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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire -02/22/12)- Furthering its commitment to running high performance session border control (SBC) on commercial off-the-shelf platforms, Metaswitch Networks today announced that its industry-leading Perimeta SBC software is being made available for deployment on generic enterprise servers as well as virtual machine environments to support elastic cloud computing networks.

Introduced in September 2011 and already selected by more than 60 service providers worldwide, Perimeta's flexible architecture supports independent scaling of an SBC's signaling and media functions -- allowing service providers to cost-effectively address the signaling-heavy, changing mix of network traffic. With Perimeta now available to run on various hypervisors, large operators can take advantage of private elastic cloud environments to scale SBC functions completely independently of dedicated hardware.

"Our established approach to building portable SBC software makes it natural to extend Perimeta into cloud-based architectures," said Martin Taylor, Metaswitch's CTO. "By architecting our solution for massively parallel operation on multi-core CPUs, network operators can now, for the first time, leverage COTS server farms to initiate virtual SBC capacity on demand. This is a highly efficient use of shared compute resources and mirrors the software-defined network trend of moving control plane software into elastic compute clouds."

"Today network operators are investing heavily in data center infrastructure, including server hardware and virtualization software to support growing computing demands," said Diane Myers, Directing Analyst, VoIP and IMS, Infonetics. "By allowing operators to scale SBC capacity and functions on demand, Metaswitch is helping to limit capital expenditures and infrastructure complexity while optimizing the use of SBC licenses."

Perimeta SBC is currently running live on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Metaswitch will be demonstrating Perimeta at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 27 - March 1 on the MWC Avenue (AV80-81). Follow Metaswitch in Barcelona on Twitter at #metamwc.

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By Cheryl Chen
Epoch Times Staff Created: February 22, 2012 Last Updated: February 22, 2012

Chinese media reports reveal intense infighting in the Chinese regime’s Politburo Standing Committee. Most of the members have been dragged into the political drama triggered by Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun’s taking a medical “leave of absence” and ending up at the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu requesting protection from party boss Bo Xilai.

Insiders from each faction are using different media to reveal sensitive information to the public. The unusual phenomenon has broken the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) tradition of hiding its dirty laundry from public eyes.

Chinese media reported on Feb. 18 that Chongqing municipal authorities had decided to appoint Tai Zhan to become deputy secretary of Chongqing’s Municipal Party Committee, replacing the incumbent, Ding Xianjun.

Tai was transferred in 2011 from Beijing’s State Administration for Industry & Commerce to Chongqing’s Administration of Industry & Commerce. He is the son of (former regime leader) Jiang Zemin’s cousin, Jiang Zeling, while Ding Xianjun’s political career was once promoted by He Guoqiang, Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

On Feb. 18, Chongqing’s largest Party newspaper, Chongqing Daily, said in a front-page article that Guan Haixiang has been appointed to take the post of Party Secretary to oversee security work in Chongqing and will continue the “hitting the black” campaign in the spring.

Guan was a political worker in the Communist Youth League from 1994 to 2009. The Communist Youth League has formed Hu Jintao’s power base.

Bill Gertz, a national security writer specializing in China issues, wrote on Washington’s Free Beacon, quoting Chinese officials saying that Zhou Yongkang, China’s most senior security official and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, has taken charge of Chongqing from Bo Xilai. However, Zhou has not allowed Beijing security authorities to further investigate or arrest Bo.

The state-run People’s Daily published a commentary on Feb. 16 criticizing some local officials for focusing on vanity projects that waste money and manpower for the purpose of climbing the political ladder.

The commentary can be regarded as the position of the Party’s top leaders who are probably preparing propaganda to target Bo Xilai, Zhang Weiguo, editor-in-chief of Hong Kong’s Trends magazine told Radio Free Asia (RFA).

The commentary echoes a speech Xi Jinping made last year about cadres’ position changing hands, indicating Xi has already taken the lead in the Party organizations, Ming Xia, a professor of Political Science at City University of New York, told RFA.

Another commentary on People’s Daily on Feb. 17 stressed that during changing hands of leadership, some officials tend to leave problems to their successor, instead of finding solutions during their terms.

The article implies that Hu Jintao should deal with the problem caused by Bo and Wang promptly and not leave it to the new leadership after the 18th Party Congress, according to the Chinese-language dissident website Boxun. This articles also shows Xi’s supporters urging Hu and Wen via People’s Daily to handle the matter as soon as possible, according to Boxun.

The Mingjing Monthly magazine, which Chinese-language media regard as being tied to Jiang Zemin, recently quoted an insider’s words and listed five pieces of evidence incriminating Bo Xilai. The article said, “Bo has reached a frenzied state trying to enter the standing committee of the Politburo. He is now known as the biggest hypocrite in the Party by the top Party leaders.”

On Feb. 14 the Mingjing website was the first to publish an article saying that all nine Politburo Standing Committee members agreeing to conduct a criminal investigation task force targeting Bo Xilai.

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It’s easy to assume social networking is the domain of the young.

Generation Y might have grown up with social, but there’s a growing number of people over 60 for whom social media is every bit as important.

People over the age of 55 are the fastest growing group joining Facebook, according to research from Nielsen - and a survey by Kantar Media’s TGI MobiLens claims that people over 50 are more likely to use social networks on their mobiles than people under 30.

The 'over 65' group spends a reported 42 hours online every month, more than any other group. 

Research from myvouchercodes also suggests that 20% of grandparents are on a social network, of which 71% are part of Facebook, mostly encouraged by younger members of their families. Let’s hope their grandchildren remember that when oversharing on their status updates.
  
To help older people get online, Age UK is running a series of ‘Myfriends online’ weeks (the next one is coming up on 19th to 25th March). It’s also encouraging Facebook fans to become a digital champion and help an older friend, relative or neighbour learn how to use new technology.

Social media channels designed specifically for an older audience are springing up, from the purely social online communities (like Southwark Circle a neighbourhood-based community that aims to connect older people who live close to each other) to the more commercially-led, such as Saga’s online network, where people can discuss anything, with a few pointers towards pensions, insurance and holidays. All things that Saga sells, incidentally.

Plus, social channels can aid social change: Grey Pride, the lobby group championing rights for older people, uses an online community, forums, Twitter and blogs to campaign for a minister for older people. Gransnet – the offshoot of Mumsnet but for grandmothers – launched in 2011 with support from Nintendo and Pearson; it too combines social networking with campaigning and political clout, reflecting the power that this market has, both in terms of spend and influence.

And don’t assume that apps are the domain of the young, either: in a move of pure brilliance, Saga has launched a teenage slang translator app called ‘Woteva’, to help work out what your grandchildren (or children for that matter) are talking about.

Clearly, age on its own is no barrier to technical ability, and social media and online communities can be an incredibly effective way to reach an older audience, often with high spending power. Our population is aging – 40% of the UK population will be over 50 by 2035, according to the ONS - and so social media use within this group will only increase. Ignore it at your peril.

Internships for the 60+? Why not?

Steve Richards is MD of social media agency Yomego and a guest blogger for Econsultancy.

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By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service (Sydney Bureau)
February 23, 2012

SYDNEY - Mobile network operators are facing a decline in SMS (Short Message Service) revenue as their customers increasingly use apps for alternative messaging services such as Facebook or WhatsApp, according to a new study released on Wednesday by analyst Ovum.

Ovum estimated that operators worldwide saw a $13.9 billion decline in revenue last year due to the use of IP-based social messaging services, which amounts to about 9 percent of their total messaging revenue. In 2010, the decline was $8.7 billion, Ovum said.

SMS and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) are the most important non-voice revenue streams for operators right now, said Neha Dharia, a consumer analyst with Ovum based in India.

But consumers, particularly so-called early technology adopters, would rather use Blackberry Messenger than send an SMS, Dharia said.

“Messaging is a very key revenue stream that is being impacted,” Dharia said. “People have begun to reduce their SMS usage.”

Services such as Blackberry Messenger and WhatsApp use a device’s data channel or Wi-Fi to send the message. Smartphone users frequently have inclusive data plans, which means they can potentially avoid SMS charges by using those applications to communicate.

Operators have seen the problem coming for a long time, Dharia said. One solution is for those companies to offer their own messaging services, using the Rich Communication Suite (RCS). RCS is a set of specifications for enabling IP-based features such as instant messaging, video, file transfer and presence capabilities on mobile devices.

Efforts have been under way for years by operators to implement RCS, and it is starting to appear in the market, Dharia said. Operators need to introduce the technology quickly, she said. Operators will also look to replace lost SMS revenue from other growing sources, such as mobile broadband services, she said.

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Bill Press has a new book out called "The Obama Hate Machine." To read the blurbs, you might wonder if Press thinks no one should be allowed to criticize the president. Here's Nancy Pelosi touting the book: "In a poisoned political climate, negative personal attacks on President Obama must have no place in our public discourse."

What's next? A mandate forbidding inappropriate free speech? These tolerant liberals are out of control.

Press appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" on Feb. 12 to plug his book, and he did say "there's legitimate criticism of any president, which I think is very healthy, and I welcome it, and I've been a part of it. Right?" But then he went off the rails.

"I don't know that anybody ever said that Ronald Reagan was a terrorist, or George W. Bush was a terrorist. Right? This isn't a slight difference. It's a huge difference, the level of attacks we've seen against President Obama."

It's proof positive that Bill Press knows very little. Just like in his last embarrassing book, "Toxic Talk," Press claims all the ugly rhetoric comes from conservatives. But this is — I'll be blunt — dishonest, and you don't even have to look back in history to prove Press wrong. The Daily Kos had an entry headlined "Ronald Reagan, Terrorist!" on Reagan's 100th birthday last year. Cindy Sheehan called George W. Bush a terrorist routinely. The term is used against conservatives of every stripe.

But let's turn the spotlight back around to Bill Press. How has he performed on the "hate machine" scale? Let's explore the record. Oh, yes, Press has a record, too.

1. On Jan. 13 — 18 days before his anti-hate book was first issued — Press called Newt Gingrich a terrorist on MSNBC's Al Sharpton program, "Politics Nation": "He's the suicide bomber of the Republican Party. ... He's in it to take down as many people as he can as he goes down, and he has that same silly grin on his face when he pulls the plug as a suicide bomber."

2. On his radio show on Aug. 6, 2011, in a funding dispute over the Federal Aviation Administration, Bill Press attacked the Republicans: "These guys are terrorists! I'm sorry; I'm sorry; you know, you know Joe Biden; they say he's getting in a little trouble 'cause he called them terrorists. That's exactly what they are!"

3. On June 16, 2010, Press complained that Glenn Beck was granted permission to have a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. "If you ask me, that's like granting al-Qaida permission to hold a rally on Sept. 11 — at ground zero."

4. How about death wishes? On his radio show on July 22, 2011, Press played a clip of Speaker John Boehner suggesting Obama "needs to step up and work with us on the spending cuts." He then replied: "You know, it's a wonder lightning just doesn't strike people dead on the spot when they say stuff like that."

5. Nazis? In an Aug. 6, 2009 column, Press slashed at Tea Partiers opposing Obamacare at town hall meetings: "Taking a page right out of a Nazi playbook, organizers bus in professional protestors and arm them with instructions on how to take over meetings, shut down discussion, shout over any pro-health care reform speakers and then post video of the resulting chaos on YouTube. It's mob rule, pure and simple."

6. On Oct. 10, 2008, Todd Palin's reported support for a secessionist party in Alaska drew this radio blast from Press: "What's the difference between a secessionist and a terrorist? Isn't a secessionist just another form of a terrorist? Ask Abraham Lincoln. ... Let's find out what the 'First Dude' was going to do in order to secede from the Union. I tell you it wasn't going to be peaceful."

7. And then there's the good old-fashioned insult. On July 25, 2006, Press declared who was the dumbest president ever: "George W. Bush, with his rock bottom IQ of 91: seven points lower than his Daddy. ... He's just plain dumb — the dumbest president in the last 50 years. And probably, the dumbest president ever!"

Press's alleged IQ information by the "Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pa." was a hoax, entirely made up, which underlined just who shouldn't be calling other people dummies.

8. But Bill Press really thinks American voters are also morons. On his radio show on Nov. 4, 2010, Press proclaimed: "Just once ... I would like to hear somebody say, 'The voters have spoken, the bastards.' Or, 'The voters have spoken. What a bunch of idiots.' 'The voters have spoken. God, they're dumb. Dumb as hell.'"

Most Americans won't be dumb enough to buy Bill Press's book or believe a word he says against other people building their "hate machines."

L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. To find out more about Brent Bozell III, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at http://www.creators.com.

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