Helio to be Acquired by Virgin Mobile USA

Virgin Mobile USA has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Helio, a joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink, Inc. providing highly advanced postpaid products and services with unique user applications.

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Facebook Platform comes to Virgin Mobile USA's New 'Fund My Phone' Application

Facebook has a brand new Sugar Mama, thanks to a unique new application that lets friends earn wireless airtime for other friends who are Virgin Mobile USA customers. The national provider of wireless communications services and plans without annual contracts has designed the "Fund My Phone" application, allowing Virgin Mobile USA's more than 5 million customers to get their Facebook friends to help pay for their wireless minutes.

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BlackBerry Professional Software for Small Business Announced by AT&T

AT&T Inc. and Research in Motion have announced the availability of BlackBerry(R) Professional Software for AT&T's small business customers. This sofware provides a wireless communications and collaboration solution with advanced security features designed specifically for small and midsize companies.

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Ringside Networks Brings the Power of Social Networking to Every Business

Ringside Networks, Inc. today announced the Beta release availability of the Ringside Social Application Server™ — the first open source platform that enables businesses to weave social capabilities directly into their existing websites while seamlessly integrating with social networks such as Facebook. The open source software is available for immediate download at www.ringsidenetworks.com and www.ringsidenetworks.org, the corresponding open source community website.

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Zoho People Targets HR Departments

Zoho today announced Zoho People, its human resource management application for companies that want to run their businesses online. The Zoho People video tour gives a quick overview of the key functionalities in the application and is available at http://www.vimeo.com/770428 or http://www.viddler.com/raju/videos/20/.

People joins Zoho’s suite of business applications, including Zoho CRM, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Projects, and Zoho DB. The new offering is ideal for small and medium businesses (SMBs) with 50+ employees.

“Zoho People is one of our first department-specific offerings,” said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. “Unlike other SaaS players, Zoho uniquely delivers online productivity apps, business apps, and now department-specific apps under a single umbrella. As we often say, we want to be the IT department for SMBs. This means we have to offer business applications along with productivity and collaboration applications.”

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