BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Accenture to Work With Affinity Mobile to Drive Market Strategy

Affinity Mobile, LLC, a provider of mobile financial services, announced today the global commercial availability of their MADE platform. MADE enables secure mobile wallet, mobile money transfers and mobile payment capabilities to all sectors that engage in secure financial transactions such as mobile network operators, retail merchants and financial institutions. With MADE, mobile operators have the ability to deploy mobile financial services and offer these services to their customers.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Orange, L'Equipe, Boursier.com and Autonews are among new mobile publishers and operators to choose Microsoft's mobile ad platform.

Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp announced that several major European mobile publishers, including L'Equipe, Boursier.com and Autonews in France, are choosing Microsoft's mobile ad platform. In addition, Orange, a leading mobile operator in Spain, has chosen Microsoft as its ad serving partner for mobile display advertising in Spain.

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BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Glanceable MSN Direct content, including news, weather and stocks, can be accessed from the home screen of Windows Mobile devices.

Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp announced the availability of a technology preview for accessing MSN Direct content on Windows Mobile-based devices.

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ROUSSET, France and VELIZY, France, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today that the recent Payment Card Industry (PCI) and EMV approvals of Thales' Artema S10 PIN Pad is the result of a long-term collaboration between the two companies. Thales' Artema S10 PIN pad, which combines high performance with high security, is powered by Atmel's AT91SO101, belonging to the AT91SO family of secure microcontrollers for highly secure systems such as card payment terminals.

SUNNYVALE, California, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Professional Programming Drives U.S. Growth for Largest Mobile Video Destination

Today mywaves, the largest mobile video destination, announced that its popular mobile video service has reached more than 18 million mobile phones around the world. This marks a dramatic increase in adoption, particularly in the U.S. where mywaves has seen a 70% increase in month-over-month usage since last fall. With more than 5 million monthly unique visitors seeking branded, professional programming to watch on their mobile phones, mywaves has quickly built one of the largest and most engaged mobile audiences.

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AUSTIN, Texas, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Development language supports Introspection, delivering on the most requested enhancement from users

REAL Software, maker of REALbasic, a cross-platform development environment for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux developers, has begun shipping REALbasic 2008 Release 1. The latest version includes introspection, which has been most highly requested feature from the user community in recent years.

"Adding introspection to our object-oriented language provides developers with a powerful tool," stated Geoff Perlman, President and CEO of REAL Software. "With this new capability our users will be more productive and their applications will be more dynamic and adaptable."