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By Julian Gavaghan

Last updated at 11:28 AM on 27th February 2012

Since the invention of radio more than a century ago, man has been broadcasting into space in the hope that any listening aliens could learn of our presence.

Yet, despite waves travelling a distance of 200 light years in all directions, they still have 118,800 light years to go until the entire Milky Way has heard the word.

In the photograph below, the small yellow dot - with the even tinier Planet Earth buried somewhere in its centre - reveals the limited extent of broadcasts since Marconi invented the radio in 1895.

A long way to go: The yellow dot shows the 200 light year radius of how far radio waves have reached into the Milky Way

And, when you consider there are billions of galaxies like ours in the universe, the quest for extra-terrestrial life is not likely to end any time soon.

Science blogger Adam Grossman, who created the diagram of ‘Humanity Bubble’ using a Nick Risinger’s famous image, quipped on his site: ‘This makes me feel small, sad and alone. Hold me.’

Yet, given that it would take just four minutes to get to Mars when travelling at the speed of light, the distance of 200 light years is no small feat.

And, given recent evidence of a possible earthquake on the Red Planet that indicate life there, perhaps all we are waiting for is for Martians to invent a radio set.

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BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwire -02/27/12)- Mobile World Congress -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO - News) -- Bell Mobility continues to build out its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile services with the Cisco® ASR 5000 Series mobile multimedia core platform. Bell Mobility now delivers 4G LTE services to its most populous markets in western Canada, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia.

The Cisco ASR 5000 Series is the foundation of the packet core for Bell Mobility's LTE network, delivering higher bandwidth and greater intelligence for faster mobile Internet services and improved user experiences.

Highlights/Key Facts

Bell Mobility has completed the rollout of 4G LTE services to customers in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Yellowknife, London, Greater Toronto Area, Hamilton, Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo, Belleville, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax-Dartmouth. With capital expenditures of approximately $3 billion per year, Bell is rapidly expanding Canada's communications infrastructure with ongoing fibre and mobile broadband rollouts. Designated as a 4G mobile specification, LTE is designed to provide multi-megabit bandwidth, more efficient use of the radio network, latency reduction and improved mobility. This combination aims to enhance the user's interaction with the network and further drive the demand for mobile multimedia services. With mobile broadband, users can more readily access Internet services such as online video, social networking, and interactive gaming -- all on the go. The Cisco ASR 5000 Series is purpose-built for the complexities of the mobile network. It is a robust multimedia services platform that brings a new level of network and customer intelligence to the mobile network. Such intelligence is critical to delivering real-time, personalized mobile services. Key components of the Cisco ASR 5000 Series include: The Cisco Mobility Management Entity (MME), which manages multiple back-end functions, including authentication, paging, mobility with 3GPP, 2G and 3G nodes, roaming and other functions. The Cisco Serving Gateway provides superior throughput and processing Cisco Packet Data Network Gateway acts as policy enforcement and manages quality of service (QoS). By combining multiple functions into a single carrier-class platform like the Cisco ASR 5000 Series, Bell can reduce signaling overhead, distribute session management, and take full advantage of the network's control and user plane capabilities. According to the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2010 to 2015 released in February 2012, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 130 exabytes per year. By 2016 Cisco anticipates that global mobile data traffic will outgrow global fixed data traffic by three times.

Supporting Quotes:

Stephen Howe, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Bell

"4G LTE is the next step in ensuring Bell continues to deliver the best networks across Canada to consumers and business customers. The Cisco ASR 5000 Series helps us provide a superior wireless experience and offer new and unique mobile services, now and in the future."

Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president, general manager, Service Provider Mobility, Cisco

"We are pleased to partner with Bell Mobility as it deploys its LTE network. As the expectations of mobile users increase, the need for intelligent traffic management, scale, performance and accurate reporting increases. With the Cisco ASR 5000 Series, Bell has a market-leading packet core, built upon an intelligent platform that can integrate multiple functions and is uniquely equipped to accelerate Bell's ability to meet customer needs and grow its business."

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Bell Canada, Bell Mobility, Cisco, ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Service Routers, ASR 5000, mobile Internet, Visual Networking Index Forecast, VNI

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WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

The 20th anniversary of the first standardized email attachment successfully being sent via the Internet will be celebrated on March 5 during an event hosted by Applied Communication Sciences. Dr. Nathaniel Borenstein, Chief Scientist at Mimecast, and one of the technology’s inventors, will address attendees during a keynote marking the significant occasion.

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is the official Internet standard that defines the way in which multimedia objects are labelled, compounded, and encoded for transport over the Internet. Co-designers Ned Freed and Dr. Borenstein led the specification of MIME and were instrumental in its worldwide adoption, enabling email users to send and receive graphics, audio, and video files via Internet mail systems and support messages in various character sets. Today, Dr. Borenstein is Chief Scientist at Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based e-mail archiving, continuity, and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365. The event is being held at Applied Communication Sciences (formerly Telcordia Technologies Research), where Dr. Borenstein worked when he co-created MIME. Ned Freed is currently a Senior Principal Engineer at Oracle Corporation, where he works on the Oracle Communications Messaging Server.

Prior to MIME, e-mail attachments could not be sent between users on different e-mail systems, as those few systems that supported attachments had proprietary ways of handling them. As the general public started embracing the Internet through different service providers in the 1990s, the need for a standardized way to attach files to e-mails became necessary. MIME became that standard and is now used in sending trillions of email messages annually.

Following his presentation, Dr. Borenstein will be joined by John Lamb, Dr. Michael L. Littman, and David Braun to recreate the audio content within the first ever email attachment, a short jingle written to the tune of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.”

WHAT: Keynote by Dr. Nathaniel Borenstein to commemorate 20th Anniversary of MIME

WHERE: Applied Communication Sciences, Piscataway, New Jersey

WHEN: March 5, 12:00pm

As a scientist, programmer, inventor and entrepreneur, Dr. Borenstein has been involved in Internet-related innovations since 1980, specializing in e-mail technology, human-computer interaction, and electronic commerce. He co-developed the email component of the Andrew Project. The Andrew Message System was the first multi-media electronic mail system to become used outside of a laboratory. In 1989 he became a member of technical staff at Bellcore (Bell Communications Research). There he developed a series of standards so the various electronic mail systems could exchange multimedia messages in a common way. Often referred to as an "Internet Guru," Dr. Borenstein largely focused his career around taking new innovations and driving them, collaboratively, to become successful products. He specializes in building consensus in diverse groups, and enjoys translating between different perspectives, particularly between software development and business strategy. Since June 2010 Dr. Borenstein has been working as Chief Scientist for Mimecast.

About Mimecast

Mimecast (www.mimecast.com) delivers cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange, including archiving, continuity and security. By unifying disparate and fragmented email environments into one holistic solution that is always available from the cloud, Mimecast minimizes risk and reduces cost and complexity, while providing total end-to-end control of email. Founded in the United Kingdom in 2003, Mimecast serves over 4,500 customers worldwide and has offices in Europe, North America, Africa and the Channel Islands.

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WAKEFIELD, Mass., Feb. 27, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comverse(R) (Nasdaq:CMVT - News), a global leader in BSS, mobile Internet and value added services, today announced that Hutch Telecom Lanka, part of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, selected the Comverse Mobile Internet Data Management and Monetization (DMM) solution for the network's rapidly growing data traffic, accelerating implementation of new plans and offerings to enrich the user experience and generate new revenues in Sri Lanka.

"Mobile Broadband is expanding rapidly in Sri Lanka, accounting for an increasingly large share of our total business. It is vital for us to deliver the freshest and highest quality experience to our users now and in the future," said Mr. Anand Prakash, Chief Operating Officer of Hutch Telecom Lanka. "Easy and rapid implementation of attractive segmented data plans and exciting services will increase our differentiation in the market and enable data to fulfill more of its revenue potential."

The comprehensive solution selected by Hutch Telecom Lanka includes a pre-integrated DMM PCRF Policy Manager with the DMM DPI Traffic Manager and the DMM Application Gateway. The Policy Manager is based on a unique model providing high coverage of desired business cases with excellent performance. Pre-integration with Hutch's existing Comverse Real-Time Billing makes the solution truly end-to-end for rapid creation of data monetization plans facilitating lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and accelerating time to market.

The rich selection of pre-configured use cases and the easy-to-use operator interface further promote the utmost agility and speed-to-profit for segmented plans, offers, incentives and advanced monetization use cases -- including quota-based plans that take into account device information and assure prioritization and QoS for premium services, and location-based plans that leverage cell information and tailored metrics to fine-tune effectiveness.

"Comverse has become a data market leader by enabling smart Mobile Internet service providers like Hutch Telecom Lanka to deliver a richer and higher quality mobile Internet experience," said Amos Marom, Head of Comverse Mobile Internet Unit. "As a trusted Hutch partner in VAS and Billing services, it is our honor to help them extend their competitive edge by taking their mobile data to the next level of management, monetization and user experience -- while lowering TCO."

"Combining BSS with the state-of-the-art DMM Policy Management and Enforcement supports today's and tomorrow's business use cases, accelerating monetization and market innovation," concluded Marom.

Click for more information about Comverse Mobile Internet. To meet with Comverse at Mobile World Congress, contact yael.rohar@comverse.com.

About Hutchison Telecom Lanka

Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Private) Limited ("Hutchison Telecom Lanka") provides mobile telephony service under the "Hutch" brand. Its service covers all major population centers and most parts of the country. The Company is constantly expanding its network to reach the entire country. Hutchison Telecom Lanka provides affordable and accessible mobile telephony plus useful value added services. For more information about Hutchison Telecom Lanka, see http://www.hutch.lk.

A subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Group ("HWL"), Hutchison Telecom Lanka is a member of Hutchison Asia Telecom International, which comprises mobile telecommunications operations in the emerging markets of Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Hutchison Asia Telecom is a key part of HWL's telecommunications division, which includes the 3 Group comprising 3G operations in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Macau, Sweden and the UK. For more information about HWL, visit http://www.hutchison-whampoa.com.

Hutchison Telecom Lanka is a mobile telecommunications provider offering customers a range of value-for-money GSM services fulfilling the diverse needs of all segments. Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. ("Hutchison Telecom Lanka") launched its GSM service in 2004, and has continuously been investing in the expansion of network coverage with the aim of being a nationwide operator in Sri Lanka. (http://www.hutch.lk/)

About Comverse

Comverse is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling converged billing and active customer management, mobile Internet, and value-added services. Comverse's extensive customer base spans more than 125 countries and covers over 450 communication service providers serving more than two billion subscribers. The company's innovative product portfolio enables communication service providers to unleash the value of the network for their customers by making their networks smarter. Comverse's solutions support flexible deployment models, including in-network, cloud, hosted and managed services. Comverse, ranked number 55 in PwC's Global 100 Software Leaders based on research by Pierre Audoin Consultants, is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMVT - News). For more information, visit http://www.comverse.com.

Statements included or incorporated by reference in this press release may contain "forward-looking statements." There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statements will be achieved, and actual results could differ materially from forecasts and estimates. Important factors that could affect the company include the risks described in the section entitled "Forward-Looking Statements" Item 1A, "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2011 filed with the SEC on May 31, 2011 or in subsequently filed periodic, current or other reports. The company undertakes no commitment to update or revise forward-looking statements except as required by law.

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Meryl Streep, Christopher Plummer, Woody Allen and More Are Oscar Winners

By Andrew Gans
26 Feb 2012

"The Artist" was named Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, which was held Feb. 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles to honor excellence for the 2011 year in film. Billy Crystal hosted.

Acting honors went to Meryl Streep ("The Iron Lady"), Jean Dujardin ("The Artist"), Octavia Spencer ("The Help") and Christopher Plummer, who won a Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in "Beginners." At 82, stage veteran Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award.

Woody Allen, whose "Bullets Over Broadway" is aiming for Broadway in 2013, picked up his latest Academy Award for Writing (Original Screenplay) for "Midnight in Paris."

Presenters included Penelope Cruz, Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Tina Fey, Michael Douglas, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Halle Berry, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Jennifer Lopez, among others.

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Nominations follow (winners names are in bold and preceded by an asterisk):

Best Picture
War Horse
*The Artist
Moneyball
The Descendants
The Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Actor In A Leading Role
Demián Bichir
"A Better Life"
George Clooney
"The Descendants"
*Jean Dujardin
"The Artist"
Gary Oldman
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Brad Pitt
"Moneyball"

Actress In A Leading Role
Glenn Close
"Albert Nobbs"
Viola Davis
"The Help"
Rooney Mara
"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"
*Meryl Streep
"The Iron Lady"
Michelle Williams
"My Week With Marilyn"

Actor In A Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh
"My Week With Marilyn"
Jonah Hill
"Moneyball"
Nick Nolte
"Warrior"
*Christopher Plummer
"Beginners"
Max Von Sydow
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"

Actress In A Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo
"The Artist"
Jessica Chastain
"The Help"
Melissa Mccarthy
"Bridesmaids"
Janet McTeer
"Albert Nobbs"
*Octavia Spencer
"The Help"

Directing
*"The Artist"
Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants"
Alexander Payne
"Hugo"
Martin Scorsese
"Midnight In Paris"
Woody Allen
"The Tree Of Life"
Terrence Malick

Writing (Original Screenplay)
"The Artist"
Written By Michel Hazanavicius
"Bridesmaids"
Written By Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
"Margin Call"
Written By J.C. Chandor
*"Midnight In Paris"
Written By Woody Allen
"A Separation"
Written By Asghar Farhadi

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
*"The Descendants"
Screenplay By Alexander Payne And Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
"Hugo"
Screenplay By John Logan
"The Ides of March"
Screenplay By George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
"Moneyball"
Screenplay By Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Story By Stan Chervin
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Screenplay By Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan

Music (Original Score)
"The Adventures Of Tintin"
John Williams
*"The Artist"
Ludovic Bource
"Hugo"
Howard Shore
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Alberto Iglesias
"War Horse"
John Williams

Music (Original Song)
*"Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets"
Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
"Real in Rio" from "Rio"
Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown; Lyric by Siedah Garrett

Animated Feature Film
A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
*Rango

Art Direction
"The Artist"
Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
*"Hugo"
Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"Midnight in Paris"
Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
"War Horse"
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Cinematography
"The Artist"
Guillaume Schiffman
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Jeff Cronenweth
*"Hugo"
Robert Richardson
"The Tree of Life"
Emmanuel Lubezki
"War Horse"
Janusz Kaminski

Costume Design
"Anonymous"
Lisy Christl
*"The Artist"
Mark Bridges
"Hugo"
Sandy Powell
"Jane Eyre"
Michael O'Connor
"W.E."
Arianne Phillips

Documentary (Feature)
"Hell and Back Again"
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
"If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front"
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
"Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory"
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
"Pina"
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
*"Undefeated"
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Rich Middlemas

Documentary (Short Subject)
"The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement"
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
"God Is the Bigger Elvis"
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
"Incident in New Baghdad"
James Spione
*"Saving Face"
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
"The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom"
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Film Editing
"The Artist"
Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants"
Kevin Tent
*"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
"Hugo"
Thelma Schoonmaker
"Moneyball"
Christopher Tellefsen

Foreign Language Film
"Bullhead" Belgium
"Footnote" Israel
"In Darkness" Poland
"Monsieur Lazhar" Canada
*"A Separation" Iran

Makeup
"Albert Nobbs"
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
*"The Iron Lady"
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Short Film (Animated)
Dimanche/Sunday"
Patrick Doyon
*"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore"
William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
"La Luna"
Enrico Casarosa
"A Morning Stroll"
Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
"Wild Life"
Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Short Film (Live Action)
"Pentecost"
Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
"Raju"
Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
*"The Shore"
Terry George and Oorlagh George
"Time Freak"
Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
"Tuba Atlantic"
Hallvar Witzø

Sound Editing
"Drive"
Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Ren Klyce
*"Hugo"
Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
"War Horse"
Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Sound Mixing
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
*"Hugo"
T
om Fleischman and John Midgley
"Moneyball"
Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, David Giammarco and Ed Novick
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
"War Horse"
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
*"Hugo"
Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning
"Real Steel"
Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

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