INMARSAT MEDIA PIONEER AWARD
Volvo Ocean Race Legends Honour

Inmarsat will celebrate its heritage in maritime safety and 30-year long history with the Volvo/Whitbread Round the World Race by honouring the contribution, courage and commitment of the pioneering photographers on the original races.

The Inmarsat Media Pioneer Award will be presented at the Volvo Ocean Race Legends Prize giving on Thursday 3rd November in Alicante, Spain by Chris McLaughlin, Vice President, External Affairs, Inmarsat.

Inmarsat’s satellite technology is a key enabler for all aspects of the 2011-12 race – for position reporting, sending live video footage or photos of on-board action to the world’s media, providing safety communications in the event of an accident, and for boosting crew morale.

Inmarsat’s FleetBroadband service has taken media coverage of the race into a whole new era. Faster transmission speeds delivering better quality live broadcasts.

Volvo Ocean Race Legends will be the first reunion of veterans from this 38-year old race.

In recognition of the vital role of recording and reporting life onboard has always played in driving awareness and the excitement of the race to fans, the media and sponsors, Inmarsat is honouring an outstanding media pioneer, who, in his own modest way began the task that has now developed into a full time onboard media crew member role.

Says Chris McLaughlin: “This award acknowledges the invaluable role reportage plays in the history of this race and recognises Inmarsat’s 30-year history with the race and our heritage in maritime safety. In the last race, 2008-09, FleetBroadband delivered a flawless service.”

Inmarsat is also sponsoring the Media Crew Member (MCM) Award of 1,000 Euros (US$1,358) on each leg of the race, plus a 10,000 Euro (US$13,585) prize for the best overall contribution to race coverage.

This race each Volvo Open 70 race boat will be fitted with a FleetBroadband 500 terminal, delivering voice and high-speed data communications. Competitors in the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 will be the first sailors with access to the new ‘red button’ safety service on FleetBroadband, giving instant one-touch contact with maritime rescue coordination centres. Also onboard will be a compact FleetBroadband 150 for crew voice calling and IP data, two Mini-C systems for constant positioning data and additional global safety communications. In addition, the race is endorsing IsatPhone Pro, Inmarsat’s new global satellite phone, by including it in the boats’ safety kits.
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For further information:
Shireen Crowe, Direct PR Tel: + 44 7879 417 177, Shireen.crowe@direct-pr.co.uk
or
Lizzie Ward, Manager Volvo Ocean Race Legends T. +34 966 011 153 M. +44 7801 185 320
or
Anne Massot, PR for Volvo Ocean Race Legends + 00 33 6 16 19 12 20

Amazon’s latest ebook reader is the talk of the town – not because of any new or superlative hardware features, but because the Kindle Cloud Reader replicates many of the functions of its standalone brother in the form of a HTML5 web app. The web app functions as a browser-based ebook reader, letting users access their Amazon accounts, download and read their ebooks.

The hot topic of tech industry conversations these days is HTML5. While HTML5 is far from being a fully-adopted standard, it holds great promise: to deliver rich content across any platform or device, and to convert any website into a fully-functioning web app. This ability is revolutionary, marrying the utility of an app with the ease of access of the web. This will particularly alter the mobile experience, since it extends the utility of mobile browsers, without the need to purchase additional apps.

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ASIA-PACIFIC – SINGAPORE, AUGUST 3, 2011: Today, InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, announced the acquisition of US-based Sprout, the leading platform for creating HTML5 rich media mobile advertising. This acquisition enables InMobi to address the complexity of planning, creating, distributing, and measuring of rich media mobile ads for brands and agencies in the Asia Pacific region and globally.

Known for simplifying the complex process of HTML5 mobile ad creation, Sprout works with the world’s leading brands, including Chevrolet, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Nokia, HTC, and Sega to bring interactive mobile ads to devices supporting HTML5, including Apple iOS and Google Android devices. Its cloud-based platform brings efficiency and scale, helping advertisers “build once and deliver everywhere”.

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Compuware Gomez Platform^® Integrated With Google’s Page Speed to Help Organizations Optimize Web Application Performance

SINGAPORE–May 18, 2011–Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced that it has worked with the Page Speed team to make it easier for organizations to optimize website performance. The Compuware Gomez platform^® is now integrated with Page Speed, an open source project started at Google, to give developers and organizations actionable insight and recommendations on how to speed up web application performance.

Studies have shown that improving website performance can lead to increased revenues and reduced operating costs. This integration, the first in which a commercial application performance management (APM) product has integrated with Page Speed, is a part of the Gomez Platform 2011 Spring Release that was announced earlier today.

Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and it is now deployed in third-party products such as Compuware’s Gomez platform. Page Speed assesses the performance of a web page against a set of rules, providing scores and recommendations for improvement. This allows developers and organizations to optimize their web pages based on industry best-practices.

“We’ve found that speed is one of the most important factors for improving the user experience on the web,” said Richard Rabbat, Product Manager for Page Speed at Google. “Page Speed is one of many efforts we’ve released over the past few years in an effort to empower developers, site owners and webmasters to help make the web faster.”

The Gomez platform is the only commercially available APM product to integrate with Page Speed. The integration allows Gomez users to utilize the Google technology to improve their website performance. As Gomez users run transactions against their web pages, Page Speed analyzes web page content and generates ranked suggestions to make the pages faster. This allows developers to optimize web pages based on web performance best practices.

“Making the web faster is a mutual goal Compuware shares with Google,” said Bruce Reading, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Compuware’s APM business unit. “We’re excited about the kind of benefits this will deliver to our users.”

The Gomez platform is the industry’s leading solution for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Gomez provides a unified view across the entire application delivery chain, from a user’s browser or mobile device, across the Internet or a corporate WAN, in the cloud, to inside the data center, eliminating blind spots from the First Mile to the Last Mile.

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SINGAPORE, May 11, 2011 – Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions, today announced that du, the integrated telecom service provider in the United Arab Emirates, has selected Openwave^® Smart Policy (part of Openwave^® Passport). Smart Policy will support du’s ongoing efforts in enhancing customers user experience by keeping them informed about their data consumption and allowing them to instantly topup data services.

“Customer convenience and a superior user experience are the top priorities  for us at du and we continuously invest in our infrastructure to make it possible,” said Hatem Bamatraf, Senior Vice President – Network Development, du. “We have already deployed several of Openwave’s traffic mediation and data optimisation solutions and felt confident in selecting Openwave Smart Policy to help us provide our customers with a higher quality experience and more service plan choices while maintaining simplicity.”

Smart Policy will allow du’s mobile broadband customers to directly and proactively manage their mobile broadband experience. Customers will have immediate access to their usage history and will be provided with the opportunity to supplement their real broadband experience with a number of value-focused data and messaging bundles.

“All around the world operators are experiencing a tremendous uptake of data services, fuelling a desire to optimize the mobile data experience for their customers,” said John Giere, senior vice president of products and marketing, Openwave. “The Openwave traffic mediation and data optimization platform deployed at du provides a flexible platform that enables the company to introduce customer experience enhancing applications like Smart Policy without service interruption. It also enables them to create custom plans that can effectively target nearly every lifestyle. We are delighted that our market-leading solutions continue to help du provide their customers with superior offerings.”

Openwave^® Smart Policy

Openwave Smart Policy monitors the user’s activity (by time or traffic volume) and can proactively inform them, when appropriate, of events such as allocated quotas being reached, changes to their service plan, new data changes that may apply or new services that may be of interest. Users may also manage their service plans directly with on-demand access to time and/or volume meters and options for extensions or upgrades. Openwave Smart Policy is for service providers who have not already deployed a policy control and charging PCC infrastructure, or may want to enhance their policy control capabilities, with minimum TCO, to bring contextual pricing models to their customers.

About du

du, the integrated telecom service provider in the UAE, launched mobile telecommunication services in February 2007 across the UAE, in addition to internet and pay TV services that du provides in some of the free zones of Dubai. Call Select, du’s nationwide fixed line services for voice telephony, was launched in July 2007. By the end of 2008, over 3 million people in the UAE chose to become du customers.

Among du’s many firsts is its historic Number Booking Campaign for both individuals and business, Pay by the Second billing system, Mobile TV, Mobile Payments, first of its kind ‘WoW’ recharge card (which offers customers the choice between more credit, more time and now ‘more international’ recharge option with additional credit on international calls) and Self Care.

For business customers, du business offers include Closed Business User Group and preferred International Destinations. du Broadcast Services division brings scalable media technology platforms and telecommunication solutions to the broadcast community through its world class teleport (Samacom) and Master Control Room (MCR) facilities.

du products and services for consumers and business are available through du’s retail network, currently numbering 37 du shops located in strategic locations across the UAE, more than 3000 authorized dealers or through du e-shop, accessible at http://www.du.ae/en/where-to-buy/eshop.html. du shops are a one stop shop for mobile service, carrier select and the payment of the service bills.

du is 39.5 percent owned by the UAE Federal Government, 19.75 percent by Mubadala Development Company, 19.5 percent by Emirates Communications & Technology Company LLC and the remaining stake by public shareholders. It is listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and trades under the name du.

About Openwave

Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions that enable communication service providers and the broader ecosystem to create and deliver smarter services.

Building on its mobile data heritage, Openwave mobilizes the Internet with predictive solutions fueled by real-time analytics that mediate among all different ecosystem elements, permitting the enhancement of every mode of IP traffic. The result can provide customers with a 360-degree view of their network, devices and services, and enables them to proactively optimize network resources, quickly launch smart mobile services, and provide a contextually relevant user experience.

Openwave is a global company with a blue chip customer base spanning North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Openwave is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.

Forward Looking Statement

This press release contains statements regarding Openwave Systems’ expectations of the functions, benefits and capabilities of Openwave^® Smart Policy, as well as the expected timing of the release of Openwave^® Smart Policy.  Actual timing of release and performance of Openwave^® Smart Policy could differ materially as a result of unanticipated factors and events, including that Openwave Systems could face difficulties in launching Openwave^® Smart Policy, or Openwave^® Smart Policy may not function as expected with various operators, due to technical or other unforeseen reasons.  Further risks inherent in Openwave Systems’ business are detailed in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in Openwave Systems’ Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2010 (filed February 8, 2011 with the Securities and Exchange Commission).

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