Vivendi, Avalon, ISA

Vivendi Mobile Entertainment appoints new chairman
Sandrine Dufour has been appointed Chairman of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment.

Ms. Dufour succeeds Robert de Metz, who has left Vivendi to pursue other opportunities.

She will continue to serve as deputy chief financial officer of Vivendi. Her new responsibilities include consolidation, financial reporting, planning, budget and management control.

Vivendi Mobile Entertainment runs zaOza, a PC and mobile service that lets users access multimedia content, such as video, TV shows, music, video games and ring tones. It also lets peers share content.

Trading technologies added to Avalon FX Pro 4.1 trading platform
Avalon Capital Holdings Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Traders Development LLC, are adding mobile trading technologies to the Avalon FX Pro 4.1 trading platform.

As a result, Avalon FX Pro demo clients can access mobile trading using their existing username and password at http://mobile.demo.tradersdev.com.

This mobile capability allows traders to place market trades from any Internet-enabled smartphone or Web browser. Avalon’s mobile trading feature will work with BlackBerry, Palm, iPhone and other smartphone devices.

ISA to show mobile voice recognition capabilities at Macworld Expo
Integrated Speech Applications Inc. will debut its advanced mobile voice recognition capabilities at Macworld Expo Jan. 14-18 in San Francisco.

ISA voice recognition capability creates a voice office for mobile users. Users can dictate emails and text messages, send or receive emails by voice commands and set and review appointments via voice recognition from any handset.

The SafText Messaging service is a wireless system that lets mobile users send text messages using a voice-enabled platform. The sent message is received as either a written text message or a voice message.