OnLive, the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games and applications, has selected Hibernia Atlantic’s diverse transatlantic network to securely deliver its bandwidth intensive gaming applications.

As a cloud-based gaming provider, OnLive requires high performance, reliable capacity to support its global gaming infrastructure.  Hibernia is known for its diverse transatlantic routes spanning the U.S. to United Kingdom.  Its routes bypass highly-congested areas that other carriers traverse – making them truly resilient and secure.

The demand for content across user’s computers and mobile devices including iPads, Android tables, and TVs is driving companies such as OnLive, to beef up their networks in order to deliver high-end video games and applications from the cloud.

To read the full announcement, please CLICK HERE.

For more information or to view Hibernia’s network map, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

Nowadays babies cry if they don’t have mommy’s cell phone in hand while elementary school kids are surpassing their parents with computer knowledge. The speed this is all occurring is faster than you can say gigabyte. According to a report by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Sesame Workshop, two education non-profit organizations, nearly 80 percent of American children between the ages of 0 and 5 use the Internet on at least a weekly basis. Children ages 8 to 10 are exposed to an 8 hours of media a day (!), through television, video games and the Internet.

This is where Web Wise Kids and Jaymie Scotto and Associates (JS&A) come in. Web Wise Kids (WWK) is a national non-profit organization that has provided today’s e-generation valuable lessons for over 10 years by using unique computer games with fun, interactive simulations based on real-life criminal cases. Key educational tools and safety effort for kids and teens include: cyber bullying, sexting, predators and more. WWK programs have reached more than ten million children and thousands of parents nationwide in conjunction with school systems, law enforcement, and community-based youth organizations.

Understanding the importance of this, JS&A works with the non-profit organization on a pro bono agreement, as the PR firm believes strongly in Web Wise Kids’ mission to provide more education on online safety for children, teachers and parents. JS&A provides Web Wise Kids with strategic marketing and public relations support, including writing and distributing press releases, media outreach, collaboration for creative fundraising and support with online platforms and video to help promote Web Wise Kids’ programs.

This summer and fall, Web Wise Kids will have many exciting announcements to share. Stay tuned for future updates!

For more information on Web Wise Kids, visit www.webwisekids.org. Follow Web Wise Kids on Twitter at @webwisekids, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/webwisekids or YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/webwisekids. To donate to Web Wise Kids, http://www.webwisekids.org/donate.

For more information about Jaymie Scotto & Associates visit, www.jaymiescotto.com. Follow JS&A on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JaymieScottoandAssociates, LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/jaymie-scotto-&-associates, and Twitter via JS&A’s industry blog, Telecom News Now http://twitter.com/#!/TNNTelecomNews.

Golden Frog, a global security software developer and applications provider, announces the offering of VyprVPN through its Global Service Provider Program.  VyprVPN is a fast, reliable Virtual Private Newtork (VPN) that allows users to privately browse the Internet without sacrificing speed or quality.

Golden Frog’s Global Service Provider Program provides service providers with a cost-effective, value-added solution which can be bundled with traditional Internet services.

For more information, read the press release below or visit www.goldenfrog.com.

GOLDEN FROG’S VyprVPN ENCRYPTION SERVICE LAUNCHES ITS GLOBAL SERVICE PROVIDER PROGRAM

Value-Added Solution Delivers Global Internet Security, Privacy and Freedom to Internet Users

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands,  – April 14, 2011 - Golden Frog, a global security software developer and applications provider, announces the offering of VyprVPN through its Global Service Provider Program.  VyprVPN is a fast, reliable Virtual Private Network (VPN) service that uses PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, and OpenVPN protocols and NAT Firewall to deliver a secure, private Internet experience without sacrificing speed. With customers in over 50 countries, VyprVPN customers can choose their IP location from global points of presence in North America, Europe and Asia. Through its service provider program, Golden Frog’s VyprVPN personal VPN provides a cost-effective value-added solution that can be bundled with traditional Internet services including wireless access, VoIP, messaging products, online security and antivirus solutions.

Golden Frog’s Global Service Provider Program for VyprVPN offers several key benefits to service providers.  Subscriber authentication is simple, ensuring accurate billing to end-user clients. Golden Frog’s network engineers provide comprehensive training for seamless integration and personal 24X7X365 Tier 2 support and service. Golden Frog designed the proprietary software, owns the servers, and actively manages the VPN network ensuring that customers experience a secure, fast network with always-on reliability. The program offers volume-based discounts and free trials to prove VyprVPN’s value and flexibility for service providers.

VyprVPN provides online security and privacy, protecting customers from hackers, ‘data snooping’ and deep packet inspection. Users can connect to VyprVPN via any Internet-enabled device, including mobile devices such iPhone, iPad and Android. Through Golden Frog’s encrypted network consisting of major global carriers and Tier 1 ISP connections, users have a choice of VPN servers in Europe, North America and Asia which they can connect and receive a ‘local’ IP address. This ‘local’ IP address allows a user to bypass Internet restrictions that may be enforced by corporate VPNs or local governments, providing a free and open Internet browsing experience.

“The Golden Frog team has been working together since 1994 with a core focus on delivering Internet solutions and applications that improve end-user privacy, freedom and security across the web,” states Sunday Yokubaitis, President of Golden Frog. “Our customer-centric approach drives our team to improve upon existing technologies. With the launch of the Global Service Provider Program, Golden Frog offers service providers a solution to further differentiate themselves in a competitive marketplace.”

With clients in over 50 countries, VyprVPN is currently offered by a variety of service providers and used by global business travelers and consumers.  To learn more about Golden Frog’s Global Service Provider Program and VyprVPN, please visit: https://www.goldenfrog.com/corporate/

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About Golden Frog

Golden Frog is a global security software developer and applications provider, delivering solutions to improve end-user Internet privacy and security without sacrificing speed and quality.  Since 1994, the Golden Frog team has been developing high quality applications for multi-national corporations, service providers and consumers.

Golden Frog’s VyprVPN (Virtual Private Network) solution uses PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, and OpenVPN protocols and NAT Firewall to protect their customers’ online identity and data from data snooping and security breaches. Golden Frog customers can choose their IP location from global points of presence in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Golden Frog’s services can be bundled with a wide variety of online tools such as messaging, security and antivirus software, VoIP and wireless services to create a flexible, secure Internet experience anywhere in the world. For more information on Golden Frog’s services, visit www.goldenfrog.com and follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/Golden_Frog.

For media enquiries, please contact pr@goldenfrog.com.

Web Wise Kids, the recognized leader in Internet safety education, will present the first interactive game on sexting and cyberbullying ‘It’s Your Call,’ and Wired With Wisdom, a digital safety guide for Spanish speaking parents at the 14th Annual Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Kickoff Technology Policy Exhibition today in Washington DC.

In conjunction with the Verizon Foundation and the ESA Foundation, Web Wise Kids has developed It’s Your Call, the first interactive game on sexting and cyberbullying and Wired With Wisdom in Spanish, a brand new interactive program for parents who speak Spanish as their primary language. The program provides parents and other adults with useful information and solutions related to the problems faced by today’s e-generation.

These interactive and fun safety tools arm parents and teachers with information they need to know to talk to kids about issues like cyberbullying, sexting, mobile phone safety, and the importance of online privacy.

Over 10 million youth and 4,000 schools have been reached with the Web Wise Kids suite of games that teach Internet safety while empowering today’s youth to make wise choices in their digital lives.

To learn more about Web Wise Kids, visit www.webwisekids.org.

Smartphones are slowly replacing traditional dial and text mobile phones, and as they do they gradually change the face of IT and telecoms infrastructure. Soon mobile phones could pose as not only a device to call a friend, but as a passport and credit card.

Morten Hother Sørensen, Vice President at TDC spoke at length at the Next Generation Telecoms Summit about advancements in mobile technology – detailing the future of smartphones arcing towards a complete payment service. Morten suggested that future smartphones would incorporate software to be utilised as a passport, cash, driver’s license, public ID, health insurance, debit card and supermarket loyalty cards, among others.

As a mobile banking aid, smartphones could be used for information services, account balance and transfer, transaction history, and could be used as a payment service with P2P payments, tickets, parking, bill payments and used as a debit card, in a store.

The system of relying solely on a mobile phone as an ‘all-in-one’ wallet has several advantages, according to the delegates at the summit. From a governmental perspective, removing cash from the system and utilizing mobile payments provide a better opportunity for governments to collect taxes and potentially improve perception of security.

Financially, mobile payments cut out the middle man – in this instance allowing the customer to forgo dealing with a checkout assistant and self-serve, and lower the cost of cash handling. Online transactions (in theory) limit the chances for human error, and with value-based payments and offers, should see increased loyalty from mobile customers.

Those challenges posed at the summit centre around infrastructure; getting the correct support development and increasing processing speeds to speed up point of sale transactions. Morten highlighted that traditional plastic cards would need to be replaced by chip-based UICC SIM, which would be slotted into the phone, and shop terminals would be  updated with “NFC readers or made available through SMS or IP-addresses.”

In fact, the future of mobile payments isn’t very futuristic at all. Starbucks, the coffee giant, has already rolled out a mobile payment scheme which incorporates a ‘pay point’ on site which reads a pre-sent Starbuck’s card number off a customer’s mobile phone.

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed that he thought a Google Android-powered smartphone would eventually replace the credit card. “This could replace your credit card,” Schmidt said. “The reason this NFC chip is so interesting is because the credit card industry thinks the loss rate is going to be much better, they’re just more secure.”

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With the meteoric rise of the smartphone, shoppers are using their cell phones more and more to do both their shopping and retail related online searches (m-commerce), a trend that could eventually overtake more traditional methods of Internet browsing on a laptop or home computer.

Opinion is clearly divided however. Whilst some shoppers actively participate within the realms of m-commerce, others are wary of mobile shopping; with the majority unnecessarily concerned with online security risks.

One statistic revealed that more than 50 percent of US shoppers are now using their cell phones for shopping, but not for items other than those only available on a smartphone, such as music, apps and games.  Yet, cell phones are impacting on the customers shopping behavior in ways beyond just purchasing goods.  More than 80 percent of consumers in the US now use their cell phones to locate their nearest store to purchase a particular good and 65 percent review a product using their phone before making a decision.

The Internet has already seen its rise to consumer preference and last year saw peak online sales,  now the NGR Committee believe that m-commerce could do the same and want to look at the best investment techniques to roll out a user friendly platform.

“As consumers look to their phone as a natural extension of their social network, retailers are leveraging the opportunity to realize new sales opportunities from the mobile channel. M-Commerce enables the customer to always be connected to the retailer – anywhere and at any time. Retailers leveraging mobility to connect with consumers can deliver a new sales stream (expected to reach $630 billion in value by 2014) and can also drive the consumer into existing sales channels (store, web, etc). Implementing effective M-commerce technology comes down to four primary pillars of value: convenience, scale, cost effectiveness, and access.”

The committee is made of representatives from Barnes & Noble – Terri Pucin, VP Customer Experience, Dick’s Sporting Goods – Paul Yater, VP Applications & Intergrated Services, Foot Locker – David Hartig, Director IT Operations, Macys.com – Mike Robinson, SVP Technology Walmart – Sean Coutts , GM of Commerce, Gucci Group – Rodney Woodruff, Chief eBusiness Architect among many others and they themselves will drive the mobile revolution

To ease the burden on consumers it is important for retailers to create a simple and concise plan for how m-commerce will work for their business and for their customers to take a slice of the ‘virtual pie’.

Contact : Emma Naylor

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Email : emma@ngonlinenews.com

The average telephone handset has evolved, and as a result thousands of start-up companies are profiting out of the Telecom sector’s advances, supplying the various add-ons which inevitably accompany any new wave of technology.

Such innovations were used by the operators to supplement the pricey voice packages. However, the operators are now finding themselves in the hands of the ever-creative software/hardware companies and a changing consumer culture. iPhone appstore was the first to take fiscal advantage from operators’ customers, creating a financial redistribution within the Telecom industry.

With the telecom giants left to maintain the costly infrastructure that supports this ever growing new-media industry, the outlook for today’s communication service providers is set to get worse in a new 4G world where broadband is everywhere; LTE, WiMax, FTTX and cloud services to name a few..  The NGT APAC Summit committee is only too aware of this and believes that they must act now to prepare for the future.  How can telecom giants sustain increasing costs and avoid being relegated to the sidelines as bit-pipe providers?

To answer this question visionaries from companies such as Skype – Dan Neary, VP and GM Asia Pacific, Telenor - Sanjay Vaghasia, CTO, Vodafone – Durgadas Misha, Head of IT Outsourcing, Deutsche Telekom – Neil Millner, Head of Network & IT Procurement, and Virgin Mobile – Carl Ambrose, CIO, have joined a closed door meeting at the NGT APAC summit last week in Singapore to provide a unified investment strategy and Long Term Evolution (LTE) across the existing 3G networks. Such increased download speeds will allow the telecom industry to capitalize on the change in consumer habits and provide wider service offerings.

‘Such a meeting has been a long time coming, large operators have been losing revenue as the communication market has diversified, network optimization should lend to them finding new revenue streams as the level of service can expand’ – NGT Summit Director Asia Pacific.

A lack of focus has brought about inefficiencies related to roaming issues for users, and limited development efforts for each technology, the world is soon to be “unified” under LTE and at that point the industry can expect much greater economies of scale for both hardware makers and services providers, the NGT APAC committee are sure to take advantage of this.

Contact : Emma Naylor

Tel : 0117 921 2764

Cell : +44 7885725 500

Email : emma@ngonlinenews.com

If you make frequent international calls you probably have had at least one negative experience either with a bad connection or a shock when your minutes are used up quicker than expected due to hidden fees. QT Talk has been aggressively marketing its PUREMinutes (PUROSMinutos) plan to help combat these types of issues and offer instead – straightforward high quality international calling. ‘Pure and Simple’ is the foundation for all of its calling programs – affordable plans that are easy to understand without hidden fees and surcharges. The plans are easily enabled right from your cell phone or landline to make pin-less international calling fast and easy.

Recently Gary Lane, Vice President QT Talk sat down with Carlos Velez of New York based Business Latino, a new media company focused on building a business HUB for Latino business owners in the tri-state area.

“QT Talk’s PUROSMinutos plan is making huge inroads in the prepaid long distance international calling market simply because our system is user friendly and has low rates,” states Gary Lane, Vice President of QT Talk. “As an innovative telecommunications company, we provide a high quality service for the long distance prepaid international calling market.”

The QT Talk team has made huge strides in the Hispanic market and in offering the community a cost-effective way to reach their loved ones and friends overseas. The company also recently announced a new phone application that enables its calling programs for Blackberry® Smartphones - staying true to their ‘Pure and Simple’ approach.

To read the Business Latino article in its entirety, please CLICK HERE.

To find out more about QT Talk, please visit www.qttalk.com.

Despite rumours to the contrary, iPhone users won’t be able to get use a 4G network at any point in the next 14 months. 

This flies in the face of earlier reports that Apple would be aligning with Verizon to enable Apple to utilise the 4G network. “At some point our business interests are going to align,” Verizon Communications Inc. President Lowell McAdam said, referring to Apple. “I fully expect it, but I don’t have anything to say [yet].” 

With users expecting a shift transfer as early as January 2011, the news will come as a slight shock, although maybe not that much of a shock: iPhone waited for the 3G network to mature before they moved across in 2007. iPhone’s apparent stagnation could encourage competitors to drive forward and make further headway into the 4G smartphone sweepstakes; 4G-enabled Android phones already utilise Sprint’s WiMAX network, and dual-mode LTE-enabled Android phones will start to emerge for use on Verizon’s new network in the first half of next year.

iPhone is standing back on the new 4G, possibly because “Apple simply doesn’t want to be the guinea pig on new LTE networks that aren’t ready for primetime,” according to TechCrunch’s Steve Cheney. iPhone did the same in 2007 when they “waited to support 3G for one entire cycle, opting to release the original iPhone on AT&T’s mature 2.5G EDGE network, despite wide availability of 3G by early 2007.” 

Other networks however are looking to cease the opportunity before Apple gets involved. Operators are pushing technology so that the infrastructure can meet demands, telecom communications companies are all vying for the right 4G network solutions. These will be discussed at a closed-door NG Telecoms Summit in North America, where representatives from AT&T and Comcast (among others) will have the opportunity to tackle infrastructure concerns and how to juggle software that requires a heftier bandwidth. 

iPhone is clearly weary of jumping in with 4G, when they can “make a unified model that works across 3G networks on all carriers, and innovate with incredible new features like NFC which mirror what they accomplished with FaceTime on iPhone 4,” according to Cheney. 

It is clear however, that iPhone, along with all smartphone providers will all make the jump to 4G, whether it is in 2011 or 2012, and companies will be more inclined to do so when there is better infrastructure in place to support and outstrip strong 3G networks.

Contact : Daniel Reinhold-Shor
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As MeetTheBoss.tv launches its official iPhone app, they explore the best selling apps already on the market.

Stumble into Apple’s App Store and you are greeted with literally thousands of applications you can download for your iPhone. The reason is simple: in a world of constant mobility and interactivity, both smartphone and app markets have gone stratospheric.

Today applications cover all aspects of life, helping users do everything from managing budgets, locating the perfect restaurant, viewing the latest weather forecasts, and updating their social media accounts. Recent statistics say there are 263,088 apps currently available for download, with games market being the most lucrative.

According to official statistics for iPhone Apps this year, 15 of the best-selling apps are games, most notably the much lauded Angry Birds, in which players control the titular characters and exact revenge on greedy pigs that have stolen their eggs. Already having been downloaded close to 6.5 million times, the game has been so well received that its developers are now in talks with Hollywood Execs to make a movie around the theme of the game.

Of course, the App Store isn’t all fun and games. A multitude of other apps, hoping to help users in more productive ways are also riding high in terms of sales. Take iFitness (20^th on the list), already been raved about by The New York Times and the Washington Post, has now become the World’s Number 1 selling fitness app.

It comes as no surprise then that MeetTheBoss.tv is joining the App market too, bringing exclusive content direct to your iPhone. With the launch of the MeetTheBoss.tv application, users can now log-on and enjoy exceptional, insightful business learnings on the go.

After all, given that the market for iPhone apps presents such a lucrative opportunity for business, and with the market predicted to grow and grow, it comes as no surprise that – in an effort to remain on the bleeding edge of technology – big and small companies alike are tuning in and turning on.

 To download the app please click on the following link: MeettheBoss.tv