• Push-to-talk (PTT) is forecast to find its way into 8.5 percent of the North American market by year-end 2013, but no other world region will even begin to approach that market share, reports ABI Research. That’s because network operators in other world regions have failed to market PTT successfully to business users or have opted to market to consumers, according to ABI.
• Voice SMS solutions provider Kirusa announced the immediate availability of Kirusa Voice SMS Version 5.0, the latest release of its voice SMS product.
• Juniper Networks and Nokia Siemens Networks announced an enhancement to their partnership with plans to deliver an interoperable Carrier Ethernet solution intended to provide resilient access and aggregation for service providers worldwide. The partnership is intended to bring the vision of a unified Carrier Ethernet solution supporting all services on a single network.
• Comverse has launched an end-to-end IMS solution to accelerate the rollout of rich communication services, such as converged messaging, address book management, residential and business voice, presence, visual voicemail, video and prepaid and postpaid billing services.
• Immersion Corporation announced that Pantech has signed a worldwide license agreement to use Immersion haptics (touch feedback) technology in several of its handsets.
• The Orchard has entered into a secured revolving credit arrangement with Peninsula Bank Business Funding, a division of The Private Bank of The Peninsula in Palo Alto, Calif., to fund growth during the 2009 fiscal year.
• Phone components supplier TriQuint Semiconductor reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $33.8 million. The company estimates that first-quarter 2009 revenue will be between $110.0 million and $120.0 million.
