Device Arena

AT&T today announced an agreement with Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation (MCCF) that gives students, faculty and staff members access to discounted wireless rate plans and devices. In addition, MCCF has earmarked a portion of the proceeds generated from the student sales for its scholarship fund. This is the third year running that the two organizations have teamed-up to aid Maricopa Community College students and MCCF’s Scholarship Fund.

“We are extremely excited by this partnership,” said Jeff McElfresh, vice president and general manager for AT&T’s wireless services in Arizona. “This relationship with MCCF is beneficial to students as well as Maricopa Community Colleges’ employees and further demonstrates our ongoing investment in the Greater Phoenix community.”

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AT&T today announced that the eagerly anticipated Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (MDM) is now available to AT&T business customers who use smartphones running Windows Mobile 6.1. In conjunction with the availability of Mobile Device Manager, AT&T also announced today the availability of the MDM Early Adopter QuickStart Program that was developed cooperatively by AT&T and Enterprise Mobile and is an exclusive offering designed to assist AT&T customers with deploying the Microsoft mobility solution.

Mobile Device Manager is an enterprise-grade mobile device management solution that also provides security, mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) and software distribution for Windows Mobile devices. Mobile Device Manager is natively supported by the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.1. Windows Mobile 6.1 is now available for free download to AT&T Tilt™ and MOTO Q™ Global smartphones from AT&T, which has the broadest portfolio of Windows Mobile devices of any U.S. carrier. Additional new smartphones launched by AT&T later this year will feature Windows Mobile 6.1 with support for Mobile Device Manager.

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AT&T today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned AT&T in the Leaders Quadrant of its 2008 “Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing.”

Gartner positioned AT&T Connect™ in the Leaders Quadrant in its annual review of Web conferencing and collaboration services for enterprise businesses. AT&T Connect provides an effective foundation for both enterprise-wide collaboration and unified communications initiatives with its integrated telephony, ability to scale for large events, advantages in serving remote and mobile users and flexible licensing that allows unlimited global collaboration with a fast return on investment.

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Use Sprint’s new NFL Mobile Live application and automatically register for a chance to win a trip for two to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa Bay. It’s that easy.

Sprint today announced that beginning Monday, Sept. 1, it will begin its largest NFL promotion by giving away 17 trips for two to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa Bay, with the “NFL Mobile Live Super Bowl XLIII Sweepstakes.”

Each week throughout the NFL’s 17-week regular season, any Sprint customer who uses NFL Mobile Live will be automatically entered for a chance to win two tickets to the NFL’s biggest game. Fans can use NFL Mobile Live each week to be entered for that week’s drawing. Winners will be announced weekly.

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Alcatel-Lucent today announced a new UK and Ireland channel recruitment drive designed to encourage specialist data and security resellers to become Alcatel-Lucent business partners.

The company will recruit direct partners to sell its recently launched OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian and OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway security products, as well as its rapidly expanding portfolio of enterprise data solutions, including the successful OmniSwitch 6850 family of LAN switches.

To coincide with the recruitment effort, Alcatel-Lucent has revamped its business partner training programs. The sessions offered now include technical training for the company’s full range of data and security products, as well as providing increased emphasis on sales methodologies, helping partners to better engage with end-users and to map Alcatel-Lucent solutions to address their needs. Both new and existing partners will be able to access the training programme schedule by visiting the partner extranet at: https://www.businesspartner.alcatel-lucent.com

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