Acision Joins the GSMA’s Rich Communication Suite Initiative

September 6th, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - - Acision Increases Commitment to Middle East and Africa With Hire of New GM Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Sherif Hamoudah as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Middle East, Africa and Pakistan. With more than 20 years sales and marketing experience in the telecoms industry, Hamoudah will oversee the MEA and Pakistan operations and take responsibility for driving business development in the region as well as enhancing operator relationships.

August 30th, 2009 SINGAPORE - - New GM Focuses on Growth and Business Development in Asia by Extending Acision's Market Reach Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Mark Williams as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Acision's Singapore office, Williams will take responsibility for aggressively driving growth in the region.

August 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharti Airtel, Asia's leading integrated telecom services provider has selected Acision to provide a fully managed service for its Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) infrastructure. As the first managed service of its kind in the market, Acision has replaced Bharti Airtel's existing MMS provider to drive adoption across its subscriber base, as well as improve the MMS experience for customers.

July 1st, 2009 SAO PAULO - - Acision Increases its Investment in the LatAm Region to Meet the Needs of Carriers and Introduce Solutions to Help Them Increase Revenues Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Rafael Steinhauser as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Latin America, based in Acision's Sao Paulo office. In this newly created role, Rafael Steinhauser will drive the company's growth across the region and have responsibility for sales, marketing, business development and operations.

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - - KT, SK Telecom and LG Telecom join forces to provide new enhanced services for customers incorporating GSMA's Rich Communication Suite key features The GSMA today announced that the world's first interoperable enhanced communication service incorporating key elements of the GSMA's Rich Communication Suite (RCS) specifications is now a live commercial service in South Korea. The GSMA's RCS initiative is supported by some of the world's leading handset vendors, core network vendors and mobile operators including KT, and SK Telecom, who joined the initiative to provide an interoperable service solution in South Korea.

June 24th, 2009 JAKARTA - - Advanced Features of Acision Text Suite Provide Indonesian Mobile Subscribers With an Improved and More Personal Messaging Experience Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Telkomsel, the leading operator of cellular telecommunications services in Indonesia, have launched an advanced SMS service to Telkomsel's 75 million customers using the award winning Acision Message Plus. Branded as SMS Pro, the service will be available to both pre-paid and post-paid subscribers of Telkomsel.

June 16th, 2009 READING, England - Nationwide Mobile Location-Based Directory Search Solution is Awarded "Best Consumer Innovation" Award Acision, the world's leading messaging company, is pleased to announce it has won the Best Consumer Innovation Award at last night's Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards, in conjunction with SPH Search, the company behind rednano.sg, Singapore's local search and directory engine. The prestigious award was presented to Acision and SPH Search, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH), Southeast Asia's leading media organization, in recognition of the part the partnership played in the deployment of Rednano Locate, Singapore's first cross-telco mobile, location-based search application offered by Rednano Mobile, the mobile touchpoint of rednano.sg.

April 27th, 2009 READING, England - 3 Customers to Experience Richer Communication Services With Voicemail and Unified Messaging Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces that, in addition to the recent contract wins with 3 in Australia and Austria, it has also been awarded a contract for messaging services for 3's networks in the UK and Ireland. Acision's solution will be deployed to deliver voicemail services.

April 22nd, 2009 MANILA, Philippines - Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway Deployed to Substantially Increase Usage of Voice Service Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Globe Telecom, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines, have launched the world's first fully convergent solution that works across both fixed and mobile networks for post-paid subscribers. Enabled by Acision's innovative real-time, location-based charging solutions, Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway, the service is designed to boost network traffic, primarily voice, by offering free calls within a set city zone.

March 16th, 2009 MANILA, Philippines - Advanced SMS Features Provide Filipinos With Market Leading Personalisation and Flexibility Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Sun Cellular, the fastest-growing mobile network provider in the Philippines, have partnered to come up with the world's most advanced SMS services using Acision Message Plus. As part of Acision Text Suite, the first open text architecture, Acision Message Plus provides Sun Cellular's mobile subscribers with personalised message management functionality, enabling them to block SMS spam, set up automatic replies and automatically copy or forward messages to another mobile number or email address - all from their handset.

April 3rd, 2009 BANGALORE - TWB Institute of Professional and Technical Communication (TWB), India's leading organization for Technical Communication Education and Training, released a larger education portfolio, offering a complete range of professional and employment-oriented programs. With this TWB provides India's most comprehensive and most specialized suite of trainings in professional and technical communications.

March 5th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - Until now only well-off Beatles fans could afford to spend a night in the hotel suite used by John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their honeymoon. But management at the Amsterdam Hilton are to allow members of the public to catch a glimpse of the famous suite where the newly-wed couple spent a week 40 years ago.

March 18th, 2009 LONDON - American socialite Paris Hilton has been continuing with her celebrations, and is now planning to have a bowling party in her penthouse suite. Hilton, 28, is in Las Vegas filming TV show Paris Hilton's My New BFF, and the suite at the Hard Rock Hotel where she is staying comes complete with a single bowling lane.

April 18th, 2009 CAPE TOWN - The second semi-final and the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be played at the Wanderers in Johannesburg after all, following an agreement reached between the tournament organisers and the Gauteng Cricket Board (GCB) over the sharing of suites. In the run-up to the 37-day tourney there were fears that the semi-final and the final would be moved out of Johannesburg due to the dispute between IPL and GCB, owners of the Wanderers, over the sharing of VIP suites.

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Department of Science and Technology (DST) Monday launched the India Innovation Initiative (i3) in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and communication analyst Agilent Technologies. Under the initiative, DST will launch a nation-wide competition of technology-based ideas in which innovators above 18 years of age can participate.

July 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Saturday launched a skill development programme to train about 100,000 domestic workers here in a variety of subjects ranging from personal hygiene to first-aid. The initiative would also educate such workers about intra-personal communication skills, components of urban meals, management of urban kitchens, serving cooked food in formal environment and maintaining kitchen gardens.

September 23rd, 2009 JAIPUR - Jaipur hosted the world's only eye hospital functioning in an aircraft at the Sanganer airport. The plane is a DC 10 aircraft well equipped with latest machines to run a mini eye clinic.

July 23rd, 2009 NFLPA joins Obama public service callWASHINGTON — The NFL players' union is joining President Barack Obama's national service initiative. The president says NFL players have a unique opportunity as role models and he applauds them for answering the call to service through the "United We Serve" program.

April 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three Business Boeing Jets (BBJ) - all modelled on the US president's office-in-the-sky Air Force One - were Wednesday inducted into the Communication Squadron of the Indian Air Force (IAF) by President Pratibha Patil. The President also undertook the maiden flight of the BBJ christened Rajdoot.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - If you are in Costa Rica and looking for a 'high-flying' holiday experience, then check into a luxurious new hotel suite in the country that is built inside a converted vintage Boeing airliner. Earlier destined for scrap, the fuselage of a 1965 Boeing 727 has now been converted into a two-bedroom suite.