Unique Model Helps Simulate Key Characteristics of Complicated Urban Areas

Gatineau, Quebec – October 8, 2008 – Mentum® announced today that TELUS has entered into a multi-year agreement to purchase Mentum Planet® radio frequency planning software and related solutions. This unique software enables TELUS engineers to simulate wireless networks across different areas and terrains, including urban and suburban regions, to help them determine how to best design cellular towers to better serve their clients.

”Mentum Planet software allows our engineers to make accurate and timely decisions to better support our clients,” said Raymond Saoumah, TELUS regional vice-president. “Having a single vendor that offers software, data and technical services is a great benefit to working with Mentum.”

Partnership Addresses Need for Real-Time Enterprise Search

Simplexo, the open source enterprise search specialist, and Ingres, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today a partnership that will change not only the way, but the speed in which people search and retrieve critical business information. Joint customers will benefit with access to Ingres Database, a high performance enterprise grade open source database, coupled with Simplexo’s ability to securely search all enterprise information with a single click. This adds up to users being able to make informed business decisions faster and with greater accuracy.

- First ‘clickable’ touch screen smartphone purpose built for Vodafone – revolutionary tactile touch display
- Building on BlackBerry platform’s strong wireless heritage, the BlackBerry Storm is ideal for both consumers and business users featuring:
- Large, high resolution screen coupled with Vodafone’s ultra high speed network delivering world class Internet browsing
- Fast and easy access to customers’ favourite social networking sites
- Turn by turn satellite navigation
- Great for keeping in touch – all e-mail, SMS and MMS in a single in-box

Dublin, 8th October 2008 – CommProve, the leader in Radio Access Network Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring for 2G, 2.5G and 3G mobile networks has today announced it will partner with Telecom 180 to deliver network monitoring services to a major South African mobile operator.

Telecom 180 will deliver professional services to the South African operator and support the deployment of CommProve’s Netledge monitoring system. Netledge captures every voice call and mobile data transaction in the network, highlights poor service and network quality, and enables rapid identification of problems.