Second Quarter Results:
Revenues for the second quarter of 2009 were $52,020,000, a decline of 30% from revenues of $74,152,000 for the second quarter of 2008. Net loss for the second quarter of 2009 was $1,677,000, as compared to net loss of $7,355,000 for the second quarter of 2008. Earnings per share (EPS) for the second quarter of 2009 were a loss of $0.07 per share, as compared to a loss of $0.26 per share for the second quarter of 2008.

Eli Ayalon, Chairman and CEO of DSP Group, stated: "We exceeded our financial objectives for the second quarter of 2009, resumed non-GAAP operating profit during the second quarter, a quarter earlier than previously projected, and continued to generate positive cash flow from operations. We also secured a new design win for our XpandR platform for a system combining advanced DECT telephony with content streaming over Wi-Fi. We are cautiously optimistic and anticipate further improvements in our business for the third quarter of 2009."

Second quarter 2009 consolidated net revenues were $230.7 million, compared to $271.6 million for the second quarter of 2008.  Non-GAAP net income for the second quarter of 2009 was $24.3 million, or 29 cents per diluted share. This compares to Non-GAAP net income of $30.7 million, or 35 cents per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2008. GAAP net income for the second quarter of 2009 was $15.3 million, or 18 cents per diluted share, compared to $17.8 million, or 20 cents per diluted share, for the same period last year.

For the six months ended June 30, 2009, net revenues were $456.1 million, compared to $530.5 million for the first six months of 2008. Non-GAAP net income for the period was $46.8 million, or 55 cents per diluted share, compared to $63.4 million, or 71 cents per diluted share, for the first six months of 2008. GAAP net income for the six months ended June 30, 2009 was $23.4 million, or 28 cents per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $32.0 million, or 36 cents per diluted share, for the same period last year.

On a product line basis, including applicable service revenues, consolidated net revenues for the second quarter of 2009 were comprised of:
70 percent video solutions, or $161.7 million (56 percent video communications, or $128.7 million, and 14 percent network systems, or $33.0 million); and
30 percent voice communications, or $69.0 million.

This compares to the second quarter of 2008, in which consolidated net revenues were comprised of:
62 percent video solutions, or $169.2 million (52 percent video communications, or $141.2 million, and 10 percent network systems, or $28.0 million); and
38 percent voice communications, or $102.4 million.

Google's push into the Web phone-calling market is likely to cut into sales by Internet phone companies such as eBay's Skype unit, and could put pressure on Microsoft and Cisco, which sell online calling software to businesses.

On July 15, Google released a downloadable Google Voice application for BlackBerrys and smartphones powered by Google's Android operating system, which could make the voice service more popular. In late June, Google concluded a private test of Google Voice and began inviting consumers on its waiting list to sign up for the service. Users of Google Voice use the Internet to make phone calls, listen to voice mails and read transcripts of them, and also to get a unified phone number that can track them down based on what phone they're near.

Google hopes to make inroads in the market for so-called Voice-over-Internet-Protocol phone calls by taking a friendlier stance toward wireless service providers than other VoIP companies have done. Google has additional advantages in the market: Upcoming products, including its Wave collaboration software and Chrome OS operating system could help spur usage of Google Voice on devices from smartphones to netbooks. "Our point is to make your existing services better, not to replace them," says Craig Walker, a product manager at Google and founder of GrandCentral, the company Google acquired in 2007 that serves as the basis for its Voice software. .

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Keeping pace with increasing mobile data traffic, Nokia Siemens Networks has just notched up its 500 millionth mobile data user

With an increasing number of subscribers logging on to the Internet to access and download data on mobile devices, mobile data traffic growth is doubling every year. In fact, Nokia Siemens Networks expects that at current rates, by 2011, mobile data will overtake voice traffic, growing exponentially until 2013. Keeping pace with this rapid growth is Nokia Siemens Networks- the company has reached the 500 million mobile data user milestone, accounting for roughly 40% of global mobile data traffic today.

Driving Nokia Siemens Networks’ leading position in data is the company’s range of packet core solutions that allows operators to handle a huge number of mobile consumers, even if they are using data services heavily, with a very small amount of network equipment. This combined with technical innovation, such as Direct Tunnel, which provides operators with a simpler “flat” connectivity architecture, makes scaling with growing traffic much easier and more importantly, commercially viable.

Direct Tunnel leads the way to a fully “flat” architecture, which is the target architecture for Evolved Packet Core and Long Term Evolution as well.  

Close to 300 customers use Nokia Siemens Networks’ packet core solutions including operators such as America Movil, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Oi, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, and Vodafone.

Telco/IPTV subscribers to total almost 40 million households worldwide in 2009, with significant implications to digital home development
The number of subscribers worldwide to telco/IPTV services will approach 40 million by year-end 2009, according to international research firm Parks Associates.

The strong growth in telco/IPTV services is due partly to aggressive provider deployments, according to the firm’s new white paper IPTV and the Digital Home, but the most successful rollouts will incorporate multiple services, such as home networking, convergence in entertainment and communications features, and unique interactive services such as quality on-demand programming.

Polycom announced that its digital enhanced cordless telephony (DECT) wireless voice systems have been certified for use with ShoreTel's Unified Communications (UC) solutions.

The solutions now certified for use with ShoreTel include the Polycom KIRK® Wireless Servers (KWS) 6000 and 300, as well as the full portfolio of KIRK handsets. The addition of the KIRK products to the ShoreTel-certified portfolio offers more flexibility and choice for customers deploying ShoreTel's UC solutions.

The Polycom wireless IP DECT solutions are popular among businesses of all sizes:

• The KWS300 is a SIP-based wireless telephony system that is ideal for smaller sized businesses. The KWS300 is a single-cell system that can support up to 12 handsets and four simultaneous calls. A total of six KIRK repeaters can be added to extend the coverage area.
• The KWS6000 is a SIP-based wireless telephony solution that can fulfill the wireless needs of more than 4,000 mobile employees. It is a multi-cell solution that is extremely scalable, whether an end-user needs radio coverage of a large geographical area or a large number of mobile employees need the flexibility of wireless telephony. Since it can grow as the business grows, it provides strong investment protection and is ideal for midsize businesses and large enterprises looking to support a rapidly evolving wireless strategy.
  

Polycom also offers a full range of KIRK wireless handsets that targets both carpeted environments and industrial facilities that need durable and ruggedized handsets. Organizations can choose a combination of handsets in the wireless DECT solution to meet the individual needs of every employee.