Mobifusion Inc., a global developer of premium mobile content, has announced that its India-based office, in conjunction with India’s ORG Ltd., has launched a full suite of next generation mobile content applications with Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka’s leading mobile operator. The new application, Face Morphing MMS, is a suite of face-recognition technologies that offer Dialog customers fun in finding their celebrity look-alikes or morphing their photos into new images. A face photo or mug-shot photo is sent via MMS and then the program’s advanced face-recognition technology matches the face against a database of international celebrities and sends back an MMS with a morphed sequence of the look-alike. The programs also enable users to artistically create Picasso or Rembrandt-style portraits of themselves, Animal versions or Manga look-alike versions.
Mobifusion - www.mobifusion.com
Dialog Telekom - www.dialog.lk
ORG - www.orgltd.com

Mobile services provider Vodafone Essar has launched the ‘Sambhav’ prepaid card that has been targeted at customers with hearing and speech disability. The card enables customers with hearing and speech disability to use mobile phones primarily for sending SMS.
Source: Sify – www.sify.com

EPRSS Prepaid Recharge Services India Pvt Ltd—an Indo Israeli joint venture offering electronic prepaid recharge technology for mobile, e-commerce services and applications—announced that it is going to expand its presence in India. The expansion will start in the Maharashtra and Goa circle. EPRS India has been operating in Pune for more than two years and the expansion move will help the company explore new markets. The expansion will also help EPRS serve customers in more than 150 towns in the Maharashtra and Goa circle.
Source: TMCnet – www.tmcnet.com 

Euronet Worldwide Inc. has entered an agreement with one of Italy’s largest grocery chains that will let the Italian company sell wireless minutes electronically. Euronet said the contract marks its first entry into the Italian prepaid market, which is Europe’s largest prepaid market and now Euronet’s 14th-largest market. Euronet said it will integrate its payment system with existing electronic cash registers at SMA S.p.A stores. The companies will launch a pilot project at select SMA stores with TIM, Italy’s leading mobile operator, and Euronet said it experts to roll out the service for all four of the nation’s mobile operators in all SMA stores by the first quarter.
Euronet Worldwide – www.euronetworldwide.com

VendTek Systems Inc., a provider of software for prepaid service distribution, has licensed its e-Fresh solution for the distribution of prepaid products in Sudan to Privinvest Holding SAL. Privinvest Holding SAL is an associated company to Vendtek’s license partner in the United Arab Emirates-One Prepay. Sudan, with a population of 40 million, has about 8 million mobile phone users (or 20% of the population). According to Sudanese Governmental and Telecom Sources, the market is growing very rapidly and should reach 20 million users by the end of 2009. Privinvest will work with merchants in the country to convert their hard card distribution to VendTek’s electronic e-Fresh distribution system. VendTek will receive a license fee based on the number of transactions processed.
VendTek Systems – www.vendteksys.com