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Attunity Ltd. (OTC BB: ATTUF.OB), a leading provider of real-time data integration and event capture software, announced today that it had entered into a new, multi-million dollar OEM agreement with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), to provide Attunity’s change data capture (CDC) in Microsoft's next version of SQL Server. The integration of Attunity CDC into SQL Server will support customer requirements in strategic markets including cloud computing and real time business intelligence (BI).

BroadLight, the leading supplier of fiber access processors, announced today that it has signed AlCircuits, a leading supplier of optical and semiconductor solutions for the Brazil market, as its exclusive distributor in Brazil.

SodaStream International Ltd. today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,447,368 ordinary shares at a price to the public of $20.00 per share.

PMC-Sierra, Inc. (NASDAQ:PMCS), the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wintegra Inc., a leading provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul equipment.

BroadLight, the leading supplier of fiber access processors, announced today that Billion Electric Co., Ltd. has selected BroadLight’s 3rd generation BL23500 GPON processor family for their new product development of the BiPAC 9300 GPON. gateway.

Customer Testimonial: Attunity's data replication software for RMS enables us to improve our operations by making legacy business data available in a modern platform.

Fingertips and Pens Enable Teachers & Students to Create & Educate on Computer Screens

Radcom, leading network service assurance provider, today announced that it has repaid the remainder of its outstanding debt to the Plenus Venture Lending Fund, seven months in advance of its April 15, 2011 scheduled maturity date. The original credit facility was for $2.5 million.

DesignArt Networks, the only silicon provider with actual 4G single-SoC base station deployment experience, today announced its second generation DAN3000 open SoC platform. With the new DAN3000 SoC platform, DesignArt Networks shatters current performance levels for mobile infrastructure SoCs – driving deep into 4G LTE and IMT Advanced territory and enabling the deployment of pervasive multi-gigabit mobile radio access networks (RANs).

Attendees to Learn How Securing Privileged Accounts Can Reduce Exponential Security Risks Posed by Extended Computing Environments for protecting critical applications, identities and information, today announced details of its participation at the highly anticipated VMworld 2010 San Francisco conference. In addition to event presentations focused on the business benefits of cloud computing and virtualized data centers, Cyber-Ark will caution attendees about the harmful security risks posed by unmanaged and unmonitored privileged accounts within these environments.

Velti (LSE:VEL - News), a leading global provider of mobile marketing and advertising technology, today announced two key additions to its management team.

Retail icon Crate and Barrel has selected FiftyOne Global Ecommerce to extend the online global reach of its family of retail brands, which include Crate and Barrel and CB2.

BroadLight, the leading supplier of fiber access processors, announced today the release of its 3rd Generation GPON Processor family

OpTier, the leader in Business Transaction Management™ (BTM) for the enterprise, today announced the launch of its OpTier Business Events module. Built around a Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine, the new module will monitor real-time business transactions and give enterprises the power to make rapid, proactive and well-informed decisions about business critical activities by providing continuous intelligence.

OpTier®, the leader in Business Transaction Management (BTM) for the enterprise, today announced that Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, has recognized OpTier BTM™ as the “best transaction-centric BSM” solution available in its July research report titled “EMA Radar™ For Business Service Management (BSM): Service Impact.” Alongside companies such as HP, IBM, and CA technologies, OpTier is one of only 15 “BSM elite” vendors selected for inclusion in this report.

cVidya, a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for telecom, media and entertainment service providers, announced today that a large tier 1 North American communications service provider, has selected cVidya MoneyMap® technology to provide a comprehensive, enterprise-wide, revenue assurance solution for monitoring services and operations. MoneyMap® is part of cVidya’s Integrated Revenue Intelligence Solutions (IRIS®) Suite.

ECI Telecom, a global provider of next-generation network solutions, introduced today its end-to-end solution for packet evolution of wireless backhaul networks. As no two networks are alike, ECI’s 1Net wireless backhaul (WBH) solution offers service providers tailored migration path to next-generation networks whether their optimized path is a Greenfield packet network, an overlay packet infrastructure or by leveraging their existing TDM network.

ECI Telecom, a global provider of next-generation network solutions, announced today that Infonetics Research has reaffirmed the company’s top position in the Indian transmission market, with 25% share of the country’s metro optical network hardware market.

Cooking.com the leading online marketplace for cooks, has launched international shipping using the FiftyOne Global Ecommerce solution to extend the reach of its U.S. ecommerce sites globally in 2010. Hundreds of millions of online consumers around the world will be able to buy tens of thousands of kitchen products from Cooking.com. It will soon look to launch the same solution across its network of Powered by

Red Bend® Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), today announced that SoftBank has selected Red Bend to provide over-the-air software updating and device management for more than 50 percent of its summer lineup of mobile phones. With the inclusion of Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile® and vDirect Mobile™ software, Softbank can easily and reliably deliver new firmware updates over the air (FOTA) and provision new services to mobile consumers consistently across multiple platforms.

OpTier has announced today that Amdocs will resell the OpTier Business Transaction Management (BTM) system, to offer its customers visibility into all end-user transactions.

Strategic partnership underscores the importance of ECI’s 1Net framework for optimized migration to next-gen networks, with a focus on Open Access architecture.

cVidya Networks (http://www.cvidya.com/), a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for telecom, media and entertainment service providers, announced today the launch of an integrated version of its FraudView® and MoneyMap® modules, both key components of the IRIS (Integrated Revenue Intelligence Solutions) suite.

RADCOM Ltd. (RADCOM) (NASDAQ: RDCM) a leading provider of Service Assurance solutions, announced the addition of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) billing and policing verification capabilities to its sophisticated set of tools for IMS Service Assurance. This takes RADCOM'S Omni-Q beyond simply monitoring and troubleshooting for IMS networks.)

cVidya Networks (http://www.cvidya.com), a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for telecom, media and entertainment service providers, have been awarded today the ‘Supply Chain Innovation Award’ at the 2010 Global Telecoms Business Awards ceremony. The award was given in recognition of cVidya’s implementation of DealerMap® at Vodafone D2, Germany.

N-trig, providers of the DuoSense® solution combining pen and capacitive multi-touch in a single device, today announced that it has received the prestigious Gold Honor at the Society for Information Display's 2010 Display of the Year Awards.

Interop Technologies, a provider of core solutions for messaging, device management, and connectivity gateways, today announced that it has achieved interoperability with Red Bend® Software’s market-leading Mobile Software Management (MSM) solutions for firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updating and standards-based mobile device management (MDM). As a result, wireless network operators benefit from lower customer care costs and simplified remote management of mobile phones and connected wireless devices.

cVidya Networks (http://www.cvidya.com/), a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for telecom, media and entertainment service providers, announced today that they have won a Price Plan optimization project for a Tier 1 mobile operator in Europe. As part of the project cVidya will deploy BusinessView®, a Margin Analytics solution, which is part of their IRIS® suite.

RADCOM Ltd. (RADCOM) (NASDAQ: RDCM) a leading network monitoring and service assurance provider, today announced that it has closed new deals for a total of approximately $1.5 million with two major Brazilian operators. Both deals are for advanced network monitoring systems designed to help these RADCOM customers maintain high-level services during and after their launch of advanced Next Generation Networks (NGN).

OpTier®, a leader in Business Transaction Management (BTM) for the enterprise, today announced it has become an IBM Partnerworld advanced partner. As an advanced member of IBM’s Partnerworld program, OpTier has demonstrated its commitment to implementing its products on IBM-based solutions.

London, United Kingdom – May 4, 2010 - YCD Multimedia, the leading global provider of smart digital media solutions for retailers, announced today that it will release version 2.0 of its YCD|RAMP™ Retail Advertising and Merchandising Platform at Screen Media Expo Europe – May 5, 6

PineApp, the security solutions provider for IT, today announced a special “Easy-Pay Plan” offer for North America. This offer, targeted primarily towards small to medium-sized businesses with between 20 and 500 users, will allow customers to purchase a variety of PineApp’s IT security products under attractive payment terms.

RADCOM Ltd. (RADCOM) (NASDAQ: RDCM) today announced that a major Chinese 3G mobile service provider has chosen RADCOM’s Omni-Q Service Assurance solution to monitor their 3G network. This is the one of the first monitoring solutions introduced for 3G mobile data in China.

GigaSpaces announces the release of eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), version 7.1, which automatically implements dynamic scalability and multi-tenancy, based on an organization’s individual business requirements. This significantly simplifies development, deployment and operations while enabling enterprises to maximize utilization of modern IT resources with no change to the way they do business.

Cerner, the leading global supplier of healthcare technology solutions that optimize clinical and financial outcomes, has chosen GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) to support its Cerner Health Information Exchange and Cerner Network services. Cerner will be enjoying significant operational and cost efficiencies thanks to XAP’s dynamic scaling capability, multi-tenancy support and ease of deployment.

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Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR - TSX: SW) and Red Bend Software today announced interoperability between the Sierra Wireless AirVantage™ Services Platform and Red Bend’s client software, vRapid Mobile® for Firmware Updating and vDirect Mobile™ for Device Management. This interoperability allows network operators and M2M solution providers to extend the reach of their services, managing devices equipped with Red Bend’s client software through the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) device management (DM) compliant AirVantage Services Platform.

Red Bend Software, the leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), today announced support for Intel’s next generation handheld and smartphone platform, codenamed Moorestown.

Macy’s Inc., one of the nation’s premier retailers, has selected the FiftyOne Global Ecommerce solution to extend the reach of both macys.com and bloomingdales.com into global markets in 2010

Cellcom Israel Expands Deployment of RADCOM’s RANalysis to Cover Cellcom Israel’s Entire UMTS Network

YCD Multimedia, a provider of smart digital media solutions, is proud to announce that Minicom Digital Signage, the global leader in player-to-screen connectivity platforms and a seasoned veteran in the digital signage industry, is launching DS Vision Wall in the American market during the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas. DS Vision Wall, a Minicom Digital Signage trademark, is an advanced video wall solution powered by YCD technology. DS Vision Wall will be marketed through Minicom Digital Signage’s global distribution channels covering more than 70 countries.

OpTier®, the leader in Business Transaction Management™ (BTM) for the enterprise, today announced that the company recorded significant revenue growth for the second half of 2009, as well as 115 percent revenue growth year-over-year with sales to many new and existing customers. The company also continued to innovate with the introduction of OpTier Experience Manager, a powerful end user monitoring product. Maintaining its leadership position in BTM, the company rounded out the year with accolades from a leading analyst firm and an industry-recognized customer award.

Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company developing the world's most advanced mobile semiconductors for handheld devices; Texas Instruments, and Wintegra, a leader in system components for base stations have collaborated with other system partners to create an end-to-end LTE base station and mobile Interoperability Development Testing (IODT) platform. The IODT platform allows for the rapid development and testing of systems and subsystems based on components from these and other vendors.

Today at Mobile World Congress, Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced the industry’s first solution for enabling mobile service providers to independently, centrally and consistently manage any type of software and application on smartphones in order to more quickly and cost-effectively deploy new revenue-generating services and features to the installed base. Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile® Software Management Client gives service providers control to continuously manage software and apps and to monitor inventory across open OS smartphones, beginning with Android—letting them deliver their own branded user experience across mobile platforms. (Red Bend is demonstrating the new product this week in Hall 4, Level 3, Suite 50.)

DesignArt Networks, Ltd., and ArrayComm LLC announced today an alliance to bring to market a new class of WiMAX Micro- and Picocell design solutions that include ArrayComm A-MAS(TM) software, embedded on DesignArt Networks’ DAN2400 open SoC platform.

Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), today announced that it has renewed its multi-year global license agreement with Sony Ericsson to provide firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updating software and has expanded its contract to include device management (DM) software, available in the new Xperia™ X10.

February 9th, 2010 – cVidya Networks, (http://www.cvidya.com/) a global leader and innovative provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for communication media and entertainment service providers, announced today that it was selected by Frost and Sullivan’s Stratecast as one of the ‘10 Rat Pack Global OSS/BSS suppliers To Watch in 2010.’

Wintegra, a market leader in access processing semiconductors announced today at the MPLS & ETHERNET WORLD CONGRESS 2010 that ZTE Corporation is using Wintegra's WinPath processors and software in their world leading ZTR10 T8000 Cluster Core Router. ZTE has become a global mainstream bearer network solution provider with its ground-breaking innovation. This newly announced Cluster Core Router is targeted at the high-end router market and has unmatched switching capacity

Earnix, a leading provider of pricing and customer value optimization solutions for insurance and banking, announced the release and general availability of Earnix Optimizer 5.0.

New Relic, Inc., the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management solutions and GigaSpaces Technologies, developer of the industry-leading eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), today announced that New Relic RPM fully supports GigaSpaces’ platform offering on and off the cloud, and that the two companies are partnering to make RPM available to GigaSpaces customers at preferred prices.

The CESR 9710 Carrier Ethernet Switch/Router platform from ECI Telecom has been named a 2009 Cable.TMCnet.com Product of the Year by Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC).