enjoyed by consumers worldwide by delivering unprecedented levels of bandwidth into and throughout the home.

About Entropic Communications

Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR – News) is a leading fabless semiconductor company that is engineering the future of connected home networking and entertainment by providing next-generation silicon and software technologies to the worlds leading cable, telco and satellite service providers, OEMs and consumer electronic manufacturers. As a co-founder of MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance), Entropic pioneered and continues to evolve the way high-definition television-quality video and other multimedia and digital content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought into and delivered throughout the home. For more information, visit Entropic at www.entropic.com.

The Entropic Communications logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=4255

About BroadLight

BroadLight is a fabless semiconductor company supplying semiconductor devices and solutions to equipment vendors for FTTH applications around the globe. Its technology spans from optical access to home networking which enables the delivery of highly integrated, low-cost, end-to-end (E2E) solutions from the central office to the customer premise. As a result, BroadLight is the leader in GPON semiconductor devices and software and is currently powering all of the worlds largest PON deployments.

Initiative Teams Axway with Thales/nCipher, Entrust and Quantum Secure to Support Global Identity Security Projects in Government and Enterprise

PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Axway, the Business Interaction Networks company, has announced the creation of a strategic global initiative to address identity security and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) requirements of governments and enterprises. This initiative has been created in response to the building momentum for identity management initiatives throughout the world.

Through this initiative, Axway will partner with complementary solutions providers including Thales/nCipher, Entrust and Quantum Secure to address increasing global data security and access control requirements. The companies will deeper integrate and deliver components that include hardware security modules (HSMs), certificate authority, authentication, validation, device and credential management, physical and logical access integration and security consulting.

Identity management’s rapid growth is driven by the need to manage complex identity validation and security needs in sectors like defense, healthcare, finance and human services. Presently, technologies the initiative supports – like ID cards with embedded chips, mobile devices and biometrics – are used increasingly to minimize fraud, identity theft and data loss.

The non-exclusive initiative will be promoted to customers, common technology alliances, leading system integrators and security resellers globally. Over time, other like-minded solution vendors will join this ecosystem to drive integrated solutions and best practices for security initiatives within multiple delivery mechanisms, such as cloud computing. Initiative members will take these integration efforts, coupled with best practices from the joint deployments across all sectors, to provide new delivery options.

Axway will contribute both its proven leadership in Business Interaction Networks and policy-based IT governance along with its Validation Authority (VA) suite technology. Axway’s VA technology is uniquely positioned to provide validation and authorization solutions based on both Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) and Simple Certificate Validation Protocol (SCVP).

“We often create this type of initiative with other vendors to deliver complete solutions for specific projects, so formalizing this is the next logical step,” says Alan Taylor, director for alliances, Axway. “This global security initiative marks an important step forward in addressing government challenges worldwide for security, credential and identity management. This initiative protects citizens and enterprises’ critical data across all sectors, and provides a powerful business continuity and authorization framework.”

These integrated solutions will ensure compliance with government mandates for physical and logical access, e-authentication and personal identity validation credentials.

Other solution providers in this security initiative include:

• Thales/nCipher, Integrated Security Solutions for Unrivalled Preparedness: http://www.thalesgroup.com/iss
• Entrust, Securing Digital Identities & Information: http://www.entrust.com
• Quantum Secure, the leading provider of enterprise software to manage and streamline security identities, compliance and events across disparate physical security systems: www.quantumsecure.com

“We are excited to partner with Axway on this important strategic initiative for identity management,” added Laurie Aaron, vice president, government and alliances, Quantum Secure. “Quantum Secure has been a leading provider of enterprise and government software to manage and streamline security identities, compliance and events in real time across disparate physical security systems.”

For more information on Axway, please visit: http://www.axway.com/products-solutions/email-identity-security/identity-security.

About Axway

Axway is the Business Interaction Networks company – the only provider in the market today to manage, run, secure, and monitor all of your business interactions, including email, files, messaging, services, events, and processes. Serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, Axway facilitates the multi-enterprise transactions, processes and integration that accelerate business by eliminating the barriers between vendors, customers, departments, partners and suppliers. Axway’s comprehensive offerings include business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions. Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway’s global presence spans 20 countries.

Open NFC for Android, Windows and Linux Platforms Available Under Apache License

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Reflecting a clear and growing trend in the mobile industry, INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced it is making its Open NFC™ commercial-grade NFC protocol stack (formerly MicroRead Software Foundation) available in a free and open source edition under the Apache™ License, Version 2.0. Offering a consistent API across all NFC hardware, faster time to market and greater flexibility for OEMs and ODMs, INSIDE’s Open NFC 3.4 is available now for WinCE 6.0 (compatible with Windows™ Mobile 7) and Linux 2.6 platforms, and an Android™ implementation will premier with the planned release of Open NFC 3.5 at the end of March.

“Our decision to release Open NFC under the Apache license demonstrates our willingness to lead the way in bringing high quality, well documented NFC software into the open source arena,” said Philippe Martineau, executive vice president of the NFC business line for INSIDE Contactless. “Open NFC fits right in with the trend toward open platforms in the mobile industry, and will benefit device makers as well as software developers and others in the mobile ecosystem in several ways, providing greater impetus to implementing NFC solutions across a broad range of consumer products.”

Martineau anticipates that the availability of an open source NFC protocol stack should also improve the interoperability of NFC devices, and thus accelerate market adoption.

The Open NFC protocol stack provides a complete NFC middleware solution for mobile phones, embedded products and other devices. Open NFC supports several levels of functionality, from low-level RF control to high-level NFC Forum tag handling, peer-to-peer communications as well as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi pairing, interactions with single-wire protocol SIMs and other secure elements and compatibility with smart cards and RFID tags based on Felica, Mifare and ISO 14443 standards.

“Having an open-source NFC stack like Open NFC is a game-changing development, providing greater flexibility in sourcing NFC controllers and a consistent programming interface,” said Gary Koerper, vice president of Engine Systems, Motorola Mobile Devices. “We congratulate INSIDE Contactless for their contribution to the open source movement.”

“Orange believes Open NFC will be a catalyst for change in the NFC marketplace by reducing market fragmentation and removing barriers to adoption of this promising technology,” said Yves Maitre, senior vice president, Mobile Multimedia and Devices at Orange. “INSIDE Contactless has made a major contribution to the advancement of NFC.”

“Qualcomm understands the increasing importance of open source and community-driven software to the mobile industry, particularly as customer demand for open and flexible software coupled with powerful mobile hardware platforms continues to increase,” said John Elliott, Senior Director of Emerging Connectivity Technologies at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. “It is a great pleasure to see NFC move closer to the open source community, and INSIDE Contactless is one of the visionary companies making this happen.”

Qualcomm now offers two complete NFC handset reference designs, one based on an HSUPA Mobile Station Modem™(MSM™) chipset and one based on a Qualcomm Single Chip™ (QSC™) solution for CDMA2000™. The two reference designs leverage INSIDE Contactless’ NFC solution enabling device manufacturers to bring next-generation NFC handsets to market more quickly and at significantly reduced development cost.

Open NFC was originally developed for INSIDE’s third-generation MicroRead NFC chip that provides the broadest range of NFC options, enabling numerous new contactless applications, and was the first NFC solution to support the single-wire protocol (SWP). The award-winning MicroRead suite combines third-generation silicon, a full set of interfaces, NFC software libraries and APIs, a field-proven reference design and robust standards support to provide a turnkey contactless reader solution.

According to a report from Juniper Research, open source operating systems are now running on 60 percent of the smartphones on the market, and the number of smartphones shipped with open source operating systems will increase from 106 million in 2009 to 223 million by 2014. (See: http://www.juniperresearch.com/shop/viewpressrelease.php?id=185&pr=158).

Availability

The Open NFC protocol stack and the WinCE 6.0 and Linux 2.6 reference implementations are available now under Apache license directly from INSIDE Contactless. The Android reference implementation, also under Apache license, will be available by the end of March 2010. Please contact INSIDE for more information.

About INSIDE Contactless

INSIDE Contactless is the global leader in open-standard contactless payment and near field communication (NFC) semiconductors and software that power the next generation of payment, transit, identity and access control applications. The company’s intelligent, microprocessor-based platforms offer the flexibility to be embedded in smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer electronic devices, documents, badges and other items to support a wide range of innovative contactless applications and bring new levels of convenience to users. INSIDE has delivered more than 350 million contactless platforms worldwide to customers and partners that include many of the leading payment card and mobile phone manufacturers, systems integrators and financial institutions. With a portfolio of 60 families of patents, including several essential NFC patents, the company has played a leading role in NFC and contactless innovation. INSIDE is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Seoul and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.insidecontactless.com.

The Broad Availability of the New Standard will Drive the Adoption of Bluetooth for High-Speed Data Synchronization, File Transfer and Remote Control Applications

IRVINE, Calif., Feb 02, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ — Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that it has added support for the recently adopted Bluetooth® v3.0 + HS (High Speed) specification broadly across its Bluetooth and InConcert® combo chips and modules. The new standard greatly enhances the capabilities of Bluetooth technology in smartphones, personal computers, netbooks and other devices by enabling file transfers at speeds up to 24 Megabits per second (Mbps), utilizing an available 802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) radio. By implementing Bluetooth 3.0 + HS across its Bluetooth and WLAN portfolios, Broadcom is helping drive novel applications such as remote control while also delivering ease-of-use and speed for other common applications such as File Transfer and Synchronization.

Broadcom’s Bluetooth v3.0 + HS compliant technology is now in production with ODM partners in a mini-PCIe combo module for notebook computers and a combo single chip based SIP module targeting smartphones.

Highlights/Key Facts:

• Personal computers, netbooks, smartphones and other consumer electronics (CE) devices are adding Bluetooth v3.0 + HS wireless functionality to extend the user experience and facilitate high-speed file transfer and synchronization among devices.
• As a leading supplier of both Bluetooth and WLAN technology, and a leader in combination (‘combo’) chip products that combine both radios in a single chip design, Broadcom is in a unique position to drive Bluetooth v3.0 + HS adoption, further expanding the utility of Bluetooth in CE devices by enabling users to easily move large data files from their mobile phones to PCs and digital TVs.
• Several of Broadcom’s silicon, software and combo chip solutions have achieved Bluetooth v3.0 qualification, including:
  • The Broadcom® BCM2070, BCM2075, BCM43225 and BCM4325 chips, along with the BCM94312 half mini-card Bluetooth + WLAN solution.
  • Key versions of Broadcom’s advanced Bluetooth software including BTE-Mobile 3.15.2, BTW 5.6, and BTW 6.3.
• To ensure strong performance of its Bluetooth solutions, Broadcom has recently upgraded its innovative InConcert co-existence technology to add additional features that mitigate RF interference issues between Bluetooth and WLAN radios, especially for ‘combo’ chips and modules targeting small form factor devices. Broadcom’s InConcert co-existence complements Bluetooth v3.0 + HS functionality to ensure high speed Bluetooth data transfer while simultaneously servicing other Bluetooth peripherals such as the mouse or headset.
• In addition, with its InConcert Maestro software platform, Broadcom continues to simplify the usage of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi solutions, allowing application developers and end users to enjoy the convenience of converged wireless functionality and newer standards such as Bluetooth v3.0+HS without having to deal with the complexity of understanding the technologies and making them work together.
• Key features of the new Bluetooth v3.0 + HS standard include:
  • 10 times the transmission speed over previous Bluetooth specifications.
  • Expanded capabilities for remote control applications featuring Unicast Connectionless Data (UCD) functionality that enables low power operation and reduced latency for CE remote control applications.
  • Enhanced powerful security capabilities with support for the new Read Encryption Key Size feature that allows Bluetooth applications to ensure an appropriate level of communications security.
• Bluetooth v3.0 + HS is currently shipping in PCs and smartphones. The InConcert Maestro platform that allows application developers to exploit the high speed function in novel ways is available to early access partners.

Supporting Quote:

Craig Ochikubo, Vice President & General Manager, Broadcom’s Wireless Personal Area Networking line of business

“We are a strong supporter of the new Bluetooth v3.0 + HS standard and are making its innovative features available in multiple configurations for a wide variety of applications. With our unique InConcert technology, which makes Bluetooth and WLAN work well together, we can offer silicon and software solutions that decrease the complexity of adding multiple wireless systems to innovative new consumer devices.”

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About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.

Broadcom is one of the world’s largest fabless semiconductor companies, with 2008 revenue of $4.66 billion, and holds over 3,650 U.S. and over 1,450 foreign patents, more than 7,750 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia.

A FORTUNE 500® company, Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5000 or at www.broadcom.com.