Joint Offering from Mobixell and Commtouch Enables Mobile Operator Compliance with Proposed Web Browsing Legislation

SAN JOSE AND SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – November 22, 2011 – Mobixell Networks and Commtouch® (Nasdaq: CTCH) today announced a new effort to support mobile operators worldwide to comply with proposed Web content regulation. Mobixell Seamless Access Mobile Internet Gateway, featuring Commtouch GlobalView™ URL Filtering offers advanced content filtering capabilities which enable telecom operators to improve security for mobile device users and ensure compliance with child protection Web content legislation.

National governments, including those in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia, are promoting legislation to protect children from pornography and other unsuitable Web content. The ability for mobile device users, many of whom are minors, to freely access the Web, has made this an especially critical issue for telecom operators. If implemented, legislation would require operators to actively block undesirable content and make certain types of content available only if users opt-in to receive it.

However, compliance with such laws could be challenging for operators, since Web pages and their content are constantly changing, and new sites are registered daily. In addition, some sites, particularly those with user-generated content (blogs, social networking sites, etc.), may contain a mixture of family-friendly and inappropriate content.

The Mobixell/Commtouch solution solves this problem, enabling telecom operators to block access to Web sites deemed unfit for children and comply with even the strictest child protection regulation. Content categorization from Commtouch is available as a module of the Mobixell Seamless Access Mobile Internet Gateway which enables telecom operators to manage complex content delivery policies, offering a variety of opt-in user protection services, including parental control, real-time rating and content verification.

“As the use of mobile devices to access the Web increases, it is essential that mobile operators provide increased protection for their users from potentially harmful Web sites,” said Noam Green, vice president marketing at Mobixell. “The Mobixell/Commtouch solution lets us offer our mobile operator customers an important service for their customers to counter these threats and to ensure that operators comply with pending Web content legislation.”

The content categorization mechanism within the Mobixell platform is powered by Commtouch’s GlobalView URL Filtering solution and the cloud-based GlobalView Network. The technology continuously monitors and analyzes Web traffic to provide real-time, accurate categorization of URLs from anywhere in the world. The solution accurately categorizes dynamic user generated content and Web 2.0 sites. Commtouch’s GlobalView Network also features the largest source of real-time, accurate Web threat data via the Commtouch Security Alliance, a union of leading information security community organizations, companies and individuals that share Web threat data.

“The profusion of mobile devices and smartphones among children has increased the ease at which they have access to unsuitable content on the Web. Optional parental control solutions can be installed on mobile devices, but these would not absolve operators of responsibility when these new regulations go into effect,” said Ofer Tal, vice president of international sales and business development at Commtouch. “We are pleased to work with Mobixell to provide the best possible protection for all mobile users, while ensuring service providers comply with new protection laws.”

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About Mobixell:
Mobixell Networks provides intelligent mobile Internet solutions to mobile operators that optimize data networks and maximize data profitability. Mobixell’s flagship product, Seamless Access, enables mobile operators to intelligently manage, optimize, and monetize the surging mobile data and video traffic while giving subscribers an exceptional user experience. Mobixell has more than 350 deployments, including Verizon, Vodafone, Bharti, Orange, and Telefonica, providing specially adapted services in Mobile Video and TV, Mobile Internet and Broadband, and Mobile Messaging. Founded in late 2000, Mobixell is a U.S.-based company with additional offices in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, India, China, and Israel.

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Mobile Web Pro by Kevin Koop and David Cisneros

Review by Chris Towland, Gadget Editor

Everyone knows that the mobile web use is just growing and growing on a daily basis. Pretty much everyone buying a phone wants the internet capability that the iPhone and Android phones bring to the table. When we then add in the web browsing capabilities of the iPad and other tablets and it’s easy to understand why more and more internet useage is moving from the pc and laptop to mobile platforms.

One area where this change is causing problems is with business websites.  Even though in excess of 67% of smartphone users claim to have used their device to look for a local business’s location info, a very small percentage of business websites look good or are easy to navigate on a mobile phone.

This can of course equate to lost customers for the business! For example, someone looking for a nearby restaurant on their mobile phone finds your website vut can’t move around the site easily to find your address or phone number. They eventually leave your site to find another restaurant whose address they can easily find. Something as simple as this can mean the difference between a profit and a loss for small businesses.

A very cost effective solution to this problem comes in the form of Mobile Web Pro by Kevin Koop and David Cisneros.

At a price of less than $10, Mobile Web Pro provides six professionally designed mobile templates that can be added to any website. The code that comes with the templates means that if someone views your website on a desktop or laptop computer then they see your normal website whereas if they view the same site on their phone then they will see the new mobile version of your site.

This allows you to direct them straight to the information that a mobile user is looking for which is usually address or telephone number. In fact, the mobile templates will even let your visitor simply press a button on your website so that the person can telephone you automatically.

Included in Mobile Web Pro are:

• Six different mobile web templates, each in seven style versions (giving you 42 different looks for your mobile site.)
• The Mobile Detect script that decides if the user is on a mobile device or pc and gives them the correct website.
• Twenty five tutorial videos that will ensure you can quickly get the templates set up and working on your business site.
• A 30 day money back guarantee.

In my view these templates will help anyone to quickly make an effective, professional looking mobile website for their business and all for the price of a few coffees.

I’m unsure as to how long the special pricing will remain but currently it is available at The Warrior Forum.

Datalogic Mobile a worldwide leader in automatic data capture announces the launch of its new multimedia website. The new Datalogic Mobile website focuses on end user solutions and applications presenting information with extensive use of content rich media and graphics.

As a technology leader Datalogic Mobile continues to invest in new products and new tools. The recently released Datalogic Elf™ and Datalogic Falcon™X3 are the forefront of mobile computing technology. Likewise the new Datalogic Mobile website is at the forefront of website design. Datalogic Mobile incorporated cutting edge Search Engine Optimization technology (SEO), interactive video, and dynamic graphics.

“Mobile computer users demand the latest technology in a light and fast device,” commented Charles Dulles Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. “We took the same approach with the website. Our presentation is focused on our core markets Retail, Warehouse, and Field Force Automation. We take a solutions approach where visitors can quickly find material about products and applications. We added an expanded case study library with video case studies.”

The new website has a modern feel that is easy and simple to navigate. Attention to detail was applied to how both end users and business partners utilize the website. Improved navigation and extensive content is available to educate end users about mobility solutions. Business partners will be pleased with a superior SEO technology implementation that will result in higher search results and lead generation.

Mobile Web browser usage is exploding. Emarketer estimates that 44.1% of US citizens will leverage mobile Internet by 2014. To capture market interest in mobile browsing, smart phone vendors have been aggressively touting the speed improvements in their products. However, due to the lack of mobile measurement tools, it has been difficult to measure which smart phone actually has the faster browser.

After taking over 45,000 measurements on the latest iPhone and Android devices, the study found that Android was 52% faster than iPhone on average. Android finished loading a Web page faster on 84% of the 1000 Websites tested. The study also found that the despite significant JavaScript performance gains in the latest Apple iOS 4.3 release and Google Android 2.3 releases, these improvement made no measurable improvement on the actual page load times of the sites tested.

“We were very surprised by the results”, said Guy Podjarny, Blaze CTO and Co-Founder. “We assumed that it would be closer race and that the latest JavaScript speed improvements would have a more material impact on performance. The fact that Android beat iPhone by such a large margin was not expected”.

What makes this study unique is the size of the study and the fact that it used real phones on real world websites to make the measurements. Past studies have often used fabricated benchmark sites or manual measurements on a small number of sites. This study was made possible through custom apps developed to measure page load time on mobile devices. These apps run on the actual devices, load a page on demand, and measure how long it took. These agents are available as a free service to measure any site with the Blaze Mobitest Tool.

For more information on the details results and methodology of the study, please see: http://www.blaze.io/blog

Blaze’s mobile measurement service can be found at: http://www.blaze.io/mobile

The speed demon and the comfort wagon go head to head when we pit Opera Mini versus Safari on the iPhone.

It would do a disservice to Germans to suggest that April 13, 2010 feels a bit like the fall of the Berlin Wall for iPhone users, so we won’t. But after years of staring over the barbed wired at alternative browsers outside Apple’s Appkaufhaus, we can’t help help but feel liberated now that one has finally made it inside.

Opera Mini tastes like freedom

And although it somehow passed the same jackboot vetting process that Apple has selectively employed to boot similar apps, it has a lot to offer. Here’s a quick rundown of the some of the vast improvements – and a few disappointments – the first non-Apple browser brings to the iPhone.

Speed

Much has been made of Opera Mini’s purported speed advantage on other platforms, and the same it true on Cupertino territory. Opera Mini hauls ass.

As a “proxy browser,” Opera uses its own servers to scrunch down pages with compression before zipping the smaller versions off to your phone. You’ll never see this intermediate step, but it significantly improves load times, even on mobile-optimized sites. The mobile version of CNN.com, for instance, loaded in 7.1 seconds in Safari and just 3.6 seconds in Opera Mini. Yahoo was even more drastic: 12.1 seconds shrank to just 4.2 seconds. And on non-optimized sites, you’ll see amazing gains. Digitaltrends.com loaded at a sluggish 23.2 seconds with Safari, but just 8.3 on Opera Mini.

You’ll see the blocky results of this compression if you crank image quality to low in an attempt to wring every bit of speed from this trick, but on the default high setting, the iPhone just doesn’t have enough resolution to tell. We never experienced a significant enough gain in speed to justify changing it, either.

Zooming and Scrolling

Safari makes excellent use of the iPhone’s sensitive multi-touch screen to make panning and resizing pages feel dead intuitive. Opera does not. The browser offers only two zoom levels, which roughly equate to “too big” and “too small.” The zoomed-in version does a good job making text legible on fairly standard pages that lay it out in long columns, but pages that break from this standard tend to pose a real problem.

As with zooming, scrolling just doesn’t work as well with Opera Mini as it does in Safari. Sliding down a long row of text feels jittery and hesitant where Safari would simply glide.

Interface

The overall layout of Opera Mini will feel very familiar to Safari users: There’s are URL and Google search bars up top, along with forward, back, reload tabs and settings buttons at the bottom. Rather than taking you through another page to sift through open tabs, Opera displays each one as a tiny thumbnail and lets you page through them without navigating away from the page you’re on. We like it. We also like “full-screen mode,” which strips away the bottom icon bar for just two corner buttons: one that goes back, and one that opens the full slate of options. Although the extra screen you get is miniscule, it makes a difference on the tiny screen.

Bookmarks

Both Opera Mini and Safari remember bookmarks in much the same way, but Opera Mini offers a feature more suited to smartphones called Speed Dial. Rather than picking and choosing bookmarks off a linear list, you can add them to Speed Dial, a grid of nine thumb-sized icons. Opera Mini automatically generates thumbnails for every page, and you’ll be presented with the Speed Dial interface every time you open a new tab, making it a snap to pop open a new one and open one of your nine favorite sites.

Extra Features

Besides improving on the way Safari does a number of things, Opera Mini does things Safari just won’t. For instance, you can search within a page to find text you want, just like on a desktop browser. You can save any page you like to the phone so that you can read it later, even when you don’t have Internet service (which should be a boon for subway riders who spend half their commutes in a receptionless tomb). You can save passwords after you enter them into a favorite site – like a forum – so you don’t have to finagle with the iPhone’s keyboard every time you return.

Conclusion

Whether you’re content with Safari or dying to get away from it, you should try Opera Mini to give it a shot. After all, it’s a free download. While we loved the speed, the quirky zooming and scrolling caused a major hangup for us. This is the main way you interact with a browser, and Opera Mini is a major backslide from the perfection of Safari in that regard.

However, the massive speed advantage may make you reconsider whether you can live with a clunkier browsing experience that’s twice as fast.

Having both browsers on your phone is like having a trashed 1989 Camaro with a souped-up V8 and a Buick Century in the garage. We’ll stick with Safari and the Buick for the long hauls – like browsing the Web from the couch, but when you need to find the exact dimensions of your tent at the camping store or reaffirm your superiority in Michael Jackson trivia at the bar with a quick visit to Wikipedia, hop in the Camaro and go with Opera Mini.

Delivering on its vision to bring the mobile Internet to mass market devices, SurfKitchen today unveiled SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform 5.0. The new release extends support of smart browsers now available on smartphones, while also delivering greater sophistication in the management of on-device retail environments.

SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform 5.0 takes the proven and robust end-to-end SurfKitchen client-server platform, which has consistently delivered material commercial results in terms of increased usage and ARPU, and adds support for the emerging device runtimes and browsers on today’s smartphones. Supporting devices running Bondi, JIl, Flash and Web 2.0 browsers enables operators to rapidly deploy high quality storefronts to the broadest range of handsets, with a single infrastructure, without requiring specific client software to be pre-installed on devices.

“Until now, mobile operators had to choose between a mediocre user experience with limited investment on their part, or a rich user experience with a dedicated client. The SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform now bridges these worlds by allowing operators to provide the best user experience while benefiting from open standards on new smartphones, all within a single infrastructure,” said Dave Evans, chief technology officer, SurfKitchen.

SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform is designed to enable operators to deliver an intuitive and compelling experience to consumers across an unrivalled range of handsets. It provides operators with a sophisticated application storefront, an application launcher and a service creation environment, which enhance mobile application/service acquisition and usability across the broadest range of phones. Its main components are:

SurfKit Storefront (Powering Orange App Shop): An application store that streamlines the purchasing experience by providing a rich, operator branded on-device retail environment that:

SurfKit Launcher (Powering TelstraOne): A single location for launching mobile applications and Internet services that:

New: SurfKit Service Creation Environment: An on-device XML/Javascript runtime environment with a rich client server framework that:

New: SurfKit Cache: An on-device cache management solution that:

“The last twelve months in the mobile industry have demonstrated that content choice and a great user experience are critical to the success of mobile data services,” said Michel Quazza, chief executive officer, SurfKitchen. “SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform delivers on these critical factors by allowing consumers to easily discover, purchase and enjoy a wide range of applications and Internet services on the phone of their choice. By combining easy-to-access applications and services with a compelling user experience on the broadest range of phones, SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform will significantly increase mobile data revenue for our mobile operator customers.”

To support integration and management of mobile Internet applications and services, SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform includes an advanced reporting platform and a sophisticated server solution. SurfKit Mediation provides operators with insightful business intelligence into the use of mobile content and services, while SurfKit Server supports integration into an operator’s infrastructure and provides a central control point for all SurfKitchen on-device applications.

For additional information including technical details on the new SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform, please visit http://www.surfkitchen.com.