CHICAGO, Jan. 6 -- NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, has completed its previously announced acquisition of T-Systems Traffic, GmbH (T-Traffic), a leading provider of traffic services in Germany. The acquisition marks a significant step in NAVTEQ's program to expand its traffic offering in Europe. T-Traffic is a provider of traffic services in Germany, with approximately 55 employees. The acquisition will enable the launch of NAVTEQ Tr......

HORSHAM, Pa., Dec. 30 -- Astea International Inc. the leader in service lifecycle management and mobility solutions announces that TDIndustries, one of America's premier facilities management and specialty construction companies has selected Astea's FieldCentrix(R) Enterprise solution to improve billing cycles, increase technician productivity and reduce operational costs.

TDIndustries is an employee-owned company with corporate offices in Dallas, Texas which installs heating, ventilation, air-conditioni......

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 19 -- Funambol, the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync worldwide, today announced a new free research report entitled, "Market Potential for Ad-funded Mobile Email." The report summarizes the findings of a survey that was conducted with users of the ad-funded myFUNAMBOL mobile email service. The survey was performed to gauge user acceptance of mobile ads and to learn about a broad range of issues relating to an ad-funded mobile email solution. The report fo......

LONDON, December 17 - Misys (LSE: MSY), the global application software and services company, announced today that Egyptian Saudi Finance Bank (ESFB) has chosen Misys Equation 3.9 for its 11 branches across Egypt. The solution is the latest version of the widely-used retail banking solution from Misys and will help ESFB to provide better and more innovative Islamic services to its customers.

ESFB is one of the leading banks in Egypt and has a long tradition of providing its customers with the best and mo......

BURLINGTON, Mass., Dec. 10 -- DynamicOps, a venture-funded Credit Suisse spinoff, announced important new features for its Virtual Resource Manager (VRM), extending the virtualization management software from servers to desktops. The new features make it faster, more efficient, and easier to organize, create, and control a virtual desktop environment. In addition, VRM 3.1 fully supports Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor.

New features of VRM include:

Extensions that support key virtual desktop components ......

VILNIUS, Lithuania, Dec. 2-- Neurotechnology a provider of biometric identification technologies, today announced that the Bangladesh Army selected MegaMatcher SDK multi-biometric technology to identify duplicate registrations in the nation's voter database. The Bangladesh Voter Registration Project registered more than 80 million citizens using biometric face and fingerprint technology. After evaluating a number of biometric technologies for their duplicate search system, the Bangladesh Army determined tha......

ESPOO, Finland, November 27 -- Nokia announced today it is developing a smart home platform, Nokia Home Control Center. The platform is opening a new era for networked home services and solutions. Nokia's Home Control Center will be the basis for next generation security, smart home solutions and household energy management systems.

The platform is open allowing third parties to integrate their own smart home solutions and services; its core consumer value is the plug and play experience across all solut......

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, November 24 -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise today announced that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a global provider of secure financial messaging services and the acknowledged leader in international standards-setting for the financial industry, chose Autonomy to power its corporate website, http://www.swift.com, Intranet and Extranet. Autonomy's core in......

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and PARIS, Nov. 18 -- ILOG today announced the availability of ILOG Transportation Analyst 2.0, a new transportation planning solution and the latest offering from the ILOG LogicTools(R) suite of supply chain applications. Transportation Analyst 2.0 enables companies to quickly analyze many different strategies to determine the best way to deliver products and utilize transportation assets. It allows companies to analyze their transportation network strategy across several critical dimensi......

TORONTO, Nov. 14 - Software MacKiev an award-winning software developer and publisher, and Roger Wagner, the original creator of HyperStudio (R) announced the reintroduction of the HyperStudio brand to multimedia computing. HyperStudio 5, the first new edition designed by Mr. Wagner in more than a decade, begins shipping today worldwide and is being demonstrated this week at the annual conference of the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO) in Toronto, Canada (booth # 212). HyperStudio has b......