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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 30th, 2009 LONDON - - Acision Flexible Charger Enables Operators to Comply With EU Roaming Legislation and Provides Consumers With the Billing Transparency They Need to use Their Phone Abroad With Confidence - 75% of consumers believe they are 'over-charged' when using their phone abroad - 62% of consumers admit they are completely unaware of roaming charges - 42% of consumers would use their phone more if they were aware of their real time spending - 22% want to use their phone more for social networking New research launched today by Acision, the world's leading messaging company, shows that the EU roaming legislation coming in to force today will be widely embraced by consumers since currently only 12% use their mobile abroad as much as they do at home. Operators are missing crucial revenue opportunities, as the research reveals that consumers are abandoning their usual mobile habits, despite their appetite to browse the internet, update their social networking status, as well as talking and texting when holidaying.

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 31st, 2009 CTIA - LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announced that it has joined the GSMA's Rich Communication Suite (RCS) Initiative. As part of the RCS Initiative, Acision, along with 60 other member organisations, will be at the forefront of developing rich communication technology and services, which run across IP and multimedia-based networks, such as enhanced messaging, presence enabled contact management and in-call multimedia sharing.

April 12th, 2009 CAPE TOWN - Communicating via text messages could take toll on your thumbs, according to a study. For the study, Safura Karim interviewed 318 of the 320 South African teens at two city high schools who used mxit or similar text message forums on their cellphones.

June 20th, 2009 NC gov. warns texters: 'Hope u r not driving now'RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina has become the seventh state to pass a ban this year on texting while driving.

September 1st, 2009 Twitter, texting could help families in disastersWASHINGTON — Text messaging, Twitter and social networking Web sites could help families stay in touch in the wake of a disaster, a national safety group said Tuesday. The Safe America Foundation announced a campaign to train families about alternate ways of staying in touch if traditional communication methods are not working.

July 3rd, 2009 TEHRAN - SMS text messaging services in Iran have been unblocked for the first time since disputed June 12 presidential elections. The BBC quoted Iranian news agencies as saying that there are still technical problems.

April 8th, 2009 NEW YORK - It's not just the teenagers who are addicted to sending text messaging, for the 'texting' bug has bitten their moms too. A report suggests that mothers of all ages, grandmothers included, have started to use text messages to keep in touch with their kids.

July 23rd, 2009 US Cellular lost 59,000 retail customers in 2QCHICAGO — Wireless carrier United States Cellular Corp. said Thursday it lost 59,000 net retail customers in the second quarter.

May 12th, 2009 Minor league ballpark offers peanut-free sectionCAMDEN, N.J. — Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack ...

April 22nd, 2009 Record attempt reaps 217K texts, $26K phone billPHILADELPHIA — Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000.

July 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - Telecom major Idea Cellular has received shareholders' approval to hive off its tower business into a subsidiary company Idea cellular Towers Infrastructure, the company said Thursday. Its rivals Airtel and Reliance Communications had earlier demerged their passive infrastructure - towers and base stations - business to save costs.

September 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Imagine a dictionary that offers tips on text messaging abbreviations for Indian cell phone users and has a Shakespeare guide too. Well that's exactly what two new Collins dictionaries have to offer.