NewStep Gets Android and Social

NewStep Networks [1] is teaming up with D2 Technologies [2] to deliver a joint FMC/UC solution for Google's Android platform. [3] NewStep has also announced that it has incorporated a social networking communications framework into its Converged Services Node (CSN) platform, underlining the company's commitment to redefine itself from a FMC player into a service convergence company.

D2 will provide its mCUE embedded mobile unified communications software on top of the Google open source mobile platform and make sure it is interoperating with NewStep's CSN platform for FMC/UC applications. The companies have already successfully tested D2's software with NewStep's VCC-compliant CSN. D2's software pares a communication user interface with the company's vPort MP VoIP software platform to provide enterprise users with mobile access to full directory services, extension calling and corporate IM.

On the social networking front, NewStep has developed a Facebook application that enables a converged click-to-call experience, providing user control over one's identity, social network, and communications channels. It has also developed widgets for Yahoo!oneConnect and iGoogle to bring convergence into a user's own personalized mobile or web portal, leveraging all available presence, location, and behavior characteristics.

For more:
- Read the D2/Android release here [4]. 
- Read the Social Networking release here [5].

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