Akamai strikes deal with leading on-demand solutions providers

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) announced on June 26, offering of the Web Application Accelerator and IP Application Accelerator to IntraLinks, the leading provider of on-demand critical information exchange solutions. By tapping into Akamai's solution, Intralink will be able to accelerate its business application with Akamai's dynamic content. Additionally, its customers will be able to lower cost, increase productivity as well as speed up processes using its Web Application Accelerator and IP Application Accelerator platform.

According to the Chief Technology Officer of IntraLinks, using Akamai's global network routing and application acceleration services will help reduce the standard network latency over the Internet, helping customers run application within their data center. The company also anticipates that as the user base expands, users outside the U.S. will be able to access the platform at higher speeds - nearly twice

Lifespan (Pink Sheets:LSPN) (www.lifespaninc.com) will commence the marketing of the Medical ScreenPhone, its internet access telephony product, to the 14 trillion dollar US healthcare industry as a medical verification, authorization and billing solution as well as a home care communications tool. Lifespan anticipates that the medical marketplace introduction will be rapidly followed by deployment into the hospitality, banking/finance, security and other telecom markets.

Lifespan CEO, Mr. Ken Berscht stated, “Increased efficiencies are sorely needed in healthcare. Currently, administrative costs in healthcare exceed $200 billion each year. The Medical ScreenPhone can be easily utilized to significantly improve the efficiency of a small part of the US medical electronic data transfer (EDT) and electronic medical record (EMR) market. But the best part of the use of the Medical ScreenPhone in this industry is that it will ultimately improve the practice and delivery of healthcare to the benefit of doctors

Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, Smith Micro Software Inc. is a leading developer and marketer of wireless and broadband communication. They also develop and market PC utility and diagnostic and ecommerce software products and services. Trading on NASDAQ, their software products and services find use across several platforms including Windows, Pocket PC, Mac, Palm, UNIX, and Linux. The company’s cross-platform software products are for personal computing and enterprise business solutions.

Smith Micro focuses on Internet and broadband technologies. Their products enable wireless communications, eBusiness, Internet communications (voice-over-IP), and video conferencing. In addition, they enable network faxing, as well as traditional computer telephone processes.

The company continually develops state-of-the-art communications software for the wireless industry. Their compression software solutions enable compression, security, and archiving of data including JPEG, MPEG, and MP3 platforms. Their compression technology StuffIt® is an industry standard and has been since 1986. The company’s new StuffIt

Trading on NASDAQ as part of the Internet Software and Services industry, iBasis Inc. is a leading wholesale carrier of international long-distance telephone calls and a provider of retail prepaid calling services. Founded in 1996, iBasis also provides enhanced services for mobile operators. With corporate headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company is one of the largest carriers of international voice traffic in the world today. This is due to their acquisition, last October, of KPN Global Carrier Services. KPN is now a majority stockholder of iBasis Inc.

With the acquisition of KPN, iBasis expanded their product portfolio to include guaranteed CLI and roaming capabilities and mobile data services. Over 1,000 fixed and mobile carriers worldwide use their scale and global network to further their international voice operations. The company’s client base includes KPN, KPN Mobile, E-Plus, BASE, Verizon, Vodafone, China Mobile, China Unicom, IDT, Qwest, Skype, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, and Yahoo.