ACE*COMM's Parent Patrol(R) Chosen for Mobile Educational Initiative
March 28 2007 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC) today announced its
participation in Project K-Nect, an unprecedented educational
initiative that combines public education systems with technology
and telecommunications innovators to deploy smart-phone devices as
supplemental educational tools. Project K-Nect takes advantage of
new Web 2.0 and social networking technology to deliver
supplemental education material and to facilitate peer-to-peer
interaction for selected ninth-grade students in North Carolina.
The project helps bridge the digital divide by placing
sophisticated tools and �always on� broadband access with students
that may otherwise be disconnected. The North Carolina Department
of Public Instruction (NCDPI) along with QUALCOMM through its
Wireless ReachTM initiative and Digital Millennial Consulting (DMC)
are the core development team for Project K-Nect. For this project,
ACE*COMM�s Parent Patrol� managed mobility service provides the
mobile access controls to address educators� and parents� concerns
about mobile phone use. �ACE*COMM provides both industry-leading
technology to control mobile phones and the commitment to work in a
team dedicated to providing long lasting social benefits� said
Shawn Gross, managing director of DMC �We felt that ACE*COMM
offered an advanced solution unrivalled in the industry and found
that their research complemented many of our own findings.�
�ACE*COMM is delighted to participate in such a ground-breaking
initiative,� said Jonjie Sena, ACE*COMM director of product
management. �Our independent research has clearly exposed many
conflicting positions on the issue of children and mobile phones.
Our findings related to parental and business concerns are
paralleled in the education sector. ACE*COMM offers features that
provide control of mobile phone access and filter freely available
content that has direct application across many industries and
market segments. We provide a simple and elegant solution to the
school environment for competing desires to communicate and at the
same time, prevent mobile access abuses like bullying, cheating and
stalking. We feel this technology addresses concerns, that are
causing school boards to ban mobile phones, in a much more flexible
and equitable manner.� Parent Patrol from ACE*COMM helps parents
and school administrators balance access with safety. Parent Patrol
is a policy enforcement tool that lets authorized individuals
personalize each child�s phone use, independent of the handset
choice, for voice, messaging, video and data services. Delegated
access management allows authorized individuals to specify what
times of day their kids can use their mobile phones, when services
like text messaging are not allowed, what mobile Web content should
be blocked and can even disable selected features on a handset.
About ACE*COMM ACE*COMM is a global provider of advanced operations
support systems (OSS) and service delivery solutions for
telecommunications service providers and enterprises. ACE*COMM�s
solutions are applicable to a range of legacy through
next-generation networks that include wired, wireless, voice, data,
multimedia and Internet communications networks. These solutions
provide the analytical tools required to extract knowledge from
operating networks � knowledge that network operators use for asset
recovery and revenue assurance, cost reduction, improved
operational efficiency, acceleration of time to market for new
services, and more effective customer care. ACE*COMM�s service
delivery solutions provide mobile service providers with
award-winning, in-demand consumer-oriented services to help them
achieve and sustain market share, generate new revenue and position
themselves as market innovators. For more than 20 years, ACE*COMM
technology has been effectively deployed for more than 300
customers, spanning more than 4000 installations in 70 countries
worldwide. ACE*COMM-installed products are currently enabling the
success of customers and partners such as Alcatel, AT&T, Cisco,
General Dynamics, IBM, Level 3 Communications, Marconi, Motorola,
Northrop Grumman, Siemens, and Unisys. Headquartered in
Gaithersburg, MD, near Washington, DC, ACE*COMM has corporate
offices in Australia, Canada, China, and the UK. ACE*COMM is an ISO
9001 quality standard compliant company. For more information,
visit www.acecomm.com. About Project K-Nect Project K-Nect is
designed to create a supplemental resource for at-risk secondary
students to focus on increasing their math skills through a common
and popular technology � mobile smartphones. Ninth graders in
several public schools in the State of North Carolina will receive
smartphones to access supplemental math content aligned with their
teachers� lesson plans and course objectives. Students also will
have the opportunity to communicate and collaborate with each other
and access tutors outside of the school day to help them master
math skills and knowledge. The smartphones and service will be free
of charge to the students and their schools due to a USD $1 million
grant provided by QUALCOMM, as part of its Wireless Reach�
initiative. ACE*COMM, the ACE*COMM logo and Parent Patrol are
registered trademarks of ACE*COMM Corporation. Content Patrol,
Enterprise Patrol and Patrol Suite are trademarks of ACE*COMM
Corporation. Except for historical information, the matters
discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements
that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could
cause the actual results to differ materially from those projected,
including, but not limited to: the failure of anticipated demand to
materialize, delays or cancellations of orders due to various
factors, including business and economic conditions in the U.S. and
foreign countries; industry-wide slowdowns, any limitations on
customers� financial resources, the continued convergence of voice
and data networks, the continuing success of the Company�s
strategic alliances for product development and marketing, customer
purchasing and budgetary patterns or lack thereof; pricing
pressures and the impact of competitive products; the timely
development and acceptance of new products; the Company�s ability
to adequately support its operations, and other risks detailed from
time to time in the Company�s Report on Form 10-Q and other reports
filed with the Securities Exchange Commission. QUALCOMM is a
registered trademark and Wireless Reach is a trademark of QUALCOMM
Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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