Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures exclude impact of activities to be transferred to Thales].

Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company.
Atos Worldline is a major European player in the processing of large-volume electronic exchanges, specialising in electronic payment services, CRM and eServices (internet, voice and mobile services). On December 7th 2006, Atos Origin announced the acquisition of Banksys and Bank Card Company (BCC), creating a European leader in Payment Services, with combined pro forma 2006 revenues of EUR 630 million and 4,000 employees.

Audi is a manufacturer of exquisite cars – attractive, sophisticated and technically perfect. Our success stems from creativity, commitment and enthusiasm. The wishes and emotions of our customers are the guiding principle behind our approach. We strive to lead the way with our innovations, and to set new standards which substantiate our brand claim of "Vorsprung durch Technik".

The bmcoforum is an international non-profit industry consortium designed to provide a constructive discussion platform for companies involved in the development of a worldwide open market for mobile broadcast services, and to inform a broad public on all related aspects.

The CESIC - Commerce and Industry Strategy Study Circle - an international network of technology innovation experts developing important security measures. Competitive intelligence, expert knowledge management, protection of sensitive information and expert data analysis are all addressed in the framework of CESIC studies, in order to develop the highest levels in competitive governance for government institutions and for the industry.

As a prime contractor in designing, integrating and operating mission critical systems and secured infrastructures, CS has a unique position, sustained by three key competitive advantages:
• large complex projects management capability,
• integrated design, build and run know-how,
• innovation and teamwork in the interest of successful change strategies.

DiBcom is at the heart of mobile TV. As a fabless semiconductor company that designs high performance chipsets, DiBcom enables low-power mobile and portable TV reception everywhere and at speeds exceeding 130 mph. The company’s solutions are used in automotive, PC/peripheral and handheld device applications. DiBcom has extensive experience solving real world mobile digital terrestrial television (DTT) reception problems and has overcome the main technological barriers to high-quality service. The company has developed patented algorithms and architecture for fast and accurate channel estimation and high Doppler compensation. Its chipsets are compliant with the current worldwide Digital Video Broadcast standards DVB-T and DVB-H.

INDUCT is a mobile vehicles tracking system and robotic development company. It’s purpose is to  provide trafic improvement solutions and make any vehicle available for everyone. INDUCT will participate to the next DARPA URBAN CHALLENGE (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) with its autonomous robot car. INDUCT’s goals : improvment of security, energy saving, reduce pollution problems, parking problems, and noise anoyances. All products developped by INDUCT are distributed by DOTMOBIL : tracking of vehicles in real time company.

ETSI is officially responsible for standardization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within Europe. These technologies include telecommunications, broadcasting, radio communications and related areas.
ETSI unites over 650 member organizations, including manufacturers, network operators, administrations, service providers, research bodies and users - in fact, all the key players in the ICT arena.

GlobalPlatform is the global leader in smart card infrastructure development and its proven, technical specifications for cards, devices and systems are known as the standard for smart card infrastructure. GlobalPlatform is a member driven association with cross-industry representation from all world continents.

Within IBM, the ‘Sensor and Actuator Solutions’ division is dedicated to emerging opportunities in the domains of RFID, machine to machine, contactless applications (citizen ID, ticketing and mobile payment) and video surveillance,  to monitor that equipment is functioning correctly and that flows of goods and services are optimised.

Innovision R&T is a fabless semiconductor IC and IP company, that delivers innovative and market leading contactless ICs for passive and/or short range data communication and connectivity solutions for Near Field Communications (NFC) and RFID.
A custom RF IC design and systems provider offering a complete engineering capability to our clients, including custom NFC IC design and production, Innovision’s products include Topaz®, the NFC Forum number 1 standards-mandated tag type. There will be around half a billion NFC readers by 2011 (Source: ABI Research 2006).

INSIDE is uniquely positioned as the only fabless semiconductor company solely dedicated to the advancement of contactless technology, leveraging one of the industry’s largest intellectual property portfolios. Through strategic emphasis in Contactless Payments and Near Field Communications (NFC), INSIDE has been on a rapid growth track over the past two years with more than 12M chips delivered for contactless payment cards in the US market and a dominant position in driving NFC standardization and pilot deployments.

LaSer offres a full range of solutions designed to create value for your company and your customers: Loyalty Enchancement, Cards, Financial Services, Affinity Solutions, POS Services, Contact Centres.

Living Labs Europe - a new driver for European innovation
Living Labs Europe is a network of innovative mobile cities in Europe, which opens up the potentials of innovative mobile applications and technologies to European citizens, companies, researchers and investors for the purpose of pioneering mobile applications for European end-users and markets, enhance attractiveness for visitors, residents, business and to provide a European platform for collaboration and opening innovative markets.

mClusters is a European project with the objective to encourage co-operation among leading and developing industrial clusters within the wireless information and communication technology. The project aims at creating the foundation for new projects, firms, inward investment and commercialisation of existing resources that can create regional innovation, growth and development.

MICRO BE develops hardware and software solutions using smart and contact less cards since 1986.
In this domain, the SAXO multi-service application (physical access control, e-money for vending machines, photocopiers, group catering) is especially well suited to private and public company’s, schools, holidays canters demand.
News products of this year :
 • PDA applications with smart card.
 • Lock managed by a smart card.
 • Bus’ readers for identification with Wi-Fi connexion.

Mobey Forum is a global, non-profit financial industry-driven forum. Mobey Forum’s mission is to enable and encourage banks to offer Mobile Financial Services (MFS) by creating suitable business ecosystem models through cross-industrial collaboration. Mobey Forum membership includes all key stakeholders in the MFS business ecosystem value chain.

Specialized in J2ME-Doja-Brew, Mobile Distillery develops and sells unique software solutions for Porting and Optimizing Java Mobile Applications accross 550 mobiles (Europe/Americas), allowing ‘Porting’ in few hours instead of months, in a cost effective way!
Customers are Mobile Engineering companies (Atos, …), Mobile Marketing & Multimedia studios (CubeX, …), Mobile Game developers (Lexis, Visiware, …).

With 320 sites in 73 countries, Motorola represents a total strength of 63 000 persons in the world. Since 1967, date of its setting-up in France, Motorola went on investing and diversifying its activities on the national territory. It supplies complete infrastructures, integrated voices and data communications systems solutions, solutions of information, Broadband and two-way radios which meet the requirements of public safety, utilities, companies of the whole world as well as individuals.
Motorola concretizes his vision of the Seamless Mobility by proposing solutions and innovative services allowing the providers to integrate, to optimize and to manage their networks while maintaining the connected users anywhere they are.

Nedap Healthcare is an independent division of Nedap N.V. Its mission is to increase the time available for genuine healthcare by automating the peripheral activities of the healthcare providers. It now supports about 30,000 healthcare professionals in the performance of their duties.

The NFC Forum is a non-profit industry association dedicated to advancing the use of Near Field Communication technology by developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and services, and educating the market about NFC technology. The Forum's 100+ global member companies are currently developing specifications for a modular NFC device architecture, and protocols for interoperable data exchange and device-independent service delivery, device discovery, and device capability.

In the field of mobile communications Nokia is a world-wide leading enterprise and renders decisive contribution to growth and sustainability of the mobility industry in general. By offering innovative products and solutions easy to use in the fields of photography, games as well as media and by also offering solutions for network operators and companies Nokia starts to enrich the people’s life and their productivity. Nokia has four business fields: Mobile Phones, Multimedia, Enterprise Solutions and Networks.

Distributor with added value, Nomadic Solutions is one of the major AVL (Automated Vehicle Location) expert wholesaler in Europe.
Nomadic Solutions markets a range of complete material solutions for the geolocalisation by satellite (GPS), vehicle and goods security, and job optimization for mobile workers.

NXP is a newly independent semiconductor company (founded by Philips) with a fifty-year history of providing engineers and designers with semiconductors and software that deliver better sensory experiences for mobile communications, consumer electronics, security applications, contactless payment and connectivity, and in-car entertainment and networking. 

The Ocean company is one of the leader of the ITS sector in France. Owner, designer and editor of geopositionning solutions. Our product is dedicated to any companies involved in cost control and research for their on-the-road employees efficiency. The competitive advantage of the company is its driven project approach which offer a personalized and evolutionary solution to the clients.

A l’intersection entre le monde des Télécoms et de l’informatique, Preceptel fournit aux entreprises des solutions « métiers » clefs en main. (Padeo®, NG Taxi®, Allokids®…)
Preceptel, Opérateur en Télécommunications a obtenu en 2006 le statut de Jeune Entreprise Innovante, une labellisation ANVAR et le soutien financier du Conseil Général (06).

PTV's business field Mobility provides innovative software solutions and map technologies for telematics and navigation applications. PTV Mobility further acts as a content integrator and provides traffic information, other location-relevant data and worldwide map data. The company is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, with branch offices in Europe, USA, Asia, Australia and Middle East.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2005 parent company sales of US$56.7 billion and net income of US$7.5 billion. Employing approximately 128,000 people in over 120 offices in 57 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Digital Appliance Business, Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business and Telecommunication Network Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones, and TFT-LCDs.

Siemens VDO Automotive a group of Siemens AG, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of electronics and mechatronics for the automotive industry. With its products, it enables individual mobility and the efficient transportation of goods by road in modern societies. As development partner of the automotive industry, the company manufactures automotive electronics and mechatronics for reducing emissions, enhancing safety and driving comfort, and keeping drivers informed and in touch with the outside world. 

StoLPaN - Store Logistics and Payment with NFC
Creating business and technology standards to support the widespread implementation of NFC applications.
Co-funded by the EU IST program, the project aims to define open commercial and technical frameworks for NFC-enabled services on mobile devices. These frameworks will facilitate the deployment of NFC-enabled mobile applications across a wide range of vertical markets, regardless of the phone type and the nature of the services required.

Streamezzo – a major provider of embedded rich media solutions - designs, develops and markets tools that make mobile phone content more appealing and more interactive. In addition to its TV-on-mobile solutions, Streamezzo also provides music applications, portals and user interfaces aimed at improving browsing ergonomics. Streamezzo’s solutions have already convinced major mobile operators, broadcasters and contents providers to launch innovative services on 2.5 and 3G networks as well as experimentations for DVB-H and S-DMB networks.

Strix Systems is Industry’s Technology and Market Leader in Wireless Mesh Networking. Award-winning Access/One® OWS is the industry’s only modular outdoor wireless mesh system delivering industry’s highest throughput, lowest latency, greatest density, unparalleled scalability. Sold globally by first-class distributors and integrators, Strix Access/One offers six times the capacity, unequalled multi-hop performance, city-wide mobility and reach-ability for voice, video, and data.

TDF, a partner of television and radio broadcasters, telecommunications operators and local authorities, is a leading broadcasting, mobile telephony and wireless broadband network and infrastructure operator and service provider.
TDF services - analogue and digital television and radio broadcasting, multimedia services, roll-out, maintenance and management of wireless telecommunications networks - are based on recognized expertise, on the unique footprint provided by its 7,500 wireless sites, and on value-added top-quality customer service.
The TDF group plays a dynamic role in Europe in the convergence between broadcast services and telecommunications and is a major partner in the development and construction of wireless digital facilities and infrastructure.

The TM Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the management and operation of communications, media and entertainment services. With over 560 in 63 countries, the TM Forum creates collaboratively developed, industry standard solutions to enable services to be created, delivered and paid for across complex industry value chains, and define the direction and specific roadmap to achieve business efficiency and operational flexibility.

ToP Shop netstore is quick, reliable and secure on-line shop for Near Field Communication products. ToP Shop netstore offer NFC compatible:
* Nokia phones and software delopment kits
* Trikker label, tags and accessories
* Feig Electronic readers, modules and SDK

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a contract research organisation involved in many international assignments. With its more than 2700 employees, VTT provides a wide range of technology and applied research services for its clients, private companies, institutions and the public sector.

DATACollection magazine is published in France, Italy and Spain. Each edition is a reference for the Automatic Identification (AIDC), Traceability and Mobility markets. The topics of Bar code, RFID, Voice, Mobile and Wireless computing are all covered.
In addition the DATACollection Yearbook is published once a year, only publication in the world which catalogues all products and suppliers active in each territory.

Dataevent is the first free web source in France dedicated to key exhibitions, conferences and  trade shows related to Information Technologies.
Exhibitions are easily searched by name, theme or location.
Fairs organizers, IT exhibitors and speakers, have possibility to add in their business-events throw a private space.
2006 totalizes nearly 1500 major collected event's dates mainly in France.

Printed in 35 000 copies, and sold on the French market through a strong distribution network, the "Multimedia Mobile Services Magazine" is the only magazine dealing with mobile services. Its aim is to allow users to understand and use all kinds of services on their mobile phones or communicating devices.

Read by corporate telecommunications professionals and senior technical management, European Communications is established as the leading journal addressing communications issues essential to the competitive success of network operators, service providers, carriers, solution vendors, developers and enterprise businesses active in the deregulating and rapidly expanding European comms marketplace.

www.filrfid.org, daily newspaper dedicated to every field application of RFID technologies is currently offering more than 1000 articles in free access. filRFID (“Fédération des Industriels, Intégrateurs et éditeurs de Logiciels RFID”) attends to be the “red wire” of RFID developments for businesses and utilities and help them in their RFID projects.

38 000 sendings qualified per week
ITRmanager.com is a source of current events about information systems in business. Each morning, 35 000 directors and persons in charge of data-processing receive this newsletter in their mailbox. All the themes and subjects are tackled. Analysis and points of view are accessible by headings, by topic, by vertical sectors and by the search engine.

45 000 sendings qualified per week
ITRmobiles centralizes all the news about mobility, one of the main vectors of growth for IT industry. The informations writtened on ITRmobiles.com approach mobility under all its aspects: notebooks, mobile phones, PDA while passing by the portable game consoles.

Created in 1979, the “Journal de l’ Automobile” is a weekly reference newspaper for all professionals. It is an essential tool for anticipating the market’s trends, especially in our changing world. Today, it is the first support for senior managers and decision-makers of the French automotive world.

Mobile Payments World is the on-line newsletter from the publishers of European Card Review, Europe’s leading payment cards magazine. Like ECR, its mission is to record and explain trends in payments and to do this in a rigorous, professional way.

MobileIN.com strives to help educate and inform industry professionals through focusing on a balance of wireless and mobile technology and applications as well as regulatory and business issues. MobileIN.com is dedicated to professionals engaged in the wireless and mobile network profession, including product and service providers, infrastructure and software developers, consultants and analysis, and the investment community.

NFC Magazine is an online publication that features industry related media coverage, and unbiased reviews of NFC technology applications, products, software, and hardware.
NFCMagazine.com has a direct focus on the current industry trends, NFC Forum sponsored events, and the newest NFC ecosystem developments.

Oracom is a leading French publishing group on the sector of the mobility. It publishes: Mobiles magazine, Mobiles Achat magazine, PDA and Smartphones magazine, Micro-portable magazine, Ecran Plat magazine, Home magazine and we will launch in two weeks the French version of the prestigious of the M.I.T's Technology Review.
Mobile Business is the only magazine focused to the professionals of the mobile phone.

Smart Insights is the best information source on the smart card industry.
Smart Insights is a weekly value-added newsletter focusing on the smart card industry. Smart Insights covers smart card markets, major trends in the industry, worldwide business, standardization bodies, and industry analysts.
Smart Insights: facts . intelligence . now

VoIPNEWS is a professional e-letter, owned by SPEEDFIRE. The free newsletter covers unified communication and IP infrastructures. More than 26 000 decision makers are receiving VoIPNEWS in their own mailbox. Each year, VoIPNEWS Gazelle Awards distinguish significant VoIP deployments in SMB, administration and worldwide companies.