BOONTON, NJ - July 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- After years of contraction, the market for private line services began growing again in 2006, signaling the start of a long anticipated recovery in this $36 billion telecommunications segment, says a market analysis study from Insight Research. Private lines are point-to-point circuits leased by enterprises from telecommunications carriers in order to link enterprise sites to each other and to the Internet. Read more…

BOSTON, MA - July 19 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- LocaModa, Inc., a technology company enabling mobile consumers to use any cell phone as a remote control to interact with out-of-home narrowcast networks, today announced that it will be participating in the AO & MIT/Stanford Venture Lab CEO Showcase program at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, taking place between July 25-27 at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University Campus. The event is co-hosted by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) within the Stanford School of Engineering. Read more…

BOONTON, NJ - Aug. 18 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The $2 trillion ecosystem of hospitals, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance providers will be spending nearly $43 billion on telecommunications services over the next five years, with wireless services used by hospitals and physicians showing the fastest growth, says a new market research study released by the Insight Research Corporation. Read more…

BOSTON, Mass. - Sept. 11 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Fall VON -- Atreus Systems(tm), the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IMS and advanced IP service bundles, today announced Spirit Telecom has successfully deployed Atreus' IP Service Provisioning Solution to activate and manage its wholesale and retail hosted VoIP services for business and residential customers. Spirit Telecom, the Columbia, SC-based competitive local exchange carrier is owned by a group of eighteen independent and cooperative telephone operating companies in the Southeast United States. Read more…

BOONTON, N.J. - Sept 18 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- In 2006, US ethnic communities account for one-third of every dollar spent on consumer telecommunications services, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. The largest minority group, Hispanics, representing nearly 44 percent of the U.S. minority population, spend the most. The ability to tap into the increased spending power of the Hispanic-American, African-American, and Asian-American communities will be crucial to the survival of telecommunications providers over the next five years. Read more…

BOSTON, Mass. - Sept. 20 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Boston-based alternative marketing agency Street Attack and YFonGlobal of Washington, DC are excited to announce a strategic partnership that will utilize Street Attack's concept and YFonGlobal's technology to launch PromoNet, a network platform that will act as an online community management system. PromoNet will offer MySpace-like features while focusing on the management of specialized online grassroots communities that cater to specific interests. Read more…

FREMONT, Calif. - Sept. 28 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded security, continues a long tradition of bringing enterprise-level security to embedded devices with today's release of its latest offering: SecureAire Supplicant, a complete, secure 802.11 supplicant software solution for wireless LAN (WLAN) client devices. It is one of the industry's first middleware products specifically designed from the ground-up to seamlessly offer secure WLAN access to traditionally wired devices such as medical equipment, printers, projectors, phone handsets and other networked embedded devices. Read more…

TORONTO, Canada - Oct. 3 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- VoiceGate Corporation proudly introduces its Military Grade Emergency e-Response Mass Message Notification / Business & Emergency Communication Planning system at the Homeland Defense Symposium and Exposition show in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Read more…

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Oct. 6 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- ES Interactive announced today that it has teamed up with WiggleWireless to offer fans the Kona Buzz, a 'fly on the wall' view of what really happens before, during and after the biggest race on the planet - the Ford Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. Triathlon insiders, Paul Huddle and Wendy Ingraham, will be joined by Michael Lovato, Desiree Ficker and a host of others to give fans the inside skinny on the place, the players and the unique character of the granddaddy of all races. Read more…

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Oct. 9 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Today, CheapOAir.com announced that, in partnership with its technology partner Fareportal Inc., it has acquired a 26,000 square foot Call Center. This state of the art Call Center is equipped with the latest VoIP Telephony and Call Center technology. The CheapOAir.com Call Center capacity currently is 240 Seats with scalability to 950 seats. The Call Center is utilizing MPLS connectivity with 5 MBPS dedicated connection linking its New York City office with its Call Center. Read more…

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Oct. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Using the Internet to lower phone bills just got easier, thanks to the launch of Auvi's PHIP65 Dual Mode Cordless Phone. The sleek PHIP65 is the next generation of communication hardware which connects to a traditional landline and the computer, via USB port. This dual functionality gives consumers the freedom to make and receive both standard and / or Internet calls from a single cordless phone. Read more…

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Oct. 13 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Cellular Jewelry, Inc., a leading provider of cellular technologies and solutions, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded Cellular Jewelry(TM) a U.S. patent (Patent Number 6,954,659). Read more…

BOONTON, N.J. - Oct. 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- A wide array of new Internet-enabled communications services geared to the needs of consumers is expected to generate nearly $265 billion for phone companies and other telecommunications carriers worldwide over the next five years, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. These new Internet-enabled services include: residential video telephony; fixed-mobile convergence; file sharing services; streaming services; location-based services; and presence-based services. Read more…

COVINGTON, Ga. - Nov. 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Robert W. ('Bill') Donohue, retired Senior Vice President - Electric Operations of Consolidated Edison, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Utility Associates, Inc. Utility Associates is a venture-funded mobile asset management hardware and software company serving the electric and gas utility, telecom, distribution, and government market segments. Read more…

OTTAWA, Ontario, Nov. 28 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Atreus Systems(TM), the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IMS and advanced IP service bundles, today announced that Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB), one of the nation's most respected and best performing local exchange and wireless providers, has successfully deployed Atreus' IP Service Provisioning Solution to automate the provisioning and management of its business trunking service. Read more…

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 28 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- City Network, Inc. (AMEX: CSN) announced that on November 22, 2006 the Company received notice from the American Stock Exchange ('Amex') that it is not in compliance with certain Amex continued listing standards, as a result of the Company's failure to file in a timely manner a Form 10-QSB for the year ended September 30, 2006. Read more…

KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Nov. 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- AZO Technologies, Inc., today announced the release of VisiWave(TM) Site Survey 1.6, the latest version of its very successful wireless site survey product. With this release, GPS is now supported as a new method for keeping track of the surveyor's location while conducting a site survey. Using a Global Positioning System (GPS) device, the surveyor can track his or her movements while outdoors to automatically create maps of the area's 802.11a/b/g wireless coverage. Read more…

OTTAWA, Canada - Dec. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Atreus Systems(TM), the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IP service bundles, and IMS offerings, today announced that Shift Networks (TSX VENTURE: SHF), the leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) services to the Canadian small and medium business market, has successfully deployed Atreus' solution in twelve days to automate the provisioning and management of its business VoIP service. Read more…

FREMONT, Calif. - Dec. 19 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded networking and security software solutions for wired and wireless applications, expanded its sales presence in Korea, Taiwan and India by signing agreements with leading resellers in these markets. Read more…

IRVINE, Calif. - Jan. 11 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Irvine-based BandCon announced today it has turned up a national 10 Gigabits per second (10 Gbps) backbone to help large Internet content companies connect diverse data centers, server farms and peering points. BandCon's new network enables companies to purchase layer 2 Ethernet connections between cities on a pay-for-use basis. Read more…

BOONTON, N.J. - Jan. 18 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Spending by businesses on wireless services accounted for over one-third of the corporate bill for telecommunication services in 2006, says a new market research report from Insight Research. By the close of 2006, total US business spending on telecommunications services reached just over $132 billion, and by 2011 business spending is forecasted to grow to nearly $154 billion, according to the new research study. Read more…

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Feb. 4 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- BETA Records and founders Chris Honetschlaeger and Georg van Handel are making it possible for independent musicians to take advantage of the communication and promotional advantages of ringtones. Read more…

BOONTON, N.J. - Feb. 7 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Telecommunications companies will be investing billions of dollars over the next five years on service delivery platforms (SDPs) in order to bring the benefits of on-demand services to their wireline and mobility enterprise customers, says a new report from Insight Research. Read more…

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Feb. 27 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Marco Island Cable has selected Internet media company and VoIP services provider, YFonGlobal, to create and manage its new telephone service. With the new agreement, Marco Island Cable will be able to provide voice services to its customers utilizing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. Read more…

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mar. 21 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- YFonGlobal, a leading-edge provider of turnkey social network marketing technology, reports raising its second angel round of funding for a total of $1.8 million with an opportunity to raise $2.1 million from one angel investor's matching funds offer. YFonGlobal leaders say they plan to use these funds to expand sales and marketing of their wyndstorm(TM) social network software geared towards associations, political organizations and campaigns. Read more…