UBIFRANCE, the French export-support agency, will present 20 companies at CeBIT, where they will showcase their innovative digital products on the French pavilion. The trade show is the digital industry’s biggest event and will take place in Hanover (Germany), from 6 to 10 March 2012.   UBIFRANCE will group together the French companies in two areas during the CeBIT trade show in March. Companies focused on new technology and research will be in Hall 9, and hardware specialists will be in Hall 14.   A wide range of products will be exhibited, including those relating to business IT, business communications and networks, ICT infrastructure, IT and telecoms accessories, Future Internet, and 3D technologies. This year, CeBIT takes place in Hanover (in northern Germany) from 6 to 10 March.   According to the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO), worldwide IT expenditure is experiencing substantial growth rates in emerging countries and should have risen by 4.3% in 2011, reaching €963.4 billion. In Europe, Germany stands out, as it exceeded the European average and experienced a significant increase in expenditure, up by 4.3% in 2011, while France enjoyed a 3.4% increase.   The EITO highlights the substantial upsurge — by 4.2% — in the French infrastructure software segment in 2011. This trend is expected to continue in 2012, with a forecasted 4.8% rise. The growth in this segment is primarily the result of rising sales in storage-and-security applications, boosted by the proliferation of Cloud Computing offers.   Also according to the EITO, the worldwide IT market in 2012 will grow by 5.4%, exceeding €1,000 billion in sales for the first time.   A list of the companies that will be on the French pavilion is supplied below; a detailed catalogue is available on request.   Bidulandco   Bidulandco develops applications for USB sticks, SD cards and hard drives.   www.bidulandco.com   CAREX-France   CAREX-France specialises in the wholesale distribution of telecommunications and multimedia products.   www.carexfrance.com COP sas     COP sas is the creator of Nexboo: “The first digital democracy where ideas are exchanged between friends, or the world,” explains the company.   www.nexboo.com   ELYCTIS   ELYCTIS develops hardware devices and software applications dedicated to Secure Identity, including e-ID and e-passport.   www.elyctis.com   GEOCOM   GEOCOM provides e-marketing tools that use mobile phones.   www.geocom.fr   H5 Audits   H5 Audits is made up of independent experts who specialise in measurement technology for businesses’ IP networks.   www.h5audits.com   HDW   HDW is a distributor of high-technology goods.   www.hdwfrance.fr   HOME TECHNOLOGY   HOME TECHNOLOGY allows its clients to manage their homes via the internet, controlling temperature in the home remotely, for example.   www.home-technology.eu   INFOSEC Communication   INFOSEC Communication designs, manufactures and sells a comprehensive range of UPS and surge protectors that are adapted to market needs.   www.infosec-ups.com   Jamespot.Pro Jamespot.Pro is an online solution that allows businesses to communicate and work collaboratively, both internally and externally.   www.jamespot.com   Moselle Développement   Moselle Développement is an economic-development agency set up by the General Council of the Moselle département , in Eastern France.   www.moselle-developpement.com   Ordissimo   Ordissimo has created a personal, simplified computer that is suitable for beginners.   www.ordissimo.com   PackshotCreator   A world leader in digital product photography, PackshotCreator offers unique solutions for the automated production of packshots.   www.packshot-creator.com   PNY Technologies   PNY Technologies delivers a full spectrum of high-quality products for everything in (and around) the computer.   www.pny.eu   Runware   Runware designs, produces and markets communications accessories with high added value for mobile phones.   www.runware.com   Sage   Sage produces software designed to manage a range of functions within a client organisation, such as finance and accounting, sales, pay, HR, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and e-commerce.   www.sage.fr   SR21   SR21 is the regional development and innovation agency for the island of La Réunion, an overseas département of France in the Indian Ocean, near Mauritius.   www.wereunion.re   VIOTECH   VIOTECH designs, develops and markets high-added-value services and applications.   www.viotech.net   About UBIFRANCE   UBIFRANCE is the French export-support agency. As the partner of reference for French companies wishing to export, UBIFRANCE offers a complete range of services based on the provision of information on export markets, legal issues and regulations, as well as international finance and tenders, while also supplying sectorial data.   In addition, UBIFRANCE offers export advice and targeted support to companies’ commercial activities, such as exploratory visits, partnership meetings, foreign exhibitions and international press communication.   Finally, UBIFRANCE runs the International Postgraduate Programme (VIE) for employing qualified personnel and young graduates outside France.   UBIFRANCE is showcasing about 20 French companies at CeBIT, which will take place in Hanover (in northern Germany) from 6 to 10 March 2012. The companies will be in Hall 9 (Booth C08) and Hall 15/Planet Reseller (Booth F61).   For further information about CeBIT, please go to: www.cebit.de/home   For further information about the French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in the UK, please go to: www.ubifrance.com/uk/

For the sixth year running, UBIFRANCE, the French export-support agency, will be running a French Pavilion at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona (Spain). The trade show, which takes place from 27 February to 1 March 2012, is the world’s foremost event for the mobile-telecoms industry, covering equipment, services and content. The French Pavilion will host almost 130 companies, representing the largest national pavilion at the event. Made up of two islands (2F49 and 2E47) in Hall 2, the French Pavilion will stretch across 521m². It will display a huge range of products and services involved in the mobile-telecommunications industry, including mobile applications, mobile commerce (m-commerce), games published for smartphones, microchips, middleware, content, wireless telecoms networks, and tablets. According to a study co-written in 2011 by GSMA, organisers of MWC, and AT KEARNEY, a global management-consultancy firm, the European mobile-telephone market is currently a key industry of a size equivalent to that of aerospace. The mobile-telecoms market boasts overall revenues that were estimated at €174 billion in 2010.    Market growth is primarily driven by the smartphone segment, which rose by close to 50% in 2011 on the previous year. The mobile-telephone penetration rate in Europe stands at 128% (against 100% in Japan and 104% in the United States). There are 656 million active SIM cards in use by 456 million Europeans, which represents 89% of the overall European population.   Five French regional authorities (Brittany, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur), as well as hi-tech clusters of excellence such as SYSTEMATIC (for Paris and its region) and Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées (based in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur), have j oined UBIFRANCE in promoting France’s mobile-telecoms industry at MWC 2012. This partnership will facilitate co-operation among industry players, by bringing together a large number of businesses from each organisation’s respective industry field.   The region of Burgundy and groups such as Silicon Sentier and the Mobile Marketing Association France, organisers of the Mobile Monday France programme, are also associated with the Pavilion. They will be promoting innovative companies that specialise in novel digital technologies.   For the first time at MWC, representatives from UBIFRANCE offices established in Canada, Israel, Italy, Singapore, South Korea and Spain will organise business meetings between industry players from their respective countries and French-based exhibitors.   Additionally, the trade show will be interspersed by a series of events organised on the French Pavilion, including several product and services demonstrations, as well as networking cocktail parties, such as the annual France Cocktail .   The programme of events and the full listing of French exhibitors on the French Pavilion can be seen at: http://mwc.ubifrance-events.com     About UBIFRANCE   UBIFRANCE is the French export-support agency. As the partner of reference for French companies wishing to export, UBIFRANCE offers a complete range of services based on the provision of information on export markets, legal issues and regulations, as well as international finance and tenders, while also supplying sectorial data.    In addition, UBIFRANCE offers export advice and targeted support to companies’ commercial activities, such as exploratory visits, partnership meetings, foreign exhibitions and international press communication.    Finally, UBIFRANCE runs the International Postgraduate Programme (VIE) for employing qualified personnel and young graduates outside France.    UBIFRANCE is organising the French Pavilion at the Mobile World Congress, which will take place in Barcelona (Spain) from 27 February to 1 March 2012. The 521m² French Pavilion will consist of two islands (2F49 and 2E47) in Hall 2.    The France Cocktail drinks reception will be held on the French Pavilion at 6.00pm on 28 February.   For further information about the Mobile World Congress, please got to: www.mobileworldcongress.com/   For further information about the French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in the UK, please go to: www.ubifrance.com/uk/

10 January 2012 — The French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in the UK has launched a Twitter account, which will enable professionals, journalists, and other people interested in what we do to follow our activities in real time.   UBIFRANCE is France’s export-support agency, which assists French-based companies in their international development. In the UK, the French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE, which is based in Central London and comes under the French Embassy in the United Kingdom, helps French-based businesses expand into the British market. We cover all markets and sectors, from engineering and transport to fashion and design, and from food & drink (including wine and champagne) to software, internet technology and other high-tech industries such as nuclear energy or eco-building. UBIFRANCE also runs the VIE programme for the employment of young graduates from across the EU who are interested in working for a French-based company outside France (including British subsidiaries of French companies, in the UK). The Press Office of the French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in London issues press releases on an ongoing basis, organises press trips, and much more — all of this will be covered in real time on Twitter, with the assistance of Katherine Woods, press officer. So, to follow the manifold and exciting activities of the French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in the UK and the companies that we promote, please log on to https://twitter.com/ and follow us at @UBIFRANCE_UK. Thank you The team at the press office of the French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in London

Courbevoie (France), 20 April 2011 — In its new MarketScope report on the DDI market — "MarketScope for DNS, DHCP and IP Management” — Gartner, the international consultancy firm, has rated EfficientIP of France as “Promising”. EfficientiP is a software developer delivering DDI solutions (DNS, DHCP services and IP-address management) worldwide via a premium-partner network.  In this report (full title: “MarketScope: DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management, 2011”), released in late March 2011, Lawrence Orans, Gartner Research Director, describes the DDI market as an independent niche market as well as a rapidly growing market.  He forecasts that, “The DDI market will grow another 28% in 2011, to approximately $276 million.”   David Williamson, Managing Director of EfficientIP, declares: “We are pleased to get a ‘Promising’ rating from Gartner.  We feel it proves that the effort we have put into the development of our channels and our international growth plans are producing demonstrable results. The launch of the SmartArchitecture™ advanced concept, which upgraded the management of DNS and DHCP from service level to architecture level, and the opening of offices in Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, strongly contributed to this success.  We became e xtremely competitive, and we will continue this momentum, in particular with the opening of a new office in the United States.”   EfficientIP is based on a range of hardware and virtual effective appliances. The company is now ready to take on the 2011 challenges highlighted by Gartner, namely IPv6 and DNSSEC.   The report, titled “MarketScope: DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management, 2011,” by Lawrence Orans, was released by Gartner, Inc. on 24 March 2011.   The Gartner MarketScope evaluation is available at www.efficientip.com   MarketScope Disclaimer — The MarketScope is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at (and for) a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.   About EfficientiP EfficientIP is a software developer delivering DDI solutions (DNS, DHCP services and IP-address management) worldwide via a premium-partner network. As a market leader, EfficientiP offers solutions that have been chosen by hundreds of the most demanding companies across a range of industries, from telecommunications and manufacturing to banking, non-financial services, and the public sector. Companies such as T-Mobile, United Airlines, Crédit Agricole, STMicroelectronics, EADS and Vodafone use EfficientiP solutions every day.  EfficientiP invented the advanced SmartArchitecture™ concept, which upgraded the management of DNS and DHCP from service level to architecture level. EfficientiP offers a suite of hardware and virtual appliances such as SOLIDserver™ for IP-address management, as well as DNS and DHCP management and services.   For further information, please go to:  www.efficientip.com

Axiatel has released the new features of its Fax to Email online service, which meet the professional and business requirements of SMEs. With no set-up costs and attractive packages on offer, Axiatel’s customized, VoIP-based solution makes faxing easier, greener and cheaper than ever, without the need for a fixed line or fax machine to be installed.  Sending and receiving faxes has never been as quick and as simple as sending an email. Axiatel’s Fax to Email service offers distinct advantages such as simplicity of use, low cost, high speed, security and mobility, which are ideal for SMEs and professional users working from home.    As the name ‘Fax to Email’ suggests, the service offered by Axiatel makes it possible to receive unlimited faxes into, and send simultaneously faxes out of, an email account. The service is available from any device with internet access, be it a mobile telephone (smart phone), a laptop or a PC, and hence from any location in the world.  As this service no longer requires the use of an analogue fax machine (the purchase of ink cartridges becoming expensive over time), the renting of a telephone line (which can easily cost a basic minimum of £200 per year before call charges), or the printing of large quantities of paper, Fax to Email represents a new and cost-effective solution for those businesses and professions that rely heavily on faxing: online faxing saves time, saves money, and creates new opportunities for remote and mobile working. In other words, faxing becomes a dematerialized and trouble-free process that can be taken care of in a flexible way and while on the move.   Axiatel stands out thanks to its competitively priced monthly and annual packages. Its popular ‘Value’ package (at £7.50 per month or £68 per year) includes the unlimited, free reception of faxes, and up to 100 outgoing faxes per month,  which can be sent out locally and to 61 country destinations as part of the package. (Other destinations incur an extra charge.)    There is no need to download or to buy any software to deploy Axiatel’s solution. Anyone can get a fax number in 10 minutes and start faxing straight away. To help users experience the benefits and simplicity of use of Fax to Email, Axiatel makes it possible for clients to test its service, during the first 30 days, at no charge. Axiatel can cater for heavy users as well as occasional ones: the company offers customized packages – allowing for up to 40,000 faxes to be sent per month – to customers requiring such scale.  Axiatel’s Fax to Email Service was designed with advanced settings, allowing users to configure it according to their needs. The features include delivery notification, an additional five recipients per fax, a password-protected interface with a fax-storage facility (free storage for up to a year), and an address book integrated into the interface. All these features improve the user experience, bringing fax transmissions into the 21st century as never before.    Now, with Axiatel’s service, it is possible to postpone the fax send, to choose the desired resolution for the faxed documents, and to enhance the presentation of faxes through a choice of different styles of cover pages (with the automatic inclusion of the company logo and other information).   Receiving unwanted fax messages is another issue most companies are familiar with: Axiatel has added a spam-filtering functionality to its service, whereby it is possible to filter junk faxes out and blacklist spammers.     Fax to Email also allows businesses to reduce their environmental impact and enhance their green policies. Not having to actually use a fax machine (which needs to be switched on all the time) and avoiding the need to print every faxed document greatly cuts energy consumption, while saving paper (and sparing trees!).    Axiatel has put its own environmental policy into place, whereby the company contributes £1 to green projects and policies for every new client who subscribes to its Fax to Email service.    For further information about Axiatel’s Fax to Email service, please go to:  http://www.axiatel.com/gb/en/fax-to-email/index.php     About Axiatel  Axialys Group was set up in 1999 and is a French-based ARCEP-approved telecommunications carrier. (ARCEP is the Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes, i.e. France’s regulatory body in charge of the electronic-communications industry and the postal-delivery sector.)   Axiatel (or Axiatel.com) was launched in October 2008 and is one of the subsidiary companies of Axialys Group. Axiatel already has over 30,000 service users in eight countries outside France: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.   Headquartered in Paris, Axiatel, a telecoms operator, provides telecoms services such as Fax to Email, a virtual switchboard, a call-diversion system, and conference-call services for professional users, among a range of other services.    For further information about Axiatel’s Fax to Email service, please go to:  http://www.axiatel.com/gb/en/fax-to-email/index.php     For further information about Axiatel, please go to: http://www.axiatel.com/gb/en/

Following the success of the first-ever entirely voice-driven GPS navigators, developed by Kapsys of France, the company is releasing a smartphone-based navigation solution specifically intended for the visually impaired. Through this application, Kapsys intends to strengthen its leading position in the voice-driven navigation market. Kapsys will present Kapten for Smartphone and Kapten Mobility Suite at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), in Barcelona (Spain), in mid-February 2011.    Aram Hékimian, the chairman and founder of Kapsys, says, in relation to the release of Kapten for Smartphone and Kapten Mobility Suite: “Kapten for Smartphone marks a new step in the growth of Kapsys. Through this navigation application with high added value for people suffering visual impairment, Kapsys will consolidate its leadership on the mobility aids market based on fully voice-activated navigation. Now available on GPS smartphones, Kapten technology, which is supplied as an application, should help a large number of people improve their day-to-day mobility, using a solution that fits in their pocket.”   On the strength of the success experienced by Kapten and Kapten Plus — the first-ever entirely voice-driven GPS navigators — Kapsys is now releasing Kapten for Smartphone and Kapten Mobility Suite, which will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress trade show (MWC), in Barcelona (Spain), to be held between 14 and 17 February 2011.     In order to guarantee accessibility, Kapsys has embedded the latest in voice-recognition and speech-synthesis technologies into its application, making it possible for users to control the application exclusively by vocal commands. The aim, here, is to achieve total and user-friendly access for visually impaired users. Kapten for Smartphone is the first-ever comprehensive mobility support solution, available on GPS-equipped smartphones. It provides valuable assistance to people who have a visual impairment, helping them to get their bearings and to travel more easily.   Fully embedded and thus bypassing paid-networks access, the application features integrated localisation and voice-driven navigation services for pedestrians, which can be accessed at any time.   Kapten for Smartphone includes a range of functionalities that are easy to set up, and fully adapted to the user’s daily travel requirements. Firstly, a smart voice-driven navigation tool is on offer (pedestrian navigation, with or without public transport, road-book function, etc.). Secondly, Kapten for Smartphone comes with the ‘free navigation’ option, which helps users get a real-time description of what is around them. Thirdly, a city-map discovery mode is available. Kapten for Smartphone also includes a premium points-of-interest database, containing thousands of pre-recorded addresses such as chemists’, police stations, hospitals, restaurants, and so on. Kapten Mobility Suite contains the full range of Kapten for Smartphone applications, together with a digital book reader supporting the DAISY standard. The digital book comes complete with a screen-reader application that gives a full vocal description of the user interface.   Kapten Mobility Suite thus enables telecommunications operators to provide packaged solutions intended for the visually impaired and the blind, which are tailored to their needs. The Kapsys solution is both highly featured (as a mobile phone incorporating an integrated navigation solution) and fully accessible to the visually impaired (thanks to its speech-synthesis and voice-recognition capabilities).   Kapten for Smartphone and Kapten Mobility Suite will be released under Windows Mobile from the second quarter of 2011; from the fourth quarter of 2011, both tools will also be available in an Android version.   About Kapsys    Kapsys is a high-technology company based in Mougins, in the Sophia Antipolis science park and enterprise zone, which is located outside Nice (in south-eastern France).   Kapsys will unveil its innovative, flagship solutions — Kapten for Smartphone and Kapten Mobility Suite — at the Mobile World Congress (MWC). The trade show takes place from 14 to 17 February 2011 in Barcelona (Spain).   In 2011, Kapsys will also take part in CSUN, in San Diego (USA), from 15 to 19 March, and in Sight City, in Frankfurt (Germany), from 4 to 6 May.   For further information about the trade show, please go to: http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/   For further information about the company, please go to: www.kapsys.com    

UBIFRANCE, the French export-support agency, will present more than 125 companies on the French Pavilion at the fifth annual Mobile World Congress, which will be held in Barcelona (Spain) from 14 to 17 February 2011. French exhibitors will carry out demonstrations on the French Pavilion to present new products. There will also be a drinks reception on the French Pavilion at 6pm on 15 February.   Mobile World Congress is the world’s leading event for the mobile telecommunications, services and content sector. In addition to over 125 French exhibitors at the trade show, the French Pavilion will also play host to three competitiveness clusters, five regional agencies, and the Invest in France Agency. A wide range of products, services and technologies will be on show, including chips, middleware, theme-based mobile solutions, content, applications and wireless telecoms networks. Five regions of France (Aquitaine, Brittany, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur) will present their expertise in the sector on the French Pavilion. The Systematic, Cap Digital and SCS competitiveness clusters will also welcome a host of companies to their respective booths.   According to the French Mobile Operators Association, the French mobile-telephony market includes 18 operators, 15 of which are mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), and several brand licences, which generated a consolidated turnover of €23 billion in 2009, up by 1.4% on 2008.   MVNOs have amounted to 25% of the net growth of the entire sector since 2006. The penetration rate (number of SIM cards per inhabitant) stood at 96% in late 2009. There are now 61.5 million SIM cards (up 6% on 2008). The number of smartphones doubled in 2009 and they represent 12% of all mobile devices.   A complete list of French exhibitors on the French Pavilion and the demonstration schedule can be accessed via the website: http://mwc2011.ubifrance-events.com/cms/en/home   About UBIFRANCE   UBIFRANCE is the French export-support agency. As the partner of reference for French companies wishing to export, UBIFRANCE offers a complete range of services based on the provision of information on export markets, legal issues and regulations, as well as international finance and tenders, while also supplying sectorial data. In addition, UBIFRANCE offers export advice and targeted support to companies’ commercial activities, such as exploratory visits, partnership meetings, foreign exhibitions and international press communication. Finally, UBIFRANCE runs the International Postgraduate Programme (VIE) for employing qualified personnel and young graduates outside France.   UBIFRANCE is organising the French Pavilion at the Mobile World Congress, which will take place in Barcelona (Spain) from 14 to 17 February 2011. The 620m² French Pavilion will consist of three islands in Hall 2 (Booths 2G51, 2F49, and 2E47).   There will be a drinks reception on the French Pavilion at 6pm on 15 February.   For further information about the French Trade Commission UBIFRANCE in the UK, please go to: www.ubifrance.com/uk/