Many of the TwoSecure user organisations have implemented this solution as a more user-friendly and cost-effective replacement for hardware tokens for their identity authentication requirements. The TwoSecure product line generates one time passwords (OTPs) via a Java application stored on the mobile phone. It also includes an SMS module to enable delivery of OTPs to the phone via a text message.

TwoSecure secures Internet banking transactions and login by eliminating the risk of third parties assuming the user’s identity, while TwoSecure Enterprise gives employees a second level of authentication when they remotely access business networks and systems. By also preventing man-in-the-middle attacks, the platform mitigates against threats such as Trojan.Silentbanker, a Trojan horse that has the ability to steal confidential financial information by defeating traditional two-factor authentication measures.

“By giving businesses confidence in their network security, and consumers’ confidence in online banking, TwoSecure addresses a clear market need. It has an extensive sales pipeline, including significant prospects with banks and enterprises in Europe and the U.S.,” said Caroline Dewe, CEO of Fronde Anywhere. “Not only is it easy to use, deploy and roll-out, but its uses are practically limitless. We are now also seeing organisations looking to use this technology to further secure transactions at the point of sale.”

TwoSecure’s transaction signing capability adds an additional layer of security to a transaction, and prohibits any third party to hijack a transaction, as the OTP used by the customer is useless for any other transaction other than the one intended. The solution, which can be configured to support incremental levels of security, has passed independent security audits, performance testing by IBM, and device testing by SQS. It can be offered on hosted software as a service basis or implemented direct.

TwoSecure has won several prestigious industry awards including Consensus Software Award 2008, HiTech Award - Innovation Category 2007, Technology Commendation Award 2007 and IBM Business Partner Award 2007.

Redwood City, CA – Clickatell, leading provider of global mobile messaging, today announced it was nominated as finalist for “Best Enterprise Software” in two product categories: “Best Mobile Developer Tool” & “Best Mobile Marketing Solution” as part of the MobileVillage 2008 Mobile Star Awards. Clickatell was nominated for its leading SMS Gateway and its Multimode Mobile Messaging platform. The seventh annual Mobile Star Awards competition honors the top companies, products, deployments, and leaders in mobile and wireless technology.

“We are excited to see the mobile market explode as people take advantage of what mobility has to offer and vendors continue to innovate and provide services to support this huge market,” said MobileVillage Editor, Gary Thayer. “So, it’s no surprise that we’re seeing some exciting innovations in mobile applications. Clickatell is highly respected for such innovative products, so we’re excited to see them nominated this year and I look forward to seeing them prosper.”

To read more about this year’s nominations, visit http://www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm. Readers of MobileVillage’s Go Mobile newsletter will be invited to vote for winners beginning in July, and MobileVillage will announce winners in late September.

“For almost a decade, we’ve been providing enterprise messaging solutions to thousands of developers and have helped them deliver mobile solutions for IT Developers, global banks, insurance providers, healthcare organizations, social networks, travel and transportation, healthcare and more industries,” said Pieter de Villiers, CEO of Clickatell. “Our customers need a solution that is easy to implement, easy to use, reaches people around the globe, and provides enterprise-level quality of service. Clickatell works with over 8,300 organizations to deliver mobile messaging strategies for companies worldwide needing to reach customers for a variety of critical communications and transactions anywhere, anytime.”

Nomination for Best Enterprise Software: Mobile Developer Tool
Clickatell serves the IT Developer-centric Enterprise market via its world first (launched in 2000) self-provisioned, software-as-a-service (SaaS) Clickatell Messaging Gateway, which makes it fast and easy for any organization to set up and implement text-based messaging solutions to reach customers using cell phones. Clickatell’s Enterprise Messaging Gateway includes a series of open and well-documented APIs that support a set of common protocols, such as the popular HTTP for interfacing and data exchange, FTP to upload files, XML for structured data, SMTP to connect e-mail to SMS, or Windows COM to integrate directly into applications. Script libraries and comprehensive integration specification documents are provided with each protocol. IT Developers world-wide connect daily to Clickatell’s Messaging Gateway for immediate access to enterprise-class SMS services – enabling anytime, anywhere mobile messaging delivery for enterprise applications. For more information about the Clickatell Messaging Gateway, please visit www.clickatell.com/products/gateway.php.

Nomination for Best Enterprise Software: Mobile Marketing
Clickatell also serves the Enterprise and Government market segment with its Clickatell Multimode Messaging Manager, which provides assured delivery of real-time disaster and critical alert messages across multiple messaging channels. Clickatell’s Multimode Messaging Manager is a multi channel messaging application that can be integrated with any enterprise or public safety system. A messaging event - such as a status update or transaction alert - generated by an enterprise application is forwarded to the Multimode Messaging Manager via a set of open APIs, automatically transcoded into the right format and delivered in real-time to the recipient’s device (e.g. mobile phone, landline, fax, pager, PC or any IP connected device). The Multimode capability allows messages to “switch” between these communication channels. Assured message delivery makes it ideal for emergency alerts, business continuity notifications and multi-channel marketing applications. Please visit www.clickatell.com/products/multimodal.php for more information about the Multimode Messaging Manager.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – GyPSii the leading geo-location and mobile social networking service provider, has today announced the opening of a China Data Centre, to offer localised content and an enhanced user experience to customers across China and the Asia Pacific region. The Shanghai-based centre will boost GyPSii’s existing infrastructure in the area and provide users with specific local content and even faster download speeds.

The opening of the centre follows the recent announcements of GyPSii’s partnerships with Shanghai Rannuo Information Technology Co. Ltd. (GyPSii’s service provider partner) to launch the China Unicom Beijing Olympics service and Dopod Club. With the Olympics set to begin in Beijing later this year, the data centre will accommodate GyPSii’s existing users, while supporting new customers and the surge in the games-related user-generated content (UGC) expected in advance of and during the Olympics.

GyPSii’s new site www.gypsii.com.cn offers new localized capabilities for our Asia partners and consumers – including special China-specific user generated content, mapping and points of interest. - All this will be available to customers using GyPSii’s mobile and web clients.

“In opening a dedicated data centre in Shanghai, GyPSii is deepening its commitment to our partners and customers in Asia by delivering Gypsii in world class speed.” said Dan Harple, CEO at GyPSii. “By investing in the region and bringing the data centre online, we are reinforcing GyPSii’s position as the leading player in the market and executing our strategy to provide best-of-breed services across the globe.”

“The partnership with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom represents a key commercial launch of our service with a major mobile carrier. GyPSii is the first and only mobile social networking service of its kind available in China. The opening of the data centre reinforces GyPSii’s ability to scale quickly in different regions of the world. GyPSii is rapidly executing on a global strategy to provide Gypsii anywhere anytime to consumers around the world.”

Mr. Shen Yingchao, General Manager of Shanghai Rannuo Information Technology Co., Ltd said, “UGC and social networking are the future, and the GyPSii service will help drive the value added business to new heights. Thanks to our close partnership with China Unicom and GyPSii, Rannuo will continue to provide our long standing services to users and significantly enhance our offering in time for the Olympic Games”.

GyPSii is also made available to members of the Dopod Club, the exclusive online community for Dopod device users in China. With GyPSii, Dopod users can experience a seamless mobile lifestyle experience, sharing content, connecting with friends and communities, searching UGC and viewing maps and directions to points of interest - all from their mobile phone.

Ms. Chen Yan, Product Manager of Dopod China, said, ”The close co-operation between Dopod Club and GyPSii is providing Club Dopod members with an exciting new application that is useful, fun and easy-to-use. GyPSii is the ideal accessory to the Dopod Club mobile lifestyle.”

Dopod users with Windows Mobile devices and China Unicom users with a range of supporting devices can download GyPSii, with both simplified and traditional character sets at: www.gypsii.com.cn.

About GyPSii
GyPSii is the market-leading mobile lifestyle application, connecting people, places and communities across networks and devices. GyPSii provides a geo-location social networking platform and services for mobile, web & set-top box devices, and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (www.gypsii.com).

“We are dedicated to continually developing and improving the GyPSii service to provide all users, whatever country they’re in or handset they’re on, with the best mobile geo-social networking experience in the world” said Dan Harple, GyPSii CEO. “The new GyPSii features further extend its position as the mobile lifestyle application that’s turning the mobile phone into a personal digital life recorder.” Adding to this comment, he stated, “Only this week a GyPSii member, living in China, recorded in real-time the tragic earthquake in Chengdu and shared it with the whole GyPSii community. This exemplifies GyPSii’s ability to share live events, anywhere, anytime, with the GyPSii community.” This weeks Chengdu GyPSii posting can be viewed at Place on News & Alerts on www.gypsii.com.

The new features available to GyPSii users include:
• New and improved UI for Windows Mobile users. Plus speed improvements for the Windows Mobile platform, greatly reducing start-up time for the application.
• Extended contact invitation methods – members can now invite contacts through Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, AOL, FastMail.FM, Gmail, GMX, Hotmail, Indiatimes, Mail.com, Yahoo, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, Linkedin and MySpace.
• Event feeds on member profiles and home pages – now any public action involving a member’s friend appears on the member’s homepage.
• Comment feed subscriptions – a feature enabling users to subscribe to comment feeds on GyPSii Places and member profiles.
• Mobile PlaceMe reminder – a feature which emails members after they have carried out a PlaceMe using the GyPSii mobile platform. This allows them to share it with friends or edit the content.
• Friend search filtering – it is now possible to view friends in order of when they joined GyPSii, their proximity and by alphabetical order.

Mr Harple continued; “In the upcoming months we expect to release further significant GyPSii developments in mobile advertising, maps for mobile, Cell ID and WiFi positioning, and support for more mobile devices.”

GyPSii is a mobile lifestyle application; a location based friend-finder, a place and event finder, a networking site for communities and a home to share pictures, video, audio, and content with friends and other groups. GyPSii also uses location information to effortlessly “Geo-tag” entries and to provide a powerful location based database of User Generated Content.

GyPSii users can make use of multiple features and services from their phone, including access to explore local and regional “Points-of-Interest”: receive maps: and instantly identify nearby friends and places that have been popular within their communities of interest.

To sign up to GyPSii users can visit the company’s website (www.gypsii.com) or from a phone browser at http://gypsii.com/m.

About GyPSii
GyPSii is the market-leading mobile lifestyle application, connecting people, places and communities across networks and devices. GyPSii provides a geo-location social networking platform and services for mobile, web & set-top box devices, and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (www.gypsii.com).

Redwood City, US; Cape Town, South Africa – Clickatell, leading provider of global mobile messaging, today announced it won the “Best Messaging Business Application” award by 160 Characters as part of its 2008 Mobile Messaging Awards. As one of three finalists in the Messaging Business Application category, Clickatell was chosen because of its work with Metropolitan Cover2Go, who provides life insurance directly to customers’ cell phones via SMS.

The 2008 Mobile Messaging awards cover the whole range of mobile messaging including SMS, MMS, IM, email, and voice-messaging. Mike Grenville, founder of 160Characters.org commented, “Clickatell and the other award winners represent the most exciting and promising companies in the enterprise mobile space today.” The award winners were presented last week at the Gala Awards Dinner in Cannes at the Global Messaging Congress.

“Leading enterprises worldwide are providing mobile services using text messaging to build customer relations, acquire new customers, and build a trusted brand,” said Pieter de Villiers, CEO of Clickatell. “Metropolitan Cover2go is a great example of how our business-class applications can change lives. Through a highly innovative SMS-based service, Metropolitan customers can rest assured, knowing they have the insurance coverage they need anytime, anywhere via their cell phone.”

Having moved away from the traditional way of selling insurance, Metropolitan Cover2go offers insurance in a way that is convenient and hassle-free for customers. The belief that insurance should be bought, not sold, puts the decision in the hands of the customer. The SMS accidental death insurance product is easy to access and use by anyone with a cell phone. The policy is bought by sending your name and ID number to a premium-rate short code and the cost is applied directly to the phone’s plan. The system, powered by Clickatell, responds with a confirmation and policy number, requests the name of a beneficiary, and reminds the policyholder to make sure they inform someone about the life insurance. Once the policy expires, a notification is sent asking if they choose to renew. This service can be applied anywhere across the globe, making it possible for people to benefit from added insurance coverage while on the go, anywhere, anytime.

“The use of SMS to enable our business process helps us to achieve nothing less than a complete revolution in the life insurance industry. With mobile messaging from Clickatell, we’ve been able to dramatically simplify the process of buying insurance and increase availability to customers who would otherwise not qualify through general insurance carriers under normal circumstances. Clickatell’s global SMS gateway made this deployment a simple process and has guaranteed message delivery enabling us to ensure reliable delivery of each message,” says Derek Pead of Metropolitan Cover2Go. For more information about Metropolitan Cover2Go please visit: http://www.cover2go.co.za/

About Clickatell
Clickatell enables businesses, governments and communities to leverage the ubiquity of mobile messaging to inform, alert, notify, transact, interact and share information. Delivering mobile messaging solutions since 2000, Clickatell is a global leader in mobile communications specializing in bulk messaging services and SMS gateway connectivity to small, medium and large enterprises in a variety of vertical markets. Clickatell’s multi-modal capability and worldwide coverage gives organizations the power to deliver any message to any device anywhere in the world. Reaching more than 700 networks in more than 200 countries, Clickatell serves 8,300 customers including Barclays Bank, BBC, Continental Airlines, CNN, First National Bank, Metropolitan Life, Oracle, Shell, and other industry leaders. Clickatell products and services increase customer acquisition, improve loyalty and build trusted brands through direct, personal, easy, and immediate communications. A Sequoia-backed company, Clickatell is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and has offices in South Africa and the UK. For more information, please visit https://www.clickatell.com/central/campaigns/redir.php?cid=29630.

“Together, Obopay and YES BANK are giving Indian mobile consumers power over their money no matter where they are,” said Obopay Executive Director Aditya Menon, "This service is built for today’s mobile lifestyle, making funds available to consumers anytime they need it and makes your money truly mobile in every sense. We’re excited to bring this innovative service to new and existing YES BANK customers in India”

Commenting on this Strategic Alliance, Mr. Rana Kapoor, Founder/ Managing Director & CEO, YES BANK, said “We are pleased to announce our alliance with Obopay India to relentlessly serve the growing consumer demands and enabling YES BANK customers transact anywhere, anytime. The Bank is committed to executing a concerted strategy by continuously launching innovative and secure banking channels to enhance customer satisfaction and increase focus on providing convenience and choice to our clients”.

YES BANK customers can sign up for this unique service nationally through forms available at 60 YES BANK Retail Branches and across 75 ATM’s in Mumbai and National Capital Region (NCR). Customers registering for this service by April 30, 2008 will be given a special incentive of Rs 100 by Obopay which will be credited to the customers account. The incentive will be provided in two parts - Rs 50 at the time of registration and another Rs 50 on completion of three successful transactions.